Hey guys,
I've just started having a problem with my MyTouch 4G in which it won't charge while the phone is switched on. The battery charging symbol displays but the battery % slowly decreases. I have tried using a different battery but no luck. If I go into "battery usage" in settings it says that Wifi & Cellular Idle are the 2 biggest users with 29% each. The strange thing is that these 2 are always using 29% even if I turn Wifi off and put the phone on flight mode. Another user had a similar problem and it turned out to be an app using buttloads of power but I can't identify any on mine doing this. I've done a virus scan. Any ideas?
Thanks
Do you charge by the computer or the power socket
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Both. I've just done a factory reset & installed ICS to see if that made a change. I've got it plugged into the PC at work now and its finally gone up 1% in about 15 minutes. Seems a little slow and I have a feeling it would discharge pretty quickly if I started using it while plugged in. I'll wait and see what happens.
Maybe you should stop checking every 5 seconds and just wait
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same charging issue!
tig56 said:
Hey guys,
I've just started having a problem with my MyTouch 4G in which it won't charge while the phone is switched on. The battery charging symbol displays but the battery % slowly decreases. I have tried using a different battery but no luck. If I go into "battery usage" in settings it says that Wifi & Cellular Idle are the 2 biggest users with 29% each. The strange thing is that these 2 are always using 29% even if I turn Wifi off and put the phone on flight mode. Another user had a similar problem and it turned out to be an app using buttloads of power but I can't identify any on mine doing this. I've done a virus scan. Any ideas?
Thanks
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Where you able to fix it???
I have a Note II from At&T WITHT HE SAME ISSUE!!! :/
help!!!
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My puter wasn't recognizing the phone so I had plugged and unplugged about 6 or so times with rebooting the computer and phone. Now the phone is draining way to fast, it's been off the charger for 10 hrs and the battery is at 13%. Since i noticed this happening I have been charging it all night after it drains and dies. What should I do to get my battery life back?
Under settings>applications>running applic. check and see what's running, there might be something you installed old/new that might be killing your battery in the background. If it keeps happening, since you're running stock rooted is all, you might want to consider resetting the phone back to factory and see if it takes care of the problem.
I think that I know what was happening, but I will have to see what kind of battery life that I get tomorrow. THIS IS HOW I THINK I KNOW WHAT WAS HAPPENING. While at work I walked up near a co-worker that had happened to be turning on his wifi (iPod Touch) and my hotspot showed up on his available network list. I didn't have Barnacle activated. This was 6 1/2 hrs after unplugging from the charger and my battery was at 18% by now. I immediately uninstalled Barnacle and rebooted to see how it affected my battery life the rest of the day. So, 4 hrs later battery goes down 1%. Before I uninstalled it I looked under the "Runnning Services" and it wasn't showing up. Could I have had my settings setup wrong in Barnacle and what other wifi tethering Apps work well? I will post up about if my battery life gets back to normal tomorrow.
After uninstalling and starting new today. The same time when my battery was at 18% yesterday, it was at 75%. So, what did I do wrong with Barnacle, were my settings set up wrong and is there another tethering app that others would like to suggest?
I had this problem once. I had dropped 9% battery in less than two hours and wondered why; I had left the Mobile AP turned on.
synaesthetic said:
I had this problem once. I had dropped 9% battery in less than two hours and wondered why; I had left the Mobile AP turned on.
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Where is that in the settings? I downloaded it again to check for that in settings and don't see it. How do you have yours set up?
DanRo80 said:
Where is that in the settings? I downloaded it again to check for that in settings and don't see it. How do you have yours set up?
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Settings wireless and network mobile ap
xriderx66 said:
Settings wireless and network mobile ap
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I'm sorry but I don't see this setting. Could you please write a step by step process. After I did some testing my phones network is still showing up until I reboot the phone.
Is there any good reason for the battery to drain while its plugged in charger while i use the phone?!
i was on %15 battery, plugged to charger (it kept showing the whole time the "charging icon", kept using it (just browsing some apps, nothing heavy) and whoops, after 15 minutes the phone shuts down because battery died
wtf?
this is really worrying me
i just got the phone 3 days ago..
This is not normal at all, did you check your task manager, was your phone very hot?
Since it turned off where you able to turn it on again ? After charging of course.
When the battery low sign comes up it says not to use your phone when charging, i think its not good for the battery? But I've done it before and mine charges. U might have a faulty charger? Take it back.
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The only thing that can reportedly do that is like Plants vs Zombies or some intensive game. Weird... Run your task manager and see what's taking up your CPU?
