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Battery question

So for the last 2 days before work, I would charge my phone completly to 100%. I work at 4am and it would be 99%....ok forward ahead 2-3 hours, ill check my phone and its at 20%. I've already check tsk manger both days but I only leave panda firewall running and alarming!
Is this defective battery? Or something else? Any ideas.

xsnipuhx said:
So for the last 2 days before work, I would charge my phone completly to 100%. I work at 4am and it would be 99%....ok forward ahead 2-3 hours, ill check my phone and its at 20%. I've already check tsk manger both days but I only leave panda firewall running and alarming!
Is this defective battery? Or something else? Any ideas.
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Do you have an extra battery to test with or just the one? If you have two batteries, it would be easier to diagnose whether the first battery is defective based on how fast the second battery drains. It might be worth borrowing a friends or buying one on amazon. You can get the OEM battery for relatively cheap nowadays (<$20)

Also depending on how long you have had your phone for you can call T-Mobile up and complain. I did this and got a free 2nd battery. Just tell them you have already gone through troubleshooting steps by turning off gps, bluetooth, wifi, 3g, and lowered the screen brightness. Even if you are over your allowed time I'm sure if you talk right you still might get a free battery, my friend did to.

supremeteam256 said:
Also depending on how long you have had your phone for you can call T-Mobile up and complain. I did this and got a free 2nd battery. Just tell them you have already gone through troubleshooting steps by turning off gps, bluetooth, wifi, 3g, and lowered the screen brightness. Even if you are over your allowed time I'm sure if you talk right you still might get a free battery, my friend did to.
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Yeah, I did this too, but that was a while ago (November or December) when it seems that T-Mobile was handing out batteries like candy to pacify all the people that were upset with battery life. I didn't know if people were still succeeding in getting a battery for free, but that is definitely worth a try first.

DirectMatrix said:
Yeah, I did this too, but that was a while ago (November or December) when it seems that T-Mobile was handing out batteries like candy to pacify all the people that were upset with battery life. I didn't know if people were still succeeding in getting a battery for free, but that is definitely worth a try first.
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lol. Yea they was just handing them out. My friend got one just the other month so its seems they are still trying to satisfy the customer.

Alright I'm probably just gonna go into tmobile cause it would be easier probably. And I've had my phone on for 10 minutes now for break, went from 17% down to less then 5% so.... this is irritating me....DAMN TMOBILE! Even if it isn't there fault I still want to blame them!

i bought my battery for 8 bucks =x i didnt feel like goig thru tmobiles battery crap

xsnipuhx said:
Alright I'm probably just gonna go into tmobile cause it would be easier probably. And I've had my phone on for 10 minutes now for break, went from 17% down to less then 5% so.... this is irritating me....DAMN TMOBILE! Even if it isn't there fault I still want to blame them!
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You might have to call them up. I don't think they will do it in the store, but again if you know how to talk anything can happen.

I'm not sure if it makes a difference or not, but when I was running Cyanogens roms above 3.6.5 I would get horrible battery readings. I'd reboot and it would says something different.

I believe its a known bug in Cupcake builds about battery readings. Cyanogen did post up a link to Android's official bug tracker but I can't remember the link by memory.
Also try calibrating your battery too and use a program like Watts to track your battery usage over time.
Also using the Open Overclocker widget is amazing, you can set the Screen Off CPU frequency, forcing the CPU to scale down when idle. I'm not 100% sure if Cyanogen's ROM does this on default or not though but I know it does do CPU scaling.

Posting here since its battery related .. ever since the upgrade to crc1 my battery charges extremely slow .. like it wont go to 100 percent in 8hrs .. but when I restart it at like 80% it will show 100, but if i leave it there long enough im sure it will keep climing slowly in percentage. Anyone else having problems like this?

Yes, it's a known bug.
Fully charge your battery then do the following.
su
rm /data/system/batterystats.bin
The battery reading will be more accurate.

Alot were right, nothing can be done in store. They pretty much shooed me away and said to call 611. Did. Told me to call HTC. Can't cause there closed lol. Anyways im going to try what Prettyboy said, but I'm turn the phone off I think to charge it fully. No extra battery though =/ They said I would have to provide a CC to get them to send an extra battery and then send the old one back.

prettyboy85712 said:
Yes, it's a known bug.
Fully charge your battery then do the following.
su
rm /data/system/batterystats.bin
The battery reading will be more accurate.
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thanks for this. but what does it exactly do??

