Sudden charging/capacity problems

[rootabaga]

Hi, folks.

Didn't see much about this anywhere. My F3 is not quite two years old. Battery was fairly low last night, put it on to charge as usual, grabbed it on the way out the door this morning. Looked at it on the train and it was half discharged, so I was thinking maybe I didn't actually plug it in or something last night. So I plugged it in on a USB port at work, so slow charging of course, but this is glacial, nothing like this before. It only gets to about 45%, then when you unplug it it starts to drop, within a few minutes at 38%. I turned it off and cleaned the battery contacts, then left it off but charging for more than an hour with the same result.

Is this a known issue? Is it likely I have a failing battery, or is there something else afoot?

Thanks for any useful input.

 

[roadkill42]

Hi, folks.

Didn't see much about this anywhere. My F3 is not quite two years old. Battery was fairly low last night, put it on to charge as usual, grabbed it on the way out the door this morning. Looked at it on the train and it was half discharged, so I was thinking maybe I didn't actually plug it in or something last night. So I plugged it in on a USB port at work, so slow charging of course, but this is glacial, nothing like this before. It only gets to about 45%, then when you unplug it it starts to drop, within a few minutes at 38%. I turned it off and cleaned the battery contacts, then left it off but charging for more than an hour with the same result.

Is this a known issue? Is it likely I have a failing battery, or is there something else afoot?

Thanks for any useful input.

Sounds like bat dying

 

[ivanmius]

Amazon has LG replacement batteries for our phone. Rated at 2460 mAh and everything. I'm seeing one for $6 right now.

My battery is also close to failing. Whenever it gets down to ~14% it rapidly drops and the phone dies. What new phone are you considering? I was gonna go for the LG Stylo 2 from VM or Boost.

 

[roadkill42]

Amazon has LG replacement batteries for our phone. Rated at 2460 mAh and everything. I'm seeing one for $6 right now.

My battery is also close to failing. Whenever it gets down to ~14% it rapidly drops and the phone dies. What new phone are you considering? I was gonna go for the LG Stylo 2 from VM or Boost.

Im on stylo2 now nice phone

 

[ivanmius]

Im on stylo2 now nice phone

Have you tried rooting it? I've noticed there isn't much of a community for the phone.

 

[roadkill42]

Have you tried rooting it? I've noticed there isn't much of a community for the phone.

Mine wont root cause its the lates firmware v4 if u get one with v3 then u can root wit king root then flash using flashify to flash su then reboot u have full root