Since there's no Acer Liquid mt section for now, I'll post it here
First of all, I got an Acer Liquid mt since 5 days.
The first 3 days everything went fine, since 2 days... there's a "Ghost in the Machine"
Issue 1:
The Liquid mt is swtiched on.
Battery went down to 15% - I plugged in the charger.
After 1,5 hours, the phone shows 100% (under Settings and a separate Taskbar icon, "Batteryminder").
So I took the charger off - and after 1 hour of standby the battery went down to 95%.
After 2-3 minutes of typing - 90%.
So WTF...?!
Issue 2:
So I charged again and after 15 minutes or so the phone shows 100% - again
Then I turned off the phone and charged it in off-mode.
The phone was then fully charged after another 45 minutes!
With this procedure I have normal battery life... that means 5% in around 8 hours (in standby).
Strange thing is, that the phone shows "fully charged" - when it's approximately charged 60% or so...
Does anyone have an idea?!
Thanks!
Don't worry mate this is how Lithium-ion battery's behave and I have an Acer Liquid MT it does this stuff but its not anything to worry about just don't use any battery saving programs their all crap.
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I'm worrying about my battery. The main thing is, it drains really fast. In flight mode and nothing else on it drains like 2% each hour. So overnight, most of the time it drains like 16%. Today i started with 100% in the morning. Used GPS for 1 hour, made a phonecall for 20mins in total time. My battery indicator said there was 30% left :/ I know this thing eats batteries, but this is insane. Because i noticed an incorrect display of the battery the last few days i gave it a soft reset. After the reset i saw the battery had only 4% left, not even 30%, but 4! :|
Many times when the phone is saying i have 'insert number' percentage of battery left it's incorrect. Because when i give it a soft reset, it changes the number. Sometimes i get more percentage back, and sometimes it drops.
One hour ago i plugged it on the charger, checked 45min ago, and it was still on 31% battery :| Then, like 10min later i suddenly saw a green light from my phone and it was full.
I've never had a device with a broken battery and i don't know the symptoms, but is this normal or is it likely that my battery is dying?
A little kick!
Hello. 1st post & glad to be here. Just picked up a new Motorola X for Sprint & want to ask a question or 2 & share my experience.
I purchased the phone yesterday morning & got it all set up & then started to use it. Without charging it & using the phone I went from about 50% to 20% for the day. Not bad but when I was on the phone I got an alert that my battery was low. It went from 20% to 3%. Later ticked down to 0%. I chalked this up to being a new battery with not a full charge on it yet. So I charged it up & revisited the phone this morning. While still on the charger I notice the battery indicator in the top right still showed a "lightning bolt" but the lock screen advised "charged." - So I took it off and My battery would go down from normal usage but after not using it for maybe half an hour it would go back up 3%. (I.E. - 88%, not use the phone for 30 mins. Recheck & its at 92%) Went into Sprint & they advised probably a battery issue and offered another device. Sure sounds good to me...whatever you think will help.
Fast forward to this morning to when I got the new device. He went to start the phone to activate it & it said it was dead. 0%. Plugged it in and after a few mins the phone booted up and showed around 50%. He advised if its been sitting a while it just needs a charge to get it going. So I get home, and start setting it up and about 45% the phone says low battery and shuts down. I'm thinking this is just the way this battery starts off I guess? So I charge it up and it starts charging at 50%. Leave it on the charger for a good 2+ hours. Same battery indicator as phone #1. "lightning bolt" but lock screen saying charged. -- Any insight on to why this is. I have searched around & have not gotten anything close to this sort of issue?
Note: My battery does do fine when actually using the phone like normal after its charged up. All the battery stats are acceptable & well within normality. This 2nd phone shows to be fine so far with the battery % not fluctuation. :Crosses fingers: Is this "normal" for the Moto X to start? What are the odds that 2 different Moto X's have the same issue?
Thanks for your help.
Ttols5 said:
Hello. 1st post & glad to be here. Just picked up a new Motorola X for Sprint & want to ask a question or 2 & share my experience.
I purchased the phone yesterday morning & got it all set up & then started to use it. Without charging it & using the phone I went from about 50% to 20% for the day. Not bad but when I was on the phone I got an alert that my battery was low. It went from 20% to 3%. Later ticked down to 0%. I chalked this up to being a new battery with not a full charge on it yet. So I charged it up & revisited the phone this morning. While still on the charger I notice the battery indicator in the top right still showed a "lightning bolt" but the lock screen advised "charged." - So I took it off and My battery would go down from normal usage but after not using it for maybe half an hour it would go back up 3%. (I.E. - 88%, not use the phone for 30 mins. Recheck & its at 92%) Went into Sprint & they advised probably a battery issue and offered another device. Sure sounds good to me...whatever you think will help.
