Hi Guys
I am running Cyanogenmod 12.1 nightly, and have the following issues:
1) If the phone is off, and I put it on charge it boots into a sort of "battery charging mode" which shows a big battery with the capacity charged inside it. The problem is that even when the picture of the battery goes away, the screen backlight remains on throughout, which obviously simultaneously uses power and consequently takes longer to charge. Is there any way of getting the screen to switch off?
2) If I use the phone until the battery is dead, I cannot obviously reboot. Then I plug it in, and it boots into the mode above. Whilst plugged in and the battery is dead, it will not boot up (on the factory rom even if the phone is dead, as soon as you plug it in you can boot it and it will chrage whilst the ROM is booted up). I then have to wait until it has charged a bit in the mode described in (1), unplug it, then boot it up, and let it charge whilst booted after I manage to get it booted. This whole process entails at least 10 minutes of downtime
Are there any ways around this? It is properly irritating
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Does anyone else have the same issue? Is it normal?
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can confirm it's normal. Having this on PAC. Just keep an eye on your battery and don't let it die I guess?
What is PAC?
Are there any roms as stable and sleek as CM, with good battery life and consistent development, which doesn't have this problem?
yusufm786 said:
What is PAC?
Are there any roms as stable and sleek as CM, with good battery life and consistent development, which doesn't have this problem?
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PAC is another ROM. Unfortunately Paranoid Android is the only ROM along with Omnirom not based on CM sources, so no, there aren't any AOSP roms without this issue I'm afraid.
OK cool thanks. Guess I should move back to the oem rom
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Hey,
I just installed CyanogenMod 7 on my milestone using openrecovery. Everything was working perfectly, but the battery was draining like there's no tomorrow.
Started at 50% when I first booted, I downloaded a couple of apps from the Market, and went down to 20% (in the space of about 10 minutes). So I plugged in the phone charger (USB into back of my computer), and then while configuring settings, battery went to 4% (it was checking in 1% increments, which I have since found out that drains the battery). The phone then died. So, the phone was using WAAAAAY more power than the USB port could supply. Anyway, thought I'd let it charge for a while, then go back into the settings, and remove the 1% increments, to try and get normal battery life.
The phone recharges, and automatically reboots. Its still on 4%, but I went in, turned off the 1% increments. Phone dies again.
Charges about 10 minutes, reboots itself again. During this period, I did some research, and found that the battery draining can be caused by excessive CPU usage, resulting in the screen staying on even when it's off (?).
But, alas, no luck. I don't have enough battery to flash the stock SBF.
All I really want is:
a) a way to just have the thing charge without turning itself on, and
b) a workaround to get at least half-decent battery on CM.
Thanks,
David.
[Disclaimer: not guaranteed to work, I don't take responsibility for anything you do your phone!]
Try deleting your /data/system/batterystats.bin before trying this procedure out. You can use an app like Root Explorer to do this. If you're unable to, proceed with bump charging.
Try bump charging:
1. Remove battery, put it back in after a good 2-3 minutes and connect phone to a wall charger. Make sure the phone is still switched off while it's charging.
2. After it finishes charging completely (green LED), let the charger be switched on and connected - remove the battery alone (without switching off charging).
3. After a few seconds, you will see a "?" on your screen, after which you insert the battery back in (while charger is still switched on).
4. Wait till charging completes again (green LED).
5. Plug out charger, wait for 2-3 minutes and plug charger back in and start charging again. It should now be fully charged.
6. Turn phone on while charging, after booting into CM, try OC'ing it to 800MHz interactive governor, apply settings on boot and restart your phone.
Hope this fixes your problem. Good luck!
Anyone can feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.
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[Disclaimer: not guaranteed to work, I don't take responsibility for anything you do your phone!]
Try deleting your /data/system/batterystats.bin before trying this procedure out. You can use an app like Root Explorer to do this. If you're unable to, proceed with bump charging.
