Hii!
My LG G2 mini D620r is 2 and a half years old, and most of that time everything was ok. But, since two months ago, I noticed that the battery is draining much faster than usual. And also discharge wasn't happening continuously, but it had sam jums i.e. I would use phone for some ammount of time, and the battery gauge would show decrease in capacity of only a couple of percents, and then suddenly it would drop couple of percents more for no reason. Also I noticed that phone wouldn't charge up to the max. It would show that it is 100% full, but after only couple of minutes of idling it would drop to 97%.
After all that I thought that there was a problem with the battery and bought a new one. But it din's solve the problem at all. Problem just continued to apper so I came to conclusion that there was no problem with a battery.
I read somewhere that Android battery gauge can go crazy after certain ammount of time, and my phone in quite old.
So my question is:
Does anyone know what is the solution to the aforementioned problem?
Does this problem have anything with battery gauge?
And if it does, can it be solved by reflashing the stock ROM?
I forgot to mention that I'm using stock Android Lollipop 5.0.2, software version V20b-EUR-xx. Phone is rooted.
kazamat said:
Hii!
My LG G2 mini D620r is 2 and a half years old, and most of that time everything was ok. But, since two months ago, I noticed that the battery is draining much faster than usual. And also discharge wasn't happening continuously, but it had sam jums i.e. I would use phone for some ammount of time, and the battery gauge would show decrease in capacity of only a couple of percents, and then suddenly it would drop couple of percents more for no reason. Also I noticed that phone wouldn't charge up to the max. It would show that it is 100% full, but after only couple of minutes of idling it would drop to 97%.
After all that I thought that there was a problem with the battery and bought a new one. But it din's solve the problem at all. Problem just continued to apper so I came to conclusion that there was no problem with a battery.
I read somewhere that Android battery gauge can go crazy after certain ammount of time, and my phone in quite old.
So my question is:
Does anyone know what is the solution to the aforementioned problem?
Does this problem have anything with battery gauge?
And if it does, can it be solved by reflashing the stock ROM?
I forgot to mention that I'm using stock Android Lollipop 5.0.2, software version V20b-EUR-xx. Phone is rooted.
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A few options you can try, cuz i had the same problem on my d620r:
- Calibrate your battery;
- Uninstall/rootuninstall bloatware by LG/google, and apps you don't need;
- Use Facebook Lite;
- Use Greenify and Amplify (ideally with xposed framework);
- You can try reflashing stock after full wipe, but i dont think it will fix your problems;
- Best solution > Flash a custom rom and do all the things above.
I didn't have that problem on stock, but on CM13. I was running xposed framework with lots of modules, V4A in the background and a custom kernel, but still, i don't think that was the drainage problem. I'm still using the battery that came with the phone, and flashing Resurrection Remix Nougat 7.1 by mobiusm, governor on ondemand and greenify almost doubled my battery life since cm13!
kasa ssg said:
A few options you can try, cuz i had the same problem on my d620r:
- Calibrate your battery;
- Uninstall/rootuninstall bloatware by LG/google, and apps you don't need;
- Use Facebook Lite;
- Use Greenify and Amplify (ideally with xposed framework);
- You can try reflashing stock after full wipe, but i dont think it will fix your problems;
- Best solution > Flash a custom rom and do all the things above.
I didn't have that problem on stock, but on CM13. I was running xposed framework with lots of modules, V4A in the background and a custom kernel, but still, i don't think that was the drainage problem. I'm still using the battery that came with the phone, and flashing Resurrection Remix Nougat 7.1 by mobiusm, governor on ondemand and greenify almost doubled my battery life since cm13!
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In september, I flashed CM 13 snapshot from august, and I noticed some bugs with it so I returned to stock Lollipop. I think that's when the problems started. Since then I have used Battery Calibration app (if you know some better apps of that kind please do recommend), installed Greenify, but not Amplify and removed some of the preinstalled LG/Google bloatware, but not all. I do not use Facebook app at all. After all that it came to my mind to do full phone wipe and maybe that would eliminate the problem.
kazamat said:
In september, I flashed CM 13 snapshot from august, and I noticed some bugs with it so I returned to stock Lollipop. I think that's when the problems started. Since then I have used Battery Calibration app (if you know some better apps of that kind please do recommend), installed Greenify, but not Amplify and removed some of the preinstalled LG/Google bloatware, but not all. I do not use Facebook app at all. After all that it came to my mind to do full phone wipe and maybe that would eliminate the problem.
