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Moto X glitches [Q]

My moto x worked with no issues before today. I am currently at home, using my phone and it turns drive mode every 5 minutes with no reason. At the same time, night mode turns on. Tried to reboot moto x but it did not help. What would you recommend? Time to buy Nexus 5 ?
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DarkVasyaK said:
My moto x worked with no issues before today. I am currently at home, using my phone and it turns drive mode every 5 minutes with no reason. At the same time, night mode turns on. Tried to reboot moto x but it did not help. What would you recommend? Time to buy Nexus 5 ?
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time to disable moto assist and all things moto assist related. just text and drive like normal people. jk. but i bailed on moto assist a year ago because things like that are never full proof. I can't risk my phone not going to vibrate when I enter work or school if the app messes up. I can deal with driving mode randomly appearing for no reason. I just do my stuff manually if its that important. Plus i don't like reporting location stuff to apps constantly for battery drain and the man.

I'd try clearing the cache and/or data

Battery life

I have veeeery bad battery life with my Moto X, maximum screen on time is 1.5 hours, wake lock detector requires root, any other apps which can detect the battery drain?
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DarkVasyaK said:
I have veeeery bad battery life with my Moto X, maximum screen on time is 1.5 hours, wake lock detector requires root, any other apps which can detect the battery drain?
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You must have a defective phone or something wrong with your software. I already have an hour of screen on time and am still at 90%.

I am at CES right now, so probably it happens because of overloaded 4G... But previously the battery life was relatively bad anyway
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DarkVasyaK said:
I have veeeery bad battery life with my Moto X, maximum screen on time is 1.5 hours, wake lock detector requires root, any other apps which can detect the battery drain?
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Gsam will tell you a lot. It's free and doesn't need root.
Then maybe try the "how's your battery life thread"....Have a read through and you'll find tonnes of tips and what not.
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Thank you for your advice! I will try this app. I would check the thread but so busy with CES and really have no time right now...
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DarkVasyaK said:
Thank you for your advice! I will try this app. I would check the thread but so busy with CES and really have no time right now...
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Read through it when you can though....almost anything you could ever need to know about battery life in there.
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Nexus 6 won't turn on

So I have an opportunity to trade my droid turbo for a nexus 6, which is what I've been trying to do for a min. I found one that is in perfect condition, but it will not turn on. The seller says that the green light will blink a few times when he plugs in the charger, and then it stops and that's it. He said the battery died and couldnt get it to turn back on after that. Phone is just over a month old and he hasn't done any troubleshooting. He already ordered a replacement and isn't worried about trying to fix it. Has anyone else had this problem or know of a fix? I'd really like to make the trade but don't wanna be stuck with a broken phone. Thanks for any input!
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Any ideas?
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perceptualdoor said:
Any ideas?
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Sounds like a horrible idea. Did he root it and enable the LED? Because the LED doesn't work out if the box. Sounds like he messed it up to me. Have him try to force it into recovery via Volume down and Power.
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DatDude123 said:
Sounds like a horrible idea. Did he root it and enable the LED? Because the LED doesn't work out if the box. Sounds like he messed it up to me. Have him try to force it into recovery via Volume down and Power.
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I tried having him do that, said it didn't work. So there's no battery light that works out the box?
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perceptualdoor said:
I tried having him do that, said it didn't work. So there's no battery light that works out the box?
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Correct. No external LED works out of the box. You can enable it, as I and plenty of others have done via threads here, but it sounds fishy.
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It was in "General". There are others but this is a pretty good one.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=57839374
Good luck either way.
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Is it possible the phone is bricked? Seems like there should be a way to get it turned on, especially with some "sign" of life with the green light. I guess it's hard to say without the device in front of me.
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Any other suggestions?
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The led does work out of the box.... And that is the only time it does work when the battery is dead and it should be red when charging when battery is 0% etc ... That is when led was designed to work with nexus when battery didn't have enough juice to boot but to show it's charging etc
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nexus6R3plicant said:
The led does work out of the box.... And that is the only time it does work when the battery is dead and it should be red when charging when battery is 0% etc ... That is when led was designed to work with nexus when battery didn't have enough juice to boot but to show it's charging etc
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That's what I thought. You have any troubleshooting tips?
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He said he didn't root the phone n isn't familiar with that process.
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perceptualdoor said:
He said he didn't root the phone n isn't familiar with that process.
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Tell him to leave the phone in the charger for about an hour and then try to boot into bootloader

