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Terrible battery life and strange behavior

Hi, I've had my wizard for about 6 months, and I've used 3-4 different roms. The one I'm currently using is:
Rom 2.24.10.2
Extrom 2.25.11.102
It's from the summiter rom with the installer, I've been using it for about two weeks.
For some reason, once I switched to this rom, I've have really terrible life, and for some reason, whenever it's left alone, for a long period of time, it won't wake up from a sleep state. For example, last night I had charged it to 100%, used it for about a 10 minute conversation, then went to sleep and left it on my desk, right by my bed. This was at about 1am. When I woke up at 9am, it was asleep, flashing a red led, and wouldn't wake up. I had to remove the battery and put it back on to get it to reset. What's more, when I got it restarted it 1) Gave me the very low battery warning, as the battery was showing 4% and 2) Started to perform a backup, which means it screwed up before 4am, as that's when I have it set to backup.
Any ideas? I'm about to flash to a new rom I guess, but I'm getting tired of installing and reinstalling everything. I'm not using any new software, I'm using the same programs I've been running for months.

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MSigler said:
Any ideas? I'm about to flash to a new rom I guess, but I'm getting tired of installing and reinstalling everything. I'm not using any new software, I'm using the same programs I've been running for months.
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Use Sprite Backup - it will most probably able to restore your backup made under a different ROM version in Device Upgrade mode. Please see the Backup Bible ( http://www.pocketpcmag.com/blogs/index.php?blog=3&p=1270&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1 ) for more info.

I have the same thing happening and I almost want to go back to my Treo. I love this phone but I need to figure out this problem. As far as I can tell, the screen back light goes off but the phone stays on. This kills the battery over night. A quick glance at the phone in passing and it *looks* like the screen is off, but it's not. I have checked all the settings and they say the phone should power off after 2 min. Sometimes it does, and somtimes it dosen't. Under the power settings I have it set to turn off device if not used for 2 minutes.
I'm on ROM 2.17.7.2 WWE if that helps anyone.
-Steve
MSigler said:
Hi, I've had my wizard for about 6 months, and I've used 3-4 different roms. The one I'm currently using is:
Rom 2.24.10.2
Extrom 2.25.11.102
It's from the summiter rom with the installer, I've been using it for about two weeks.
For some reason, once I switched to this rom, I've have really terrible life, and for some reason, whenever it's left alone, for a long period of time, it won't wake up from a sleep state. For example, last night I had charged it to 100%, used it for about a 10 minute conversation, then went to sleep and left it on my desk, right by my bed. This was at about 1am. When I woke up at 9am, it was asleep, flashing a red led, and wouldn't wake up. I had to remove the battery and put it back on to get it to reset. What's more, when I got it restarted it 1) Gave me the very low battery warning, as the battery was showing 4% and 2) Started to perform a backup, which means it screwed up before 4am, as that's when I have it set to backup.
Any ideas? I'm about to flash to a new rom I guess, but I'm getting tired of installing and reinstalling everything. I'm not using any new software, I'm using the same programs I've been running for months.
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Menneisyys said:
Use Sprite Backup - it will most probably able to restore your backup made under a different ROM version in Device Upgrade mode. Please see the Backup Bible ( http://www.pocketpcmag.com/blogs/index.php?blog=3&p=1270&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1 ) for more info.
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Yeah, I know it's possible, but I've also tried it before and had it lock my phone and I had to manually put it in bootloader and redo the ROM install. I'd rather not take a chance again.

svennn said:
I have the same thing happening and I almost want to go back to my Treo. I love this phone but I need to figure out this problem. As far as I can tell, the screen back light goes off but the phone stays on. This kills the battery over night. A quick glance at the phone in passing and it *looks* like the screen is off, but it's not. I have checked all the settings and they say the phone should power off after 2 min. Sometimes it does, and somtimes it dosen't. Under the power settings I have it set to turn off device if not used for 2 minutes.
I'm on ROM 2.17.7.2 WWE if that helps anyone.
-Steve
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Yeah, that's what it seems like, the screen will go off, but something is draining the battery really rapidly.

For me, it is only the back light going off. The screen is still on. Turn it at the right angle and you can see it is still on. A quick glance and it looks to be off. That is what kills the battery over night for me. I just can't stop it from happening.
MSigler said:
Yeah, that's what it seems like, the screen will go off, but something is draining the battery really rapidly.
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svennn said:
For me, it is only the back light going off. The screen is still on. Turn it at the right angle and you can see it is still on. A quick glance and it looks to be off. That is what kills the battery over night for me. I just can't stop it from happening.
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You should be able to change that under the battery settings.

