Is there another way in which we can calibrate the battery? I know of the normal route of letting it drain to 0%, but it isn't possible on my Pure. The phone will go dead somewhere between 35% and 45% and will not turn back on until I plug a charger into it. It does the same thing again if I unplug it without letting it fully charge. It will not let me get to 0%.
Any help is appreciated.
Battery calibration is a myth. Your battery is failing, plain and simple.
Typically calibrating software should be minimal but with modem electronics and phones, it is pretty much a useless venture. If your phone is cutting off at any level in the double digits and not coming on until some charging, your battery is failing as stated already.
Battery Calibration is a myth... corrupt configurations and information files is not. Several people who have had this who then perform a full factory reset see the "early shutdown" issue go away but the battery rarely lasts any longer after a few days.
The device and battery inside are 3+ years old... either replace the battery with a quality OEM one or move to a new device, either option will correct the problem.
If your willing to pay for it, which I already have done. Pixel 2 xl. Had it for a week. SOT well above 7 hours. Couldn't hold out for the pixel 3 do to MXP complete failure. Only thing I miss is Moto Actions. MXP was an awesome phone, from sound quality, phone reception, screen quality but the battery was a failure. Lenovo went the wrong direction with the X4 and now axed the moto x line completely. Pixel 2 xl to me was a good choice second was the Z2 but lack of support and Verizon locking it up. I will admit the slight blue is still there , but now I don't even notice it. Literally have to angle the phone to less than 45 degrees to notice. Any ways its time to move on.
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Is there another way in which we can calibrate the battery? I know of the normal route of letting it drain to 0%, but it isn't possible on my Pure. The phone will go dead somewhere between 35% and 45% and will not turn back on until I plug a charger into it. It does the same thing again if I unplug it without letting it fully charge. It will not let me get to 0%.
Any help is appreciated.
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time to change the battery! I tried everything from recalibrating to battery stats reset to force doze etc. I live in Iran and Motorola parts are really hard to find. finally, I was able to get a new FX30 battery for MXPE and now I only have to charge my phone once! never charge your phone overnight. If you want to keep the phone I strongly recommend battery change, the difference is day and night!
Thanks for all of the tips guys. More than likely I'm moving on instead of trying to change the battery. Now to decide what I move to.
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Since the beginning of the G1, I have always read and practiced resetting battery stats by basically charge, delete stats, run down, charge method. There are a few variants, but they are mostly similar.
I ran across this today: Double Your Battery Life on HTC Droid Incredible, Sprint EVO, Google Nexus One and Possibly Others!
This actually makes more sense to me. The cutoff point, in my mind doesn't change. When the battery drops below a certain predetermined (and unchanging without recoding, I would assume) level, it shuts the phone down to protect it from corruption. It's the upper limit that would vary in my opinion. As batteries age, then don't hold as much, temperature changes capacity, etc.
Has anyone heard of or tried this alternate method? This is what you are supposed to do:
Step 1. Charge the phone (turned on) for 8 hours.
Step 2. Unplug the phone, turn it off, plug back in and charge for an hour.
Step 3. Unplug it, turn it on for 2 minutes. Plug it in and charge for 1 additional hour.
If it works, it would take a lot less time and be far more inconvenient to rebuild the stats. I usually only can do it when I'm going to be by a charger when it runs down, which is rare. Even if it does the same thing, in the end, as the original method, I think it would be a lot easier or a viable alternative.
I am going to try to give this a shot tomorrow and see how it does. Of course, that depends on if this whole Froyo drama tonight is true or not. And dependent on what Eugene does with his next release. I thought I'd throw this out there because I haven't seen this before and I needed a break from refreshing certain threads
This makes more sense to me as well, based on my recent experience. I would charge my phone, get a "100%/full" notification, leave plugged in for another 10 minutes and then unplug. After less than a minute with no use it would be back down to 97%.
So what I started doing was the same method, but letting it get below 100% then plugging back in for 30 minutes to an hour.. And continuously doing this until it started taking more than 30 minutes for it to get below 100%. This seemed to help more for my battery life than the "normal" method usually posted. I'm going to try the variant you posted though.
