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Losing 5% battery every three seconds

Hi guys,
My gio is losing battery at incredible speed - 5% every few seconds, and it's not even hot.
Whatever the rom, the kernel I put on it it's the same. I have tried to discharge-wipe battery-full charge a thousand times. I'd have thought the calibration was faulty here but I have tried Battery Calibration with no result.
Something weird is that on Battery Calibration it says it's at 4mV. Shouldn't it be more ?
It always stays at 4mV.
Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks...

Turn off mobile data when you're not using it, saves lots of battery
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It's not about mobile data or wifi or anything, it's just unnatural to lose that much battery ! It's not even heating.

Maybe your battery died?
My sisters battery exploded and caused the same **** :/
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Suho said:
It's not about mobile data or wifi or anything, it's just unnatural to lose that much battery ! It's not even heating.
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No, my battery was crap with mobile data, wifi is well but be more cautious with mobile data and you'll see
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iok1 said:
No, my battery was crap with mobile data, wifi is well but be more cautious with mobile data and you'll see
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I assure you I have tried without anything on, bluetooth and all ! It was working just fine before (idk what caused this sudden change).
Forgot to mention I bought a new battery and the same s*** happens =(.

Suho said:
I assure you I have tried without anything on, bluetooth and all ! It was working just fine before (idk what caused this sudden change).
Forgot to mention I bought a new battery and the same s*** happens =(.
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Flash a stock ROM through odin and bring it to the store :/
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Dont overclock
Maybe its the thing where power goes off or on the battery on your phone
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voetbalremco said:
Dont overclock
Maybe its the thing where power goes off or on the battery on your phone
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I don't
(Frank) said:
Flash a stock ROM through odin and bring it to the store :/
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Yeah that's my last resort but I would prefer to fix it myself, this will take ages =/
By the way is there a flash counter on this device ? If I just flash a stock rom I'm good to go ?

at me its just when i use it , scroll for music/youtube / browser/msn , it goes down very fast , like 4-5% in 1-2 min , but if i keep the screen off and i dont use mobile data network/wifi/BT i can listen music for over 10 hours with no stop (I tested it) it something with battery or what ?

Suho said:
I don't
Yeah that's my last resort but I would prefer to fix it myself, this will take ages =/
By the way is there a flash counter on this device ? If I just flash a stock rom I'm good to go ?
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Flash a stock, make sure it's unrooted and yeh you can bring it to the shop
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Suho said:
I don't
Yeah that's my last resort but I would prefer to fix it myself, this will take ages =/
By the way is there a flash counter on this device ? If I just flash a stock rom I'm good to go ?
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Gio doesnt have a flash counter, just make sure its kn s stock rom wich has been given out by samsung, there are also unnoficial roms, leaked maybe, these arent given by kies but are on sammobile
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discharging at that rate without any heat means a single thing: battery is of very low capacity.
My phone last usually 3-4 days on a charge, but without any use it will last 10-13 days. Using camera of any stressful game will discharge the battery 5-10%/minute, but in the same time phone gets hot.

what's about cpu usage, do you checking how many process was running?

No flash counter?!?!?!?!?!!?!?!?!?!
The heck that means I can always get warranty if something happens mwhahaha. Lol I'm a loser sorry. But that's actually awesome. Mine would be at like 50 if it had one.
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True, just make sure that you flash a stock rom when going to service center, and no custom recovery, kernel, root etc, these all wipe when flashing a stock rom
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My wife's Gio has the same problem (fast power drops, 3-4mv,...).
At the moment I didn't find a solution yet.

esilviu said:
discharging at that rate without any heat means a single thing: battery is of very low capacity.
My phone last usually 3-4 days on a charge, but without any use it will last 10-13 days. Using camera of any stressful game will discharge the battery 5-10%/minute, but in the same time phone gets hot.
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How can you make your phone to last that long??

s!mon said:
How can you make your phone to last that long??
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don't use your phone
and set clock speed low, maximum 600 min 100 or something, maybe even lower..