Fast forward to this morning to when I got the new device. He went to start the phone to activate it & it said it was dead. 0%. Plugged it in and after a few mins the phone booted up and showed around 50%. He advised if its been sitting a while it just needs a charge to get it going. So I get home, and start setting it up and about 45% the phone says low battery and shuts down. I'm thinking this is just the way this battery starts off I guess? So I charge it up and it starts charging at 50%. Leave it on the charger for a good 2+ hours. Same battery indicator as phone #1. "lightning bolt" but lock screen saying charged. -- Any insight on to why this is. I have searched around & have not gotten anything close to this sort of issue?
Note: My battery does do fine when actually using the phone like normal after its charged up. All the battery stats are acceptable & well within normality. This 2nd phone shows to be fine so far with the battery % not fluctuation. :Crosses fingers: Is this "normal" for the Moto X to start? What are the odds that 2 different Moto X's have the same issue?
Thanks for your help.
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Hmm... not sure. Typically they advise you to fully charge before activating, which may have to do with the software reading the battery correctly. But I didn't have this issue at all with mine. Perfection from the very start. Actually the best and most perfect phone I've owned in the 17 years I've been with Sprint.
There is no such thing as "battery memory" with Li-ion or polymer batteries. I'm going to say that however rare it may be, both devices suffered from the same bug or hardware issue.
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There is no such thing as "battery memory" with Li-ion or polymer batteries. I'm going to say that however rare it may be, both devices suffered from the same bug or hardware issue.
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This is correct, it appears you got two bad ones in a row.
Sent from my all black Moto X
Hello everyone!
This is my second post here...but I really felt like I had to take attitude this time and actually do something.
So my samsung galaxy s3 is acting so weird that I can't use it without something bad happening for one day.
So...first of all...my battery doesn't last more than four hours straight if, for example, I am listening to music.
It literally goes down about 1% every few minutes.
Also..there is something really weird happening with my battery even after it completely shuts down. Lets's say I am on 1% and the phone shuts off. After the screen goes black and I plug it in...the charging screen appears and the battery seems to be half charged. I open the phone again and it is already at 45%. All this operation takes a matter of seconds...but still it goes from 1% to 45%. After the phone is up...this percentage starts to go down even faster than before...in the end my phone shuts down again...and this time it starts to charge from 0%.
Today it shut off...and when I got home and plugged in the charger it didn't do anything...i just left it like that for about 10 minutes then tried to power it on without the charger being plugged in...and it worked. After that it started to charge. I have no ideea what is happening.
Also...my charging time is really big. I do not know why but when I use another charger from a samsung galaxy mini 2 it seems to charge way faster.
That's pretty much all so far. If you need more details, please let me know.
I hope you can help me sort this out!
Best regards!
Ilie Mihai said:
Hello everyone!
This is my second post here...but I really felt like I had to take attitude this time and actually do something.
So my samsung galaxy s3 is acting so weird that I can't use it without something bad happening for one day.
So...first of all...my battery doesn't last more than four hours straight if, for example, I am listening to music.
It literally goes down about 1% every few minutes.
Also..there is something really weird happening with my battery even after it completely shuts down. Lets's say I am on 1% and the phone shuts off. After the screen goes black and I plug it in...the charging screen appears and the battery seems to be half charged. I open the phone again and it is already at 45%. All this operation takes a matter of seconds...but still it goes from 1% to 45%. After the phone is up...this percentage starts to go down even faster than before...in the end my phone shuts down again...and this time it starts to charge from 0%.
Today it shut off...and when I got home and plugged in the charger it didn't do anything...i just left it like that for about 10 minutes then tried to power it on without the charger being plugged in...and it worked. After that it started to charge. I have no ideea what is happening.
Also...my charging time is really big. I do not know why but when I use another charger from a samsung galaxy mini 2 it seems to charge way faster.
That's pretty much all so far. If you need more details, please let me know.
I hope you can help me sort this out!
Best regards!
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1.Might be the battery is dead or broken, or its not calibrated. How old is the phone and battery?
2. It seems to take ages to charge my s3 lte too, give us a number in hours how much time you need?
3. The problem where phone wont turn on or show charging when battery is as low as 1%, i had this too, i think its normal, its protecting the battery
4. Do you have overcloacked anything? It happend to me when i had ovecloaced and did benchamark test, the phone froze and battery eas 5% when i restarted the phone, but before it was 45.
Not realy helpful but i am trying XD. Also might wanna buy new battery, its not that expesive
if you are running stock rom with no rooting no anything....100% it's the battery.
if not install stock and see how it goes...if it's acting normal then the mods are the problem...if it's the same it's the battery.
Do a factory data reset on stock recovery. See how that works out first
Starting from factory reset is bad idea - it should be the last step IMHO.
