[Q] battery issue - X 2014 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

I'm experiencing an issue with my 2014 Moto X's battery and I was wondering if someone have any suggestions or something ...
for example, yesterday I had about 30% left of my battery when I launched "Real Racing 3" game to play and right before game even get to load, my phone powered itself off( since it was on 30% mark before, I decided to start it again, one phone finished booting I noticed my 30% went down to 5% and shortly after that phone powered itself off again.... when I plugged in my phone into a charger and almost immediately my phone reported 30% mark on my battery...
today i let my battery completely die (it was about 10% when phone powered itself off) and I just finished charging it completely as well, but something tells me that isn't gonna fix anything...
any advise?

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[Q] Previous problem with phone reporting no charge

I realized the mistake in my title...reporting NO charge.
I previously posted about how after clearing my battery stats it was reporting a 0% charge. I was able to leave it on the CWM screen for upwards of 5-6 hours, but the instant it loads up the OS the phone buzzes and turns off.
Now:
I got a new battery today and it appears that the battery is NOT the issue. The phone still reports a 0% charge, regardless of how long I leave it on the charger.
I'm unsure of how this could have happened, and I was curious if there was a way to completely reset the phone. IE: Every file exactly where it was when I first booted it up.
Any help would be great. I have an XPERIA Play as a back up, but I'd rather have my Thrill back.
Thanks in advance.

[Q] Battery shows 100% on plugging in instantly.

I've been using the Moto X for a day and a half or so and the battery was down to round about the last 20% so I decided to plug it in to charge. When I did that, the battery instantly changed to 100%!! I'm sure this is a bug so I was wondering if anyone knew where the problem could lie and a possible solution. For now I've kept it plugged in for a couple of hours because that's how long it takes for it to charge completely.
I'm running Android 5.0, not rooted or anything.
Cheers!

recalibrate battery

how to properly recalibrate OnePlus 3t battery to avoid phone switching off at 20-30℅?
sharath_babu said:
how to properly recalibrate OnePlus 3t battery to avoid phone switching off at 20-30℅?
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Your phone starts to shut off at 20-30%?
yep
sounds like a defective battery.
I've gone from 100-0 a few times and it's never shut down before 0.
Try this after wiping cache only in recovery mode:
After phone turns off, try to turn it on and see if red writing appears, telling you that your phone doesn't have enough battery. After that, charge your phone up to 100% and leave it at that level still connected to the charger, for 10 minutes. Then use up the battery normally. Repeat until phone shuts off at 0%.
This might be a little late for your question, but I just want to share my experience here.
Recently, my phone kept turning itself off at a little below 30%. If I tried to turn it on immediately, it showed the red low battery alert. If I charged it for a few minutes and turned it on, the battery would show 30%+. That proved it had not suddenly dropped to zero and turned itself off, as I understood a defective battery would.
I checked the Net, and it seemed that lots of people have the same problem as mine. On top of the recommendations were to replace the battery and a factory reset.
With the info I gathered, I decided to try battery calibration, and installed this app (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nema.batterycalibration&hl=en).
I restarted the phone three times before running the app (idea from an OP discussion). As instructed by the developer, I let the phone continue charging even when capacity reached 100% (orange container on top). In my first try, I only waited for the orange container below to fill to the max, then started calibration (even when the pop-up message was telling me it's still early). That was a mistake. After that, the phone started dying at a little below 40%. In my next try, I let the charging continue even when the orange container at the bottom showed full, until the app notified me it was ready for calibration. I calibrated, and my phone's battery is fine again.

