Hi
From couple days I have strange problem. When I use my phone, screen starts to get brighter and brighter and after that, some thin brighter horizontal lines start to blink all over. Next what is happening- screen freezes or goes black so I have to restart phone. After that battery goes drastically very low - from almost full to less than 15% (sometimes even 1%) and after that everything repeats: 1% - bright lines- phone restart by it self or freezes. I am using custom roms and kernels, but alwas had cpu set max 1200mhz to save battery.
What is wrong? Is it the battery or something else?
battery.
Thanks. So I think that I will going to buy some battery with bigger capacity as my christmas present.
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In addition to my other issues, refer to thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/viewtopic.php?t=43272 (ERROR: ITWriteDisk - An internal error occurred), I have noticed that battery meter on my 8125 flashed to the the imate aku2 rom, is always at 100%. I'm unsure whether this will effect charging since when I plug in the charger, the led turns green immediately and stops charging, and I have had the device turned on for 4 or 5 hours disabling all the power saving features, leaving the backlight on, turned on BT and wifi, and its still at 100%... either its a great battery, or somethings screwy.
small update.
after about 5 hours the battery meter started to drop quickly. Although this is good, the problem that comes up for the first 5 hours, you cannot charge the device as it thinks the battery is full.
Am I the only one experiencing this?
same here.... after 24 hours battery meter droped from 100 to 94
bafore it was 90 after 24 hours
maybe they improved something.. thats why it does not go so fast as before
I think it is the fact that the new rom seems to be much better with power consumption. I am getting almost a 50% gain between charges due to my pattern of usage!!! Very happy!
I'm more then happy at the battery improvement, what I am not happy about is that if this is a bug (granted there is improvement), the problem becomes when charging the phone, so I have it for 12 hours, its still showing 100%, I have an offsite meeting the next day, and would not be able to charge the phone for the entire day, the battery will start to drop very fast since the phone thought it was fully charged, when it really was not... I'm confusing myself here, but I think you understand what I am saying.
Also, while my battery was at 84%, I did a soft reset, when the phone came back up, it showed 100% battery and refused to charge... this is a problem.
You might want to inquire about a replacement device or battery - in case it's not the sotware.
My laptop has this issue. It's always been on external power and somehow that's weirded out the control circuit telling the machine how full the battery is. It will read 100%, but it's actually at 75%. Then if I disconnect it, it will go down to 5% in 8 minutes. However, it will happily run for 3 hours+ on that last 5%. Similarly, if I hook it back up to the charger, it goes to 99% (leaving the battery indicator light amber) in another 8 minutes. Takes many hours more for it to get back to 100% (making the battery indicator light blue).
With any luck the control circuit will be in the battery (I believe it is), and the easiest way to check is to exchange your battery for a temporary new one and see if the problem goes away.
Bebbo said:
I think it is the fact that the new rom seems to be much better with power consumption. I am getting almost a 50% gain between charges due to my pattern of usage!!! Very happy!
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Agreed.
If you think your battery is stuck - just do this little test.
Turn on Bluetooth, WiFi, make a GPRS connection, and set back light at 100% and don't let them turn off or let the unit power off. The battery should drain pretty quickly in this senario.
I thought mine was stuck, but it dropped 5% in less than 10 min in this mode.
FYI,
JB
I'm not so sure its the battery.. another issue that I just noticed, is taht even though the backlight is turning off, the screen itself is not turning off after the designated time I set...... this is rather bothersome as if I forgot to manually turn off the screen.. it remains on constantly.
Even with my original Qtek 9100 EN ROM, the screen doesn't turn off - only backlight. If you want the screen to be off, you'd need to go to Standby, or use a third party utility to turn the screen entirely off.
Although lithium batteries are best kept at a full charge, they should be periodically drained to recalibrate the fuel gauge.
http://www.batteryuniversity.com/parttwo-34.htm
I was also having this problem but after about 2 days use it began to go down. My G3 device seemed to hang at 100% and drop quickly after it hits 25%. I believe this must be a hardware issue as I now have a G4 (setup identically to the G3) and it does not have this issue.
i am having the same issue but i believe it the battery because my phone 8 months old and if you read the battery thread it has all the same issues your having
Hey all,
I took my N1 out of the charger 5 hours ago. I checked 1 website, that took like 1min. I've been voicecalling for 25min and 4s (had the speaker active for 4 minutes). That's all I've done with my phone. All the other time it's been idle with it set to use 2G only to save battery (I'm in an area where 3g is weak, so it keeps switching, and I heard that kills battery quite a bit, so that's why I set it to 2G only, correct me if I'm wrong on that).
Now my phone only has 15% of battery left.
I can't imagine this is normal, so my question is: Is this normal? If not, what % of battery should I have left normally after 25min of voicecalling?
Thanks in advance.