It deletes the old battery stats file and Android creates a new one, which would be more accurately calibrated. Think of it like a battery stats reset.

NeoBlade said:
It deletes the old battery stats file and Android creates a new one, which would be more accurately calibrated. Think of it like a battery stats reset.
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after the command, do I need to reboot?

Wouldnlt hurt.

prettyboy85712 said:
Yes, it's a known bug.
Fully charge your battery then do the following.
su
rm /data/system/batterystats.bin
The battery reading will be more accurate.
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I have su file manager and i can get into the system files and see the batterstats.bin file .. what should i do? delete it?

I'm a *nix noob but i believe the " rm" command under su will delete it!

turboyo said:
I have su file manager and i can get into the system files and see the batterstats.bin file .. what should i do? delete it?
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Yes, delete it.

[Q] Captivate kernel question.

Alright, I'm rooted. Now, I want to have the WiFi tethering and I'd like to overclock. Can I do both? Is there a kernel that does both, or do I run em one at a time? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

ShredNasty said:
Alright, I'm rooted. Now, I want to have the WiFi tethering and I'd like to overclock. Can I do both? Is there a kernel that does both, or do I run em one at a time? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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Depends, setiroN puts out a very nice kernel. I use his in my ROMs. On a side note, I would move this to the Q&A before the army shows up!
Edit: you need a custom ROM to gain access to the tethering function.

ShredNasty said:
Alright, I'm rooted. Now, I want to have the WiFi tethering and I'd like to overclock. Can I do both? Is there a kernel that does both, or do I run em one at a time? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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If you haven't done it yet, flash Perception or Cognition, they both have wifi and usb tethering on. I haven't played with the others, but if you do some reading you find out about the others.

adamholden85 said:
Depends, setiroN puts out a very nice kernel. I use his in my ROMs. On a side note, I would move this to the Q&A before the army shows up!
Edit: you need a custom ROM to gain access to the tethering function.
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Yeah, I saw more technical stuff over here so I posted. My bad. I think I want to stay away from ROMs. Idk though. I've heard they're cool, but always break something. I just came from iPhone and I was up to speed. Now I'm such a lost n00b! My goal WAS to overclock and enable tethering and stay with the stock ROM. Are there any ROMs that don't break ANYTHING? Thanks dude.

ShredNasty said:
Yeah, I saw more technical stuff over here so I posted. My bad. I think I want to stay away from ROMs. Idk though. I've heard they're cool, but always break something. I just came from iPhone and I was up to speed. Now I'm such a lost n00b! My goal WAS to overclock and enable tethering and stay with the stock ROM. Are there any ROMs that don't break ANYTHING? Thanks dude.
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You can always go back to stock, but you never will once you play with some lagfixed kernels and custom roms. I thought this thing blew the iCrap out of the water stock, and its amazing now. Overclocking sounds cool, but unless you are a gamer and actually need the extra clock speed, i'm not sure its worth the effort. I have had ridiculous battery life just using 1GHz and Voodoo lagfix. I would def recommend you try P9.5 (perception) as I have no problems with anything and the best GPS ever.

used2hvatreo said:
You can always go back to stock, but you never will once you play with some lagfixed kernels and custom roms. I thought this thing blew the iCrap out of the water stock, and its amazing now. Overclocking sounds cool, but unless you are a gamer and actually need the extra clock speed, i'm not sure its worth the effort. I have had ridiculous battery life just using 1GHz and Voodoo lagfix. I would def recommend you try P9.5 (perception) as I have no problems with anything and the best GPS ever.
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Right on dude. I'm gonna give it a shot! P9.5 it is.....

ShredNasty said:
Right on dude. I'm gonna give it a shot! P9.5 it is.....
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Cool, lemme know what you think.

used2hvatreo said:
Cool, lemme know what you think.
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Dude. Could you PM me a link to a how to? Haha!

