Hi
Got an extended battery for my G1 a few days ago from ebay.
The problem is, the phone doesn't recognized it after I switched the battery. I had the same charging % as the previuos battery right after I changed it (even though I never charged it) and the max use time in Battery time lite is the same....
Any ideas ?
Thanks,
Nati
bad phone ? my ext batterys work fine from ebay
is there any way I can be sure ?
Maybe it a firmware thing ?
natim9 said:
Hi
Got an extended battery for my G1 a few days ago from ebay.
The problem is, the phone doesn't recognized it after I switched the battery. I had the same charging % as the previuos battery right after I changed it (even though I never charged it) and the max use time in Battery time lite is the same....
Any ideas ?
Thanks,
Nati
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I had similar issues when I first got an extended battery (Seidio 2600mA). After performing the steps below, I had no problems at all. I hope it works for you.
Try a COMPLETE drain and recharge cycle, a couple times.
Run the battery down until the phone shuts itself off, restart the phone and let it run until it shuts itself off again. Repeat until it will NOT boot anymore. This will take a surprisingly longer time than you think. Load up your music player, youtube via 3G, etc... kill that thing.
Once the batter is so dead that it can't even load the splash screen for a boot charge it up, but do not turn it on. Let it charge up to full for a few hours (usually four will do it) and turn it on. If it's not at 100% yet, let it charge for a while longer. When it's at 100% take it off the charger and run it down again like before. Run it until it is totally dead.
After a couple cycles like this, you shouldn't have any problem with your phone and battery giving accurate charge status results and operating as it should.
I've read, from a few sources, that between the internal monitoring on the battery works, and the way the G1 reads the battery state, that this complete drain and recharge cycling helps to establish baselines for "empty" and "full" and keep them synchronized. If your phone has never seen an extended battery and the battery was at partial charge when inserted, it may not have been able to accurately gauge the minimum and maximum extents and give faulty readings based on prior battery data.
That could be wrong, and I don't know for sure. But, a complete drain and recharge never hurts anyway, and in my case it actually seemed to solve the problem for me.
Good luck!
-Mark
I have had battery problems plague me for the last month, regardless of flashing, reverting to stock etc.
The following data is compared to my friends captivate, who is running the same setup as I am Continuum 3.11 and Speedmod k13c. He currently gets at least 24 hours on a full charge (thats WITH gaming and calls etc.). I can barely scrape 10 on minimum use.
At first I thought it was a rogue app that was constantly draining, but unfortunately it was not (after several trials and monitoring apps).
Next, i tried reflashing, Master clearing + flash from stock, flash at 100% charge, but still nothing.
Next thing I tried was to see if it was my battery was faulty (doubted it because it was new from original phone. Only had it for 2 months) by swapping batteries with my friends Captivate (also original battery). I concluded that this was not the problem since he was getting great battery life (if not better since mine is newer) and I was still draining.
After, I tried battery stats wiping, recalibration (bump charging) flash to stock and flash to a rom with reportedly good battery, with k13C speedmod. Still bad results.
So heres my current situation: I am running Continuum 3.11 with speedmod k13c. I have tried almost everything in my arsenal and googling but I have come back empty handed. It is NOT the battery, rogue app draining OR rom/kernal. I am completely stumped.
Heres a summary/extra details of my trials:
-Flash to stock and try again
-change batteries
-wipe stats, drain and recharge, charge for 8 hours, bump charge (recalibration), flash from 100%, master clearing etc.
- setting brightness to lowest, wifi off, plane mode when turning back on
- being anal and not installing new apps / using what rom came with
- My phone remains ice cold on standby. I know that when it gets hot, it drains (during standby and etc. but this time its ice cold)
- Here is some data: In one hour of minimal use (checking texts, replying etc.) I lose 10%. overnight I lose around 20%. In a heavy usage, 4 hours.
(note : I know that some of you might consider that barely passable battery life, but if I directly compare to the set up of my friend, its not right since in heavy usage he gets about 12 hours, which is my max per charge on minimal use)
Im hoping someone can help me with this problem, because I believe that this problem is plaguing other peoples phones as well, not just mine.