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Tell him to leave the phone in the charger for about an hour and then try to boot into bootloader
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Ok...after charging for an hr, should he leave it plugged in or unplug before trying to get into bootloader?
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perceptualdoor said:
Ok...after charging for an hr, should he leave it plugged in or unplug before trying to get into bootloader?
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I usually unplug before booting into bootloader.
Also, if you haven't already, have him look in a very well lit area for cracks in the LCD underneath the glass. They may be hard to spot, I've seen some only a few cm long black out a whole lcd. It may even just look like a piece of hair under the glass.

So he plugged in for an hour n still nothing. He did say that the led didn't flash this time so he thinks it may have charged. I dunno, it's gotta be something stupid. I'd really like to get the nexus 6, just don't wanna be stuck without a phone if I can't fix it.
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Another thing that's enticing is it's the 64 GB model. He isn't really in a rush to sell, just got his replacement today, n he's been trying to help me out since I contacted him first. He says he does have a cash offer though.
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nexus6R3plicant said:
The led does work out of the box.... And that is the only time it does work when the battery is dead and it should be red when charging when battery is 0% etc ... That is when led was designed to work with nexus when battery didn't have enough juice to boot but to show it's charging etc
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Oh. I guess mine was never that dead before installing Lightflow and enabling the charging light. Apologies for the incorrect info OP.
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DatDude123 said:
Oh. I guess mine was never that dead before installing Lightflow and enabling the charging light. Apologies for the incorrect info OP.
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No worries, it's all gravy.
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Is it the OEM charger ? If it won't charge then try to use a USB from computer and trickle it
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nexus6R3plicant said:
Is it the OEM charger ? If it won't charge then try to use a USB from computer and trickle it
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It's not the charger, he tried using a different one n same deal. He says when he plugs it into a computer it downloads the n6 drivers...
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perceptualdoor said:
It's not the charger, he tried using a different one n same deal. He says when he plugs it into a computer it downloads the n6 drivers...
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Check out the HP touch pad .... They had same problems when battery was too dead to charge... Had to use usb from computer or the inductive charger to trickle it to enough to turn on then it will charge.... The qi charger is the one they had to use some times also wireless charging it
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[SOLUTION] Phone shutting down with battery not empty

This solved my problem regarding the phone turning of at 50% battery or 37% etc. You will see after applying the settings the battery percentage will change and show the real battery life.
I got this solution from a Google tech.
1) Power off your phone.
2) Press and hold the Power and Volume Down buttons. This will put the phone in fastboot.
3) Use the Volume buttons to scroll through the menu until you see "Bootloader logs"
4) Press and hold the power key for a long time (7+ seconds) until the phone reboots.

slekkas said:
This solved my problem regarding the phone turning of at 50% battery or 37% etc. You will see after applying the settings the battery percentage will change and show the real battery life.
I got this solution from a Google tech.
1) Power off your phone.
2) Press and hold the Power and Volume Down buttons. This will put the phone in fastboot.
3) Use the Volume buttons to scroll through the menu until you see "Bootloader logs"
4) Press and hold the power key for a long time (7+ seconds) until the phone reboots.
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is there a source for this information? a link or anything? did you just stumble upon this fix? or did you copy paste from somewhere else?

