Since it takes ~40 minutes to get to 80% from 0%and that 80% lasts from morning until night. Does pulling the plug at 80% help the battery last longer in terms of months and years? Seems silly to wait another 40 minutes to get from 80% to 100% if 99% of the time it's not even needed. Any positives or negatives of my strategy?
Here is what I average with my normal daily usage.
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954wrecker said:
Since it takes ~40 minutes to get to 80% from 0%and that 80% lasts from morning until night. Does pulling the plug at 80% help the battery last longer in terms of months and years? Seems silly to wait another 40 minutes to get from 80% to 100% if 99% of the time it's not even needed. Any positives or negatives of my strategy?
Here is what I average with my normal daily usage.
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Dude.. don't post your battery stats...you are just making people jealous :laugh:
Partial charges supposedly only count towards a fraction of a "charge cycle", so I think (as long as you believe this sort of stuff) that you're doing fine. Fast charging , aside from fast-charging that increases heat significantly in a battery, doesn't hurt li-ion batteries either.
That's the version of battery lore I've heard. I suspect it's something like "the fish aren't biting today because .... the clouds are too low, no, the sun is too high .. no .."".
Is anyone know what is Uninstalled meant? It used 6% of my +3T battery.??
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jimaginet said:
Is anyone know what is Uninstalled meant? It used 6% of my +3T battery.??
OnePlus 3T
128 Gunmetal
Rogers Network
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It means you had an app installed. Was using it. It used battery and then Uninstalled it. So now it's showing that because you no longer have the app on your device
hachamacha said:
Partial charges supposedly only count towards a fraction of a "charge cycle", so I think (as long as you believe this sort of stuff) that you're doing fine. Fast charging , aside from fast-charging that increases heat significantly in a battery, doesn't hurt li-ion batteries either.
That's the version of battery lore I've heard. I suspect it's something like "the fish aren't biting today because .... the clouds are too low, no, the sun is too high .. no .."".
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I've also heard that draining the battery down to 0% or close to it causes harm to the battery. I haven't read any actual tests to prove it, but, it sounds reasonable.
dueydotnet said:
I've also heard that draining the battery down to 0% or close to it causes harm to the battery. I haven't read any actual tests to prove it, but, it sounds reasonable.
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I don't know if it causes harm, but I've had a few phones where I let batteries discharge all the way, and they did not want to start charging again. It's as if they needed some tiny bit of charge in order for the little logic that exists on phone batteries to function. (I'm not sure that's true for all batteries, but it is for some).
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I really need the batterystats.bin from someone who has a Milestone with alright battery life.
Please upload, I'd appreciate it very much.
Attached. Why do you need it?
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Attached. Why do you need it?
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Thank you very much!
My phone has been acting weird regarding battery level, mainly draining quickly to 5 % and then staying alive for a long time. Despite various attempts at calibrating the battery. So I'm thinking if it's so hard for it to create a batterystats.bin that makes sense, I should try serving it one.
Ekofasc said:
Thank you very much!
My phone has been acting weird regarding battery level, mainly draining quickly to 5 % and then staying alive for a long time. Despite various attempts at calibrating the battery. So I'm thinking if it's so hard for it to create a batterystats.bin that makes sense, I should try serving it one.
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Ok. Let me know if it was of any help.
It seems like it no longer happens during every discharge cycle, but it still happens often. This happened tonight:
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From 100 % to 70 %, I used it to stream music using Spotify in the car, or kept it untouched in my pocket. Lit the screen a few times to change songs.
From 70 % to 20 %, I sent some text messages, tweeted, surfed a little bit. Not much at all, but the level just plummeted.
The voltage goes up and down.
So it seems the battery level plummets when I keep the screen on longer than for a few seconds.
Going to try a pirate battery next week and see if I get the same results still.
Edit:
After it plummeted to 5 %, I rebooted the phone. Then it showed 50 %. Going crazy...
I have a similar problem. But my batt is not drained that fast. It is fast, but not that.
My batt also "charges itself" sometimes when reboot.
Tried to callibrate but no success.
This started when i bought a new battery.
lucfig said:
I have a similar problem. But my batt is not drained that fast. It is fast, but not that.
My batt also "charges itself" sometimes when reboot.
Tried to callibrate but no success.
This started when i bought a new battery.
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I think I've gotten rid of my problem by flashing stock and not over-clocking. But it still happens with the new battery I got off eBay. So I'd suggest you try to find an original battery. I hope the ones marked original at eBay actually are originals.
