I found that the battery meter of homescreen++ freezes unless I got my diamond 2 rebooted.
What i mean is that the meter stays at a certain reading (say 65%) for a long time while I am using my phone as usual (photos, phone calls, sms...etc)
But when I reboot it, the reading drops dramastically (say from 65% to 40%).
Initially, I thought there were a crash among the programs so I tried to hard reset my device. But the situation is unchanged.
Any brother got the same problem?or solution? XD
Thanks very much!
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Hello
I have new diamond 2 for three days. It's very good machine, but i've one serious problem with battery. I try to explain the strange behaviour of it:
1) Battery life is too short. I have read in this forum, that battery life is amazing. I dont have this opinion. My topaz's battery life is about 3/4 of a day (standard using)
2) battery behaviour 1 - sometimes i have battery % value another than after restart. For example i have now 50%. When i do soft reset i will have 35%. After second soft reset i will have 42%. Maybe i have problem with battery calibration or something like that. Or ROM is bad.
3) battery behaviour 2 - many times my battery freeze at specific % value (for examlple 40%). At first i though that is amazing battery life. Buuut no. After few hours still was there value 40%. So i tried soft reset and i saw only 16%. I really don't know what is this problem about.
I tried ariel battery bar, which is very simple program and i didn't have problems with it in the past (when i had kaiser). But here was the same problem. Value on Ariel battery bar freezed too. After softreset there was another value. Maybe i will try hard reset in the future....Now i am trying to format battery with process of fully charge and discharge. Maybe it helps.
Has someone the same problem like me?
Detail of my official ROM:
ROM ver: 1.39.479.1 (47382) WWE
ROM date: 04/07/09
Radio ver: 3.43.25.19
Protocol ver: 61.20t.25.10U
Many thanks for help
PS: i had hermes, 2x kaisers in my past, but this kind of problem i haven't had til now. hmmm
Can you list any applications you have installed or is it still original and out of the box with no applications apart from the standard ones?
How did you perform your initial charge ?
I always perform mine by doing a full charge - letting it drain and then back on charge
This happens for the first week - even if it goes flat in the car, I will not plug it in the car charger until I get home and can do a full charge!
Once the first week is done, I charge normally which at the moment has been every 2 days
Did you do something similar?
I have read on here someone else having issues which is potentially down to the battery so it might just be you have a duff battery
thank you for quick response
Apps:
G-alarm
Total Commander
Core Player
Dictionary
MyLight
Nothing special installed. I think at first i must do a hard reset because i must exactly know if this will be on fresh ROM.
First charge - as usually - it was the same like you.
Now i am charging and here is the same strange problem. I am charging now for 2 hour and battery is only on level 50%. So, now i am going to do soft-reset..............few second...................tadaaaa i have 100%. This is not normal. Here is something bad.
But thanks for you help.
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Can you list any applications you have installed or is it still original and out of the box with no applications apart from the standard ones?
How did you perform your initial charge ?
I always perform mine by doing a full charge - letting it drain and then back on charge
This happens for the first week - even if it goes flat in the car, I will not plug it in the car charger until I get home and can do a full charge!
Once the first week is done, I charge normally which at the moment has been every 2 days
Did you do something similar?
I have read on here someone else having issues which is potentially down to the battery so it might just be you have a duff battery
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I was going to suggest the hard reset route - this would determine if its software or not.
I will say that charging from empty takes a hell of a long time on the TD2! I'm thinking without even timing it, that it is taking around 4-5 hours to charge up ... and thats on mains!
Are you doing a soft-reset while it is plugged into the mains to charge?
Also is it doing this on usb charge (try another cable and NOT the one supplied for the charger)
Have you been using Opera. If so how have you been closing it. Did you go to menue exit or just hit the X? I ask because I found that hitting the X did not fully close it and when I went back to it it was still at the same page and not relaoding my home page.
Also did you set X to close the programs automatically or do you have to hold X to shut the program down?
It is also my 3rd day with the phone but have used internet a lot and the battery seems to be good. I also have been playing lots of games. I have done an initial Full charge and let it drain.... A full charge again let it drain... and last night it got a full charge.... My battery is Full at the moment. Today I have used it mildly for the web.... Like less than 15 min and have played games for about 10. A few calls and that's it. I can say it's doing better than my Elfin has.
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Have you been using Opera. If so how have you been closing it. Did you go to menue exit or just hit the X? I ask because I found that hitting the X did not fully close it and when I went back to it it was still at the same page and not relaoding my home page.
Also did you set X to close the programs automatically or do you have to hold X to shut the program down?