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Wanna know the best method? Just use the phone. The ROM is always recalibrating to the battery. I swap between three different batteries, two of them are lower capacity -- it still figures it out. They don't last as long but they get accurately measured. All this wiping stats, weird charging tricks.. Just making a bigger hassle for yourself and probably making the OS work harder to get a handle on your battery.
I've tried this "just use the phone" method... last week in fact. I gave my phone seven full days of normal use and normal charge cycles. My battery life started out mediocre and ended up horrible. At the end of the week, I was getting 4-5 hours total battery life with light usage.
This Monday I used the normal "charge, wipe, discharge etc" method, which did increase my battery life but didn't make it great(10 hours with medium usage). Thursday I tried the method I listed above and the phone ended up lasting about the same, but with heavy usage. Streaming pandora for 8 hours straight, 30 minutes of angry birds, and lots of web/xda app usage.
Everyone will have a different experience, but this method will definitely NOT hurt to try. Continually fully discharging your battery will eventually hurt your battery life.
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Plugging and unplugging the phone continuously runs down the overall battery life quicker, the Li-On batteries run down quicker when you hit a couple of hundred charge cycles.
I am just looking for the fastest way to get it to work. This method makes sense, because I've had it say full charge, I'll pick it up and do something, set it back down and a few minutes later it says full charge again without unplugging. I think this will just make sure it "knows" how many mah the full capacity of the battery is.
Honestly, I usually don't recalibrate because I flash constantly. It works itself out. It just takes a charge cycle to get it working okay. I also don't publicly complain about battery life. Been doing this long enough to know that most of the devs will find loops or standby issues pretty quick and there's enough people reporting it where I don't have to bother. You can pretty much tell if it's the ROM/Kernel or calibration if you pay attention.
Because I flash so much, if the family and I are going to be spending the day away, I just want a quick method to recalibrate so I don't "run out of battery" in the middle of the day. The original method takes a full day. If I flash Friday night and it hoses up the stats, I can most likely have it at least better before we leave or at least have it in the charger in the car before we get to where we're going.
The plugging in and unplugging from the charger is not necessarily good, but it's not practical for me to follow anyways.I flash ROMs/Kernels/Radios, whatever as soon as they come out. Heck, I've flashed 3 ROMs in a day easily for testing. I keep it plugged in when I'm at my desk, and I move around a lot, so it's constantly on and off the charger. Did this for the G1 and used the same battery for the life of the phone (upgraded one). I don't expect the battery to die before I upgrade to the Galaxy S2 If it does, I replace it. I remember worrying about the life of my SDcard in the G1 because of apps2sd. Remember all that discussion about wear leveling and all that? It's the same 8gb that is in my current phone. No issues. They last as long as they last.
Just looking for a quicker method. That's all. Currently in the last 1 hour charging cycle. I'll see.
Edit: Eugene released Macnut R8 and is now uploading R9. No testing this out until tomorrow
Ok so I can't figure this out. My battery is kind of "retarded" for lack of a better word.
I can charge it up to 100%, reset battery stats (even if I don't the same will happen)... then let it drain. It will drain insanely fast... I mean from 100 to dead in maybe an hour sometimes...
Then I go ahead and plug it into the charger... for just 15 seconds... when I take it off the charger and turn it back on it'll have another 50% battery life, sometimes more sometimes less....
It's almost as if the battery isn't reading correctly and then the phone can't detect how much battery is left so won't let me turn it on unless I plug it in really quick...
Tried another battery and that one does the same thing.... What in gods name could be going on...
and yes.. I searched... before I hear the hit the search 2000x times.
Here is the instructions from the ExROM thread, they worked perfect for me:
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--> For battery life: I think that you have to calibrate your battery.
- Run the device down until it turns itself off.
- Turn it back on and wait for it to turn itself off again.
- Remove the battery for 10 seconds.
- Replace the battery, but leave the device off.
