I should learn not to trust the % on my battery
 

So I left my iPad 2 and HP TouchPad at home and left to FedEx to ship a package. All I had to do was look up in an email the address to ship a package to. I left home with 26% battery life. Mind you, this was my 3500MAH battery. 5 minute drive to FedEx and I was at 13%. Got inside and the phone started rebooting. One reboot and it was at 8% and then it just kept shutting off over and over again. After 30 minutes of fighting with the phone/getting my 1/2 charged original battery from the car, I got the address and shipped my package. It is terrible that no matter what ROM or battery or battery calibration or phone (my phone was replaced once), I still have the issue of the battery % just dropping 20% on a reboot.

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sounds like you need to talk to coz. lol
you must have a ton of stuff running in background cause i get way better life from my old epic when i use it. what rom are you using now? post a s.s of whats being used.

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I'm running that whatever red one. I need to reload the stock, root to restore the battery app, unroot, and bring back to have them look at the other issue which is obviously a network issue.

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the "red one"? ya that helps..

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What kind of fight were you in with your phone that took you a half hour to finish?

Wirelessly posted (htc Pocket PC: Sprint/HTC_Touch_Pro2_T7380 Opera/9.70 (Windows NT 5.1; U; en))

lol!
Sounds like he needs a Car Charger/Adapter for Christmas! :D

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getting in to gmail, finding email, rebooting, getting in to gmail, finding email, rebooting, getting in to gmail, finding email, rebooting, getting in to gmail, finding email, rebooting, getting in to gmail, finding email, rebooting, getting in to gmail, finding email

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I have been having the same issues with my TP2 lately actually lol..its weird it would drain out really really fast and then shut off due to low battery. Then I turn it back on it has 1-2% battery and shuts off...I leave it alone for half an hour and turn it back on and now it has 20% battery which also drains fast, tried calibrating it and no go.

I think the internal battery sensor might be broken :/


I mean its silly but the longer I leave the phone off the higher the battery meter is when i turn it back on. lol, and I can do this multiple times. So its obvious the battery has power inside it it just sensor going haywire I would think.

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I reckon you could have driven the 5 minutes home and looked it up and then returned with less hassle and more time to spare. Anyways, I hope you get it ironed out!

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Whenever my batter drops like that, I always shut down, remove the battery for a bit then reinstall the battery and boot up. This always adds about 10%-20% to my battery reading.

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I've had 2 epics and getting my 3rd tomorrow. Plus, I have 5 different batteries. All of those have the same issue.

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I suggest you demand a brand new one and not a refurb then...

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well seeing as they told me last time that they didn't have access to any new ones and the best they could do was a refurb, I already have a refurb. funny that the guy was like "you are eligible for an upgrade"
"there are no phones I want and this is a sprint network issue not a phone issue"
"well then I can order you the same phone so you aren't stuck with a phone you don't want."

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wait..he wanted you to use up your upgrade on the exact same phone? O.o

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no, upgrade to a different phone.

what a waste of my f'n time.

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BTW: the menu key on the new epic doesn't work.
I'm going to make a new thread...

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So... Refurb I just got has a menu key that doesn't work. Sprint on phone said go back and the would give me a phone new out of their stock. Go to store and they said they can't/won't do that and never have. All they can do is order me a 2nd refurb so I have to go back again in 2 days. 12/23 at the mall... Great...


Anyhow, I walked downtown with a 40% charged epic. Rebooted it to install something in cwm as I was walking, the phone went to 18% when it booted back up. Did what some here said taking the battery out for a few minutes, etc. phone booted up with 14% battery left.

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Always record sprints conversation(assuming its legal in your state) and ask for call reference number lol...

The battery removal trick only seems to work when phone runs out of battery :/..but again there could be different causes.

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yeah, I wrote down the number, but was juggling a 2yo and all.

man, I'm just going to stay at home and play skyrim for the next 1.5 week of my vacation. Tuesday while joggling, my iPod died (5.5 years old so expected). Today while running, this refurb's screen completely crapped out after only 1.2 miles. So many white people problems.