Have you got the official gio firmware? if not try to install it & do full battery stats/data wipe...maybe the problem can be a bug in your current ROM.

(Q) battery charge?

My battery won't go past 88%?? I've flashed several different ROMs so its not that? Anyone have any ideas?
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topdawg661 said:
My battery won't go past 88%?? I've flashed several different ROMs so its not that? Anyone have any ideas?
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Edit: I fixed it by putting my HOV in recovery and fixed permissions.
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topdawg661 said:
My battery won't go past 88%?? I've flashed several different ROMs so its not that? Anyone have any ideas?
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This thread might help: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2097299&highlight=battery
Specially the last post...

Change thread's title to solved

topdawg661 said:
Edit: I fixed it by putting my HOV in recovery and fixed permissions.
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Actually, booting into recovery did nothing dude. I experience this problem just about everyday.
I think its the way the battery percentage is calculated. The battery is actually charged beyond 100%, but the phone will keep on showing 88 and move extremely ( or not move at all) slowly.
You just need to restart your phone once, and that'll bring up the battery count right up to the correct reading
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arc s battery drain

i have a arc s,and after turning off the battery drain quickly and phone also get heated..................
one day i full charged it and turned it off,and leave it on the table....... after 2 days i tried to tuned it on but nothing happen so i removed the battery and charged it with a charger!!!
and phone starts without any problem.......
can any one help me in this problem??????? :crying: :crying: :crying: :crying:

Have a spare battery with you :highfive:

yeah i have 3 spare battery's, didn't check with them.

Sorry, did not understand what it was about and wrote.

i think its problem with hardware!!!! :crying: :crying: :crying:

zyclops1 said:
i think its problem with hardware!!!! :crying: :crying: :crying:
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use genuine battery and test. If you not solved it than it's hardware phone or cooke rom (if you use)

HW problem
rod555 said:
use genuine battery and test. If you not solved it than it's hardware phone or cooke rom (if you use)
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It is not a battery related problem. I have the same issue:
- tried different battery form another phone that works fine and gets drain quickly on my phone
- tried a brand new Sony battery that drains up on my phone and works well in another "known good" arc S
- if you take out the battery from the phone a put it back in after 5 hours the battery is still ok
- if you just turn off the phone - the battery will continue his depletion and will be fully discharged in 4 hours
- I opened the phone and took a thermal image of the board on an off and there is a hot spot around the Compass IC
- however Compass is working fine
- it still could be a SW issue that could have brought he phone to operate in a configuration that activates sections of HW with conflicting level of voltages causing a current path at low impedance dissipating a lot of energy
- I wanted to do a factory reset but did not manage to do it right now for lack of time - will do in the next couple of days and let you know
- another potential problem could be related to the Power Supply IC PM80xx which could be damaged and would need replacement

Fabiuz11 said:
It is not a battery related problem. I have the same issue:
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if flash other rom?

rod555 said:
if flash other rom?
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downgrading to GB FW :crying:

rod555 said:
if flash other rom?
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I was not thinking of re-progamming the flash manually (however it could be a good test to do), but just doing a factory reset. I did not manage to back-up my data yet...

zyclops1 said:
downgrading to GB FW :crying:
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try and flash ics rom and kernel. 587

rod555 said:
try and flash ics rom and kernel. 587
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I flash rush kernal and a custom rom
Still same..
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zyclops1 said:
I flash rush kernal and a custom rom
Still same..
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stock ROM
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tangosierra_ said:
stock ROM
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Stock Rom battery drain quickly,custom rom drain slowly
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Battery Drain .. any advices

guys i have too much battery drain
Android System 20%
Android OS 10%
im on ARHD 31.2 Stock kernel and i installed it with all wipe types
and didnt activate the blinkfeed yet
any advices
cause i'v seen people says that sense 5 improved their battery life !

