LG V20 Battery issues! Roll back? Root - LG V20 Questions & Answers

So here's my little situation, I wanted to just keep this phone stock and not root it for once since I do it for every phone I get. I've only had this thing for a week and I love it... Mostly.
Problem is I have ABYSMAL battery life, loosing 10%+ on "Phone Idle" "Android OS" and "Android System" which typically sucks up around 30% of my battery usage and my SOT can be as low as 60 minutes if I let my phone sit while I work for example. This seems to not be an isolated issue however I have yet to find anybody experiencing such a dramatic loss of battery.
So my questions are is there ANY way to fix this? Been looking all over and it seems to be a software issue thus creating more questions. Looked around and I can't seem to find a way to help this problem.
As far as I am aware there is ABSOLUTELY no way to downgrade my T-Mobile H91810s nor is it possible to root it.
Is this true or am I missing something? I just bought this thing brand new after my ZTE Axon 7 got stolen. ):
So my three main questions: Has anyone find a way to lower battery consumption from those three programs? Is there ANY way to rollback to a previous firmware? Or is it possible to root the H91810s firmware?
I would really appreciate any feedback or answerers from the XDA community. I love this forum and 95% of the time there's anyways a solution to my problems from the amazing people but I'm afraid this might be the other 5%. Anyway thank you again for any feedback!

Losing that much battery that quickly is in no way normal. I get between 3 to 4 hours sot and somewhere in the neighborhood of 15 hours of total life. That's normal usage. Most people here seem to get somewhere in that range or more, I don't try too hard to conserve battery. If you have already factory reset to no avail I would first pick up an extra battery. Shouldn't be any more than $20. This will confirm whether this is a battery issue or related to hardware/software on the phone. If that doesn't work you can grab the patched lgup (somewhere in the guides section) and the 10r h918 kdz. Since you are on arb 1, you can roll back to anything with the same arb version. 10r is arb 1 as well, so it should flash no problems. Put the phone in download mode, and click partition dl on the patched lgup gui. Select the 10r kdz and it will flash every single partition to the phone. This will be a brand new phone with factory fresh firmware/software. Do not attempt to flash anything lower than 10r as I have no idea when arb was implemented for the h918 (I believe it was after 10k). If the problem STILL persists after a kdz restore, then I would guess the unit is defective in someway. @runningnak3d any suggestions or corrections to what I have stated? You know a heck of a lot more when it comes to all things LG and v20

I have never had that kind of battery problem on the H910 or H918 no matter the firmware version. I agree with the suggestion of getting a new battery.
FYI - ARB 1 was implemented in 10p, so you can roll all the way back to 10p or anything in between.
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toastyp said:
Losing that much battery that quickly is in no way normal. I get between 3 to 4 hours sot and somewhere in the neighborhood of 15 hours of total life. That's normal usage. Most people here seem to get somewhere in that range or more, I don't try too hard to conserve battery. If you have already factory reset to no avail I would first pick up an extra battery. Shouldn't be any more than $20. This will confirm whether this is a battery issue or related to hardware/software on the phone. If that doesn't work you can grab the patched lgup (somewhere in the guides section) and the 10r h918 kdz. Since you are on arb 1, you can roll back to anything with the same arb version. 10r is arb 1 as well, so it should flash no problems. Put the phone in download mode, and click partition dl on the patched lgup gui. Select the 10r kdz and it will flash every single partition to the phone. This will be a brand new phone with factory fresh firmware/software. Do not attempt to flash anything lower than 10r as I have no idea when arb was implemented for the h918 (I believe it was after 10k). If the problem STILL persists after a kdz restore, then I would guess the unit is defective in someway. @runningnak3d any suggestions or corrections to what I have stated? You know a heck of a lot more when it comes to all things LG and v20
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any hope for F800L model? I have abysmal battery life too. I have two batteries so not that and is not helped by factory reboots.
software is fully updated though

roosters93 said:
any hope for F800L model? I have abysmal battery life too. I have two batteries so not that and is not helped by factory reboots.
software is fully updated though
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Check the battery optimization and see which apps are unoptimized. If you are using the stock apps for messaging/calling then chances are you have bad network reception. I use airplane mode at home because I'm mostly in the dark area where reception is nill, otherwise my phone's battery in standby lasts less than 6hrs or loses 15-20% overnight. I don't know why the modem eats so much battery in the region of poor reception though. (I have Zuk Z2 as well but I never had to switch it to airplane mode at home and it kept on searching for network all the time without alarming battery usage).
Chances are that your replacement battery is faulty or counterfeit too. I have an LG Battery which was manufactured in January 8th 2018 and its working fine, gives me a full day use from morning till night and I remove the phone from charger before leaving for work. Also, make sure you're using a compatible charger. I have used both QC2.0 and QC3.0 chargers with my phone and its charging speed is the same. (ZUK Z2 comes with QC2.0 charger while I have Leeco's QC3.0 charger too, LG's is QC2.0). Try using a non-QC charger as well which will charger ur battery slow but maybe repairs the memory-effect-like problems with your battery.

