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Battery runs out too quickly; was working fine a few days ago

My friend sent me his G1 for free so that I could have something better than my HTC Titan. I really like it a lot, but the battery runs out too quickly.
The thing about this is that my friend was using it just fine literally a few days ago, before he sent it to me. He took the battery out before he sent it to me and it was maybe around half charged when I put it back in, if that helps.
I've tried letting it run out and having it shut itself off and recharging it until it said Full. Before that it wouldn't get past 99%, so I guess it's an improvement.
I'm recharging it right now, and I'm going to follow the instructions on the wiki for recalibrating the battery. That's the only thing I can think of as being wrong with it, because it couldn't have just broken over the three days it took to get here for no reason.

Okay, now it's stuck at 99% again. I don't know what to do right now, should I just go through with the calibration?

I got it to show that it's fully charged. I downloaded the ADB thing and I tried to run the command in the wiki for resetting the battery stats, but I always got an error saying it couldn't remove the file because it wasn't there. Sure enough I looked at the directory and nothing like that exists.
What do I do? I don't want to be stuck with a 1 hour battery for the next two years.

I am not going to give up on this one. Someone please help.
Some more info:
Running Cyanogen 5.0.8
Amon Ra's latest Recovery
In Spare Parts > Battery History:
Other Usage + Since Last Unplugged -
Running (25.2%) (Red bar)
Screen on (14.7%) (Red bar)
I heard the red bars have something to do with it. I really don't want to walk around with a dead phone all the time. It literally runs out while I'm sleeping on idle mode with the screen off.
I need your help.
Edit: By the way, I just recalibrated my battery (Charge to full and then wipe battery stats in recovery mode) and it's still running out too quickly on idle. Am I supposed to see the difference after it runs out and I recharge it or something? What's going on? Keep in mind that it was just working fine a few days ago and it would have continued if my friend hadn't sent it to me. I think it has something to do with the battery being taken out for a few days.

[Q] Battery discharges when off and slow boot

Hi all,
Just rooted by Nook Color with CM7 and I 2 fairly major problems. I searched threads but could not find anything specific to my specific problems.
First, last night, I turned off the Nook Color by holding down the button on the left and selected "Power Off". When I booted it (after a long wait, see below), it booted but the battery was very low and I checked the battery life settings using Spare Parts app and it said it had been Running 100% of the time since last unplugged. Its as if it didn't power off when I asked it to.
Second, my reboots are super slow....I get the "Read Forever" words when I hold down the left button but it takes several minutes before I have to press the bottom button to get the screen (no indication that its booting or anything).
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Why are you shutting it down at all? Just let it sleep. Even with the current sleep issues, it will only use 1% or so of the battery that way... try it. I hardly ever power off my nook. As for the slow boot time, there are a lot of reasons...
1. Did you install the OC kernel and forget to wipe dalvik cache?
2. Which version of CM7 are you running? a nightly, or the 7.0 release?

I just did a test.
CM7 cm_encore_full-63
update-CM7-dalingrin-OC-emmc-040411 set at ONDEMAND 300-1100
At 2am battery was at 100%
Standby for 9.5 hrs and it consumed 16% battery.
Not looking good to leave in standby.

Do you leave wifi on? It could be syncing or trying to sync the whole time it is on standby.

xdatoast said:
Hi all,
Just rooted by Nook Color with CM7 and I 2 fairly major problems. I searched threads but could not find anything specific to my specific problems.
First, last night, I turned off the Nook Color by holding down the button on the left and selected "Power Off". When I booted it (after a long wait, see below), it booted but the battery was very low and I checked the battery life settings using Spare Parts app and it said it had been Running 100% of the time since last unplugged. Its as if it didn't power off when I asked it to.
Second, my reboots are super slow....I get the "Read Forever" words when I hold down the left button but it takes several minutes before I have to press the bottom button to get the screen (no indication that its booting or anything).
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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If you powered off your NC, it would not be using battery.. Period. Running 100% of the time is normal right now on CM7, but again, it was not running while it was powered off.
Slow boot? Are you using an SD card? If so, get a new one that's faster.

