My next step would be to try a battery reset. I ll provide my feedback asap.
Good work!
I tend it is only a battery software problem.
FP battery is known to have problems acquiring the correct charging level after reboots (esp. unwanted).
Therefore I decided only to send my FP to FlightMode during night instead of shutting it down and struggeling with wrong charging levelsā¦
- did you make the battery-reset already before this test? If not - go ahead to make it and again watcht to the battery consumption over the next hours (days) and provide a screenshot.
- your battery voltage is 3,694V for 18% level. I will check at home, if I noted also a voltage for 18% level, than we can compare [I will edit here]
- what is about your other problem, concerning the WiFi?
- I guess, if you would continue using the FP starting from 18% - it will be stuck at 14/15% for several hours and afterwards running down till 0% within minutes, as this is the behaviour a lot of FP users reported (incl. me).
- But with the battery reset und avoiding FP reboots with a low battery level I do not run in this problem within the last months [I will add later some comments on this in the [battery wiki\]
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I would say one should better write: āso it dropped from 60 to 18% triggered by an unwanted rebootā since it most likely has nothing to do with the āfew minutesā.
Cheers, Robert
Edit1: From the battery test you can check some voltages for your FP battery, e.g. after a āfullā charge it should have about 4.1V, 50% should have about 3.8V. Yours 18% with ~3,7V could be quite realisticā¦
I would recommend to make the battery reset test and afterwards note down every 10% your batter voltage and check if you are approx. at the voltage curve posted below (considering āTime/minā in first approximation as ācapacity/%ā, although it is most likely not linear.) Just for a first guess, if it seems OK or if we already here see a bloating battery (are there any voltage curve for this available?)
Actually I still see this behaviour as the first symptoms of a bloating batteryā¦ It started like this with my own (first) battery and subsequently it started swelling.
Yep, I still donāt say to ignore the possibilty to a swollen battery!!
Some more remarks for charging problems (by cleaning the USB-Connector), which could maybe also connected with wrong battery level:
My battery is now bloated and almost useless
Just in case you havenāt done so already, instructions on what to do are here.
Also, please stop using the battery, the swelling is a sign of physical failure and a swollen battery can be dangerous, even more so when in use/being charged. See the linked help desk article for proper disposal procedures.
Bad to here.
Can you give us a short timeline of the develoment?
e.g.: Notice of battery level jumps on .[ā¦dateā¦] --> Spin-test=negative on [ā¦]ā> more problems (likeā¦) on [ā¦]ā> spin-test=positiv on [ā¦]?
Would help for others to figure out the development of symptoms to a bloated batteryā¦thanks a lot!
Cheers, Robert
When I first wrote about the problem, it had been so for about 2-3 weeks, so it was a month ago.
The bloated battery emerged continous, no special date.
Now I donāt dare use the phone anymore,
But you already wrote to the support?!
Yes, https://fairphone.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/requests/70294 (donĀ“t know if you can see the link though)
Nope, we canāt. (Post must be 20 chars long at minimumā¦)
Sorry, I had important personnal problems and couldnāt take the time to deal with my Fairphone issues.
The thing is, even if i disable the wifi (settings> SIM management > Wi-Fi OFF) the phone connects to wi-fi when it finds some.
The battery spin test is negative.
Iām trying to drain the battery and charge it as indicated in post 2 tonight.
Do that. But before putting the drained battery back into the phone leave the āemptyā phone plugged in for some time (a (few) minute(s)).
How long does it take from seeing the first symptoms/problems of your battery to swell?
I have the same ugly battery problems ā but the battery is Ā»unfortunatelyĀ« not swelled (yet) ā¦
Thanks!
webaschtl
ah, found this: Battery drop from 50% to 15% every time
My battery started bloating a few weeks after the symptoms of fast battery drop. I reported the problem mid-November (see my comments on 15 November and around that date) and the bloating appeared at around Christmas. I have now replaced the battery, and the phone is fine againā¦ almost three days without need for charging.
Hi there! since I took part to this discussion earlier on, I thought Iād report back. I tried some of the suggestions multiple times (as the battery drop was so quick after 50%, full discharge happened regularly), had a look at battery stats, etc., and in the end I just bought a new battery and all is working just fine, as expected.
If I have to look for a reason why the battery got to this, I fear it is because for a few times the phone has remained exposed to the sun for lengthy periods, and lamented overheating. Anyway, a couple of years have passed since I first bought this, so itās not tooooo bad.