- Charge the device until full and then for another hour.
- Enter recovery and go to advanced -> wipe battery status. Apply it.
- Run the device’s battery down until it turns itself off.
- Turn the device on and charge for at least 8 hours.
- Unplug the device, turn off, then charge for another hour.
- Unplug the device, turn on, wait 2 minutes.
- Turn off again and charge for another hour.
- Restart and use as normal.
I shall try those but who knows...
I've literally been turning the phone on, it dies the minute it hits the lock screen. Plug it in now for just 3 seconds until it says VIBRANT, it will load up shut down.. have down this about 30 times...
I'm lost on how the phone has enough juice to boot and shi*.... it's driving me nuts doing this over and over and over.. oh wait just turned on again and it's at 5%. This is stupid....
lol i will post back after I try these instructions I guess....
You MUST calibrate your battery every time you see a weird behaviour or install a new kernel. You wrote that you tried another battery, so we can exclude a premature death of the battery.
are you able to get into RECOVERY mode and stay there without it rebooting? Or even Download mode?
yo i dont understand.. didnt a google employee go out and make a public statement that batterystats.bin has NOTHING to do with battery calibration, its only used to keep the data from the settings>battery use graph throughout reboots? In the same statement, i think i remember she told aandroid users NOT to let their batteries die and charge em full cause that will damage the batt.
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I made a nice detailed post about this a while back, it took a google employee for people here to believe.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_effect
(Keep in mind, this applies to NiCad... but the effects are the same)
Bad news bro, your battery is bad. If you full discharge/recharge all the time, it will just hasten its death. Deep cycle charging when the battery is that far gone doesn't really have the same effect.
Try coaxing it back to life by recharging it to 100% then hitting the charger again at 75% a few times. This will increase the capacitance of the battery if there is hope of life. If it doesn't improve, its life is almost over.
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yo i dont understand.. didnt a google employee go out and make a public statement that batterystats.bin has NOTHING to do with battery calibration, its only used to keep the data from the settings>battery use graph throughout reboots? In the same statement, i think i remember she told aandroid users NOT to let their batteries die and charge em full cause that will damage the batt.
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Correct. According to her Calibrating does pretty much nothing except make you THINK your battery is better/worse/same.
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I made a nice detailed post about this a while back, it took a google employee for people here to believe.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_effect
(Keep in mind, this applies to NiCad... but the effects are the same)
Bad news bro, your battery is bad. If you full discharge/recharge all the time, it will just hasten its death. Deep cycle charging when the battery is that far gone doesn't really have the same effect.
Try coaxing it back to life by recharging it to 100% then hitting the charger again at 75% a few times. This will increase the capacitance of the battery if there is hope of life. If it doesn't improve, its life is almost over.
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thanks for the interesting read, i love reading things that the mind thinks as something for a weird reason.. Placebo effect etc.
Putting your battery down to an absolute 0% will do nothing but hurt your battery. This would have worked if we were still in the 80s and 90s, but these are Li-on batteries, they work differently and it actually hurts them.
Ok so I have RESTORED the battery...
Here is what was going on after further looking. I downloaded a battery stat/drain program to see what exactly was going on...
Under a load the battery mV will change drastically, then once it settles down the mV will actually rise making the % rise...
So I completely killed the battery, I mean dead.. Restarted the phone, plug it in for just a second.. I took it to the point that I killed the SOB battery.
I then charged it up, and while charging I would use the battery drain program. the mV would change drastically and I did this every 10%.
So far so good, the phone has been on for 4 hours now and i've only drained 8%... I will see how it continues.
I've also been resetting my battery stats not because I believe it relates the phone to the actual battery % but the % would fluctuate on the phone, and I thought the phone was saying "batterys dead don't turn on" kind of thing...
Ok. Again.
Here is a more in-detail article with a quick google.
http://www.atomicmods.com/Categories/QandA-Batteries.aspx
How long will these batteries last?
