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Not sure if this is a problem with the captivate (Rogers I897) or if it's just a select few, but I noticed last night despite the usb charger being plugged in overnight, once the battery reported full, it stopped charging.
So basically, I got home from work, plugged in my captivate because the battery was rather low (only takes 24 hours of maybe 30 mins to 1h of actual usage before I get below 40%), and it took 4-5 hours to charge completely. When I unplugged it in the morning though, it was already down to 64% with just being idle all night.
So is this normal or should I ask for a replacement battery or something?
There are a lot of posts around here about batterirs dying quickly, and "charge death", but I'm not really sure whats going on with your phone. All I can suggest is that you make sure that you close all apps and stuff before letting it idle, and just see how that goes. I suppose you could just have a bad battery. Are you on a custom ROM or stock? I had problems with battery life when I first flashed to a custom rom, but since then I've switched to serendipity 4.3, I have it undervolted, I keep an eye out with a task manager, and my phone has no problems lasting all day, even while texting a good amount/using it for searches and stuff.
What ROM are you running?
Did you have GPS/Bluetooth/Wireless left on?
There are known issues with certain builds of ROM's causing this issue. If your on a stock ROM and still having this issue? I would take it in to possibly have it warrantied out or at least have the battery replaced.
I haven't ever had an issue with my phone losing a charge while plugged in.
Yeah, stock ROM. I haven't installed any additional task managers, but I usually open it up and kill all tasks when I'm finished with them.
I do keep bluetooth and GPS off at all times, but I leave wifi on overnight because I didn't think the battery would stop charging entirely once it was full. I've only had the phone a week so I could get it replaced, I just wanted to investigate it a bit to see if it's a common issue or not before I did that.
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Yeah, stock ROM. I haven't installed any additional task managers, but I usually open it up and kill all tasks when I'm finished with them.
I do keep bluetooth and GPS off at all times, but I leave wifi on overnight because I didn't think the battery would stop charging entirely once it was full. I've only had the phone a week so I could get it replaced, I just wanted to investigate it a bit to see if it's a common issue or not before I did that.
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Settings --> Mobile and Network --> Wifi Settings --> Advanced (soft key) --> When screen turns off
This would turn off wifi after 15 mins of inactivity. This would help save ur battery.
And yes, charge does get cut off when left for extended times, but not right after it says charge full.
Recalibrate your battery/battery stats. This is my method, there are many others though:
1. Charge the phone with the phone ON, until the phone indicates full battery
2. Unplug the charger, replug, continue charging until full battery again (I repeat this 2-3 times)
3. Turn off phone, charge until full battery
4. Unplug the charger, replug, continue charing until full battery again (Again, I repeat 2-3 times)
5. Turn on the phone, let the phone charge yet again.
6. Boot into Android Recovery, delete battery stats (Advance -> Wipe Battery Stats)
flash to firefly. over 24 hours of battery
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More like 36 for me! No lie either.
spaz2k7 said:
flash to firefly. over 24 hours of battery
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Recalibrate your battery/battery stats. This is my method, there are many others though:
1. Charge the phone with the phone ON, until the phone indicates full battery
2. Unplug the charger, replug, continue charging until full battery again (I repeat this 2-3 times)
3. Turn off phone, charge until full battery
4. Unplug the charger, replug, continue charing until full battery again (Again, I repeat 2-3 times)
5. Turn on the phone, let the phone charge yet again.
6. Boot into Android Recovery, delete battery stats (Advance -> Wipe Battery Stats)
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Cool, I'll try this, thanks!
By default, wifi does get turned off when the screen goes dark and I haven't changed it.
I've also been tring to flash to a new ROM (been trying Android 2.2), but Kies won't load my phone). I think I'll research other methods when I have time.
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Cool, I'll try this, thanks!
By default, wifi does get turned off when the screen goes dark and I haven't changed it.
I've also been tring to flash to a new ROM (been trying Android 2.2), but Kies won't load my phone). I think I'll research other methods when I have time.
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In most custom 9000 based ROMs, wifi is set to "never off" by default.
