Sudden Battery Power Drop?

[infernl#AC]

First, I love this phone.

Last night, the phone stopped responding after I had read a few pages on the NY Times website, which I thought was strange. Its the first time that had happened. The display would not respond, and then the Droid eye started staring back at me after a couple of minutes. It then went right back to normal, so I don't think it was a re-boot, per se.

This morning, I checked email as I always do - nothing special. My usage was lighter than normal even and after just under 4 hours since disconnected from the charger, I got a battery low warning screen. Since I'm at work, I plugged my Droid into the USB and after just a few seconds, the phone is showing 60% charge.

Has anyone else seen this sort of weirdness?

FYI: Battery Use:
Display: 33% (Display has been on lowest backlight setting)
Cell Standy: 27%
Phone Idle: 16%
Voice Calls: 7%
Android System: 6%
Email: 4%
Gmail: 4%
Android OS: 3%
Android Core Apps: 2%

 

[cdaiscool#AC]

Weird. I haven't seen this with mine...

 

[infernl#AC]

And all of a sudden, now the battery is fully charged again?

WTH?

 

[herki]

Try downloading an app called "spare parts" from the app market. It gives a more in-depth overview of battery usage, and might be able to help you see if there's a specific app that's really draining your battery.

If there isn't a certain app that's the problem, I'm guessing there's something wrong with the device, in which case taking it into your local VZW store should help.

 

[Jetster220]

Mine did something similar this morning. I turn it on Airplane mode when I go into work everyday so it wont kill my battery. Well at lunch, I pull it out of my pocket and its flashing at me saying I only have 5% battery left, im like WTF?? So I turn it off then back on, and bam battery is back at 100%, very weird.

 

[TKNOVA]

I did see a thread on a battery issue on the Home++ forum page. The notations in that forum imply that Home++ is an issue but the timing of both gives at least the possibility of being related.

I run Home++ almost exclusively and have not had this problem.

Here is the link:
http://groups.google.com/group/hpp-issues/browse_thread/thread/c03d91bfadaa17b0

 

[gobroncos]

that happened to me kinda last week...I say kinda because it wasn't exact. I was out at dinner playing games and it flashed "15% battery left" and I sent 2 messages and 5 minutes later it was dead. Now I dunno about you but 15% battery doesn't equate to 5 minutes, should be like an hour or more on standby

 

[baycruisers]

Mine did something similar this morning. I turn it on Airplane mode when I go into work everyday so it wont kill my battery. Well at lunch, I pull it out of my pocket and its flashing at me saying I only have 5% battery left, im like WTF?? So I turn it off then back on, and bam battery is back at 100%, very weird.

Something similar happened to me. I was in a meeting first thing this morning so I had a full charge. I noticed I lost my 3G signal and only had 1x, which can happen in my building in certain places. A bit later the LED was flashing red and I had a message to recharge the battery, which was almost gone.

I put the Droid on my charger and it immediately went to 60%. Within 30 minutes it was 70% and then it suddenly jumped to 100%. Now, 5 hours later, it's still acting normally and holding a charge. It had me spooked because I'm flying in a couple of days and I could just image my phone dying over the holidays.

 

[raequinn]

Ok, I'm past my 30 days since purchase. Today I used phone as usual, put it in my pocket and pulled it out to find a red flashing light and a message telling me to recharge. This is the first time this has happened. I checked apps running and there was android keyboard and weather. I charged and got back to 70% in 15 minutes. Usually takes an hour or more to reach a full charge. Does anyone know why this is happening? Could be a real inconvenience if I am somewhere and expect to be able to use my phone..