So here goes:
Had been running UnNamed 1.3.1 with Entropy's DD 11/23 (conservative gov. and stock clocking - setCPU not installed) and CB650 Wolf's ICS Theme for about 3 days with zero issues. Monday night I decided I wanted to try out Jivy's ICScreweD theme - so I did the following:
a) cleared cache and dalvik, and re-flashed UnNamed 1.3.1 to revert the Wolf ICS theme to stock UnNamed. Rebooted to CWM
b) re-flashed Entropy's DD 11/23 kernel. Rebooted, and then replaced lights.so to re-activate BLN using root explorer. Rebooted to CWM again.
c) flashed Jivy's ICScreweD theme.
At that point, all appeared normal.
Yesterday, was in a meeting most of the day with no service in the building, so phone was in airplane mode most of the day. After the meeting, battery life seemed slightly poor, but I chalked this up to the first day after the flash.
When I plugged the phone into the stock charger cord / wall wart at the end of the day, phone wouldn't charge. Tried a couple different cords, no change. Powered phone down, plugged in while powered off - phone powered back up fully on it's own, and appeared to take a charge.
Took phone off charger this morning, indicating full charge. Used it for about 20 minutes before leaving the house, appeared to be under normal battery drain (at 98% when I left) and drove to work. Got to work (about an hour later), phone would not wake up - sleep of death type behavior. 10 second long press on power got it to re-boot - and it came up at 41% battery. Did a battery pull, and came back up to 46% on reboot. plugged into PC with non-OEM cable to charge - phone not indicating that it was taking a charge. Tried 3 different USB ports on the PC, no change and no charging. Powered phone off and plugged into PC - phone automatically powered back up fully, and now appears to be taking a charge.
I'm quite certain the power-up when plugged in is a known issue on this ROM (at least I think I saw a couple people post about this) and I can't confirm this wasn't it's behavior prior to switching themes - normally I don't shut down to charge - only did this time because of the no charging while plugging in while powered up.
The only thing I can think of that might have triggered this wonky behavior is that I did the whole round of reflash/kernel/theme flashing with the device plugged into the wall wart charger. Coming from an Aria, this was an absolute no-no (and was frequently repeated as such in the forums over there) but I hadn't seen anything about it being a problem on these forums, nor in my very brief perusal of the Cappy forums for my wife's prior phone.
Anyone think the plugged in while flashing thing is the problem? Any other thoughts?
Thanks,
DD
Couple of troubleshooting things I would try if it was mine. If you have a nandroid backup taken before a b c above, try that first, and next try going back to straight stock. I know it's a pain, but less than a malfunctioning phone. Certainly hope it's not a hardware issue.
Thanks for the input Creepyncrawly, much appreciated.
Sadly I was too lazy to make a nandroid right before this most recent flash, but I do have one from a couple weeks ago with S8.2, which I made before switching over to UnNamed. That setup had no issues, just switched because I wanted to try UnNamed. So that is an option for me. As of now I'm going to try to get through the rest of today at least as-is, to see if the behavior continues to be consistent or if it is more intermittent in nature...
As far as going back to straight stock, I think I would be inclined to work my way back there if the nandroid doesn't sort out the issue; i.e. go to UnNamed 1.3.1 with Entropy DD 11/23 first, if that doesn't fix it, then go to UnNamed 1.3.1 with it's built in DD 11/13 kernel, then if that doesn't fix it I'd go to stock.
I am certainly no expert when it comes to flashing these devices, but it seems to me that if artifacts are getting left behind from one ROM to the next through the flashing process and causing problems occasionally, it shouldn't much matter whether I go straight back to stock or progress back there in stages...somebody whack me over the head if I'm wrong here....
DD
And continued weirdness;
Upon unplugging from PC after charging was complete just now, device indicated it was still connected to USB. Reboot got rid of the notification indicator that it was still plugged in, and lost 2% battery (battery loss probably normal...)
Final update:
Tried full wipes and installs of several ROMs, as well as a clean install of Unnamed 1.3.1 followed by Entropy's 12/01 Kernel update. Strange behavior continued to get stranger. By Friday the phone was randomly indicating switching into and out of dock mode at very frequent (approx 1 sec. cycle) intervals at random times. Still typically able to get it to charge by powering off then plugging in.
Called ATT and got them to approve a warranty replacement after some useless over the phone troubleshooting.
Initial attempts to reboot into download mode to flash back to complete stock for the warranty return via the hold volume up/down and plug into USB failed - would only result in a normal boot - got the device into download mode courtesy of the extended power menu (thanks for including DL mode GTG!), and reflashed stock unrooted firmware.
After flashing to complete stock, download mode via volume buttons/usb plugging continued to fail, and the device continued to randomly enter/leave dock mode.
I can only believe it is actually a hardware failure issue - but I do have a couple of logcats of when the device was doing the in/out of dock mode, if anyone is interested in seeing them...
Replacement should be here today or tomorrow...
That behavior screams "bad USB port" to me - yeah I think you had a hardware failure there.