REFERENCE THREADS THAT I HAVE LOOKED AT:
This one
And this one of course
EDIT:
I recently swapped batteries again with my friend, because I recall fixing it at one point, but I had to reflash it due to a bug or something, i dont remember. But when we swapped batteries and swapped back, I seem to have fixed it. This leads me to believe that My phone right now has no idea where 100% actually is and its only charging to some random % that is NOT 100% .
This time, I swapped with him when he had 47 percent, and I had 87. After we swapped, we immediately checked the percentages. To my surprise, his 47% on my phone immediately turned to 23% But strangely, that 23% remained (the charge on 23 seemed to be holding for quite a while). But when I recharge, it charges WAY too fast (10 minutes of charging = 40% in total from 23%? B.S.!!!)
antonyfl said:
This time, I swapped with him when he had 47 percent, and I had 87. After we swapped, we immediately checked the percentages. To my surprise, his 47% on my phone immediately turned to 23% But strangely, that 23% remained (the charge on 23 seemed to be holding for quite a while). But when I recharge, it charges WAY too fast (10 minutes of charging = 40% in total from 23%? B.S.!!!)
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I guess thats happen when you flash new rom or kernel or modem...you need to wipe battery stats to fix that....
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I guess thats happen when you flash new rom or kernel or modem...you need to wipe battery stats to fix that....
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I wish it were that simple =( I already tried that via recovery. Unless the recovery method is bugged and not actually wiping the stats. I will manually delete the battery stats and retry, but I dont think it will work.
im just reporting back that manual battery stats wipe did not work =( Any help please? I am absolutely stumped
sorry to triple post but I thought I should ask something else:
Would extracting the batterystats.bin from another captivate and using that one work? (assuming i set permissions correctly)
The thing is, that I'm having this issue for a while now. Battery drains extremely fast both on stock, stock + ext4, cyanogenmod, no matter what. Now I decided to install the stable version of Darky 10.1, but it's just about the same... It's like it drops 2-3% percentages in couple of mins (~10m). I'm using my phone at minimum brightness (btw, display uses 9%! only of the battery), no OC/UV, no animations, only 2g, no wifi, no gps, no account sync, so I'm like really trying to get more...
Okay, and here comes the thing: It used up 70% of the battery in less than 5 hours, and the battery stats looks like this:
Android OS 62%
Android system 10%
Display 9%
Cell standby 5%
Phone idle 2%
Dialer 1%
Dead Rider (just a game..) 1%
In my opinion, everything looks great, but the Android OS. Now what the *** is that, that this crap uses 62% and growing ?! PLease help, thanks!
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The thing is, that I'm having this issue for a while now. Battery drains extremely fast both on stock, stock + ext4, cyanogenmod, no matter what. Now I decided to install the stable version of Darky 10.1, but it's just about the same... It's like it drops 2-3% percentages in couple of mins (~10m). I'm using my phone at minimum brightness (btw, display uses 9%! only of the battery), no OC/UV, no animations, only 2g, no wifi, no gps, no account sync, so I'm like really trying to get more...
Okay, and here comes the thing: It used up 70% of the battery in less than 5 hours, and the battery stats looks like this:
Android OS 62%
Android system 10%
Display 9%
Cell standby 5%
Phone idle 2%
Dialer 1%
Dead Rider (just a game..) 1%
In my opinion, everything looks great, but the Android OS. Now what the *** is that, that this crap uses 62% and growing ?! PLease help, thanks!
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Hmmm what apps r u using ? how many apps do u have installed ?
Did u buy ur phone used or from new and if u got it from new did u do the over charging for 16 hours or more ?
android OS is a huge problem for battery drain with a few causes and plenty unknown.
to fix it completely will require some skill full people from a closed source.. Download an app such as juice plotter or similar to find out a cause of the battery drain.
there are things you can do such as undervolting for extra battery life.
But the best thing to do is type in Android OS battery drain, in the search bar and have a good read up. i had this mega battery drain a few weeks back but i have it under control now
94kram01 said:
The thing is, that I'm having this issue for a while now. Battery drains extremely fast both on stock, stock + ext4, cyanogenmod, no matter what. Now I decided to install the stable version of Darky 10.1, but it's just about the same... It's like it drops 2-3% percentages in couple of mins (~10m). I'm using my phone at minimum brightness (btw, display uses 9%! only of the battery), no OC/UV, no animations, only 2g, no wifi, no gps, no account sync, so I'm like really trying to get more...