Pippinkid said:
So my three main questions: Has anyone find a way to lower battery consumption from those three programs?
So my questions are is there ANY way to fix this? Been looking all over and it seems to be a software issue thus creating more questions. Looked around and I can't seem to find a way to help this problem.
As far as I am aware there is ABSOLUTELY no way to downgrade my T-Mobile H91810s nor is it possible to root it.
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Several things you can try. Depends how long and hard you are willing to keep at it.
For starters when you boot into recovery, do you see an option to wipe cache ? if so wipe, reboot back and see whether it fixes anything

I've had this happen to a couple tablets. You may need to reset the battery logic.
Turn off the phone.
Pull the battery.
Press and hold the power button for one full minute.
Let the phone sit for 10 minutes without the battery in it.
Put the battery back in and boot up.
I hope this works for you.

androiddiego said:
I've had this happen to a couple tablets. You may need to reset the battery logic.
Turn off the phone.
Pull the battery.
Press and hold the power button for one full minute.
Let the phone sit for 10 minutes without the battery in it.
Put the battery back in and boot up.
I hope this works for you.
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Am curious as to what 'reset battery logic' means ?
Is this when you use a bigger battery and you want it to recalibrate or something

One Twelve said:
Am curious as to what 'reset battery logic' means ?
Is this when you use a bigger battery and you want it to recalibrate or something
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A feature called Battery Stats, which keeps track of battery capacity, when it is full or empty. The problem is that it sometimes becomes corrupted and starts displaying data that isn’t real. This is an attempt to get the OS to correct this information.
(Courtesy of Androidpit)

here we are ten days later and the OP has yet to show. I suppose this problem must not be a problem anymore ?

rctd and Triton are really the batteries EATERS!!!.I uploaded h918 10s kernel with it removed

androiddiego said:
A feature called Battery Stats, which keeps track of battery capacity, when it is full or empty. The problem is that it sometimes becomes corrupted and starts displaying data that isn’t real. This is an attempt to get the OS to correct this information.
(Courtesy of Androidpit)
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The same is happening with my LG V20 H918. When I charge it using a fast charger (I have a Motorola G5 Plus), it shows me fast-charging and simply shows 100% within 10-15 minutes. That means it is wrong information.
So I tested by using my V20 until it got discharged and turned off automatically, and then charged it completely for several hours. What happened next, its battery worked for full 2 days.

bountyman334 said:
rctd and Triton are really the batteries EATERS!!!.I uploaded h918 10s kernel with it removed
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any info on what Triton is?? I see that in the processes too often as well...

My guess would be something related to rctd...ccmd doesn't seem to hurt nothing and from what I read...(a little)..ccmd is a security fuse or exploit..that kicks in the lock-out timer for password...or criminals as us..:silly:..but I found the Triton file inside the in it.rc inside the kernel and turned it off.. And changed the way it wrote|write..to the system per se..

Pippinkid said:
So here's my little situation, I wanted to just keep this phone stock and not root it for once since I do it for every phone I get. I've only had this thing for a week and I love it... Mostly.
Problem is I have ABYSMAL battery life, loosing 10%+ on "Phone Idle" "Android OS" and "Android System" which typically sucks up around 30% of my battery usage and my SOT can be as low as 60 minutes if I let my phone sit while I work for example. This seems to not be an isolated issue however I have yet to find anybody experiencing such a dramatic loss of battery.
So my questions are is there ANY way to fix this? Been looking all over and it seems to be a software issue thus creating more questions. Looked around and I can't seem to find a way to help this problem.
As far as I am aware there is ABSOLUTELY no way to downgrade my T-Mobile H91810s nor is it possible to root it.
Is this true or am I missing something? I just bought this thing brand new after my ZTE Axon 7 got stolen. ):
So my three main questions: Has anyone find a way to lower battery consumption from those three programs? Is there ANY way to rollback to a previous firmware? Or is it possible to root the H91810s firmware?
I would really appreciate any feedback or answerers from the XDA community. I love this forum and 95% of the time there's anyways a solution to my problems from the amazing people but I'm afraid this might be the other 5%. Anyway thank you again for any feedback!
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Could be a bad battery. I bought a battery and for some reason it won't let the processor go offline. With 2 of the batteries the phone sleeps just fine, but with the third battery I get horrible battery life and it shows Android system and phone idol eating up battery life and also 3c toolbox shows that the processor is not going offline. Kind of strange, but could just be a bad battery. You can get a new one on eBay for $9 and free shipping! The last one I got is great!
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I bought a used Sprint v20 in "VG" condition. The phone looks really clean. But the phone is getting very hot with light browser use in a short time, and drains very quickly. I didn't install any facebook or anything but it may come with Sprint. Anyhow the battery issue is pretty bad so far. However I decided to turn off the location and that seems like it may be part of the problem. However not terribly happy that the GPS eats the battery and causes heat issues, but what can I do. Also noticed someone else with problems mentioned the verizon model. I wonder if the Sprint and Verizon versions have issues. :/ Also my battery was manufactured in 2017/02 and is official. I could replace it but with the heat and GPS issues, it seems like the problem is likely hardware / software related and not the battery itself.

Pippinkid said:
So here's my little situation, I wanted to just keep this phone stock and not root it for once since I do it for every phone I get. I've only had this thing for a week and I love it... Mostly.
Problem is I have ABYSMAL battery life, loosing 10%+ on "Phone Idle" "Android OS" and "Android System" which typically sucks up around 30% of my battery usage and my SOT can be as low as 60 minutes if I let my phone sit while I work for example. This seems to not be an isolated issue however I have yet to find anybody experiencing such a dramatic loss of battery.
So my questions are is there ANY way to fix this? Been looking all over and it seems to be a software issue thus creating more questions. Looked around and I can't seem to find a way to help this problem.
As far as I am aware there is ABSOLUTELY no way to downgrade my T-Mobile H91810s nor is it possible to root it.
Is this true or am I missing something? I just bought this thing brand new after my ZTE Axon 7 got stolen. ):
So my three main questions: Has anyone find a way to lower battery consumption from those three programs? Is there ANY way to rollback to a previous firmware? Or is it possible to root the H91810s firmware?
I would really appreciate any feedback or answerers from the XDA community. I love this forum and 95% of the time there's anyways a solution to my problems from the amazing people but I'm afraid this might be the other 5%. Anyway thank you again for any feedback!
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You should be able to root as I was on 10s and was able to root using lafsploit : https://forum.xda-developers.com/v20/how-to/root-lafsploit-h918-version-t3773443
Just make sure to rollback to 10p using LGUP, and getting the right .dll file.
P.S : When you use LGUP choose the 'Upgrade' option and not 'downgrade'

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Samsung s7 Edge not compatible with os 6.0.1?