My phone seems to think there is a USB plugged in constantly. Started about two days ago, my phone does not sleep at all.
I called att and they are going to warranty exchange it. Just waiting for my jig.
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Moustro -
your battery graph is quite similar to what mine looked like the day I took the logcats, though mine was more square-wave rather than saw-tooth looking. dramatic ups and downs were there tho.
Frequently had mine in my pocket during the craziness, so I'm not sure really how frequently it would wake then re-sleep with the cycling docked status thing...
Wonder if there is a bad batch of USB ports in these things out there. Mine was purchased on launch day. Any dangers to posting S/N info online when not attached to IMEI?
FWIW, my respiffied warranty replacement seems to be of very slightly better build quality (buttons feel slightly smoother in operation, mfg. tolerances around the back plate are a hair tighter (using the backplate from the original device as all they sent me for the replacement was the chassis - no back or battery).
That's why I posted here. Thank you for the feedback. My phone does not go into deep sleep at all. The green charging line is there constantly. Reflashed a couple nandroids, I went as far as to go back to stock w/o root and reformatted my internal sdcard as well. Nothing helped.
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Hey,
Major issue I'm facing today. I first noticed this about 2 days ago, I'm currently running Resurrection Remix 2.0 and has been installed for about a week? with no issues.
Two days ago, I put my phone on to charge at night, as usual. Woke up the next morning and by mid morning Noticed my battery was at 15%, When I checked the battery stats, It looked as If the battery had not charged ( I'm pretty sure it had been on charge, but put it down to the fact that It wasnt plugged in correctly)
Next Day, (last night) I put it on charge, and checked it was definitely on charge, which it was. I woke up this morning to find the exact problem, this time at 50%, When I remove the power cable the charging animation still continues.
I turn the power off, Remove the battery and wipe battery stats and start back up, over the next 20 minutes the battery stats increase my battery percentage (not charging) and then continue to drop later on.
Tonight my phone had drained its battery, thought it would be best to drain it, leave it off on charge and turn it back on. I've come to turn it back on removed the power cable and now it will not turn on but constantly loop through the Charging animation icons..
Does anyone know the fault for this or even a fix? I cant boot into my rom, or even CWM
urgent help needed!! thanks in advance
Rob
addictedtopain said:
Hey,
Major issue I'm facing today. I first noticed this about 2 days ago, I'm currently running Resurrection Remix 2.0 and has been installed for about a week? with no issues.
Two days ago, I put my phone on to charge at night, as usual. Woke up the next morning and by mid morning Noticed my battery was at 15%, When I checked the battery stats, It looked as If the battery had not charged ( I'm pretty sure it had been on charge, but put it down to the fact that It wasnt plugged in correctly)
Next Day, (last night) I put it on charge, and checked it was definitely on charge, which it was. I woke up this morning to find the exact problem, this time at 50%, When I remove the power cable the charging animation still continues.
I turn the power off, Remove the battery and wipe battery stats and start back up, over the next 20 minutes the battery stats increase my battery percentage (not charging) and then continue to drop later on.
Tonight my phone had drained its battery, thought it would be best to drain it, leave it off on charge and turn it back on. I've come to turn it back on removed the power cable and now it will not turn on but constantly loop through the Charging animation icons..
Does anyone know the fault for this or even a fix? I cant boot into my rom, or even CWM
urgent help needed!! thanks in advance
Rob
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Do you have a screen shot of the battery usage? And it sounds like you have an issue with the charging port. Clean it with a dry toothbrush
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may be a kernel change would also help u ...
Pretty straightforward really. Either a battery problem (less likely) or a problem with the USB/charging circuitry (more likely; we see it on here all the time).
Try another battery & see if you can get the phone to boot. Otherwise, service centre.
As KMs said, you might as well clean the USB port while you're at it, and then try a new battery (at least you'll have a spare when you get it back from repair).
MistahBungle said:
Pretty straightforward really. Either a battery problem (less likely) or a problem with the USB/charging circuitry (more likely; we see it on here all the time).
Try another battery & see if you can get the phone to boot. Otherwise, service centre.
As KMs said, you might as well clean the USB port while you're at it, and then try a new battery (at least you'll have a spare when you get it back from repair).
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Okay tried cleaning it with a tooth brush but no luck, the phones been playing up all day, still saying its charging even though Its not plugged in lol. Just got back home to back everything up do a full wipe and update the rom to the latest version+ kernel and its not even being recognised by USB, it'll charge, but not recognise
Is this a common problem with the S2 then? that the usb fails/malfunctions?
Think I'm gonna have to take it back to three on Monday, hopefully get it repaired/replaced asap ( but will need to flash back to original stock ROM + Kernel first!)
We've seen our share (I've seen at least a couple of dozen) of these in Q&A over the time I've been here (~8 mths), yeah.
addictedtopain said:
Is this a common problem with the S2 then? that the usb fails/malfunctions?)
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We've seen our share (I've seen at least a couple of dozen) of these in Q&A over the time I've been here (~8 mths), yeah.
