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Can I flash a new ROM with 60 percent battery? I see where most ROM'S recommend flashing with a full battery. Does this affect anything like how much charge the phone thinks the battery has? Or are there other reasons to flash with a full battery?
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redger725 said:
Can I flash a new ROM with 60 percent battery? I see where most ROM'S recommend flashing with a full battery. Does this affect anything like how much charge the phone thinks the battery has? Or are there other reasons to flash with a full battery?
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It doesn't matter. I flashed at 5% once. The only thing you have to do is recalibrate your battery after.
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Wouldn't it be a risk if your phone died somehow during odin
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rjblack11 said:
Wouldn't it be a risk if your phone died somehow during odin
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That would be a big problem
I tend to always flash at 100%. Just to avoid any issues. But you can flash at 60% if you really wanted to. Just do a calibration
Do it with full battery . Calibrating takes ages
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Wouldn't it be a risk if your phone died somehow during odin
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Trying to be a smart aleck, not confrontational...
If you are using odin, by definition the phone is plugged in to a USB power source. I suspect you couldn't drain the battery in that circumstance - maybe if you were plugged in, playing a video while serving up Mobile AP. But not when the screen is doing nothing but saying it's in download mode.
I have flashed through cwm with under 50%
rjblack11 said:
Wouldn't it be a risk if your phone died somehow during odin
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That's assuming every one uses odin
I just clear data and cache and flash the new rom. But I charge up to 100% so the battery reads fine.
Soccer_Dad said:
Trying to be a smart aleck, not confrontational...
If you are using odin, by definition the phone is plugged in to a USB power source. I suspect you couldn't drain the battery in that circumstance - maybe if you were plugged in, playing a video while serving up Mobile AP. But not when the screen is doing nothing but saying it's in download mode.
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Yeah thats why I said "somehow". I thought about your point while posting though and it makes plenty of sense and im pretty sure you can charge a phone no matter what state it is in (soft brick, hard brick, waterlogged ha)
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Yea
I've flashed in the range of 50 - 100%, never had a problem
like others said you just have to recalibrate your battery after.
I probably wouldn't go less than 50% though just to be safe.
It would probably be best to flash on a full battery, but I don't think its necessary. Just recalibrate and wipe battery stats and you should be fine.
Yes you can. May need to calibrate
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My zip has been doing this weird thing for a week now and I have no idea what its about. Has anyone experienced this before?
When my zios Battery dies I plug it in and come back in a while try to turn it on and it won't start but the led just flashes red. The only way it will start is if I unplug it the start it. Also this week my phone will say its charging without being plugged in... charging light and all. One last thing the battery display gets stuck and displays 100 all day.
What could be causing this? Thanks for any help!
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bad battery
Try recalibrating your battery. If that doesn't solve it then a new battery would be the way to go. You can find them for cheap online
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Could you post a link to the instructions on how to do this?
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Factory reset and a stock restore fixed it
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Would it work to just copy the battery stats file to another rom so u don't have to re calibrate everytime u install one or would that be a bad idea
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prsterero said:
Would it work to just copy the battery stats file to another rom so u don't have to re calibrate everytime u install one or would that be a bad idea
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You don't need to calibrate, just charge it full. Battery stats are automatically wiped when you unplug with a full charge.
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Endoroid said:
You don't need to calibrate, just charge it full. Battery stats are automatically wiped when you unplug with a full charge.
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Well the new 3500 milliamp battery I got says to fully discharge and charge 4-5 times to get the most out of ur battery. Or is that just for when u first get it
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prsterero said:
Well the new 3500 milliamp battery I got says to fully discharge and charge 4-5 times to get the most out of ur battery. Or is that just for when u first get it
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Just when you first get it. Its a "break in" for batteries.
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Although I believe that its good to do a full discharge and charge every so often.
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Alright that's what I thought. Although while discharging my phone froze up and rebooted so I think ill have to recalibrate again lol
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prsterero said:
Alright that's what I thought. Although while discharging my phone froze up and rebooted so I think ill have to recalibrate again lol
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It shouldn't affect battery. I've tested it myself, battery life before and after calibration is no different. This calibration myth was debunked by a google framework engineer.
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ya I read a short thing on that. Kinda odd though. Seems like sometimes u could get a worse battery life some days compared to others. But it also seems like a good idea since u don't have to calibrate every time u do something.