Circaflex said:
is there a source for this information? a link or anything? did you just stumble upon this fix? or did you copy paste from somewhere else?
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After days and days of searching and trying a zillion things without success and just as I was ready to RMA the phone I stumbled upon this suggestion in the Google forums. It was posted by a Google tech somewhere in the middle of a really big thread that I couldn't find again. No I didn't find this by myself but wanted to share for users to be able to find it easily.
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I returned my phone a few weeks ago because of this issue and got a replacement from Motorola . I do notice certain kernels will create this situation moreso than the stock rom or stock kernel will not create this issue so that's also something to think about.
However, thanks for the insight should my replacement phone display the same symptoms.
Edit: interesting, I just tried your suggestion and my battery went from 91% to 66%.
I am on the validator kernel using the suggested settings.
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markwebb said:
I returned my phone a few weeks ago because of this issue and got a replacement from Motorola . I do notice certain kernels will create this situation moreso than the stock rom or stock kernel will not create this issue so that's also something to think about.
However, thanks for the insight should my replacement phone display the same symptoms.
Edit: interesting, I just tried your suggestion and my battery went from 91% to 66%.
I am on the validator kernel using the suggested settings.
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That's good. It means that your battery would have died at about 25%.
Let me ask you? Are you using a wireless charger?
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slekkas said:
That's good. It means that your battery would have died at about 25%.
Let me ask you? Are you using a wireless charger?
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On occasion at work but not at home. Sounds like another cause. Why would it if I may ask?
I actually find them to be silly as you must plug the charger base via USB which I can do with phone! Just another step IMHO including finding the sweet spot when resting on charger.
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markwebb said:
Edit: interesting, I just tried your suggestion and my battery went from 91% to 66%.
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Bahaha, quick charge in action. Does not charge quicker, just drags down the "full" point.

markwebb said:
On occasion at work but not at home. Sounds like another cause. Why would it if I may ask?
I actually find them to be silly as you must plug the charger base via USB which I can do with phone! Just another step IMHO including finding the sweet spot when resting on charger.
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I've noticed from my own experience and after talking with others that this issue has started after I started using a wireless charger. Maybe it's just a coincidence but I'm trying to gather some info.
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doitright said:
Bahaha, quick charge in action. Does not charge quicker, just drags down the "full" point.
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How can we disable quick charge?
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slekkas said:
I've noticed from my own experience and after talking with others that this issue has started after I started using a wireless charger. Maybe it's just a coincidence but I'm trying to gather some info.
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Also raises another question: those turbo chargers. I have 3 from moto and use at home. I don't think however as phone seems to charge correctly and capacity seems to register correctly.
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markwebb said:
Also raises another question: those turbo chargers. I have 3 from moto and use at home. I don't think however as phone seems to charge correctly and capacity seems to register correctly.
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I will be using the phone for 6-7 days without the wireless charger to see if the problem comes back. If it doesn't I will then use the wireless charger and see if problem shows up. This is an issue with a lot of people and many of them have RMA'd the phone just to realize that the problem came back and it's not a hardware issue.
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slekkas said:
I will be using the phone for 6-7 days without the wireless charger to see if the problem comes back. If it doesn't I will then use the wireless charger and see if problem shows up. This is an issue with a lot of people and many of them have RMA'd the phone just to realize that the problem came back and it's not a hardware issue.
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I am also going to use a custom kernel for a few days and then stock.
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markwebb said:
I am also going to use a custom kernel for a few days and then stock.
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I'm using Franco Kernel at the moment. Where can I find stock kernel?
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slekkas said:
I'm using Franco Kernel at the moment. Where can I find stock kernel?
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There is both an encrypted and decrypted one:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2946715
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slekkas said:
How can we disable quick charge?
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By using a regular 5v charger instead of the idiotic 5/9/12v charger that came with it.

