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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I remember have selected an option so the battery wouldn't necessarily shut off at 0%. Now my phone shuts off at approximately 4%. Anyone remember where this option is?
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I recently noticed this as well and would be interested if there's a way to fix this.
It has happened to me, too. Yesterday my phone shut down at 25% and 14%, but after turning it on again I could use it normally.
I'm, obviously, also interested if there's a solution for this.
Mine has done the same thing a couple of times. It's only ever happened once the battery is less than 10% but it's still annoying. I also had one random reboot today but that was the only time that this has happened.
I could swear I had selected an option for this...but I can't find it anywhere. Does anyone recall having seen this??
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videtonator said:
It has happened to me, too. Yesterday my phone shut down at 25% and 14%, but after turning it on again I could use it normally.
I'm, obviously, also interested if there's a solution for this.
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I had some weirdness with this myself yesterday (my 2nd day on the phone).. I was literally laying in bed before going to sleep, marveling at my battery life after a day of heavy use (18 hours and 39% to go, SOT 3 hours) and it just shut off. I tried to turn it back on, but got the boot loader's big fat 0% screen. So I plugged into the turbo charger, and then it said 100% within a minute, I turned it back on, and then it was 85%.. Just decided to go to bed, left it plugged in all night. Took it off the charger this morning at 100%.. then over the next 2 hours it fell down to 55%. Figured the battery just needed to settle in for a couple of days. I've had it on a USB port for about 90 minutes now, and it's back to 100%. I'm going to take it off an constantly keep it between 80-100% all day. Hopefully it just needs to settle in and get some battery stats under it's belt? I've not seen this with many, or any phones before. Would suck to be out somewhere thinking I can make it to the next morning no problem, and then have my phone die 5 minutes later and I don't have a charger.
Has anyone found a solution for this issue?
i am with the same "4%" issue
It probably does that so it can already have a headstart for the turbo charging feature.
Have you guys tried re-calibrating the battery? I've experienced versions of what you describe, and here's how I fixed it on mine;
1 - plug into the turbo charger that came with it
2 - press and hold power button till unit shuts off, continue holding,
3 - continue holding till you see a battery icon on the screen, let go of the power button
4 - phone will vibrate, and a couple seconds later, the battery icon will show a % number, that is the correct level of charge in the battery, it is now re-calibrated!
5 - press and hold power button till phone starts to boot, you should be good..
From what I've read, this "out of sync" battery calibration is caused by using certain chargers other than the stock one. I saw it happen from plugging into a laptop usb3 port and an old blackberry wall wart (don't judge me). Other people have reported it from using wireless charging (I wireless charge every night without issue).
Hope this helps, good luck!
This is going to be a somewhat long thread (fair warning) because i'm going to try and give as much detail as possible. So here we go...
Disclaimer, I am not responsible for any damage to your watch if you decide to follow my method.....it worked for me
Also be advised I used this method to allow my watch to finish the boot cycle because the watch was freezing because of being on the cradle for too long and the battery getting super hot, if your watch is doing something else, this probably won't work for you.
It all started when I factory reset my watch at 15% thinking it had plenty of battery to finish the process (I know its been said many times on this thread about having 65+% battery when doing anything to your watch...I suggest you follow that rule or even just charge to 100% to make sure). So during the initial boot cycle the watch shut off. When I get home I put it on the cradle and I saw a black screen with a battery and a charging symbol on it. After that it showed the LG logo...then began the boot animation with the colored balls. After about 5-10 seconds the watch froze and turned off again. I tried everything I possibly could, keeping it on the cradle...taking it off...booting into fastboot...letting it charge.....boot into recovery....letting it charge....flashing TWRP...letting it charge....nothing would work. It ALWAYS froze and shut off. Sometimes it was during the boot cycle, sometimes inside the fastboot screen, and sometimes in recovery. I reflashed the boot/system/and even recovery images....tried different roms....nothing seemed to work.