Rico
Do you have any background apps that are refreshing a lot? What's the screen setting while on a call (how long for the screen to turn off), does the screen stay ton while on speakerphone? Are you sure you were at 100% when removed from the charger? GPS? bluetooth?
No idea how the battery couod drain that quickly without at least a couple of these things being some sort of a role.
Sorry, forgot to mention those things.
- No things running in background. Just mail checking once every hour.
- GPS is on, but normally that doesnt drain my battery at all, can leave my phone idle for 12 hours and still have 80% or more left.
- Screen is on auto adjust, and it wasnt bright at all while I was using it, when i normally use my screen I can use it for at least 2+ hours before battery is at 30% or less.
- Screen was on during the speaker, but that was only 4min. The screen does go off when I'm calling without the speaker on.
- Yes it was at 100%, I'm 100% sure.
- Bluetooth is off, wifi was also off.
I've had problems with the phone draining during phonecalls with the same length of talk time.
That, or playing movies/youtube, but i can understand why that would happen.
What ROM are you using?
After i switched to the undervolted CyanMod Rom, it helped with battery length.
I'm running the stock ROM with update 1.
As an extra note, I tried to start the camera, but it didn't want to start. Not even after multiple tries.
I don't know if that has anything to do with this problem.
I've been posting here as well, there's some extra information as well: google.com/support/forum/p/android/thread?tid=3b2399fce53a8f2a&hl=en
run your battery completely dead... like when your phone turns off open the boot loader and just kill the thing till you cant even get the boot loader to come up...
take the battery out wait a few seconds to make sure all the extra juice has discharged in the phone and put it back in...
start charging again and dont turn it on until it is fully charged (green light should show up and then wait smore after that)
Yesterday I noticed that I could not turn on the phone. I had to hold the power button for several seconds to reboot the phone. Today I looked at the battery details and saw a gap. I did not turn off the phone and it did not reboot by itself (since I didn't have to unlock my SIM card). I just rebooted once because I changed the DPI from 320 to 240, but I don't assume that would cost so much battery. I'm on a stock ICS ROM (4.0.3 / rooted).
Any ideas what could cause this?
The explanation in ficticeous battery charge measurement on all current devices. The battery charge is a estimate, not something measured with 1% precission. After the reboot the software interprets the current battery voltage differently.
You can see that effect on phones, laptops and anything powered by batteries.
The same goes for another question from other user this morning, battery % drops faster once you go below 50%. Yes, this is normal in many devices, and has the same explanation, the phone has no way to measure the battery power left, it just guesses from the battery voltage, and the curve changes with the power ussage, temperature, etc....
The gap appears when u restart ur phone
Hi,
I've charged my phone this night to 100%. I've gone on the bus and played Defense of Lushington Springs (tower defense) for about 30 minutes.
It burned about 50% which is a lot but I've seen these kind of burns before on some games. Phone was warm but not hot.
Then i opened Trial X3 (bike game) and played a level or two. The screen started flickering and Note's screen turned black. I've taken
the battery out and restarted it. It showed 1%. I've turned it off and waited for a while, turned it on again and it was on 50% again.
Later it also started flickering and crashed, this time it went back to 9% but then to 1% again.
Now this kind of behaviour clearly isn't normal, I'd just like to know if this is likely to be caused by the ROM, TrialX (lushngton springs did burn trough the battery but it was at least stable) or hardware (battery?). Note that i've tried TrialX before, like 20 levels at a time and it worked.
Battery levels: http://bayimg.com/HAJMIAaeE
My setup:
Note (of course)
ROM: AngrY by RevengeDevTeam V3 - 4.1.2
KERNEL: Philz touch 3.95
If it's ROM related (or perhaps even if it's not) I'd appreciate some info on which ROM would burn less battery and still be functional.
Thanks in advance
*bump*
I've tried Alliance ROM now and it seems to work a bit better. Battery drain is still big and it seems to flicker when stressed.
Also it recharges a bit quickly, so is it a faulty battery? Also battery levels go up when it's idle.
Sorry for double posting but this is hindering my phone quite severely.
Any help apreciated.
0bj4ct7
First, when I charge my phone, it takes a lot to reach 100%, when is almost to 91% or 94% it jumps to 100%, then, in just 2 minutes it drop to 91% and then the use of the battery becomes normal (so weird, and the battery is new)
But thats not a real problem (just annoying cuz I want a normal battery consumption, and this is the first phone that I have with that problem), so, like I said, the problem is that when Im charging the phone, if it is almost full and I use it (and still charging of course) sometimes the screen gets freeze, a lot of weird lines appears, the brightness start to increase a lot, and then the phone just restart and when it finally boot I can see that the battery drops to 80-84%
I dont know whats the problem but sometimes I want to just get a new phone :S (but I have no money lol)