Battery meter Q. - Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Ever since I got the phone I noticed the battery meter was off. The way I see it the bar should represent nearly any % of the total capacity. Well, I don't know if this is the case and I was wondering if anyone else has input. I've been using the phone Status to find the actual % of the battery to actually judge how much juice is left. Often times I'll find the battery reading at 80% or maybe even less and the battery meter shows full. Anyone else having similar problems? Is there a fix or does the bar only show approximate values at certain increments (i.e. 25%, 50%, etc.)?

Same here, when the battery image is at 75% there's realy only 45% left. Kinda annoying but i got used to it
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anyone else have input or maybe a possible fix?

bloody awful isnt it lol
i use a widget from extended controls, or switch pro, they have a % and its bang on
else you can try this
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=765419
im not even going to bother changing the framework-aes.apk as my phone got stuck in a restart loop last time i modded something made by someone else

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Tilt Battery Issue

Has anyone experiencing a massive battery drop after using tomtom? After using tomtom I closed it and it appeared to be on the bottom of my screen.. after clicking on it.. it bring up the navigator title at the top with the today screen.. and wouldn't shut down.. after i soft resetted it.. the battery dropped from 60% to nearly 15%
Has anybody experienced this?
Yes, using the GPS is a known battery drain issue, there is nothing to do reduce battery drain while GPS is running.
hollywould said:
Yes, using the GPS is a known battery drain issue, there is nothing to do reduce battery drain while GPS is running.
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when i use mine in the car I just plug it in to reduce battery drain
seriously though yes the battery drains fast with GPS, but I've also noticed it drains fast when using my phone as an MP3 player... I was using it friday with full charge and only got about 6 hours out of it
thanks for the quick responses.. but this was a period of maybe 20 minutes.. seemed to me like a glitch or something..
the tomtom icon appeared at the bottom right hand corner.. and whenever i tried accessing it.. it wouldnt come up.. the light wasnt flashing amber either..
GPS, as suggested by This thread, is one of the problems.
I find that 3G eats up battery. Forcing your phone to disconnect with 3G after a length of certain minutes can save your battery when your note using 3G.

[Q] Weird battery behaviour - calibrating doesn't help?

The battery drops quickly to 5 %. Often skips levels, such as drops directly from 40 to 20.
If I reboot, the percentage often increases by several levels.
When it has reached 5 %, it stays there for a long time before shutting itself down.
I plug the charger in and it will say 5 % but already after 20-45 min it will say maybe 50 %.
Then I unplug and start the phone, and then it might say 70 % instead of 50.
I use battery monitor widget and have some interesting lines of info from its history attached as a screen shot.
At the top of the screen shot, I started running wifi hotspot (the temperature drops because I placed the phone in the refridgerator so that it wouldn't get so hot).
Notice how it drops from 50 % to 15 % in 10 minutes.
Notice how it then stays at 5 % for more than 90 minutes before shutting itself down.
Notice how it recharges quite quickly, 20 % almost immediately after plugging in and starting up the phone.
I have tried a new battery and I think I even got the entire phone replaced (warranty), but this still happens.
I've tried various calibration techniques and ROMs...
Does this happen to anyone else and does anyone know of a calibration technique that actually helps for this?
Its realy strange u can try to delate date/system/baterystats.bin maybe that help... I got no clue why u phone see diferent voltage every time. Did u change u system recently?
winettou said:
Its realy strange u can try to delate date/system/baterystats.bin maybe that help... I got no clue why u phone see diferent voltage every time. Did u change u system recently?
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Change the system? I flashed Telus Lite a week or two ago. You're right, I hadn't thought about the voltage going up and down
I have tried deleting that file
Would someone with a Milestone with alright battery life, please upload their batterystats.bin here, so I can try replacing mine with it?
I have this same issue with the battery I bought in amazon. Out just takes 1h to see the high percentage battery drops. The battery calibration does not work.
This Issue not happens with the battery that came with the phone.
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I have the original battery and a battery from ebay, the phone acts the same way with both though.
Would really appreciate it if someone could upload their batterystats.bin
Edit: This is probably gonna need a new thread.

[Q] Battery Calibration - reboot?