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I'd still recommend custom rom tho, preferably RR 7.1
And if you don't want a custom rom, make sure you are calibrating your battery correctly. By deleting the batterystats.bin file you dont really calibrate the battery, rather you reset the battery percentage meter. That is important of course, but before using the calibration app, make sure to do these steps:
Preparation: Hard reset the phone, root it again, install greenify (and amplify if you want), uninstall bloatware, charge to 100%. DON'T USE THE PHONE DURING THIS PROCESS FOR BEST RESULTS
1)Download Battery Waster and Battery Calibration from Play Store
2) Turn on battery waster (turn off flashlight option, it heats up the phone, turn on data, location and other battery consuming settings)
3)Drain battery to 0% until phone shuts down by itself.
4)When it shuts down, turn the phone back again for about 5 times
5)After those 5 or so times of turning on, put your phone on a charger without turning on (use wall charger if u can, and please use correct voltage of 5V)
6)When your phone shows full charge, unplug it and turn it on.
7)When you get to the homescreen, if you have less than 100% battery, plug in your charger again (without turning your phone off)
8)When it shows 100%, unplug your phone
9) Turn on battery waster
10) Let it turn off by itself
11) Do steps 4,5,6,7,8 again
12) Launch battery calibration app (root), and press calibrate
13) Restart phone
14) Greenify your apps and enable agressive doze in settings
NOTES: If on step 4 your phone sucessfully boots again without immediately shutting down, just continue draining your battery until it shuts down.
TIP: Keep between 40% and 80% battery
Hopefully your battery is like new again and free of its problems, but again flashing a custom rom other than fixing your battery, might even boost it, and custom kernels might boost it even more! (If configured right, that is).
IF YOU DECIDE TO FLASH A CUSTOM ROM, PLEASE DO THIS REGARDLESS
I hope I helped you!
Thank you very much @kasa ssg!
If this doesn't help, then there's no way to help me at all.
EDIT: Finally I found some time to do a recalibration of my phone's battery, and I think it worked. It definitely lasts longer now than before calibration. Also I returned to my phone's original battery that came with it first time it was bought.
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so as im a new user and i can't post in half of the forum, but i've still got this urgent question/ point to ask, here's my question:
i recently moved on the new 1.9.1 ressurection remix rom from the 1.3, and aswell changed my kernel to siyah, now lately my battery drains preety quick (yes i did burn it down to 0% and charged it over to 100% few times), but here's the thing, when once i had issues with screen burning 30%-45% of my battery, now it's lying low on 10%-20% while the real issue now is the "Android OS" which goes as high as 60%-70% of my battery, i've been trying to calibrate the battery and reset battery stats and discharge and recharge couple of times, but this just keeps going on... any way to solve this?
kiltev said:
so as im a new user and i can't post in half of the forum, but i've still got this urgent question/ point to ask, here's my question:
i recently moved on the new 1.9.1 ressurection remix rom from the 1.3, and aswell changed my kernel to siyah, now lately my battery drains preety quick (yes i did burn it down to 0% and charged it over to 100% few times), but here's the thing, when once i had issues with screen burning 30%-45% of my battery, now it's lying low on 10%-20% while the real issue now is the "Android OS" which goes as high as 60%-70% of my battery, i've been trying to calibrate the battery and reset battery stats and discharge and recharge couple of times, but this just keeps going on... any way to solve this?
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OK! I've read your situation. This is the only thing that I can recommend. Try installing a Gingerbread rom and see if the issue persists. If it does then some of your application could be the culprit behind the battery draining issue. But again, thats just a guess...And if it is one of your applications that is causing the drain then you should install bettebatterystats from this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1179809
Then charge your battery to 100% and try a new calibration method, maybe you haven't heard of it. But if you charge till 100% then take out the battery for exactly 3 minutes and put it back in and power up your phone and use your phone normally as you do and then at 20% or lower go and check betterbatterystats and see what is causing the most of the battery drain.
