Hardware PS VITA (3G) Battery Drains Quickly

[wiewiec]

So @wiewiec , you and me we have 3.65 Enzo on the PS Vitas with the drain issue.. Maybe its related to 3.65?

No 100% sure that I had same problems on 3.60. I even tried first 3.65 hack to make sure that it was not related to 3.60. This hack for some time bloced possiblility to even donwgrade etc. since there was no h-encore etc. then. On my previous testings I updated plugins that could give some problems for example I had old SD2Vita plugin - updated it to https://github.com/CelesteBlue-dev/PSVita-StorageMgr/releases. I also updated Enso to https://github.com/SKGleba/enso_ex. Last chance before I buy any battery is found my few batteries that I bought when I noticed this problem few years back.

I also could try wipe it again as @GraveViolento mentioned, but probably I should reinstall sim card reader... Shame that $ony gives us this shitty battery bar without option to have it in % :/

Also when I tried to find some help I noticed that on VITAident GUI on section about battery cycle count was always fixed little around 110 - same was even when I changed batteries - it was little bit odd for me (now after checking cycle count is 113).

 

[NanashiFinal13]

I change the motherboard on the PS Vita 2 days ago (the motherboard was on 3.68, so i run h-encore, then i downgrade to firmware 3.60 with modoru and finally install Henkaku Enzo) and turn the console on and off 5 times per day (so 10 times) and the console only lose 2% of battery. It has the same plugins than before the motherboard swap (all my plugins are on sd to vita mounted as ux0 so literally have the same plugins as before, even use the same ps vita official memory card as uma0). So it wasn't a battery issue after all. But still i don't know what cause that isssue. But changing the motherboard do the trick, so im asuming that the problem its related to the motherboard.

 

[wiewiec]

I change the motherboard on the PS Vita 2 days ago (the motherboard was on 3.68, so i run h-encore, then i downgrade to firmware 3.60 with modoru and finally install Henkaku Enzo) and turn the console on and off 5 times per day (so 10 times) and the console only lose 2% of battery. It has the same plugins than before the motherboard swap (all my plugins are on sd to vita mounted as ux0 so literally have the same plugins as before, even use the same ps vita official memory card as uma0). So it wasn't a battery issue after all. But still i don't know what cause that isssue. But changing the motherboard do the trick, so im asuming that the problem its related to the motherboard.

I heard rumor that it could possibly be caused by wifi/bt module, but really I've not done this before since I wasn't able to unscrew screws on module.

 

[rand92000]

Well? Is there anything more you had discovered?
I have a similar problem with my Vita Slim. It goes completely drained, now after 2 days of being unused. I see you're on a stable 3.60-3-65, but I'm on 3.70 HENkaku actually from a long time (was on 3.70 since the 3.70 henkaku went out).
I had no such issue at the beginning. It started after a while I hadn't used my Vita for months and it repeats the drain.
I also have SD2Vita.
What I will try is to unplug the battery for 30 minutes and see if the problem is gone. (I saw that it helps sometimes with battery level detection.
So? Do you have any solution after some months?

 

[wiewiec]

Well? Is there anything more you had discovered?
I have a similar problem with my Vita Slim. It goes completely drained, now after 2 days of being unused. I see you're on a stable 3.60-3-65, but I'm on 3.70 HENkaku actually from a long time (was on 3.70 since the 3.70 henkaku went out).
I had no such issue at the beginning. It started after a while I hadn't used my Vita for months and it repeats the drain.
I also have SD2Vita.
What I will try is to unplug the battery for 30 minutes and see if the problem is gone. (I saw that it helps sometimes with battery level detection.
So? Do you have any solution after some months?

I have not found nothing new about that, my FAT Vita also duscgarges quickky even if IT is turned off... So strange...

 

[robocrazy]

I have not found nothing new about that, my FAT Vita also duscgarges quickky even if IT is turned off... So strange...