I tried that. Under advanced I have it set to turn off if not used for 2 min.
I think it may have something to do with Mortplayer. That is the one app I use almost daily that turns off the back light but keeps running.
MSigler said:
You should be able to change that under the battery settings.
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svennn said:
I tried that. Under advanced I have it set to turn off if not used for 2 min.
I think it may have something to do with Mortplayer. That is the one app I use almost daily that turns off the back light but keeps running.
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Strange. My screen is going completely off, but the battery is going down like I've got Wifi and bluetooth on and I'm watching a movie.

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] Strange Crashing+Boot Loop Behaviour

Hi all,
Hoping I can get some assistance. I've been using a stock 4.04 ICS ROM (kernel LRK) with a rooted Notecore kernel for the better part of a year without any issues.
My problems started a few days ago when I noticed that my battery wasn't lasting as long as it normally does. I turned off the phone and recharged it fully, then reset the battery stats but it didn't alleviate my problems, instead a few hours later while trying to browse some website, I noticed a terrible screen flicker followed by a soft crash (as in the phone turned unresponsive, screen was off for a few minutes and then restored to lock screen on its own) and I noticed that my battery went from 68% to 18%.
I tried using the phone and the same thing happened again, this time the battery showed 5% remaining and soon after the phone turned off completely as if the battery was completely drained. I put it on charge overnight. When I tried turning on the phone, it was stuck at the boot screen and would not finish loading.
Since I was using an emmc erase disabled kernel, I factory wiped/flashed to a stock Jelly Bean ROM and managed to restore my phone for the most part. It was working correctly while I was trying to set things up until I got to linking my google account (I had skipped this during set up)to download my contacts and settings.
The phone crashed (for the lack of a better term) as soon as my contacts and settings were loaded and now is stuck in a boot loop.
Battery shows about 70% charged.

Lithium Flower said:
Hi all,
Hoping I can get some assistance. I've been using a stock 4.04 ICS ROM (kernel LRK) with a rooted Notecore kernel for the better part of a year without any issues.
My problems started a few days ago when I noticed that my battery wasn't lasting as long as it normally does. I turned off the phone and recharged it fully, then reset the battery stats but it didn't alleviate my problems, instead a few hours later while trying to browse some website, I noticed a terrible screen flicker followed by a soft crash (as in the phone turned unresponsive, screen was off for a few minutes and then restored to lock screen on its own) and I noticed that my battery went from 68% to 18%.
I tried using the phone and the same thing happened again, this time the battery showed 5% remaining and soon after the phone turned off completely as if the battery was completely drained. I put it on charge overnight. When I tried turning on the phone, it was stuck at the boot screen and would not finish loading.
Since I was using an emmc erase disabled kernel, I factory wiped/flashed to a stock Jelly Bean ROM and managed to restore my phone for the most part. It was working correctly while I was trying to set things up until I got to linking my google account (I had skipped this during set up)to download my contacts and settings.
The phone crashed (for the lack of a better term) as soon as my contacts and settings were loaded and now is stuck in a boot loop.
Battery shows about 70% charged.
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Go back to stock GB ROM via PC Odin and then stay off jellybean leaks.

your battery is weak as your note is a year old now.. buy a new one and everthing will be fine don't mess up with your phone
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abhinav quietly brilliant said:
your battery is weak as your note is a year old now.. buy a new one and everthing will be fine don't mess up with your phone
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But I don't have any problems with my phone and I bought it when it had just been released?

warfareonly said:
But I don't have any problems with my phone and I bought it when it had just been released?
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usually i think its because of how every person use the charging procedure. if you leave you phone on charge for a long time even when its full.. it reduces the life of battery ... this i have seen on lot of phones..

nokiamodeln91 said:
usually i think its because of how every person use the charging procedure. if you leave you phone on charge for a long time even when its full.. it reduces the life of battery ... this i have seen on lot of phones..
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I charge it overnight. Daily.

it's easy.. buy a new battery
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warfareonly said:
I charge it overnight. Daily.
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Oh! lucky you.. already had to change because of that

[Q] Weird unprovoked Jellybean Samsung logo brick question

Hi,
A few days ago I upgraded my Note from a very ancient (stock) Gingerbread ROM to (stock) Jellybean. I hadn't been getting OTA updates because the Gingerbread was originally German rather than UK, so quite a long time had passed without any updates. Anyway, because of the no OTA, I used Odin. Everything went fine and I had a nice few days of usage, although the battery consumption seemed to suddenly be quite high, mainly due to additional wakelocks from the new Google Search it looked like. The night before last at about 3% the phone turned itself off, which is unusual as normally the battery will run itself lower than that. BTW, it's an official battery bought just a few months ago to replace the one before, which was getting old.
Yesterday evening when I went to use the phone it was dead. Completely unresponsive. It wouldn't charge either. (The battery had been at about fourteen percent I think, so it should have still had a lot of juice left.) Turning it on would leave it stuck on the Samsung logo only. Recovery mode didn't work, but I could get download mode up, so I installed the Philz kernel as people have said, and then did a reset using that, and all was okay again and after reflashing the ROM I could use the phone again, although because of the reset I had to set everything up again.
Just wondering what people think caused it. Just a weird coincidence, or something else? As far as I'm concerned, the problem has been sort of mitigated for now, but definitely not fixed, because what's to stop it happening again? Has anyone heard of strange things going on with Jellybean? I know there's an issue with flashing/resetting from ICS, but I never used that so I don't think that's an issue, and it looks like it was just a soft brick only. Still, a bit weird and worrying. Does anyone have any ideas?

