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[Q] Battery problems out of nowhere

Hey guys,
I sold my Ace to a guy from a city next to me, and on the first day he said that the battery was worn out, that he wasn't getting juice for even 2 hours.
I looked up for a light ROM, and I found the Stocklite (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1703094&highlight=stocklite).
Sent him the procedures (wipe, flash, reboot) and then he said it didn't solve the problem, and sent me these screenshots that are attached. He said they were taken after a full night charge.
Question is, what could be causing the battery to drain so fast, since it was fine with me (8h~12h) with AOKP JB on the day before?
From the screenshots, it seems that it's sleeping well, and it actually does look like the battery is worn out.

It seems that he is using a lot of 3G. Using 3G in areas of low network coverage or places where signal is weak can lead to massive battery drain.
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Also make sure that he hasnt overclocked the processor.

Thanks for the tips!
I can't tell the guy not to use 3G. And I think it's not overclocked, since he used it after a fresh install of Stocklite ROM. But do you think that those 2 reasons could decrease the battery life to 2 hours?

Felipe Ambrosio said:
Thanks for the tips!
I can't tell the guy not to use 3G. And I think it's not overclocked, since he used it after a fresh install of Stocklite ROM. But do you think that those 2 reasons could decrease the battery life to 2 hours?
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Personal experience. Things like auto-sync might be activated. Also make sure he is sending you an actual screenshot. Loads of 'em are available on the internet. Take the phone from him if still complains. Let the battery discharge completely, then charge it. Use it for a day and show him the battery graph.
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And look at the second screenie. He installed bucketloads of apps. Some app containing a malware might be eating battery. Tell him to install an antivirus like Avast.

tj_droid said:
Personal experience. Things like auto-sync might be activated. Also make sure he is sending you an actual screenshot. Loads of 'em are available on the internet. Take the phone from him if still complains. Let the battery discharge completely, then charge it. Use it for a day and show him the battery graph.
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And look at the second screenie. He installed bucketloads of apps. Some app containing a malware might be eating battery. Tell him to install an antivirus like Avast.
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Thanks man!
About auto-sync, I don't think that's the problem. See how the idle is consuming nearly no juice? About the screenshot being trustable, well, there is not much I can do, the guy is 400km from me, I have to believe him. About a possible malware, he said he got the package in his town and turned the phone on right away, which means that he used it just like I did before I packed it. Could be some kind of damage to the battery on the way to his town. Or, could be a lie. Couldn't tell. Fact is, a battery does not wear out from one day to the other.
EDIT: He suggested me to flash a stock ROM. Ok, he's able to work for it, I guess he's not faking after all. And this could do the trick. Now I have to learn how to flash a stock ROM through Odin, since I have never done it before
EDIT: He's now saying that the battery looks a little swollen. Which means that it's really time to change. Could be some damage due to the shipping. I doubt that, though.

Tell that guy to send you a picture of the swollen battery
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There are lot of apps available on Google Play which contain malwares. Google doesnt scan the apps. He installed a lot of apps (can be seen in the second screenshot). Some fake app might be causing the trouble. There can be many reasons.

i faced similiar problem...
make sure battery is 100% charged...
do battery calibration

[Q] Droid 3 bricked? not dead, backlight wont work.

First some history. Got this phone as a cheap replacement for my droid x2 on ebay. Started out with 5.6.890, successful root and flash to steel droid v5.5, ran fine for around 5 days. Dropped my phone, and got it slightly wet. I pulled the bat, let it dry out and 10 min later it seemed to be fine. 3 days after that incident it started acting buggy. First its brightness turned itself "off", being that there was zero illumination (think the old gameboy colors with no backlights, couldn't be used at night, needed a reading light, etc.), but if i shined a light on the screen i could see all my apps, texts, and make and receive calls. This continued after multiple reboots, bat pulls, but somehow solved itself after around half an hour. it worked fine for another 3 days, but now it turned itself off and went back to its weird no illumination situation. when i shine a light on the screen, it shows the M logo with the dual core writing underneath, then that fades away into total blackness until it comes back. It has a fully charged battery from a friends D3, and it wont connect to my computer, wont respond to any buttons, and even stays in this "bootloop" (but really it seems less functional than a bootloop which ive had to deal with before) with no battery just plugged into the wall charger. Any ideas for a fix? im probably getting a new phone for Christmas, but i have some important things i need to deal with before that. i also have around $50 im willing to put into making this thing work, as it has work and travel info i need asap. ANY help would be appreciated! thanks in advance.

