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Hi everyone.. I need some help with this problem.
This is what happened .. Last night before going to sleep i checked the time on my kaiser, then made sure no applications were running and pressed the power buton (for sby). The battery was at 79%. This morning the phone was switched off. When i press the power to turn it on the battery was fully drained and completely dead. This is not the first time this has happened. And it doesnt matter at what charge the battery is. IT JUST HAPPENS... By the way i have it in flight mode since i never use it as a phone. I contacted the rep in my country and said they can check it out, but i would prefer avoiding the 2 weeks waiting...
ANY ideas...
Thank you all
Either there is something wrong with your battery or you've got software installed which drains your battery all the time.
Disable or uninstall monitoring programs or third party apps that can cause battery drain.
Did you install new apps recently?
ive had that issue once, gave me a rlod!
i basically ran pocket mechanics file cleanup...
took a while so i gave it 5 minutes, then bam! battery dead and had then saw the infamouse rlod. i was scared ****less
but after a ressurection with aid of some htc guy,
i had to hard reset(many of the files became corrupt) and it never happened again.
sooo try a hard reset
can you explain the ressurection with aid of some htc guy?
thx
Hi everyone.
Thanx for the replies. Well i havent installed any software lately and the only monitoring software i have is the battery status which i dont think is the problem since the reason i installed was these sudden deaths...
is there any way to find out if a certain app drains power when in standby mode?
Battery suddenly dropping happened to me twice... re-charged the battery and had no more issues concerning battery dropping. Possibily, it's some kind of app that keeps on running even though task manager does not trace it... That's my point.
To see whether your Kaiser is consuming more power than needed, close all running apps and leave it on until it reaches the idle power consumption (my Battery Status says 40-50 mA).
Also, complete discharge-charge cycle could help re-calibrate the battery gauge.
Hey, guys, I tried dong some research but I can't find anyone with a similar problem.
I've got a T-Mobile (USA) G1 and I've got Cyanogen's Eclair ROM flashed on it. Prior to flashing Cyanogen's ROM, I was using OpenEclair. OpenEclair was working [relatively] well until my phone randomly started shutting off. I thought it was a battery calibration problem, so I recalibrated my battery by letting it die completely and then charging it fully, but that didn't work. I flashed Cyanogen's Eclair and hoped that my problem would be fixed, but the problem still persists.
I can't really isolate the problem. My phone can shut off in the middle of a call, in the middle of writing a txt message, or without me even using it while it's in my pocket. It shuts off regardless of the battery level (I've seen it shut off at like 97%). This wouldn't be THAT bad except the phone refuses to turn on right after it shuts off. When I press the power button, the phone will show the G1 logo for a few seconds and then shut off again as if it was dead. Sometimes if I press the power button, the phone won't turn on and I'll see the LED flash red which gives me the idea that the phone "thinks" it's dead. In order for me to turn the phone back on, I need to plug in the charger. This is becoming extremely annoying.
Does anyone know what the problem could be? I would try wiping/re-flashing but I don't wanna lose all my data :/
Thanks,
Gerard
I'm having the same exact problem ever since installing cyanogen 5.0.7 Test 1... so im not sure whats going on but i went to T-Mobile today... and they said my battery is warped or somethin not to tech savy... yet it was working fine like totally so... hmmm anyone know anything?
yea this has happened to me too! It shuts off randomly then i cant turn it back on until like 30 minutes later without touching it. I noticed that it happened after i flashed a open eclair rom that wouldnt start but i did flash it correctly. I have wiped battery stats and dalvik cache. Well i hope we can get some answers
I had the same problem I have tried just about every rom out there so dont remember when it started but i ordered a new battery off ebay for 10 bucks and havent had a problem since
jjovro1611 said:
I had the same problem I have tried just about every rom out there so dont remember when it started but i ordered a new battery off ebay for 10 bucks and havent had a problem since
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So you think it's a hardware problem? I find it kinda hard to believe that all of us coincidentally got this problem after installing Ecalir ROMs...unless Eclair destroys our battery somehow?
