Hi, just curious if a bricked G4 is capable of charging the battery or if is totally dead. Thanks.
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I doubt it, but don't know for sure. I know when they aren't even fully bricked, but hung at the boot loader screen due to bad flash, etc, the battery doesn't charge. In fact, it will drain the battery pretty quickly.
Thunder_PC said:
I doubt it, but don't know for sure. I know when they aren't even fully bricked, but hung at the boot loader screen due to bad flash, etc, the battery doesn't charge. In fact, it will drain the battery pretty quickly.
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I had a G3 hanging at boot and it discharged the battery (more from reflashing). I asked a friend to charge it for me to continue testing only to discover that if the phone was turned off and charger connected then after a few seconds the orange led would appear and battery charging normally
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Excellent! Glad to hear it. I dunno why the thing won't charge while in boot loader mode. Engineering snafu I guess
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Alright, so I was using my phone and the battery was around 4-5%. I needed to do a backup, and update my rom.
Stupid me decided to load up CWM, and start an nandroid backup. Backup finished, so I decided to flash the new update. Update finished as well. Just as soon as I was about to reboot the phone, it just turned off. I plugged in the phone to charge using my laptop as a power source. The battery icon pop'd up on the screen, the softkeys flashed lightly, and the battery icon left. This kept on happening. I could not get the battery to charge. I tried to plug in the USB to another computer, still didn't work. Maybe my laptop wasn't giving out enough power. I then plugged in the wall charger. Same exact issue. Battery icon comes up, soft keys flash, and screen goes black. Battery Icon comes up, keys flash, screen off. Repeat for ever. Left it going for about 20-30 minutes, then tired to power on the phone. Didn't work.
The only way I got the battery to charge was to use my extended battery (1850) charger. I left the OEM battery in the charger overnight, and next morning the battery was 100% ready to go. I plugged in the phone to a charger just to make sure the USB charging worked, and it did.
So the battery was so low that it couldn't power the screen to show the battery charging screen, and for some reason the screen loop drained battery faster than the charger could charge it.
I don't know if someone can repeat this with another battery/phone, but be careful if your battery drops low and you're in CWM. It doesn't seem to shut off the phone when it gets to 1 or 0% like the android OS should.
You seriously decided to backup AND flash with 5% battery? I take you have not read about flashing below 50% and the risks.*facepalm*
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I've seen this before, if you drain it past a certain point, it won't power on until its charged enough, the only thing that saved you're battery was the internal circuitry that shuts it off before it goes below the point of no return, normally the phone shuts down before that point but you weren't in normal operation mode so the battery itself shut down thus you have to wait for it to come back up to the minimum phone level which is above the minimum level in the battery.
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tylerdurdin said:
You seriously decided to backup AND flash with 5% battery? I take you have not read about flashing below 50% and the risks.*facepalm*
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Below 50%? No, never. I've done the same with my G1 and this phone, battery WELL below 50%, It's never been an issue before, other than this one time. I've learned why it did that. Though, I don't think I can severly mess up the phone if the flash fails since it's only the OS. I'm not flashing a modem or a bootloader. If anything you can load the phone up in download and flash a new kernel and OS using odin.
Like I said in the first post, the OS usually turns off the phone at a certain percentage, which it shows at 1, but it might be a little bit higher. However since I was in CWM there are no limits to which I can use the battery. Just realized that.
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Below 50%? No, never. I've done the same with my G1 and this phone, battery WELL below 50%, It's never been an issue before, other than this one time. I've learned why it did that. Though, I don't think I can severly mess up the phone if the flash fails since it's only the OS. I'm not flashing a modem or a bootloader. If anything you can load the phone up in download and flash a new kernel and OS using odin.
Like I said in the first post, the OS usually turns off the phone at a certain percentage, which it shows at 1, but it might be a little bit higher. However since I was in CWM there are no limits to which I can use the battery. Just realized that.
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I am not implying that this was going to brick your phone...in general it just defies the laws learned in NOOB 101. As for bricking your phone...Maybe not this device but there are PLENTY of phones out there including my HD2 that it will. Not to mention flashing with low battery has been know and sometimes will cause battery calibration issues that are much harder to remedy. I was only taken back by the fact that nothing you did is worth risking anything, and is generally just not safe practice for any device.
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just not safe practice for any device.
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Everything he said
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getting this when i put on charge,also getting a yellow triangle with a battery on it and phone randomly turns of,should i just buy a new battery or is it a bigger problem
When I plug it in and it has the little yellow triangle that means the battery is critically low; meaning that it is so low that there is not even enough juice to turn the phone on while plugged in. Generally that means you just charge the phone for a couple, or few minutes, and it'll no longer be in that critcally low stage, and you can turn it on. Also, I've gotten the yellow triangle with a thermometer in it before. That means your battery, or phone temperature is too high/hot and basically I think it drains your battery and or stops charging. I've had that too once because I used an LG charger which had a higher voltage (if you use a charger with a reallyyyy high voltage - compared to what you should use, your phone can also catch on fire..). So those are the two Triangles I've gotten, but most likely you got the low battery one. Just let it charge for a bit. The random shut off is because the battery is really low....? My guess is either you don't know what is going on in which case read the above. Or that your battery won't hold a charge, and even though you've charged it for a while, it's still saying it is critically low. If that's the case look into getting a new battery, or also try a different charger first. May be the charger is not charging the batt, but i doubt it. Good luck
it was at 75% when it started going nuts today,i will see what happens tomorrow,cheers for reply
its now not working with the original charger but with my nexus one it comes on and off,its starting to get to me :silly:
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its now not working with the original charger but with my nexus one it comes on and off,its starting to get to me :silly:
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Any better luck today? If it goes on and off, I'd say your battery is probably ****ed haha. Considering you tried two DIFFERENT chargers and they both didn't work (assuming both your chargers worked fine before). I don't want to like direct you toward getting a new battery or anything, but honestly that seems like a very likely explanation.