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Cheers, Thanks for your Help. I'll let you know the outcome on Monday.
no point starting a new thread.
So Does anyone Know where I can get the original (HG3) Three UK ROM for Samsung Galaxy S2?
I don't want Three to say that because I've put a custom ROM on it I've voided my warranty
Here, Samfirmware.com or you can get the latest firmware for phone model/country/carrier that you'd normally get via OTA update with the PC version of Checkfus (search for it on here/Google).
Thanks again for all your help.
finally got some screen shots off my phone,
here's the battery stats if anyone's interested
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Here, Samfirmware.com or you can get the latest firmware for phone model/country/carrier that you'd normally get via OTA update with the PC version of Checkfus (search for it on here/Google).
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Downloaded the firmware, however I cant seem to find how to update OTA, Its given me a .tar which I could use Odin to upgrade, However as I cant get it to read from USB I cannot get Odin to detect my device
That's probably due to the USB circuitry problems you seem to be having. Might want to use Mobile Odin (get it from Google Play) to flash the firmware. If it's an ICS stock rom, you should be able to use Triangle Away to reset the flash counter.
Hey guys..im also experiencing the same problem.....sometimes charging stopped halfway....when i check with the "battery widget" it says overvoltage (with " ! " symbol)....
is it because the firmware problem or usb port or charger problem ? any solution? Tq in advance guys !
Did you even bother to read the thread ? Go back to stock & see if this resolves the problem. Then clean the USB port with an unused toothbrush or similar. Try a new battery. Try a new charger. And if none of these fixes things, service centre.
maliiik said:
Hey guys..im also experiencing the same problem.....sometimes charging stopped halfway....when i check with the "battery widget" it says overvoltage (with " ! " symbol)....
is it because the firmware problem or usb port or charger problem ? any solution? Tq in advance guys !
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MistahBungle said:
Did you even bother to read the thread ? Go back to stock & see if this resolves the problem. Then clean the USB port with an unused toothbrush or similar. Try a new battery. Try a new charger. And if none of these fixes things, service centre.
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of course i read the thread bro I was thinking of a solution besides sending it to service centre since ive already rooted my phone ~~
My battery has just been 4 month ~~
maybe i"ll try cleaning the port 1st as u suggest ~~
will give feedback A.S.A.P.
tq XD
I install a wifi kill app.
It was apparently shutting down wifi? What wifi I have no idea. It was stuck and non responsive for around 4/5 minutes so I thought a battery pull and a restart would get me out of the app.
And now the phone will not respond to me pressing the power button?! Nor will it charge. It's not responsive to being plugged in.
Help...
First time anything like this has happened to me. I am stuck without a phone and worried. Any help is appreciated?! I best not have screwed up the device.
Its a GSM evo, had a high battery charge. Running a custom rom with s off.
Even plugging it in gives no response. :crying:
It has been charged all night. seemed to indicate it was full. This morning it was down to 80% and I left it on charge some more, now this.
I opened up my comand prompt then typed "fastboot reboot-bootloader" and I just get < waiting for device >
I've been through this thread and non of this helps. (link below)
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My solution.
Button presses were having no effect I left my phone connected to the mains and re tried the buttons and adb commands with no luck.
Although my battery was reading at around or above 80% before the problems I was sure it wasn't the battery.
I couldn't see how it was appearing to be bricked and unresponsive. I installed an app, it hung and I pulled the battery. So I presumed something had gone wrong with the app.....
I took a chance that the battery had drained fully somehow and the ROM was somehow supplying some dodgy readings.
The battery and wire trick was what I tried. A jump start was needed.
I should have licked the battery first to feel for any charge. But it was the last thing I was thinking about. (I don't have a voltage tester any more around the house)
I set off for a 9 volt battery. Using my trusty tongue again the one in my alarm was out of juice. Thankfully I got a new one though which was laying around.
So if it wasn't going to work I knew this battery wasn't going to be part of a problem.
Striping metal food ties I connected positive to the one positive contact and used another metal strip to tap each of the three negatives, obviously connected to the negative of the battery.
I kept the touches quick barely a second and kept running through all three. Went well, there was no heat from the battery. I did that for about a minute.
Be careful, don't damage your battery! Do not blame anyone else if you do... Make sure not to have your connections touch one another or its game over too.
I used my trusty method of licking the phone battery and bam, it was charged and I knew about it!
Placed it into the phone. Took a bit of time to say my prayers.... Connected the USB and the computer acknowledged that it was working a red light flashed,
My prayers were answered! I powered on the phone and its back to normal.
Strangely telling me the battery is at around 75% plus ...
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I didn't have a wall charger or a spare battery as you can tell. I got there in the end.
Have you tried booting into recovery?
Try pulling the battery for a few. Then press and hold the camera button and click power on. No idea where i remember this from but it may work.
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Have you tried booting into recovery?
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It is not responsive. It wont boot let alone bootloader.
NineInchNails said:
Try pulling the battery for a few. Then press and hold the camera button and click power on. No idea where i remember this from but it may work.