ShredNasty said:
Dude. Could you PM me a link to a how to? Haha!
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Don't forget to check out Axura!! I will be putting out 2.6 by the end of the week most likely.
Here is the link if you are interested:
Axura 2.5.1

adamholden85 said:
Don't forget to check out Axura!! I will be putting out 2.6 by the end of the week most likely.
Here is the link if you are interested:
www.kizzmiazz.com/AXURA/AxuraCE_2.5_1.zip
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No disrespect meant to the other ROM devs. I am a DG fanboy and found what I was comfortable with and haven't looked around at all, but I know there are a lot of people out there that like roms made by other devs, and I'm sure they are just as good.
the Perception 9.5 in my signature is the link to the perception thread. The sticky at the top of the thread has all of the guides for beginning to flash roms.
check this out as well, haven't watched it but it should give you an idea of whats going on:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=884364

used2hvatreo said:
Cool, lemme know what you think.
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Alright. Finally got back home and got it flashed. Seems fine. Battery life seems a little shorter. I only have about an hour with it. A few questions, what is Blinky? And what is BLN?

bln is back light notification. it can sometimes be turned off in recovery if the kernel has a modded recovery. basically if you get a text email or other alert the phone will put on the soft key back lights. i dont care for it because im never looking at my phone at it is never in a visable location for the lights to catch my attention. basically if i can see the lights im probably about to unlock my phone anyway in which case i can see the notification in the status bar.
blinky is an app that has something to do with bln but it didnt work when i tried to use it.
give the battery a couple days to calibrate. the batstats file can get all screwy making you think you have battery drain. if you charge the phone while it is off and then start the phone the two battery meters should be close to each other. if they are not then the batstats are likely off. you can clear them in clockworkmod recovery. over the coarse of a few days you may see the battery life appear to get longer.
i believe the accepted procedure for calibrating is charge to full. clear batstats. charge to full +1-2hrs. turn off phone and charge to full again +1hr, turn on phone and charge to full.
but i tend to just clear bat stats once and use the phone. im not gonna dis anyones method but i see no point in the calibration thing.

[Q] Problem with charging my Note

Just a little background..
I bought this SG Note last April and I haven't rooted it yet because it still has its warranty. I upgraded it to ICS when it came out here in the Philippines and I have issues with ICS because it often overheats when I talk to someone on the phone and when I charge it. I don't have that problem with GB.
Anyway, I recently went to Samsung's service center to get it checked because I had other problems with it (it's fixed now, thank god). I told them about the battery which drains very fast. They replaced it with a new one last Wednesday. I don't have any problems with it anymore.
Here's the problem, I charged my phone last night and when I woke up this morning, it stopped charging because apparently it was TOO hot. I didn't charge it again until now. The problem is, it charges so freaking slow. I charged it at 6pm (with 43% battery) and when I check up on it at 8pm, it went up by 1%. What seems to be the problem?
It's still plugged in since 6pm and it's now 11pm here with 80% battery. Ugh. What's the problem :crying:

Are you using the original charger?

first..if your on stock ICS... don't compare your experience when your with stock GB and with ICS, because there are too many reports (unaccounted though), that ICS pretty much sucks on the battery side thing.
Anyway, I bet your in stock kernel right?, try to see if you can flash a custom one. Usually heating problems has two sides of the coin.
Either:
1. You have a defective charger
2. It's time for you to explore other realms of possibilities, e.g. root, flashing a custom rom (for better UI and performance) and a custom kernel to handle your charging issues. There are custom kernels that helps voltages and keep your phone charged up fast.

rajsekhar.300 said:
Are you using the original charger?
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Yes and no. I used the original charger earlier but seeing that it was charging so slow, I used my Huawei's charger
letters_to_cleo said:
first..if your on stock ICS... don't compare your experience when your with stock GB and with ICS, because there are too many reports (unaccounted though), that ICS pretty much sucks on the battery side thing.
Anyway, I bet your in stock kernel right?, try to see if you can flash a custom one. Usually heating problems has two sides of the coin.
Either:
1. You have a defective charger
2. It's time for you to explore other realms of possibilities, e.g. root, flashing a custom rom (for better UI and performance) and a custom kernel to handle your charging issues. There are custom kernels that helps voltages and keep your phone charged up fast.
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If I rooted my phone, that will void the warranty. Are there any other alternatives?