Lithium-based batteries have a lifetime of 2-3 years. The clock starts ticking as soon as the battery comes off the manufacturing line. The capacity loss manifests itself in increased internal resistance caused by oxidation. Eventually, the cell resistance will reach a point where the pack can no longer deliver the stored energy; although the battery may still contain ample charge. Increasing internal resistance is common to cobalt-based lithium-ion. The speed by which lithium-ion ages is governed by storage temperature and state-of-charge. Figure 1 illustrates the capacity loss as a function of these two parameters.
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Although, there has been arguments for years about Li-ion "memory". Li-ions are not afflicted with the "memory" issues of other chemical types. What they are afflicted with is the inability to hold a consistent current under stress/load with age/oxidation (aging effect of the Li-ion batteries). This is where your battery sits. On the precipice of death. You may get another year or two out of it (if you're lucky.. really more like a few months) with a few correct charging cycles, but that is it.
Bringing a Li-ion to near 0 and back does not help the battery, it is 100% a placebo effect with short term gains at best. A common cause of your particular problem...
Lithium-ion batteries are often exposed to unfavorable temperatures, and these include leaving a cell phone in the hot sun or operating a laptop on the power grid. Elevated temperature and allowing the battery to sit at the maximum charge voltage for expended periods of time explains the shorter than expected battery life. Elevated temperature and excessive overcharge also stresses lead and nickel-based batteries. All batteries must have the ability to relax after charged, even when kept on float or trickle charge.
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http://batteryuniversity.com/learn/article/how_to_store_batteries
I'm giving random googling as I know it's difficult to believe a random person on the internet. No two type of manufactured batteries are created/engineered the same, but I'm basing my statements of chemical composition and the basic fundamentals of the Li-ion battery tech.
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yo i dont understand.. didnt a google employee go out and make a public statement that batterystats.bin has NOTHING to do with battery calibration, its only used to keep the data from the settings>battery use graph throughout reboots? In the same statement, i think i remember she told aandroid users NOT to let their batteries die and charge em full cause that will damage the batt.
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Most of these battery calibration techniques sound like a practical joke.
the only way you'll truly get a perfect idea of what your battery life is going to be is to drop the phone in the toilet.
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I work 8 hour shifts and my 6P on Pure Nexus lasts through the shift with ~30% when I get home.
I was listening to music through Bluetooth and when I turned off my headset around 5 hours into my shift, my phone shut off and wouldn't turn on. I was in and out of the freezer, so I thought it was the cold. I got home, turned it on and plugged it in and saw it had 32% left.
An 1h30m of charging and it only charged 7% which is really unusual and is the first time.
I have AccuBattery Pro and it is saying it's going to take 10 more hours to fully charge using fast charge. Android lockscreen says "Charging rapidly. 12 hours until full."
Also in AccuBattery, although my design capacity for the battery is 3450 mah, it normally says estimated capacity is 2200, but is now saying I have over 5000 mah in capacity.
When unplugged, it has a screen on discharge rate of 50-70%/h when the average is 23%/h.
Is the battery dying? I thought it would gradually decrease in capacity and not suddenly change overnight.
When my battery bug hit..it just hit. No warning signs or anything. I was crapping out anywhere from 60%-10% and everywhere in between. I bit the bullet and RMAed for a new battery (they gave me a new screen too for whatever reason) Before i sent it in my Accubattery stats were saying i was at 75% capacity and now ive been at 100% capacity since i got it back and i can happily go from 100%-0% like its supposed to.
Although your situation does sound unique its almost certain you'll need a battery replacement.. or try a new ROM and see if it keeps happening.
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When my battery bug hit..it just hit. No warning signs or anything. I was crapping out anywhere from 60%-10% and everywhere in between. I bit the bullet and RMAed for a new battery (they gave me a new screen too for whatever reason) Before i sent it in my Accubattery stats were saying i was at 75% capacity and now ive been at 100% capacity since i got it back and i can happily go from 100%-0% like its supposed to.
Although your situation does sound unique its almost certain you'll need a battery replacement.. or try a new ROM and see if it keeps happening.