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I had the same problem some time ago and tried all this to no avail. I even changed to froyomod for some time, but CM7 is far superior so I just came back to it. The problem happened again this morning just after using google maps. I then rebooted and uninstalled all google maps updates. Seems to be working o far.
hey, yeah, just one problem with that - i can't boot into android for longer than about 3 seconds, and now there is no way to revert, as the bootloader says Battery Low.
Can't you boot into recovery, flash another rom and then reboot into android?
Don't charge from usb, use wall charger. That way, the system will boot only to charge-only screen, android system itself not running.
Hey, kabaldan, I found that out.
Charged 100% using the bump method instructed above. Battery life is still worse than useless, 50% in about a half hour.
will performing those other steps help?
Can you try another fully charged Milestone/Droid battery?
If that doesn't work it might be a problem with your phone's hardware. I know it might be a long shot, try cleaning your phone's and your battery's leads (connectors) if they might've accumulated rust/dust or something. Not sure.
Don't know if this is a similar problem but mine goes down in % pretty fast too but then it can stay for 1% for half a day
No, mine definitely dies. At around 5%, although I did turn off the 1% increments, because I heard they guzzled battery.
The battery life is getting progressively better, but as soon as I use 3G, or open any half-decent games, it drops to about 40% in ~.00001 seconds.
Although, to be fair, I didn't get great battery life on stock rom, either. And my ram always seem chokkas. Like usually only have about 50mb, and I'm not running anything too hectic.
Unfortunately, I think I'll get the Samsung Epic as soon as they bring out the GSM version. I just want an android phone with an unlocked bootloader, insanely large screen, and hardware keyboard, not to mention ~20 days battery life. Is that too much to ask?
I rooted my phone last week thanks to the xda forum
[ROM]-Unoffical AOKP
[Kernel]-No change.
phone worked great, awesome battery life, was on the phone for 4 hours and still i had 40% left, that to while using skype on wifi. Normally the phone used to die within the first 2-3 hours.
I was checking on the various kernels, just coz i wanted to get the ATT world phone image out of my phone! so i used icyglitchv14, well it worked.
But for some reason the phone's battery seemed to drain faster when the phones idle. The phone was back to its crappy battery life.
Yesterday, i flashed the unofficial AOKP ROM build 25 (thanks) the battery life improved drastically, though i have no clue as to why!
Problem now? Battery won't charge, rebooted, turned phone off, but battery just wouldn't charge.
Solution: Remove the battery, hold on to the power button for 5s, replace the battery and turn on the phone. It started charging.
I don't know if its a bug, or if its got to do with the icyglitch power states ( i used conservative), but hope someone checks this out.
i am 100% baffled that this just worked for me, but thanks so much for posting this
Thanks marcknight.
Noticed it around 15% and started to panic.
Turned to my trusty XDA hoping for a solution before it died completely.
One of those strange instances of: Don't ask HOW or WHY, just know that it works.
this worked for me!
this worked for me!
I was also using aokp build 40 ics. and the power mode I believe that I set it on was conservative, I guess i shouldn't use that mode anymore! My power button also doesn't work very well so i was basically mashing all of the buttons while the battery was out of the phone and also while the phone was plugged in, then i inserted the battery and it just started booting with the att screen.
Not charging
That happens to me today. Because I read this earlier I did the same and Voila!!
Thanks!!!
Mine stopped charging too.. and its stock
I am running stock ATT firmware and the battery will charge outside the phone but in the phone it shows charging but gos dead. I have tried the 2 amp power charger for my nexus 7 and that won't even charge it. Good thing I got a cheap external charger a while back.
Anyone know what could be causing this?
a guess: removing the battery, then holding the power key for a few seconds causes the max8998 power management chip to reset, probably by discharging a capacitor or equivalent.
liberate your captivate on xda
Having the same thing happen to me right now. I using the Captivating ROM, just tried your solution, will see how goes. Thanks.
Since I can't post in development section (under 10 posts) I will ask here!
I'am using Paranoid 0.2 and it is great, no SOD, no battery drain.... but I did notice something strange!
My Note died on the way home from work (got to get extra battery), and when I connected to charger system booted up. I tried several times to power off but every time I connect charger (original Samsung), my note boots up!