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Tried this too. Even with volume combinations as suggested in other threads I have looked up. My battery appeared to be charged to at least 80%. I'm hoping its something that hasn't bricked my phone and there is a simple fix. Maybe the battery level has been wrong?
I've left it on charge for now and I will give the buttons another go. At the minute it doesn't appear to be charging.
Can the battery pull cause any damage?
*Anyone else having trouble check this thread ..
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1408374 I've tried all these tips here and non are working for me so far. They keep mentioning cwm 5 may cause problems ? I think I was running it because when I s-offed it came with it. Not sure which version it was?
The battery pull wont do any damage but this doesnt sound too good. If you cant boot to recovery or the bootloader your pretty much screwed.
Does the led light up when you charge it? If so it may not be completely bricked. But we need to see if you can power it up at all.
NineInchNails said:
The battery pull wont do any damage but this doesnt sound too good. If you cant boot to recovery or the bootloader your pretty much screwed.
Does the led light up when you charge it? If so it may not be completely bricked. But we need to see if you can power it up at all.
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No, no light so I was worried. Good news is it's not bricked. I have another problem though.... I will post back in a minute, I will post the fix that worked for me to the top of the thread.
My battery seems to indicate it has charge that's what it appears to be reading at once I booted the phone up I took that picture. But it indicates its been on a while? ? ?
And now ky battery is draining like crazy. Is it just a bad battery? Or one that needs calibration?
Seems strange as only people with a low battery come across this problem. What could have caused it. I'd rather not have it happen again.
Any clues?
Oh wow! Awesome man. My next round of questions were going to be if you had access to a different battery or a friends phone to test it before we claimed it as a brick. Huge props for going above and beyond. Now stay away from the app that caused it but it also couldve been the battery failing and its coincedence.
Was gonna order a wall charger and a spare battery. But would have had to wait until Tuesday with shipping.
Battery level seems a bit all over the place. Why is there a second gap ?
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Pauly_k said:
I install a wifi kill app.
It was apparently shutting down wifi? What wifi I have no idea. It was stuck and non responsive for around 4/5 minutes so I thought a battery pull and a restart would get me out of the app.
And now the phone will not respond to me pressing the power button?! Nor will it charge. It's not responsive to being plugged in.
Help...
First time anything like this has happened to me. I am stuck without a phone and worried. Any help is appreciated?! I best not have screwed up the device.
Its a GSM evo, had a high battery charge. Running a custom rom with s off.
Even plugging it in gives no response. :crying:
It has been charged all night. seemed to indicate it was full. This morning it was down to 80% and I left it on charge some more, now this.
I opened up my comand prompt then typed "fastboot reboot-bootloader" and I just get < waiting for device >
I've been through this thread and non of this helps. (link below)
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My solution. Button presses were having no effect I left my phone connected to the mains and re tried the buttons and adb commands with no luck. Although my battery was reading at around or above 80% before the problems I was sure it wasn't the battery. I couldn't see how it was appearing to be bricked and unresponsive. I installed an app, it hung and I pulled the battery. So I presumed something had gone wrong with the app.....
I took a chance that the battery had drained fully somehow and the ROM was somehow supplying some dodgy readings.
The battery and wire trick was what I tried. I jump start was needed.
I should have licked the battery first to feel for any charge. But it was the last thing I was thinking about. (I don't have a voltage tester any more around the house)
I set off for a 9 volt battery. Using my trusty tongue again the one in my alarm was out of juice. Thankfully I got a new one though which was laying around.
So if it wasn't going to work I knew this battery wasn't going to be part of a problem.
Striping metal food ties I connected positive to the one positive contact and used another metal strip to tap each of the three negatives, obviously connected to the negative of the battery. I kept the touches quick barely a second and kept running through all three. Went well, there was no heat from the battery. I did that for about a minute.
Be careful, don't damage your battery! Do not blame anyone else if you do... Make sure not to have your connections touch one another or its game over too.
I used my trusty method of licking the phone battery and bam, it was charged and I knew about it!
Placed it into the phone. Took a bit of time to say my prayers.... Connected the USB and the computer acknowledged that it was working a red light flashed. I powered on the phone and its back to normal. Strangely telling me its at around 75% plus ...
I didn't have a wall charger or a spare battery as you can tell. I got there in the end.
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WOW where did you come up with using a battery to charge your phone?
My bet the battery needs to be trained again. Let it die then charge it back to full. The fact the battery failed like that might mean its still going bad so if it were me.. id get a new battery when you could. Trickle charging all the time probably isnt the best either but you do what you have to for a charge.
I just wanted to thank the OP (which I did using the button) for actually posting his solution so future searchers will not just come across the question.
Same thing is happening mine now. I can get into fastboot but from searching everywhere it seems the phone will not charge when its in fastboot. I may aswell go find a square battery somewhere around my house and give this a shot.
I found by searching that there is a fastboot charging script but that seems to be in the One X forum , I tried it anyways and my phone just keeps rebooting into fastboot. Im sickened because a girl I was with on friday night said to me on facebook that she sent me some good pictures but I cant get phone on to look at them ha ha . ill try whats in the first post here now and see how I go. Thanks.
