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Hey guys.I just got my Xperia X1 and I noticed that even if I charged my phone to 100% after I unplug the cable (I use my USB cable to charge it) that battery meter goes to 95% the second I unplug it.If I send a text or two it will go lower.By the end of the day it will be around 50-60% left.I tried looking for a fix about that but nothing came up.
Is that a common problem for the X1?BTW the phone is brand new and the battery is the original one that came with the phone.
Thank you in advance
First I think you must charge your (new?) battery at least ten times to get full capacity. Secondly I think I remember there's a way to calibrate the battery. Look in settings or even better the manual or perhaps best, search the forums.
GL,A.D
Thank you for your answer.I checked the forum but not much came up about recalibration.I checked the phones settings and I can't find anything about batery calibration
are you on a stock rom or a custom one?
also if you leave your xperia plugged in once it reaches 100% i believe it simply stops charging, so the moment you unplug it you "real" battery percentage!
No I am using a custom ROM.I always unpluged the phone when it says full next to the battery metter.
thats why I don't like charging via USB - it's unreliable and slow, always was
if someone knows how to solve that with a recalibration pls tell
I think its a problem of usb charging. I get this problem when I charge my phone with usb. I havent had this problem on charger. Maybe you usb is a bit lower voltage, so the battery isnt fully charged, but its not charging anymore so the percentage is set to 100% and rapidly decreases after short usage.
I think if you use a charger and do charge your batter a few times full with charger, the memory effect should go away.
Just correcting lpgsk, it's not the voltage, but the electric current of the USB. If I'm not wrong the charger has a 500mA current.
charger output 700mA @ 5v
My suggestion is, if you have to charge it on USB, you should charge it when its off. The charging current should he higher since part of the energy wont be used to keep mobile standby. Therefor it should be able to get more power to battery.
2nd option, buy USB mini Y-cable. It is 1 miniUSB -> 2 USB cable. So you put the other end to 2 USB slots for more power.
like this:http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/USB-A-Male-to-Mini-5-Pin-Y-Cable-for-external-hard-Disk_W0QQitemZ330414581897QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_Computing_USB_Cables?hash=item4cee3e6889
this could help, but no waranty it would
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Thank you for your answer.I checked the forum but not much came up about recalibration.I checked the phones settings and I can't find anything about batery calibration
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It must have been my memory who failed me this time. I can't find any way to calibrate battery either. Sorry for that!
Saw that you're running on a custom rom so I guess the phone is not brand new. Question raised is, how old is the battery?
Searched Ebay for whatever to my x2 and found the batteries (same in X1/X2) damn cheap (fakes or not). Why not buy a new battery and test?
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It must have been my memory who failed me this time. I can't find any way to calibrate battery either. Sorry for that!
Saw that you're running on a custom rom so I guess the phone is not brand new. Question raised is, how old is the battery?
Searched Ebay for whatever to my x2 and found the batteries (same in X1/X2) damn cheap (fakes or not). Why not buy a new battery and test?
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Hey there.The phone was brand new when I got it.It came with the standard WM 6.5 I just installed a new ROM.I tried charging via the wall charger and it seems that the battery lasts WAY longer then charging throw the USB cable.
Thanks a lot guys
PS:One thing (has nothing to do with the battery but I don't want a new thread for that).All my received text messages are with a different time then my phone.I would say around 3-5 hours difference.I searched online and I found more people with this problem but I cannot find a fix for it.Any suggestions?
Thanks again to all of you that answered
Anyone??!!
I 've lost my original charge.so I have to use an Ipod charger to instead it.
But the phone seems very hot every time charging. What shoud I do now?
In additional, the battery drained so much. It took 4 minutes to lose 1% battery.I 'be bought the phone for 6 months,so why does it drain battery so bad?
Please help me and forgive for my bad in English.
2 options:
1) Your battery is fried.
2) Something is running on your phone that causes it to drain battery (forgot GPS app running in the background or something?), which is also the reason for heating up.
How can I know that my battery was fried? Example like how many mAh are there in my Batt?
I was looking for BatteryDetective (like in my friend 's iPhone 3GS) but it is no avalible for my device.