It's not really an issue but I'am curious is it just my device or is it a known/unknown software bug??
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Experienced the same thing the other day.
Generally, my phone battery never depletes to that extent so I'd never had this problem before.
What made it worse was that I was unable to fully boot the phone, it would die in the middle of the Paranoid Android boot animation.
Ended up having to boot into recovery and leave the phone to charge for 10min just to ensure I could successfully reboot.
In any case, not really an issue as I usually recharge the phone long before the battery is completely depleted.
I usually carry charger with me but I was caught off guard this time!
After a few tryes I decided that this ROM is so good that my note simply refuses to stay off
Now I'am really curious about this bug, hoping to hear from someone with more knowledge!!
ozyk100 said:
I usually carry charger with me but I was caught off guard this time!
After a few tryes I decided that this ROM is so good that my note simply refuses to stay off
Now I'am really curious about this bug, hoping to hear from someone with more knowledge!!
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If I understood correctly:
Your phone doesn't have enough juice to support the boot animation? And you can't charge it because phone just turns on when you put charger on.
Solution would be to boot into recovery, then charge it.
its not a bug
ozyk100 said:
Since I can't post in development section (under 10 posts) I will ask here!
I'am using Paranoid 0.2 and it is great, no SOD, no battery drain.... but I did notice something strange!
My Note died on the way home from work (got to get extra battery), and when I connected to charger system booted up. I tried several times to power off but every time I connect charger (original Samsung), my note boots up!
It's not really an issue but I'am curious is it just my device or is it a known/unknown software bug??
Did the search button but came up empty
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It's not a bug, its a feature, PA or rathor Android never goes into shutdown mode. It has been implemented that way...
This discussion was discussed on the official PA thread just a couple of days back, read 4-8 pages back and you will get all the required info...
I just used this rom for about one week, the front is small for me
Hi all,
I'm having an issue with my phone where it's just not coming on or where i get it to come on it sticks at either the charging battery symbol or N7000 splash screen.
ROM: Vanilla Rootbox 4.1
Kernel: NX kernel 1.3.9
(i think - i'd have to double check the various threads to ensure exact version numbers)
I noticed the battery was v low this morning <5% and charged it briefly while eating breakfast and headed out to work with a view to charge it fully there.
I saw my phone was dead at 10ish so put it on charge for a while here. The only thing it has shown is the battery, but the circle dowsnt spin and the battery charge animation doesnt run. I've tried taking the battery out a few times and attempted start up where it gets as far as the splash screen and freezes also.
I've not as yet been able to enter recovery mode and attempts at entering the download mode give small red lettering saying low battery - cant download. Obviously not charging properly.
I'm at work at the moment, so i've not really been able to look too much at the rest of the forum (but the ones i have seen have been able to access download mode and suggest using PC ODIN - which if i can get it charging is an option for tonight!), and don't currently have access to another USB cable, but neither plugging it in to the computers USB port or the plug works.
Am just about to nip out for lunch but will get another USB cable to see if that helps.
Does any one have any suggestions?
Try another battery which is sufficiently charged and then flash with ODIN. Flashing at critical battery levels is not at all advisable. So first insert a charged battery and then flash the stock.
Varad297 said:
Try another battery which is sufficiently charged and then flash with ODIN. Flashing at critical battery levels is not at all advisable. So first insert a charged battery and then flash the stock.
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I did think of that when i went home, tried a s4 charger (partners, which i used this morning and it was charging fine) - no joy - just sticks at battery still. Grabbed my spare battery (unknown amount of charge on it) while i was there but it still sticks at galaxy note splash screen. I'll leave it plugged in for now and will see if ODIN picks it up and hopefully enough charge etc.
Best recommendation for flash is stock GB isn't it?
Yes GB gives an excellent performance compared to the newer versions. Though if you are going to root it again, it's lot convenient to root on the JB.
Hit thanks if i helped
Varad297 said:
Yes GB gives an excellent performance compared to the newer versions. Though if you are going to root it again, it's lot convenient to root on the JB.