Hello guys!.It's my first time here. So, I have some questions regarding this problem
I bought my S7E around july, and it had amazing battery life, It lasted around 30hours++ but I drained the battery by playing games so I can charge my phone before 5pm(my office hours) to avoid over charging when I go to bed. I even used the best perfomance that time, gps on, gestures on, etc.But still at least it lasted for 27hours.Now, it only lasts for about 12 hours something. Ive never overcharged it. The moment I saw the green led, i plugged off the charger.
Can anyone fix this? well please don't tell me to turn off all the features, I had them on and still I got to use 27hours. I dont know when I did the update, maybe os 6.0.1 is draining the battery?or any suggestion?
Thank you
Go to Settings>Battery and view the usage to see what app is using it much battery.
You can NOT overcharge the battery of your S7 Edge. I've always kept my phones on the charger over night and never had problems. I'm doing that since the HTC Magic (T-Mobile G1). It has overcharge protection. It is NOT good to drain a Lithium-Ion battery down to a few %. A Lithium-Ion battery operates the best when charged >40% and at average room temperature. For more info, visit batteryuniversity.com.
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You can NOT overcharge the battery of your S7 Edge. I've always kept my phones on the charger over night and never had problems. I'm doing that since the HTC Magic (T-Mobile G1). It has overcharge protection. It is NOT good to drain a Lithium-Ion battery down to a few %. A Lithium-Ion battery operates the best when charged >40% and at average room temperature. For more info, visit batteryuniversity.com.
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Nope. I never drain my battery.I keep my battery until 20% then charge it directly. I know how to take care of Lion battery. Ive heard about the overcharging protection feature but i'm not sure whether it works.we never know whether that program runs on background or not since we cant track it.
kylelopez20 said:
Go to Settings>Battery and view the usage to see what app is using it much battery.
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well,i tracked that down but found nothing.all normal. but still 30hours down to 12 is real problem.
chriszzz18 said:
Nope. I never drain my battery.I keep my battery until 20% then charge it directly. I know how to take care of Lion battery. Ive heard about the overcharging protection feature but i'm not sure whether it works.we never know whether that program runs on background or not since we cant track it.
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Well, then don't charge overnight. You're problem is most likely software related anyway unless your battery is very old and/or you overstressed the battery too often which can't be because the S7 Edge isn't that old and you "...know how to take care of Lion battery". I think you meant Li-Ion but w/e. A defective battery is possible but very unlikely. BTW overcharge protection is not a program. It's a physical thing soldered onto the battery/charger PCB. Hardware. There's one built into the battery and one inside the charger and of course we can track it. You can't because you probably don't have the equipment + knowledge to test it. If you're so concerned, you should really read about it. After all, you're dealing with a highly reactive metal.
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Well, then don't charge overnight. You're problem is most likely software related anyway unless your battery is very old and/or you overstressed the battery too often which can't be because the S7 Edge isn't that old and you "...know how to take care of Lion battery". I think you meant Li-Ion but w/e. A defective battery is possible but very unlikely. BTW overcharge protection is not a program. It's a physical thing soldered onto the battery/charger PCB. Hardware. There's one built into the battery and one inside the charger and of course we can track it. You can't because you probably don't have the equipment + knowledge to test it. If you're so concerned, you should really read about it. After all, you're dealing with a highly reactive metal.
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Well that's why i charge my phone at my office:crying:
i wonder if the OS is the problem. I've heard about drivers not compatible on s7 using 6.0.1 so the background data keeps working such as gear vr service. It wasnt there before. and OM Customize. So, if i overstressed my battery, it will damage my battery? I did that before to charge my phone between morning to evening.
chriszzz18 said:
Well that's why i charge my phone at my office:crying:
i wonder if the OS is the problem. I've heard about drivers not compatible on s7 using 6.0.1 so the background data keeps working such as gear vr service. It wasnt there before. and OM Customize. So, if i overstressed my battery, it will damage my battery? I did that before to charge my phone between morning to evening.
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You're hearing really weird things buddy The S7 Edge has always been running Android 6.x.x. It never ran any other Android version. The drivers are fully compatible. In fact, the drivers on a Samsung are as compatible as drivers can get, since SoC, Camera Sensor and many other parts of the phone are coming from the same manufacturer; Samsung.
My guess, and I can only guess since we'd have to see your battery stats for more detailed explanations, is that you either ran into the Android System-, or Google Play Services battery drain bug that occurs after an OTA update. These problems date back all the way back to the Galaxy S2.
I'd recommend you first flash a stock ROM using the "HOME_CSC" file. This will NOT wipe anything from your phone. Only the core system and stuff will be reinstalled. If you still have this problem, try flashing a stock firmware using the regular "CSC" file. Always make a backup first. The regular CSC file will WIPE EVERYTHING from your phone, including internal storage but it won't touch you MicroSD. Now you start with a freshly installed Android and see if it solved your problem.
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You're hearing really weird things buddy The S7 Edge has always been running Android 6.x.x. It never ran any other Android version. The drivers are fully compatible. In fact, the drivers on a Samsung are as compatible as drivers can get, since SoC, Camera Sensor and many other parts of the phone are coming from the same manufacturer; Samsung.
My guess, and I can only guess since we'd have to see your battery stats for more detailed explanations, is that you either ran into the Android System-, or Google Play Services battery drain bug that occurs after an OTA update. These problems date back all the way back to the Galaxy S2.
I'd recommend you first flash a stock ROM using the "HOME_CSC" file. This will NOT wipe anything from your phone. Only the core system and stuff will be reinstalled. If you still have this problem, try flashing a stock firmware using the regular "CSC" file. Always make a backup first. The regular CSC file will WIPE EVERYTHING from your phone, including internal storage but it won't touch you MicroSD. Now you start with a freshly installed Android and see if it solved your problem.
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Hello mate,I am sorry for my late reply since I gave up. I am trying to solve this again.
Well, can you tell me where can i get the stock firmware? I am from Indonesia(well I think some parts of the continents have different firmware).I wanted to flash it tho but I am afraid I got some "hacked" firmware.
well,the battery usage looks normal to me.
google play services around 5-15%
android OS 15-20%
android system 15-20%
but still,it drains too much>,<
Let me try to upload a pict of it.
Additional information : Slept 8 hours while listening to music and it drained from 55% to 2%.I mean this is really insane.That's why I am taking serious action now. The first time I bought it with the same settings and apps + I turned on always on display and night clock while listening to the music for 8 hours of sleeping,it only drains 10-20%.
I took this ss because I got 30hours on time : link
these are the drained ones.15Nov and 9 Dec
15Nov
9Dec
Thank you mate
First out of all. How much SOT (Screen On Time) do You get?
To check that go to battery usage at the end of the day or when You have 20% and in battery usage tap on screen and take a screenshot.
Second.
Certain firmware updates decrease battery life a little.
And third.
You can disable apps that are draining Your battery if You don't need them.
Also for a really good battery info what uses Your battery etc You can download GSAM battery monitor from play store.
ProtoDeVNan0 said:
First out of all. How much SOT (Screen On Time) do You get?
To check that go to battery usage at the end of the day or when You have 20% and in battery usage tap on screen and take a screenshot.
Second.
Certain firmware updates decrease battery life a little.
And third.
You can disable apps that are draining Your battery if You don't need them.
Also for a really good battery info what uses Your battery etc You can download GSAM battery monitor from play store.
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well from the time being, i think my network operator is draining my battery.I tried to turn off my mobile network last night and used wifi instead.I lost 1% for 8 hours.Well, I changed my network operator around october and since then I felt the battery drain. I already sent report to the provider hope they solve it.
But I wonder, my network operator has good 4g coverage here, why does it drain too much? My old operator had only 3g coverage.Is there any way for me to track down my operator whether they are using too much battery to search network coverage maybe?
Newest firmware always decrease battery life a little

