Question Older phone, charging level shenanigans

mikeymikec

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My old Moto G5 (relegated to a running / music / work phone) did an odd thing today: I noticed that it had 6% battery left and as I was just heading out to a customer, I plugged it into charge in my car and it said it was rapid-charging. About 20-30 minutes later I arrived and unplugged the phone, at 15%. An hour later I left the customer, plugged it back into charge and about a minute later I checked the charge level and it reckoned it was at 21%.

AFAIK it's not a typical dodgy battery symptom, but have people here seen dodgy batteries do that before? I'm always keeping half an eye on this phone, ready to replace it if it starts acting screwy, but I would rather not unless I'm sure.
 

Klingenberg

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Sounds like a calibration issue. Older phones do that sometimes. Maybe look into replacing the battery.
 

balloonshark

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I had 2 motorolas that had battery issues during and after their last OS updates. The updates killed my standby time so I moved on to using samsung phones.
 

fralexandr

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My work had issues like that on many of their iphone 6S. The battery would go from 50% to 20% over a few minutes and then when restarted would be back at 45% or something. They were getting old and basically needed new batteries at that point. Battery health said they were around 80%.
 
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mikeymikec

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Ok, I'm convinced that it's a faulty battery, it's about the right age for it. Now the question is, do I ineffectually continue trying to find a genuine Motorola battery to replace it with (one thing I liked about this phone is that the battery comes straight out like with old Nokia dumbphones), or bite the bullet and get a new phone.
 
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