I bought one battery from ebay marked as original and then when it arrived I could check that it is not original, and the battery drains very fast and auto-recharge.
Open your pocket and buy a new battery directly from a motorola authorized seller. I did this and solved all my problems. Btw, I could get my milestone for 3 days without recharding (I had used basically for voice and sms). That is definitely a record!
Just a qiuck question regarding new batteries, do i need to do some fancy calibration to get it working correctly?
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I just bought a Galilio 2000MaH battery, and I wanted to share with you all what a great value it is. After a full drain and charge, I got an additional 4-5 hours out of my phone than I normally did with moderate to heavy usage
For $15, I can use my phone far more than I could with the stock battery.
Running CM7 with stock kernel.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/150594275802?ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1439.l2649
The reason some people report poor battery life from the extended battery is because its likely they didn't drain/charge the battery up before evaluating.
If you have any questions I'd love to be of assistance
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Looks good.
Imagine the life you'd get with Scarykernel Stable, 200mhz min, 1.5ghz max and Scary governor.
ummm
No offense but that doesnt look like much use or that great battery life. I can run shoutcast using winamp 4 or 5 hours straight with bluetooth on also s little web page time and hsve 30 to 40% nattery left. If bored let your phone down n do the same. I have the chicitec 1550 that htcexpress falsley advertises as a 1900
I recently bought the galileo and i noticed only about 10% more life using it versus the stock battery. I cant complain for the 6$ i spent on it. I mostly dont like the fact that it doesn't have the temperature readings.
It's actually slightly less than a stock battery not more, but for $6 it's a great deal I have 2!
63 cents
sears.com has a supposed 2000 mha for .63., $2.52 shipping i think.
mine shipped today.
probably more like a 1550 overstated deal like the rest lol. if it's 1750 i'd be amazed.
*Shipped on 6th arrived on the 8th not too shabby.
Charging now we'll see
same
Charged the Sears 2000 (lol) it took 4208 mv's according to battery calibration app, about the same as my chicitec 1900 (lol). I think they're both 1550's. A bit better than stock.
I bought 2 Galilio "2000mAh" batteries and, on a tip from someone else, peeled the labels of to see that both were stamped 1000mAh by whoever manufactured them.
They work, but don't last nearly as long as stock. Maybe they use different batteries and throw there labels on them? I don't know, just know there's a risk.
bought one. fully charged/discharged about 6 times, averaging around 10 hours. my stock battery got at least 12 hours.
i think i got a dud.
I have a battery which has 4100+mV when i charged it to 100% ,
but it turns out to 3500+mV when it says 1%
anyone can explain why is this happened to the battery ??
Edit：what i really mean was where are the other 3500+mV go ?
and good battery are 2600+mV ????????
May be you try wiping the battery stats after 100% charge again?
or you try this link http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=884816
Thanks
this should help -> http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1024867
it's called battery calibration
That's voltage. And of what I know, it's normal that batteries lose some voltage when their charge decreases. Might be wrong.
Down cloack your phone to 480mhz. And you will have 3 Days or 2 days battery. And uninstall some apps.
noobxkevin said:
I have a battery which has 4100+mV when i charged it to 100% ,
but it turns out to 3500+mV when it says 1%
anyone can explain why is this happened to the battery ??
Edit：what i really mean was where are the other 3500+mV go ?
and good battery are 2600+mV ????????
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The voltage drop is common for the battery. Li-ion batterys (3cell in our phone) has 4200mV when fully charged. From there is the drop. As the battery loses current, the voltage level will decrease. (and so the wattage remaining)
Each battery has a specific voltage, from which it is practically unusable in electronic devices. Then the battery is depleted. Li-ion batterys are workable ~3400mV (manufacturer specific).
If the Li-ion battery is depleted too much (around 2800mV) it is unusable, and cannto be resurrected (charged). Because of this, the device needs to be shot down earlier.
It is phisics and chemistry, life is like this sadly. But this is the large-scale working technology' best at the moment.
-> see picture for more information. It is for NiMH and NiCd but the Li-ion is nearly the same, just with bigger capacity, and bigger voltages.
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Ken-Shi_Kun said:
The voltage drop is common for the battery. Li-ion batterys (3cell in our phone) has 4200mV when fully charged. From there is the drop. As the battery loses current, the voltage level will decrease. (and so the wattage remaining)
Each battery has a specific voltage, from which it is practically unusable in electronic devices. Then the battery is depleted. Li-ion batterys are workable ~3400mV (manufacturer specific).
