[Q] Any way to ACTUALLY calibrate a new battery?

[Daniel Smedegaard Buus]

Hello

So my GS2's battery was seriously getting crappy, and I ordered a new original battery (more expensive, but I really wanted it to work properly). Before the replacement, it was all over the place, and I think I may very well have a phone that's seriously confused about its battery options.

Thing is, after the replacement the phone isn't charging the new battery properly (AFAICT). If I'd have to venture a guess, I'd say it charges it to 33% and then it states 100% full.

So, I get just a handful of hours of regular on-time with this new battery. Sometimes the phone hard-dies when saying about 50% remaining, other times it actually says something like 2% remaining, then dies, but still awfully far from logical, considering the fresh battery replacement.

I've searched for how to calibrate this thing, and most results simply recommend the "fully deplete, then fully charge, extract, reinsert, etc." method.

However, this does nothing to help me.

I read somewhere that for some custom ROMs (Dorimanx kernel?) you could do a more "explicit" recalibration, but I'm not sure if that'd work — as I'm on ParanoidAndroid ATM, and here I don't have such option.

So... Does anyone here know of any more "legitimate" way of recalibrating? I really don't want to buy a new phone, as these days I don't see any phone I really want to buy...

TIA,
Daniel

 

[Sparks9876]

new batteries require a few charge discharge cycles before they reach max capacity, you may need to leave it on charge for longer than the "charged" info appears.

 

[stonedpsycho]

new batteries require a few charge discharge cycles before they reach max capacity, you may need to leave it on charge for longer than the "charged" info appears.

+1

 

[Daniel Smedegaard Buus]

new batteries require a few charge discharge cycles before they reach max capacity, you may need to leave it on charge for longer than the "charged" info appears.

Thanks, Sparks, but I've already done this many times. I've had the battery for a couple of months now, but I really need to figure out how to calibrate the phone so that it starts behaving "normally" with my new battery...

 

[gastonw]

Let it die, juice it up while it's off, take the batt for 90 sec when it hits 100% and put it back in?

Sent from the little guy

 

[MistahBungle]

No. The whole 'calibrate the battery thing' (and the apps that claim to do it) on the S2 is Kool Aid.

 

[beicuxhaven]

There is no need to calibrate the battery
sorry for my english

 

[Daniel Smedegaard Buus]

No. The whole 'calibrate the battery thing' (and the apps that claim to do it) on the S2 is Kool Aid.

There is no need to calibrate the battery
sorry for my english

Something definitely needs calibration, and yes, of course it's not the battery itself when buying a fresh original battery does not fix one's battery problems, it must be some battery controller somewhere. I just started a new job, and my CEO has a Galaxy S3 which started having battery troubles. Like me, he replaced the battery, and like me, nothing changed.

In the meantime, my S2 died completely, so problem "solved" I kinda feel retarded for planning on buying a Note 3... Probably ought to run from Samsung devices altogether...