I just received my new batteryā¦! My life has changed!
Fully charged this morning at 8:00 itās 15:00 and Iām 72%!!! I even played Frozen for a while!!!
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Even if your battery is not bloated I think you should change itā¦ changed everything for me.
Do you think they give you a warranty ticket, if you canāt actually see that there is a manufacturing defect?
Has anyone gotten a warranty ticket with a non-bloated battery?
I donāt know, itās worth trying but normally batteries arenāt covered by warranties.
I know there are some topics about battery problems but i didnāt find any answers in any of them. My battery goes down very quickly. Itās been going on for a few days now. This morning i got up around 08:00 am with a 100% battery, half an hour later it was 92% without using it, if i use it i can practically see the percentage drop. Now, almost 4 hours later, my FP is at 45%. Does someone know how to solve this?
Some background info:
- It didnāt occur right after the update but i do use Kola Nut 1.8.
- I had the 14% bug and the 15% to 1% in seconds bug but those are gone.
- I use Juice Defender and followed some of the tips to lengthen the life of my battery.
- My FP doesnāt always charge. Sometimes when the red light is on and the phone indicates itās charging i see that after some hours the battery just drained. I already filled in a repair form but iām still waiting to send my phone cause i got no replacement and the problem doesnāt always occur.
There are a lot of answers, but no solution yet! 
You can be sure, that if we knew, what to do, there would have been a solution posted!
For now, the best thing is to wait until the battery bloats and then request a warranty ticket from Fairphone.
This might also be interesting: Charging does not work properly.
So this is a symptom of a bloated battery? I shall wait before that happens to return it with the repair form.
I fear sooner or later your battery will bloatā¦ Nothing officially confirmed though!
@Stefan: Confirmed! My phone was at 6%, ran down from 15% in a matter of minutes, screen on.
Turned screen off, checked back appr. 2 hrs later: 4%!
I too had the 14% bug with the percentage stalled at 14% for appr. 12 hrs. before the update. Are these bugs related? It would appear so!
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Seems to me that the 14%-Problem (which later escalated for me to a "45% to 0% in a few minutesā-problem) was the sign of a failing battery. Ordered a replacement battery and since then Iām seeing an almost linear drop in the battery capacity.
Still: not good. Hope that I donāt have to replace the battery every year (never had to do replace the battery on my previous phones and I used them 2yrs and longer)
And: it would be interesting how common this problem is. Because: everyone in this thread has this problem which might distort reality for us. Maybe weāre the only 20 (estimate) people who have this problem (then I wouldnāt consider this a big problem). But maybe weāre only 1% of the people having this problem. The rest just didnāt find the thread
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@Arnd: Thank you for confirming this. It seems that before and after the update the battery calibration was handled differently, so the low-quality-battery showed different symptoms. Still, I donāt think the bad battery is caused by the update.
@bgschaid: We did some calculations on this some while ago:
Maybe this has been posted before, but still:
- replaced old battery for my Fairphone (first edition) with a new one three weeks ago
- seems to be working just fine
- today: phone shut itself off because battery was down; no failure here
- just started to recharge it - first, no red light, after one minute red light appeared, I checked: big battery symbol on blue screen showed 2%
- after 15 minutes, I checked again: recharge status showed 19%
- charging stil going on, I immediately switched on my phone, everything started as normal, BUT battery status in recharging mode now showed 55% - !?
- I switched off my phone; recharging status continued at 55%.
This means: from 19% to 55% in 10 seconds!?
Maybe this piece of information helps solving the battery trouble.
Thanks!
I would be interested to know this. Iām keeping an eye on my battery, but no signs of physical bloating so far.
Iāve also experienced similar battery issues that people have described in this thread, with power suddenly dropping down. And power draining much more quickly than expected - last night I had around 20% before I went to sleep, but woke up to a dead phone! (no data or wifi connection enabled)
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As I already said before, support replaced my battery before it even started bloating. So, write them a ticket, refer to this forum and theyāll send you a new one (if they have not run out of new batteries by now 
Although I havenāt had huge problems with my new battery, I have experienced some of the funny battery stuff that is part of this thread again with my new battery. It seems that if the phone is charging and I am extensively using the phone, e.g. for a game play more than 5 minutes, and the phone gets really hot, that then - the battery load is jumping up and down and creating problems for the following charging cycle. So for now, I am not using my phone while charging and I havenāt had any problems.
While this is not how it is supposed to be, it works for me now at the moment and I hope that the next FP will not have these problems anymoreā¦
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I also have a charging problem. It wonāt charge sometimes even when it is plugged in and today it dropped from 55% to 21% just when restarting the phone. I have the original Kola Nuts 1.8 version installed (FP1).
Iāve had similar issue for a while, but Iāve just found this topic now. Overall, my FP1ās battery seems to drain a bit quicker than before (I used to be able to do 3-4 days with it, whereas now I get 1-2 days max), but the most annoying part is that it goes from 15% to 4% to 0% in seconds.
Good to know this is a recognized issue. Iāll contact FP support and hope the new battery will fix it.
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Damn, Iām afraid I may have a similar issue soonā¦ 
Exactly the symptoms of my phone as well. My fiancƩe also have a Fairphone that he got one week after me, we are doing the same thing with our phones but while I have to charge it three times a day he usually has ~40% battery left in the evening, even though he uses a pebble and I do not.
No signs of physical bloating though.
@Sokin, did you have the same problems?
I have the same problems as @Spicy
"This morning i got up around 08:00 am with a 100% battery, half an hour later it was 92% without using it, if i use it i can practically see the percentage drop. Now, almost 4 hours later, my FP is at 45%. Does someone know how to solve this?
Some background info:
- It didnāt occur right after the update but i do use Kola Nut 1.8.
- I had the 14% bug and the 15% to 1% in seconds bug but those are gone.
- I use Juice Defender and followed some of the tips to lengthen the life of my battery."