Hello everyone. Well, I had the same problem that drove me crazy.
But a find a solution: that is to remove complete de 3g module from the board, after that, the drain problem as finally gone.

hope that help someone...

 

[rip-it-up]

So I've been having issues with my Vita's battery dying quickly, I have to charge it almost every night if I play it even for just a bit and even on days that I don't even turn it on (I just charge it and pull the plug out) it's already dead. It had been a while since I played my Vita, maybe a couple months so I thought I should replace the battery on it but that didn't fix the issue (got ZTHY Compatible New SP65M Battery Replacement off of Amazon). I use an OEM cable to charge it (even bought another one to see if my cable was an issue). I also play with lowest brightness and it's on airplane mode. I can't seem to figure out what the issue is and I'd really appreciate anyone's help! Oh yeah and I'm running 3.65 Enso.

if you have a multi metre check if anything is getting voltage when off.

i only say this because i had a switch lite which works perfectly on and in sleep. but turn it off and the fan spins at full speed and the cpu is stone cold.

i had another switch lite with battery drain when off< and i reflowed cpu cpu to fix the issue.

 

[tomberyx]

I have the same problem, but not often. I think the error is in sleep mode. Try turning off the Vita completely when you're not using it. This method narrows down the search for errors a bit

 

[Marc_LFD]

I have a 3G model and the battery feels like it drains rather quick so I just keep the screen somewhat to the minimum and play like that.

 

[Pachee]

Japanese psvita 3g here, same thing.

Weeks ago i disassembled the console the check the sticks, reassembled it, everything was working properly. Then a few days later i think i used a "fix battery" option in some homebrew (forgot which) while messing with stuff, installing iTLS, then i installed and used batteryFixer.
And then the problem started. The console now drains the battery even while turned off. I tested a few hours ago, it drains about 3% every half hour.

I found some post on reddit saying to get rid of yamt and try storagemgr, latest version. I just did it, not sure if it will help.

Edit: Tested again after full removal of yamp, reinstall of storagemgr, lost 6% after 2 hours while completely off.

Edit 2: Second test, fixed?. Reconfigured storagemgr, did a factory reset for settings (keeping data), rebooted the console 2 times, installed that homebrew to shutdown from main menu and used that. Shut down with 82% battery left, one hour later still 82%.

Edit 3: Third test, nope. Dropped big again. From 82% to 75% after only 2 hours. Crap.

 

[truskj911]

Japanese phat, cosmic red, wifi only model.
My Vita discharges it's battery when its completely powered off. Something I've just had to live with for the last few years.
Recently modded in a new, larger battery and it still does the same thing.

I took the battery out and left it in my drawer.. after 3 months it was still mostly charged.
Put it in my vita with the power off it will completely drain within a week or so. I "think" I made it better by taking the motherboard out and cleaning it with contact cleaner.. but maybe that's placebo.

What I can tell you though is that I've had the motherboard completely stripped, with all accessories and ribbon cables unplugged. I've hooked up my multimeter to measure the current draw, and even with just a loose motherboard the moment I plug in the battery it starts pulling about around 20mah.
I did the same test on my Vita slim with the same battery, and it would sit at 0mah

So I really can't imagine this being software related, like plugins or firmware.

I'm thinking of just wiring in a kill switch to disconnect the battery when not in use... biggest issue is I'll need to set the date every time I do that.

 

[Pachee]

Tested everything, reinstalled everything, removed sd2vita, nothing fixed it.

It turns out it was the Vita 3G module. I removed it completely, assembled everything, charged the psvita and even after a whole day turned off the battery didn't go down even 1%, still sitting at 97%, same as when i turned it OFF last night.

So, for anybody landing here from google: If your PSVita 3G is discharging abnormally while turned OFF/Sleeping the first thing you should do is remove the 3G module. It seems that over the past 6 years a lot of people have started suffering from this problem and nobody could find a reason except for one faulty sd2vita and another user with a faulty 3g module.
I can only assume that the 3G modules are starting to go bad now due to some low quality component or bad batch. It doesn't seem widespread.