[solved] Odd battery drain. - HTC Rezound

So I just woke up about 2 hours ago. Grabbed my phone off the charger.. checked news email etc. Then put the phone down and got ready for work. Went to get the phone about an hour later (1hr 10min) and my battery is at 8%.
Nothing is on.. I checked task killer and there was nothing crazy. Phone is not warm in any way.. I'm connected to WiFi.
It's totally throwing me. It's almost as if it wasn't charging last night.. but I would have noticed that when I took it off the charger as I have the battery widget on my home screen.
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wall charger? or usb into a pc charger?
I've noticed sometimes on my older laptop when i hook it up, it doesn't get detected properly and never draws even the minimal +300mA from the usb...

thatsricci said:
wall charger? or usb into a pc charger?
I've noticed sometimes on my older laptop when i hook it up, it doesn't get detected properly and never draws even the minimal +300mA from the usb...
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wall charger, same one I use every night. I charged it back up, and now its acting normally, i think , somehow, it just didnt charge overnight.

hahaha, found the problem
I use a USB extension so that I can use my phone while in bed (the outlet is too far for the standard cable) and I guess it had pulled out slightly and not charging.
but it was still plugged in enough that it made a connection when i checked it a little later, indicating that it was charging.
At least it wasnt a real problem

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[Q] Galaxy s 2 Battery/USB Problem?