I am having the below issue.
1. If phone is around the 30% mark, and I receive a call, it would just switch off.
2. If i reboot the phone with it being around 30% mark, it will just switch off after displaying the lockscreen.
Is this behavior that is same as the one in the thread?
I tried the mentioned steps and my battery percentage stayed the same. It also shows the same battery percentage in TWRP.

suku_patel_22 said:
I am having the below issue.
1. If phone is around the 30% mark, and I receive a call, it would just switch off.
2. If i reboot the phone with it being around 30% mark, it will just switch off after displaying the lockscreen.
Is this behavior that is same as the one in the thread?
I tried the mentioned steps and my battery percentage stayed the same. It also shows the same battery percentage in TWRP.
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Yes exactly the same problem. Keep pushing the power button a few seconds longer after phone switches off. My problem was fixed but a week later it came back. For others it was fixed permanently. There's a lot of people with this problem and they keep increasing. I fear that certain wireless chargers are causing it. Are you using a wireless charger?
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slekkas said:
Yes exactly the same problem. Keep pushing the power button a few seconds longer after phone switches off. My problem was fixed but a week later it came back. For others it was fixed permanently. There's a lot of people with this problem and they keep increasing. I fear that certain wireless chargers are causing it. Are you using a wireless charger?
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No I am not using any wireless charger. I only use the turbo charger at home and a 2A N7 charger at work.
I am waiting for 5.1 and will run it for a few days to test . Hope that 5.1 will fix this issue.
Also Google suppport asked me to reboot into safe mode and see if the issue is still there.

Just tried this and it went from 82 to 85%.
I have an issue where the phone turns off at 5%

I have this problem currently with my N6 and it is beyond madding.
First it would do it only when the phone was getting to 30~35% tried the fix.
Now the phone crashes it all the time. 80% crash, charge for a little bit use again 85% crash, charge to 100% use streaming a movie from google play 65% crash. now im going to try a custom rom to see if that will fix it.
tried the fix several time only seems to make it worse.
even with a blank install after reinstalling the stock img the phone will crash.

Random shut downs..

Anybody is having any issue with random shut downs and reboots??? ?????
My phone sometimes gets suddenly shut down, sometimes at 15 % low battery and sometimes below 30 %.. The problem started with in the past 1 month....
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rohithksaj said:
Anybody is having any issue with random shut downs and reboots??? ?????
My phone sometimes gets suddenly shut down, sometimes at 15 % low battery and sometimes below 30 %.. The problem started with in the past 1 month....
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Do u have similar problems my friend??
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rohithksaj said:
Do u have similar problems my friend??
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yeah. I think its something with xposed, because when I disable it, The reboots stops and phone works fine.
and sometimes when I add a new module and restart The phone, sometimes The phone freezes in lock screen for about 5 sec then restart again. this occurs at least 3 times before The phone starts normally, and with xposed disabled this never ocurred.
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yeah. I think its something with xposed, because when I disable it, The reboots stops and phone works fine.
and sometimes when I add a new module and restart The phone, sometimes The phone freezes in lock screen for about 5 sec then restart again. this occurs at least 3 times before The phone starts normally, and with xposed disabled this never ocurred.
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Nah... Mine is not rooted... Just bootloader unlocked.... Everything is stock........
I think my battery is corrupted or starting to fail...... Something like that..... I wanted to change my battery But before that I wanted to confirm it's the battery.........
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oh, so I don't know. my case could be related with root.
without root can be a hardware problem.
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oh, so I don't know. my case could be related with root.
without root can be a hardware problem.
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Hardware problem means?. Battery???
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maybe. in new phone is a hardware issue. send to warranty.
mine is because i have a lot of modifications in system (root, xposed, custom kernel, etc), it was expected since first Day :laugh:
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I am having this same issue you too, and it is everytime that battery saver comes on as well as the phone heats up a lot!

My warranty is expired... I recently checked many forums and found that many are having same issue... I strongly believe it's the battery... Now I have to buy one and get the old one replaced.....
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rohithksaj said:
My warranty is expired... I recently checked many forums and found that many are having same issue... I strongly believe it's the battery... Now I have to buy one and get the old one replaced.....
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Can you update us on what happens when you change the battery?
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nicklefloss said:
Can you update us on what happens when you change the battery?
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Sure.... I will be changing my battery this week.. And I will surely update what happens after that... [emoji111] [emoji111]
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Had the same problem when i updated my phone to 6.0. The problem was solved by calibrating the battery. Drain down the battery until phone switches off and then charge it to 100% while it is off overnight. At first i thought it was a myth. But really it worked. Now i can get around 24 hours + with around 3 - 3.5 hours sot from that old supposedly dying battery. Using Stock 6.0 rooted Moto X 2014.