Have a great day and good luck with the battery drain, hope this helps!!
Did you check the ROM FAQ about battery draining?
Please check it out. There is also an example of making some changes using extweaks which comes installed by default with ICS Resurrection 1.9.1.
Here is the link to FAQ.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=26341532&postcount=33924
beston94 said:
OK! I've read your situation. This is the only thing that I can recommend. Try installing a Gingerbread rom and see if the issue persists. If it does then some of your application could be the culprit behind the battery draining issue. But again, thats just a guess...And if it is one of your applications that is causing the drain then you should install bettebatterystats from this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1179809
Then charge your battery to 100% and try a new calibration method, maybe you haven't heard of it. But if you charge till 100% then take out the battery for exactly 3 minutes and put it back in and power up your phone and use your phone normally as you do and then at 20% or lower go and check betterbatterystats and see what is causing the most of the battery drain.
Have a great day and good luck with the battery drain, hope this helps!!
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i did read about the new method today, but havent had the chance to try it yet.
im not sure if it's a certain application that causes it, but in the battery stats it points out "Android OS", i've seen many galaxy nexus users complain about the same problem, even with stock kernel/roms, and galaxy S2 users that moved from gingerbread to ICS. it's logical that ICS will take more battery because of the control over multiple cpus and all this kind of stuff but im not sure how much it is about that "Android OS".
anyway ill try to have this battery calibration new method once my battery will drain out, and im probably not going to go down to gingerbread again because i already know its not gonna persist because i remmember how my phone behaved on GB and that those 2 systems work completely different and i want to solve the drain per ICS and not solve the issue by downgrading back down to gingerbread.
thank you for your time and help anyway
fxa5209 said:
Did you check the ROM FAQ about battery draining?
Please check it out. There is also an example of making some changes using extweaks which comes installed by default with ICS Resurrection 1.9.1.
Here is the link to FAQ.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=26341532&postcount=33924
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thanks for the link, i haven't noticed too much i havent done yet, they poiny siyah kernel as one of the 3 good 1s that work well with the rom for better battery, and i am testing different governors, clocks and voltages but there's many options so i can't do it all in an instant so it takes time...
thanks for your help
Hi All!
First I want to thank you guys here, I've learned everything about Android through this forum and others.
But I am facing a weird issue here.
I am running LiquidSmooth 2.5 Official Used to be on CM 10.1's Nightlies
and on The Siyah 1.9.1
I have tried everything to keep my battery fine, but its not working.
Here Are the issues:
1- When doing a HR, if battery level is 100%, it goes down to 3 or 4% and phone reboots multiple times atleast 5-7 until it works fine again, and i have to recharge the battery again. DRIVES ME NUTS
2- The charging is pretty slow now, 5 6 hours would get me to a 70% and not a 100, Tried all ways to charge, and charger and battery are working fine on other phones. though the iPhone Power Brick charged it a bit faster it took about 2 hours to a 100.
3- Discharging is pretty DAMN Fast. it would take the phone 3-4 hours of use MAX and I am out of battery on the 3G and 5-6 on WiFi, I lose about 2 percent every 2-3 Minutes. and when Idle or in DeepSleep which I am sure the phone goes to according to ''BetterBatteryStats'' it would last 7 Hours at best.
4- If Charging the Phone and using, the Battery level still goes down, until it reaches 1% then screen flickers and goes Off and i have to wait for the battery to regain charge on the boot screen with the Battery icon and the Yellow Exclamation Mark, and then After 4% I can reboot the phone, and that cycle would go on and on.
here are the Solutions I Tried:
Flashed CM 10.1 with stock Kernel and with Siyah (Updated Software Everynight)
Flashed LiquidSmooth 2.5 with stock Kernel and with Siyah.
Tried Different CPU Governors (Pegasuq, and Hotplug)
Turned off Unneeded process like (GPS and so on)
Used Different Chargers, Batteries and charging ways that work fine with any other S3 that is running on TouchWiz.