It is also my 3rd day with the phone but have used internet a lot and the battery seems to be good. I also have been playing lots of games. I have done an initial Full charge and let it drain.... A full charge again let it drain... and last night it got a full charge.... My battery is Full at the moment. Today I have used it mildly for the web.... Like less than 15 min and have played games for about 10. A few calls and that's it. I can say it's doing better than my Elfin has.
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Good point - Just for your reference, in the settings menu > advanced settings> System> Task Manager > Button tab
You can set the X to close rather than minimise - I have always set this to be the case so that when I close a program, it does close!
i tried 3 different chargers. Nothing.
Now i am doing hard-reset. Soon i will report.
report-after hardreseting my topaz seems to be fine. Before hardresseting i fully charged my battery. now i am testing it...
hmmm. really interesting. after few hours of testing everything was ok. So i decided to test it with battery applications (ariel battery bar and another tools wich shows battery bar in %.) And here started ainigain the same problems. Can someone test ariel battery bar and test some soft reset? Please watch what happend after restarts with battery %. I tried 10x restart
and everytime was there another value of battery. Sometimes higher, sometimes lower values.....really annoying
Now i have uninstalled all battery tools and i am going to test again if everything is goog...
alkapone please inform us about the results because i kinda have the same problem here, and i am using batti.
i have a lot of applications installed (nothing to do with the battery meter), but i have GPRS not 3G signal, i am closing the programs normally, and i am exiting opera, and so on. i am using it a lot but i think it goes out kinda fast. i almost get 1 day by using it.
can anyone suggest a battery meter that actually works fine? i like batti
Same problems here! Looking at the battery-information tab: After 4 hours of use after full charged the battery is empty..
I have been using dciBattery and qwertyMemory and all seems to be ok.
I have copied the files to the storage card then run the files and set a shortcut in the windows startup folder.
Here is a link to the files
http://freewareppc.com/utilities/qwertymemoryanddcibattery.shtml
this program doesn't have any config ? i don't want to have the memory bar and i don't want to have that gradient thing.
i think i solve the problem - not sure for 100%
hello to all
i think i solved the trouble. when i have uninstalled every battery app, everything seems to be ok. and one statistic - i had today at 12:00(lunch) 20% of battery. after 8 hours standard using of the phone(few calls,sms,internet), my battery told me that it has 10%. i think it is veeeery gooood (8 hours=only 10% decrease of the battery).beautiful.
result - this case showed that some battery apps/tools causes problens with compatibility battery meter vs. these apps..,
list of apps which causes problems (my tests)
1) jimmyes greens battery fixes
2) ariel batrery bar
3) batti
this is not 100% solution. i am still testing.
please write your opinion.
i am going to try finix
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=3726516&postcount=5
i will report
alkapone02 said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=3726516&postcount=5
i will report
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I am using it since day one with my td1 and td2 and no problems so far...
Do you think nueDynamicClock and nueClock as well as TweakHD (with it's apparent powersaving options etc) could be culprits as well? I'm on 6 hours standby and 2 hours device usage and I've just hit 55% on my battery (trying out the app alkapone02 just linked to)
i have installed finix batt icon too. batti was battery crazy on this.
i will test tomorrow, i am fully charging it now and i am going to test how long it will last through the week
super. please test it and report here as usually. thanks
TeDeV said:
i have installed finix batt icon too. batti was battery crazy on this.
i will test tomorrow, i am fully charging it now and i am going to test how long it will last through the week
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oki but question is if the battery performance is good?
have you tried td2 without it for few days if the performance is better or worse?
KraFT_mk said:
I am using it since day one with my td1 and td2 and no problems so far...
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Hi there,
I have a huge problem with my Diamond..
Since I went to the Alps in christmas, (local temperatures where about -8 degrees celcius(phone can handle this I hope))
whenever I make use of consuming programs (i.e.: Opera, TouchTwit, Windows Live Messenger, whatever..) My phone just turns off ? random times.. mostly after using the program for like 2 minutes.. not more than 2 mins.
Anyway, I restart my phone, it says Battery almost empty?! what the.. I just plugged it out of my recharger? if my battery gets below 5% it shuts down again and again, after few restarts it was fixed, and battery was back normal. (When phone is connected to recharger, there's no problem with any of these applications
Now my question is, since I have no warranty (Hard-spl)
What to do now?
Thanks for helping me out already
(btw: it's with every ROM I use and I have never had this issue before..)
Update: I just ordered a new battery 1340 mAh, hope this will solve it, Im running official Dutch Rom from htc website at the moment, its definitly not a rom problem, cause it shuts down also
have you found a solution yet?
i seem to have exactly the same problem...
the phone shut's down and there is always only 5% battery life remaining
i get the idea it has something to do with the internet connection, cause it always happens when i browse or use outlook
so i tried updating the radio rom, but that did not fix it
i will try it with tomtom or anything that uses a lot of memory without internet, see what happens...
i hope you have already found solution, and are willing to share it!