Try to use the original charger
Using other chargers can even damage your battery
And even though you root your phone and void your warranty,once you flash a stock rom and reset flash counter,you will get back your warranty

rooting your phone will void your warranty BUT Samsung is only keen in checking your binary counter (if it's raised to 1 or highter)... After rooting, you can flash ChainFire's TriangleAway App to restore your counter back to 0.
Other alternatives than rooting, is first.. buy an original charger and go from there.. Drain your phone down to 5% and charge it back again till it's full and observe if it's going to be hot again. Simple as that.
Also, if you have other wall outlets, do also try to use other ones. Who knows maybe the one your using your phone to charge on to, might be close to being short circuited, and henceforth that might fry your phone in the long run. See if there are other wall outlets in your house you can use to charge your phone WITH a brand new charger.

rajsekhar.300 said:
Try to use the original charger
Using other chargers can even damage your battery
And even though you root your phone and void your warranty,once you flash a stock rom and reset flash counter,you will get back your warranty
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I see. Will use Samsung's charger again.
I'll still weigh in my options in rooting my phone. I'm too scared. I might brick it.
letters_to_cleo said:
rooting your phone will void your warranty BUT Samsung is only keen in checking your binary counter (if it's raised to 1 or highter)... After rooting, you can flash ChainFire's TriangleAway App to restore your counter back to 0.
Other alternatives than rooting, is first.. buy an original charger and go from there.. Drain your phone down to 5% and charge it back again till it's full and observe if it's going to be hot again. Simple as that.
Also, if you have other wall outlets, do also try to use other ones. Who knows maybe the one your using your phone to charge on to, might be close to being short circuited, and henceforth that might fry your phone in the long run. See if there are other wall outlets in your house you can use to charge your phone WITH a brand new charger.
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Will still think about rooting it. Too scared. LOL
Okay, that opened my eyes to something. Will do that.

Try flashing hydracore kernel
You will be automatically rooted and thats a safe kernel
You can even move to any other roms from this kernel directly

rajsekhar.300 said:
Try flashing hydracore kernel
You will be automatically rooted and thats a safe kernel
You can even move to any other roms from this kernel directly
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Is there a thread here somewhere about hydracore?
I want to know more about it from people who used this.

-make sure that you're not only using the original charger, but that you are using the original micro usb cable. The note can detect if you are not using Google an original cable and slow down charging.
-is the replacement battery a Samsung battery or a third party one?
-depending on how hot the battery got the first time, it may have damaged the battery and thus affect the charging.
Sent from my GT-N7000 using xda premium

mumsawitch said:
Is there a thread here somewhere about hydracore?
I want to know more about it from people who used this.
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Here it is
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1749863

Viper2005 said:
-make sure that you're not only using the original charger, but that you are using the original micro usb cable. The note can detect if you are not using Google an original cable and slow down charging.
-is the replacement battery a Samsung battery or a third party one?
-depending on how hot the battery got the first time, it may have damaged the battery and thus affect the charging.
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- Yeah, I'm using the original charger with the original micro usb cable.
- Yeah, the replacement battery is an original Samsung battery.
- I'm scared of that. Damn

rajsekhar.300 said:
Here it is
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1749863
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Thanks bro. I just have to understand what they're talking about. I have zero idea about these roms and whatnot

mumsawitch said:
Thanks bro. I just have to understand what they're talking about. I have zero idea about these roms and whatnot
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Just download the standard version(not overclocked) of zip format.Flash it using pc odin and you are done

rajsekhar.300 said:
Just download the standard version(not overclocked) of zip format.Flash it using pc odin and you are done
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You sure this is n00b proof? LOL

Didnt get you

hey listen.... don't just dive in to something you might end up regretting later on....
all of us here even the devs were once a noob before. If you have the inkling to experiment and learn... that's all you need. I would suggest for now is read and read the respective forums where you'd like to learn to and start from there to build your enthusiasm to thereby soon, gain the courage to take the part of flashing your first kernel.
It just takes time... take it in a slowly pacing manner.... don't worry, if you have something in doubts... get back to this post of yours and post your queries... there are a lot of helpful XDA members here who are more than willing to give you a hand in answering your questions and dispel your doubts.

rajsekhar.300 said:
Didnt get you
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I meant if it's foolproof. Haha
letters_to_cleo said:
hey listen.... don't just dive in to something you might end up regretting later on....
all of us here even the devs were once a noob before. If you have the inkling to experiment and learn... that's all you need. I would suggest for now is read and read the respective forums where you'd like to learn to and start from there to build your enthusiasm to thereby soon, gain the courage to take the part of flashing your first kernel.
It just takes time... take it in a slowly pacing manner.... don't worry, if you have something in doubts... get back to this post of yours and post your queries... there are a lot of helpful XDA members here who are more than willing to give you a hand in answering your questions and dispel your doubts.
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Thanks for the heads up bro. I will keep that in mind

^ sure, just follow something that's all too familiar on this forum S,R&P... Search,Read and Post.. that's all the tools you need to find your answers.