So.. I have googled the crap out of this problem and seen loads of issues raised, but nothing solved.
I am coming from a Dell Streak and grabbed me a galaxy s 2 from craigslist a couple months back.
It has been running fine and I have tried a few roms/kernels and a few days ago I got the following error:
When charged to 100%, I get the notification to unplug, when I do, it sticks. No big deal but even when the phone battery has dropped to around 80% it stays.
It does not go into MTP mode or think it is plugged in via USB. Although, before this problem originated, the phone continuously vibrated between charging and not, when not plugged in.
I have calibrated the battery, tried a mixture of roms/kernels and I am now on unrooted stock. The problem still occurs and sometimes it does not recognise a USB connection, like today.
Probably worth mentioning that when turning on (and not plugged in) the phone does not turn right on, just boots into the battery screen and flashes between the battery charging and the overheating symbol.
Anyone got any ideas?
encima said:
So.. I have googled the crap out of this problem and seen loads of issues raised, but nothing solved.
I am coming from a Dell Streak and grabbed me a galaxy s 2 from craigslist a couple months back.
It has been running fine and I have tried a few roms/kernels and a few days ago I got the following error:
When charged to 100%, I get the notification to unplug, when I do, it sticks. No big deal but even when the phone battery has dropped to around 80% it stays.
It does not go into MTP mode or think it is plugged in via USB. Although, before this problem originated, the phone continuously vibrated between charging and not, when not plugged in.
I have calibrated the battery, tried a mixture of roms/kernels and I am now on unrooted stock. The problem still occurs and sometimes it does not recognise a USB connection, like today.
Probably worth mentioning that when turning on (and not plugged in) the phone does not turn right on, just boots into the battery screen and flashes between the battery charging and the overheating symbol.
Anyone got any ideas?
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Turn off the phone and put it on charging. Once it beeps that its fully charged, quickly unplug the battery for 5-10 minutes. Should work and 'recalibrate' your battery
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Thanks, giving a go now.
Do you need root to calibrate though? I am on stock firmware and not in front of a windows machine to use ODIN.
Vlad the Cat said:
Turn off the phone and put it on charging. Once it beeps that its fully charged, quickly unplug the battery for 5-10 minutes. Should work and 'recalibrate' your battery
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OK, charged to 100% and got the full notification.
Left battery out for 10 mins and whacked it back in.
Turned on and it went to the overheating sign again.
Booted into the samsung recovery and I can boot into android from there.
Battery says it is as 88, cannot calibrate as I do not have root atm.
Any ideas?
encima said:
So.. I have googled the crap out of this problem and seen loads of issues raised, but nothing solved.
I am coming from a Dell Streak and grabbed me a galaxy s 2 from craigslist a couple months back.
It has been running fine and I have tried a few roms/kernels and a few days ago I got the following error:
When charged to 100%, I get the notification to unplug, when I do, it sticks. No big deal but even when the phone battery has dropped to around 80% it stays.
It does not go into MTP mode or think it is plugged in via USB. Although, before this problem originated, the phone continuously vibrated between charging and not, when not plugged in.
I have calibrated the battery, tried a mixture of roms/kernels and I am now on unrooted stock. The problem still occurs and sometimes it does not recognise a USB connection, like today.
Probably worth mentioning that when turning on (and not plugged in) the phone does not turn right on, just boots into the battery screen and flashes between the battery charging and the overheating symbol.
Anyone got any ideas?
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i am actually having the exact same problem FYI im using exynos extreme rom 7.2 i think nt sure its getin worse before it used to detect usb mode somrtimes now it dosent!
encima said:
OK, charged to 100% and got the full notification.
Left battery out for 10 mins and whacked it back in.
Turned on and it went to the overheating sign again.
Booted into the samsung recovery and I can boot into android from there.
Battery says it is as 88, cannot calibrate as I do not have root atm.
Any ideas?
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Get root and use the battery calibration tool from the market. The best idea so far. I suggest rooting with CF-Root, its fast and easy - its basically still your stock kernel but just with root.
If you really need the warranty or you'r scared of root you can install cf-root, calibrate the battery, then re-flash a stock kernel (unroot)
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Done and done.
Calibrated, even bought a new battery. Tried various other roms and appears to be an issue. Phone knows when USB is plugged in but does not seem to recognise the unplugging of the charger. And stays at 100% for a while before dropping down to like 80.
One thing to note is that this seemed to happen around the time of buying a dock for the samsung from Amazon, by Kidigi. I plugged the phone in to the dock without a USB cable connected to the dock and the dock LED lit up, making the phone think it was charging. Is this likely to have caused it/messed up the micro usb forever?
Thanks again guys!
well i think ive figured out what the problem was
Its due to overcharging or keeping the charger connected after battrey is full which has caused a hardware damage
im not sure if this is true but this is the closest explanation i can get the phone shows connected to charger even when diconnected only when i keep it connected for long time even after its battrey is full my usb connection has completely stopped working
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encima said:
Done and done.
Calibrated, even bought a new battery. Tried various other roms and appears to be an issue. Phone knows when USB is plugged in but does not seem to recognise the unplugging of the charger. And stays at 100% for a while before dropping down to like 80.
Thanks again guys!
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well that the same problem with me when it shows connected to charger at 100% i restart it then the phone drops to ~80% battery although its 100% which makes the app battery monitor widget think i have a 1977mah battery while i have the standard 1650mah battery this must be the extra 20% which disappeared after the restart for me
I thought it may have been an overcharging problem, although no other phone I have owned has had this problem.
I let the battery charge all the way down (it stayed at 1% for about 3 hours) until it shut itself off. I left it on the side and it created a clicking noise, it was trying to turn the phone on as it knew the battery was in, even though it was depleted.
I plugged it in via USB to charge and it tried to turn on straight away. Shut it down and charged by plug until the 100% notification then turned on.
Still the same problem but one of my battery widgets warned that the battery was over voltage for a while before calming down.
If the phone cannot be off with the battery in, what could be causing that?
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If the phone cannot be off with the battery in, what could be causing that?
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It has been known to be caused by a defective circuit board for the USB connector.
So, it needs a samsung return, I assume?
i have the same problem with overheating and usb plugged when there is nothing connected
i changed the usb port from the phone but it still having the problem!!!
i will try to put a new battery and see if it work and after post a reply