Calibrated Battery by letting it Discharge to 0% then charging to 100% uninterrupted.
I Ran out of solutions, so If someone could please HELP!! :")
Hi there Omar,
1, what exactly do you mean by hard reset ?
2. have you tried a different charger ? or a different charging port ?
3. that is indeed not the best battery life, could you tell us what app's use your battery?
It can be viewed in settings>battery
4. same as 3..
Hard Reset as in Remove the battery while phone is on, or Pressing Volume+ and Power Button.
I Tried 3 Different chargers, Sony Xperia Z, iPhone 5 (Charged it a Bit Faster) and Google Nexus 4 Besides Mine.
I dont have too many apps, actually I Uninstalled most of my apps that wake up the phone from deep sleep like Kik but What mostly uses my battery is Maps While i Dont Use it, 14% and Shazam while not in use also 12%, and the screen ofcourse 24% those are the three top consumers.
Iphone 5 ?? how did you connected it to you s3 ?
ok HR is usually referred when you factory reset your phone, that's just rebooting
But I agree it's not a normal behaviour to fall by 95% each time you pull the battery. What rom are you currently running? are you rooted ?
By the way there aren't really advantages in this kind of reboot FYI.
If you don't use the google maps i suggest disabling it via settings>apps>maps - disable.
Same about shazam try maybe another app like "soundhound" or sony "trackid"
iPhone 5 Power brick and My S3 USB Cable.
I Did disable them.
But still after working on everything I've tried most solutions and nothing is working with it!
Oh ok it's clear now
What about your phone state ? are you running stock/custom rom ?
I am running Liquidsmooth 2.5 Official and Siyah 1.9 Kernel
I Used the Liquidsmooth without the Custom kernel, only its stock one.
and Before I Had CM 10.1 Nightly with the stock Kernel and also with Siyah
Same problem with all combinations, and I Switched to Liquidsmooth because I thought the issue was from the Instability of CM 10.1 due to that its experimental, but seems not.
Well from my experience there are few cm10.1 builds that are working very good, so i guess it's not the problem.
Why not backup your rom and reinstall it(or another one from the development section: http://forum.xda-developers.com/forumdisplay.php?f=1566)
Don't forget when backing up do not backup any system app only user app.
I have a quick question. Hope someone can help me. I have an international Samsung Galaxy S3.
I updated to 4.3 which was horrible. Battery would drain about 70% faster than before. Normally I would charge it during the evening to make the battery 100% and then disconnect from the charger before going to bed. During the day I use it as if it were a normal computer and listen to music about 4 hours a day but it would not go under 60-65% when I would charge again to get it up to 100% So I was very happy with my battery.
I wanted to downgrade and expected to lose Network, IMEI etc. again. (Last time coming from a custom rom it took me 5 days to fix this)
Everything went well, no problems and I am running 4.1.2 again but still my battery seems to be off. Checking FB, email and browsing a bit
and it goes from 100% to 85% And because I did not get the no network problem I wonder if the downgrade went well.
Is it possible to downgrade and even though everything looks fine. That there may be some files left from 4.3 that causes the battery problems and the no problems with network? I have done several factory resets and even let my phone run until it was completely empty and would not turn on. Then without turning it on I let it charge until the green light would come on but still the same battery problems.
Try using Battery Calibration from Play Store (requires root).
Other than that, I can suggest you use some apps to increase battery life, like Greenify (requires root).
Maybe try a different kernel and tweak it untill it provides what you want...
Hi Folks,
I'm on Cyanogenmod 11, running M5. I've been having problems with my battery gauge (or both batteries themselves) since early April nightlies.
The low-level battery gauge shown when the phone is off and charging seems accurate, but the gauge in the OS is all over the place, and will go from 90% to 2% in seconds, then shutdown. I might also be confusing the battery stats by swapping batteries; I don't know.
Is there a way to disable the shutdown? (For what it's worth, I went looking for "reset battery stats" in my modern Clockwork Mod Recovery, but couldn't find it. I don't know if that would help or not.)
