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I was just doing random stuff on my phone and went to click a button near the top right of the screen, and was mildly horrified to see "1%", so I immediately put it into the charger, where the phone promptly started showing "0%" for the next ~30 seconds. The phone never died.

Has this happened to any of you?

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 weeks ago (4 children)

No. If mine goes single digits, it's a crap shoot. It can take 30 minutes to go from 20% to 10%, but it will shut down 5, 3,or 1 minute after it hits 10%.

I have never had a phone where the developers were such shit at coding the voltage estimation, or designing the hardware doing the measuring, or whatever combination makes it so random.

Never buying another Samsung again. Mainly because if the uninstallable bloatware, but crap like this battery thing is also infuriating.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

It's a bad battery that's causing this issue. You can't calculate for a battery that's out of spec which is why they drop from 30% to 2% in minutes or shutoff when you still show 20% remaining. The voltage sags below the minimum capable for the hardware.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 weeks ago

Maybe. If so, it came from the factory this way; it's always done this.

So, now I'm also concerned about Samsung's QC.

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