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dont know if you guys experienced this or not, it seems like i cant get my phone to be fully charged after the 1.5 firmware update, it takes like 10 hours to get it fully charged. So i thought it was my phone, but after i get the replacement from t-mobile, its the same thing, so i thought its the battery, but after i replaced the battery which i got from HTC, it turns out to be the same....what do u guys think what happening to my phone ?
for example, if i charge my phone for 2 or 3 hours, and it says its 60% charged...then i reboot my phone, the battery bar becomes full, and i check the battery info, its 100% or 99%.....so you guys think it's the software issue ? maybe my phone is already fullly charged, but it just cant recognize it ? but this cant happen to 2 different phones with different batteries right ?
This happens to my phone even i flash it to the cyan 4.0.4
CyanogenMod-4.0.4
HardSPL
2.22.19.261
Please Help !!!!
weird, have u tried to UN-root?
ya...tried...was back to normal once when it was at 1.0 firmware, but then after i root or updated to 1.5 firmware, it happens again...i dont even know why this is happening
Anything running in the background sucking up battery power? Bluetooth enabled? Music/Video player "stopped"?
There is a file you can delete to make the phone forget its battery charge settings and start over. I searched but with the old Cy threads gone I can't find it. Try searching the forum a few different ways. Maybe it is also in a different rom thread. If I come across the file name I will post it here.
if i delete the file, would it indicate how much battery is left ? or how much battery has been charged ?
i think the directions on what file that needs be deleted are in the experimental thread, i remember reading about it as well. basically, what you are doing is deleting the old battery readings and the files that tell the phone how much juice the battery has left, and when you reboot after deleting them, it causes the phone to create new ones.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=4602632&postcount=8268
Try deleting batterystats.bin in /data/system if you upgraded without flashing. This will recalibrate your battery...
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@StanSimmons thank you for finding the post.
in the recovery console
Code:
mount data
rm /data/system/batterystats.bin
reboot
Good job finding that post. I wish they would open the thread back up just for the troubleshooting info it contained.
billquinn1 said:
Good job finding that post. I wish they would open the thread back up just for the troubleshooting info it contained.
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they don't want it to turn into another "I hate google" thread. i am pretty much sure that is the reason they locked it.
so if i delete batterystats.bin , the battery indicator would back to normal ?not just going up by only 1% for every 10 minutes ?
americanxo said:
so if i delete batterystats.bin , the battery indicator would back to normal ?not just going up by only 1% for every 10 minutes ?
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I don't know, try it and find out. The worst you will do is waste a few minutes entering in a command and rebooting
david1171 said:
I don't know, try it and find out. The worst you will do is waste a few minutes entering in a command and rebooting
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what command ? im not a tech savvy guy...so i will make sure all things are ok before doing anything to the phone.
i put the command up in the first page of this hread ,and it was still there when i looked a minute ago.
so after i deleted the file, and i go to the recover console and type the commands and thats it right ?
i tried....didnt work....
i rebooted to recovery mode, then select console..input the commands....reboot the phone...problem still not solved....hmmm
If I remember correctly wasn't the procedure for resetting the battery to completely drain the battery till the phone shuts off on it's own, then charge the battery while the power is off till charging light turns green, then when you boot your phone use the terminal or adb to remove batterystats.bin
jackslim said:
If I remember correctly wasn't the procedure for resetting the battery to completely drain the battery till the phone shuts off on it's own, then charge the battery while the power is off till charging light turns green, then when you boot your phone use the terminal or adb to remove batterystats.bin
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Yes those are the proper instructions. Don't do this very often though, its not good for Li-ion batteries
What an interesting problem. I have never run across this problem before.
Recently I decided to update my phone from cupcake to Super D 1.10.3 and I've been getting a problem where my phone would randomly turn off mostly when I'm talking on the phone or when it uses data. I noticed that this problem never occurs when it is hooked up to power though. I also noticed that the battery level are showing strange %s all the time. It would go from like 80% then when it randomly shuts off automatically go into red, to the point where I can't reboot my phone without power. I've tried about 4-5 different roms, reinstalled the radio/SPL but still have the same issue. Hopefully somebody here can help me figure out what is wrong because I don't believe it's a battery issue as it works almost perfectly sitting idle.
