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battery life problems after update

Edison1 — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 21:23:22 GMT

Good evening,

I recently updated my phone build number officially from .42 to .62. Lt18a Arc s.

anyway, just now my battery was sitting at 13%. i went online to check a few things just for roughly 30 secs? the battery warning popped out saying i have 1% battery left. then 10 seconds later my phone shut down on its own. i tried to turn it back on again, but it failed to do so.

I went to the charger and plugged it in. the phone started up and it says it is charging from 13%.

So how is this even possible? Losing 12% in 30 seconds plus shut down? on top of that when i went back to charge it, it states 13% charging.

my phone never encounter such problem. Bought it a month ago. problems just started after the update.

any solutions?

thanks in advance

Edison.

Re: battery life problems after update

uliwooly-wooly — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 21:55:45 GMT

did you use flashtool to flash from 2.3.4 to 2.3.2 to 2.3.4?

you can repair your phone with

Update Service (SEUS)

http://dl-www.sonyericsson.com/cws/download/1/110/61/1309763183/Update_Service_Setup-2.11.7.13.exe

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Re: battery life problems after update

Edison1 — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 22:03:31 GMT

I didnt use any flash tool. I used the PC companion 2.0 to update it. It failed to update the build number the first few times but it got through afterwards.

I dont think i have much to do other than recharging it and use it till it reaches near 0% to see how it goes. :l

Re: battery life problems after update

uliwooly-wooly — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 22:04:45 GMT

it might be a software bug, just try SEUS (link above) and repair your phone

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Re: battery life problems after update

Edison1 — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 02:31:21 GMT

I will do that right now, just got back from school ><</p>

Earlier when i was at school it states it was 99% then all of the sudden it dropped to 81% lol.

Re: battery life problems after update

uliwooly-wooly — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 02:42:17 GMT

there might be either

1) an app thats acting up

2) the software might be acting up

but you should be able to fix it with SEUS

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Re: battery life problems after update

Edison1 — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 04:17:26 GMT

apparently it reinstalled the entire phone software. I had to reinstall all my apps -.-.

not a big deal cause i didnt have much stuff anyway.

I got a few questions right now:

my internet kept going on and off. (not wifi, im talking about my 3G)

It kept saying i cant download the internet settings and the mms.

Back then i moved quite a number of apps into the SD card. now that the entire phone got a reset, what happens to those apps? i redownloaded "app 2 SD free" and apparently it shows nothing in the SD card but at the bottom it does show how much space i used (which i think it did contain the previous apps and stuff)

all the photos and videos in my sd card got messed up. they are everywhere lol, some of it arent in the respective catergory.

Re: battery life problems after update

uliwooly-wooly — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 04:26:13 GMT

you have to redownload each app, and then most likely the data from that app will be there, you don't need apps2sd free, I rather do it manually.

go to settings -> sony ericsson -> internet settings

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Re: battery life problems after update

Edison1 — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 04:28:00 GMT

i tried that, with wifi on it self, and then 3G on itself. Both doesnt work. -.-

Re: battery life problems after update

uliwooly-wooly — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 04:45:17 GMT

what doesn't work? the market doesn't work?

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Re: battery life problems after update

Edison1 — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 04:46:14 GMT

internet / mms settings

**** Nvm i fixed it ***** had to do it manually.

So is there a way i could reformat my SD card? if i just do a normal reformat will that lose all the SE settings that it came with?

Re: battery life problems after update

uliwooly-wooly — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 05:09:59 GMT

if you reformat your SD card you will lose EVERYTHING that's on it

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Re: battery life problems after update

Sat, 28 Jan 2012 14:08:57 GMT

By going through normal format of SD card will not loos any setting of phone,

ofcourse, you SD card will wipe ALL the data as wooly said in earlier reply.

better to keep a copy of your SD Card date transfered on your PC. than format it.

also it is even safe and advisable to format SD card with external card reader kind of hardware, (meaning, keeping it away from your phone, while performing format)

Re: battery life problems after update

Edison1 — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 01:15:28 GMT

Cause before the reinstallation of the phone i had apps put into the SD card.

Right now it seems like it took up the space of the SD card, but i cant do anything about it cause i cant even locate it.

I do not know what is important to the SD card, what should stay there and what shouldnt.

So as i was asking.. if i do reformat the SD card, i lose everything.

If i lose everything, does the SD card even work with the phone after i reformatted the SD card?

cause i know the sd card came with some preinstalled stuff inside the SD card.

Re: battery life problems after update

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 09:22:25 GMT

dont worry about those pre-installed stuff. and after formating SD card, it wont affect anything with your phone, when u mount it back to the phone.

Always keep some 200 mb or more minimum free space on your SD card.

the apps you download , check and move to SD card (if possible)

Setting-->Applications-->manage applications--> move to SD card.. if it is moveable, it wil show you.

also keep track of free / used space of your SD card.