Man my phone is old. Good to know this thread helped a few people.
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Hi everyone, i have just spent the whole day searching about this problem and i have not found solution, and things that worked for some people, won't work for me.
Hope you guys can help.
I'm going to tell you the events before i had this issue so you can get a lot of info about what posibbly happened:
1. I was tired of my phone being slow and some apps didn't worked for it because it had Android 2.2.2 Froyo and was never updated.
2. I decided to update installing Neutrino 2.9 by Notorius : Thread .
3. When i was trying to install the custom recovery i did something wrong and had to flash a Stock rom using RSDLite.
4. The rom that i installed was a Stock rom from Personal Argentina 2.3.6 Gingerbread.
5. After flashing this rom, the battery won't charge over 93% or something like that.
6. I wanted the phone to reach more battery % so i did something that read here at xda.
7. While the phone was off and charging, i removed the battery and once it showed the "?" symbol, i put back the battery, so it showed 5% and i panicked!!! because the tutorial said i had to install some zips from the recovery and when i tried to get into the recovery (i had already installed CMW) it didn't loaded the recovery. I pulled off the battery and try many times to get in the recovery but i couldn't so i powered on the phone an let it charge for hours but it didn't worked.
8. I was getting crazy so i tried to calm down and do some research here at xda, i was reading for hours until i found This thread , the guy said the the only thing that i had to do was waiting for the app to show approximately 4200mV and hit fix, it should fix the problem:
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in my case, percentage shown was 8% and when i hit the fix, it raised 2 or 3 points (remember this numbers) i guess, but didn't fixed it at all (100%) so i started hitting fix every 10 minutes after being sure that the voltage was 4200 or above.
9. While doing this fix thing every while, i saw that every time it raised 3 or 2 points at the percentage shown, (the whole process was done with the phone plugged into the wall charger). I sttoped when the percentage shown was 97% because i was afraid it would cross to some 100%+ percentage, and 97% was nice for me.
10. After fixing the battery indicator issue, i decided to follow carefully a tutorial too install Neutrino rom 2.9 EE that i mentioned before.
11. The whole process was great and i successfully installed the Neutrino Rom i was happy and everything was fine.
12. When i was looking around the features of the new rom, the phone freezed and rebooted i thougt that maybe i was touching so many settings that it became unstable,although i didn't touch anything about processor speed , so i power on again and after a while another reboot , and another and another, i started to get mad at this and tried to find out what was causing this reboots.
13. Suddenly i had an idea and pulled off the microsd card, after this, the phone was like 9-10 hours without any rebooting and i was playing and installing several apps, and checking some tweets and facebook and everything was fine.
14 After like 11 hours since the last reboot, the phone rebooted again and this made me mad again.
15. I turned on the phone again and i saw it had like 40% of battery left, so i plugged it and let it for an hour, when i checked back the battery level, it was at 92%, so i let it for about half an hour more and it had again 92% of battery.
16. So i thougth, well during the flashing process the battery indicator got miscalibrated again, so... (pay attention to this) i run the app that fixed my problem at (see step 8 and 9 above) , it was at 92% and remember i saw that it "jumped" like 2 or 3% off battery shown, but instead, it jumped to 100% and battery shown jumped from 92% to 177% i panicked!! (again), and unplugged the phone.
17. I continued using the phone normally and before going to bed i plugged the phone.
18. After like 2 hours charging, i went to check the phone back and it was DEAD
So i tried this:
1. Plug the phone to the wall charger ---> RESULT: nothing happened.
2. Plug the phone to the wall charger without battery ---> RESULT: nothing happened.
3. Plug the phone to the PC via usb with battery ---> RESULT: green led turns on for 1 seconds and then goes off
4. Plug the phone to the PC via usb without battery ---> RESULT: green led turns on and stays turned on, until i put back the battery
5. Plug the phone to the wall charger (samsung galaxy s3 1mA) ---> RESULT: nothing happened.
6. Plug the phone to the wall charger without battery (samsung galaxy s3 1mA) ---> RESULT: nothing happened.
I hope some of you can help with this, i've read a lot of posts but they are from 2011 or 2012, i'm making this one because non of those gave any help. Thank you very much for your atenttion.
That's very strange...
But the random reboots you are having an neutrino are not your fault, I had those two... I think sometimes it just hang on the deep sleep and wouldn't turn on so I'd have to pull battery and then boot up again. Maybe that's your problem, too, try pulling battery.
If this doesn't fix it, does long press on power do anything?
In the end you could still charge the battery externally though you'd have to look what voltage you need and which pins you need to connect.
As far as the 100+ percentage goes, that is reasonably normal. It happens to everyone sooner or later (me included), and mostly happens if you choose to restart the service instead of rebooting the device. A reboot should help (always does for me). But even if it doesn't, there's no reason to panic - it's just a number. It does not mean your battery is being severely overcharged lol.
I see you're using an older version of the app. You should try upgrading. Not to say a newer version will make any kind of difference, but hey, newer is better, right?