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The calibration has nothing to do with the battery life, it just gives a more "exact" reading of the battery level.. I miscalibrated my battery once, and it was at 1% for about 3 hours, then finally died..
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ChaoticWeaponry said:
The calibration has nothing to do with the battery life, it just gives a more "exact" reading of the battery level.. I miscalibrated my battery once, and it was at 1% for about 3 hours, then finally died..
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Ya that happened to me once. Now I just make a point of being able to fully charge anytime I flash a rom.
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I have now been convinced that there is no reason to calibrate your battery at anytime. Google engineer pretty much put it to rest and since then I have flashed repeatedly and all that changes is the ROM , sometimes battery is bad and other times its great. CM9 is best so far. Until we get new kernals our battery won't ever be great.
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atlantanetworkguy said:
I have now been convinced that there is no reason to calibrate your battery at anytime. Google engineer pretty much put it to rest and since then I have flashed repeatedly and all that changes is the ROM , sometimes battery is bad and other times its great. CM9 is best so far. Until we get new kernals our battery won't ever be great.
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Ya reading through the comments it seems batterystats.bin has nothing to do with the displayed battery level, but rather just what is using the battery. The displayed battery level comes from kernel level
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ChaoticWeaponry said:
The calibration has nothing to do with the battery life, it just gives a more "exact" reading of the battery level.. I miscalibrated my battery once, and it was at 1% for about 3 hours, then finally died..
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Same, although not for 3 hours but 15min heavy load (720p mkv). Which normally kills 10% battery.
After calibrate it never happened again and died right after 1%
I just flashed CM10 Experimental build 02/11/13, and it is stuck on the boot logo. I have tried relocking the bootloader, running the RUU, unlocking the bootloader, and reflashing CM but it still won't work.
EDIT: Now, I can't even boot into HBOOT!
Did you flash the boot IMG when u flashed or are you s-off
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Sorry for the late response, but yes, I did everything necessary for a device with S-ON. I can now confirm it's bricked.
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How did you brick it? It's almost impossible if you flashed the rom than fastboot flashed the boot.img, wipe cache and dalvik.
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You didn't brick it. CM10 for the Vivid has boot issues. Keep flashing the boot.img and ROM while wiping caches and factory resetting repeatedly until it boots.
Well, the device does not turn on at all. No recovery, no bootloader, no fastboot, nothing.
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Idk how you guys have problems I have never had 1 problem flashing ROMs I bet this guy was on a gingerbread ROM and flashed cm10
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No, actually. I was on the previous build of CM10
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Anyways, you're on a different phone. Issues are different from phone to phone
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Is your problem solved yet?
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Nope, not yet, sadly Any help is appreciated
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At what point does your phone reboots? At the white HTC screen or at the Cyanogenmod boot animation?
Have you tried removing the battery for 30 seconds, putting it back in, waiting 10 seconds and then the bootloader button sequence?
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Actually, my phone doesn't boot, at all. So, it would be impossible to say when it stops working...
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Does your orange light up when you plug it? Could you try another battery? I heard battery durability was short on some devices.
If another battery doesn't work, I'm afraid I'm out of options...
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No light turns on, nothing.
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Out of options
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No light turns on, nothing.
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I'm out of options... Sorry
Dead battery
I would suspect the battery has cratered. The symptoms are identical, doesn't boot, doesn't light when plugged in, etc.
1. Get an external battery charger. I have had good luck with one by Anker on Amazon
2. Charge your battery in the external system.
3. Pop it back into your phone and turn it on.
When you go to Amazon to buy that charger, buy yourself a spare battery. My favorite system is to keep a charged battery with me, swap it in when the phone battery gets too low, and get that battery into a charger. Total phone down time, less than 1 minute. And for those occasions when the battery takes a dump like yours did, you have a charged backup waiting.
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killer98 said:
Anyways, you're on a different phone. Issues are different from phone to phone
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ZeRo2o9 said:
Idk how you guys have problems I have never had 1 problem flashing ROMs I bet this guy was on a gingerbread ROM and flashed cm10
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Just pointing this out....ignore tapatalk signatures as many people have more than one device...Zero actually has his own dev thread here for the vivid for miui
I don't really have much to offer help wise...but the vivid is known for corrupting batteries if they die while the phone is not booted up...or at least jot being able to charge a dead battery...try getting a new battery and see if that helps...best of luck to you...hope you figure it out...its a shame when an expensive device becomes nothing more than a paper weight...if I get any other ideas I'll let you know...
