Battery-charging weirdness...

[Big D]

I had something weird happen to my Droid once like that (but I have no dock). Said battery down to 15% or something like that. I plugged it in (using the wall charger) it said charging 90%.
Only happened once, on 2.0, so as with computers, I wrote it off as just "one of those things".

Me, too. I had about 70% on a charge. A few minutes later, I get a low batterry warning. I figured it was some app draining it. I plugged it in for about 5 minutes and it read 70% again and that lasted the rest of the day.

Only happened once.

[Laurence5905]

yeah sounds like a fluke. you might have an app installed that can access the battery (or some related process) that flipped it out. if it happens again, reboot or try a battery pull. make sure you don't have any apps that might be questionable.

Now that's an interesting idea -- I do have Battery Widget running. Maybe that's what screwed it up.

EDIT: So I just ininstalled Battery Widget. Are there any other apps out there that do a similar thing? Show the battery level on the home screen, I mean?

[KiraQ]

I too have had the same thing happen to my Droid. I plug it in at night when I go to bed, with the charging cord that came with it, into an outlet in the kitchen.Three times I have gotten up and found the red 'charge me now' light flashing while it is still plugged in. I remove the cabe, plug it in angain and in seconds it is 100% charged. Has Mororola had anything to say about this issue? I have had my phone since early December.

[MacGyverS2000]

I'll add my hat to the ring...

Just got the 5% problem last night. Fresh charge from night prior, I was still at 75% (give or take) walking into a store... an hour later I had the blinking red LED of doom and a 5% warning. When I plugged it in (wall wart), it showed "60% and charging".

I have added only a few apps to my phone: AstroViewer for pics, a calculator app (never used), a barcode scanner (never used), and the power widget that comes with the phone. Everything is turned off (no GPS, Bluetooth, or WiFi) and the screen is set to the lowest illumination level.

I used it the week before on a single charge for 3 days, with a mix of a few short calls, plenty of texting, and a bit of web surfing... I still had 30% battery left (testing out what typical battery life would be like for me).

Either the hardware battery monitor chip is going tits up on the batteries, or the software that's reading it has issues.

BTW, this came from WireFly, so I'm pretty sure I didn't get a knock-off battery.

[HDTVsportsfan]

I've had wierd battery issue as well. I've had the Droid for 3 months. I have only added one DirecTV app. I got into the habit of plugging previous phones to the charger every night before going to bed. I had continued that w/ this phone as well.

I can charge it up all night and disconnect it the next morning and it will be at 5% or 10%. This has happened several times. Sometimes unplugging the charger and plugging it back in it will go to 100%. Other times disconnecting the charger the phone will just die. After that sometimes it won't power back up. I' ve tried the battery removal trick. So I'll wait the 15 minutes until i can make into work and plug it in to my USB charger (PC) and I still can't power it up. Suddenly ..say...20/25 minutes later I hear "DROID" and the damn thing will just turn on by itself and say it's charging at 5% and continue to charge for a few hours until it's 100%. This has all happened several times w/ varying combinations of issues and how the phone responds.

It seems the more I screw with it the weirder (<sp) it gets. Funny thing is....when I have it charged almost full it will last days as long as I don't plug it into a charger.

I'm in IT so I'm used to trouble shooting these type of intermittent annoyances. That's why I keep screwing with it. I took it a guy at my local BB that I have a good relationship w/ and he gave me a second battery as well as keeping my original. I actually don't think there is a problem w/ the phone or the batery itself. I think it's some weird a$$ problem between battery and the service that reports it.

I'll keep plugging away at it.

[MacGyverS2000]

It did it to me again this morning. I left it on the counter last night with mid-80s% charge, woke up to the 5% warning. Plugged it in, same 5%. Unplugged, replugged, jumped to 60%. Unplugged, it was back up to low 80s%. I'm getting pissed, this thing is going to leave me stranded one of these days.

[jacks201]

My husband and I have Droids and this has happened to both phones. The battery all of a sudden goes from 90%+ to 5% blinking red stating that it needs to be connected to the charger ASAP. It has also happened after the phone charged overnight. I turn my phone off and back on which has worked in resetting the battery although it's very irritating. This has happened at least five times since I bought my phone in late Jan.