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yeah same here but mine started with Amon Ra 1.2.3 and the blue haze rom. I updated my recovery to the latest 1.6.2 I think and switched to htcclay's superfast and the danger spl slso tmobile is comping me a new battery just to be safe, although switching rom's seem's to have helped my battery life a little. hope this helps someone.
Have you tried replacing the battery?
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Have you tried replacing the battery?
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Nah, I'm part lazy and part unconvinced that it's a hardware issue. I mean if the phone reads that the battery is like 95% charged, why would it just give out randomly? I don't know much about hardware though, so maybe I'm wrong...
I want T-Mobile to get a new Android phone that's like incredible I want a new phone already damnit!!
im just gonna buy a battery on ebay or something because my battery does look kinda swollen so it could possibly be the battery. Gonna give it a try though
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im just gonna buy a battery on ebay or something because my battery does look kinda swollen so it could possibly be the battery. Gonna give it a try though
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You think you could update us when you find out whether it changes anything or not? :/
This phone gets me really frustrated because first it started shutting off and now i have a unresponsive lock screen! I push all the buttons and the screen is black like if its turned off. I have to do a battery pull but theres a risk of the phone not turning back on and shutting off on the g1 screen. I was planning to buy the battery today but i think im just going to use a different phone for now. I hope someone can really resolve this problem. Cant wait for the samsung galaxy s
For what it's worth, I started having the same issue last week with my G1. I think it's entirely coincidental that you switched to the CM 2.1 Test branch and your phone started getting screwy.
I looked at my battery as the first suspect, and what did I find when I pulled it out of the case? A badly swolen battery. By the end of the week, the swelling had gotten so bad that it was visibly bulging the plastic backing on my G1.
I took it to 3 separate T-Mobile stores looking for a replacement battery. The first two were of no luck, but the 3rd finally had one in stock. The CSR saw my battery and almost freaked out. She says I was lucky that it didn't pop because it was ready to at just about any moment.
Long story short, since replacing my battery, I have had ZERO issues, and my battery life has once again been phenomenal (well, for the G1).
I just checked my battery and I think it's possible that it's swollen. On the side where it says "htc Innovation," is it supposed to be perfectly flat? There's like a rectangle that's slightly raised above the rest of surface. I'm a little hesitant to buy a $50 battery if that's the way the battery is supposed to be.
Thanks,
Gerard
Spontaneous power off - sunspots?
Yes, this happened to me fairly frequently about 3 months ago. Now it happens (maybe) once a week.
In my experience, it isn't a Cyanogen issue - it would spontaneous die when I used Enomther's official rom, SuperD (one of the previous versions), and some others. That made me think it was hardware, but ... I haven't changed hardware, and still drop the G1 into my pocket like usual.
So if it isn't ROM software and it isn't hardware, what is it - sunspots?
grardb said:
I just checked my battery and I think it's possible that it's swollen. On the side where it says "htc Innovation," is it supposed to be perfectly flat? There's like a rectangle that's slightly raised above the rest of surface. I'm a little hesitant to buy a $50 battery if that's the way the battery is supposed to be.
Thanks,
Gerard
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It should be perfectly flat. A new, good battery does not have the bulging rectangle in the middle you are talking about. Mine did the same thing. In fact, both sides were swelling. The battery would no longer sit flush in the back. My theory was simply that some sort of movement was causing it to lose contact and shutting off the phone.
If you take the battery out and lay it flat the table, you shouldn't be able to rock it by pressing an edge. If you can, your battery is dying.
I just bought a battery yesterday on amazon for 15$ You should check it out. Hope this battery resolves my problem. I also fixed my lock screen issue. I had set cpu to 120 instead of 128 so it unresponsive.
I have the same problem, and indeed when i now look at it my battery seems a bit swollen. I ordered a replacement battery on dealextreme. They have a few different battery replacements for the G1 for cheap (and lots of other things, regular customer) with free shipping. So i hope that will fix my problem .
I found this thread because I've been having random shutoffs as if the battery were pulled (black screen immediately, no "Shutting Down" prompt first), and it would only do this when NOT charging. This started happening when I first ran Firerat's all-in-one script but I think it was coincidental. So anyways, I found this thread after wanting to pull my hair out because of the random shutoffs, and sure enough, I pulled my battery and it's a bit puffed out. Time for a new battery.