SimplicityApks said:
That's very strange...
But the random reboots you are having an neutrino are not your fault, I had those two... I think sometimes it just hang on the deep sleep and wouldn't turn on so I'd have to pull battery and then boot up again. Maybe that's your problem, too, try pulling battery.
If this doesn't fix it, does long press on power do anything?
In the end you could still charge the battery externally though you'd have to look what voltage you need and which pins you need to connect.
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1. I already pulled the battery but it didn't helped me.
2. Long press on power does nothing.
3. I'm looking for someone who can tell me if the battery is ok using a multimeter
but i think it's very strange, because even without battery the phone should turn on screen when plugged to the wall charger.
4. Thank you.
ravilov said:
As far as the 100+ percentage goes, that is reasonably normal. It happens to everyone sooner or later (me included), and mostly happens if you choose to restart the service instead of rebooting the device. A reboot should help (always does for me). But even if it doesn't, there's no reason to panic - it's just a number. It does not mean your battery is being severely overcharged lol.
I see you're using an older version of the app. You should try upgrading. Not to say a newer version will make any kind of difference, but hey, newer is better, right?
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1. Thank you for clarifying about the percentage shown thing.
2. The screenshot that i posted is from the app thread, my phone doesn't turn on .
3. I had installed 0.40 version.
4. Thank you
SERCASER1 said:
1. I already pulled the battery but it didn't helped me.
2. Long press on power does nothing.
3. I'm looking for someone who can tell me if the battery is ok using a multimeter
but i think it's very strange, because even without battery the phone should turn on screen when plugged to the wall charger.
4. Thank you.
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1. Oops didn't realize that you connected your phone to pc without battery, Sorry
2. Ok, was just a theory
3. It should be alright, (if you know which pins to connect ) but you can read through this guide.
4. You're welcome (but the thanks button is a lot easier...)
I hope you can get your phone to work again, but if charging via multimeter doesn't help, you'd have to send it in I think
It's alive!!!
I'm glad to tell you that my phone is alive again, and the only thing that I did was, leaving it in a box with the battery in, and today I tried to turn it on and it turned on, the charging via wall charger is also working and everything seems to be fine. Thanks for the help.
SERCASER1 said:
I'm glad to tell you that my phone is alive again, and the only thing that I did was, leaving it in a box with the battery in, and today I tried to turn it on and it turned on, the charging via wall charger is also working and everything seems to be fine. Thanks for the help.
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leaving it in a box? what does it means?
diegofdg said:
leaving it in a box? what does it means?
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Meaning he left it alone
SERCASER1 said:
I'm glad to tell you that my phone is alive again, and the only thing that I did was, leaving it in a box with the battery in, and today I tried to turn it on and it turned on, the charging via wall charger is also working and everything seems to be fine. Thanks for the help.
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Are you sure that your battery didn't get wet? maybe it is on short-circuit, if I was you I would change it.
Feche said:
Are you sure that your battery didn't get wet? maybe it is on short-circuit, if I was you I would change it.
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I'm pretty sure that it didn't get any wet, I still don't know what happened but it is working perfectly. Thanks for your help!
Hey guys,
So I was outside working in the yard and had music playing on my phone, I then walked into the garage and back and my phone was off when I got back. It wasnt in the sun when I left it out. Anyways It was connected to my laptop charging all night and had close to a full charge when it shut off. I plugged it into the wall for hours, plugged it into a linux laptop for a while, plugged it into a windows tower for a while, and no luck. Ive held down the power for up to a minute, Ive tried power and volume down and no luck.
Phone has the newest version of CM 4.3 10.2 8/7 with crpalmers 4.3 kernal installed.
Any suggesetions? Id ask in the forum thread for CM 10.2 but I dont have enough posts.
Try a different cable and attempt to charge overnight with a wall charger.
htc response
After contacting HTC they told me to do a battery recalibration which was charge for ten minutes and hold vol down vol up and power for 2 minutes but no dice.
Ive only had this phone for a month and they suggested I contact Verizon and try to get a replacement. Since this phone is competely whacked and I cannot RUU im curious If I should send it to verizon or If it will get declined.
tatumjef said:
After contacting HTC they told me to do a battery recalibration which was charge for ten minutes and hold vol down vol up and power for 2 minutes but no dice.
Ive only had this phone for a month and they suggested I contact Verizon and try to get a replacement. Since this phone is competely whacked and I cannot RUU im curious If I should send it to verizon or If it will get declined.
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If it doesn't turn on they won't be able to tell anything go for it.
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cstrife999 said:
If it doesn't turn on they won't be able to tell anything go for it.
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That is what I was thinking. I tried to put it into fastboot by holding down volume and power, waited and then pressed power again and then plugged it into my computer and ran "fastboot devices" and "fastboot -- s" and both came back with waiting for device.
I watched the JTAG video but I honestly dont see a repair guy going through that much trouble to find out why it was bricked.
