I've been using my Verizon Galaxy Note II since mid June (I got it brand new). It's rooted and always has been, however a couple days ago I was running Jelly Beans build 21 and I ended changing to the HTC Sense Recent apps (I don't think this is a problem, but a coincidence) and after a day or so I plugged my phone into the charger before I went to sleep. However I realize it wasn't charging. I tried unplugging it and plugging it back it and it didn't charge. I changed outlets and no charge so I restarted my phone and it started charging. Ever since then however, my phone has been dying quickly. Maybe losing 20% battery life within an hour. It also charges really slowly now, too. I used to get from 0% to 100% within 1.5 hours to 2. Now I'm at 25% and it says it'll take 3hr 45m to reach 100.
I don't know how to fix it. What heats up is not the battery, but the GPU/CPU area. I changed ROMs and it didn't fix. I also used ODIN to go back to unroot/stock which SEEMED to have fixed it (I lost 3% in 40min compared to 3% in 5 or 7m). But after using it for a little while, it seems to happen again. I then re-rooted and restored from back up to the new rom (not JB 21) and it's happening. I'm currently charging it to 100% and then I'll let it drain and monitor it just in case there is a main problem. I'll also try a different cable tomorrow.
However, I was wondering if this has happened to anyone else or if anyone else has suggestions?
As an FYI, I've
- Turned off DATA
- Tried charging while the phone was switched off (it does cool, but charge time doesn't seem to improve which might be because of the 700-900 amps I'm getting.)
-Underclocked to 1.4ghz and undervolted by 75mv on everything
-Turned on Power Saving mode
-used Greenify for many apps
-Factory Reset
-Reboot
I haven't:
-Let it go from 100 to 1% in order to correctly monitor battery killers
-Tried a clean unroot, back to stock, root, clean flash. (I've done it all except the clean flash [I restored a backup])
-Other things I can't think of
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last night i had my tbolt charging. the phone was off while charging, and it was left plugged in for a few hours beyond the led changing over to green.
after i unplugged the phone and went to turn it on, well... it wouldn't turn on. i did feel the initial vibrate i always get right before the htc screen comes on, however, the screen never came on. i ended up having to pop the battery out and then after putting it back in the phone booted normally.
however, now it seems as though my battery is draining way faster than it has been. i've had the phone a few weeks and the battery has been properly conditioned. after taking it off the charger at approx 2:00am this morning, a mere 10 hours later (whilst completely in standby for the entire time) it's already down to 83%.
what gives? could this just be an accuracy issue with the reported levels? i've read about fully charging and booting in to recovery to reset battery stats. or is it a far worse issue and something has happened to my phone that's damaged the battery in some way?
btw, i'm rooted and running das bamf remix 1.7 with imoseyon's leankernel (running in normal mode with swap enabled).
just a quick update:
after some moderate use (texting, web browsing, downloaded a few market apps) the battery continues to drop much faster than it ever did before. i'm using wifi at the moment.
Have you cleared battery stats lately?
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no, but i'm going to do just that tomorrow after work when i have a chance to fully charge the phone.
one other thing i just realized that may be contributing to the problem though... my g/f was playing around with my phone and she signed into latitude. doh!
Took the plunge and rooted my bolt on Saturday following the guide in this forum using adb. All was ok, no custom Rom, just rooted. Battery seemed to be about the same. Put the phone on charge Saturday night and was fully charged Sunday. All working as it should until Monday morning. I got the phone off of the charger and battery(2750 ma) was only14%. I freaked a little and charged the phone on the way in to work. The charge only got to around 34% and would discharge very fast when unplugged. I had read somewhere to cycle power while charging to correct errors in the reporting of battery levels, so I tried that and got different numbers every time, but not able to get a full charge.
To make a long story short, I could not get my batteries ( stock or extended) to charge. I tried imosys (forgive me if the name is wrong) on the stock Rom and even flashed the Mr2 radio and installed das bamf ginger remix without any luck. Battery would not charge under any condition. Woke up to a dead phone this morning and had to install the other battery to get the phone un rooted.
The phone is now charging as it should with both batteries.
Any ideas why the phone would not charge?
Also used 4 different chagers during the process.
you should try calibrating the battery
since you have root, you can download and run BatteryCalibration by marosige (app author shows as NeMa in the market). simple app, instructions on the launch screen.
Don't you have to have 100% battery to calibrate?
I could not get the batteries to full charge.
The Batteries were definitely discharging faster than the charger could maintain, or there wasn't any charge applied to batteries at all.