with phone off
does m+power boot to ap fastboot?
if so you could try flashing sbf
if not think your sol, even if you do get sbf flashed, phone may not work
but that's your best bet
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With your one paragraph question, missed travel data part
Could try booting to android recovery and wipe cache
http://rootzwiki.com/topic/2025-found-a-bunch-if-fastboot-menus-sbf-flash-mode-recovery-and-more/
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sd_shadow said:
with phone off
does m+power boot to ap fastboot?
if so you could try flashing sbf
if not think your sol, even if you do get sbf flashed, phone may not work
but that's your best bet
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With your one paragraph question, missed travel data part
Could try booting to android recovery and wipe cache
Sorry about the extra long question... another problem that prevents this from working is the phone won't turn/stay off. as soon as i put the battery in it goes into its loop, before i push any buttons. thanks anyways but it seems like i might just be screwed
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then just press and hold m button before replacing battery
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or both volume buttons
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was data on internal memory card, or saved in an app's data?

I had to give my friend his battery back so ill try that tomorrow, hopefully it works

ok too bad your friend couldn't charge your battery

well i somehow managed to get it to work! still seems sketchy and unreliable, but i got the info i needed off of it so if it dies ill live. thanks for your help.

your welcome
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Galaxy Mini 2 Battery problem

Hi,
I have got Samsung Galaxy Mini 2 NFC with CWM 6.0.3.2 and Stock 2.3.6 ROM. 1 week ago my phone started shutting down when battery is lower than 60%. It shuts down, but I can turn it on, but after 10 minutes it shuts down again. Does anyone have got this problem too? Must I buy new battery?

Make backup of your current rom and make factory reset (it may be problem of some app maybe)
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xfim said:
Make backup of your current rom and make factory reset (it may be problem of some app maybe)
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Edit: check voltage of battery (when charging and discharging, every 10% or so)

I did factory reset just now, I will wait if it's fixed.

Does it work?
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I think yes, I have 41% battery now and still no shutdown. Thank you

Glad you didnt waste money on new battery then

How to enable internet on stock rom rooted

I have my galaxy gear rooted but I'm on stock rom. My S3 also has bluetooth tether enabled.
Can anyone show me how to enable the internet on my galaxy gear? Thanks and I don't want to install null rom.

You need to know how to add Bluetooth profiles
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Which is impossible, I think is the answer.
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BTW, this is your best alternative.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2519270

Brendo said:
You need to know how to add Bluetooth profiles
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Can you show me how? Thanks.

klau1 said:
Which is impossible, I think is the answer.
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BTW, this is your best alternative.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2519270
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How come? I think if it can be done on null it must be a way on stock.

What you call "stock" is actually a neutered version of Android. Neutered to prevent people from doing exactly just want you're attempting to do.
Rooting then installing Null restores this functionality.
The functions were removed from Gear for good reason. The battery can only sustain 2 hours of screen time, if the engineers at Samsung left the Android functions open, people would run out of power before the end of lunch and a huge publicity stink would ensue.

klau1 said:
What you call "stock" is actually a neutered version of Android. Neutered to prevent people from doing exactly just want you're attempting to do.
Rooting then installing Null restores this functionality.
The functions were removed from Gear for good reason. The battery can only sustain 2 hours of screen time, if the engineers at Samsung left the Android functions open, people would run out of power before the end of lunch and a huge publicity stink would ensue.
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Thank you. Well in that case, there is really no difference between rooted and UN rooted. All I want to do is instead of showing notification from my text app I want to reply it but that need internet I guess.

If you have a Samsung phone just use s voice to reply.

[Q] battery draining ridiculously fast, any idea?

I've never had this problem with my other Notes. In the last couple of weeks I noticed this started to happen, where I'm losing battery ridiculously fast where I can't really use the phone for more than 3 hours. Battery stats show that "Android System" is using the battery. I got the G Sam Battery Monitor app, which reflects the same thing.
But Android System could be any number of things. Any idea what I should be looking at? Where I should start trying to find a culprit?

Is GPS icon flashing? If so, check which app is running in the backgroud that is using GPS.
Also, clear all of your recent apps and see if it fixes it.

No GPS isn't flashing. And I've gotten in the habit of clearing the recently opened apps. Memory shows 2GB of usage but "no active applications." I can't tell if something in the background would be using GPS.

