Why won't my battery last 2 hours?

[Reaper 3-9]

battery wont last 2 hours

pulled my droid4 off the charger and the battery is at 5 percent 1 hour and 30 min later

 

[LeoRex]

Re: battery wont last 2 hours

It might be a failing battery. Batteries will degrade slowly over time, but eventually, that degradation speeds up and your battery performance falls off a cliff. How old is the battery?

 

[Reaper 3-9]

Re: battery wont last 2 hours

Thanks for the reply, the battery is about 5 months old. Here's a picture of my battery stats. The screen isn't even at full brightness, its at about 25%

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[LeoRex]

Yeah.... looking at that graph, I think the battery is messed up. 95% dead in about 98 minutes... with 90% of that the screen. That's a drain of 60% an hour. Near as I can tell, on a phone with fully working hardware, that would be damn near impossible. It's just too high... like face melting high... the amount of heat generated alone would be extremely high.

I'd try to swap in a new battery to see what happens. My money is on this one being toast (it isn't holding a charge properly)

 

[Reaper 3-9]

Re: battery wont last 2 hours

Thank you for the reply again, i noticed sudden drops in percentage, normally my phone warns me at 20% 15% 10% and 5% when my battery is low but it just drops to the 5% warning now. This is my 4th or 5th battery for this phone in 3 years. Just ordered another, will update if it helps at all

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[LeoRex]

Re: battery wont last 2 hours

HOLD On... you've replaced your battery that many times? One defective battery, maybe two, tops... but that many kind of points to your phone as the problem. The power supply or something internal.