[Q] Atrix not charging from wall or pc - Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

So my Atrix is not charging at all, regardless of whether it's connected to the computer via usb or to a wall outlet via the motorola charger. It's currently at around 20% battery so it will still boot and stuff.
Here's where it gets interesting: After it's powered down, if I connect it to either the wall or usb, the green light comes on for 2 seconds and the it boots up. After it turns on, the light goes off and it no longer recognizes that it should be charging. If I take the battery out and connect the phone to a power source, the green light comes on and stays on. I'm running gingerblur RC1 if it matters.
Has anyone run into this before?

Are you tried this how to? http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1198333

The problem doesn't seem to be the battery life; the phone literally doesn't recognize that it should be charging, regardless of whether plugged into the wall or a computer. I've left it powered down until I can get an external battery charger (the battery is about 20% and I'm afraid I'll brick it if it gets to 0)

tangosolo said:
The problem doesn't seem to be the battery life; the phone literally doesn't recognize that it should be charging, regardless of whether plugged into the wall or a computer. I've left it powered down until I can get an external battery charger (the battery is about 20% and I'm afraid I'll brick it if it gets to 0)
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Im having this problem now. How did you resolve it?
Thanks

Same problem. Atrix won't charge
busydoinnothin said:
Im having this problem now. How did you resolve it?
Thanks
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Same problem here as well. Atrix won't charge.
I left it on the charger overnight and I woke up to a 97% charge, which is weird cause it usually goes to 100 way before I wake up.
I unplugged the charger, and plugged it back in, but the phone isn't charging.
I'm going for a factory reset, to see if it helps. I'm using Neutrino ROM for atrix.
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rafapple said:
Same problem here as well. Atrix won't charge.
I left it on the charger overnight and I woke up to a 97% charge, which is weird cause it usually goes to 100 way before I wake up.
I unplugged the charger, and plugged it back in, but the phone isn't charging.
I'm going for a factory reset, to see if it helps. I'm using Neutrino ROM for atrix.
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Hey, I actually decided to go for a "Wipe battery stats" under "Advanced" on clockworkmod recovery. I had a 95% charge when I shut it down, wiped battery stats, and the phone booted with 93% battery. I plugged it into the charger, and now it's charging again.
Will let you know in case it doesn't go to 100%. It's interesting to note that this issue happened after I let my atrix go below 10% battery for the first time. I'm not sure if it's related. Weird issue..

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Rezound battery dies even while charging.

I installed CleamRom 4.3 yesterday and everything seemed to be working great minus when I put the phone on the charger and went to bed.
I woke up to a dead phone and I have no idea why. Anyways, I get in the car and charge my phone on my way to work and it gets to maybe 15%. I take it into work and plug it in USB and check the phone to see it is almost dying. I got a pop-up message about the phone is currently using to much current for the charger.
It went from 100% to 0% in less than 30 minutes while plugged into the wall.
So I pulled up the battery usage and this is what I see:
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If anyone has any ideas how to fix this please let me know cause I have no idea what is causing this.
Shuino said:
I installed CleamRom 4.3 yesterday and everything seemed to be working great minus when I put the phone on the charger and went to bed.
I woke up to a dead phone and I have no idea why. Anyways, I get in the car and charge my phone on my way to work and it gets to maybe 15%. I take it into work and plug it in USB and check the phone to see it is almost dying. I got a pop-up message about the phone is currently using to much current for the charger.
It went from 100% to 0% in less than 30 minutes while plugged into the wall.
So I pulled up the battery usage and this is what I see:
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If anyone has any ideas how to fix this please let me know cause I have no idea what is causing this.
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Did this problem start with this rom or did it have issues prior to it?
dottat said:
Did this problem start with this rom or did it have issues prior to it?
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It just started with the rom. It has shut off before at night while charging though but the battery was not dead.
How it is even possible the battery went from 100% to 0 in like 15 minutes?
It's not reporting right or a bad battery. The phone would overhead before draining that much power.
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Try charging it to full with the phone off, then boot into recovery and clear the battery stats.
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Kennnny1 said:
Try charging it to full with the phone off, then boot into recovery and clear the battery stats.
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I'll give that a shot once it gets done charging which is going to take forever at work.
Also make sure you are running amon ra recovery....cwm has issues if your phone battery dies....
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Are you using the HTC charger, or something else? A lot of chargers will only put out half the current the HTC charger puts out, and the Rezound draws a lot. I have several chargers, and my phone runs at a discharge on more than one if the screen and/or radios are on. If I set the phone to stay awake when on power, on some chargers it would deplete the battery overnight.
All chargers have a 5v output specification. IIRC the HTC charger is 1000mah. A lot of devices that work on early USB specs will only output 500mah or less. Check your chargers.