You don't understand what the stats are telling you. Firstly, the stats you cite are the percentage of battery USED, not USE. Besides, if you actually used your phone, you would see other factors recorded in higher proportion (such as Screen).
If you really believe you have drain, search for Best Battery Stats and install then carefully follow the advice in the thread dedicated to BBS. None of this is cutting edge stuff.

LenAsh said:
You don't understand what the stats are telling you. Firstly, the stats you cite are the percentage of battery USED, not USE. Besides, if you actually used your phone, you would see other factors recorded in higher proportion (such as Screen).
If you really believe you have drain, search for Best Battery Stats and install then carefully follow the advice in the thread dedicated to BBS. None of this is cutting edge stuff.
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i was on the sense 4+ and i installed same apps same work same everything
the battery is worse than before thats it ...

I have battery drain on Sense 5 with all those custom s5 roms. Så im on CM right now. Much better

So find out what's causing it. As explained. None of us are psychic...

LenAsh said:
So find out what's causing it. As explained. None of us are psychic...
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im not asking you for solution
if you have any advice you can told me
you dont have to reply on this

Try using an app " greenify " . IF ur phone is not rooted try " super optimize "
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barettlight said:
Try using an app " greenify " . IF ur phone is not rooted try " super optimize "
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Apps like that close processes that are currently running before they are finished and then android starts them up again.
Then starts the closing restart cycle and it's bye bye battery.
My had advice would be to remove/disable apps you don't use.
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Well the best option is to install a custom rom n a suitable kernel . tinykernel works best for me .
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Why dont u try changing kernel. :what:
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SnakeEyesNinja said:
Why dont u try changing kernel. :what:
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Because HTC haven't released kennel sources yet.
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barettlight said:
Try using an app " greenify " . IF ur phone is not rooted try " super optimize "
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im already rooted and on ARHD 31.2 and tried geenify and nothing changed
tried alex's kernel nothing changed
i think im going back to 4+ tell next update

Eiad Ajam said:
im already rooted and on ARHD 31.2 and tried geenify and nothing changed
tried alex's kernel nothing changed
i think im going back to 4+ tell next update
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You tired blade Rom? Is under 300mb pretty much everything stripped out.
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Eiad Ajam said:
im not asking you for solution
if you have any advice you can told me
you dont have to reply on this
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I gave you my suggestion already.

Eiad Ajam said:
im not asking you for solution
if you have any advice you can told me
you dont have to reply on this
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tsk,tsk,tsk be grateful for all members input.

[Q] Battery problem plz help

My friend is having problem with his battery
When he charge his battery to 100% and use and sometimes phone hangs n restart n battery comes down to 15-20%
Can anybody knows d reason
He is on stock rom unrooted

abhi0502 said:
My friend is having problem with his battery
When he charge his battery to 100% and use and sometimes phone hangs n restart n battery comes down to 15-20%
Can anybody knows d reason
He is on stock rom unrooted
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maybe it's a battery problem try to use another battery from the same mobile type if it fixes the problem tell him/her to go buy a new one

Eng. Mido said:
maybe it's a battery problem try to use another battery from the same mobile type if it fixes the problem tell him/her to go buy a new one
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Yeah he is changing the battery. But i want to know the reason why is it happening. I heard it is common problem about battery in Samsung phones

abhi0502 said:
Yeah he is changing the battery. But i want to know the reason why is it happening. I heard it is common problem about battery in Samsung phones
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If you are on stock 4.2.2, you are likely to experience battery problems... Try reverting to original stock 4.1.2 and see if the problem exists
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DMJoh said:
If you are on stock 4.2.2, you are likely to experience battery problems... Try reverting to original stock 4.1.2 and see if the problem exists
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Yeah i will tell him to try

Same here!
abhi0502 said:
Yeah i will tell him to try
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With me it's exactly the same thing!
I tried the same steps for you: With 50%, the phone hangs up.
What if I restart it with 70% it back to 20%.
I suspect we have problem with the battery level sensor.
I bought another phone.