[Q] Nook will not turn on

I installed three apps to my NC, that has been running nightly 108, with Dals OC kernel. Last time I checked it, about an hour or two ago it had 83% battery life left. I went to look at something a bit ago, and it will not turn or boot. I had the OC set to 1300 Max, and left it on the conservative governor. I have tried charging it, to no avail, and have held the power button for some time, with the same results. Any ideas would be welcome.
TJ

cityoke2 said:
I installed three apps to my NC, that has been running nightly 108, with Dals OC kernel. Last time I checked it, about an hour or two ago it had 83% battery life left. I went to look at something a bit ago, and it will not turn or boot. I had the OC set to 1300 Max, and left it on the conservative governor. I have tried charging it, to no avail, and have held the power button for some time, with the same results. Any ideas would be welcome.
TJ
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This happened to me today. make a bootable cwr sd card. theres a link somewhere I can post it if you would like

Only thing, is that I can not seem to make it respond to anything, it wont even power on, or at least it seems it wont. Did your screen just stay black?

cityoke2 said:
Only thing, is that I can not seem to make it respond to anything, it wont even power on, or at least it seems it wont. Did your screen just stay black?
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Yup, exactly the same. Just pop in the bootable clockwork sd card and it will boot into that. restore or re install...whatever you need to do lol

Perfect, Thank you so very much.

let me know if it works out for you!

Perfect, Thank you so very much.

Still seems to be a no go, I followed this guide http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=987735, The only difference is that I used the dd command in linux, due to my not having a windows box at the moment.

cityoke2 said:
I installed three apps to my NC, that has been running nightly 108, with Dals OC kernel. Last time I checked it, about an hour or two ago it had 83% battery life left. I went to look at something a bit ago, and it will not turn or boot. I had the OC set to 1300 Max, and left it on the conservative governor. I have tried charging it, to no avail, and have held the power button for some time, with the same results. Any ideas would be welcome.
TJ
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Did you try hooking up your nook to your PC via the USB cable. Usually nook will wakeup or boot when you do that.

aaplus12 said:
Did you try hooking up your nook to your PC via the USB cable. Usually nook will wakeup or boot when you do that.
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Put the bootable sd in the nook and plug it in. It should work. Let it do its thing for a minute or two

Randomly enough, plugging my nook into my laptop via usb, did the trick. Thanks everybody for your help.
TJ

Nook HD shuts off in the middle of use

it's been through a few rom's...
it just shuts off in the middle of use, sometimes rather quickly (30 seconds), sometimes I can get a good set of minutes out of it.
Twice it went into some sort of alarm mode (although not recently).
i'm wondering if anyone is familiar with any type of thermal shutdown's with these and/or if it's possible the proc could have been damaged.
i'm not sure how to test it, I guess I could go through the hassle of putting the original b&n fw on, and seeing if it still shuts down.

Thistleknot said:
i'm not sure how to test it, I guess I could go through the hassle of putting the original b&n fw on, and seeing if it still shuts down.
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That's what I would do. Sounds like hardware to me. If stock messes up, time for warranty.
Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10.1 on emmc.

Thistleknot said:
it's been through a few rom's...
it just shuts off in the middle of use, sometimes rather quickly (30 seconds), sometimes I can get a good set of minutes out of it.
Twice it went into some sort of alarm mode (although not recently).
i'm wondering if anyone is familiar with any type of thermal shutdown's with these and/or if it's possible the proc could have been damaged.
i'm not sure how to test it, I guess I could go through the hassle of putting the original b&n fw on, and seeing if it still shuts down.
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I had the same problem. My HD+ would get very hot near the bottom left corner (when the screen is facing me), mostly on the back, especially while charging. It would warm up fast for me but it would also reboot itself while idle (or when it wasn't too warm) since I think the excessive warming damaged something. Apparently, some Nooks have an overheating problem and this happened before I installed any ROM. Some of the logs I looked at said that my CPU was getting too hot and my memory was giving errors. I looked at the /proc/last_kmsg file for that and you can do the same if you're comfortable with looking at system logs.
If any of that sounds like your problem, your HD likely needs to be replaced since it is a hardware problem. Go back to the stock ROM and recovery anyway and try using it. If it's fine after a few days, you likely don't have a hardware problem. Otherwise, and especially if it gets hot with charging, you can take it to a B&N store. I did that and the only way I was able to get it replaced was by having them charge my Nook and having them feel the excessive heat coming from it. Otherwise, you can probably still go to the store, but you'll have a harder time proving that your HD reboots unless it does it every few minutes consistently (they played with mine for 3 minutes when mine would reboot every 1-2 hours).
Good luck.