[Q] something screwy

Don't know what happened but the phone is fully charged, according to the charge thingy before boot. But I can't turn the phone on. It came on once this morning and said it had 4% then died. So I plugged it back into the charger and its still saying its charger. But when its charging I can't turn the phone on and once the screen times out I can't turn the screen back on. I have to unplug then plug back in. The cables are just fine. I've tested on 4 different cables and 3 charge wall ports
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Can you get into CWM recovery? What ROM are you on?
I've noticed on ICS Roms that you can't power the phone on while it's charging like you can on TouchWiz Roms. I couldn't even press.the power.button to see how far it had gotten. It's like the power button is disabled when charging when turned off.
The only thing I could do was let it charge for a while then unplug it from the charger and it would power up.
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scarfman4 said:
I've noticed on ICS Roms that you can't power the phone on while it's charging like you can on TouchWiz Roms. I couldn't even press.the power.button to see how far it had gotten. It's like the power button is disabled when charging when turned off.
The only thing I could do was let it charge for a while then unplug it from the charger and it would power up.
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That's what its doing. But no matter however long I leave it plugged in it still dies as soon as it boots up with a brief notice of a low battery. I changed out the battery and it still happens. As for cwm, ill have to check later. I'm watching a movie then probably going to bed. Ill mess with it tomorrow and see what I can figure out
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Can you reboot recovery as soon as it boots up? If you can, flash http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2056318/update-template/bstats.zip to wipe your battery stats.
You don't need to flash anything to wipe your battery stats and furthermore wiping battery stats will do nothing to fix the issue. The stats file is simply a .txt file, the device does not decide that the battery is low based upon that...it reads the milliamp hour output of the battery itself. When the battery reaches that predetermined output level it shuts down to prevent over discharge and battery damage. It's similar to what you see in RC trucks and such when using LiPO batteries. They include a failsafe to prevent damage to the cells from over discharge. I would recommend trying a battery that you know is good (not just assume) get a cheapo off Ebay for a few bucks our try charging in an external charger OR if there is a US Cellular shop nearby they will swap a dead battery for a charged one. The mesmerize is obviously identical.
If all that were to fail try starting out with a fresh wipe and reinstall of your rom and kernel, there may be something funked up in there if you have "dirty" flashed at some point.
Just some thoughts...

Charging phone does not work.

