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[Q] How to tell when you need a new battery?

I'm posting this question because I'm sort of confused, I've had my hero since July and since then have ran every rom to date. Now I'm running AospMod 9.9.2 and have never witnessed such horrible battery life. I know it has nothing to do with this rom because I used to get f*cking awesome battery life almost 2 days without charging. Now I'm lucky if I get 6 hours moderate use... Charged to 93 this morning, still on charger rebooted to install keyboard, loaded back up dropped to 73...
I've done all sorts of calibration nothing works, Can I please get some insight on my problem before I buy a new battery? Thanks in advance!
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It might be the ROM. Did you change back to a different one to see how it worked? If it went for almost 2 days a few days prior then drops to a 6 hour usage I highly doubt it's the battery itself. When my G1 battery went it started to lose time very fast at the end but it did it gradually over months before I had to get a new one.

Texas Spectre said:
It might be the ROM. Did you change back to a different one to see how it worked? If it went for almost 2 days a few days prior then drops to a 6 hour usage I highly doubt it's the battery itself. When my G1 battery went it started to lose time very fast at the end but it did it gradually over months before I had to get a new one.
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Well when I had my best battery life it was with AospMod 9.6 - 9.7.
I might go back to an older version and see..
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The reason I ask about a new battery is, when my phone just sits on the homescreen with only google sync on gmail, beautiful widgets 3 hour for weather check, and some icons the battery ia draining 1% every like 5 mins without me doing anything...
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try Collins or Deca's battery tweak in the dev section

Meh already running collins battery tweak..

igtheactt1 said:
Meh already running collins battery tweak..
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try switching interactive with um whatever the other common setting is

igtheactt1 said:
I'm posting this question because I'm sort of confused, I've had my hero since July and since then have ran every rom to date. Now I'm running AospMod 9.9.2 and have never witnessed such horrible battery life. I know it has nothing to do with this rom because I used to get f*cking awesome battery life almost 2 days without charging. Now I'm lucky if I get 6 hours moderate use... Charged to 93 this morning, still on charger rebooted to install keyboard, loaded back up dropped to 73...
I've done all sorts of calibration nothing works, Can I please get some insight on my problem before I buy a new battery? Thanks in advance!
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If You Open Your Dialer, & Press *#*#4636#*#* It'll Take You To A Menu Where You Can Check The Battery & A Bunch Of Other Hidden Settings, But Not Sure If It Works With All Dealers? I Know It Works With Sense!
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You might have a zombie process or an app with a mem leak something is really eating that battery. Some apps/Widgets are poorly written and can cause battery issues. Typical life of a battery should be about 2 years(if that) before it starts to not hold a charge anymore though. There's a way to check which zombie process or mem leak could be killing your battery it would easily tell you. I wish I could give you the link but I'm on my phone. Flipz tells you how to do this on his site.
UPDATE: I found the link dude.
http://geekfor.me/news/why-is-my-android-phone-running-so-slow/
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Bad battery?

Question....I just bought a vivid (missed sense shame on me I know) anyway, I've been 33 mins on battery and my phone went from 100 to 85%. Just checking my facebook and such...
It also discharges by 2% every 5 minutes to 10 minutes. This isn't normal right ?
Thanks in advance for your inputs
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no this is not normal...are you running stock or custom rom? Mine will run down maybe 3 bars in 3 hours...not a half an hour...somethings amiss there
panamakid said:
Question....I just bought a vivid (missed sense shame on me I know) anyway, I've been 33 mins on battery and my phone went from 100 to 85%. Just checking my facebook and such...
It also discharges by 2% every 5 minutes to 10 minutes. This isn't normal right ?
Thanks in advance for your inputs
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Thanks for your reply wild child.
I'll see about getting the battery replaced, I tried your Rom and it was the same issue with the battery, I'm currently running rumraider with banana's kernel.
Stock did the same thing. With lag
I'm going to see about getting another battery...see if that helps.
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its [email protected] would be my next [email protected], if you got from at&t they should replace it for free.
WC