The problem is not with ur charger nor battery....ur phone is draining ur battery too quick....getting hot means ur cpu is active full hardcore most of the times.....i doubt it is some application uve installed.....check browsers installed...mine used to go crazy hot on dolphin HD....i shifted to chrome which was better..i would restore my phone to factory settings....nd before installing anything just test it out.....dont go into rooting unless uve explored all other alternatives.....

[Q] Heavy battery drain when on charger

Hi there!
Ok so recently my Cappy has decided its going to be screwy. For some reason if I plug it in to charge, it doesn't charge, instead I get a battery drain 5-7% within about 20 mins. I've tried 5 different cables (Zip cord, walmart one, random ones I found/borrowed, one staright plug in one not usb) and 5 different chargers (car/wall plugin hybrid, apple wall charge two different computers.) and its all the same result. I can still use it as a USB no problem, moved some files around and removed and added soem photos no problem. There is no issue with the port itself (on the outside) my cover snapped off but I make sure to keep it clean.
I also have no odd battery draining I can usually get about 12-14 hours out of it. No out of place wakelocks, no apps running wild, and all my backups are on the cloud or on my laptop. Only thing I could think this is is a hardware issue. That or its just time to get a new phone. Thankfully I have an external battery charger and I've just been switching out batteries.
Any thoughts?
On Slimbean 4.2.2 build 4.2

athdaraxen said:
Hi there!
Ok so recently my Cappy has decided its going to be screwy. For some reason if I plug it in to charge, it doesn't charge, instead I get a battery drain 5-7% within about 20 mins. I've tried 5 different cables (Zip cord, walmart one, random ones I found/borrowed, one staright plug in one not usb) and 5 different chargers (car/wall plugin hybrid, apple wall charge two different computers.) and its all the same result. I can still use it as a USB no problem, moved some files around and removed and added soem photos no problem. There is no issue with the port itself (on the outside) my cover snapped off but I make sure to keep it clean.
I also have no odd battery draining I can usually get about 12-14 hours out of it. No out of place wakelocks, no apps running wild, and all my backups are on the cloud or on my laptop. Only thing I could think this is is a hardware issue. That or its just time to get a new phone. Thankfully I have an external battery charger and I've just been switching out batteries.
Any thoughts?
On Slimbean 4.2.2 build 4.2
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My guess is that you need a new battery.
Does it show the charging animation? Also, when plugged to the pc, does fast charge help at all?

Does it charge when the phone is turned off?
sent by the scare crow, tin man, and cowardly lion on the yellow brickfree cm10.1 road.

BWolf56 said:
My guess is that you need a new battery.
Does it show the charging animation? Also, when plugged to the pc, does fast charge help at all?
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That's just it, I bought 2 new batteries, RavPower ones. They work great and last forever when I charge. My original battery and my cheap one off ebay do the same.
And yes it shows the charging thing, by battery monitor says it's charging and shows the different kinds like a/c or usb, everything acts as it should just no charging.
I have never tried the fast charge, I forgot I even had that. I'll give it a shot.
laughingT said:
Does it charge when the phone is turned off?
sent by the scare crow, tin man, and cowardly lion on the yellow brickfree cm10.1 road.
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Also something I haven't tried over a long period. I will try that as well.
Thank you both.
Sent from my SGH-I897 using Tapatalk 2

Also are you OC'ing or changing the Voltages? Probably won't make a difference in this issue but worth looking into. My Cappy refuses to OC at all, even at 102% it starts to act weird (System UI crashes sometimes, I lose signal, etc).