[Q] Auto shutdown fault - Xperia Neo

Gidday - This morning I woke up to find my phone had switched itself off during the night while on charge.
Last night I put my phone to charge through USB connected to my PC in sleep mode. I've been charging the phone like this since I got it 3 weeks ago and its been working fine.
When I woke up in the morning I found the phone off and when I gave the power button a short press expecting it to show me the time all I got was a battery charging symbol.
When I went to bed I had the standard "Clock" feature running that comes standard with the Neo so it acts like a bedside clock and I always have the Wifi on when I'm at home.
No other applications were running in the background apart from the normal stuff but I'm quite concerned that the phone turned itself off while I was sleeping because I use the alarm feature to wake me up when I need to go to work and I know these Android phones do not wake themselves up to run the alarm.
Any ideas what could be causing this?
Now this is very funny you say this because this happens to me,,, but I'm convinced I turn it off myself,in my sleep my partner confirms lol
But seriously could of just been a reboot
As long as it don't happen again it should be no great consern ''unless you sleep in for work'' lol
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I heard charging like this(from night to morning) is not good for the battery.The owner of the shop where I brought my W595,Neo V specially told me NOT to do this,as he said this can reduce both battery life and phones life.Anyway don't get that much concerned about itself switching off mate after only happening it once.But if can in future don't charge like that.
lol kormatoes ,I on the other hand when ppl call in night sometimes I was told that I just answer it and instead talking keep it beside my pillow thinking it was alarm and go back to sleep xD
Was the phone fully charged when you woke up? If not I would guess something went wrong with the laptop..
I've never left my phone plugged into a laptop for charging, I always use the wall plug overnight.. And don't worry, plugging your phone in every night is not bad for your battery it control's the charge and drops down to 98% when it gets to 100% before charging again.. This trickle effect on a li-ion battery is fine (would have been bad for nicad or nimh tho) and your using a laptop usb which only delivers about 500ma that's a really nice slow (low C) charge rate, li-ion and li-poly batteries love to keep topped up, what they hate is to be discharged to much. (my 2c)
If you're really worried about this (random shutdown) happening on a work day then use the wall charger the phone came with.. Just to eliminate any other factors that might have contributed to it turning off (use the laptop on your days/nights off to try and replicate the fault) would be interesting to figure it out what caused it..
Kiwi
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Thanks for your comments guys.
I'm not sure why charging it via usb is going to do it any harm? or was the guy in the shop trying so say that its not good to have the phone plugged into the charger for hours on end once it gets fully charged? either way I've been thinking that charging via usb is better for the battery because its a lower energy input and therefore charges the battery slower/cooler which in turn should make it last longer (just guessing here - no science to back this up)
Then there is the having it plugged in while at 100% - I've noticed that the phone somehow disconnects itself and stops charging the battery when at 100%. I noticed this today when I started my phone after its surprising shutdown = the battery was fully charged (because it had been plugged in all night) and the battery display refused to show me that the phone was plugged in (when it was) so I turned on the flash light feature and blasted some music to drop the %tage down and sure enough as soon as the percentage dropped below 100% the indicators on the phone started to show the batter was charging (both via the lightening bolt in the normal battery icon and also on my battery monitor which tells me if its charging and how much longer it will be charging for).
I'm looking forward to seeing if the phone is still on tomorrow when I get up.
Any more ideas much appreciated - once might not sound like much but if the alarm/phone had the potential to be even the slightest bit unreliable then I'm going to have to go back to the old alarm clock. At least with my Nokia I could even switch the phone off and the alarm would still chime (we've all experienced this with the old school phones) but I notice that android hasn't managed this yet.
kiwiBratwurst said:
Was the phone fully charged when you woke up? If not I would guess something went wrong with the laptop..
I've never left my phone plugged into a laptop for charging, I always use the wall plug overnight.. And don't worry, plugging your phone in every night is not bad for your battery it control's the charge and drops down to 98% when it gets to 100% before charging again.. This trickle effect on a li-ion battery is fine (would have been bad for nicad or nimh tho) and your using a laptop usb which only delivers about 500ma that's a really nice slow (low C) charge rate, li-ion and li-poly batteries love to keep topped up, what they hate is to be discharged to much. (my 2c)