I'll go there today and report back .
I really appreciate your help, also read a couple forums on some drama, glad you're still sticking around the vivid forums. You and everyone else who are very helpful to those who need your help like me and appreciate it
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Plenty of knowledgeable folks around here, im still around....just not as involved/active here as I was
panamakid said:
I'll go there today and report back .
I really appreciate your help, also read a couple forums on some drama, glad you're still sticking around the vivid forums. You and everyone else who are very helpful to those who need your help like me and appreciate it
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Wasn't aware you can run a different kernel on rumraider's rom.

so I called AT&T they don't have "batteries" for the vivid, they want to go to a store that can troubleshoot bla bla bla.
So I just ordered a pair of "1870mah" (I know they're not really 1870) off ebay for 23 dollars but im sure they'll be better than this battery right now.
@strose - I tried it, works really well, havent encountered an issue yet. also using system tuner pro to UV -45 at the moment and clocked at stock speeds since everything is smooth.

How many charge cycles have you been through? I ask because you said you JUST got the phone. My first few charges were dismal, but now this is pretty much typical unless I'm making a lot of voice calls:

Hot damn, that's great life there. 2 cycles. Yesterday. To dead, full charge died by night, full this morning. Now I'm on this charge.
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Phone/Battery screwed up

Hi guys!!
My phone is seriously screwed up. I'll get to the story.
A couple of nights ago, I couldn't copy files to sd card both from the phone and the computer. So I took it out and tried to format it in Windows but failed. So then I tried to format in linux and succeeded :good:
Then I tried to copy files to it, eventhough it seemed like files were copied, when I tried to read it again after ejecting the card, it was empty No files were copied!!
My SD card had failed and so I removed the SD card and let the phone be. ROM was CK MIUI 2.4.6. I noticed that battery started to drain faster through the night; around 40% for 8 hours
I tried using various other ROMs, tried the battery friendly CM9 too - both elols and rcset's. Still no avail. :crying: :crying:
I think its a hardware error. Can I claim my warranty??

whyzee said:
Hi guys!!
My phone is seriously ...
I think its a hardware error. Can I claim my warranty!!
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That's bad :crying:
Yeah try to claim the warranty and see what happens, good luck. And please don't change your phone.

My Experience with Service Center in Bangalore was good .. they gave me a replacement phone (Some cheap dual SIM phone) when i had issues with display and wanted to replace it .
Lead time given was 1 week as it had to be sent to some central location but they guy called me up within 3 days and asked me to come and collect my phone ..
So they treat the Mi 400 owners well as it was the costliest phone in there arsenal some time back .

@whyzee, any updates on the phone and battery backup?

paarkhi said:
@whyzee, any updates on the phone and battery backup?
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no bro, not yet. The phone is still with me and I'm currently getting ~19 hr usage with only calls/msg.

I'm on Bumblebee and I'm getting nice backup, can you try it once (ya I know it still has ICV) but gives nice backup and each and every feature works (excl. FM, HDMI) or sharp Modded (.35) Fix1 which also gives nice backup, but the condition is that you need to stay on any of these 2 ROMs for few days and not flash any other ROMs immediately, I've seen that constantly flashing ROMs also reduces battery backup no matter on which ROM you are on (means you don't get good battery backup even if you are on battery friendly ROM), if you want you can try it as a last solution...

paarkhi said:
I'm on Bumblebee and I'm getting nice backup, can you try it once (ya I know it still has ICV) but gives nice backup and each and every feature works (excl. FM, HDMI) or sharp Modded (.35) Fix1 which also gives nice backup, but the condition is that you need to stay on any of these 2 ROMs for few days and not flash any other ROMs immediately, I've seen that constantly flashing ROMs also reduces battery backup no matter on which ROM you are on (means you don't get good battery backup even if you are on battery friendly ROM), if you want you can try it as a last solution...
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thanks for the tip paarkhi! I guess I too have been flashing too many ROMs recently. Right now, I'm on MIUIv4. I'm gonna try to hang onto this for a while. keeping my fingers crossed ...

ok, how is your experience with MIUI4

paarkhi said:
ok, how is your experience with MIUI4
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nice.... I havent really tested it yet - no GPS,data,wifi or anything. Just using it for calls and stuff and as I said, battery life is about 19h...