Okay, and here comes the thing: It used up 70% of the battery in less than 5 hours, and the battery stats looks like this:
Android OS 62%
Android system 10%
Display 9%
Cell standby 5%
Phone idle 2%
Dialer 1%
Dead Rider (just a game..) 1%
In my opinion, everything looks great, but the Android OS. Now what the *** is that, that this crap uses 62% and growing ?! PLease help, thanks!
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Charge your phone till it reads 100%, reboot into recovery and I think in Darky's Kernel under advanced you will see wipe battery, do this, boot your phone and let it charge back to 100%, then unplug your phone, let it die to 0 and charge again.....something weird is happening because it shouldn't be that bad....if the above doesn't work and you can rule out apps possibly you have a bad battery?? To rule out apps, wipe everything and do a fresh install of a stock ROM if it still drops then i would say it's a bad battery, but try what I suggested first (wipe battery stats)
The last maps upgrade causes bettery drain....
how to slove this problem?
Hi!
I have the exact same Problem..some say this is a bug in the gingerbread versions and can only be solved by samsung...is this true? Any ideas?
Well, I've had a pretty big read-up on it, and tested it myself, what's more tried out other things too. So I came to a conclusion, that this is absolutely true. It's said to be enough the 'freeze' the apps that cause this problem, but it's just not true. With frozen, they somehow still did it. So here's what I've done, and it looks like solved (far not as good battery life as 2.2.1, but still, at least acceptable...):
- format internal sd card
- removed the suspicious apps (msyncml, syncml, it depends on your rom, the important is, that it has "sync" it its name, and NOT account sync!)(I also removed Samsung account, and everything **** that I didn't need)
I'm having BUJV9 on right now with newest FuguMod and it looks good.
It does not mean Android OS is using 62% of your battery over the time in question .
Its a measure of what has used the power not the power drain on the battery .
Though useful on a heavy drain as your figures show display off OS using a lot but what time span at the top of your figures ..
I would guess from figures posted you have something working away in the background . A factory reset usually cures that problem .
Or find the culprit .
PowerTutor from the market may help .
jje
I was having the Same Problems with Battery Drain. (Dropped 70% in 6 Hrs.)
It is related to 2 Services on Gingerbread.
Software Update & Samsung Account.
Clear Data and Freeze Programs using Titanium Backup and Your Battery should be back to Normal.
Huge drain on battery SGS i9000 android gingerbread v.2.3.3
I did like some other users have done I quess!?!
I upgraded via KIES from earlier version of android. After upgrade I did a reset to factory settings, but didn't set the "Format USB storage".
I installed a few programs and used the phone for a few days. After short time of usage I noticed that the battery drained really fast. Like 20% within 1 hour or so. Normally 20% battery drainage happens in a day with little use.
Then I thought something must have gone wrong with the last upgrade. Many time the tip is to clear the phone again and this time I set the "Format USB storage". It worked. Now the battery drains about 30 percent during a normal day with little use.
Since I have a backup of everything, I just installed the backup so the phone is back to normal again.
I hope this might lead to solving battery drainage issue for other users or at least and idea of what could be wrong.
First of all, I do not trust this solution, but it work to me
Solution is simple, remove your memory card from the phone
That is all
After check, found that the scan media always running to scan the memory card
This might deal to corrupted card
People say backup the data from memory card, format the card, put back the data
I haven't try format the card
But after my phone remove the card, now already 13 hours, I still have 82% and I did few phone call as well
there is an app by the name of battery calibration...follow instruction from within the app and it should solve the problem of android OS drain .. i shifted from darky 10.1 to MIUI 7.7 and 100% to 30% in 3 hours with normal usage and no wifi .. after this app battery lasted for two complete days ... so try it
There is another MORE SERIOUS BUG in ALL GB ROMs:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1134741
After full charge in GB, phone start using batteries ONLY instead of CHARGER ONLY like in Froyo and lower version builds.