That was caused by an unexpected shutdown of your phone - if you remove the battery without it fully turning off then you will get it and yeah, blame samsung.
The only way not to have it again is to flash philz kernel with the bootloop fix BEFORE you get the bootloop. Alternativly, if you get it again then you can try what is in this post:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2186229

XxPixX said:
That was caused by an unexpected shutdown of your phone - if you remove the battery without it fully turning off then you will get it and yeah, blame samsung.
The only way not to have it again is to flash philz kernel with the bootloop fix BEFORE you get the bootloop. Alternativly, if you get it again then you can try what is in this post:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2186229
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I didn't take the battery out though. It was low but not dead.
Since then it has happened once again, a few days ago, this time at 93% full. I was doing nothing at all taxing to the phone. I was just in a shop listening to an mp3 with the screen off, and then it stopped and the next thing I saw was the bootloop. Luckily (thanks to the new kernel?) I could just delete cache/dalvik and be back up and running again without having to reinstall everything. Today my screen temporarily went a weird purple colour like in this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2216867 . Sounds like it's just dying in general really, rather than anything else. My phone contract upgrade date is in two days. Purely a coincidence of course. Weird how phones tend to last about the length of a mobile phone contract. Until then I'm just running on power saving mode and hoping for the best.

[Q] Nexus 6 shutdowns :(

I am facing serious shutdown issues . My nexus 6(MB,64GB) keeps shutting down unexpectedly . This happens while playing a game or even while calls. Any suggestions ??

this should not be in the general sections, but in the Q/A help section...
have you tried reflashing the stock img?

I had some major issues like that after updating to 5.0.1. I'm on cm now but if you flash back to stock it should fix things too
Sent from my Nexus 6 using Tapatalk

Harmanpreet Singh said:
I am facing serious shutdown issues . My nexus 6(MB,64GB) keeps shutting down unexpectedly . This happens while playing a game or even while calls. Any suggestions ??
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Stock Nexus 6, or are you using custom stuff?

stock out of the box nexus... happens usually while playing high end games. Happened twice during calls :/ 3rd week into the phone . Usually the battery saver turns on moments before phone shuts down . some times just goes poof.

Harmanpreet Singh said:
stock out of the box nexus... happens usually while playing high end games. Happened twice during calls :/ 3rd week into the phone . Usually the battery saver turns on moments before phone shuts down . some times just goes poof.
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Happened to me too today.got n6 on 11th Dec.initially reboots started then after 2 weeks of observations I turned off ambient display and now random shut downs..
Phone turned off on 14 % battery just when I picked up an incoming call..then again turned off when there was a call..really fed up of this issue..
Don't know if its a hardware or software issue..

backup your phone, reflash stock img completely, and test without restoring apps.

[email protected] said:
Happened to me too today.got n6 on 11th Dec.initially reboots started then after 2 weeks of observations I turned off ambient display and now random shut downs..
Phone turned off on 14 % battery just when I picked up an incoming call..then again turned off when there was a call..really fed up of this issue..
Don't know if its a hardware or software issue..
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I've never had a random reboot but I have had the random shutdown issue. This was running stock 5.0.1 with stock kernel. Also had the same occurrence on CleanRom with stock kernel (this is basically a stock rom/kernel with a few tweaks. Another user recommended flashing LeanKernel which I did and haven't had a problem since. This random shutdown was happening roughly once per day. I have been running strong for almost a week now I'd say. I always am the guy to run custom roms and kernels myself anyways but I actually don't mind the stock rom so flashing the kernel was no big deal to me. There are a few threads on this subject if you search the forums. I too am hoping this isn't hardware related since it's always a pita dealing with RMA.