I've had mine charge at a glacial pace before and discharge so fast you could watch the percentage numbers drop just holding it in your hand for 60 seconds. Personally, I don't call a phone charged if it's on. Turn that badboy off and make sure fast boot is off as well. Even with ROMs and kernels that charged horribly, turning that thing off put juice in it in a hurry. I never had any luck getting any BAMF ROM to charge quickly, no matter the kernel I used. (I tend to use the same kernels with the same versions of android. Ziggy's for Froyo, dreamkernel for GB.) Both of those have proven to charge nicely, even if I'm wirelessly tethering the thing. I don't know what the big deal is with battery calibration and all that. I only had quirky battery charging right after I made the mistake of wiping my battery stats. Same thing happened with my dInc. I wouldn't wipe battery stats unless I had a VERY good reason, and swapping between my 1300mAh and 3500mAh battery all the time in my dInc wasn't nearly a big enough reason.
The phone was off when I put it on the charger Sunday night, and no battery left on Monday morning.
Is there a way to "undo" a bad battery calibration?
I am asssuming that when you flash a new kernel or a rom that that resets everything, At least it seems that way when I unrooted the phone.
I will probably try rooting again when I have a little time to mess around with it.
dbjones59 said:
The phone was off when I put it on the charger Sunday night, and no battery left on Monday morning.
Is there a way to "undo" a bad battery calibration?
I am asssuming that when you flash a new kernel or a rom that that resets everything, At least it seems that way when I unrooted the phone.
I will probably try rooting again when I have a little time to mess around with it.
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Just being rooted should have zero effect on battery charging. Next time you root, do a Nandroid backup before you flash anything (ROM, Radio, or Kernel). That's standard practice for pretty much anyone that regularly flashes.
I'd re-root, nandroid, then flash whatever ROM you want....Some of the older GB Sense kernels had a "slow charging" bug, which has since been fixed. Check out the Kernels post on the dev board, the newest kernel has fixed the slow charge bug.
So just the other day my phone would start randomly rebooting and it only seems to do it when the batter power is lower, like less than 50%. Ive been running the same rom (mikrunny 1.7) for well over a month and have had it oc'd the whole time to 1.5 and never had an issue before now.
It was doing it last night again. It was around 55% when it started. I left it turned off for a bit while we drove home from the bar and when I got home and rebooted it and now read 7%. Shut it back off and let it charge off over night. Booted up this morning and its now at 80% when it was definitely showing the green light saying it was fully charged.
So battery going bad or do I need to recalibrate it? Already ordered a HTC oem battery from amazon (it was 7.50, didnt realize they were so cheap!) so hopefully it is the battery and not something else.
kilik64 said:
So just the other day my phone would start randomly rebooting and it only seems to do it when the batter power is lower, like less than 50%. Ive been running the same rom (mikrunny 1.7) for well over a month and have had it oc'd the whole time to 1.5 and never had an issue before now.
It was doing it last night again. It was around 55% when it started. I left it turned off for a bit while we drove home from the bar and when I got home and rebooted it and now read 7%. Shut it back off and let it charge off over night. Booted up this morning and its now at 80% when it was definitely showing the green light saying it was fully charged.
So battery going bad or do I need to recalibrate it? Already ordered a HTC oem battery from amazon (it was 7.50, didnt realize they were so cheap!) so hopefully it is the battery and not something else.
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Once you get your new battery it would be easy to see if the battery can be the issue. I have 3 batteries myself and I notice once that one of them was always causing my phone to random reboot. I color coded all 3 batteries to keep track of them and I notice that anytime the "red" battery was in the phone it would reboot while below the 50% mark.
I have replaced that battery and haven't had this issue, I'm rooted running a stock kernel and ROM so I could say that it may have relation to the battery.
I tried to get alogcat but nothing would show because the log would clear at boot. It can be a reaction to an inconsistency on the batteries voltage.
Are you on newest radio? I flashed the updated radio and started getting random reboot. I flashed back to radio 2.08, all reboots stopped.
I was having this problem with two separate ROMs until I reverted radio.
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I'm on my second LTE (first one hard bricked due to the downgrading of firmware plague).
I'm having strange behavior in the charging of my LTE. When I put the phone on charge mode (computer or wall charger)
the phone will jump to full charge within a few minutes no matter what level of charge the phone had when I plugged it in.
It didn't start out this way when I originally got the phone. The charging process took the anticipated amount of charge to get
to the fully charged state. Now whenever I plug it in to charge it takes only a matter of minutes for the phone to say 100% charged.
It is actually not fully charged but is showing that it is. If I go to TWRP 2.2.2 recovery it shows the actual charge level of the phone for a
little while and then TWRP will jump to show it at 100% charged also.
When I got the LTE from the sprint store and the service person went to activate it, it had the flashing charging light.
He charged it for a few minutes and the charging light became steady. He then went on to activate the phone. Luckily,
he was cool and didn't accept any updates and i found it had the 1.12.0000 hboot. COOL! So I ran home and rooted the phone and fed
the lazy panda. Everything was cool for a while.
I have been running several roms (MikLatTE, MeanRom, OMJ's, and Chaos) and the problem is consistent across them all. I didn't realize that you weren't supposed to calibrate the battery. I had done this several times on my OG. I had installed the battery calibration tool for root from the market and I ran it, and it seems that the problems started shortly thereafter. Battery life has been pretty poor ever since then (16-18 hours with moderate use) where I used to be able to go a couple of days on a single charge. Other than battery and the 3g disconnect issue (that everyone seems to have) the phone is awesome.