Edit: try the option listed right above my post...didn't see that lol
Worst case scenario...you can try selling it for $25-75 depending on physical condition...some people love buying broken phones cause they know how to fix them...then you can put that money towards a new phone
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Sounds like you've taken several steps to try to resolve your issue. Can you say with 100% certainty which recovery was last installed and whether that recovery flashed correctly? The symptoms sound like a discharged battery with no charge support in recovery, or a corrupted recovery image.
These are the steps I would take. Obtain a charged battery. This could be a standalone battery charger, where you remove the battery from your device and plug it into the charger. The charger should indicate the current charge condition of the battery and when it is fully charged. Or, buy/borrow a battery you know to have a charge. There are inexpensive batteries @ Amazon that would suffice for this effort.
If, with a known charged battery you can't get into bootloader, you have bigger issues. If you can, then find the instructions on the forum to get back to stock and start over.
jherbold said:
Sounds like you've taken several steps to try to resolve your issue. Can you say with 100% certainty which recovery was last installed and whether that recovery flashed correctly? The symptoms sound like a discharged battery with no charge support in recovery, or a corrupted recovery image.
These are the steps I would take. Obtain a charged battery. This could be a standalone battery charger, where you remove the battery from your device and plug it into the charger. The charger should indicate the current charge condition of the battery and when it is fully charged. Or, buy/borrow a battery you know to have a charge. There are inexpensive batteries @ Amazon that would suffice for this effort.
If, with a known charged battery you can't get into bootloader, you have bigger issues. If you can, then find the instructions on the forum to get back to stock and start over.
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Last recovery I flashed was TWRP, it flashed perfectly... and I guess I'll look for a new battery
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Hi everybody.. i'm encountering this problem with my HTC one. When I reach the 20 %-9 % range of the battery the one shut down. Try to reboot and shut down again on lock screen.then I'm forceed to put it on charge. Why this strange behavior ? Battery is broken or not calibrated?or a bug? Please help !!
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If i remember their is a battery calibration file somewhere in the system, if it is deleted it causes the phone to re-calibrate the battery gauge, have you tried a battery re-calibration app from the app store, i think this is what they do.
John.
funeralmoon said:
Hi everybody.. i'm encountering this problem with my HTC one. When I reach the 20 %-9 % range of the battery the one shut down. Try to reboot and shut down again on lock screen.then I'm forceed to put it on charge. Why this strange behavior ? Battery is broken or not calibrated?or a bug? Please help !!
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What Rom and Kernel?
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c5satellite2 said:
What Rom and Kernel?
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All stock!
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If it`s all stock and you dont want to root, all you can do is full charge and then run it till it shuts down a couple of times and hope the battery gauge learns the true battery capacity, if this does not work.
Or you could try charging it to 100% and keep it plugged in, then do a restore to factory defaults while plugged in, then see if that fixes it.
If this does not work, you might have a faulty battery, get a replacement phone.
John.
Tinderbox (UK) said:
If it`s all stock and you dont want to root, all you can do is full charge and then run it till it shuts down a couple of times and hope the battery gauge learns the true battery capacity, if this does not work.
Or you could try charging it to 100% and keep it plugged in, then do a restore to factory defaults while plugged in, then see if that fixes it.
If this does not work, you might have a faulty battery, get a replacement phone.
John.
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Thank you.. i will try. I'm not gonna root it for now cause I might get it to assistance if the battery doesn't get better.
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Exchange it for a new one if you still can
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c5satellite2 said:
Exchange it for a new one if you still can
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Sadly i cant
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Found this fix online, see if it works.
Option 2: (No Root) Physical Battery Calibration This option is also very simple, but at the same time, a little more time consuming. If you have a rooted device, Option 1 is definitely the way to go. However, if you don’t know what “root” means, stick with Option 2 and go check out the root section of Android Authority.
Turn your phone on and charge it for 8 hours or more.
Unplug the charger.
Turn your phone off and charge it for one hour.
Unplug the charger.
Turn on the phone and wait 2 minutes.
Turn your phone off and charge it for one hour.
Unplug, turn it on and use as normal. Your battery life should now be a lot better.