If the Li-ion battery is depleted too much (around 2800mV) it is unusable, and cannto be resurrected (charged). Because of this, the device needs to be shot down earlier.
It is phisics and chemistry, life is like this sadly. But this is the large-scale working technology' best at the moment.
-> see picture for more information. It is for NiMH and NiCd but the Li-ion is nearly the same, just with bigger capacity, and bigger voltages.
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wow .... how amazing .
finally get to know why and how the battery actually works
*thanks* clicked
Got my Droid Turbo 3 days ago coming from an LG G2 and I really like it but the battery life is terrible with minimal usage and I can't even get phone to last for a day. It drops 5‰ per hour even if the screen is off and phone is in my pocket. When I do occasionally use the phone to check emails and browse the web on chrome, the entire phone gets very warm. So warm that its uncomfortable to hold it. During this time the battery really sarts to die. I am running unrooted factory KK 4.4.4 so does anyone think the problem will go away if I root it with one of the stripped down images? Or do I have a broken phone?
Fyi, the only apps that I've installed aside from preloaded apps are adobe, Microsoft outlook, greenify, waze, and a realcalc. Waze is never on unless in the car and plugged in. My G2 with all these apps and more and with double the usage lasted much much longer.
Please advise
Welcome! A couple things to keep in mind man: it can take a good week before battery life stabilizes on a new device. Waze has always been a ***** on battery in my experience. I personally disabled every sing app I don't use, which was quite a few of the pre installed. I keep my location set to battery saving mode unless using nav. I'm also one of the ones whose battery life got awesome after the 5.1 update. With all that said, I only lose 4% overnight, about 6-7 hours. Is your device not sleeping? Check the battery stats and see if something is keeping it awake. The stock one will give you general info but I use Gsam to keep a closer eye on things. Try removing Waze and see if that helps with the heat issue. Running GPS is the only time my phone even gets mildly warm.
No issues here. Got 8 hours screen on time just now
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I am unrooted kit Kat. I usually see 1% drain per hour plus 10% per hour of screen on time. 24 hours after a full charge, with 4 hours screen on, I expect about to have used 24%+40%.
Maybe I just need to full reset. What about heat? Do these phones get hot during use?
I assume you've checked the pre-installed apps (Motorola and/or Verizon) and disabled any you don't need. I've found some of them eat the battery a bit (FYI I came from a LG G2 and am using a Moto Maxx).
Go to settings-apps-all. Disable the junk you don't use. Some of those apps are battery killers. I wouldn't go root till you figure out if you have a lemon.
Not really troubleshooting, but a question.
How many of you have had your battery start to fail already?
My battery will go from 15-20% to dead, not even showing the quit animation any more. Charges waaay too fast to 30%.
I charge it every night, so I can't see how I've possibly spent the 500 cycles. And I don't even have the turbo charger that I thought would ruin battery life.
I work with phones, and I'm seeing a really disturbing trend with batteries, LiPo is a rubbish technology. Never seems to last more than a year these days.
I have ancient phones with Li-Ion that are still working at 70% capacity or more after five years.
Shadowdancer123 said:
Not really troubleshooting, but a question.
How many of you have had your battery start to fail already?
My battery will go from 15-20% to dead, not even showing the quit animation any more. Charges waaay too fast to 30%.
I charge it every night, so I can't see how I've possibly spent the 500 cycles. And I don't even have the turbo charger that I thought would ruin battery life.
I work with phones, and I'm seeing a really disturbing trend with batteries, LiPo is a rubbish technology. Never seems to last more than a year these days.
I have ancient phones with Li-Ion that are still working at 70% capacity or more after five years.
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I agree with you the LiPo technology seems outdated, and a change is needed to keep up with the hardware these days screens, CPU, all the sensors that have gotten more powerful over time. Have you tried to retain your battery at all? Run your phone till your battery is completely dead/won't even power the phone up at all. Then charge while the phone is off and untouched till 100% might help your battery life a bit
Same issue here. Started with the 5.1 update for me. Hits 15% and seems to die in 20 minutes or less
Charge your phone to 100%, put it in airplane mode and then leave it overnight. In the morning you'll know whether it's a rogue app or process or indeed a bad battery.
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I have the same issue, I think is a bad battery, because when my moto x shuts down, I notice a big battery voltage drop.
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Mine does same. Shuts off about 10-15% and won't boot back up.
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I will try replacing my battery, and if it solves the problem and post the result here.
For me is bad don't know when my device is charged or not. I have attached an example of the strange behavior when my MotoX is charging.
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