I've wiped everything except the internal storage to no avail, and without the ability to wipe the battery stats in recovery, I am lost as to what to do next. Any ideas would be much appreciated.
Hardware 003
ROM: Meanrom 4.6
Firmware 1.22.651.3 (haven't upgraded to the new firmware due to my previous experience - should I do this????)
S-off, hboot 1.12.1111, 1.05.11.0606 radio, 2.45.003 PRI
You shouldn't have a problem upgrading your firmware, but its probably not gonna help your battery situation. It is recommended to have the latest radio and firmware with the newer ROMs.
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dwmartin6341 said:
I'm on my second LTE (first one hard bricked due to the downgrading of firmware plague).
I'm having strange behavior in the charging of my LTE. When I put the phone on charge mode (computer or wall charger)
the phone will jump to full charge within a few minutes no matter what level of charge the phone had when I plugged it in.
It didn't start out this way when I originally got the phone. The charging process took the anticipated amount of charge to get
to the fully charged state. Now whenever I plug it in to charge it takes only a matter of minutes for the phone to say 100% charged.
It is actually not fully charged but is showing that it is. If I go to TWRP 2.2.2 recovery it shows the actual charge level of the phone for a
little while and then TWRP will jump to show it at 100% charged also.
When I got the LTE from the sprint store and the service person went to activate it, it had the flashing charging light.
He charged it for a few minutes and the charging light became steady. He then went on to activate the phone. Luckily,
he was cool and didn't accept any updates and i found it had the 1.12.0000 hboot. COOL! So I ran home and rooted the phone and fed
the lazy panda. Everything was cool for a while.
I have been running several roms (MikLatTE, MeanRom, OMJ's, and Chaos) and the problem is consistent across them all. I didn't realize that you weren't supposed to calibrate the battery. I had done this several times on my OG. I had installed the battery calibration tool for root from the market and I ran it, and it seems that the problems started shortly thereafter. Battery life has been pretty poor ever since then (16-18 hours with moderate use) where I used to be able to go a couple of days on a single charge. Other than battery and the 3g disconnect issue (that everyone seems to have) the phone is awesome.
I've wiped everything except the internal storage to no avail, and without the ability to wipe the battery stats in recovery, I am lost as to what to do next. Any ideas would be much appreciated.
Hardware 003
ROM: Meanrom 4.6
Firmware 1.22.651.3 (haven't upgraded to the new firmware due to my previous experience - should I do this????)
S-off, hboot 1.12.1111, 1.05.11.0606 radio, 2.45.003 PRI
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1. Charge over night with the phone on, then go through the whole day until the phone dies on its own, dont charge it or turn it off until it dies. this will help calibrate the battery. what may be happening is that the phone doesn't know the minimum voltage of the battery since you used the app so it is reporting the battery wrong.
2. absolutely update your firmware. i recommend the bootloader method.
3. also, HOW DID YOU GET A FEW DAYS ON A CHARGE? 16-20 is like a very very good day for me. multiple days is out of the question haha. do you like never use your phone? lol
edit: tell me if that works for you
PhxkinMassacre said:
1. Charge over night with the phone on, then go through the whole day until the phone dies on its own, dont charge it or turn it off until it dies. this will help calibrate the battery. what may be happening is that the phone doesn't know the minimum voltage of the battery since you used the app so it is reporting the battery wrong.
2. absolutely update your firmware. i recommend the bootloader method.
3. also, HOW DID YOU GET A FEW DAYS ON A CHARGE? 16-20 is like a very very good day for me. multiple days is out of the question haha. do you like never use your phone? lol
edit: tell me if that works for you
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The battery level dropped quite quickly the first two hours (-20%). I at 14.5 hours right now with 24% left.
I'll let it go completely dead before I restart or plug in. PS. I updated the firmware and radios, and all is well with that.
Ok so I have a galaxy s3 gt-i9300, which is about 20 months old, and it started to have this problem a month or so ago. The phone was running a kit Kat cyanogenmod rom, and it was draining the battery somewhat faster than the stock rom, and one day the screen started flickering at around 30% battery, which followed by the phone turning off itself. It can't be turned on until it's plugged in, and when I do so, the battery is at 0% charge, so I figured this was a battery problem and I replaced the battery for a new, original samsung battery. I thought this would make the trick. But I didn't, so my last thought was to return to stock software and this didn't solve the problem either. This always happens to me in every single charge at around 30%-40%. The rest of the charge lasts as long as expected, so the phone basically uses 60%-70% of a charge. I'm all ears for solutions to this and I also want to know what is causing it.
Try a battery from another phone, one that is known to be working correctly.
Else try a full wipe, including preload and internal sd, before you flash the latest stock rom for your country. Factory reset again in recovery after flash.