Also,how to check what was running in background? GPS is alway turns off when charging,certainly
I turned off the phone and charged.and it was still hot,but not much as when the phone turn on
In general, using a different charger won't damage your phone. Apple chargers are often capable of supplying more current than other chargers (for example, 2100mA rather than 1000mA), but the phone will only draw as much current as it needs. As long as the charger is supplying proper, in-spec voltage, you shouldn't see any difference. Your phone is probably getting hotter because it can draw more power from the iPod charger than your old charger, and can now charge the battery faster. I wouldn't worry about it unless the heat is causing problems. Cheap, off-brand chargers sometimes don't supply proper 5V, so don't buy crappy chargers.
Your battery discharge rate is a separate problem. You can check what's been using battery power in Settings|About Phone|Battery use. In my world, Display, Wi-Fi, Cell Standby, and Phone Idle are usually the top items. Checking the wear level of a regulated LiOn battery is kind of annoying; they're cheap enough I just replace them every year or so (500 cycles is a pretty good lifetime).
Thank you very much !
Are there any app like BatteryDetective for android? I 'd like to know how many mAh of my battery
Since I got my HTC One Black, I have always thought it was fairly fast to discharge and really slow to re-charge.
In a normal day my phone will go from 100% to about 30% over 15 hours, with pretty minimal use, 1 or 2 quick calls, 4 or 5 texts and that is about it - does that sound right for discharge battery speed?
As for recharge, well this morning at 10am it was on 29% so i plugged in the charger, 3 hours later (1pm) without the phone being used at all it is on 64%. At that rate it would take from about 10am until about 5/6pm to charge from 29% to 100%, 6 hours for a 2/3rds battery recharge seems like along time to me.
Do your HTC Ones take this long or do i maybe have a phone problem?
Thanks
Update at 3pm it is now at 79%.
download gsam-battery-monitor, use your htc one for one day and post a screenshot.. also check your wakelocks with wakelock-detector..
Keep in mind the One is picky about its chargers. If you're not using the official HTC charger and cable that came with the phone, there's a decent chance it's reducing the milliamperage reaching the battery. Presumably HTC wants to protect the battery from overcharging or unstable voltage from 3rd party chargers, since the battery is not replaceable. When I first got the One, I noticed it was charging slow with my old Galaxy S3 charger and high capacity iPad charger. Battery Monitor Widget confirmed what I was experiencing; I was getting 300-400 mAh out of my 1000 mAh and 2100 mAh non-HTC chargers. Once I plugged in the stock HTC charger, the amperage reaching the battery drastically increased. There are some 3rd party USB cables that can cause slow charging also.
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Keep in mind the One is picky about its chargers. If you're not using the official HTC charger and cable that came with the phone, there's a decent chance it's reducing the milliamperage reaching the battery. Presumably HTC wants to protect the battery from overcharging or unstable voltage from 3rd party chargers, since the battery is not replaceable. When I first got the One, I noticed it was charging slow with my old Galaxy S3 charger and high capacity iPad charger. Battery Monitor Widget confirmed what I was experiencing; I was getting 300-400 mAh out of my 1000 mAh and 2100 mAh non-HTC chargers. Once I plugged in the stock HTC charger, the amperage reaching the battery drastically increased. There are some 3rd party USB cables that can cause slow charging also.
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It is the original charger.
are you on a stock rom or not?
some programs/apps/widgets you installed might do this
if nothing is working for you try factory re-setting your phone and use it without installing any new apps and monitor the battery consumption-charging behaviour
Dr.Jamil said:
are you on a stock rom or not?
some programs/apps/widgets you installed might do this
if nothing is working for you try factory re-setting your phone and use it without installing any new apps and monitor the battery consumption-charging behaviour
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It is stock ROM 4.2.2 and there are very few extra apps etc.
I went through the apps list via settings and disabled loads of things, like facebook, twitter, playbooks, playmags etc. etc. I also have started using power saver with reduce screen brightness and save cpu power selected and the battery life now seems a lot better having only lost about 20% of power today rather than 70%.
Dont know if charging will be any faster though, will plug it in now and see how much charge it gets in 2 hours.
I've noticed the same issue with using other chargers. My question is, is there a car charger that would be able to properly charge it?
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I've noticed the same issue with using other chargers. My question is, is there a car charger that would be able to properly charge it?
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Don't hijack my thread, post your own question and don't change the subject matter of someone else's thread!!!
OK so I am running Trickdroid 9.1 with ElementalX kernel set to fast charging. I also have a specialist fast charging USB cable (no data). The car charger supposedly outputs 2.1 amps (at least one each port and I am only using one).