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Unfortunately, I got my phone from Rogers around November 2015. I don't even know what they can do about it. It's been averaging about 14%/h charging which is about 1/3 the speed. I've been using the same ROM for several weeks with no issues and haven't installed anything new lately other than app updates. I can try upgrading Pure Nexus, but it seems like they have a power menu bug at the moment.
Do you think your charger could be broken?
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Do you think your charger could be broken?
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My wife has a 6P also. I was trying her charger and it's the same thing. I've rebooted twice. It's still draining at least about twice the normal average when disconnected.
So it's roughly draining at about twice the normal speed without doing anything and charging at a third the normal speed.
I seriously can't afford to replace it. I regret choosing a phone without replaceable batteries and will not do that again, which means no Pixel phones. At least I still have my Galaxy Note 3 which still works.
if i were you id backup the entire phone (or whatever is importannt to you) to my computer and download the J factory image and do a fresh clean flash and pray that it clears out whatever is going on. Sucks to start fresh, but worth a shot
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if i were you id backup the entire phone (or whatever is importannt to you) to my computer and download the J factory image and do a fresh clean flash and pray that it clears out whatever is going on. Sucks to start fresh, but worth a shot
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I use FolderSync to backup my phone nightly to my NAS server.
The slow charging speed may be due to high cpu temperature. It was hovering around 40° for whatever reason. I set it down on a cold granite window sill and the temperature dropped to 35° and was charging at twice the speed, but still slower (1000mah vs 1550mah from before). I've been holding it for a while and the temperature is again going back up with charge speed slowing. Again, I've never had this happen before.
Thanks again, I'll probably restore the phone and bring it to Rogers later this week to see what they say.
6P has been shutting down early for a while now, usually like 10% or less which never really bothered me. Battery life seemed decent, but I never really tracked it.
Last week it started going off at 15-30% at times. But it can be random. Might go below 10% one time, next shuts off at 30%. This was on a prior version of Pure Nexus. So I tried updating to the latest build. First charge it shut down at 40%. Same crap tho, random shut off times. Today it shut down at 48%. By shut down, I mean it just suddenly gives the low battery warning, reports 0% and turns off. Many times I can restart the phone, and it will say like 1-3%, and let me use it for a while before turning off again. This most recent one at the 48% shutdown, I restarted it, showed 1%, used it for a while before it turned off again. Restarted, now shows 18%.
Wtf? Is this just a charge level reporting issue? Tried battery repair/calibration apps/techniques with no success. Nothing looks bad with regards to apps/services draining the battery. I tried accubattery and says I'm at 70% health. Don't even get 2 hours of SOT. Have a replacement battery in the mail. Think this will solve the issues?
It's known issue with some factory battery's for some reason the phone is thinking the battery is low and shutting down even though it's reporting let's say 50%. I didn't have this issue until I bought a cheap replacement would shut down at random percentages especially when opening something power hungry like camera. The only thing you can do is get a replacement and change or send it in to get changed. If you replace it yourself I suggest testing the battery before you put the phone back together. I think the 6p is a great phone and worth it to replace the battery. That just my opinion best of luck. ?
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Wtf? I tried accubattery and says I'm at 70% health. Don't even get 2 hours of SOT. Have a replacement battery in the mail. Think this will solve the issues?
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@ 70% your battery has been toast for quite a while. This degradation doesn't happen overnight. If you did your research and purchased one of the "good" replacement batteries from a known good vendor then, yes it will likely completely solve your problem. If you just bought a random battery from Ebay or BFE, then you may have another dud on your hands. Suggest testing the new battery with Accubattery before sealing it back up. Best of luck.
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It's known issue with some factory battery's for some reason the phone is thinking the battery is low and shutting down even though it's reporting let's say 50%. I didn't have this issue until I bought a cheap replacement would shut down at random percentages especially when opening something power hungry like camera. The only thing you can do is get a replacement and change or send it in to get changed. If you replace it yourself I suggest testing the battery before you put the phone back together. I think the 6p is a great phone and worth it to replace the battery. That just my opinion best of luck.