Battery life issues

I'm on the T-Mobile variant. My battery was amazing the first few days lasting anywhere from 6.6-7.5 hours of SOT. Now Im avereging 5-6 hours of SOT. A lot of Android OS and Android system drainage. I'm not rooted neither. Anyone else?
Did you take the 10i update?
Zacharee1 said:
Did you take the 10i update?
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Haven't received it yet. I checked yesterday for updates and nothing popped up. Did you get one?
This is what I have so far
I'm rooted so I'm on 10d for now.
I was hoping you had taken it, because that would've explained the battery. Honestly, though, even 5-6 hours seems like a ton. Maybe you installed something new? I'd recommend GSam, but that doesn't work on Nougat without root.
Screen time, depends on what your doing, and what your connection speed is.
Maybe Google featured apps? Also you may be doing things you weren't doing before on the phone.
Its hard to tell, I wouldn't say you have a drain issue based on previous screen time.
Now if you said, I was getting 6.5 before and now only getting 3 hours, than I'd say there's an issue.
Not sure if it applies. But I noticed some greater than usual battery drain right before my external speaker became all distorted. Since then I've noticed a marked decrease in battery especially standby. Hopefully that will change once I send it in and get it fixed.

Is this battery consumption normal?

Hi all,
I just come with this Screenshots to know your opinion on the consumption of my s5. Honestly Im jealous of those people getting 4,5hours of SOT in a full charge. I believe I can barely achieve 2h. My phone is rooted, de bloated with smart debloater and uses Greenify (which has not provided me a noticeable gain).
I've seen a very big drain just after plugging off the phone (like 5 or 6%) in two hours without using it. Also everything I unlock the phone the drain is very fast. So idle state seems no to be the cause
What are your thoughts? Thanks in advance.
By the way, while writing this post I've lost 5% of charge.
paco_ramirez said:
Hi all,
I just come with this Screenshots to know your opinion on the consumption of my s5. Honestly Im jealous of those people getting 4,5hours of SOT in a full charge. I believe I can barely achieve 2h. My phone is rooted, de bloated with smart debloater and uses Greenify (which has not provided me a noticeable gain).
I've seen a very big drain just after plugging off the phone (like 5 or 6%) in two hours without using it. Also everything I unlock the phone the drain is very fast. So idle state seems no to be the cause
What are your thoughts? Thanks in advance.
By the way, while writing this post I've lost 5% of charge.
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Need a new battery I think and with the battery you gotta keep it cool, don't charge you phone and use it when its under 20 ℅. And the hotter the battery gets the faster it will discharge and if your charging at the same time the CPU will work harder to charge the battery and do whatever you want to do with your phone making it a double whammy wearing out your battery much faster than normal. You not supposed to let our batteries to go below 20 %. Well you can but don't use it at the same time your charging.
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Need a new battery I think and with the battery you gotta keep it cool, don't charge you phone and use it when its under 20 ℅. And the hotter the battery gets the faster it will discharge and if your charging at the same time the CPU will work harder to charge the battery and do whatever you want to do with your phone making it a double whammy wearing out your battery much faster than normal. You not supposed to let our batteries to go below 20 %. Well you can but don't use it at the same time your charging.
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Thank you very much for your information. Any suggestion about a new battery? I've seen this one.
I've just plugged off from 100% and I got a battery drain of 5% just by speaking 15 minutes (no hand-free). I think it's a very big battery drain for just a small talk. I think that confirm your hypothesis of the wasted battery.
Is there any way to know the real capacity of the battery I currently have? It is just to know how far it is from its original performance.
I've checked on Go Power Master app and it claims 2520 (at 90%) mah in my battery. Is this confident? If so, I shouldn't expect a big improvement buying a new battery. What about using other roms or making a factory reset?.
paco_ramirez said:
I've checked on Go Power Master app and it claims 2520 (at 90%) mah in my battery. Is this confident? If so, I shouldn't expect a big improvement buying a new battery. What about using other roms or making a factory reset?.
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How old is your battery? Mah rating and the rate it discharges are different you can discharge 2600 mah batter in an hour or 3 days depending on use and environment and conditions. Like I said before the hotter your battery gets the faster the disharge go same with the cpu the hotter it gets the more power it demands from the battery. And if your battery get under 20% fast charging comes. Into play as well which is bad for the battery as well.
If your dropping off that fast I think is a defective battery or over clocked cpu settings. My s5 did he same till I bought a new battery I last 8-12 hours of heavy use now compared to 4 hours. With a new battery I suggest a higher capacity but same dimensions as the old one they can be expensive but a bigger battery will damage your phone over time.
I have a 5600mah battery now by 5he way.
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Oh my power app tells me I have 2520 too but I really dont....heh
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Oh that battery looks OK I can't read the language lol just make sure its not refurbished or used and check out if u can refund it or not lol
My battery is from October 2015. It's the original one that came with the phone
Here is last report:
Despite performance is not the worst, do you think the difference with a new one is very big?
Back in my S3 Mini days I had to change the battery and the difference was huge for it. A year ago I replaced my S5's battery for the first time (I own my black beauty since february 2015) and I remember that I saw an improvement in battery life and in performance a bit as well.
A trick: take out your battery and put it on a flat surface (table or whatever) and try to spin it. If it spins freely, buy new one for sure.