Thanks !
That kept happening to me. I decided to brick it, but it died off on it's own and never turned on so it saved me some trouble.
most likely a battery problem i believe. happened to me and i simply replaced the battery.
Try wiping the battery stats and dalvick cache in recovery . Fix permissions . It may be a widget acting up .
el-zilcho said:
Try wiping the battery stats and dalvick cache in recovery . Fix permissions . It may be a widget acting up .
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I always blame it on the widgets.
What do you have on the screen. Most of the time when it does that it's because of a kernel panic. Too much going on at once can cause the device to crash.
right now the only widgets are power control, and beautiful widgets. I'll try to get rid of power control, hopefully it works! if not i'll call tmobile for a new battery
xelasfx said:
right now the only widgets are power control, and beautiful widgets. I'll try to get rid of power control, hopefully it works! if not i'll call tmobile for a new battery
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Let's try clearing your dalvik-cache.
Binary100100 said:
Let's try clearing your dalvik-cache.
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-_-, i'm kind of a noob so i'm not sure how to do that
go into recovery (assuming you have amonra's) and go to wipe, then theres an option to clear dalvik-cache.
so far nothing seems to be working =\
xelasfx said:
Recently I decided to update my phone from cupcake to Super D 1.10.3 and I've been getting a problem where my phone would randomly turn off mostly when I'm talking on the phone or when it uses data. I noticed that this problem never occurs when it is hooked up to power though. I also noticed that the battery level are showing strange %s all the time. It would go from like 80% then when it randomly shuts off automatically go into red, to the point where I can't reboot my phone without power. I've tried about 4-5 different roms, reinstalled the radio/SPL but still have the same issue. Hopefully somebody here can help me figure out what is wrong because I don't believe it's a battery issue as it works almost perfectly sitting idle.
Thanks !
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I have this EXACT same issue. Started about a week ago. I think its has something to do with wiping the battery data too often ot possibly incorrectly?
Gonna try wiping davlik-catche and battery (after a full charge is reported while powered off) but one question...after wiping after charging, do I leave it plugged into power or do I unplug power before rebooting?
EDIT: I also have tried this with difft ROMS and SPLs. Only crashes when on the phone or using data. Not a loose battery (like others have suggested) as I can shake the $#!1 out of it and not have it power off, don't think its the battery. Left my G1 all night, no problems. Started checking out market downloads, crashed (with no "powering down" splash) within 3min of usage. Gonna try downgrading the radio to see if that helps (like was said, seems to be a data issue).
UPDATE: So after un-rooting back to stock android 1.0 and again experiencing these crashes yet still not having one with power supply attached I've narrowed down my problem to either the battery (hopefully) or the phone hardware itself (hopefully not). Find out later on today...
i too have the same exact problem..i twas fine until recently...but when i shifted to cyan 5.0.7 from 4 i had this problem.i thought it was a sd card problem so i just booted the g1 without the sdcard in and it worked fine.so i just reformatted the sd card n checked it with checkflash the sdcard was fine....just put in stock cyanmod and running the phone now will tell u the result when i get back...hopefully it should be the sdcard fault
Its your battery. This started happening to me about 2 weeks ago and i ordered a new battery and all my problems are solved now. Just to make sure look at the center of your battery and check if it is swollen or has a bump, if it does im 100% sure its the battery
hmm yup the battery is swollen at the center looks like i need to get a new one
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.
While at work today I had my phone on the charger as the battery was pretty much dead this morning.. towards the end of my shift I was doing some browsing using Opera and over 4G when I noticed the phone started getting hot. About a minute later I Got a pop up message saying the temp sensor has reached max temp and said I should pull the battery.. So I did... I waited for the Revo and battery to cool down and I put the battery back in and booted up... As soon as I could I launched my battery widget and the battery charge state graph showed that the battery had TANKED 47% instantly while being plugged in! The phone started getting hot again so I pulled the battery and decided to check into it again when I got home.