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Interesting. Did notice a couple of the times it shut down, and it was this last time at 48% as well, was when opening a power hungry game. And yes I agree the 6p is still awesome today, by far the longest I've had a phone. Considered getting the Pixel 2 XL, but it's a waste of money to me if I can get the 6P working well again.
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@ 70% your battery has been toast for quite a while. This degradation doesn't happen overnight. If you did your research and purchased one of the "good" replacement batteries from a known good vendor then, yes it will likely completely solve your problem. If you just bought a random battery from Ebay or BFE, then you may have another dud on your hands. Suggest testing the new battery with Accubattery before sealing it back up. Best of luck.
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Hmm, yeah I grabbed one off ebay. Had over 500 sold though, so hopefully not too terrible, but I will test.
I think it has really degraded in the last ~6 months. Possibly from numerous partial charges? Got a new job in April, and I'm often traveling to different sites only 10-15 minutes apart. During this time plug it into my car for Android Auto.
Thanks for the help guys!
In the same boat (But I have a solution for me)
2 weeks ago I upgraded from a beaten GS6 Edge and I am quite fond of my new phone. However I started experiencing this issue, ignored it for the first week since my S6 at 100% battery would die in an hour or two, if I'm lucky. Then the battery problem became an interest to me. I had read a lot of threads on the issue, some saying its a hardware problem, and some saying just a software bug that hasn't (or can't) be fixed. SOOOO at this point I said screw it and just accepted my phone battery as it is. Installed Dirty Unicorns Rom, messed with settings, and boom a breakthrough (I think). DU has a feature called smart pixels in which to save battery life turns off a percentage of the pixels. Wasn't to fond of this at first, but in order to make my 60 - 70 percent battery last i set it to the lowest setting. Every since then I have had maybe one random shutdown, it's only been a week and a lot could change but for me its working pretty well.
Sidenote: I found that not using camera apps, nor Google assistant had also prevented random shutdowns (this helped me with smart pixels enabled and disabled, if you wanna give it ago on stock)
Hello guys. I am experiencing random shutting downs on my phone too. I bought it in January 2017.
What I have observed and today was confirmed is that I have these unexpected shutting down when I charge the phone with fast charge. Today my phone was at 60% and shut down. When I plugged my phone on the charger, the phone was again at 60%!!! How was it possible? I think the problem might be the battery or the internal controller of the charging system...
I use a calibration app just for testing and since my phone is unusable.
It shutdowns around 40%
Tried accubattery and it says battery at 1600mah
atifsh said:
I use a calibration app just for testing and since my phone is unusable.
It shutdowns around 40%
Tried accubattery and it says battery at 1600mah
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One solution - replace your battery.
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One solution - replace your battery.
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I was getting 5 hrs of sot 3 days ago.
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I was getting 5 hrs of sot 3 days ago.
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When the phone shuts down an anything above 20%, your battery needs replacement. Period.
Look at it this way: if your battery has let's say 12 cells, when 7 cells die, it will charge to 100% faster, because there is less to charge, but will also discharge or shut down faster, because the remaining cells can't hold the load. It will still show 40%, but because you don't have enough cells, the phone shuts down. If the battery apps show 1300ma capacity, that means you have lost almost 2/3 of the battery cells.
By the way, all battery calibration does is it resets battery stats, which is done anyway each time the battery is fully charged. So, any calibration app is useless (since Android 5 or 6, when Google introduced battery stats reset.
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When the phone shuts down an anything above 20%, your battery needs replacement. Period.
Look at it this way: if your battery has let's say 12 cells, when 7 cells die, it will charge to 100% faser, because there is less to charge, but will also discharge or shut down faster, because the remaining cells can't hold the load. It will still show 40%, but because you don't have enough cells, the phone shuts down. If the battery apps show 1300ma capacity, that means you have lost almost 2/3 of the battery cells.
