My friend just bought a new htc one, but battery life is simply rubbish, so i saw the battey usage. And bam 93% used by android. Being an android owner for 4 years i know its not right. How to fix such problem ?
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mhoss48 said:
My friend just bought a new htc one, but battery life is simply rubbish, so i saw the battey usage. And bam 93% used by android. Being an android owner for 4 years i know its not right. How to fix such problem ?
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I think that's just how HTC reports the usage, lots of things are rouped under the android system. Try using a battery monitor app to see what exactly is using up the battery
Like what app?
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I use GSam battery monitor or better battery stats
Tried the better battery stats. Turns out the setup was using 93%, dealt with it, next drive took 92%. Now i did a factory reset.
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Here you can get Better Battery Stats for free, i had the same issue one time,
Better Battery Stats helped me to find the issue. - My Battery was empty over night - and i didnt use it.
LINK: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1179809
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Using this on my O2x and went through all the calibration yesterday.
It's identifying my Genuine LG Battery as 1064mAh.
Surely this can't be right??
Although this might explain why the battery has been draining faster that normal for the past couple of weeks.
Is this plausable and is it possible my battery is on it's way out??
Try. Full charge and discharge it will show 1500
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That's what I did on this battery.
I ran it down to 1%. charged it back up overnight and it showed 1064mAh
Mine says 70%, 4014mV...hhmmmm. will wait till it gets 100% and see what the battery will be.
waynefox said:
Using this on my O2x and went through all the calibration yesterday.
It's identifying my Genuine LG Battery as 1064mAh.
Surely this can't be right??
Although this might explain why the battery has been draining faster that normal for the past couple of weeks.
Is this plausable and is it possible my battery is on it's way out??
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I think you can manually set it
First time poster long time reader.
I recently got a Brand New 4000mAh Extended Battery + Back Cover For Motorola Droid Bionic XT875 from ebay.
The battery works great! But when I charge it it charges to 100% then jumps down to 80% and back up to 100% constantly. When it discharges it takes about a half hour to drain down to 1% and it stays there until it is dead (about 12 hours later). I've tried wipeing the battery stats and useing the battery calibration app and nothing works.
Again the battery works fine its just an inconvenience to not see how charged it is.
Any ideas? Thanks!
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I had an almost identical issue with I got my phone with the standard battery. The phone would charge to 40% and stay there. The next morning it still said 40% and stayed there until it died (14 hours later). I did a factory reset and that took care of it.
I've tried a factory restore and still nothing. I think the problem might be that I switch between extended battery and stock battery sometimes and it's confusing the phone. I have no idea what to try next.
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swells93 said:
I've tried a factory restore and still nothing. I think the problem might be that I switch between extended battery and stock battery sometimes and it's confusing the phone. I have no idea what to try next.
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Hmmmm swells93,
I don't know if this will help at all but my last droid (the very first one with slide keyboard) I would switch back and forth with standard battery to extended and my phone always recognized each just fine so I cant imagine that the Bionic would give you problems. I have heard of others on this forum using the standard batter as a backup and they seem to have no problems with the battery meter recognizing the battery level. Try calling customer support?
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I got an X2 and got the extended battery. Mine is messing up too. Mine gets half as much life as my stock battery did.
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I have purchased extended batteries on ebay before, ones even labeled "OEM" that were fake crap, and just would not hold a charge. I have learned basically to stay away from the chinese battery sellers, and be real skeptical about the rest.
Brower facebook and tapatalk for about 20 minutes nothing else. Dropped 8% . I also killed my battery yesterday watching a movie and playing a game took a total of 3 hours. What do you guys think.
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let your battery cycle a few times, this phone rivals my iphone 5's battery life, pretty amazing never had a phone before that did that.
No, if it dies that fast then it's user error.
Install betterbatterystats and look for wakelocks.
HRodMusic said:
let your battery cycle a few times, this phone rivals my iphone 5's battery life, pretty amazing never had a phone before that did that.
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How do I cycle?
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horr1blek1tten said:
How do I cycle?
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let it go from 100 to 0 a few times, when i first got the phone my battery was pretty bad but after a couple weeks im getting 20+hours on a single charge =D
There's no need to cycle with li-ion or li-po batteries. In fact it's explicitly bad for your battery to run it down to 0.
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Jme369 said:
There's no need to cycle with li-ion or li-po batteries. In fact it's explicitly bad for your battery to run it down to 0.
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well sir, link me up with a valid source stating that.
HRodMusic said:
well sir, link me up with a valid source stating that.