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In most custom 9000 based ROMs, wifi is set to "never off" by default.
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Ah! Didn't know that. I'm extremely new to this whole smartphone thing (just got mine a week ago) and haven't actually done any hardcore (stuff that requires flashing and whatnot) customizing yet.
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Ah! Didn't know that. I'm extremely new to this whole smartphone thing (just got mine a week ago) and haven't actually done any hardcore (stuff that requires flashing and whatnot) customizing yet.
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If u r not heavy on data and use it for things like mails and chats, and esp when in an area with no proper 3G coverage, u can switch to EDGE and get out of 3G. 3G sucks more battery compared to EDGE.
So I wasn't able to complete all the steps to kind of fix the battery problem, but I plugged it in to almost 100% (I think it was like 98% or something, I had to go out so I had to unplug it), but when I got back I plugged it in again and let it charge overnight. This morning however, it was still at 100%, and now, about 8.5 hours later, it's only at 73% so I think maybe it just had to normalize it.
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So I wasn't able to complete all the steps to kind of fix the battery problem, but I plugged it in to almost 100% (I think it was like 98% or something, I had to go out so I had to unplug it), but when I got back I plugged it in again and let it charge overnight. This morning however, it was still at 100%, and now, about 8.5 hours later, it's only at 73% so I think maybe it just had to normalize it.
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Give it some time to normalize. And charge showing 98% when unplugged at 100% is normal.
And yes, seeing 60% battery left after an hour of calls and tasks involving an hour plus of display on after a day's work, apart from push emails, etc (~14 hours standby) isn't so new anymore to me.
Stop watching the battery so closely for about a week and u'll be all set
I was on darkys 8.1 rom with jk4 modem, calibrated the battery one time and I went 18 hours. Starting from 98%
6 hours were phone calls, 1.5 hours of text messaging. 2 hours of power amp . The rest was pretty much just standby/idle time.
Though, I don't get that anymore though.. Jk4 has gone to **** for me. I used to get full signal majority of the time, and for places where other people go no bars, I got one or two. Now its pretty horrible it makes me sad ;(
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So earlier today my phone went from 90% to 15% charge instantly. I went to the Verizon store to see about a battery, obvious possible issue. They wanted to reset my phone to factory default but being rooted and on a custom rom, this would not work. Made some excuse about not loosing all my data, grabbed the phone and back to the office.
Imaged the system back to LG stock with root and removed CWM and all the sudden everything works fine. Its current at 65% charge. Before it would not charge over 15%.
Just thought I would share. Anyone else have an issue like this? It was completely random. Phone has been fine on revolt 1.0 for since it released, before that decrapped 1.0. odd that switching back made it work. The guy at verizon said that factory resets will often fix this issue...
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I had something like that happen, but my phone was running hot as well. It happened following a spontaneous reboot, the battery never able to charge as fast as it was discharging . I didn't get as far as you to test stock again for other reasons. Here was my thread as I tried to figure it out. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1216468
Well it is working fine now however I forgot to disable updating and it updated last night and I lost root...
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Well it is working fine now however I forgot to disable updating and it updated last night and I lost root...
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Hey are you online?
I'm Revolting and Home-Less, how about you?
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Hey are you online?
I'm Revolting and Home-Less, how about you?
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off and on. I am an IT guy so I am in and out of my office.
Welp it has happened again...
I am rooted on decrap 1.0 with CWM. Today it has run completely dead in under 5 hours with no usage. I am trying to charge it enough to get in so I can remove CWM before I take it to Verizon as the first thing they will want to do is factory reset it, only need 5 min so I can run revotoolkit.
This is the suck. While I like the phone I am also really starting to regret this phone.
Oddly enough it is charging normally. This battery sudden drain is weird.