Now here's the good news...I was able to get it to finish the boot cycle, get to the screen that said "Android starting apps" and to another screen that allowed me to actually charge the watch to 20%....and here is what I think is happening.....The cradle and/or USB connection is giving the watch enough power to turn on and keep it on...but there isn't any voltage control so its making the battery more hot than it should....thus over heating the CPU/chipboard and freezing the watch (I say this because after the watch would freeze I would have to wait a long period of time..sometimes 30 minutes...sometimes hours...before it would show me the black screen with the charging symbol again). So I asked myself...how can I keep the watch cold enough so that it doesn't overheat yet still give it enough power to finish the boot cycle? Well I ended up grabbing my icepack (it's a clay icepack with a blue cloth around it so it wasn't making direct contact to the ice pack and there was no moisture) and I ended up placing the watch on the cradle connected to the wall charger so it had enough power to turn on, see the LG Logo and I swipped from 11->5 and went into the fastboot screen. I then let it charge up for about 30 seconds, took it off the cradle and hit "start" for it to boot normally. Then I put it on the icepack for about 15 seconds (I put the bottom of the watch where the chip board is against the ice pack).....then took it off, and placed it on the cradle for 15 seconds, I repeated this over and over it allowed the battery to maintain a decent temperature and allowed the battery to charge enough to keep it on and get to the next screen that told me to charge the battery to atleast 20%. Once it got to 20% it told me to swipe to the right and it started the pairing process, once it paired and it started syncing the apps from the phone to the watch...it actually froze again because I left it on the cradle. Once I let the watch cool off I did the process over again and this time kept switching between the ice pack and the cradle until AFTER it finished syncing and I actually saw the analog watch on the screen. After that I was able to put it back on the cradle and it charged to 100% with no issues and my watch has been working perfect ever since, and I've already charged it multiple times.
I hope this helps someone else....I had my watch not working for just over and week and everyday I would try something else and this is what FINALLY fixed it. I even went as far as buying another BL-S3 battery and was going to replace it. Good luck, if anyone has any questions i'd be happy to try and answer them.
Good Luck!
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This is going to be a somewhat long thread (fair warning) because i'm going to try and give as much detail as possible. So here we go...
Disclaimer, I am not responsible for any damage to your watch if you decide to follow my method.....it worked for me
Also be advised I used this method to allow my watch to finish the boot cycle because the watch was freezing because of being on the cradle for too long and the battery getting super hot, if your watch is doing something else, this probably won't work for you.
It all started when I factory reset my watch at 15% thinking it had plenty of battery to finish the process (I know its been said many times on this thread about having 65+% battery when doing anything to your watch...I suggest you follow that rule or even just charge to 100% to make sure). So during the initial boot cycle the watch shut off. When I get home I put it on the cradle and I saw a black screen with a battery and a charging symbol on it. After that it showed the LG logo...then began the boot animation with the colored balls. After about 5-10 seconds the watch froze and turned off again. I tried everything I possibly could, keeping it on the cradle...taking it off...booting into fastboot...letting it charge.....boot into recovery....letting it charge....flashing TWRP...letting it charge....nothing would work. It ALWAYS froze and shut off. Sometimes it was during the boot cycle, sometimes inside the fastboot screen, and sometimes in recovery. I reflashed the boot/system/and even recovery images....tried different roms....nothing seemed to work.
