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.
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Im using Cyanogen Mod 10.1 build Jan 23 on my phone. Till recently (2 days specifically) my battery has started acting up. When i connect it to the wall charger it charges super slow. Also if I'm browsing or using the phone for an email or anything during charge the charge on the battery still drops. I also charged the phone using a blackberry charger same issue happens. The battery takes 6-8 hours to charge completely.
This also happened to me the first time i charged my phone when i got it. But it fixed itself after that.
It behaves the same when i switch off the phone and charge it.
Plz Help.
Samsung Galaxy S3 [I9300]
CyanogenMod 10.1
Sounds like a bad battery imo. You didn't turn down the charging rate in a custom kernel by anychance?
CM10 nightlies are still under DEV so you can expect a battery drain until stable versions comes out !!
Im using Stock Kernel on the device. No changes made to it or battery charge rate. Should I buy a new battery? Or can it be a hardware issue?
Like being said before CM10.1 is still in dev.
Try flashing back to stock and test.
Welcome to the baffled S3 charging issues thread....
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1727540
I'm pretty certain it's not a ROM or a kernel issue. The same is happening to me.
My suspicions lie in the actual charging port and/or the battery. I don't have a spare battery to test. But this happens no matter what rom I use. It tends to be fine after a fresh ROM install or a fresh wipe. But it goes back to 'acting up' after some time.
For example, I left it at around 4% last night only to wake up to it at around 33%. Where before, it would fully charge after around ~4 hours or even less.
Another symptom is that when on wifi/data (whilst plugged in) the phone still drains and even faster so when it is actually downloading something.. This isn't your typical battery drain.
NOT a rom/kernel issue as some would like to suggest (for a "quick thanks" maybe...? ) as this isn't your usual battery drain.
Hi, I flashed Paranoid yesterday. Installation went fine and I spent the evening customizing it to my liking. I put it on charge overnight and woke up to find it completely drained of battery. I immediately put it on charge thinking it must have slipped out or something. I left it for an hour or so, turned my phone on to find it was at 4%!! Then, even though it was still on charge, my battery started going down then died again.
I have even tried again to find it was no more than 4%. It seems to me that the ROM is somehow causing it but I can't even restore the stock ROM that is backed up with CWM as I can't get past 4% battery!
Any help at all would be appreciated! I can't even use my phone
Oli.
perceptic said:
Hi, I flashed Paranoid yesterday. Installation went fine and I spent the evening customizing it to my liking. I put it on charge overnight and woke up to find it completely drained of battery. I immediately put it on charge thinking it must have slipped out or something. I left it for an hour or so, turned my phone on to find it was at 4%!! Then, even though it was still on charge, my battery started going down then died again.
I have even tried again to find it was no more than 4%. It seems to me that the ROM is somehow causing it but I can't even restore the stock ROM that is backed up with CWM as I can't get past 4% battery!
Any help at all would be appreciated! I can't even use my phone
Oli.
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I had a similar problem.
When I connected my phone to the charger it said 0% battery and the phone would immediately turn off when i plugged it out.
So I removed my battery, waited a minute, put it back in and turned it on to see that it was at 100%.
There's a bug in the battery stats I presume...
I've bin on this ROM and had no problems with it. Did you do a full wipe ? Sig is a bit messed up but its solid ROM. Like post before pull battery out then reinstall with all the wipes. How old is the battery?
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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
First of all, hello all!
I own a Galaxy Y, which I haven't used since an year, because of a problem that had developed then, until now when I wanted to use it again.
The problem is the following, with some information about the phone itself.
I had rooted the phone earlier, and put in a custom ROM called Jelly Blast v2.0. Later one day, the phone's battery died overnight, and then it discharged really fast, like 3% in 1 minute. So I flashed the stock ROM with Odin, and unrooted the phone. The problem persisted. Whenever I charged the phone, it became hot like hell, and charged 1% in 10 minutes or so. Then I stopped using it, until now. I checked the battery with a multimeter, and it showed 0.00v, that is fully discharged. So I grabbed a cut-off USB cable, plugged it into my PC, and charged the battery up to 3.66v ghetto style. I made sure the battery did not even warm up, for caution, while doing this.
Plugging it into my phone, it showed 1% charge. It charges really slow, and discharges extremely fast. I know the problem is not with the battery, since I had it changed and it showed the same symptoms.
I don't know what's going wrong, but I don't think it is the hardware. The problem should be in the software. Earlier, i had resetted it in CWM, and removed cache. Also, I had removed the battery stats. I don't know if that is the problem. Currently it is running Hyperion v9 Final ROM, with stock kernel I think.
So what should I do? Please help.
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whizclips said:
First of all, hello all!
I own a Galaxy Y, which I haven't used since an year, because of a problem that had developed then, until now when I wanted to use it again.
The problem is the following, with some information about the phone itself.
I had rooted the phone earlier, and put in a custom ROM called Jelly Blast v2.0. Later one day, the phone's battery died overnight, and then it discharged really fast, like 3% in 1 minute. So I flashed the stock ROM with Odin, and unrooted the phone. The problem persisted. Whenever I charged the phone, it became hot like hell, and charged 1% in 10 minutes or so. Then I stopped using it, until now. I checked the battery with a multimeter, and it showed 0.00v, that is fully discharged. So I grabbed a cut-off USB cable, plugged it into my PC, and charged the battery up to 3.66v ghetto style. I made sure the battery did not even warm up, for caution, while doing this.
Plugging it into my phone, it showed 1% charge. It charges really slow, and discharges extremely fast. I know the problem is not with the battery, since I had it changed and it showed the same symptoms.
I don't know what's going wrong, but I don't think it is the hardware. The problem should be in the software. Earlier, i had resetted it in CWM, and removed cache. Also, I had removed the battery stats. I don't know if that is the problem. Currently it is running Hyperion v9 Final ROM, with stock kernel I think.
So what should I do? Please help.
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Please help.
Hey, I have an S2 (fairly old I know, but can't really change my phone right now :/). Since a few months back I started having problems like the phone shutting down at 12-15% battery left, reboots sometimes consumed 10-15% of the battery. So I bought a new battery but the problems continued.
Now leaving those problems aside, since a few weeks ago my phone started to discharge even thought it was connected to the charger, so I when to see a tech guy and he told me the charging port was loose so he fixed that apparently, bought a new charger after that but the problem persisted, the phone charges sometimes and sometimes doesn't and when it charges it takes hours to reach 100%.
Another thing it's that sometimes I left the phone charging at night and when I wake up the phone says it's 100% but when I take off the charger it drops down to 70-60%.
I'm using 5.1.1 so I thought it could be a ROM problem since Lollipop is a battery killer, I decided to change from Paranoid to CM but still the same story.
Now I'm trying to charge the phone while it's off and seems to be working, although very slowly.
I had the same problem with a Xperia X8, I've changed the battery and flash the stock ROM. Try to do this