x0ne215 said:
Also are you OC'ing or changing the Voltages? Probably won't make a difference in this issue but worth looking into. My Cappy refuses to OC at all, even at 102% it starts to act weird (System UI crashes sometimes, I lose signal, etc).
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I actually have mine stable at 110% still don't know how lol. Cappys seem to be very picky. I'll try turning it back down.
Also fast charge didn't change anything sadly. 2% lost in about 6mins. It was sitting on my bed doing nothing l
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Apparently Samsung's hardware consistency control was lacking when the Captivate was made, so that's why they're so picky, which sucks for any kind of troubleshooting or development.
I wish I could get my Cappy to 110%. But try turning it back to 100% see if that changes anything. Also does this happen on multiple ROMs or just the one you're currently on (probably not the issue but hey I've seen weirder).

x0ne215 said:
Apparently Samsung's hardware consistency control was lacking when the Captivate was made, so that's why they're so picky, which sucks for any kind of troubleshooting or development.
I wish I could get my Cappy to 110%. But try turning it back to 100% see if that changes anything. Also does this happen on multiple ROMs or just the one you're currently on (probably not the issue but hey I've seen weirder).
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I haven't been on a different ROM since I found Slim x3 if anything I'll try turning my phone off to see if it charges.
Oh and I forgot to say I didn't mess with voltages.
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athdaraxen said:
I haven't been on a different ROM since I found Slim x3 if anything I'll try turning my phone off to see if it charges.
Oh and I forgot to say I didn't mess with voltages.
Sent from my SGH-I897 using Tapatalk 2
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Got it, off-topic but any reason you haven't gone to Slim build 4? I saw slight improvement in performance on my Cappy. Was my daily driver until this morning when I flashed C-Rom v16, which for me is as fast. Just trying to get used to how big everything is compared to Slim, I liked being able to read about 7-8 messages in the messaging app, but now I can only see about 3 lol.

x0ne215 said:
Got it, off-topic but any reason you haven't gone to Slim build 4? I saw slight improvement in performance on my Cappy. Was my daily driver until this morning when I flashed C-Rom v16, which for me is as fast. Just trying to get used to how big everything is compared to Slim, I liked being able to read about 7-8 messages in the messaging app, but now I can only see about 3 lol.
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Sorry x3 was a smiley not a build number, I'm on 4.2.
Anyways! I let my phone charge while off for about an hour. It was at 49% turned it back on and it was at 23% see what I mean? That's a crazy amount of juice.
Also, yeah I did play around with some other ROMs and I hated how big they all are, I like how small everything is on Slim. It just works better for me. X3
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Oh, sorry haha so used to seeing x5 x6 x7 etc.
I don't understand why it's DRAINING your battery instead of charging it. Seems like something got reversed?
I asked because maybe it was a bad flash or something, although it seems unlikely.

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x0ne215 said:
Oh, sorry haha so used to seeing x5 x6 x7 etc.
I don't understand why it's DRAINING your battery instead of charging it. Seems like something got reversed?
I asked because maybe it was a bad flash or something, although it seems unlikely.
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I'll try not to use it so you don't get confused. Its just habit.
I don't either. I really did see much on hardware issues that would drain it like this. I really am stumped by this.
And recently I did flash back to stock and work my way back up to Slim to see if it would help and it didn't. I didn't think to see if it would charge on stock or CM 10 but if it really came down to it I guess I could flash back to stock and play with it. Only reason I don't think it's the ROM is because to my knowledge no one else is having this particular issue.
If you have anything I can do to test or provide info just ask. I'll do whatever is needed to help figure it out. And I'd really like to as I'll have this phone for a bit longer then I thought so I'd like to see it fixed
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Do you have a battery charger? Like one that you just attach the battery to, to charge it. We could then see if it's your batteries (highly doubt) or your cappy (99.999% sure).
I don't really want to suggest checking with multi-meters only because the phone internals would be exposed while it's on and if you're not used to working with hardware like that you could accidentally short something etc.
Why not make a nandroid, flash to CM10, see what happens with your battery then. That way, if you ever need to go back to your current ROM you could just restore it.