First what in such case we need to check is battery health.
Percentage we see on our phone is weak indicator, because it is calculated
Better to see the voltage in different situations. How to check this (terminal app or adb in console):
cat /sys/class/power_supply/battery/voltage_now
The lowest voltage that device can handle without heavy usage is less than 3500mV (I saw even 3240mV, but with low brightness, no data connection and after trying to make a call phone turned off).
The maximum voltage is obout 4300mV.
When You see 1% of battery and voltage is realy close to 3500mV or battery is charged and voltage after removing charge is dropping realy fast to then your battery very likely need to be replaced.
I bought Samsung Extended Battery (3000mAh) and this tripled the time usage than my 2 years old normal battery 2100mAh. You can see that difference in their capacity is much smaller - about 43% biger, but give me 300% much time on battery so old one was realy worn out.
BUT if your battery wasnt used for longer than half year, you can do as follows:
1. Discharge battery
2. When phone turns off - turn it on again, but into download mode (Home-VolumeDown-Power)
3. Leave phone for as long as it turns off again and repeat step 2 till time that Download Mode wont even boot.
4. Take off battery and place it back, and again try point 2 (start Download Mode) - do it until phone will show Download Mode for only 2-3 secconds
5. Again and last time replace battery and charge phone, but turned off
6. When phone will be charged, turn it on and leave it on charger for about one hour
After those steps use your phone lightly and try to repeat whole process one more time but only when the battery will normaly discharge and phone will turn off.
I tried those steps and battery for sure can work longer FOR ONE RUN, but unfortunately it can lead to loss of capacity much faster, but it will be noticable after one year - IMHO its always good time to buy new battery.
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Starting from factory reset is bad idea - it should be the last step IMHO.
First what in such case we need to check is battery health.
Percentage we see on our phone is weak indicator, because it is calculated
Better to see the voltage in different situations. How to check this (terminal app or adb in console):
cat /sys/class/power_supply/battery/voltage_now
The lowest voltage that device can handle without heavy usage is less than 3500mV (I saw even 3240mV, but with low brightness, no data connection and after trying to make a call phone turned off).
The maximum voltage is obout 4300mV.
When You see 1% of battery and voltage is realy close to 3500mV or battery is charged and voltage after removing charge is dropping realy fast to then your battery very likely need to be replaced.
I bought Samsung Extended Battery (3000mAh) and this tripled the time usage than my 2 years old normal battery 2100mAh. You can see that difference in their capacity is much smaller - about 43% biger, but give me 300% much time on battery so old one was realy worn out.
BUT if your battery wasnt used for longer than half year, you can do as follows:
1. Discharge battery
2. When phone turns off - turn it on again, but into download mode (Home-VolumeDown-Power)
3. Leave phone for as long as it turns off again and repeat step 2 till time that Download Mode wont even boot.
4. Take off battery and place it back, and again try point 2 (start Download Mode) - do it until phone will show Download Mode for only 2-3 secconds
5. Again and last time replace battery and charge phone, but turned off
6. When phone will be charged, turn it on and leave it on charger for about one hour
After those steps use your phone lightly and try to repeat whole process one more time but only when the battery will normaly discharge and phone will turn off.
I tried those steps and battery for sure can work longer FOR ONE RUN, but unfortunately it can lead to loss of capacity much faster, but it will be noticable after one year - IMHO its always good time to buy new battery.
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Nothing good will come from that procedure. Those steps were useful in the epoch of nickel-cadmium batteries, where the battery had no internal circuits to monitor itself and had a tendecy to uncalibrate. Those stops would force the device and the battery to re-adapt to one another.
But now we're using Li-Ion batteries, and those DO NOT like to be fully discharged. Hell, the device might not even recognize the battery, if it has really been fully discharged.
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Okay...so I went to the shop from where I bought my s3 (Orange shop) And they told me to send it to their service and I did so...as I still had it under warranty. It was there for exactly a week and today I got it back. They told me they replaced the battery (which they actually did...I checked that) and the power connector from my phone. The battery it's still not good enaugh in my opinion. Immediately after I got it back...I turned it on and it had 79% battery. In about an hour it went down about 25% (so to 54%) but I didn't used it havely (note: the mobile data option was on). I really do not know what to do. I asked someone and they told me to send it again because this is not normal.
My s3 is running stock 4.3 and used to last waay longer back in the day.
What should I do? I literally got about max 5 hours of use before I sent it and I am afraid this will happen again. I do not even want to think what is going to happen if I listen to music for example.
I turned the phone off a few hours ago...then let it charge up to 59% and then stopped because I had to leave. I used it moderately for about 4 hours and 51 minutes (as my phone says) and i have about 2h and 15minutes of screen on time. My screen is using 50% of the battery and also Android system is using about 17%...chrome 12% Android OS 7% and I think everything else is less important as they use 7%<. After those almost 5 hours...while the mobile data option was on all the time I am at 14% battery.