I was having same problem when using the **** samsung charger..anyway since my samsung charger is already dead..im using my htc charger with a 1 amp output...no more problems..even at a very low state of battery..i can still charge and watch streaming movies over the net.
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This is not normal at all, did you check your task manager, was your phone very hot?
Since it turned off where you able to turn it on again ? After charging of course.
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i have an update:
yes the task manager looked fine BUT yes it was VERY VERY hot so what happens is that the phone turned off because of 0% battery, then i turned it on after like 30 seconds, and i kept using it EVEN MORE than i did (plugged to the charger) and it started to cool down and the battery DID charge, it didnt happen again.
i dont know what was running in the background, but i saw nothing at running applications and servers.
that was scary..
I have been setting my phone on airplane mode every night. It's always coming off of a full charge, so it's at 99 or displaying 'fully charged '.
Upon going to work in the morning, the phone has gone down to 87%. To me, that's a lot of drain for the phone not doing anything. In comparison, my NS4g gets the same treatment, and I may lose 1% overnight.
Is there something wrong with my phone, or is this normal?
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Check what is using battery while you sleep. Only time I've had bad drain while doing nothing was when WiFi was left on scanning
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Thanks...
Top thing on the list is phone idle 58% then display at 28%, and maps at 11%.
Not sure why maps would even be listed... probably my problem right there.
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Airplane mode will drive some apps crazy when unable to connect to the internet and cause wake lock issues
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The E3D goes into sleep mode at night where all the network connections are turned off if the screen is locked. There should be no need for you to put into airplane mode.
This morning I used my sister's Samsung Champ's charger to charge my Galaxy 5. I didn't keep it in for long (20 - 30 min) but when I removed it, the battery started showing low charge warnings; I tried charging with my laptop using the cable that came with the phone and it showed 70% charged immidately, but when I removed it, it showed <14% warning again.
I tried to drain the battery completely and then recharge it, but the battery is still draining fast. Please help, the phone is only 2 months old...
Did you do a full charge?
I don't see why using other chargers effect your phone, I always use blackberry chargers and have no problem, try charging to 100%, draining to 0% a few times, see if it helps
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It might have nothing to do with using the wrong charger, you might just have the signal glitch where your phone is constantly searching for signal when it already has it, my phone started to do it recently, to check if this is the issue go to Settings, Phone Info, Battery Useage, Signal, then if it says something like Time without signal 50% then that is the issue.
Try this;
Unplug your phone
Turn Airplane Mode on for about 10 seconds
Turn Airplane Mode off
Restart phone.
That fixed my battery life- it was going for 80% battery to 10% in under 5 minutes.
Hello,
how you can read above, I have big problems with my battery since I did an update to Android 4.0.4 a few days ago. Before, I charged my phone 1-3 times a week. If I charge it now and pull off the charging adapter, my battery drains down to 0 within a few hours. After about 1 hour in Stand-By I have about 75-80% of battery life at the moment. Does anyone of you have an idea how this problem is caused? And if - what can I do against it?
Greets blackmax07
PS: Sorry for bad English, I'm from Germany
1.no
2.go back to using your previous firmware
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I'm facing the same problem although my phone isn't rooted... And it is awake the whole time. I mean it, not a single second of deep sleep.
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Don't do anything yet. Go and reboot your home router. Trust me. I had some crazy battery drain on my S2, not just on ICS but also on gingerbread. It had very little to do with the phone. Just reboot your home router and see if your drain stops. It stopped mine. I found out after I installed a data manager on my phone that my phone was downloading a hell of a lot of data, and no I am all on stock ICS. I got hardly any apps installed either.
And when I turned off WiFi and a 3G data, the battery drain used to stop. I rebooted my home router and and now my WiFi is always on and very little drain. Try it.
Better battery stats for finding your wakelocks and cpu spy to see if your device is deep sleeping
And a kernel that you can tweak
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I don't know which member it was on XDA who suggested leaving the phone alone and just Rebooting your home wireless access point. But it has worked like a charm for me. No more battery drain. I don't know what the router is doing with the S2 but its causing a massive data spike in the Data stats on the phone. Reboot the router.
I found a solution for myself. Power manager service and fuel_alert were waking the phone. I just took the battery off for some minutes and voila! The phone goes into deep sleep again.
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Hello,
it seems like my battery had been destroyed. I don't know how this could happen, but it happened. I turned the device off over night and wanted to start it this morning - nothing. No boot animation or something else. So I plugged in the charger - nothing. I waited about 20-30 minutes and tried to boot it- nothing. Then I tested the battery of a friend - and my phone was booting again. So I ordered a new battery for my phone at amazon.
blackmax07