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this i understand, what i don't is the fact its sudden even now accubattery says 500 mah . phone now shuts at any number basically its a 15 min phone, pretty sure battery doesn't gets destroyed like this. does oneplus got any issues with QC 3 chargers? because that's what I'm using.
ill be trying a unbrick way or just flash to 9 just to double check.
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this i understand, what i don't is the fact its sudden even now accubattery says 500 mah . phone now shuts at any number basically its a 15 min phone, pretty sure battery doesn't gets destroyed like this. does oneplus got any issues with QC 3 chargers? because that's what I'm using.
ill be trying a unbrick way or just flash to 9 just to double check.
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Once you phone starts to shut down at 40%, from there it's a short road to death. In a week or so, it won't boot at all.
Don't do unbrick on an almost dead battery, as you might permanently damage your phone, if the battery dies in the middle of unbrick flashing. Mobile phones, unlike laptops, work from battery only. The function of the charger is to charge only, not to provide power to work.
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Once you phone starts to shut down at 40%, from there it's a short road to death. In a week or so, it won't boot at all.
Don't do unbrick on an almost dead battery, as you might permanently damage your phone, if the battery dies in the middle of unbrick flashing. Mobile phones, unlike laptops, work from battery only. The function of the charger is to charge only, not to provide power to work.
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got it. thanks
though already did a unbrick to 7.1 and boy somehow its louder.. hehe
now it wont do auto ota for some reason but im going with you and not upgrading it locally to 9.
just used it non stop for 1 hour on youtube and it went from 30 to 18 in 1 hour and shutdowns.
thou now it charges from 1% lets see how it works, if it goes through half a day ill try to sell it instead of replacing battery.
somehow i don't think it will be re-glued perfectly with these third party workers here.
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got it. thanks
though already did a unbrick to 7.1 and boy somehow its louder.. hehe
now it wont do auto ota for some reason but im going with you and not upgrading it locally to 9.
just used it non stop for 1 hour on youtube and it went from 30 to 18 in 1 hour and shutdowns.
thou now it charges from 1% lets see how it works, if it goes through half a day ill try to sell it instead of replacing battery.
somehow i don't think it will be re-glued perfectly with these third party workers here.
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Oneplus 5s actually have 2 screws that hold the back. So, it's more durable than glue only.
Years ago, I had Sony Xperia with expiring battery: it was pain until I replaced the battery.
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Oneplus 5s actually have 2 screws that hold the back. So, it's more durable than glue only..
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My problem is they don't glue properly or doesn't use good glue and that leaves lot of space around from where water drops can easily get inside.
I like to clean phone with wet hands / soap and than dry with towel.
Don't like greasy phone.
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Oneplus 5s actually have 2 screws that hold the back. So, it's more durable than glue only..
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So finally I managed to get my battery replaced and as feared now have nice bump dent kinda thing near sim tray.
Other problem now left is how to re-enable OTA updates.
Apparently oneplus were having issues on ota server's.
Received OTA and boy think I'm back to a new oneplus 5.
Thanks buddy for pushing me to replace battery and not blaming android update. LoL
atifsh said:
Apparently oneplus were having issues on ota server's.
Received OTA and boy think I'm back to a new oneplus 5.
Thanks buddy for pushing me to replace battery and not blaming android update. LoL
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Lol. Never replace battery unless you know it is swelling or if it runs out on the last 15-20 faster than the last 5%.
Also, if you ever face issues, instead of calibration, delete the batterystat.bin file, and 2 reboot twice in a gap of 10 minutes. Then check 2 battery cycles, 1st at 0% and power down, and the 2nd at 1-2%, and you will know if battery is the issue or not.
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Lol. Never replace battery unless you know it is swelling or if it runs out on the last 15-20 faster than the last 5%.
Also, if you ever face issues, instead of calibration, delete the batterystat.bin file, and 2 reboot twice in a gap of 10 minutes. Then check 2 battery cycles, 1st at 0% and power down, and the 2nd at 1-2%, and you will know if battery is the issue or not.
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boy i have checked or tried everything before this. basically i was in denial that i need a battery change.