If you're really worried about this (random shutdown) happening on a work day then use the wall charger the phone came with.. Just to eliminate any other factors that might have contributed to it turning off (use the laptop on your days/nights off to try and replicate the fault) would be interesting to figure it out what caused it..
Kiwi
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Thanks for your thoughts Kiwi (I've only just figured out who this is ) - The laptop was in sleep mode and from what I've experienced the only thing that works when in this mode is the usb ports - the Wifi and the Bluetooth shut down and I'm guessing that the processor mostly shuts down too? guessing here?
But even so what on the computer might cause the phone to crash?
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I'm not sure why charging it via usb is going to do it any harm? or was the guy in the shop trying so say that its not good to have the phone plugged into the charger for hours on end once it gets fully charged?
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Sorry if my earlier post was confusing,he told me its not good to have it plugged into the charger for longer periods of time after its fully charged.I too normally charge it with pc as phone came with one usb cable + charger plug with usb port & usb cable is always attached to my pc.Anyway about that keeping it for the whole night is bad theory I'm not sure if its correct or wrong but I prefer not keeping it plugged in for like 6-7 hours everyday while it only need 2-3 hours maximum to fully charge.
But even so what on the computer might cause the phone to crash?
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Normally if phone crashes it reboots right ? instead switching off ?
Thilina said:
Sorry if my earlier post was confusing,he told me its not good to have it plugged into the charger for longer periods of time after its fully charged.I too normally charge it with pc as phone came with one usb cable + charger plug with usb port & usb cable is always attached to my pc.Anyway about that keeping it for the whole night is bad theory I'm not sure if its correct or wrong but I prefer not keeping it plugged in for like 6-7 hours everyday while it only need 2-3 hours maximum to fully charge.
Normally if phone crashes it reboots right ? instead switching off ?
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I've noticed that when you reboot while plugged in, it might just go right into charge mode. Try turning it on, and then plug it in righ thereafter. Likely it will not boot, but go to the charge animation.
Can't try it myself, phone's in for repair
sdk16420 said:
I've noticed that when you reboot while plugged in, it might just go right into charge mode. Try turning it on, and then plug it in righ thereafter. Likely it will not boot, but go to the charge animation.
Can't try it myself, phone's in for repair
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Hmm interesting theory - but I've tried it and the phone has restarted : (
Probably a good thing but still no closer to finding the solution except I'm wondering if it was because my ROM memory was pretty much full? So in case it was I've moved a few things from System apps to User apps in the hope that the phone wont switch off by itself again.
hilfordjames said:
Hmm interesting theory - but I've tried it and the phone has restarted : (
Probably a good thing but still no closer to finding the solution except I'm wondering if it was because my ROM memory was pretty much full? So in case it was I've moved a few things from System apps to User apps in the hope that the phone wont switch off by itself again.
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If you're rooted, I can recommend Link2SD.
HilfordJames and I have discussed this in length already so this is more for other people's benefit..
Link to sd can be dangerous, as can forcing apps to sd that don't offer the choice normally, app developers block the option to install to sd for a reason, that is usually because the app accesses services that can become corupt or crash if the app is suddenly ejected from the phone (like when you mount the sd card on the computer) so its best to leave those apps on the internal memory.
The most likely reason for the overnight shutdown would be (as you said) that you had filled your system memory up with user apps.
Sure enough once you've deleted all that bloatware from the system you have heaps of room just begging to be filled in the system partition.. But you gotta leave some room in there (about 60-70mb should be enough)
I think another thing could be if your computer somehow woke up in the middle of the night and accessed (auto mounted) your phones sd card, sounds unlikely but I've had laptops run scheduled updates in the middle of the night when they were supposed to be "asleep" if this happened and you had an application running off sd card that uses phone services (like Wifi, bluetooth etc) this may have crashed the phone.. And as it was plugged into power remained shutdown.. Once again (AFAIK) these apps should be installed on the phone not sd card. (games and similar apps are fine on sd card)
Just a couple of theories, but I think we are on the right track
Kiwi
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Yip all good.
Since transferring a lot of the files/apps back to user memory I've not had the phone auto shutoff and I've tested it by leaving it on the CPU at night as well and it seems fine - although I now charge it from the wall charger if I'm working the next day just to be on the safe side.