Zachnorn said:
I had the same problem. My HD+ would get very hot near the bottom left corner (when the screen is facing me), mostly on the back, especially while charging. It would warm up fast for me but it would also reboot itself while idle (or when it wasn't too warm) since I think the excessive warming damaged something. Apparently, some Nooks have an overheating problem and this happened before I installed any ROM. Some of the logs I looked at said that my CPU was getting too hot and my memory was giving errors. I looked at the /proc/last_kmsg file for that and you can do the same if you're comfortable with looking at system logs.
If any of that sounds like your problem, your HD likely needs to be replaced since it is a hardware problem. Go back to the stock ROM and recovery anyway and try using it. If it's fine after a few days, you likely don't have a hardware problem. Otherwise, and especially if it gets hot with charging, you can take it to a B&N store. I did that and the only way I was able to get it replaced was by having them charge my Nook and having them feel the excessive heat coming from it. Otherwise, you can probably still go to the store, but you'll have a harder time proving that your HD reboots unless it does it every few minutes consistently (they played with mine for 3 minutes when mine would reboot every 1-2 hours).
Good luck.
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I got stock on there and no more issues

Thistleknot said:
I got stock on there and no more issues
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I've been having the same problem with my HD+, since using CM/Liquid roms.
It shuts down with battery 0-1%, upon charging it jumps right back to 90%, .
Upon disconnecting charging cable somestimes, it shuts off almost instantaneously.
So what do you conclude from issue solved using stock?

[Q] Battery level issues

Battery can be at 90% in a blink of an eye drop to the point of a warning pop up showing 1 percent battery life, then shuts off.
If I plug it in battery level is back up where it should be.
Sometimes shutting it off for a few minutes & restarting battery level comes back up or just plug it in, level jumps right back up then unplug it, level stays up.
This problem has been going on for awhile, at first it was just hit & miss, more of minor annoyance, but now it is a royal pain in the behind.
As long as I am where I can plug it in for a minute or so I can still use the tablet. Kind of hard to do when reading at the gym though
I am running CM 11 on it, but I don't really think this is what the problem is since I have been CM 11 since it first came out & this problem started about 2-3 months ago. I tried wiping the whole system & started over with nothing but the bare minimum on the tablet & issue with battery level was still present.
Somebody my wife works with had this same issue with their Nook HD+, but luckily his was still under warranty and B&N replaced it.
I don't have that option.
Any ideas on fix for this issue other than buy another tablet?
Help or suggestions are greatly appreciated.
Thank you,
Mark

snoozer854 said:
Any ideas on fix for this issue other than buy another tablet?
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I would've bought a new tablet 2-3 months ago. lol ...Unfortunately, mine keeps on going.
If you really want to see if its hardware, then try stock bn rom and check for issue.
You could also try full power discharge to full charge (several times) and see if it helps. I would try the bn rom first though as that's the most drastic difference.
And if it gives up on you along the way, c'est la vie.

sandsofmyst said:
I would've bought a new tablet 2-3 months ago. lol ...Unfortunately, mine keeps on going.
If you really want to see if its hardware, then try stock bn rom and check for issue.
You could also try full power discharge to full charge (several times) and see if it helps. I would try the bn rom first though as that's the most drastic difference.
And if it gives up on you along the way, c'est la vie.
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Yeah I would have bought a new one 3 months ago, but takes money, due to health reasons something I do not have.
Tablet actually other then the battery issue works great.
Thanks for your suggestions though.
I was just curious if anyone else has come across this issue & any possible solutions.
Sorry to have taken up your time.