Fingers crossed I dont end up paying 500
This sucks
Just had this happen to me on Carbon 4.3 latest running stock kernel. Had mine on the charger overnight. My wife says that it was still working when she got up at 0730, but when I got up at 1000 it wouldn't turn on. Tried everything I could think of: Different cables, different power sources, nothing will get it to show a charging light or turn on. Ugh.
armydog13 said:
Just had this happen to me on Carbon 4.3 latest running stock kernel. Had mine on the charger overnight. My wife says that it was still working when she got up at 0730, but when I got up at 1000 it wouldn't turn on. Tried everything I could think of: Different cables, different power sources, nothing will get it to show a charging light or turn on. Ugh.
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any luck ? if you need a spare borrow phone let me know ...
round 3
well I sent my first phone back into verizon and they sent me another one. All was well and I didnt get hit with a $500 fine, but within a week the same thing happened to the second phone as did the first. [ running PA with stock kernal, played a few songs and then dead with no charge light for days ] I received my 3rd phone yesterday and Im terrified to even root it now haha.
Is this a common problem with this phone? or maybe im having trouble with aosp roms. I really want to install PA again.
Same thing happened to me...
tatumjef said:
well I sent my first phone back into verizon and they sent me another one. All was well and I didnt get hit with a $500 fine, but within a week the same thing happened to the second phone as did the first. [ running PA with stock kernal, played a few songs and then dead with no charge light for days ] I received my 3rd phone yesterday and Im terrified to even root it now haha.
Is this a common problem with this phone? or maybe im having trouble with aosp roms. I really want to install PA again.
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I had the same thing happen to my phone. I was playing music in the garage and when I came back, deader than a door nail. I finally ended up sending mine in to HTC. They sent back a working phone. What irritated me most besides having to pay shipping to get the phone to them when it was an under warranty repair, was the fact that they did not tell me what they fixed. And since the wifi MAC address was changed, I assume they swapped out the guts or something. Apparently there are issues with this phone that they don't want to share? I got the phone rooted again and am currently running crdroid with crkernal and the battery life is beyond horrible. I can charge it completely, leave it set at home and not use it at all and when I get home and check it, it's completely dead. Nothing. Very frustrating because I enjoy the phone when it's functioning correctly.
interesting nonetheless since mine died running the latest cm10.2 just before 4.3 came out hmm wonder if something with cyanogenmod is messing with the devices but if that was the case then everyone would be having this very same issue i dont know waiting on a repair from htc myself as i have heard nothing from them yet accept tracking shows in repair
Same thing just happened to mine running CM 10.1. Getting a new one from verizon tomorrow and I guess ill be sending them my dead rooted DNA.
Mine did something similar a couple of months ago. I was running carbon, listening to music. The music stopped and the phone was dead. I was able to boot into recovery. Initiated a reboot and got a popup about losing root and did I want to fix it. Selected yes and that was the last time it powered on.
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Mine just did the same thing today. I was outside working in the yard cleaning up leaves and listening to music via headphones. All of a sudden the phone was dead. Not even 30 min before that it was at 90%+ battery. Now it won't turn on and the charging light won't even come on when it's plugged in. I've been running rooted S-off Viper ROM for a while without any previous issues. Is there something that I could try to fix it? I'm so confused about what happened. I'm pretty sure I'm out of the warranty too.
Had the same thing happen to mine. Sent it back and got a new one.
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http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/a/643501314
I just sent mine back to Verizon and got a new one.
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kusumuck said:
Mine just did the same thing today. I was outside working in the yard cleaning up leaves and listening to music via headphones. All of a sudden the phone was dead. Not even 30 min before that it was at 90%+ battery. Now it won't turn on and the charging light won't even come on when it's plugged in. I've been running rooted S-off Viper ROM for a while without any previous issues. Is there something that I could try to fix it? I'm so confused about what happened. I'm pretty sure I'm out of the warranty too.
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Update: Popped the back cover off after trying every button push/plugged in wall/plugged in computer/not plugged in combination possible and took the 2 tiny screws out of the battery connector and unhooked it, left the phone to sit for about 10 min, put it all back together and WAALA! It turned back on like nothing had happened. The battery was down to 55% though and it was 90+ when it turned off. Either it drained 40% and wasn't taking a charge while it was off since I had it plugged in a considerable amount of time that it was off without a light OR the more likely scenario is that I think the battery completely died somehow and it was actually charging without the light coming on and it had only gotten to 55%. Either way: if your experiencing this problem go for the battery. Watch a YouTube video to see how to get the thing apart, it's not that hard. Just make sure your gentle taking it apart the first time and don't rip the rubber gasket, it's sealed with a tiny amount of silicon so gently peel it off and place it back into its groove before reassembly.
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Update: Popped the back cover off after trying every button push/plugged in wall/plugged in computer/not plugged in combination possible and took the 2 tiny screws out of the battery connector and unhooked it, left the phone to sit for about 10 min, put it all back together and WAALA! It turned back on like nothing had happened. The battery was down to 55% though and it was 90+ when it turned off. Either it drained 40% and wasn't taking a charge while it was off since I had it plugged in a considerable amount of time that it was off without a light OR the more likely scenario is that I think the battery completely died somehow and it was actually charging without the light coming on and it had only gotten to 55%. Either way: if your experiencing this problem go for the battery. Watch a YouTube video to see how to get the thing apart, it's not that hard. Just make sure your gentle taking it apart the first time and don't rip the rubber gasket, it's sealed with a tiny amount of silicon so gently peel it off and place it back into its groove before reassembly.