[Q] What can I do to get my NT to power back on?

So last night before I went to sleep, my NT had about 40% battery life left in it. I'm currently running the final alpha build of CM7. I've been experiencing really bad wifi loss issues and have kept the 'Never' option enabled under the wifi sleep policy (thinking that would help hold the connection).
I woke up to find the NT was turned off. Figured that was odd as I was only asleep for about 5hrs. I turned it on and then noticed it got into the OS and then died. I did see the battery icon was red briefly.
I then plugged it into the wall and it was boot looping. I saw the 'n' logo pop up, screen went black, 'n' logo, etc. etc.
After numerous attempts of holding down the power button for 20+ seconds, holding power+vol down for 10 seconds, plugging it with or without an sd card into the wall and computer, nothing is happening.
The computer does see something as I'm hearing the common connected/disconnected tone from the USB port. Now I'm noticing that plugged into the wall, the 'n' on the cable stays orange. It never turns green.
Did it go 'poof' in the night somehow?
[EDIT] Ok after leaving it plugged into the wall for about 15mins, it suddenly turned on but had a google framework FC error. Yeah, not sure what I should do at this point. It appears to be charging...
It's been noted by others that if the power level goes below 15% you mustn't turn the device off if you don't have the original charger nearby. If it dies you need to charge it with the original charger for a bit before it'll power back up.
I assume this means that you can't run it off the cable while you've got a completely dead battery. That kind of stinks but isn't too surprising, a lot of devices are like that.
So does that mean that if the device is <40% of battery I need to plug it in if I won't be around it for a while? Not sure I'm cool with that. Battery life was great all day yesterday but somehow it dropped 40% in under 5hrs while asleep.
I can't really say much as I haven't dealt with it personally. People were talking about it in a couple threads about the NT's charger and unique 12 pin cable.
Here's what I understand from what I've read:
You can run it until it's empty all you like. You'll just need to use the Nook's factory charger (or a compatible 2A charger with bridged D- and D+ pins) AND (this is the important one) the factory USB cable to charge it.
If you run it until it dies you have to charge it for a little while before it'll turn on again, BUT you have to use the original cord and charger. It won't charge off of a regular micro USB cable nor will it work if you're using a 2A or smaller charger that doesn't have the middle two pins bridges (the Apple UBS chargers won't work nor will your PC's USB ports, for example).
The NT will charge, albeit slowly, if connected with a third party cable or USB charger (without the data lines D- and D+ bridged), but not if the device's power has been depleted.
So I suspect something sucked up a lot of juice while you weren't using your NT. Not a huge deal, but definitely annoying. Plug it in for 15 minutes and you can get rolling again.... BUT only if you're using the original charger and cable. Lovely isn't it? It's not a huge problem but it is annoying. I wish you could at least use the device with a dead battery while plugged in.
I just mention the charger/stock cable thing because I'm sure someone will probably see this post in the future and may be having that particular problem resuscitating their NT.
Cool, yeah I don't specifically set out to run it down to zero but since the device is clean with minimal stuff running in the background, it's difficult to know when this might happen again. I assumed I'd wake up with like 20-25% battery left. The framework FC is also something I'm concerned about but maybe it was just a fluke.
Ah well, really do appreciate your input and I'll be sure to keep the stock cable/adapter on hand when I'm on the go.
Battery showed fully charged, I rebooted to do another CWM backup and then when it came back up it showed 84% charged. Lol. And this pic made me laugh even more. Time to get that lady from Poltergeist involved I think...
The Google Framework force close is typical of stock rooted NTs. I don't believe it ever did any harm to anything though. Just that it sometimes appears on reboot.
I'll ask one additional question as to not make another topic since it's related.
Opinions on battery calibration with the NT? That was one of the reasons I didn't charge it last night as I wanted to fully run it down and then fully charge it back up. Does the NT require this with a new rom install? That pic above shows the battery gauge clearly wasn't correct initially.
Your battery is draining overnight because wifi is running the whole time (as you stated in your first post).
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Your battery is draining overnight because wifi is running the whole time (as you stated in your first post).
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That's what I obviously thought of at first but it didn't drain nearly as much when I was using it throughout the day. The only thing I can think of is maybe the fuel gauge itself was wrong from the start, which refers back to my calibration question.
My GS2 has the sleep policy set to 'Never' as well and only loses maybe 7-8% after being asleep for around 7-8hrs and it certainly uses more juice in sleep due to the cell communication, etc.