I solved this problem. To do this, disconnect and reconnect the battery cable. Now the battery is discharged smoothly. Battery life 8-10 hours

salexdv said:
I solved this problem. To do this, disconnect and reconnect the battery cable. Now the battery is discharged smoothly. Battery life 8-10 hours
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Works sometimes doing this other times doesn't.
Problem seems to be getting worse.
In the beginning doing what worked for you would take care of it, but not any more.
Thanks for the suggestion though.
Sent from my BN Nook HD using Tapatalk

I had similar issue back in March. I read somewhere that it is battery cable connection/cold-solder problem. I opened up my nook and unplug/re-plug in the battery cable, didn't work. And then I taped a few layers of TP on top of the connector so that the back cover of the nook is supporting the connector. The battery discharge was back to normal since, but unfortunately it started to happen again last week.
snoozer854 said:
Works sometimes doing this other times doesn't.
Problem seems to be getting worse.
In the beginning doing what worked for you would take care of it, but not any more.
Thanks for the suggestion though.
Sent from my BN Nook HD using Tapatalk
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V.I.P. said:
I had similar issue back in March. I read somewhere that it is battery cable connection/cold-solder problem. I opened up my nook and unplug/re-plug in the battery cable, didn't work. And then I taped a few layers of TP on top of the connector so that the back cover of the nook is supporting the connector. The battery discharge was back to normal since, but unfortunately it started to happen again last week.
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Might have to take a look at that.
Thank you for the suggestion
Mark

Mark:
I had the same problem, with battery charge level appearing to fluctuate wildly. In the end, I fixed it by doing a full discharge followed by a full recharge.
You can't do a full discharge while running the normal ROMs, because they will shut down the Nook automatically when the charge level starts to get low. Instead, run a CWM ROM and let it sit until the Nook dies for lack of power. Then plug in the battery cable and leave it until the charge level returns to 100%. In my case that took quite a few hours.
Since doing that, I haven't had any repeats of the problem.

Delta^1_1 said:
Mark:
I had the same problem, with battery charge level appearing to fluctuate wildly. In the end, I fixed it by doing a full discharge followed by a full recharge.
You can't do a full discharge while running the normal ROMs, because they will shut down the Nook automatically when the charge level starts to get low. Instead, run a CWM ROM and let it sit until the Nook dies for lack of power. Then plug in the battery cable and leave it until the charge level returns to 100%. In my case that took quite a few hours.
Since doing that, I haven't had any repeats of the problem.
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That is a bad idea the Nook does not like to recharge once it has been drained to that point.
Sent from my SPH-L900 using XDA Free mobile app

Delta^1_1 said:
Mark:
I had the same problem, with battery charge level appearing to fluctuate wildly. In the end, I fixed it by doing a full discharge followed by a full recharge.
You can't do a full discharge while running the normal ROMs, because they will shut down the Nook automatically when the charge level starts to get low. Instead, run a CWM ROM and let it sit until the Nook dies for lack of power. Then plug in the battery cable and leave it until the charge level returns to 100%. In my case that took quite a few hours.
Since doing that, I haven't had any repeats of the problem.
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I am running CyangenMod 11 & battery drops from 100% to 1% whenever it feels like it. Plug it in for a second & level shoots back up to were it should be for a while then it does it all over again.
If the rom you are talking about is what I have installed I have tried & tried to run the battery completely down, but it is impossible.
Long as I have charging cable handy to plug it in things are fine.
Thanks for the suggestion.
Mark

snoozer854 said:
I am running CyangenMod 11 & battery drops from 100% to 1% whenever it feels like it. Plug it in for a second & level shoots back up to were it should be for a while then it does it all over again.
Mark
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My Nook HD+ too have this problem after updating to Snapshot11 OTA. Currently it is unusable without the cable being connected to the power. Also have the ghost click/automatic click problem, where the touch events automatically registered without me even touching the screen. Waiting for the Snapshot 12 and hope that this will be corrected in the update.

mashac said:
My Nook HD+ too have this problem after updating to Snapshot11 OTA. Currently it is unusable without the cable being connected to the power. Also have the ghost click/automatic click problem, where the touch events automatically registered without me even touching the screen. Waiting for the Snapshot 12 and hope that this will be corrected in the update.
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Mine has been doing it for awhile, just seems to be getting worse. If it is a rom issue I wish it would get fixed.
I am running the 10-24 nightly. This is the same release I am using on my wife's Nook HD & she is not having this issue.
Not seeing the auto click issues.

snoozer854 said:
I am running CyangenMod 11 & battery drops from 100% to 1% whenever it feels like it. Plug it in for a second & level shoots back up to were it should be for a while then it does it all over again.
If the rom you are talking about is what I have installed I have tried & tried to run the battery completely down, but it is impossible.
Long as I have charging cable handy to plug it in things are fine.
Thanks for the suggestion.
Mark
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I was talking about CWM, not CyanogenMod. CWM is the ROM you use for making backups and installing Cyanogen in the first place. CWM will let you run the battery down to a very low level.

