Help Faulty phone or faulty battery?

laeta · Feb 9, 2012

So my SGS2 is about a month old and lately, it has been draining rather quickly. I decided to take out the battery and reinsert it. I noticed my battery level had dropped about 20%, but it fixed the problem for a couple of days. Now, I have to take out the battery every day in order to get it to last past 8 hours and the percentage of battery left drops about 20% every time (i.e. before taking the battery out, I'll have 80%, when I reinsert it a minute later, I suddenly have 60% or so). Do you think this is a faulty battery or faulty phone issue? Also, I have not done any software updates on the phone if that makes any difference.

dgreening · Feb 10, 2012

I am asking myself the same question. I have had the phone unplugged for almost 3 hours and with very minimal use it is down to 77%. It just doesn't sound right because my iPhone 4s has been unplugged longer and it is sitting at 93%. If this is normal then I might have to make sure I have a charger with me at all times.

Any ideas? Please don't say Juice Defender - tried it but it will not give real time updates to my email - it checks during certain intervals which is not acceptable for work.

(G) · Feb 12, 2012

Maybe try "resetting" your battery meter by letting the battery drain completely until the phone turns itself off, then charging it without disturbing it until it's at 100%.

misterrunon · Feb 12, 2012

are you on stock or custom ROM? which version, 2.3.4 or 2.3.6?

acp · Feb 12, 2012

Since 2.3.6 my phone loses 25% overnight without touching it. Prior to the update it would lose less than 10%

dksmoove · Feb 12, 2012

http://androidforums.com/samsung-galaxy-s2-t/470000-2-3-6-battery-life-sucks.html

CrimsonPride · Feb 12, 2012

It is something with the wifi, i have been having terrible battery life so today decided to experiment. turned my wifi completely off and was at 99% after 4 hours. turned it on and battery dropped very fast. i am an experienced android user and thought maybe i had something auto updating very often, but checked everything and i did not. so i bought tasker and made a task to turn my wifi on for 10 minutes every hour to help battery life. proof below

edit: i obviously do have a custom ROM, and i am also running some scripts that are supposed to help battery life. ive been on my phone quite alot since i bought tasker as i was testing it but it is 100 times better than before.

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