New Prime, no charge light

I just got my new Prime in today and it is completely dead. Plugging it in via the wall charger or USB in my computer, I do not get any charge lights. From what I have read, the wall charger can have some issues and it may take several hours for the unit to charge enough to turn on, but I do not get any charge lights. When plugged into my PC through USB, I dont get any new devices in device manager.
Are there any tricks or resets that I have missed? I will leave it on the charger, but it looks like I am going to have to return it for another one
This happened to me yesterday. I had left it on while out of town, got home and it was dead. I plugged it in and no lights, no sound, no nothing. Left it plugged in for about 10 minutes and then went back to try. Held down power button for about 20 seconds, nothing. Tried holding it down again for about 20 seconds, nothing, and then when I released the power button it vibrated and powered up. Don't know if this helps, hope it does.
Try the paperclip into the reset hole below the micro-sd card slot.
Try putting the power adapter in a baggie and throw it in the freeze for a little while. This is been posted before and got me going again after mine did the same thing. I had always left my adapter plugged into the wall and some seem to think it for whatever reason causes it to overheat or stop working.
Last thing. The Prime will not charge off of a PC using USB ever. Only 5vdc from USB and it takes like 12-15 volts to charge the Prime.
Good luck,
fasthair
fasthair said:
Last thing. The Prime will not charge off of a PC using USB ever. Only 5vdc from USB and it takes like 12-15 volts to charge the Prime.
Good luck,
fasthair
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That is incorrect. It will charge, when turned COMPLETELY OFF from 5v, although it is at a VERY slow rate. 15 volts is required for full speed charging.
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That is incorrect. It will charge, when turned COMPLETELY OFF from 5v, although it is at a VERY slow rate. 15 volts is required for full speed charging.
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I stand corrected then. I did not know that. Thanks for the heads up!
fasthair
The freezer trick is for if the charger seems to be overheating.... If you notice it gets very hot then thats a quick way to cool it down (happens from time to time)
You can also try ipad chargers, they should be able to put out the 12-15 volts the prime uses to charge, or you can build a custom charger, theres a few threads on XDA about it
It will take roughly three times longer to charge via the computer with the prime OFF, with the prime on its using about as much power as its getting so having it plugged in to the computer will do basically nothing.
Hopefully this helps
Ipads have a 3,6 v battery and they chargeat 5v usb
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Look at your charger brick. The plug end can slide off of the brick part. I've had mine slide slightly and you couldn't tell that there was not good contact between the transformer part and the plug part and it would not charge. I thought, oh good, my charger is dead then I realized what was going on. Snapped it back it place charged fine.
yep, gotta put some force towards sliding it in until it clicks
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That is incorrect. It will charge, when turned COMPLETELY OFF from 5v, although it is at a VERY slow rate. 15 volts is required for full speed charging.
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just thought i throw in there
it doesn't have to be completely off
as long as the screen is turned off, it'll be charging your prime too~
but as the poster says, it is a very slow rate
prob takes about 8 hours for full charge~

[SOLVED] Stock HTC One X+ turning on, but not charging since full drain.