I'd advise you to also update from KitKat to Marshmallow as that made my phone brand new but I see you're on 6.0.1 already so nevermind
I myself lose the first ~10% of my charge in one hour or even less...while not doing literally anything with my screen off. So yeah, maybe it's gonna be time for another replacement in a few months
By the way I tried Greenify today. The drain was far worse than when I didn't have it installed lol. Android Marshmallow is finally that one guy who's capable of handling himself alone without helpers like Greenify so try without it, it eats up your CPU anyway (as minimal as it can be, it still does).
With 3G always enabled I can get between 3 and 4 hours of screen on time (no games ofcourse) and around, idk, 10 hours total time until it hits below 10% and asks for some juice.
This^ was simply impossible with android 4.4.2 on the same phone so 6.0.1 really impressed me a lot as I had awful memories of Lollipop (that's why I didn't update for so long actually).
To sum up: try all the software ways of extending your battery life - with/without Greenify, uninstall/disable/optimise certain apps like Facebook and Spotify (says they slow down my phone), change ROMs, change kernels, change settings and if nothing works get a new battery.
PS: When Samsung go back on track and put a removable battery + all old features in a new flagship, I'm switching to that (S9, S10, SX, whatever xd). Newer phones got water cooling (~30 degrees while gaming, S5 gets 36-40C).
Thank you very much for your long answer. Honestly I don't trust too much battery savers. I've tried in the past many of them with no visible results. In fact greenify has never shown me any benefit. Notwithstanding, in this specific case, I've seen that hibernating "mi fit" (from xiaomi) I can appreciate a considerable improvement (5-10% of gain). I own a mi band and apart from keeping Bluetooth on (which seems not to be a big drainer) mi fit abuses of this connection. In fact "tools & mi band" seems to be more energy efficient with the connection to the mi band.
In any case I'll order a new one as it is not normal to have the drain for 100 to 90 being off and idle
I've changed old battery for a new one and I haven't seen any considerable improvement. After it, I've done a factory reset and a battery calibration (using the app on the store that requires root) and nothing... Any suggestion? I have the feeling that new battery is OK but somehow my phone is unable to take advantage of its performance...
koragg97 said:
Back in my S3 Mini days I had to change the battery and the difference was huge for it. A year ago I replaced my S5's battery for the first time (I own my black beauty since february 2015) and I remember that I saw an improvement in battery life and in performance a bit as well.
A trick: take out your battery and put it on a flat surface (table or whatever) and try to spin it. If it spins freely, buy new one for sure.
I'd advise you to also update from KitKat to Marshmallow as that made my phone brand new but I see you're on 6.0.1 already so nevermind :..
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Ive just unplugged it 50 minutes ago and I have 10 percent left with only 10 minutes screen off... There is something wrong and I don't think the two batteries (old and new) are in bad state in the same way... There may be something else..
Have you tried to install the stock firmware through odin? PS: Read the instruction before trying it!!!
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Ive just unplugged it 50 minutes ago and I have 10 percent left with only 10 minutes screen off... There is something wrong and I don't think the two batteries (old and new) are in bad state in the same way... There may be something else..
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Make nandroid backup with TWRP and flash official firmware. That's just not normal for any kind of battery (good or bad)
tm60405 said:
Have you tried to install the stock firmware through odin? PS: Read the instruction before trying it!!!
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koragg97 said:
Make nandroid backup with TWRP and flash official firmware. That's just not normal for any kind of battery (good or bad)
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Right now I have DreamUX V2 A7 (2017). I flashed one week ago hoping to remove this strange battery behavior. But it remains. Do you think reflashing stock firmware will fix it? I'll check instructions before going ahead. Thanks to both!
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Right now I have DreamUX V2 A7 (2017). I flashed one week ago hoping to remove this strange battery behavior. But it remains. Do you think reflashing stock firmware will fix it? I'll check instructions before going ahead. Thanks to both!
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If it gets fixed after firmware reinstall then it's a software bug. If it gets fixed after changing the battery then it's a hardware bug. If it doesn't get fixed after trying both things then it's black magic :s
Also try to clear dalvik-cache and cache and do factory reset before and after flashing.
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If it gets fixed after firmware reinstall then it's a software bug. If it gets fixed after changing the battery then it's a hardware bug. If it doesn't get fixed after trying both things then it's black magic :s
Also try to clear dalvik-cache and cache and do factory reset before and after flashing.
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OK I'll go ahead with this. Good guide to reflash stock rom?
I'll do several factory resets to see if it helps, but I start to think that it's black magic
Thanks
Sorry for the delay in replaying but I've made several attempts with not specially good results.
Now I'm getting 24 hours battery with 2h SOC for WhatsApp and browsing. Furthermore, I use Bluetooth for the miband.
The battery drop from 100 to 90 still remains. Maybe it's smoother but significant.
I've changed battery, changed roms (several times wiping everything). I've tried battery calibration app from rooted devices. I've tried the calibration procedure for non root devices (here I think I've obtained a little bit of improvement) but in general I have the feeling my phone is not detecting well the capacity of the battery (either new or old). Any tip? Advice?. Could it be the charging circuit? Can it be fixed? Should I keep doing calibrations more often to see if I grasp more capacity little by little?
Thanks for your time and help