Is there anything new onto that? Any possible solutions? Same issue for me, generally happens during calls ... :/

hmm strange, i never had any shutdowns, could be either your rom or kernel your on. make sure the kernel your using with ur rom is compatible

Harmanpreet Singh said:
stock out of the box nexus... happens usually while playing high end games. Happened twice during calls :/ 3rd week into the phone . Usually the battery saver turns on moments before phone shuts down . some times just goes poof.
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I was just looking for this.
Mine started doing the same.
I have the battery saver set to 5%, but it never turns on!
The phone shuts off between 10% and 5%.
The battery saver turns on for only for a few seconds(if at all) and the phone shows the powering off animation.
Connecting the charger and turning the phone on, after booting shows 8% already.
Its not normal, because i remember having my phone at 1% without any problems for tests when i got it in November...
For the last few weeks i never went lower than 25% so i don't know when this started, but since i found this out(5 days ago), i tried it every day and it happens like clockwork. Flashed the factory image back has no effect( i was on stock anyways).
Hoping not to have a replacement to save the cost of my dbrand and screen protector...
I give it one more week and if it doesn't change i call Moto. I have MotoCare so replacement should be easy.

Harmanpreet Singh said:
I am facing serious shutdown issues . My nexus 6(MB,64GB) keeps shutting down unexpectedly . This happens while playing a game or even while calls. Any suggestions ??
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Same here ....
Hi guys,
My 2 month old nexus 6 is powering down unexpectedly. Random shut downs (not reboots). Thought it was snap chat was the culprit (read a few articles how some 3rd party camera apps can cause lollipop to power down) but the phone shuts down even after uninstalling all suspicious apps.
Any advice or suggestions will be highly appreciated
Devs please help

I'm starting to really wonder if these "turbo chargers" are causing major degradation to the batteries. The phone will shut down when the battery *voltage* drops below a specific threshold, regardless of what the percent display is actually at.
Another thing to consider is that adding a significant load to a battery will cause it to read a lower voltage, even if that load does NOT immediately deplete the battery, those who notice this happening when running a very demanding game could be experiencing this. I would suspect though, that this will only be an issue if the battery level is already fairly low.

Any update on this?
5% is still my dead-spot and nothing i tried helps...

I just ordered my nexus but my s5 (current phone) randomly reboots. We figured it was due to volte. Turned that off on the s5 and no issues so far. Was really tired of it and the reason I'm going to nexus. That and the bigger screen
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Same issue here...
It must be caused by a bad batch of battery defects, Factory reset or re-flash factory image won't fix it... To get a replacement from Google seems to be the right way...
Davzone said:
I was just looking for this.
Mine started doing the same.
I have the battery saver set to 5%, but it never turns on!
The phone shuts off between 10% and 5%.
The battery saver turns on for only for a few seconds(if at all) and the phone shows the powering off animation.
Connecting the charger and turning the phone on, after booting shows 8% already.
Its not normal, because i remember having my phone at 1% without any problems for tests when i got it in November...
For the last few weeks i never went lower than 25% so i don't know when this started, but since i found this out(5 days ago), i tried it every day and it happens like clockwork. Flashed the factory image back has no effect( i was on stock anyways).
Hoping not to have a replacement to save the cost of my dbrand and screen protector...
I give it one more week and if it doesn't change i call Moto. I have MotoCare so replacement should be easy.
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I use to have this issue. However, it has not happened since I started using Franco kernel. Multiple people have had the problem resolved by changing kernels. That leads me to believe that it is software related rather than hardware. Other benefits of flashing Franco for me is I can now use the built in led for notifications and I am using double tap to wake.

joshpdavis80 said:
I use to have this issue. However, it has not happened since I started using Franco kernel. Multiple people have had the problem resolved by changing kernels. That leads me to believe that it is software related rather than hardware. Other benefits of flashing Franco for me is I can now use the built in led for notifications and I am using double tap to wake.
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My battery issue happened after I kept using Franco for a while...then I switched back to elementalX or stock kernel, nothing resolved...
if the back cover doesn't peel off or the battery doesn't start to expand, it might be a good sign that it is just a software issue.
Otherwise, battery defect could be happening already, as in my case...

Changing kernels fixed my issue which was the phone shutting down on its own randomly. I guess some of you are experiencing a different problem.

Davzone said:
Any update on this?
5% is still my dead-spot and nothing i tried helps...
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Just a little update.
I did an advanced replacement with motorola.
Did it over chat on sunday, received the new phone on wednesday from texas.
Deposit was 500+tax.
The phone was brand new unopened box. Cloud White 64GB
The package had a box and a prepaid label to send the bad phone back.
The box was too small to fit a nexus 6, so i had to modify it a bit.
It was probably for the moto X or smaller.
Sent the phone back on Friday, they got it on Monday, and my money was back.
Everything looks great, the new phone can go down to 1% no problem.
The new turbo charger does not have the electrical noise that the old one has.
That may caused the battery problem. Using it since last Wednesday, and no problems so far.
The advanced replacement was great and easy, if i have to i would do it again, although in 3 months its gonna be a refurb device not a now.
Mine was in mint condition, had dbrand on and no scratches. The person who will get it after me will be happy with that refurb device
And i am happy with my new phone.
If the HTC M9 will have a GPE edition i might switch