Samsung folks goofed up BIG TIME by making phone use batteries instead of charger after full charge while stopping the charge cycle. Because of this OS thinks its running on CHARGER (or USB POWER) and shows batteries as full charge when in reality it runs on batteries after full charge and will eventually make the phone dead through full discharge of batteries.
You could test this by keeping the phone connected to the charger after full charge for a prolong period. When you disconnect, based on the usage during that time, the batteries will instantly show lower charge than around 100% (could be close to 0% as well depending on usage after full charge if you disconnect charger before phone going dead at 100% drain).
Did you flashed Darky in 100% battery? The tutorial suggest you to do that. You can try to wipe battery in recovery mode.
Hello guys,
I've messed around with OC etc. and I had to take out battery couple of times. After that some of my apps had reseted settings (probably sqlite db corruptions - it happens). Strange thing: after that my battery lasted for 2 days. Before that I was lucky if I got one day on one charge.
Latetly everything went back to normal and no more 2 days without charing.
I didnt installed anything new etc. Maybe market installed some updates - thats all.
Conclusion: something is f*cked up with our phone .;-)
I think it has to do with lg's battery drivers not working well. If you pull the battery (while the phone is running), on next boot the battery level is usually lower. I think that this causes the levels of the battery to be determined again. Normal shutdown looks like it's saving the battery level somewhere instead of determining each boot.
I've noticed one time after a nandroid restore the battery level was the same as when I did the backup. In this instance, I flashed a new rom to try for a couple of hours, then did a nandroid restore. If I remember correctly, it was about 55% when I did the backup, and about 25% just before the restore, afterwards it was back to 55%.
A while again I tried using this method (battery pull) to calibrate the battery. Using the pre #40 cm nightlies, you could boot without the battery in, using the usb charge. The method I used was to charge 100%, shutdown, remove battery, plug in to wall charge which booted the phone and inserted the battery during the bootup animation. After bootup, the battery level dropped to anywhere from about 95% to about 75%.
It certainly looks like to me that the battery isnt getting fully charged each time.
So maybe with your battery pulls you were actually recalibration you battery and getting a full charge, but after a couple of charges, it was back to normal ie not fully charged.
Hi all,
I will admit I have flashed the phone about 4 times in the past 2 weeks (different roms) due to other issues but now when the battery indicator shows 40% which is rite it shuts the phone down suddenly and says battery empty even though it still shows 40%!!! I can even plug the charger in and it will charge from 40% not 0. It did not used to do this.
This problem has affected 2 (cyanogen & stock LG!) of the 4 roms I have tried now so its not a rom issue and the phone was fully and properly formatted before flashing the new roms.
Even when booting back up it lasts a minute and does the same. Battery drain is not fast and all works fine until it goes below half.
I have wiped catche, battery stats & Dalvik catche many times when 100% charged but makes no difference.
Baseband is correct also.
I really need help as its unusable having 60% of the battery usable.
Anyone got any ideas before I sell it for parts ??
Thanks
Tom163 said:
Hi all,
I will admit I have flashed the phone about 4 times in the past 2 weeks (different roms) due to other issues but now when the battery indicator shows 40% which is rite it shuts the phone down suddenly and says battery empty even though it still shows 40%!!! I can even plug the charger in and it will charge from 40% not 0. It did not used to do this.
This problem has affected 2 (cyanogen & stock LG!) of the 4 roms I have tried now so its not a rom issue and the phone was fully and properly formatted before flashing the new roms.
Even when booting back up it lasts a minute and does the same. Battery drain is not fast and all works fine until it goes below half.
I have wiped catche, battery stats & Dalvik catche many times when 100% charged but makes no difference.
Baseband is correct also.
I really need help as its unusable having 60% of the battery usable.
Anyone got any ideas before I sell it for parts ??
Thanks
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do you have problems with battery before you installed anyone ROM?
and maybe isnt problem in ROM maybe battery making problem
Are you using the kernel that comes with each of the roms or are you using a custom kernel such as pengus' kowalski kernel? I know pengus implemented a new battery driver that has been known to cause other people similar problems.