help with lineage os battery

I have a nexus 6p. Clean wiped and clean flashed lineage latest nightly. Everything is fine but battery, I did have to download the vendor image for build number n2g48c n flash with twrp but no big deal.
My issue is within the the battery. Every time my phone hits 15% it literally half a second later hits 0 and dies...I've let it run dead in recovery and everything and this keeps persisting. How do I fix this and what should I do, please all help is appreciated.
Simple.
Recalibrate battery. That probably would have happened even if you had some other rom. It's because the phone thinks the battery charge is greater than what it physically is. Just get one of the battery calibration apps charging to 100% wait for the notification sound, then unplug. I've had to do this twice in the last year or so but your phone will be operating all normal afterwards. It happens just from charging and discharging without turning off for a long time the battery has a value and your phone has a value should be at they don't always show the same that's why. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nema.batterycalibration
PS. Still is probably going to be yelling at you for not posting this in the correct forum 'Questions'
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I have a nexus 6p. Clean wiped and clean flashed lineage latest nightly. Everything is fine but battery, I did have to download the vendor image for build number n2g48c n flash with twrp but no big deal.
My issue is within the the battery. Every time my phone hits 15% it literally half a second later hits 0 and dies...I've let it run dead in recovery and everything and this keeps persisting. How do I fix this and what should I do, please all help is appreciated.
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You have a defective battery, same issues as I once had. Replaced with Cameron Sino battery and hasn't happened since.
It only happens in the rom though. When I flash to stock and use the standard pure android os, it dies when its supposed to
jessyjoseph2044 said:
It only happens in the rom though. When I flash to stock and use the standard pure android os, it dies when its supposed to
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Well you answered your own question, report to ROM Dev and give him bug report. Everything you mentioned is suspect of bad battery. Calibration to battery is myth, there is no use in it.
Iceburn1 said:
Well you answered your own question, report to ROM Dev and give him bug report. Everything you mentioned is suspect of bad battery. Calibration to battery is myth, there is no use in it.
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Wasn't sure if there was something something to do or not. I'll capture bug report next time. Also try reflashing again see if that fixes it. If not then i dk. Is there an app to use att hotspot without using a ROM? That's the only reason I do
jessyjoseph2044 said:
Wasn't sure if there was something something to do or not. I'll capture bug report next time. Also try reflashing again see if that fixes it. If not then i dk. Is there an app to use att hotspot without using a ROM? That's the only reason I do
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You may also want to run Accubattery to test your battery health. I run LOS on another Nexus device and haven't ever had a problem with early shutdown. Second, I guess our AT&T plans are different, because I use the hotspot all the time on AT&T and have never had a problem with any stock Google ROM. This is on N6, N6P, N7, N9. You may want to look at your plan details and find out why you can't use the hotspot. It may be as simple as changing or reprovisioning your SIM, then again it may be your plan excludes it?
Edit: You may also want to try using a kernel with LOS. I've had real good luck with the EX Kernel/LOS combination.
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You may also want to run Accubattery to test your battery health. I run LOS on another Nexus device and haven't ever had a problem with early shutdown. Second, I guess our AT&T plans are different, because I use the hotspot all the time on AT&T and have never had a problem with any stock Google ROM. This is on N6, N6P, N7, N9. You may want to look at your plan details and find out why you can't use the hotspot. It may be as simple as changing or reprovisioning your SIM, then again it may be your plan excludes it?
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My plan excludes it, because I have the unlimited gophone plan. So they removed hotspot for some odd reason. But as far as battery goes I'll give it a shot see if it helps. I appreciate it!
Last week I hit about 20% an phone instantly shuts off and wouldn't turn on saying low batt. I charged for a few minutes and attempted to power on which it did. I went to battery usage and saw the device slowly declined over the whole day till 20% then immediately flat lined at 0%. Almost like it thought there was plenty of capacity left but in reality was completely exhausted.
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Last week I hit about 20% an phone instantly shuts off and wouldn't turn on saying low batt. I charged for a few minutes and attempted to power on which it did. I went to battery usage and saw the device slowly declined over the whole day till 20% then immediately flat lined at 0%. Almost like it thought there was plenty of capacity left but in reality was completely exhausted.
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Are you running LOS? You've been around a while and know the drill. Check your battery capacity.