So basically before I found out about AC charge mode my battery was draining out when running NavFree app. Even when I changed to fast charge mode with an older (thin) USB data cable it was losing charge when running NavFree. Which is why I got the fast charge cable.
Now it seems to retain it's charge when running the app. At least it does not drain. However it never seems to charge either. It was on 78% charge and stayed like that throughout a 10 mile test journey. Using Battery Monitor Widget it shows that it never rose much over 600mA usage. But mostly used a lot less and sometimes dawdled around the trickle charge values.
Is there a reason why it won't charge up the battery whilst running an app like NavFree at the same time?
Start here:
http://forums.androidcentral.com/htc-one/312162-frustrated-charging-htc-one-car.html
I will offer that if you don't have power saver on that ROM you're probably SOL.
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bbinder said:
Start here:
http://forums.androidcentral.com/htc-one/312162-frustrated-charging-htc-one-car.html
I will offer that if you don't have power saver on that ROM you're probably SOL.
Sent from my HTC One using Tapatalk 4
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Yes power saver mode is on. thanks for the link I am reading through it. So far it seems the HTC sucks on car chargers (but doesn't draw enough or if it does causes battery overheating issues if in a warm climate or have heating on).
The best results for me have been making sure you are using AC charging and have power save mode on. If I use that method my phone charges but it's a slow process.
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Now it seems to retain it's charge when running the app. At least it does not drain. However it never seems to charge either. It was on 78% charge and stayed like that throughout a 10 mile test journey. Using Battery Monitor Widget it shows that it never rose much over 600mA usage. But mostly used a lot less and sometimes dawdled around the trickle charge values.
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It will draw *up to* 1A, but only when mostly discharged. Try it with, say, 20% charge, you should get higher current.
Once the battery hits around 4.3V, charging changes from constant current to constant voltage; the current drops.
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It will draw *up to* 1A, but only when mostly discharged. Try it with, say, 20% charge, you should get higher current.
Once the battery hits around 4.3V, charging changes from constant current to constant voltage; the current drops.
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Which is a terrible algorithm when you want your phone charged to max when driving using satnav apps. I want my phone to get a full charge on a journey. Not be down to 78% or lower at the end of it. I may need the phone for the next couple of days without being able to charge it.
Hi all, I have never experienced this kind of wierd issue with any of my past phones. When i would play games or say watch a movie on phone,( my last one was Htc One X), i would usually connect it to a charger so that the battery keeps charging slowly, and it worked with each of my past and even my gf's galaxy s4. But with XZ, the battery keeps continuously discharging. Anyone got any fix for this? With the kind of weak battery XZ has, it is a highly needed basic feature. I even tried with a 2A S4 charger, but to no effect. I even tried the modding of usb cable by shorting the data wires (the green and the white wire cut and insulated), still no improvement.
I have been using existenz v1.5.5 kk, and i can see that there is an option of fast charge in performance control. But turning it on doesnt make any change. Does the kernel not support fast-charge?Can anyone share any insights? It feels stupid to have to lay the phone down letting it to charge by itself olny to get all discharged within 3 hours.
billamin said:
Hi all, I have never experienced this kind of wierd issue with any of my past phones. When i would play games or say watch a movie on phone,( my last one was Htc One X), i would usually connect it to a charger so that the battery keeps charging slowly, and it worked with each of my past and even my gf's galaxy s4. But with XZ, the battery keeps continuously discharging. Anyone got any fix for this? With the kind of weak battery XZ has, it is a highly needed basic feature. I even tried with a 2A S4 charger, but to no effect. I even tried the modding of usb cable by shorting the data wires (the green and the white wire cut and insulated), still no improvement.
I have been using existenz v1.5.5 kk, and i can see that there is an option of fast charge in performance control. But turning it on doesnt make any change. Does the kernel not support fast-charge?Can anyone share any insights? It feels stupid to have to lay the phone down letting it to charge by itself olny to get all discharged within 3 hours.
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Charging is really a problem for XZ. Anyways, shorting the data wires won't help, try switch to a stronger cable that's capable of transferring larger amount of electricity when you're using the 2A charger (many of those cables aren't able to transfer enough amount of electricity).
Also, when your phone is really fully loaded and became very hot, just as when you use it for navigation in your car under the sun, the charging speed will decrease (I don't even know why). The charging speed decreases either when you're touching the screen or when it's hot.
Anyways, try better cables first and see if it helps. The docking system is also likely to charge faster.