x0ne215 said:
Do you have a battery charger? Like one that you just attach the battery to, to charge it. We could then see if it's your batteries (highly doubt) or your cappy (99.999% sure).
I don't really want to suggest checking with multi-meters only because the phone internals would be exposed while it's on and if you're not used to working with hardware like that you could accidentally short something etc.
Why not make a nandroid, flash to CM10, see what happens with your battery then. That way, if you ever need to go back to your current ROM you could just restore it.
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Yeah I do, it's what I've been doing to keep using my phone, I've had this problem for a month now. I think.
It was suggested I open up the phone and check the charge port, make sure it's clean, that kinda stuff but I don't want to do that unless I'm absolutely 100% sure it's not something else.
Wouldn't hurt. I'll go try it. Thanks for being so helpful. :3
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Yeah I do, it's what I've been doing to keep using my phone, I've had this problem for a month now. I think.
It was suggested I open up the phone and check the charge port, make sure it's clean, that kinda stuff but I don't want to do that unless I'm absolutely 100% sure it's not something else.
Wouldn't hurt. I'll go try it. Thanks for being so helpful. :3
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No problem, I do this kind of thing daily at my job so being able to help with something I actually like is nice :victory:

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No problem, I do this kind of thing daily at my job so being able to help with something I actually like is nice :victory:
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Huzzah! Well, I got CM loaded, did a full wipe too. Everything looks so big. I'll report back in an hour or two. :3
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And its charging!
I guess it is in fact the ROM. Dang. I wonder why?
I'm going to see if I can get this to charge fully before bringing it to the SlimBean thread. Just to be extra sure.
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It seems to get to around 30% (31% as of now) and it just stops. It won't charge any higher. Been like that for about 45 mins.
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Ok so I (still on CM10) couldn't get it go charge past 30% so I decided, I'm gonna poke around and I thought back on the fast charge, I wondered if it had an app, I managed to find one (Fast Battery Charging x2) and ITS CHARGING! I downloaded another app before this called Battery Mix, I love it as it has awesome battery graphs, anyways before I used Fast Battery Charging x2 it (Battery Mix) didn't have any stats on how long it would take to charge, now it does, says about 3 hrs to full, so we shall see where it goes. I don't know how the app works but I will wait and see. If this works I'll hop back to Slim and see if I can't make it work there. I don't know if it will though.
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Got to 100%, going to flash back to Slim and see if I can't get it to charge there with the setup in CM 10 I have now, if I doesn't then I guess it must be Slim?
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Alright so back to Slim and the best I could muster is to keep my battery level the same over night. I tried using the phone for a bit and the battery drain happened again. Overnight I had nothing installed aside from gapps.

Hm...So CM10 w/ fast charge seemed to work, but when you went back to Slim the problem re-appeared? That's extremely odd. I reverted back to Slim 4.2 when C-Rom v16 was slowing down, just dirty restored and charging isn't an issue. Have you tried C-Rom v16? It's based off of Slim Rom I think.
Try it I guess, lets see if it's any other custom CM10 based ROMs. This seems like such an odd issue...

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Hm...So CM10 w/ fast charge seemed to work, but when you went back to Slim the problem re-appeared? That's extremely odd. I reverted back to Slim 4.2 when C-Rom v16 was slowing down, just dirty restored and charging isn't an issue. Have you tried C-Rom v16? It's based off of Slim Rom I think.
Try it I guess, lets see if it's any other custom CM10 based ROMs. This seems like such an odd issue...
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Yeah, C-Rom worked great. Charged and everything. I ended up going back to Slim due to my power button being stupid again. It goes in and out and I couldn't find an option to do volume rocker wake on C-Rom so I switched back to Slim.
Its the weirdest thing. I don't even care about fixing it anymore as just figuring out the puzzle. X3
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Yeah, C-Rom worked great. Charged and everything. I ended up going back to Slim due to my power button being stupid again. It goes in and out and I couldn't find an option to do volume rocker wake on C-Rom so I switched back to Slim.
Its the weirdest thing. I don't even care about fixing it anymore as just figuring out the puzzle. X3
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Haha, I share that feeling. Once something is wrong and I can't figure it out, it's not even about fixing it so much as knowing WHAT was wrong. Not sure if those settings are also available on the new ROM I'm trying now (GamerzROM, oddly enough I was going to port it for the captivate this weekend but I guess the devs beat me too it). If I see them while I'm playing around today I'll shoot you a PM.
But the fact that C-ROM works great, even though it's built off Slim (I think), puzzles me completely. Have you tried any other version of Slim?