Now im home, and I had put the battery back in the phone and without even booting the Revo, the whole phone gets hot! Knowing something must be going on here I booted the phone anyways and checked my battery widget again and this time its reporting 3%!!
Anyone have a clue whats going on here? Phone or Battery?
Same thing happened to my sisters Droid 2 ... her fix ... iPhone 4s
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Jasbo said:
While at work today I had my phone on the charger as the battery was pretty much dead this morning.. towards the end of my shift I was doing some browsing using Opera and over 4G when I noticed the phone started getting hot. About a minute later I Got a pop up message saying the temp sensor has reached max temp and said I should pull the battery.. So I did... I waited for the Revo and battery to cool down and I put the battery back in and booted up... As soon as I could I launched my battery widget and the battery charge state graph showed that the battery had TANKED 47% instantly while being plugged in! The phone started getting hot again so I pulled the battery and decided to check into it again when I got home.
Now im home, and I had put the battery back in the phone and without even booting the Revo, the whole phone gets hot! Knowing something must be going on here I booted the phone anyways and checked my battery widget again and this time its reporting 3%!!
Anyone have a clue whats going on here? Phone or Battery?
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Known issue friend. Make sure you are running stock OS, no CWM, and take it to Verizon. They will reset it to factory default, because that fixes everything in their book, and it will for a short time till it happens again.
Back up your data because they are gonna wipe that bad boy clean. They told me ALL DATA WILL BE LOST, that's when I grabbed my phone and ran. I reset it to factory on my on and had no more issues except now it just shuts off on its own occasionally. It happens with all roms so it's a phone issue.
I am with Android Power... Except, get a nexus prime not shatter glass iPhone 4s.
ok cool.... Thanks Hax. Where can I read up on the known issue? Nevermind I found everything i needed... on a side note I took the phone into verizon on my lunch break and they confirmed the battery was toast.... so they gave me a brand new one. By the time I got back to work the new battery was toast as well! So I guess something got cooked in the phone. i'll be going back to the store after work to exchange the phone. Im not going to be able to remove CWM or go back to stock since it wont boot.... but they shouldnt care either since they wont be able to boot it as well.
I was playing TripleTown a very addicting game once you figure out exactly what you're suppose to do and my phone went completly un-responsive (couldn't even turn off the screen) so I had to wait then my screen shuts off me thinking the screen finally timed out but it had shut down then finally rebooted and I see my battery level went from 70% to 40% (as indicated in the picture) anybody know why this could of happened?
Oh, this is on GV 2.0
Sent from my VS910 4G using XDA
Mine did this the other day when it froze after a phone call. Mine dropped from about 65% to 4%. I rebooted it and it jumped back up.
wslguy said:
Mine did this the other day when it froze after a phone call. Mine dropped from about 65% to 4%. I rebooted it and it jumped back up.
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Sadly, mine didn't go back to normal once I rebooted thankfully I didn't need my phone for anything important.
Hmm... Not sure then. Are you on GV or updated to ZV8?
wslguy said:
Hmm... Not sure then. Are you on GV or updated to ZV8?
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GV tempted to go to ZV8 but not sure if I should take the time and steps to update to ZV8 and re-root and re-add CWM
Loooks like this is happening to everyone recently all at once. Its creating problems...
I had the same issue while surfing the web last week. Not sure why it happened.
I had this happen earlier today. An in progress call froze, phone said battery was dead. I power cycled and had 68% remaining. Anyone know what is causing this?
I have also been having this problem. For me it showed up along with many other bugs in the ZV8 update. I had never had the problem before then.
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I forgot to mention that the issue seems to have subsided after a factory reset. I haven't spent much time on the phone post-reset, but since I haven't seen the issue yet, it seems to have improved. I wouldn't recommend that kind of hassle to anyone unless it became a huge problem for them.