Please HELP with battery 5% in 10 minutes

rdcrds · #1 (**permalink**) 07-13-2010, 10:56 AM

I have seen threads in the past but today i woke up and wanted to finally check my battery with the new stuff on it.

The phone is rooted and i DL the overclock widget and set it like many have posted.I do not let stuff run i kill most of the stuff i do not use.

But since it has been off my charge i looked on market and checked twidder and in 10 minutes i lost 5% and 3 of those minutes it was in sllep mode.

I am at loss on this phone battery life.

rdcrds · #2 (**permalink**) 07-13-2010, 10:59 AM

Down 2% more in last 5 minutes

rdcrds · #3 (**permalink**) 07-13-2010, 11:04 AM

another 2% in last 5 minutes while not doing anything.

cmdauria · #4 (**permalink**) 07-13-2010, 11:14 AM

Once the phone is fully charged...It stops charging. For example, lets say you put the phone on charger before you go to bed and then at 3am it is fully charged. When you take it off the charger at 8am it has essentially been off the charger for 5 hours. What I do is as soon as I wake up, I unplug the phone for a minute then plug it right back in. Now, when I go to work the phone has a full charge. I hope this makes sense.

rdcrds · #5 (**permalink**) 07-13-2010, 11:21 AM

Yes makes sense thank you.

**clockcycle** · #6 (**permalink**) 07-13-2010, 11:24 AM

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Originally Posted by cmdauria

Once the phone is fully charged...It stops charging. For example, lets say you put the phone on charger before you go to bed and then at 3am it is fully charged. When you take it off the charger at 8am it has essentially been off the charger for 5 hours. What I do is as soon as I wake up, I unplug the phone for a minute then plug it right back in. Now, when I go to work the phone has a full charge. I hope this makes sense.

Good grasshopper, you make my job easier

rdcrds · #7 (**permalink**) 07-13-2010, 11:30 AM

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Originally Posted by clockcycle

Good grasshopper, you make my job easier

Can you tell me where the GPS widget is that i sent to remove? it is that one with the off and on button on the second home page.I have looked and can't find the widget

**clockcycle** · #8 (**permalink**) 07-13-2010, 11:36 AM

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Originally Posted by rdcrds

Can you tell me where the GPS widget is that i sent to remove? it is that one with the off and on button on the second home page.I have looked and can't find the widget

As a widget you can use "Power Control" or under the "Settings" widget you can press the menu (down arrow next to it) and get the individual widgets.

**themuffinman** · #9 (**permalink**) 07-13-2010, 11:32 AM

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Originally Posted by clockcycle

Your phone does not trickle charge itself, that means that when it is full it stops charging and uses the battery.

So even though you just took it off the charger it doesn't mean it just started using the battery and dropped 5%. It just refreshed the display showing what it used since full charge. The 2% additional in 5mins, means it was already gonna drop another 1% and by you watching and turning on the screen, you used up another 1%..

Also another theory would be the same thing that happens when you are watching your clock, time slows down... As you watch your battery usage, the more gets used..

-CC

Quote:

Originally Posted by cmdauria

Once the phone is fully charged...It stops charging. For example, lets say you put the phone on charger before you go to bed and then at 3am it is fully charged. When you take it off the charger at 8am it has essentially been off the charger for 5 hours. What I do is as soon as I wake up, I unplug the phone for a minute then plug it right back in. Now, when I go to work the phone has a full charge. I hope this makes sense.

I have heard this so many times before but I don't know what to believe. I mean my evo stays on the charger every night and I have never had this issue when I take it off the charger(I have two evos). I put my phone on the charger last night at around 230am and its still on the charger now at 1130am, so you are saying that if my phone was fully charged by 4am that it hasn't charged at all in the last 7hrs?

**clockcycle** · #10 (**permalink**) 07-13-2010, 11:33 AM

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Originally Posted by themuffinman

I have heard this so many times before but I don't know what to believe. I mean my evo stays on the charger every night and I have never have this issue when I take it off the charger. I put my phone on the charger last night at around 230am and its still on the charger now at 1130am, so you are saying that if my phone was fully charged by 4am that it hasn't charged at all in the 7hrs?

Correct.

EDIT: Once your battery is full, it stops charging. It does not "trickle" charge, so that your phone/battery doesn't over charge and or over heat causing a fire.

You can unplug and replug to top off your battery. Check the stickied link on HTC's method of fully charging your battery. This applies with most new Lithium Ion Battery/chargers..

To learn more or get more details you can refer to http://www.batteryuniversity.com/