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Charging is really a problem for XZ. Anyways, shorting the data wires won't help, try switch to a stronger cable that's capable of transferring larger amount of electricity when you're using the 2A charger (many of those cables aren't able to transfer enough amount of electricity).
Also, when your phone is really fully loaded and became very hot, just as when you use it for navigation in your car under the sun, the charging speed will decrease (I don't even know why). The charging speed decreases either when you're touching the screen or when it's hot.
Anyways, try better cables first and see if it helps. The docking system is also likely to charge faster.
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I used a whole bunch of cables. The HTC one actually works as an anti-charge cable lol, it eats up battery even when the phone is left on charge unused. I had high hopes with the S4 cable, which turned out to perform same as the stock Sony one. Guess I have to live like this..
billamin said:
I used a whole bunch of cables. The HTC one actually works as an anti-charge cable lol, it eats up battery even when the phone is left on charge unused. I had high hopes with the S4 cable, which turned out to perform same as the stock Sony one. Guess I have to live like this..
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Sorry to hear that the cables you tried all failed. Did you try using the docking system? They should perform better though.
I mentioned switching cables because I had a "anti-charge" cable before, lol. I did some research afterwards and finally got some 22AWG cables and they really made a difference. It's said that they're capable of transferring 3A electricity and it's really different from all other cables I've used. They're just about $2 each because they're handmade, I can give you one if you wanna have a try.
Also, charging by AC power should be better than using the power of cars' lighter. I'm using my docking system with the SONY stock charger w/ ac power. Never disappointed me.
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Sorry to hear that the cables you tried all failed. Did you try using the docking system? They should perform better though.
I mentioned switching cables because I had a "anti-charge" cable before, lol. I did some research afterwards and finally got some 22AWG cables and they really made a difference. It's said that they're capable of transferring 3A electricity and it's really different from all other cables I've used. They're just about $2 each because they're handmade, I can give you one if you wanna have a try.
Also, charging by AC power should be better than using the power of cars' lighter. I'm using my docking system with the SONY stock charger w/ ac power. Never disappointed me.
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Dude you might not be able to give me even if you wanted to.. I am in india and the shipment cost will be excessive. Thanks a lot btw.
I flashed Carbon KK rom and the charging is comparatively better. Atleast it doesnt drain while i use the phone for browsing etc, connected to a wall charger. But if I play games or watch videos on speaker, it does to some extent. I bought one more charger, a Nokia made 750 maH charger (AC 20N) which again is wierdly same in performance compared to both the 1.5A Sony and 2A Samsung. What I think is as you said, the wire makes all the difference. A 2A non detachable is the need of the moment for XZ it seems..
Anti-charge cable?
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From my experience usually Google Play Services is the culprit for hot phones and battery drain. What I did when on stock 4.4.2 was i uninstalled updates for the services and my battery life improved by a lot. Although it does come with the downside that some apps like youtube won't work with the older version (easy work-around by using chrome to go to youtube instead =P)
Since I own that phone, I've been facing the same problem of slow charging speed (actually discharging when using some applications)
The more problematic case in when I'm using the phone in car when driving even if I'm using a powerful car charger (Anker).
In the past I also have tested number of diffferent charger and cables (including original Sony car charger) without seeing *any* improvement.
Recently I've decided to took time to make a comparison test with a colleague Nexus 5. We have connected it in my car to the same charger and used in the exact same configuration (Waze navigation app running) for a one hour drive on the same work->home daily path where I use usually my Xperia.
The measured results have shown for the Nexus a 30%/hour increase of battery level opposed to the Xperia 10%/hour decrease I'm facing every other day.
Later, using "Android tuner" application battery monitoring tools, I've been able to measure that, even when using a 2.2 Amp capable charger, the Xperia isn't able to "suck" more that 700/800mAmp input current most of the time.
To go further I've asked in the french forum where I've posted those figures if any people had been successful to have the Xperia battery level increasing in the same configuration. I have got only answers of other people acknowledging having the same problem as myself.
Then I've also asked people in the "accessories" section of a car owners (Toyota) vehicle forum: found people having the same issue are also owning Sony models.
Also asked another colleague who who owns a Xperia model Z1: ditto.
I definitively start to think that there is a defect is a in the battery charging regulation system of the whole Xperia range.
BTW: I will be very interested if anyone using an Xperia Z in car with navigation application running without those issues could post details about his charger brand and model, and how much battery percent/hour increase he his actually getting with that setup.
Sorry for the long message and thanks for your attention