My phone dropped to 7% battery. I let it charge for an hour with airplane mode on and it was at 4% battery. The orange light was on the whole time meaning it was charging. I then turned it off, took the battery out and it went to 13% battery. Soon it went back to 4%. I let it charge again for 2 hours this time and it hadn't moved at all and was still at 4%. I then swapped the stock battery for one from China. It started with 60% battery and after a half hour of charging it went to 54%. Why does my battery drain while it charges? I don't even use it when it's charging so I have no idea why it's draining. I'm running stock ics but it's rooted with 4ext. Any ideas?
Thanks.
Dr.Strangelove. said:
My phone dropped to 7% battery. I let it charge for an hour with airplane mode on and it was at 4% battery. The orange light was on the whole time meaning it was charging. I then turned it off, took the battery out and it went to 13% battery. Soon it went back to 4%. I let it charge again for 2 hours this time and it hadn't moved at all and was still at 4%. I then swapped the stock battery for one from China. It started with 60% battery and after a half hour of charging it went to 54%. Why does my battery drain while it charges? I don't even use it when it's charging so I have no idea why it's draining. I'm running stock ics but it's rooted with 4ext. Any ideas?
Thanks.
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Charge with AC not through an USB plugged to your computer. Your phone is using more battery than the USB port can provide. If you plug it in through the normal AC charger, it should be fine, as it gives out 1.0A, while USB ports typically give out anywhere between 200 to 500mA (at its absolute maximum).
I am using the ac. That message even appears when I use the ac.
Have you tried turning it of and charging?
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I have tried that and it only turns on to what the battery was at before. As I typed this I went from 54% to 21% in about 10 minutes. This is really starting to piss me off. My phone cannot hold a charge. My motorola from 8 years ago could at least hold a charge. This is ridiculous. Thanks so far for the help.
Are you using the factory Amaze Cord to charge your phone?
My factory amaze cord stopped charging via ac. I had it plugged into the wall and it would say usb charging so I'm using a different kind of cord. I've never had a problem using my sisters blackberry cord plugged into the usb converter to ac.
Maybe....just maybe...your devices charging port is defected...
I have some charger from China that goes from the wall straight to my phone without using that charging port and it doesn't charge it either.
China should only be used for one thing...Chinese People
I tried another one of my batteries that had a 60% charge. Within 10 minutes the battery was dead. I have it charging and the orange led is flashing. I waited 20 minutes and tried turning it on. After several presses of the power button it finally turns on. As soon as it gets to the home screen the low battery sound beeps and it shuts down. Seriously what am I supposed to do? This is getting ridiculous.
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Have you looked into doing a warranty exchange...
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I have not. This has only happened 3 times or so since I got it a week or so after launch. I didn't suspect it to be a hardware problem. I think the person who suggested the bad power port was correct because my Chinese charger charged it full perfectly and it's been good. It just has to be held at a certain angle to charge. I'm going to go to Telus and try and get a new power port and see, maybe I could get an exchange. I have it rooted though, so would I have to unroot it get the exchange?
Thanks.
Step one, dim the phones lighting.
Then check to see if there's an app keeping the phone awake causing it to drain battery while charging,
If its not an app keeping it awake then you my friend are one of the unlucky owners of this picky phone...
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Serious Battery Charging Issues

From yesterday I have been seeing some major battery charging issues with my S3.
Battery drained in evening, came home and connected it to charger for 3 hours and saw battery was just 8%. I removed the battery and put it back and left it for whole night charging. Woke up and saw (after 8+ hours) 22% charged.
Now that's a serious issue. What else can be done now? Is my adapter not working? or that mini dock? or something else?
Samsung disappointed.
Try reboot. Could be a rogue app constantly pushing your CPU. If it does not charge faster, try shut the phone off at a percentage you know, charge a hour and boot it up. Should have charged at least 40% in that time.
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When the battery drained. The phone was switched off. Charged for 3 hours and it was just 8%. And yes, I rebooted my phone twice. and removed the battery too.
theonlyanil said:
When the battery drained. The phone was switched off. Charged for 3 hours and it was just 8%. And yes, I rebooted my phone twice. and removed the battery too.
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Try wiping battery stats in cwm?
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use a different cable/plug
There are quite a few faulty wall chargers around. Mine was totally dead others work only sometimes... Maybe try charging @pc or with a different adapter.
Due to the software update via Kies, Root access and CWM was lost. Will use a different adapter...
Now it's being charged via my laptop (very slow though) but adapter was not doing anything except just showing the red LED light. :/
I think I have to change the adapter.
It's the adapter which is not working. Charged from Galaxy S2's charger. Have to get it replaced from samsung service center.

Photon won't charge anymore - but not b/c battery was discharged

Hi,
My Moto Photon won't charge anymore via the USB port. The green light doesn't go on. But this isn't because the battery was deeply discharged. I tried to do my due diligence and search the problem.
This morning, my battery was down to 5%. I charged it at work, and it got up to 30%, but the phone was really really hot. There didn't seem to be any weird apps running or anything.
Anyways, I left it on and off, it left work at 20% charge. Then when I got home, it was down to 10%. But it wouldn't charge. The green light doesn't go one when I plug in the AC adapter and USB cable. It also wouldn't charge via the computer. While on, the computer didn't recognize the device.
I took the battery out. Blew on it. Restarted the phone. Still no dice. The battery indicator didn't indicate that it was charging either.
Now, the battery is pretty much dead. Won't boot up anymore.
Is this a battery issue or a phone issue? If I buy a new battery, would it solve the problem?
Thanks!
Try getting a battery replacement?
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