My question is : does anyone think this is a result of the extra strain placed on the battery / heat generated from being overclocked? Once I get a new battery, I'd like to prevent it from happening in the future.
definately a battery problem. had the same thing on my g1. got into a whole big argument about how it WAS NOT PHONE in the cyanogen6 thread. guess what....it was my phone.
its not the rom. its your phone. seriously.
also, just to point out, most of us here got our phones relatively early in its release, and lot of people are having this problem now apparently. battery has life of 2yrs by my calculations.
if you can mimic a reboot with the phone plugged into usb or wall charger...it may be rom. but if you phone DOES NOT DIE while PLUGGED IN...ITS YOUR BATTERY.
Had the same problem with my 2008 bought g1, swollen battery and random shutdowns. Just inserted an new bought battery. Hope it fixes the problem.
Went to use my Nook Color today and battery was completely discharged. Showed 80% the previous night.
Not sure if something on RC1 could have done this. Put RC1 on my SD card this past weekend and it had been working fine except for dropping wifi.
Search not working so don't know if anyone has experienced this.
I had a similar experience, almost fully charged one night and left in the nightstand drawer.... next night the battery is dead, so dead it wouldn't turn on until I put it on the charger. I wondered if maybe I left it in the drawer with one of the buttons pressed on something... but maybe this is some kind of bug? Also CM7.1RC1. I see there have been a lot of updates committed since RC1 was released so I'm thinking about upgrading to the nightly build tomorrow. http://cm-nightlies.appspot.com/?device=encore
Me Too
I have CM7 also (7.3). I have noticed several times when I fully charge my nook, use it for a short while and then come back the next morning to find it fully discharged. It doesn't seem to matter if I just let it natural go to sleep or if I hit the power button one time to force it to sleep. Again, it doesn;t always do it but it happens about half the time after charging.
My phone started randomly dropping charge like I've seen in lots of posts here (would get to 30% then go to zero in seconds and power down). About a week ago it got to 80% then died on me! So of course I turned it back on, it booted with 1% battery and I figured I'd just leave it and see what happened.
http://i.imgur.com/rBAS0xg.png (linked for size)
This is my battery usage from today! What the hell? 9 hours on 1% is obviously not right or Sony have invented the most magical battery in the world!!
I rooted and tried battery calibration but this hasn't changed anything, I'm now running a completely stock 5.0.2 ROM after doing a complete wipe and reflash and the battery is still doing this.
Any ideas?
tarwedge said:
My phone started randomly dropping charge like I've seen in lots of posts here (would get to 30% then go to zero in seconds and power down). About a week ago it got to 80% then died on me! So of course I turned it back on, it booted with 1% battery and I figured I'd just leave it and see what happened.
http://i.imgur.com/rBAS0xg.png (linked for size)
This is my battery usage from today! What the hell? 9 hours on 1% is obviously not right or Sony have invented the most magical battery in the world!!
I rooted and tried battery calibration but this hasn't changed anything, I'm now running a completely stock 5.0.2 ROM after doing a complete wipe and reflash and the battery is still doing this.
Any ideas?
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I believe that nothing is wrong with your battery, as I see a lot of posts around about battery drain issues. I belive that it's a lollipop bug that hopefully Sony will solve in 5.1 update or in a quick bug fix update soon.
Regards,
~J2C
@Just2Cause:
that's incorrect! I'm on .270 LP Stock and Rooted and i do not face this issue. @tarwedge said that he did a fullwipe and clean install and a battery calibration. So it's possibly a hardware issue. Try to Downgrade to KitKat and see if the Problem still exists. If it's still droppin like it's hot -> Hardware issue!
You should replace the battery. I had a similiar problem and I fixed it by doing that.
AntiDroid said:
You should replace the battery. I had a similiar problem and I fixed it by doing that.
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Did you lose waterproof?
It also happened to me, exactly as it happened to OP, did it two times after upgrading to Lollipop, charge going from 40ish percent straight down to 0, followed by phone shutting down.
Lollipop was clean install with factory reset.