Hi Whyzee
First how old your battery is and did the service center guys replaced the battery?
Do one thing wipe everything, cache, delvik cache battery stats and revert to stock GB for sometime. then check the performance for your device and tell us

I'm on sharp mod fix 1 and getting better battery life (I think) currently testing it and update after a few days
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Im on elol SOB ICS. This thing is kick ass battery saver. So smooth yet saves ton of battery. I've attached current stats. Been browsing wifi over an hour and battery still shows 100% I got 25 hours by charging up to 90 % yesterday. So I think that's what the secret was. When u flash a rom recharge it to 90% first time and then 100% the next time. Will report tomorrow
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whyzee said:
Im on elol SOB ICS. This thing is kick ass battery saver. So smooth yet saves ton of battery. I've attached current stats. Been browsing wifi over an hour and battery still shows 100% I got 25 hours by charging up to 90 % yesterday. So I think that's what the secret was. When u flash a rom recharge it to 90% first time and then 100% the next time. Will report tomorrow
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That rom is one of the best rom... I've tasted it.
May be you can taste rcset's cm9... some said it great also, but I haven't tried it yet.
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whyzee said:
Im on elol SOB ICS. This thing is kick ass battery saver. So smooth yet saves ton of battery. I've attached current stats. Been browsing wifi over an hour and battery still shows 100% I got 25 hours by charging up to 90 % yesterday. So I think that's what the secret was. When u flash a rom recharge it to 90% first time and then 100% the next time. Will report tomorrow
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Congrats that now you are getting nice battery backup and very clever to go in Airplane mode (that says lot of battery) while using WiFi.

paarkhi said:
Congrats that now you are getting nice battery backup and very clever to go in Airplane mode (that says lot of battery) while using WiFi.
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yeah, I guess thats what saved the battery for so long

whyzee said:
Im on elol SOB ICS. This thing is kick ass battery saver. So smooth yet saves ton of battery. I've attached current stats. Been browsing wifi over an hour and battery still shows 100% I got 25 hours by charging up to 90 % yesterday. So I think that's what the secret was. When u flash a rom recharge it to 90% first time and then 100% the next time. Will report tomorrow
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when i was on BB 101.3... i got this

Something is wrong with my phone! I'm sure of it!! Damn! if I could only find the bill receipt!!

whyzee said:
Something is wrong with my phone! I'm sure of it!! Damn! if I could only find the bill receipt!!
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Since yesterday I'm already out of warranty and now on God's support for this phone but even I've seen that Spice people asks for bill when I went for some camera problem to them so hope that you find it...

paarkhi said:
Since yesterday I'm already out of warranty and now on God's support for this phone but even I've seen that Spice people asks for bill when I went for some camera problem to them so hope that you find it...
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that sucks paarkhi!! Be careful with your phone now....

Search for this on XDA. The dev had it for free there for a while some time ago. At least have a peek. Good Luck!
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=air.ynfo.batteryrepair
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Bon Voyage!

I have Bricked my salsa i think i might be stopping by with one or two roms
have a good time with ur phone guys
i have learnt a lesson not to flash a rom below 30%

razer1224 said:
I have Bricked my salsa i think i might be stopping by with one or two roms
have a good time with ur phone guys
i have learnt a lesson not to flash a rom below 30%
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there's one last try mate.............if u can get a battery...
the stock Ruu.exe and install that from windows, its a long shot but may work, its the worst case scenario as its a mission to redo the handset again but it can be worth it..
Please note people.....a harsh lesson learned...Never flash anything onto your phone with a low battery!
i did it not long ago..proper ****e myself, took 2 hrs to get it going again so i know how to brick and unbrick the salsa lol.....razor....keep trying mate!

i would get some other hct battery form my friends i might come back soon

Ohh thnx 4 tellin guys...today I flashd one with low battry...
Never gonna do that again
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dude i flashed salsa twice one after another in 4% battery left,it worked ,only thing i got is it got dead after flashing completed and when i restated my salsa,so i just charged it for 5min. and got working ....hope u may get back ur device........