I understand your frustration.....mine behaves that way occasionally too. Plus the spontaneous reboots are becoming more frequent as well
[I'm Revolting -- are you? Beamed directly into your brain by Revolt 1.3]
Diddo last week. So Squigs, suggested a data wipe. So I did it and flashed revolt. Well setting up the LG/Verizon stuff was a no go, so I went homeless. I did my initial set up, and then pushed the Revolt. I have been running golden now. I just wonder if there is a way to run 2 roms at the same time, or a double rom. Because my battery life was 4 hours before I did a system wipe, this info was via my battery widget, but when I wiped everything, I have 15 hours when I start my day. I had calibrated my battery prior to all of this as well.
That is the odd part about it, it works fine for a week or so then bam, the battery goes wonky... Then returns to normal, it seems after a battery pull.
That's no good. Sorry to hear it happened again. Running Decrap 1.1 and I haven't had it happen again yet *knock on wood*
I need to find what is eating up the resources. The phone says the android OS is eating over 64% of the battery and the phone is not being used.
Android OS on my phone generally uses close to 80 or 90% on my phone. With that I still got 12 hours yesterday on the stock battery before I was at 3% battery and plugged in. Try a data reset if you already haven't and if that doesn't work I would say you need either a new phone or battery.
My phone has done this multiple times. Once in a while ill get a text. It'll vibrate for 2 minutes with the screen off. Then reboot with 40% less battery
Little Buddy Sr.
MXFrodo195 said:
My phone has done this multiple times. Once in a while ill get a text. It'll vibrate for 2 minutes with the screen off. Then reboot with 40% less battery
Little Buddy Sr.
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So I ran it dead, charged to 100% and while still on charge ran a battery calibration app (as the app instructed) and I am back again getting 20+ hours on really light usage, 6 - 8 on moderate usage. This is weird. I have 2 upgrades on my other lines, I am really thinking about getting a bionic, reports are it gets exceptional battery life and then selling the revo.
Sigh... while not eating as bad it is still ripping through. I got 1 good day and now it is back. It has been off charger for just over and hour, no usage, and it is down 6% already. Frustrating.
recently experienced the same issue. had a random 2-3 day spurt where the battery was dead by noon.....then all of a sudden, it returned to normal. never did figure out why.
recently received a new phone (but same battery)....installed Home-Less....currently experiencing much better battery life.
from previous posts, sounds like you bought thru verizon......if not, and you bought thru best buy.....i think they will order you a new battery pretty much no questions asked.
After I got my replacement phone about a week ago, I downgraded, rooted, ran homeless battery was doing ok....well, just yesterday my battery when to crap again...just an hour and down to 70....i really wish I could figure out wtf...
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jphillips.hd88 said:
After I got my replacement phone about a week ago, I downgraded, rooted, ran homeless battery was doing ok....well, just yesterday my battery when to crap again...just an hour and down to 70....i really wish I could figure out wtf...
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I have reverted to stock rom with root. I am using Titanium Backup to freeze the bloatware to see if it has something to do with the modified ROMs. Crossing my fingers.
from my experience, the custom ROM actually helped my battery issues. my problems were encountered when i was un-rooted. what kills my battery the most is the fact that i work on the fringe of both 3g and 4g....causing the phone to constantly cycle between 3g/4g/1x. when i'm on straight 4g, i can last all day without a problem.
i'd be interested in hearing your results.
Hello, hope you can help, i have a moto x (1053) the problems is that the batterry remains in 1% for 20 or 30 minutes before it shut down. I tried charge it to 100 and then left the phone turn off but the same situation passes, 1% of the batterry for 20 or 30 minutes before it shut down. Im running T-mobile 4.4.3,
Program for calibrate battery did not work either. Anyone can give another thing to try.
Maybe a battery Problem? . GSAM says the battery duration its about 18 hours with 3:45 of active display.
Hi, see here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/moto-x/moto-x-qa/battery-suddenly-drops-t2533071
If it's a new one, wait for 3-4 full charge/discharge cycles.
This is a known problem. I've gone through over 40 cycles and still get the same 1% issue. Currently no fix available until Motorola release some sort of an update.
I've just opened a new case with Motorola regarding this issue.
They told me to hold down the power button and the vol down button for over 2 minutes then starting in normal mode. She said that this method forces a hardware reset of the processor and terminates all running commands.