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I have exact the same problem. Downgrade to 4.4 it's still the same. The phone can be shutdown at anytime if I run heavy apps like games or camera. The battery dropped down from 80% to 1% in just seconds! Sometimes it drops 3% every 3 seconds! When I restarted the phone, the battery remains 1% and shutdown again. Plug in the charger, then just 30 minutes the battery can goes up to 80-90%, once I restart, it will drop down to 0% again!
Bring it to Sony Service Center, they said my battery is almost dead, it needs a replacement but they are currently out of stock! Have to wait at least 1 week! Haizzzz.
In addition, my headphone jack is not working right, I can only hear sound from 1 side, they said it's broken also! Why? I rarely use the headphone and if I do, I always use the Sone's headphone that comes with my Z1!
I love Sony's design and probably will never buy another Sony phone again!
It's likely a bad battery. I replaced mine after having the same symptoms and everything is fine. Lollipop is not the issue.
Saigonian said:
I have exact the same problem. Downgrade to 4.4 it's still the same. The phone can be shutdown at anytime if I run heavy apps like games or camera. The battery dropped down from 80% to 1% in just seconds! Sometimes it drops 3% every 3 seconds! When I restarted the phone, the battery remains 1% and shutdown again. Plug in the charger, then just 30 minutes the battery can goes up to 80-90%, once I restart, it will drop down to 0% again!
Bring it to Sony Service Center, they said my battery is almost dead, it needs a replacement but they are currently out of stock! Have to wait at least 1 week! Haizzzz.
In addition, my headphone jack is not working right, I can only hear sound from 1 side, they said it's broken also! Why? I rarely use the headphone and if I do, I always use the Sone's headphone that comes with my Z1!
I love Sony's design and probably will never buy another Sony phone again!
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Hi,
About the second issue, are you sure it isn't your headphone that broke? I use a lot headphones, so they break in a short span of time and I always need to get a new one. How the problem on broken headphones start? Simple. One side simply stops!
I always use the Sone's headphone that comes with my Z1!
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You might have your device for some time. My Z1 headphone lasted 6-7 months (great for my normal headphone life haha).
For the battery problem everyone is having. It has happened on Nexus 10 as well after lollipop update (and happened to a few before on KitKat). For some a software reflash seemed to solve, for others only a battery replacement, I know these aren't very good news, but I hope someone can find a definitive solution other than those 2 workarounds.
All the best,
~Lord
Valforte said:
Did you lose waterproof?
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XxLordxX said:
Hi,
About the second issue, are you sure it isn't your headphone that broke? How the problem on broken headphones start? Simple. One side simply stops!
You might have your device for some time. My Z1 headphone lasted 6-7 months (great for my normal headphone life haha).
~Lord
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Yes, I'm pretty sure it isn't my headphone. Because I plug it into another phone, it sounds normal. I get another headphone and plug into Z1, only hear the sound from 1 side.
At first, when I plug the headphone into Z1, I heard some cracking sound like statics on both side, then the sound is ok. After a few times like that, I only hear 1 side.
Actually I have Z1 after it appears on the market for a few months until now. This is the longest time I use a smartphone since Iphone 2G (cause its price dropped too fast, I just can't afford changing a new smartphone every few months like before). And I rarely listen to music on the phone, just about once a month I think.
Z1 lollipop 5.1.1
build n. 14.6.A.1.236
kernel ver. 3.4.0-perf-gd26777b-00851-ga8b7b55 19 november 2015
It all happened a month ago, after an update, the phone battery registered low and the device reboted, and for the first time in the phone history, I saw, at boot, the "app optimization" dialogue, that kept chewing at what battery life was left.
So, I replaced the battery;
at first start, all seemed OK till I hit an app (whatsapp I think) and the phone displaied the low battery warning and went down.
Same, after a full recharge, when pressing the camera hardware button.
Oh, I also had the discrepancy between the charging icon , which reported 100% charge, and after maybe 10min. 50% and, you know the story.
Now, at the very moment I am writing, after a full charge, 24 hours ago, the phone, without the sim and the SD cards, but left on, registers a charge of 93% (only wireless on, to invite some disharge); of course I cannot check the watsapp, but I took some pics, and the phone stays on.
What do you reckon, I am bugged, as android 5.1.1
should I hang on the phone, which, by the way, performs(ed) pretty well, even though marsmallow is not an option, with the 2GB mem. at least in a bog standard state (i.e. not rooted)?