Hit thanks if i helped
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Stock JB it is
Now lets see if i *CAN* do it tonight...
EDIT: I get home, have food, download the stock rom (takes an age), see partner while waiting, come back home, plug the phone in to computer and i get the battery charging animation! I have no idea how many times its been plugged in to chargers and computers. Have swapped it to the s4 charger as that'll give it best charge for a while.
I don't know why it's gone from being completely unresponsive and now 10 hours later its (apprearing to) charge. Turning it on it booted - although it said charging 0% and turned itself off...
Hi all,
Am new to this forum, I've installed the latest version of Liquid Smooth over the weekend and am impressed by the speed my device now runs.
One glitch that I've noticed is that if the battery is completely dead it simply wont charge. But I've placed that same battery into my other non rooted S3 GT-i9305 and it started charging again. Anyone else had the same issue and may be a solution for it?
Regards,
Andy
sabapathee said:
Hi all,
Am new to this forum, I've installed the latest version of Liquid Smooth over the weekend and am impressed by the speed my device now runs.
One glitch that I've noticed is that if the battery is completely dead it simply wont charge. But I've placed that same battery into my other non rooted S3 GT-i9305 and it started charging again. Anyone else had the same issue and may be a solution for it?
Regards,
Andy
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Do you mean "appears" to be not charging when you switch it off and connect charger? If so, it is a well known bug, google it and you'll see
sabapathee said:
Hi all,
Am new to this forum, I've installed the latest version of Liquid Smooth over the weekend and am impressed by the speed my device now runs.
One glitch that I've noticed is that if the battery is completely dead it simply wont charge. But I've placed that same battery into my other non rooted S3 GT-i9305 and it started charging again. Anyone else had the same issue and may be a solution for it?
Regards,
Andy
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When you plug the phone while OFF, the animation is stuck, it's a known issue on current AOSP roms (excepted for latest SLIMKAT build AFAIK), but even if there is no charging animation, it's really charging. That's what I've noticed on Liquid Smooth and other ROMs and also what I've read on XDA for other users.
To restart the phone (because it's stuck), push the power button for approximately 10 seconds without removing battery.
fpriot said:
When you plug the phone while OFF, the animation is stuck, it's a known issue on current AOSP roms (excepted for latest SLIMKAT build AFAIK), but even if there is no charging animation, it's really charging. That's what I've noticed on Liquid Smooth and other ROMs and also what I've read on XDA for other users.
To restart the phone (because it's stuck), push the power button for approximately 10 seconds without removing battery.
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You guys are quick thanks for the fast response. Well the phone was off as the battery was dead. However just before going completely off it was stuck in a reboot loop. I've then removed the battery, placed in back in and then put the phone on change for about 10 mins and tried turning on the device again. The animation battery was displayed but did not display the green stuff. Tried turning on again after another 5 mins still no luck.
But when I've placed the battery in my other S3 it stated changing again. So I ended doing a battery swap on the device.
Regards,
Andy
sabapathee said:
You guys are quick thanks for the fast response. Well the phone was off as the battery was dead. However just before going completely off it was stuck in a reboot loop. I've then removed the battery, placed in back in and then put the phone on change for about 10 mins and tried turning on the device again. The animation battery was displayed but did not display the green stuff. Tried turning on again after another 5 mins still no luck.
But when I've placed the battery in my other S3 it stated changing again. So I ended doing a battery swap on the device.
Regards,
Andy
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Offline charging seems to be disabled with aftermarket AOSP roms (unfixable kernel issues ??), so when you totally discharge the battery you end up in a boot loop : the phone starts up when you plug it in and it attempts to start. It wont fully boot because it runs out of juice then it attempts to start up again and it keeps going in this loop.
You have 2 choices if you drain the battery totally with this kind of ROM.
1- Take the battery out and put it in some other charger. It's YOUR current workaround.
2- Plug it in to a charger and hold down power + home + vol up to enter in recovery and let it sit in that mode for a few minutes then reboot the phone.
Let us know if it works for you