What do you think? Is it good enaugh? Should I send it back? I really need help!
I am waiting for suggestions.
Best regards!
Ilie Mihai said:
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I turned the phone off a few hours ago...then let it charge up to 59% and then stopped because I had to leave. I used it moderately for about 4 hours and 51 minutes (as my phone says) and i have about 2h and 15minutes of screen on time. My screen is using 50% of the battery and also Android system is using about 17%...chrome 12% Android OS 7% and I think everything else is less important as they use 7%<. After those almost 5 hours...while the mobile data option was on all the time I am at 14% battery.
What do you think? Is it good enaugh? Should I send it back? I really need help!
I am waiting for suggestions.
Best regards!
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I think so, the fact that you have the screen on top of Android OS (and not the other way around) pleases me. You had your screen on for 2h15m, of course your battery went down fast
Test it, charge it full, and use it. Normally.
Do this for 2 or 3 days, and check how the battery lasts
Hi Fellas,
I had this Sony xperia z3 compact tablet that i bought from swappa earlier this year. It came working and in perfect cosmetic condition but after about 2 months of usage the battery started draining out very easily to the point that the tablet can be 65% charged and the next moment it's shutting down. Lately it got worse as it shuts down even when the battery is 85% charged. I've contacted the seller and sony nd nothing helpful came out from them. I need help on how to get this battery issue fixed so that i can enjoy my tablet like the early days. It's running android 6.0. Thanks
Having a similar problem with my xperia z3.
dont understand what's happening with my phone. Have old Xperia Z3 D6603 (running android 6.0 marshmallow).
Had problems with battery since it was not lasting even 5 minutes so bought a new battery from ebay and installed it yesterday.
So first time I put it to my phone it showed that it had 70% of charge. I've read in battery description that I have to discharge the battery and recharge 3 times.
First time I wanted to discharge from 70% to 1% and with a battery discharge app + youtube 1080p videos + wifi signal it took only around 1 hour and phone was at 1%. From 1% till complete discharge it took me extra hour and then phone died.
I plugged it to charge and after 15 minutes it showed that battery now is at 100% (which is insane, it should take 2-3hrs to charge it up to 100%). So I charget it for 2-3 hrs ignoring that it said 100% already.
I discharget it from 100% to 1% in 1 hour and now again phone is stuck at 1% and it took me 2 more hours to discharge phone until battery died completely.
I don't believe that this behaviour will fix itself. How can I fix this problem so that battery percentage would be distributed evenly? Now it drops from 100% to 1% in 1hr and then from 1% to 0% in 2 hrs.
Well bought this phone back in mid 2017,and because of sickness I haven't used it that much at all.
I charged the battery 11 times so far and was keeping the phone in a desk drawer.
A month ago I noticed that the phone won't turn on,so I plug the charger on and charged the battery to 100 %.
I supposed that the phone was on,I didn't turn it off,and the battery left to 0% and shutdown the phone.
I really can't say how long it was on 0% (suppose like maybe a month).
Today I noticed very bad battery results.
Batterylife with GSam Battery Monitor is around 12 h only.
Was the "bolded text" the reason that battery died or the reason was not using the phone for 2 years?
Is there a software to check the damage of the battery?
I installed accubattery pro but for some reason doesn't offer me Health status of battery.
paparazzo79 said:
Well bought this phone back in mid 2017,and because of sickness I haven't used it that much at all.
I charged the battery 11 times so far and was keeping the phone in a desk drawer.
A month ago I noticed that the phone won't turn on,so I plug the charger on and charged the battery to 100 %.
I supposed that the phone was on,I didn't turn it off,and the battery left to 0% and shutdown the phone.
I really can't say how long it was on 0% (suppose like maybe a month).
Today I noticed very bad battery results.
Batterylife with GSam Battery Monitor is around 12 h only.
Was the "bolded text" the reason that battery died or the reason was not using the phone for 2 years?
Is there a software to check the damage of the battery?
I installed accubattery pro but for some reason doesn't offer me Health status of battery.
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I would give the battery a few full cycles to see it that sorts it or yes, the battery it would seem is on its last legs. I don't know what app to recommend as an alternative though. (My battery is 23 months old and still performs as it did when I brought the phone)
I would drain it to 5% (maybe 1%) then charge it to 100% (without using phone while charging) a few times.
Then see how it goes. Afterwards charge phone from 20% or 15%.
Ok.I will charge it to 100% and report you with results with duration time on battery and you tell me how bad is it
GSam Monitor:
Battery Life: 3d 19.9h (5h 26m active)
Screen On:3h 40m (1h 17m Max)
In Android: battery estimated battery life: 2d 1h