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I'm confused what to do here. One of you guys tells me to cycle and the other says theres no need.
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Jme369 said:
There's no need to cycle with li-ion or li-po batteries. In fact it's explicitly bad for your battery to run it down to 0.
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Running your battery from 100% to 0% is useful in recalibrating the battery in the event of cell mismatches, which can happen over time.
horr1blek1tten said:
I'm confused what to do here. One of you guys tells me to cycle and the other says theres no need.
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u need to calibrate your battery like the guy above said by using your phone for a few days
horr1blek1tten said:
I'm confused what to do here. One of you guys tells me to cycle and the other says theres no need.
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Here's a very good post for information about li-ion / lithium polymer batteries:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=40596097&postcount=3
You generally shouldn't need to recalibrate the battery on a new phone (since it's a new battery), but it doesn't hurt if you think your battery may be mis-calibrated. (for example, your phone sits at 0% battery for long amounts of time) Do you have any apps that monitor wakelocks on your phone?
i was complaining my battery was crap yesterday. iv gained 1 hour in battery since yesterday.
GSam reported 9hours 24mins avg battery yesterday. I cycled it once since then and today its showing 10 hours 38mins avg.
Hoping for further improvements.
The phone needs to know where empty and full battery is. I've always calibrated mine by fully charging and killing at least twice with every phone I've owned and had no il effects and got much better battery life afterwards.
So do I calibrate or cycle? If so, how do I do that? Im fully stock and the only battery app I have is the battery guru made for snapdragon devices. Idk if that's what's killing my battery.
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It does no harm to run the battery to 0% occasionally, but the advice i have seen is to try to not run li-ion / li-po batteries below 10% too often as that can shorten their life.
For a new device i would run it down to around 10% with normal use, then give it a real long charge till it indicates fully charged, then unplug it and wait a minute or so then plug it back in and leave it on charge another couple of hours to make sure it is fully 100% charged.
After you have done this whole procedure maybe 3 times, you should have a properley conditioned battery. My HTC One is usually at 50% or better after a 12 hour working day, so i am more than happy with the battery life.
HRodMusic said:
well sir, link me up with a valid source stating that.
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You are totally wrong I am afraid. LiON and LiPO batteries do not have memories and neither like a complete discharge/recharge cycle. The rule is 'a little and often' as far as charging is concerned.
Here is a link to an article which will explain further http ://batteryuniversity.com/learn/article/how_to_prolong_lithium_based_batteries
proctologist said:
You are totally wrong I am afraid. LiON and LiPO batteries do not have memories and neither like a complete discharge/recharge cycle. The rule is 'a little and often' as far as charging is concerned.
Here is a link to an article which will explain further http ://batteryuniversity.com/learn/article/how_to_prolong_lithium_based_batteries
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They do NOT have memory effect like nickel-based batteries, but they CAN suffer from cell mismatches which require re-calibration (aka fully charging, discharging, and recharging).
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They do NOT have memory effect like nickel-based batteries, but they CAN suffer from cell mismatches which require re-calibration (aka fully charging, discharging, and recharging).
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exactly!
Basically just use your phone for about a week, then you can start fixing it
My experience and questions
Thanks for this excellent post! I got my new HTC One day before yesterday and like the Vincent's post says, the phone had about 40-50% of charge when it came in the box. I was very excited to see the phone that I totally forgot about recalibration of the battery
I used the phone out of the box, and I have charged from 2 nights (from about 15% to 100% charge) and haven't run the battery the battery down to 0% yet (when I say 0% what I mean is the level of charge when the phone automatically turns itself off to protect from complete discharge). My questions below:
1) What should I do now to accurately calibrate my battery life? When I called HTC customer service today they asked me to do battery reset (steps below).
- Untick the quick boot under settings -> power
- Turn off the phone
- Hold down the volume up, volume down and the power button continuously for 1 minute (the phone seem to boot up and shut down 3-4 times during this process)
- Run your battery all the way down to 0% and then charge it fully to 100%
This seems to be a fair procedure but since it was told by customer service, I'm a bit skeptical. So I would very much love to hear some opinion of battery gurus here
2) Does the 2 night charging that I did affect my battery capacity (has the dent been made already)?
Please let me know, and thanks in advance!
PS. The battery life in my experience in the past 2 days has been decent (I have about 20% from 7am - 9pm) and I'm a moderate-heavy user!
I recently bought my s3 new and i'm disappointed in the batterylife.