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dude i flashed salsa twice one after another in 4% battery left,it worked ,only thing i got is it got dead after flashing completed and when i restated my salsa,so i just charged it for 5min. and got working ....hope u may get back ur device........
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My battery wasn't responding well for last 2 months....I flashed at 0%
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Battery problem

Hi Folks, I hve had my note for 1 year now and haven't had any battery problems until 2 days ago when I flashed a jb rom. All was fine for about 10 hours when I started to recharge the battery again that went fine, charged to 100% and unplugged, the phone said it was at 100%. After another few hours the phone cut out, no warning just cut out. I could get the phone back on but only when plugged into the charger. So, heres my problem, phone says battery is fully charged but when I unplug the charger it cuts out now. if I boot in to recovery with out the charger it stays on for hours. if I try to start the phone up normally with out charger it doesn't work. I have tried another battery again it started fine for almost a day then the same problems again. I have tried several kernels and roms in case it was one of those that was causing the problem but its the same every time. Im not a newb when it comes to flashing roms some im 100% sure its all ok in that department. any help would be appreciated.
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Graham

My note is also about 10 months old. I want to know if my battery stats. I feel like my phone is giving me short time.
My question is do i need a replacement with these stats????
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qazibasit said:
My note is also about 10 months old. I want to know if my battery stats. I feel like my phone is giving me short time.
My question is do i need a replacement with these stats????
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What really matters here is your screen on time (I can get around 4h30 with heavy use). I also see you have a few notifications so there might be some draining apps running in the background (like that *** Facebook app which is constantly running in the background even with notifications off). In any case BBS should help you identify the "rogue" app (if any). Also I don't use Google Now as it's kind of a battery killer.

this problem is same with me...after 1 year use gnote
and this is battery problem..i dont know whats is causing it...
i try to enter recovery mode and ..battery is good..almost 4 hours screen on recovery mode
but if I try to start the phone up normally phone is reboot after 1minute in homescreen android
trying with different rom jb ..same problem ..
after replace my battery ..problem is gone..

@strachg If the phone used to work well before you flashed JB I'd recommend going back to ICS to see if the problem persists. If it disappears the reason is JB which would not supprise me since all JB roms for the Note are not really bug free. If the phone continues to behave like you described and changing the battery does not help either I'd say it's a hardware failure.
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altae said:
@strachg If the phone used to work well before you flashed JB I'd recommend going back to ICS to see if the problem persists. If it disappears the reason is JB which would not supprise me since all JB roms for the Note are not really bug free. If the phone continues to behave like you described and changing the battery does not help either I'd say it's a hardware failure.
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Hi, Yeah I already tried going back to ics and it was just the same, it just seems like a bit of coincidence and really annoying lol. The only thing I can think off that is causing it is as you say that its a hardware fault and it must be overcharging the battery and breaking it. If it was JB that was causing it im sure I wouldn't have been the only one by now.
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Graham

how did you install jb? Was it clean on safe kernel? You havent eliminated the possibility of software issues.
Qazibazit, it looks ok.
Guideline 3,5-4,5 hours on screen time is normal (if you play games can be less, thus is from full to 1%). Total standby time, usually more then 24 hours is normal.
If you have a lot less, go read ahalfords sticky on wakelocks. All you need to know to optimize battery.
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Hi baz 77 yeah using safe kernel, tried a few actually. And using utackas. Version of paranoid android now again tried a few Roms. Everything was wiped and redone the process about 20 times. I looked through all the roms. And kernel threads and no one has had this problem. New battery coming so will see how it goes now.
Cheers
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Hi baz 77 yeah using safe kernel, tried a few actually. And using utackas. Version of paranoid android now again tried a few Roms. Everything was wiped and redone the process about 20 times. I looked through all the roms. And kernel threads and no one has had this problem. New battery coming so will see how it goes now.
Cheers
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yep thats pretty definitive, at least if all those roms are not having same base and thus posibly same issues.
Your new battery will improve your experience quite a bit if its a good one!
Have fun with it and let us know if it worked for you