I've seen people talk about being able to disable the critical battery shutdown in Xposed, but I know nothing about Xposed, and I'd rather not get into if not completely necessary.
Thanks,
Jamie
Try to do a recharge cycle each month.
Let your battery to be fully over so the phone won't turn on anymore, then recharge it back to 100% without turning the phone on.
Then again let it become dead then repeat the charging process 3 times to recalibrate the Battery meters on the device.
AFAIK "Reset Battery Stats" was removed from newer versions of CWM since it didn't have any effect or actually done anything.
If the above solution doesn't work you can also try the app called "battery calibration", i know that it work for me even if a lot of people are saying that it do nothing :good:
Well, I've tried both of the above, but no luck. I'm back to wondering if there's a way to disable the critical battery shutdown until my Moto G order arrives. The phone's unusable, as it is.
As always some brilliant advice, completely draining li-ion batteries can damage them, doing it multiple times deliberately is just flat out stupid.
I can't get the Xposed DisableCriticalBatteryShutdown module to work, either (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=52833676&postcount=78), so I'm still looking for a way to do this, by whatever means necessary.
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I can't get the Xposed DisableCriticalBatteryShutdown module to work, either (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=52833676&postcount=78), so I'm still looking for a way to do this, by whatever means necessary.
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I´v tryied this module under CyanogenMod 13, Android 6.0
But no success, still looking for the same solution!
Just to encourage this approach, i´m gonna tell what´s happening with my phone.
It goes down to 0% of battery and it shutdown, after that I boot it to the recovery (Clockworkmod) and it stays there with bright screen for more the 3 hours without shutting down!
So 0 % of battery is like 50%!
Helllo guys!
So here's my story: About 6 months ago i installed this https://forum.xda-developers.com/lg-g5/development/h830-resurrection-remix-6-0-0-t3792258 Ressurrection Remix mod and I was absolutely loving it. Now I started to play Pokémon Go again with colleagues but since my device was rooted it kept crashing so many times that I decided to switch back to stock rom, also in this case I wanted to get my 60FPS video recording possibility back since RR didn't have that function. My battery life was absulutely okay when I had RR, like with normal daily usage i could hold out for 1.5 days without charging it. So basically I flashed back to a stock ROM using a zip from one of the thread around here called "LG-H85030a-Flashable.COMPLETE", though I wanted to be up to date with the ROM, also this flashable was Vodafone and I needed an original T-mobileish ROM. So I tried to update the ROM with LG Bridge which was a success. Then I knew I had to root it one more time because of batterystats. So I rooted it again. Deleted batterystats, discharge then full recharge without any intervention and of course while the phone was off. After this I kept experiencing a massive loss on battery life. Like while playing Pokémon GO the phone discharges 15-20% in 30 mins of gaming. I know that Pokémon GO eating up battery since it's release and maybe they still din't optimize it. But what it's wierd that I just charged my phone to 100% then I went to take a shower which lasted about 20 mins and when I got back I saw that the battery percentage dropped to 92%. In freakin 20 mins idle time. Is it possible that I did wrong something in the batterystat reseting? I did it many times before and I didn't have any issues after it. I also tried to calibrate the battery with the Advance Battery Calibrator app (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.newagetools.batcalibra&hl=en_US) multiple times and I didn't have any luck. :/ Also tried to remove or freeze some applications which were running in the background and they were useless to me. Or maybe is it possible that the ROM i downloaded and installed from LG Bridge is a complete ****? Also FYI I have two batteries, one which came with the phone ofc and one which I bought a year ago within a charging kit. The phone itself is about 2 years old. Basically the original battery should be closing to it's ending but the other shouldn't, also I tried the calibration process while I was using the fresher battery. Also the current ROM version is 8.0.0 Oreo, v30c-216-30 if that helps anything. :S I also installed the MK2000 kernel because after rooting the phone the flashlight didn't work and the MK2000 fixes that. Though the battery life was bad before it too, so that can't be the problem, the fact of the root either because even the unrooted ROM had bad battery life.
Thank you for your further help guys!