Where's my battery going?! (Phone won't sleep?!)

HELP!!!
I picked up an H918 for my wife to use on T-mobile USA. Since it was used, I also got one of the extended life 4100Mah batteries to hopefully make it last at least the entire day without topping off the charge. She usually averages around 4 - 5 hour SOT, so this seemed like a good option from what I've read, and fits in the original door so I can use the wallet case she wants with it.
But man, her battery life is TERRIBLE! I checked with Accubattery, and it reports that the battery is charging within 99% of it's 4100mah spec, so I don't think its a bad battery. Yet, she can barely go 12 hours with just under 2 hours SOT before the phone dies!
She is unrooted, running stock Oreo.
I installed GSam Battery Monitor and used their ADB commands to give it permission to record deep statistics w/out root (pretty cool, never did that before). I ran it for a little while this morning. Within 3 hours 40 minutes off the charger, she was already down to 72% with barely any SOT. I'm attaching screenshots of the app usage and doze screen (sorry for the phone-snapped-of-phone picture, it's my wifes phone like I said, so it was easier to just snap with my camera than take a screenshot and send it to myself to post).
Maybe I'm not reading this right, but it seems like something is keeping her phone from sleeping. A big culprit seems to be call services, and in my location settings, I noticed it mention that LG IMS was doing a lot of heavy battery drain with location related inquiries.
I thought maybe it was related to WiFi calling, so I turned that off. Cell reception is average.
2 hours later, she's down to 50% so that wasn't it. I don't know what else to try other than hard reset, but we literally just got this and set it up 2 days ago, and its been like this from day one. I don't see why it would be any different the second time around.
It's likely a junk battery. It's really hard to get a good oem replacement battery.
If you shop Amazon look for a Taeozi 4200 or Shemnz 4200. They both have 2 year warranty and decent reviews here on XDA
The Perfine 4100 is also highly recommend
Any Li-polymer should be better
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When I bought my wife's phone it had a battery drain/overheat and wakelock issue as well. I fixed it and haven't had an issue since. Here's what I did to fix it:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/v20/help/absolutely-terrible-battery-life-t3531456/post78654160
clsA said:
It's likely a junk battery. It's really hard to get a good oem replacement battery.
If you shop Amazon look for a Taeozi 4200 or Shemnz 4200. They both have 2 year warranty and decent reviews here on XDA
The Perfine 4100 is also highly recommend
Any Li-polymer should be better
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I did my homework first and got the Perfine from Amazon, not a no-name junk battery. When I couldn't fit it without removing the sticker, the seller was really helpful and actually offered to replace it after checking first that it fit in *THEIR* V20 at the factory. Really solid customer support. And according to Accubattery, it really is the capacity it says. Or at least within 99% of it (I think it estimated 4080 or something like that). So I don't think that's the issue.
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When I bought my wife's phone it had a battery drain/overheat and wakelock issue as well. I fixed it and haven't had an issue since. Here's what I did to fix it:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/v20/help/absolutely-terrible-battery-life-t3531456/post78654160
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That's actually really interesting- I did take apart the phone to do the thermal mod thing (wiped off the dried up pink gunk and put a thermal pad there), but it seemed pretty clean otherwise inside when I did. How on earth did you figure out that was the problem?
After speaking with some folks on Telegram, Reddit, and other corners of the internet, I have a different theory. A bunch of people told me to let the rom "settle", that battery life is never good after a fresh format or new rom flash. Honestly, the critical thinker in me says that sounds like nonsense. I've never heard of this before and I've been flashing roms for the better half of a decade. I'd think after it takes the time the load up your apps and settings and configure itself, it would be done. But I Googled it, and it seems to be a hotly debated subject.
Those that swear by it claim that whenever you start fresh or flash a new rom, it takes anywhere from one to a few battery cycles before the kernel calms down. Perhaps it is doing some sort of internal calibration based on your battery life and system demands or something like that. The theory seems to be that the Kernel doesn't allow the CPU to fully doze until it is done with this process, which sometimes takes days. I don't know, but the more I read about it, the more it sort of started sound plausible. When I got the phone, I tried out some things on it myself without a SIM card first, just to make sure everything on it checked out before giving it to the wife. Then, I did a hard reset, popped in her SIM card and let it do its thing. That's when we realized battery life was pretty terrible, as after 10-12 hours she already needed to charge... and this was on the 4100mah perfine!
I tried another hard reset, and when that didn't fix it, I decided it was time to root and see if I could get to the bottom of the bad battery. It seemed the kernel was where a lot of it currently went according to battery stat apps. After downgrading my H918 to Nougat so I could install TWRP, I promptly flashed Alpha Omega Oreo 20H and restored her apps. Turns out the next morning we couldn't sync her smartwatch, somehow we broke bluetooth (going into BT settings would crash the phone everytime). So weird, and while we were at it the battery life still wasn't great. So I did a hard reset that evening and found that even with nothing installed, BT was borked. (looking back at it, I think I should have flashed an Oreo rom like the stock 20H rooted first, and THEN the AO rom. I think going straight from nougat might have led to a driver mismatch or something)
Anyway, after that didn't work I flashed the stock rooted 20H rom, and lo and behold bluetooth and everything else is working again! But the battery has been bad all along and is still doing its generally suckiness thing.