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Haha, I share that feeling. Once something is wrong and I can't figure it out, it's not even about fixing it so much as knowing WHAT was wrong. Not sure if those settings are also available on the new ROM I'm trying now (GamerzROM, oddly enough I was going to port it for the captivate this weekend but I guess the devs beat me too it). If I see them while I'm playing around today I'll shoot you a PM.
But the fact that C-ROM works great, even though it's built off Slim (I think), puzzles me completely. Have you tried any other version of Slim?
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Its just so annoying as I don't know a lot but I am trying to learn.
And thanks that would be fantastic actually. I appreciate it. :3
No I haven't I've tried CM 10 stable, Avatar, Pac-ROM (very fun ROM so many settings to mess with), C-ROM, Xylon, and Slim.
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Huggge battery drain

ive been running illusions rom for about 2 weeks now and i woke up today with my phone losing about 1-2 percent a min even with sync,gps,lte,and data off ??? wth? i reset it flashed a older back up of viper rom and it still was doing the same thing =[ can anyone help? of cours this would happen the exact day i leave for vacation to la jolla

Battery stats please?
Also, your symptoms look a LOT like those plagued by hard bricks. Check your min/max frequencies, quick!

Why us my awake times so high

racingmatt1 said:
Why us my awake times so high
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What, you mean the time that indicates how long the app has been recording for?

Better battery stats

Rirere said:
What, you mean the time that indicates how long the app has been recording for?
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can you tell me how to reduce this and get better battery life

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can you tell me how to reduce this and get better battery life
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I don't think you quite understand this app.
That time up top that I'm pretty sure you're reading isn't your wakelock time (in fact, your wakelock time seems to be pretty low as far as power consumption goes). It's the amount of time that the app has detected you've been off the wall (since it doesn't record statistics until you go off the wall).
Your battery life is basically at the upper ceiling of someone using a smartphone as a smartphone. I don't quite see why you're still complaining about battery life, especially after people pointed out you were fine in your last thread on this.

Rirere said:
I don't think you quite understand this app.
That time up top that I'm pretty sure you're reading isn't your wakelock time (in fact, your wakelock time seems to be pretty low as far as power consumption goes). It's the amount of time that the app has detected you've been off the wall (since it doesn't record statistics until you go off the wall).
Your battery life is basically at the upper ceiling of someone using a smartphone as a smartphone. I don't quite see why you're still complaining about battery life, especially after people pointed out you were fine in your last thread on this.
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which one is my wakelock time?

can you tell me how to reduce this and get better battery life
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Are you fing kidding me?
30% drain over 11 hours? With 1 hour screen time? Your awake time is literally like 2 mins more than your screen time. There us NOTHING wrong with your battery stats or your battery life.
Unless you're using your phone in Airplane mode and disabling Google Now.
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which one is my wakelock time?
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The one that says awake time.
Some friendly advice: Read a LOT before you mod your phone in any way.

i get a pop up warning that my phone is using more current than its taking in and when i check the running apps its just sense, system , settings thats all..wtf?sprint wont work on my phone becuase of the root which is the first time ive ever had a problem with taking rooted phone to the service center...anyway to unroot using a mac?

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i get a pop up warning that my phone is using more current than its taking in and when i check the running apps its just sense, system , settings thats all..wtf?sprint wont work on my phone becuase of the root which is the first time ive ever had a problem with taking rooted phone to the service center...anyway to unroot using a mac?
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Yeah, tell them it's their policy to work on rooted phones or just flash a rom.zip if you're s-off.

I used to get that error with certain charging cables. Bought a good cable. Made sure I plug into a real outlet rather than a usb port on pc. All is well. That error is totally common with sub par charging cables.

skuddy said:
I used to get that error with certain charging cables. Bought a good cable. Made sure I plug into a real outlet rather than a usb port on pc. All is well. That error is totally common with sub par charging cables.
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Yup... never use the USB port on your computer (500 mAmps) and never use a sub-standard and LONG usb cable (always keep the usb cable length to the minimum you need)...

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i get a pop up warning that my phone is using more current than its taking...
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Yerv, any updates on this today? I'm curious/worried about this. Sounds like what has happened to some folks that ended up with a brick.

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Yerv, any updates on this today? I'm curious/worried about this. Sounds like what has happened to some folks that ended up with a brick.
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It wasn't from the cable 100% I'm not an idiot lol it happened just a few days after installing the illusion rom... It was never fixed even when I unrooted the thing it would still do it although it worked fine for one day and went right back to draining a percent a min so anyway sprint gave me a new one