Moto X won't charge past 3%

I have a Moto X 2013 that, after replacing the battery with a supposedly new, OEM battery, refuses to charge past 3%. This phone is rooted and was rom'd with the Nougat xPerience rom, but I tried flashing it with Nougat Lineage as a troubleshooting test.
I replaced the battery last night without incident, and the phone booted and seemed to behave fine, and the battery had about 30% charge. The only issue I found immediately after replacing the battery was a battery app installed on the phone saying the battery hasn't been charged for -19000 hours, or something a long those lines (I can't remember exactly what it said, as I did not install the app, my friend did who I was fixing the phone for. I just remember it was some outrageously large negative number.). Thought it was weird, and maybe thought it was a software issue, so I booted to TWRP and wiped the cache and dalvik. Rebooted the phone, and the app reset to something along the lines of 500 hours. That is a bit more believable.
I plugged the phone into my laptop to let it charge (as it was the only way I could charge it at the time), my laptop saw the Moto, and the Moto said "Charging..." and "Android Debugging...", and thought it was working. I had to run an errand, and when I returned about an hour later, the phone hadn't moved a drop up or down. My laptop was asleep, so I assumed maybe it just stopped charging when my laptop shut off, and I was exhausted myself so I just let it sit on standby all night.
Morning came, and the Moto is dead. I plug it into the wall charger I was just using to charge my v10 with (brand new cord, made for data transferring and charging that I used once before with the old battery), and head to class, hoping it'll charge. Guess what? It didn't charge. Well, it did a little. It went up from 0% to 3%, and sat there. Annoyed, I unplugged and replugged in the phone. It came up with the white battery charging screen, switched to the Nougat "N", vibrated, then went to a black battery charging thing. Once there, the battery icon went up two squares, the screen flashed, and the phone died and stopped charging, then repeated itself a few more times until it went silent.
I started to think maybe my brand new cord was screwing up, so I grabbed another one I had and plugged it into my desktop. I had read on another thread that sometimes you can force the phone to jumpstart charging by plugging in the phone and holding down power + volume down for upwards of two minutes. I tried this, and it charged enough that I could turn the phone on again, but it wouldn't charge enough to do much more. I left it plugged into my desktop for a few hours, not allowing the desktop to fall asleep, and yet the phone was still not rising above 3 or 4% despite the fact that it says that it is charging. Oh, and the phone was on the whole time if it was plugged in, but the moment I unplugged it (Like the one time it got over 5%), it immediately shuts down.
I know I'll probably just have to buy another new battery for the dumb thing, but I am just curious to see if there is anything I can do to fix this, just because I cannot currently afford to buy another new battery (and my friend, who this phone belongs to, is getting impatient on getting it back.)
Thanks for any help!
I have the same problem, charging topping out at 3% with a "new" battery.
Did you change the battery? Did it work?
Thanks for your feedback.
(FYI, this phone is running the stock lollipop firmware.)

LG Watch Sport Not Charging properly!

I'm getting some strange activity on the watch:
When it runs out of battery and shuts down, I place the watch on the charging cradle while it is off, and it starts to charge as normal. It slowly charges up to 25% as usual, and then suddenly it's at 100%!!
When I boot up the watch it is at 100%, but then starts to lose charge very quickly. It's almost like the battery has become uncalibrated. I have tried running it down and then fully charging it while off and leaving it on the charging cradle for hours etc, but no help.
Anyone else with this problem, and any suggestions? (Can't send it in for warranty repair etc... cos I live in UK where they don't sell it, so had to buy it off eBay, it's a W280A which had an AT&T sim in it)
I think I may have fixed this, I'll have to wait and see how long a full charge lasts, but for the first time while powered off, it charged from 1% to 100% by 1% each time, I know because I watched it - it's been driving me crazy! So something had screwed the calibration of the battery it seems!
The fix was to keep the watch on until it powered itself off with no battery. Then try holding down the centre crown and turning it back on again - mine would get to the Google Circles on the boot animation, and then black out again - and I did this repeatedly, with the LG logo flashing up, then Google, then the circles, then it turned itself off again - so I knew there was more battery there (yes, I know these batteries keep a reserve so they are never fully discharged, and it's not good to take them all the way down, but I was only getting the thing to charge 20% or so before it showed 100). So I thought, how to keep the screen on, I can't keep turning it on again and again.
So I put it in fastboot mode, hold down the centre button and the lower button and it will bring up the fastboot screen - and I left it with the screen on, which seemed for like hours. When the screen finally went off, I tried turning it on, no LG logo screen, tried booting into fastboot, nothing - the watch was truly dead! So I held my breath and placed it on the charger. After a few moments, the white flashing ring appeared and 1% appeared in the centre, yaay!! I then watched it, repeatedly every few minutes pressing the centre crown to check the battery while it cycled through every percent until it reached 100! Now the watch is on and I am monitoring the discharge. I will let you know how it goes (before I couldn't get more than 4 or 5 hours out of it with all sensors off!)
So for all those that are getting exceptionally poor battery life out there, your watch may be lying to you - when it runs out of juice and powers off, before charging it again, turn it on again and again until nothing appears on the screen, or enter fastboot/recovery and the let the screen drain the rest of the battery. Obviously I take no responsibility if it messes up your watch.
I can confirm that this has fixed the problem. I'm getting easily one day out of the watch now, even after going out for a 2 hour half marathon mid day. This watch rocks now!
admisi said:
I can confirm that this has fixed the problem. I'm getting easily one day out of the watch now, even after going out for a 2 hour half marathon mid day. This watch rocks now!
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I tired your procedure but no luck
Also can confirm the fastboot drain worked - took 3+ hours (I went to bed) on high brightness but then recharged in about 2 hours and has 60% left after 8 hours use (battery saver and I turn screen off manually).
Thank you Admisi I might try this for other devices forgetting where the bottom of the battery is. Good stuff.

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