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This happened to my phone and it really is a simple fix. First take the battery out of the phone for about 10 seconds. Then with the battery out plug the phone up, wait a few seconds, and put the battery in and immediately press power. Should be as good as new. source: Battery on samsung galaxy s2 wont charge anymore?
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this is what i found..and it did work for me..hope it helps!
just a thanks says it all!
For mine was worked, factory reset and no rpoblems at all any more.
I have searched the forums but not found a thread which is similar to my problem.. I know there are battery drain issues with wifi etc but this is wierd and only started happening a few days back.
Basically i plug phone in to charge and it charges completely normally and quickly as it used to but only charges up to about 68/70% then it basically stops charging any higher, LED still red, charging display over battery still there. Turning phone off, rebooting, unplugging and plugging charger back in all makes no difference!
Any ideas what could be the cause of this? how to resolve?
I'm on stock JB, using the official wall charger and USB cable and i made sure the battery was full when i updated to JB as well.
Try a different battery, these are getting to the point where some will start to fail, six month warranties on batteries for a reason.
Well i have a £1.99 spare battery in atm as i run the original battery completely flat today. Seriously though be surprised if battery fail after 3/4 mths - never had battery dying issues on previous phones i've had until they were a good 2/3 years old.. Always a first though LOL
Its like the battery is saying its fully charged at 70%, now its completely flat i will charge it overnight with the phone off to full (if it gets there) and see if is resets the battery callibration or something.
Try to wipe battery stats via cwm recovery/advanced.
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I have searched the forums but not found a thread which is similar to my problem.. I know there are battery drain issues with wifi etc but this is wierd and only started happening a few days back.
Basically i plug phone in to charge and it charges completely normally and quickly as it used to but only charges up to about 68/70% then it basically stops charging any higher, LED still red, charging display over battery still there. Turning phone off, rebooting, unplugging and plugging charger back in all makes no difference!
Any ideas what could be the cause of this? how to resolve?
I'm on stock JB, using the official wall charger and USB cable and i made sure the battery was full when i updated to JB as well.
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if you are rooted than download batterycalibration and untick 100% charge and click recalibrite and leave the phone on charge and it should charge up nto 100%
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...ration&feature=nav_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwyLDNd
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if you are rooted than download batterycalibration and untick 100% charge and click recalibrite and leave the phone on charge and it should charge up nto 100%
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...ration&feature=nav_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwyLDNd
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This app just wipes battery stays, so you can do same by going to cwm/advanced/wipe battery stats.
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This app just wipes battery stays, so you can do same by going to cwm/advanced/wipe battery stats.
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It has nothing to do with wiping battery stats. I think Kangburra is right...
UPDATE.
Shamed to say that i am not rooted yet... I have been there and done all that on my old phone ZTE Blade, but i really like the added functions that TW brings and don't suffer much in the way of anoying redraws or lag etc (although i do feel that TW could be optomised alot better along with better RAM Management)
I was going to at least root to sim unlock but got a sim free unlocked phone so had no need, then other stuff i wanted to do like freeze samsung apps etc is all possible without root and i've not come across that "I" need root at the moment.. was going to for APPS2ROM but i got no need to free up space yet.
Cheers for the suggustions though - I have that battery callibration app already (from old phone days) obviously don't work though.
Anyway - I am monitoring battery atm but it seems that running the battery completely flat until it turned itself off and charging overnight with battery off has resolved this issue - maybe this reset the battery stats and recalibrated it.
Its back to normal now, charges upto 100% as normal!! Fingers crossed this was just a blip
Any one else run into this issue? I'll out it on charge over might and still have an orange light in the morning.
Running Energy stock, b6 kernel, with an banker battery.
turn off your phone charge it till its full... boot into recovery and delete your battery stats then check again and see if it goes past 95%
Cool, just checked it and it was finally at %96....this is about 2 hours after it was at %95...I just powered it off...let's see...
Nope, still %95 max. Battery drains relatively quick though that could be fault of the Rom....I dunno anymore.
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Nope, still %95 max. Battery drains relatively quick though that could be fault of the Rom....I dunno anymore.
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are you using your phone.. because i usely get a message saying im using more power than its charging..
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Yesterday before going to sleep I left my phone charging as usual. Today, when I tried to start the phone it didn't boot, neither flashboot or fastboot. I was thinking it was a had brick but I let the phone charge 5 minutes and then it boots properly. In that moment I saw that the battery was 3%. The fact is that I left the phone with more than 50% yesterday, and the whole night charging. It must be 100%
Any advice? Should I take advantage of the warranty to get a new one or this could happen?
Its not a normal thing.
Are you sure electricity was on all night? :silly:
But if you didnt have electricity it wouldnt draine the battery, so:
- there is an app draining battery a lot
- battery is not good and have problem
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Its not a normal thing.
Are you sure electricity was on all night? :silly:
But if you didnt have electricity it wouldnt draine the battery, so:
- there is an app draining battery a lot
- battery is not good and have problem
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the fact is that I left the phone off, so i don't think there was any app.
it's been a month since I have the phone and the battery has never give me any problem. I'm going to use it today to see what happens, and if it happens the same I will have to relock the bootloader and send it to sony
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the fact is that I left the phone off, so i don't think there was any app.
it's been a month since I have the phone and the battery has never give me any problem. I'm going to use it today to see what happens, and if it happens the same I will have to relock the bootloader and send it to sony
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Yes, i was thinking the same...