Delta^1_1 said:
I was talking about CWM, not CyanogenMod. CWM is the ROM you use for making backups and installing Cyanogen in the first place. CWM will let you run the battery down to a very low level.
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Duh, should ave realized that was what you were talking about.
Sorry about that.
Will do it tonight & hopefully this solves it.
Once again thank you for your time
Much appreciated
Mark

Delta^1_1 said:
I was talking about CWM, not CyanogenMod. CWM is the ROM you use for making backups and installing Cyanogen in the first place. CWM will let you run the battery down to a very low level.
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snoozer854 said:
Duh, should ave realized that was what you were talking about.
Sorry about that.
Will do it tonight & hopefully this solves it.
Once again thank you for your time
Much appreciated
Mark
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It was probably confusing because CWM isn't a ROM, it's a recovery. If we get our terms and definitions right we will be more easily understood.
Not trying to pick a fight, just pointing out that communication is easier when we all have the same jargon.

bpaulien said:
It was probably confusing because CWM isn't a ROM, it's a recovery. If we get our terms and definitions right we will be more easily understood.
Not trying to pick a fight, just pointing out that communication is easier when we all have the same jargon.
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I know what the terms mean. I just was tired & made a very simple mistake in my reply.
I know that CWM is recovery I have used it plenty of times for the past 2 years since I have owned my Nook HD.
My only mistake with terms & definitions was replying & answering a question when i should have been sleeping.
Want to pick a fight, bring it own! Just kidding you. I only do that in person, not behind a screen. Been a few years, but what the heck.
OK back to the topic at hand. Doing a full discharge in CWM recovery, didn't seem to do the trick. Tried unhooking battery & rehooking no go there either.
I do not believe it is a rom issue, since my wife works with a guy who had the same issue with his Nook that had the B&N setup still intact.
rom.
Plus I am running the same rom on my wife's Nook HD problem free.
Once again thank you very much for the suggestion I really do appreciate it.
Mark

salexdv said:
I solved this problem. To do this, disconnect and reconnect the battery cable. Now the battery is discharged smoothly. Battery life 8-10 hours
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Didn't work

Seems to be others with this issue. I have tried removing battery cable, doing a complete battery drain in recovery, then full recharge. Problem is still there.
I am almost tempted to revert back to stock rom & see if problem goes away, but seems to be a bit tricky with the newer CWMrecovery installed.
Have gone through so many threads on reverting back to stock, I am more confused now then before.
I know I can't restore stock with the version of CWM that I have, but for the life of me I can't figure out how to revert back to the older version of CWM recovery, so I can flash the stock img.
I have the links for the dummies guide and I am sure what I am looking for is there, but as was mentioned here before I need to get with the program & use correct terms and the more I read this the more confused it makes me.

snoozer854 said:
Seems to be others with this issue. I have tried removing battery cable, doing a complete battery drain in recovery, then full recharge. Problem is still there.
I am almost tempted to revert back to stock rom & see if problem goes away, but seems to be a bit tricky with the newer CWMrecovery installed.
Have gone through so many threads on reverting back to stock, I am more confused now then before.
I know I can't restore stock with the version of CWM that I have, but for the life of me I can't figure out how to revert back to the older version of CWM recovery, so I can flash the stock img.
I have the links for the dummies guide and I am sure what I am looking for is there, but as was mentioned here before I need to get with the program & use correct terms and the more I read this the more confused it makes me.
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Go to my HD/HD+ CWM thread linked in my signature and make a new bootable CWM SD per item 1a and then use that to flash the plain stock zip from item 6.
Sent from my BN NookHD+ using XDA Premium HD app

leapinlar said:
Go to my HD/HD+ CWM thread linked in my signature and make a new bootable CWM SD per item 1a and then use that to flash the plain stock zip from item 6.
Sent from my BN NookHD+ using XDA Premium HD app
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Thank you, not sure if this will solve the issue, but I got the time to give it a shot.
What's your thoughts on this battery issue?
I have a funny feeling it is hardware related.
Once again thank you for all of your help
Mark