Yesterday I fully charged my fone before i went to work and put it unused in my pocket and by break time more then 68% of my battery was gone i had only 32% left of battery life.
In total my fone used up to 90% off batterylife without being used. Anyone any ideas???
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rayenvs said:
I recently bought my s3 new and i'm disappointed in the batterylife.
Yesterday I fully charged my fone before i went to work and put it unused in my pocket and by break time more then 68% of my battery was gone i had only 32% left of battery life.
In total my fone used up to 90% off batterylife without being used. Anyone any ideas???
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Millions of battery posts on here read them for fixes .
First is to buy Better Battery Stats and run that for a day looking for wakelocks .
jje
See these links can help 1,2,3
JJEgan said:
Millions of battery posts on here read them for fixes .
First is to buy Better Battery Stats and run that for a day looking for wakelocks .
jje
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You can find an alternative for Better battery stats and look for wakelock.
About the battery, after you found your wakelock and stop't them you will love it.
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You can't find an alternative for Better battery stats
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you mean you CAN?
I Had the same issue with mine. Couldn't find anything causing the drain. In the end I got the samsung 3000mah battery and cover. A little bit thicker and heavier but man does the battery last way longer
Same here can't find the root of the problem
Got a external charger...
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My battery life sucked till I installed boeflla v12.7a beta. I used to run out of battery each day with every other kernel I tried.
I'm now on v12 stable and battery life is still great. I have undervolted cpu and gpu by 0.25v and using pegasusq moderate governor.
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Hi
I bought the Motorola Razr I yesterday, I been using it all day today.
But the battery is abnormally short. It drops very fast min 10% per hour to 27% per hour. I don't think this is normal for a new phone. The battery temperature is 38°c on normal use.
Am I using the phone wrong or did I get a faulty phone?.
I have nfc on all the time until 23% but after that I turned off nfc to see if that was the problem but it didn't seem to be.
I can get screen captures if needed.
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you need some circles from full to down then you will se the real power.
but the battery with stock rom is not so great as with the custom rom from omar or max.
i dont think your battery is faulty give it some tryes!
and at least you csn not easy change the battery by yourself
regards
xiaokai said:
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I bought the Motorola Razr I yesterday, I been using it all day today.
But the battery is abnormally short. It drops very fast min 10% per hour to 27% per hour. I don't think this is normal for a new phone. The battery temperature is 38°c on normal use.
Am I using the phone wrong or did I get a faulty phone?.
I have nfc on all the time until 23% but after that I turned off nfc to see if that was the problem but it didn't seem to be.
I can get screen captures if needed.
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You might wanna figure out what is actually draining your battery. Search XDA for 'better battery stats' and install it. When your phone is not beeing used it should stay in deep sleep for most of the time, if not, check wakelocks to see whats keeping it from sleeping. For me it was mostly Google Now which caused the drain.
ok so the more i use the battery the better results i may get?
One of the reasons i bought this phone was because of the review on battery life e.g. http://www.techradar.com/reviews/phones/mobile-phones/motorola-razr-i-1098183/review/9
Now i have done a wipe of cache and data, did a factory reset. Charged from 10% to 100%. Getting the last few % is hard, this morning i woke up and it was still 99%. Went back after 1 hour to check it was 99% and dropped to 98% while the phone is off and charging.
Once its 100% again i will install the better battery stats as 696 suggested and post my results.
In my pretty long android experience this happens all the time with new phones, after updates.. You can do anything you want (cleaning cache, restart, etc), but it gets finally better by itself after a couple of days.
Don't ask me why, but it works like that.
Battery life of Razr i is excellent, best of all phones (incl iphones) I ever had!
Good luck and have some patience - so simple is that!
Recommended is to charge the new Phone full, before you turn it on the first time. A lil bit patience is needed, but that should help to avoid stuff like this.
And as the Guy above already posted, the battery will calibrate during daily use. It's the same, when you flash or update an Rom. You'll see the "real battery drain" first after a couple of Charges. And don't wipe battery stats in CWM, that's useless.
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And also try disabling Google Now (search for that if you don't know how).
My phone never hits 100% on charve all day stuck at 98 or 99%
jutley said:
My phone never hits 100% on charve all day stuck at 98 or 99%
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I have the same problem phone never gets to 100% it was going to 98% but this morning it was at 97%, thinking of sending it back as it only three weeks old...it should have come right a this stage.
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Did you manage to get to the bottom of the question?
I bought my Razr i 3 weeks ago, I had high expectations about the battery, but the battery only lasts about one day and half, is this normal? I am not a heavy user.
Cheers