I read loads of similar issues, but mine is a little different:
I heavily used my stock-rom, unrooted phone today, recorded long videos in Full HD, when I got back home, I had 18% battery, plugged it into my computer's USB to get the videos (unaware of the issue of insufficient current on USB ports) and windows did not recognize it.
I then unplugged it planning to plug it into the wall socket, and when I woke the phone, it died on my arms
A little annoyed, I plugged it into the wall socket, and got the slow, orange blinking LED, and was not able to turn the phone on. After 30 minutes, the LED stabilized and it seemed to be charging (while off), so I left it there for another 20 minutes.
When I tried to turn the phone on, it worked, normally, but showed 2% battery life remaining. I had Wi-Fi on, but normally it wouldn't be an issue, so I left it charging for another 20 minutes.
I then woke the device and it showed 1% battery left! While plugged in! I tried to wake it and it died again.
I left it there for an hour or so, turned it back on, 6% battery left, I then turned Airplane Mode on so it would charge faster. After 10 minutes in Airplane Mode, it still shows 6%. It is not charging, I'm using the original HTC charger and cable.
It seems like it is not charging at all when on, and charging VERY slowly when off.
Tried a few tricks I read online, such as holding the volume up + volume down + power button for 2 minutes, but all I got was a steady flashing recovery screen, which says my battery is too low for flashing.
So the difference between mine and other posts is that my stock phone is turning on, but not charging anymore. If I turn Airplane Mode off, it drains itself even while plugged into the charger.
I'm really looking for a solution for this, instead of simply returning it (it's more than one year old, and I bought it overseas) or buying a new phone.
EDIT: Battery Widget app showed Charging Speed: n/a. Testing says battery health: good, 3666 mv, "charging" status
EDIT II: Tried running it in Recovery Mode, got a 3d exclamation point with a phone icon. Rebooted it normally, it turns back on, still not charging. This does not look good at all.
EDIT III: Read about Mr Hofs idea, of running custom recovery via the PC, but I can't get it to connect. Have newest version of Sync Manager yet windows says the "device malfunctioned" and could not be recognized.
EDIT IV: Done factory reset, no luck. Phone is still draining while plugged in. After 8 hours of charging while off, all I got was 40/50% I'm really desperate as the phone is virtually bricked and I need it for work. Willing to tip/donate to whoever finds solution, if that is ok according to forum rules (not sure)
Are you using a stock charger... With at least 1amp output
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Are you using a stock charger... With at least 1amp output
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I am, HTC charger, 5V, 1A
Back to the blinking led
I tried plugging the phone into the computer's USB port, got the red blinking led again. Held the volume down + power button while connected to the PC and it seemed to be constantly rebooting - windows popped up "device not recognized" several times and the power led started flashing much slowlier. Sometimes the lower leds would also flash. I held it like that for 2 minutes.
After a while the lower lads and the screen backlight lit up. I then realeased the buttons and quickly plugged it into the wall socket.
Now I have the fast blinking again. Awesome. I can't tell if I'm doing it right or brutally murdering my phone
You might just factory reset once your charged as .much as you can. I believe your problem. Is having to do with using or somehow got a bad current or USB port/cord etc. Anyway its software related and a hard reset doesn't help I'd RMA ..you go flashing mods to do yourself probably won't work especially if its hardware. Hope this helps. I say this as it happened to me. I used a lower amp wire charger socket. Same thing happened. After many hours of trying stuff. Factory reset never used bad or non OEM again. But in your case it may be just some IDD quirk. It happens bro. Hope you get it up and running. ..
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Droid2drummer said:
You might just factory reset once your charged as .much as you can. I believe your problem. Is having to do with using or somehow got a bad current or USB port/cord etc. Anyway its software related and a hard reset doesn't help I'd RMA ..you go flashing mods to do yourself probably won't work especially if its hardware. Hope this helps. I say this as it happened to me. I used a lower amp wire charger socket. Same thing happened. After many hours of trying stuff. Factory reset never used bad or non OEM again. But in your case it may be just some IDD quirk. It happens bro. Hope you get it up and running. ..
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Left it charging while off overnight, now I have 40% (!) battery. Any time I try flashing the default recovery, it'll show a red exclamation. The PC won't recognize it at all, even with downloaded drivers. And doind all that seem to have drained it to 30%.
Will try to get my important files and then factory reset it.
yukifujita said:
Left it charging while off overnight, now I have 40% (!) battery. Any time I try flashing the default recovery, it'll show a red exclamation. The PC won't recognize it at all, even with downloaded drivers. And doind all that seem to have drained it to 30%.
Will try to get my important files and then factory reset it.
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Done factory reset, no luck. Phone is still draining while plugged in.
So that's it? Phone is bricked then?
Charge to 100%
Try a different charger
Try flashing a different ROM/kernel
Try flashing RUU
Contact HTC
That's what I would do and the order I would do it in. Leave it alone until it is charged up to 100% before you do any of this though. Even if it takes a week. For all I know, charging to 100% will reset the charging circuit. I doubt it, but who knows.... Stranger things have happened.
ridethisbike said:
Charge to 100%
Try a different charger
Try flashing a different ROM/kernel
Try flashing RUU
Contact HTC
That's what I would do and the order I would do it in. Leave it alone until it is charged up to 100% before you do any of this though. Even if it takes a week. For all I know, charging to 100% will reset the charging circuit. I doubt it, but who knows.... Stranger things have happened.
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Well this is awkward.
After many days, and since HTC is not present in Brazil anymore, I have no ways of contacting support, I gave up, bought an S4. After two days with my new phone, guess what? The HOX+ charged 100%, and it seems to be discharging normally. GOD DAMMIT.
So, ridethisbike, your suggestion worked, kudos for you and boo for me for not being patient and giving a shot.
Out to look for a buyer then. :silly:

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