Facebook style post, regarding some serious matter
Please, guys, take your time and read this post. I'm not yapping about what I ate for breakfast. Bear with me, will ya?
Remember those reports regarding battery level dropping suddenly and screen flickering at not so low battery levels? Well... I'm getting that too, now. Hear me out!
I was on Neo's NX kernel
until last evening, then switched to CM kernel from 29th of March and, upon boot, battery was at 11% (dropped about 25%). Over the period of an hour or so, the battery indicator "charged" itself up to 17%. Oh well, figured it was because of Neo's battery fuel gauge or whatever that was before.
So, since yesterday and until now... I was on CM kernel from 29th of March. I charged my phone until it reached 50% and now, I wanted to discharge it entirely so I can set it to charge fully. To do so, I played Arcane Legends until the phone shut itself down (45 minutes or so). Then... Put the phone to charge. Nothing happens. I notice it 3 minutes later, and I press the home button. Phone boots up (upon pressing the home button?). Guess what? Battery was at 44% :/
Re-started Arcane Legends to re-drain battery... and it went down to 13% in no time (10 minutes or less). Screen started to flicker VERY BADLY.
I opened Battery Monitor Widget... according to that, battery was at 2973mV. There's no way that's accurate! If the battery voltage was that low, it would not even be able to recharge!
So, I put the phone to charge right away. Voltage went up to 3.7V in less than five seconds.
Now... my battery is less than 5 months old. My previous battery was about one year old and the phone wasn't doing this ! The screen would start to flicker slightly at 5% or less. Now it was flickering hardcore at 20% :/ .
Any ideas on this, guys?