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Which 2 screws are you talking about? The torx?
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Hi
My S3 started exhibiting some strange reboots and yesterday it was literally unusable
Model - T999V
Android 4.4.2
I googled hoping for a quick fix and none of the suggested fixes worked. Here's what I've done so far
1) replaced the battery with a new samsung battery - same issue
2) Factory reset hoping to clear any software glitch - same issue
it looks like the battery barely holds a charge despite being charged and the graph shows a few seconds (45-55) usually when powered on at first but when I click on the battery graph or do other stuff the phone battery min left amount will increase incrementally. For example a few clicks and the minutes counter will show 1min + secs increase. Keep clicking around - open apps - go back and check battery counter and the minutes will increase. I can start getting it up to 28 min possibly more by clicking around.
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Here's the odd part - even when its plugged in the phone will shut down. Sometimes I've noticed the popup screen which shows the shutdown-restart options popup momentarily before it triggers a shutdown. At one point through clicking over awhile I managed to get the battery counter to increase to 48 min (unplugged) so I plugged it in to see if anything would change. once plugged in the shutdown/restart popup triggered and the phone shut off. I powered it back on and check the battery remaining min were at 50 min seconds later it shut off again and kept shutting while I was trying to get this screen
Notice that now there is a gap in the battery graph. There is no external sd card and nothing new has been installed since factory reset.
The phone is not rooted but it is unlocked. Awhile back I was having problems having the phone connect to my PC as a hard drive via USB wire. This seems to be common problem from what I've read and since I couldn't connect via USB I couldn't root the phone later. I resigned myself to transferring files via airdroid but after I did a factory reset to fix the battery issue i can connect once again as a hard drive so whatever glitch there was seems to be fixed.
My main issue is getting the phone battery issue sorted out. I saw a vid where the blame was placed on the power button. Could that be it?
Any advice/help would be appreciated.
Thanks
Edit: I let it sit awhile after a few restarts and the remaining battery minutes have crept up to over 1hr. The shutdowns are still occurring.
dalkiel said:
Hi
My S3 started exhibiting some strange reboots and yesterday it was literally unusable
Model - T999V
Android 4.4.2
I googled hoping for a quick fix and none of the suggested fixes worked. Here's what I've done so far
1) replaced the battery with a new samsung battery - same issue
2) Factory reset hoping to clear any software glitch - same issue
it looks like the battery barely holds a charge despite being charged and the graph shows a few seconds (45-55) usually when powered on at first but when I click on the battery graph or do other stuff the phone battery min left amount will increase incrementally. For example a few clicks and the minutes counter will show 1min + secs increase. Keep clicking around - open apps - go back and check battery counter and the minutes will increase. I can start getting it up to 28 min possibly more by clicking around.
Here's the odd part - even when its plugged in the phone will shut down. Sometimes I've noticed the popup screen which shows the shutdown-restart options popup momentarily before it triggers a shutdown. At one point through clicking over awhile I managed to get the battery counter to increase to 48 min (unplugged) so I plugged it in to see if anything would change. once plugged in the shutdown/restart popup triggered and the phone shut off. I powered it back on and check the battery remaining min were at 50 min seconds later it shut off again and kept shutting while I was trying to get this screen
Notice that now there is a gap in the battery graph. There is no external sd card and nothing new has been installed since factory reset.
The phone is not rooted but it is unlocked. Awhile back I was having problems having the phone connect to my PC as a hard drive via USB wire. This seems to be common problem from what I've read and since I couldn't connect via USB I couldn't root the phone later. I resigned myself to transferring files via airdroid but after I did a factory reset to fix the battery issue i can connect once again as a hard drive so whatever glitch there was seems to be fixed.
My main issue is getting the phone battery issue sorted out. I saw a vid where the blame was placed on the power button. Could that be it?
Any advice/help would be appreciated.
Thanks
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the android system consumes the most battery, so you should see which app runs in the background all the time..
Tkkg1994 said:
the android system consumes the most battery, so you should see which app runs in the background all the time..
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I think there's something else going on. If it was working fine for over an year with more apps. After the factory reset it has less apps now and "back to zero" so I don't think its an app that's causing the reboot. The battery doesn't appear to be drained at all.
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I think there's something else going on. If it was working fine for over an year with more apps. After the factory reset it has less apps now and "back to zero" so I don't think its an app that's causing the reboot. The battery doesn't appear to be drained at all.
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Can you maybe make a screenshot from the battery when it's around 10%?
I think I have the same problem and I think it is caused by a dodgy power button. Maybe some dirt in there causing a short or something?
If it starts rebooting I just jiggle the power button about and it normally sorts it out.