Clean wipe, Odin flash the stock NJ7 build. re-root
Then reflash the ROM you want. Most likely you got something hung up in the code that it is trying to use and is failing so it is constantly running.
That our you have Facebook installed. Jk, sorta for real though worst app ever for battery.
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I'm still stock, so haven't rooted or anything. I've been trying to hold out as long as possible. Other than this new battery issue I was OK without root (gasp).
I do have Facebook, and I'm a Facebook and 9Gag abuser, but if those were the apps draining battery, the stats would reflect them, no?
Like I said, I've never experienced this issue. In the past (see my long list of smartphones) I've always been able to pinpoint what's using my battery. Not this time.

Max_Pain said:
I'm still stock, so haven't rooted or anything. I've been trying to hold out as long as possible. Other than this new battery issue I was OK without root (gasp).
I do have Facebook, and I'm a Facebook and 9Gag abuser, but if those were the apps draining battery, the stats would reflect them, no?
Like I said, I've never experienced this issue. In the past (see my long list of smartphones) I've always been able to pinpoint what's using my battery. Not this time.
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Facebook hides a lot of battery usage in the ”Android System“ umbrella. But you should be getting much better battery.
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You're battery should look more like this
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Screen shot your phone and let's see
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BACARDILIMON said:
Screen shot your phone and let's see
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Same thing for me.

gopheer said:
Same thing for me.
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You guys should 1 get wake lock detector. Charge battery and let it go for a few hours and see wake lock. Also is ur phone deepsleeping.? More screen shots would help of everything.
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Try and show more info
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BACARDILIMON said:
You guys should 1 get wake lock detector. Charge battery and let it go for a few hours and see wake lock. Also is ur phone deepsleeping.? More screen shots would help of everything.
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Not rooted, anything else you can suggest? I just got battery doctor, hopefully that will tell a more complete picture.

gopheer said:
Not rooted, anything else you can suggest? I just got battery doctor, hopefully that will tell a more complete picture.
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Sorry bro if u not rooted you running a lot of bloat.
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BACARDILIMON said:
Try and show more info
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Wakala....black background on settings??? Wakala
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BACARDILIMON said:
Try and show more info
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Wakala....black background on settings???
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BACARDILIMON said:
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Wakala....black background on settings???
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Lmao 3 times. ..not my intention was the app. But ew

nano303 said:
Wakala....black background on settings??? Wakala
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Wakala....black background on settings???
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Wakala....black background on settings???
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Lmao 3 times. ..not my intention was the app. But ew
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Loving loco dark settings and all
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BACARDILIMON said:
Loving loco dark settings and all
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Coolio bro! I feel you when the white can be too much

BACARDILIMON said:
Sorry bro if u not rooted you running a lot of bloat.
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Yes, but that's also not the cause of the battery issues. As Samsung doesn't ship out a phone expecting it get 5 hours of battery life and blame it on "LOL we bloated your phone."
I will undoubtedly end up rooting the phone, as I have done with all others, but I don't want to at this point.
Last night it ran out of battery completely while I was at the bar, so I couldn't charge it. That's the first time the phone shuts off in 21 days since I first got it. All my widgets on Go Launcher were lost for some reason. I'm going to let it run through the battery today and get some screenshots later.

Max_Pain said:
Yes, but that's also not the cause of the battery issues. As Samsung doesn't ship out a phone expecting it get 5 hours of battery life and blame it on "LOL we bloated your phone."
I will undoubtedly end up rooting the phone, as I have done with all others, but I don't want to at this point.
Last night it ran out of battery completely while I was at the bar, so I couldn't charge it. That's the first time the phone shuts off in 21 days since I first got it. All my widgets on Go Launcher were lost for some reason. I'm going to let it run through the battery today and get some screenshots later.
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Samsung may not but TMOBILE and all the junk running behind the seems and carrieriq and quite a few other things will. Yes they do bloat you and laugh at ya. Either way if you wanna experience great battery life root and get to work. You can also try to leave stock fresh wipe no apps and see for yourself how much bloat hurts you.
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Yup huge difference with firecat. Oddly enough my note 3 had great battery life from just the stock rom.
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Sorry, forgot to come back to the thread. After that night when I ran out of battery and the phone turned off (for the first time since I purchased it), I've had great battery life again. So something was definitely stuck. I've now restarted the phone and used it heavily the last two days and the phone has lasted me many many hours.