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Can you update us on what happens when you change the battery?
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Sorry my friend... I tried every customer center in my area but couldn't find a new battery..... [emoji22]
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Hello everyone.
That problem happens to me since I bought this phone, around February 2015. It wasn't so stressing, because the phone would drop from 15% to 1% and shutdown. But, it started to become even worse, as recently on a trip it shutted down with 50%. Searching for the problem I've seen that many people have this problem, some saying it's because the battery creates something inside, which I forgot the name, and it damage the cells. So recently I bought a new battery and replaced it, and then it worked fine, I could go to 1% without drops, until yesterday. It started happening again, dropped from 20% to 1%, and today again, from 18% I guess...
Now I don't know what to do, I don't know if something is damaging the battery again, hardware or software-side, or if it's the software with false percentage, or some part of the hardware, besides the battery, which is leading to some problem. I don't know, that's frustrating. Please, if someone know what's happening, share with us.

Just curious, how often you run the battery dead? A lot of people seem to mistakenly think it's good to run it low all the time which actually damages the battery over time. Some people may get lucky but I've seen lots of batteries fail way before their time that were run dead often.
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Just curious, how often you run the battery dead? A lot of people seem to mistakenly think it's good to run it low all the time which actually damages the battery over time. Some people may get lucky but I've seen lots of batteries fail way before their time that were run dead often.
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That happens everyday, sometimes at 20%, sometimes 15%, sometimes even lower, like 8%. I know sometimes it's normal at like 5%, but it can't be normal at 20%, or even worse, like it was happening before, at 50%. My fear is that it starts to get worse again. I just can't accept the fact that a lot of people have this problem, I mean A LOT, and nobody finds a way to solve it, all we can find is "temporary" solutions.

I mean before that started to happen, did you purposefully run it empty all the time? Because that will shorten the lifespan of the battery. I try to charge mine before it gets down to 40% every day, but I occasionally run it down lower just to see what my screen on time on a full charge is. The other day I knew it was going to be good so I ran it down to 9% and got over 7 hours screen on time, so i know it's still working properly at least.
At least the battery is pretty easy to replace in this phone if needed. I had it apart to replace the LCD as I bought it with a shattered screen.
My ex gf went through 2 iPhone 4s, each lasted less than a year...that would randomly shut off at 50% battery or so, then show a dead battery. Hers was usually almost dead by the time it was plugged in which I'm sure contributed to the problem.
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350Rocket said:
I mean before that started to happen, did you purposefully run it empty all the time? Because that will shorten the lifespan of the battery. I try to charge mine before it gets down to 40% every day, but I occasionally run it down lower just to see what my screen on time on a full charge is. The other day I knew it was going to be good so I ran it down to 9% and got over 7 hours screen on time, so i know it's still working properly at least.
At least the battery is pretty easy to replace in this phone if needed. I had it apart to replace the LCD as I bought it with a shattered screen.
My ex gf went through 2 iPhone 4s, each lasted less than a year...that would randomly shut off at 50% battery or so, then show a dead battery. Hers was usually almost dead by the time it was plugged in which I'm sure contributed to the problem.
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Nope, I don't do that, don't like it.
Even if I did what your ex gf did, it can't be normal to occur this just because you started charging with a low battery. Ok, doing that can damage the battery, but so fast like it happened to me? And so severe, like shutting with 30% left? I can't believe this is normal.

It can cause that, but normally not until the battery is about a year old. At least in the case of her iPhone 4s and the replacement did as well. Whereas a battery that's taken care, not run low all the time or left on charger all the time can last over 3 years.
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