I recently installed Serendipity and made sure the battery was at 100% while doing so (and deleted the battery file). I'm waiting for the battery to drain before I plug it in. Am i supposed to let it charge all the way again? Also, is it safe to reboot the phone while it is draining the first time? I want to install something using clockwork.
I'm being careful about this because cognition would report 14% battery life after 33 minutes of display usage and display eating up 96% of my battery....
killsto said:
I recently installed Serendipity and made sure the battery was at 100% while doing so (and deleted the battery file). I'm waiting for the battery to drain before I plug it in. Am i supposed to let it charge all the way again? Also, is it safe to reboot the phone while it is draining the first time? I want to install something using clockwork.
I'm being careful about this because cognition would report 14% battery life after 33 minutes of display usage and display eating up 96% of my battery....
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There's a complete thread on this, I suggest you look it up.
After you reset your battery stats, it is suggested to do a few full battery circle (use til dead, full charge, rince and repeat). You should be fine after 2-3 circles.
Note tho that it will not improve your battery life. All it does is a attempt to tell your phone what % your battery life is exactly.
For your fast drain, I don't think it has anything to do with your battery calibration or your ROM. It's most likely a app (or a few) that are draining alot of juice or that are running w/o realy being needed. (Check your running services.. make sure you know which one to stop and not to***)
Also using a app/widget like advanced task killer can help your battery life as it will stop every app running with a simple touch. I suggest doing it anything you're not using your phone.
One last thing, display eating 96% of your battery is normal.. it's not telling you it's using 96% of your battery. It's telling you that during the time your phone as been unplugged, your display use was your main action.. probably cause you didn't make many calls or anything else.. Display is just about everything you do with your phone so it will always have some high numbers like that.
BWolf56 said:
There's a complete thread on this, I suggest you look it up.
After you reset your battery stats, it is suggested to do a few full battery circle (use til dead, full charge, rince and repeat). You should be fine after 2-3 circles.
Note tho that it will not improve your battery life. All it does is a attempt to tell your phone what % your battery life is exactly.
For your fast drain, I don't think it has anything to do with your battery calibration or your ROM. It's most likely a app (or a few) that are draining alot of juice or that are running w/o realy being needed. (Check your running services.. make sure you know which one to stop and not to***)
Also using a app/widget like advanced task killer can help your battery life as it will stop every app running with a simple touch. I suggest doing it anything you're not using your phone.
One last thing, display eating 96% of your battery is normal.. it's not telling you it's using 96% of your battery. It's telling you that during the time your phone as been unplugged, your display use was your main action.. probably cause you didn't make many calls or anything else.. Display is just about everything you do with your phone so it will always have some high numbers like that.
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Yeah, I've seen the thread before but forgot about it. Thanks for reminding me. And my point about the display was that it was on for such a short amount of time, yet still killing my battery.
I am now down to 30% or so after 3 hours or more of display time after calibration & rom switch- and I was streaming music through WiFi and using Bluetooth headphones. So it it seems like it made a huge difference =D
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[Q] Batter life

First off I can't spell battery............
I have an ATT Captivate that I have fixed by installing FF3 and Kernel 2.6.32.9 as a package from this site. My battery life isn't noticably worse than it was when it was the stock 2.2 but it still sucks. After 10 or 12 hours of very light use its down aound 15%. The battery use says it's hands down the display thats using the juice.
I was hoping (maybe wrongly so) that having the additional access to the phone I could somehow improve my battery life. I've tried the bump charge, recalibrate, CWR erase battery stats, etc. I also have 2 batteries for it (that probably tells you something right there) and both batteries behave the same.
Does anyone have any suggestions on this? Is there a launcher that I can use that's battey friendly? A different ROM?
It's a shame to have this phone to the state it is with a FF3 rom and faster than it was and not be able to use it all I want.
TIA, Jeff
Some things to help get the best battery life are:
Place screen brightness at lowest level both on web browser and on normal screen.
Switch to 2G when not needed for downloading/uploading data.
Turn off power saving mode under settings/display.
Use as few widgets as possible.
Manually retrieve emails rather than having them sent to you every 30 minutes or less.
In cwm there is a battery settings menu (can't remember what it is called) but you should enable that also.
These are some of the better ways to get better battery life out of your phone.
[email protected] said:
First off I can't spell battery............
I have an ATT Captivate that I have fixed by installing FF3 and Kernel 2.6.32.9 as a package from this site. My battery life isn't noticably worse than it was when it was the stock 2.2 but it still sucks. After 10 or 12 hours of very light use its down aound 15%. The battery use says it's hands down the display thats using the juice.
I was hoping (maybe wrongly so) that having the additional access to the phone I could somehow improve my battery life. I've tried the bump charge, recalibrate, CWR erase battery stats, etc. I also have 2 batteries for it (that probably tells you something right there) and both batteries behave the same.
Does anyone have any suggestions on this? Is there a launcher that I can use that's battey friendly? A different ROM?
It's a shame to have this phone to the state it is with a FF3 rom and faster than it was and not be able to use it all I want.
TIA, Jeff
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In 10-12 hours you only have 15% left on your phone? How much time is used for display? My phone can usually last a good 15-20 hrs with light to moderate use. As we all know display is the number one use for battery consumption. I've noticed I can go about 2 and half hours give or take on display before my battery gets kinda low.
As the previous poster has mentioned, screen brightness and data usually are the culprits for bad battery life. Try leaving your screen brightness on a low setting, and turning auto-brightness OFF. Disabling background data in "accounts and sync" setting is also a very good way to help with battery life. Also, making sure your GPS is OFF is another good way to save some juice.
JayFReaZy said:
How much time is used for display?
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Is there an application that will tell me this other than the about->battery ? Currently my info is limited to percentage of total battery useage and is showing that display is 96%.
[email protected] said:
Is there an application that will tell me this other than the about->battery ? Currently my info is limited to percentage of total battery useage and is showing that display is 96%.
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tap that it will take you to a more detailed screen with the time used...
Flashed ROM (FF3) while batt low?
I'm pretty sure the batt was not 100% when I flashed to FF3 and I did not clear everything out before either. If this is a potential problem with batt life can I fix this short of reflashing on a full batt?
Is going into CWR and restoring from a backup going to do the same thing as reflashing FF3 from the batteries perspective if I clear everything first?
TIA, Jeff

99 percents of battery recharge on Milestone only

Hi all,
Recently I've used battery percentage on the statusbar of my Milestone and found out a weird issue with the battery. The battery percentage goes up to maximum of 100 percents with a normally full recharge but it drops down to 99 percents right away whenever I unplug. This issue at least happened on FroyoMod and even with CM7.1. I setup 1% battery from Settings or install battery tweak from Market- still the same,then trying from wiping battery status in recovery mode but nothing changed.
Would Any one give me a workaround for this issue,please?. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks all.
Thats the way how it works, nothing wrong here
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Oh, I'm noob . Thanks,Mate.

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