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Root recalibrate battery?

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fd2blk78

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Running axiom b15.

Here's the question, I purchased an extended battery for my bionic. It lasted a good 15 hours! Awesome. Only thing is, it read 1% for the last 8! I wiped battery stats and waited till it does before recharging. How many times will I have to let it die out and recharge before I get an accurate reading? Thanks for the help!
 
OK, when letting the battery die down and then recharging in order to recalibrate, do I need yo avoid the phone completely charging down to the point of a shutdown? Because I have yet to get this battery calibrated. I am still reading 1% for the last 6-8 hours of battery life. Its becoming a fairly annoying thing. What else, or maybe what EXACTLY do I have to do to get this thing to ready accurately? How can I tell when right before the phone is actually going to die if it always reads 1%?

Thanks for the help, again.
 
fd2blk78 said:
OK, when letting the battery die down and then recharging in order to recalibrate, do I need yo avoid the phone completely charging down to the point of a shutdown? Because I have yet to get this battery calibrated. I am still reading 1% for the last 6-8 hours of battery life. Its becoming a fairly annoying thing. What else, or maybe what EXACTLY do I have to do to get this thing to ready accurately? How can I tell when right before the phone is actually going to die if it always reads 1%?

Thanks for the help, again.
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if you are still having the issue it sounds like something with the rom not the battery calibration. The battery stats should be reestablished after a few days of use. You could try reflashing the rom. You could try a battery widget like battery circle widget and test that against the roms battery indicator.
 
Reflashed rom day before yesterday. (Kin3tx for. 901) Also recalibrated battery. Battery drained down, and read 1%, stayed that way for about 7a hours, has 22 hours of uptime. Wasn't dead when I went to bed last night so I just plugged it in. Read 100% this morning, and is already down to 36%, which I know for a fact is not accurate. Also threw circle battery widget on there as per your suggestion, and that reads the same at the rom tells me. I am beginning to think I am going to have to switch roms, or just live with it. I kinda feel stuck since I dont think this rom is supported any more. Any other ideas out there? I really apprecia the the help. But this thing is getting annoying. Thanks again.
 
fd2blk78 said:
Reflashed rom day before yesterday. (Kin3tx for. 901) Also recalibrated battery. Battery drained down, and read 1%, stayed that way for about 7a hours, has 22 hours of uptime. Wasn't dead when I went to bed last night so I just plugged it in. Read 100% this morning, and is already down to 36%, which I know for a fact is not accurate. Also threw circle battery widget on there as per your suggestion, and that reads the same at the rom tells me. I am beginning to think I am going to have to switch roms, or just live with it. I kinda feel stuck since I dont think this rom is supported any more. Any other ideas out there? I really apprecia the the help. But this thing is getting annoying. Thanks again.
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When you reflashed it did you wipe data/cache/dalvik and format the system?
 
New Rising said:
Not sure, I've never had that problem before. You could try redownloading the ics rom and flashing it again. Since kin3tx is no longer supported you could give Eclipse a shot and see how that works out for you.
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Alright, I wiped, flashed eclipse rom, just to hopefully see a change, and om still running into the same problem. Battery life is now actually better than the kin3tx rom, but here is tot, at 315 pm, an my battery meter reads 1%. I've been routinely getting 18-22 hours of battery time. But this thing will just not calibrate. Is there something just wrong with the phone itself? Im at a loss. Is there someone out there with a solution?

Thanks
 
Did you buy an official, Motorola extended battery or a third-party battery? If it is third party, it is probably not reporting the state of the cells in a way that the phone expects to determine the amount of battery life left.

So, it's not the phone, it's probably the battery.
 
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