Edit:
It seems to have nothing to do with the memory consuming of the apps.
When i run tomtom for example, it runs fine and the phone does not shut down.
When i exit the app, and run quickgps and let it download the gps-data from the internet, the phone shut's down after a few seconds.
So maybe i do have a different problem...
Anyone have a suggestion on how to fix it? It happens with different ROMs and Radio versions.
Hi.
I'm having bit of a problems with my SGS in last couple days; i'll give you last example, but same thing is happening last couple days:
- yesterday I have fully charged my phone; I have disconnected it form charger before I went to sleep.
- today in morning (8h later), phone was turned off
- when I turn it on, I got message to connect it to charger, because battery was on 15% (from 100% to 15% in 8h on standby)
- because this thing was happening last couple days, I have made sure that I didn't leave any apps running in background, that will be able to drain battery that fast.
- I opened settings and take a look at battery statistics;
Cell standby was over 70%!!
When I click on it, it says "Time without signal 70%"
So basically, he has drained almost entire battery by searching for GSM signal. But I have full GSM signal all the time.
But what's the weirdest thing; now that I'm awake, phone will work normally all day; it will last on those 15% almost whole day on standby.
But when i'll go to sleep, ti will start to go crazy over night.
And it's no a problem that he drains almost entire battery over night (it is, but not biggest); problem is that he powers off, so I can miss some important calls in morning (this is my business phone).
do you use a taskkiller? If so, stop using it for a while to see if things improve.
Have you upgraded to Froyo?
pwhooftman said:
do you use a taskkiller? If so, stop using it for a while to see if things improve.
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I use task manager, and he is "manual" task killer; so I don't have any automatic task killers.
_dsk_ said:
Have you upgraded to Froyo?
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I'm still on 2.1 android.
Did you install any new apps recently, did you change anything etc?
nwsk said:
Did you install any new apps recently, did you change anything etc?
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A week ago I made factory reset and clean up my phone, because I had installed bunch of stuff there that I didn't need, and this was faster solution then unistalling one by one app.
I have then rooted my phone (it was rooted also before factory reset), and I have installed voodoo lag fix (before I had one click lag fix).
After that I setup my phone with just stuff I use, and it was working brilliantly till last couple days; only thing that I can remember that I have installed in last couple days was update for angry birds.
One user on Samsung galaxy forum suggested that I switch on flight mode, and than turn it off. Now I will see if this will help; apparently this resets GSM radio.
Voodoo has always been known to kill batteries. I got 8hours on single charge when I was on voodoo. No big deal
single finger pecked on a galaxy s
I've been ROM-free for months now ever since this problem started but alas! Not even returning it to the stock using Sony's repair thing fixed it.
My phone has been rebooting at random moments and whenever I'm lucky enough to see it on, the battery status always changes. For example, I've recently charged it then put it in my pocket for a couple of hours, when I check it, I see the Sony Ericson logo and when it turns on the battery has completely gone from 90 to 20 something if I'm lucky and 3% or so if I'm not. This problem is often found when: I've left it in my pocket for even the slightest period of time, when someone's calling me (I can't even answer calls for more than a few seconds now because it always dies on me), and other random moments.
If it helps, the battery seems to be on fire every time it reboots itself. Thanks for any helpful suggestions and even for just reading.
Hello,
First of all, I'd like to apologise if I can't make myself understood because of my bad English writing.
The point is my Mi5 has started to randomly shuts down since about Nov 17' (just when the warranty expired since I got it Nov 16'...). I had Paranoid Android with the latest August china/global dev firm when it happened for the first time. I don't think it's a firmware/software problem, since it was with no reason and I tried several firm. and ROMs without success. I always wipe all partitions, if that's a problem as I read it could be.
The solution for me has been charging the phone for a few hours, then opening, disconecting and conecting battery 2 or 3 times and it works again. If I make sure the phone is always at 100% battery level, it works perfectly. Under 90%, it randomly shuts down at some point, maybe 80%, 70%... and I have to wait and make all the proccess again. I was monitoring the voltage levels with an app, and I realise that it was quite low for what it should be (from 4.45V to 4 V at 100%, and minimum is 3.85V...), and, when this values started to get under 3.85V, it's when randomly shuts down. Always when the phone is idle, by the way.
So I thought it was the battery. Get a new one (not original but...), installed, connect/disconnect wait etc... And the problem is still here. I don't know what else to do bes ide buying a new phone. Any ideas?
Sorry for this heavy text, and thanks in advance!