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Hello, hope you can help, i have a moto x (1053) the problems is that the batterry remains in 1% for 20 or 30 minutes before it shut down. I tried charge it to 100 and then left the phone turn off but the same situation passes, 1% of the batterry for 20 or 30 minutes before it shut down. Im running T-mobile 4.4.3,
Program for calibrate battery did not work either. Anyone can give another thing to try.
Maybe a battery Problem? . GSAM says the battery duration its about 18 hours with 3:45 of active display.
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Guys....this is perfectly normal, and there is nothing wrong with it. I'm not understanding why you are even concerned!!!
Car manufacturers do the exact same thing. Your car shows "empty" long before you actually run out of gas. Why? They don't WANT you to run out of gas....
So why not warn you well ahead-of-time that you are about to lose your battery and shut down, possibly giving you time to find your charger and charge it up!
Why would anyone complain that their phone is taking too long to "die"? I don't get it. Also, this happens on my 10-month-old X too....and I sure do appreciate it (Thanks Motorola!!!), because it has prevented my phone from dying multiple times....
Besides: to the OP: you are getting 18+ hours battery life????? That's --EXCELLENT--!!!! Please don't worry about the 1% thing...
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Guys....this is perfectly normal, and there is nothing wrong with it. I'm not understanding why you are even concerned!!!
Car manufacturers do the exact same thing. Your car shows "empty" long before you actually run out of gas. Why? They don't WANT you to run out of gas....
So why not warn you well ahead-of-time that you are about to lose your battery and shut down, possibly giving you time to find your charger and charge it up!
Why would anyone complain that their phone is taking too long to "die"? I don't get it. Also, this happens on my 10-month-old X too....and I sure do appreciate it (Thanks Motorola!!!), because it has prevented my phone from dying multiple times....
Besides: to the OP: you are getting 18+ hours battery life????? That's --EXCELLENT--!!!! Please don't worry about the 1% thing...
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I completely agree.
Thank you!
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I bought a new Moto G 2nd gen a week back and I am experiencing this problem from a few days ago.
The battery reduces from 100% to 80% or 75% in minutes after unplugging from the wall socket. WiFi and data were turned off and the brightness was around 20%.
I asked around on the internet and the suggestion received was to calibrate the battery. Is this the solution or is it a battery problem?
The only best solution is to recalibrate your battery using apps found on playstore.....but this method requires ROOT which will cause a warranty void.
The only non NON ROOT method available is discussed on this site :- http://www.androidpit.com/how-to-calibrate-the-battery-on-your-android-device
Hopefully this should fix your battery......:good:
My suggestion would be to let battery run out of juice completely. Let it power off by itself, wait a few minutes and just connect the charger without turning the device on manually. Let it charge to 100%, turn the device on, and see if the issue persists.
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My suggestion would be to let battery run out of juice completely. Let it power off by itself, wait a few minutes and just connect the charger without turning the device on manually. Let it charge to 100%, turn the device on, and see if the issue persists.
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There's no offline charging on moto g 2014......this would not work.
zakee94 said:
There's no offline charging on moto g 2014......this would not work.
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Let me quote Monty Pythons argument-scene: YES THERE IS! (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQFKtI6gn9Y)
You can charge the Moto G offline without any trouble. The only times i see that this would not work is when the moto g is connected to the pc via usb. There seems to be some problems. But with a normal charger i never had any trouble to charge the moto g without turning it on.
Open up the battery menu & tap the battery graph.... What do you see? If there's any battery drain, you'll see a thick bar in the "awake" section... "WiFi" is on a lot or all the time? Since you got it a week ago, and assuming you aren't rooted, "scanning always available" is ticked in your WiFi settings. Untick it.
If you still have lots of drain, in that particular menu, check which app is eating a lot of battery... If its anything other than screen, phone or android system, *boom*, you found your culprit.
PS - All Moto phones (E, G, G2, X & X2) have a fast discharge between 100 to 80%, but it'll stay at 60-50% for hours on end (with usage).