Now here's the good news...I was able to get it to finish the boot cycle, get to the screen that said "Android starting apps" and to another screen that allowed me to actually charge the watch to 20%....and here is what I think is happening.....The cradle and/or USB connection is giving the watch enough power to turn on and keep it on...but there isn't any voltage control so its making the battery more hot than it should....thus over heating the CPU/chipboard and freezing the watch (I say this because after the watch would freeze I would have to wait a long period of time..sometimes 30 minutes...sometimes hours...before it would show me the black screen with the charging symbol again). So I asked myself...how can I keep the watch cold enough so that it doesn't overheat yet still give it enough power to finish the boot cycle? Well I ended up grabbing my icepack (it's a clay icepack with a blue cloth around it so it wasn't making direct contact to the ice pack and there was no moisture) and I ended up placing the watch on the cradle connected to the wall charger so it had enough power to turn on, see the LG Logo and I swipped from 11->5 and went into the fastboot screen. I then let it charge up for about 30 seconds, took it off the cradle and hit "start" for it to boot normally. Then I put it on the icepack for about 15 seconds (I put the bottom of the watch where the chip board is against the ice pack).....then took it off, and placed it on the cradle for 15 seconds, I repeated this over and over it allowed the battery to maintain a decent temperature and allowed the battery to charge enough to keep it on and get to the next screen that told me to charge the battery to atleast 20%. Once it got to 20% it told me to swipe to the right and it started the pairing process, once it paired and it started syncing the apps from the phone to the watch...it actually froze again because I left it on the cradle. Once I let the watch cool off I did the process over again and this time kept switching between the ice pack and the cradle until AFTER it finished syncing and I actually saw the analog watch on the screen. After that I was able to put it back on the cradle and it charged to 100% with no issues and my watch has been working perfect ever since, and I've already charged it multiple times.
I hope this helps someone else....I had my watch not working for just over and week and everyday I would try something else and this is what FINALLY fixed it. I even went as far as buying another BL-S3 battery and was going to replace it. Good luck, if anyone has any questions i'd be happy to try and answer them.
Good Luck!
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i wanna thank you so much for the information your provided i looked everywhere and lg customer service was no help this was the only thing that helped i thought i was done for your the best
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i wanna thank you so much for the information your provided i looked everywhere and lg customer service was no help this was the only thing that helped i thought i was done for your the best
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No problem! Glad it helped someone....I was pretty upset when I thought my watch was bricked....don't ask me how I figured it out...but I did
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%?
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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.
the phone turned off today after the screen started to flicker.
I noticed the battery was also flat.
ever since then it will not turn on, the best I have got is when I plug it in after 30min it shows up that it is in charge mode but that comes and goes.
as soon as I try calibrating it just goes off and doesn't do anything, nothing has brought the phone back to life . is there anything else I can do?
it now keeps booting back to charge when i do the battery calibration.... does this mean the phone is broke or just flat?
when it trys to turn on the screen gos blue after the logo and then turns off......
ok now the phone is back buti have to have the charger in otherwise it turns straight off
If Im understanding, you have to keep the device connected to charger to have it booted up and working else it turns off, if so then possibly hardware failure, battery terminals seem to be malfunctioning, will need repairs no technical fix as I understand.
yeah been told it will cost me £30 to replace battery
Either the charger-cable-connector bit is unreliable (do you have other chargers and cables?) or the battery itself is so broke that it doesn't store electricity any longer.
The latter usually usually doesn't come by surprice. Was battery life very short before this incident?
Hi all,
2 days ago I decided to calibrate battery, which is done by fully charging phone, then fully discharging phone with normal use. But phone turns off at 1% and doesn't fully discharge, so I turned it back on and stayed alive for 40mins at highest brightness watching videos on Facebook until finally turned off.
Then fully charge your phone while device is off, (but because device fully drained will be a bit tricky to charge it, don't know why, look like keeps 1% of charge to save charging settings or something) anyway, after a few attempts of plug in and un plug I managed to get it charging, and charged in full.
Result:
Better battery life, obviously. And the strange one is that refresh rate drop when unlocking device as stopped and device is smooth everytime, been over 2 days now without a single drop. Not sure how is this related but this happened with me, free to try it if you wish.
Thought to share my experience.
Happy to answer questions
How did you turned on? After i get the notification that in 30 seconds phone will shutdown, it does shutdown and when i keep pressed the power button its powering, showing mi logo then one logo with empty battery and shuts down again.