Thanks
A little update: after two more hours, I started using the browser, and after viewing a couple of pages, the phone swiched itself off.
Now, the charging icon, visible, when phone is off, show a 1% charge.
So, the software battery meter, must be well off the mark?
Last addiction: after an hour, the status light is green (phone charged?) and the charge icon, displays a 100% level.
It's your say, now.
I have this problem and battery replace didnt solve anything here too, but I'm on nougat. I hope someone know a solution for this.. But I think It is some kind of hardware problem.
Little update: after recharging, I switched the phone up and let it play some video on youtube;
well, after maybe half an hour, it went down, and as soon as I plugged the charger in, the icon showed 80% charge, which I allready experienced, dismissing it had a fawlty reading, but, with some afterthought , would be in line with the actual battery drainage ( remember that without any activity it stays on indefenetly) and is, as if, some internal mechanism -either hardware or software, is programmed to switch it off at that precise level.
Just a thought, is there somewhere, the level of battery disharge can be set, at our discretion before the device shuts off, say 15%?
I do not seem to find this specific setting, currently.
It is less credible, as time goes by, to think of it as a specific device/brand problem, given the fact that all the major players ware, seems to be affected, and allowing for differences in platforms, the common denominator would appear to be the software itself.
Exact same problem
Some time ago, I replaced my Xperia SP's battery.
The "used, like new" battery I ordered was as bad as the one that was to be replaced, maybe even worse.
I complained, got another-one. This other battery works great.
Remember: There are no "new" batteries out there, just used-ones.
Some are still good, some are dead.
I don't know where replacement batteries that are new should come from... Sony has never sold them as spare parts. I don't know of any company that produces batteries for Sony phones and sells these batteries on the open market.
I only know of third party spare parts for iPhones. Apple has sold only like 20 different models since 2006.
Sony? More like 100.
Producing third party spare parts just isn't profitable in this case. That's the reason why there aren't any.
Any seller who claims to offer "new" batteries lies. At least if he didn't take them from some never used devices.
I'd be HAPPY to be proven wrong because I also need a new battery for my Z1.
Besides, it's no wonder all our phones' batteries die at the same time. They are all the same age and have had more or less the same amount of charging cycles.
Also, it's no wonder they all die the same way (suddenly empty).
They all (more or less) came out of the same factory.
It's like with cars, same model, same problems.
A Peugeot 206 always has problems with the Zylinderkopfdichtung (don't know the English word, the rubber thingy in the motor that keeps water from mixing with oil), some stuff with the wheels or the exhaust flies off because of rust... for the third time in 5 years...
Kaffeetrinker said:
Some time ago, I replaced my Xperia SP's battery.
The "used, like new" battery I ordered was as bad as the one that was to be replaced, maybe even worse.
Remember: There are no "new" batteries out there, just used-ones.
Some are still good, some are dead.
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Your allegations, are worth investigating.
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Very important updates.
There seems to be an "xperia battery bug" which kicks in at every battery change.
After having done all the calibration stuff, I re-opened the phone and took the battery connector off, while the phone was on.
Then, did the same, with the phone off.
After three or four days in which the phone did not seem able to start, (rebooted at the first stages of switching on) the phone magically booted up with, and what's more important there was no dicrepancy, between the battery charge level, shown when you plug in the charger, with phone switched off, and the charge level presented by the software, once the phone is on.
So, do not give up your still worth device!
Only thing I noticed now, is a sligtly faster battery consumption, even in stamina mode;
could it be related with the post above?
Maybe a new custom ROM could fix the problem, now that the phone seems stable.
Similar problem.
Phone shuts down when 2 to 3 apps are working simultaneously. It first heats up and then suddenly dies.
Secondly, it sometimes dies on 60% and other days it can work till 1% too. Sometimes after a reboot, it shows the battery percentage abnormally.
I love this phone so i m not planning to throw it away. On the other hand, i cannot find an original battery in the market.
Just chuck a suitable battery in and do the procedure I described.
My battery is not original either, so no problem.
As far as the battery consumption, it seems to be better now, after a week of use.