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Let me quote Monty Pythons argument-scene: YES THERE IS! (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQFKtI6gn9Y)
You can charge the Moto G offline without any trouble. The only times i see that this would not work is when the moto g is connected to the pc via usb. There seems to be some problems. But with a normal charger i never had any trouble to charge the moto g without turning it on.
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Lol! I was confused....
aditya.upadhyaya said:
Open up the battery menu & tap the battery graph.... What do you see? If there's any battery drain, you'll see a thick bar in the "awake" section... "WiFi" is on a lot or all the time? Since you got it a week ago, and assuming you aren't rooted, "scanning always available" is ticked in your WiFi settings. Untick it.
If you still have lots of drain, in that particular menu, check which app is eating a lot of battery... If its anything other than screen, phone or android system, *boom*, you found your culprit.
PS - All Moto phones (E, G, G2, X & X2) have a fast discharge between 100 to 80%, but it'll stay at 60-50% for hours on end (with usage).
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The "scanning always available" is unticked and the graph shows only screen on taking 2% of the battery. I deleted any recent apps that i installed around the time the problem came to light. I am enclosing a screenshot of the battery discharge graph
SirRhor said:
My suggestion would be to let battery run out of juice completely. Let it power off by itself, wait a few minutes and just connect the charger without turning the device on manually. Let it charge to 100%, turn the device on, and see if the issue persists.
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Tried it. Didn't work at all. Battery drained by 13%. Also, the battery drains drastically during sleep time, even with battery saver on.
Bazingapunk98 said:
Tried it. Didn't work at all. Battery drained by 13%. Also, the battery drains drastically during sleep time, even with battery saver on.
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If note 3 than use L21 rom it is the best
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The "scanning always available" is unticked and the graph shows only screen on taking 2% of the battery. I deleted any recent apps that i installed around the time the problem came to light. I am enclosing a screenshot of the battery discharge graph
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That sudden drop in battery @ 9am.... That's not normal!! Check if you have Google Play Services running a LOT or something related to any other app. If nothing, replace your phone (hoping you haven't rooted and still have warranty)
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That sudden drop in battery @ 9am.... That's not normal!! Check if you have Google Play Services running a LOT or something related to any other app. If nothing, replace your phone (hoping you haven't rooted and still have warranty)
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Yes! Google Play Services is the most battery draining app other than Screen and Android System. What can be done about it?
Bazingapunk98 said:
Yes! Google Play Services is the most battery draining app other than Screen and Android System. What can be done about it?
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Use Dr.ketan L21 rom.
It is the best compared to rest.
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Bazingapunk98 said:
Yes! Google Play Services is the most battery draining app other than Screen and Android System. What can be done about it?
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Google Play Services can be dealt with only if its rooted....
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Google Play Services can be dealt with only if its rooted....
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I got rid of a few apps which seems to have done the job.I'm getting a full day of usage now The only thing left is that mobile standby takes a lot of juice when signal strength is low. It dive bombs sometimes during the day..
Hi,
it began a few days ago: after a complete charge, the battery stats stayed at 100% for a few hours and then began to drop.
Since then, every time it gets to 60% i know it is empty. The time it gets to 60% is about the normal discharge time and when hitting 60, the battery indicator gets red and shuts down the phone. It drives me crazy not to know the real stats since i travel a lot.
I tried wiping cache, it didn' work. I made a fresh re-install, it didn't work . I am on stock 5.1
What should i do?
Probably need to flash stock
PRKU said:
Hi,
it began a few days ago: after a complete charge, the battery stats stayed at 100% for a few hours and then began to drop.
Since then, every time it gets to 60% i know it is empty. The time it gets to 60% is about the normal discharge time and when hitting 60, the battery indicator gets red and shuts down the phone. It drives me crazy not to know the real stats since i travel a lot.
I tried wiping cache, it didn' work. I made a fresh re-install, it didn't work . I am on stock 5.1
What should i do?
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Try the fix mentioned here. Well known issue, you may have to RMA.
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Evolution_Freak said:
Try the fix mentioned here. Well known issue, you may have to RMA.
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Where? Thanks...
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Where? Thanks...
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Sorry
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=60439466