BUT... as someone pointed out, if this kernel settle thing is real, I've been pretty much flashing and resetting this thing every other day. If roms need to "settle" first (still a debatable subject), than I never really gave it a chance yet and that's why I'm constantly seeing battery drain from things like Kernel even on different roms! And @pistacios, is it possible that you were having a kernel do the same thing since it was just reset and it just so happened to be that when it calibrated itself you thought you had fixed it by cleaning out the USB port?
All I know is I'm going to give this a couple of days before deciding on a plan B. Seems too simple to be the reason, but hey- I'm desperate.
Dishe said:
I did my homework first and got the Perfine from Amazon, not a no-name junk battery. When I couldn't fit it without removing the sticker, the seller was really helpful and actually offered to replace it after checking first that it fit in *THEIR* V20 at the factory. Really solid customer support. And according to Accubattery, it really is the capacity it says. Or at least within 99% of it (I think it estimated 4080 or something like that). So I don't think that's the issue.
That's actually really interesting- I did take apart the phone to do the thermal mod thing (wiped off the dried up pink gunk and put a thermal pad there), but it seemed pretty clean otherwise inside when I did. How on earth did you figure out that was the problem?
After speaking with some folks on Telegram, Reddit, and other corners of the internet, I have a different theory. A bunch of people told me to let the rom "settle", that battery life is never good after a fresh format or new rom flash. Honestly, the critical thinker in me says that sounds like nonsense. I've never heard of this before and I've been flashing roms for the better half of a decade. I'd think after it takes the time the load up your apps and settings and configure itself, it would be done. But I Googled it, and it seems to be a hotly debated subject.
Those that swear by it claim that whenever you start fresh or flash a new rom, it takes anywhere from one to a few battery cycles before the kernel calms down. Perhaps it is doing some sort of internal calibration based on your battery life and system demands or something like that. The theory seems to be that the Kernel doesn't allow the CPU to fully doze until it is done with this process, which sometimes takes days. I don't know, but the more I read about it, the more it sort of started sound plausible. When I got the phone, I tried out some things on it myself without a SIM card first, just to make sure everything on it checked out before giving it to the wife. Then, I did a hard reset, popped in her SIM card and let it do its thing. That's when we realized battery life was pretty terrible, as after 10-12 hours she already needed to charge... and this was on the 4100mah perfine!
I tried another hard reset, and when that didn't fix it, I decided it was time to root and see if I could get to the bottom of the bad battery. It seemed the kernel was where a lot of it currently went according to battery stat apps. After downgrading my H918 to Nougat so I could install TWRP, I promptly flashed Alpha Omega Oreo 20H and restored her apps. Turns out the next morning we couldn't sync her smartwatch, somehow we broke bluetooth (going into BT settings would crash the phone everytime). So weird, and while we were at it the battery life still wasn't great. So I did a hard reset that evening and found that even with nothing installed, BT was borked. (looking back at it, I think I should have flashed an Oreo rom like the stock 20H rooted first, and THEN the AO rom. I think going straight from nougat might have led to a driver mismatch or something)
Anyway, after that didn't work I flashed the stock rooted 20H rom, and lo and behold bluetooth and everything else is working again! But the battery has been bad all along and is still doing its generally suckiness thing.
BUT... as someone pointed out, if this kernel settle thing is real, I've been pretty much flashing and resetting this thing every other day. If roms need to "settle" first (still a debatable subject), than I never really gave it a chance yet and that's why I'm constantly seeing battery drain from things like Kernel even on different roms! And @pistacios, is it possible that you were having a kernel do the same thing since it was just reset and it just so happened to be that when it calibrated itself you thought you had fixed it by cleaning out the USB port?
All I know is I'm going to give this a couple of days before deciding on a plan B. Seems too simple to be the reason, but hey- I'm desperate.
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Ive experienced ROMs settling in and battery stabilizing after a few days. But this was pretty far back with the HTC M7 and M8. Most modern phone's I've flashed pretty well settled in within the first few hours. The battery life on this phone was never amazing. It was good to just Ok for most when it was new.
If you flashed the stock rooted rom and still had bad battery life, I still suspect the battery itself. I still recommend one of the battery I listed earlier. If the perfine didn't work out try a different one.
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clsA said:
Ive experienced ROMs settling in and battery stabilizing after a few days. But this was pretty far back with the HTC M7 and M8. Most modern phone's I've flashed pretty well settled in within the first few hours. The battery life on this phone was never amazing. It was good to just Ok for most when it was new.
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Right, with the stock 3200mah battery. With the Perfine 4100, a lot of reports are saying 6-7 hours SOT or at least a full day of regular use. That's good enough, really. Mine is dying at half of that. I'm wondering if I have faulty hardware. I could put the stock battery back in and see if it dies much sooner.
I'm actually wondering if someone can check their mA use per hour with the screen on vs off, and I can see if the numbers make sense on mine. Accubattery is pretty good at the math.
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And @pistacios, is it possible that you were having a kernel do the same thing since it was just reset and it just so happened to be that when it calibrated itself you thought you had fixed it by cleaning out the USB port?
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Phone was up and running for 2 weeks, so it wasn't due to fresh reset.
GSAM battery monitor showed kennel wakelock, something about USB OTG in the top of the list, so I figured the port was my first check for a problem, and it was. It wasn't obvious that there was dirt or foreign matter in there, because it looked clean. But sure enough, after the light brushing with 94% alcohol, the problem disappeared.
I'm not saying this is definitely your problem, just throwing it out there.

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