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As described in title, my Atrix don't charge on wall charger but it's ok on computer USB.
I have tried with original and adpatable wall charger and get the same result.
On computer USB port it works perfectly : Charge & Sync...
I have also try to use standard cable instead of original and get the same result...
For the time being I'm running CM7 combo by clemsyn but I have tried other ROM and trouble remains...
Does any body else face this anoying problem?
Is there a solution?
did you test whether your charger is dead?
I think it's a common issue. I've read about it elsewhere.
Mine charges fine with both the provided charger and an older motorola charger with a mini-usb plug (using an after-market mini-to-micro usb adaptor). But it wont charge with a Samsung microUSB wall charger.
It also charges ok off a desktop or laptop USB port, but not so when I connect the standard dock to an USB port and put the Atrix on the dock.
It seems the phone is very picky in that regard
What kernel are you using?
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Yes it wors with my collegue samsung galaxy S...
What kernel are you using?
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By now I'm using clemsyn @ 1.4GHz, but the trouble was already present while using Motorola Gingerbread retail French ROM...
Did this just recently started happening or has this been an ongoing problem? Maybe after installing an app or firmware etc it started and therein could lie the problem....
So I am experiencing this same issue now. I was running Jokersax ICS for a while with no issues, then in early May I got tired of the camera and browser rotation bugs and flashed nottachtrix. Ever since, no matter what combination of ROM and kernel I test, I cannot charge off any wall charger, only computer USB ports. Just did a full system reset, nuked everything, did a clean CM 7.2 install, and no go. Did a full reset, installed the stock Blur ROM, no go. Another full reset, loaded nottachtrix, and still no go. One more reset and loaded AOKP, same issue. If I power down, pull the battery and plug in the wall charger, my light does go green, but once I pop in the battery and boot up, it wont charge from the wall charger, and I have to plug into USB.
Tried with stock kernels included with all the ROMS as well as faux .24r2 with no changes.
I think something in a system data partition is getting corrupted on a number of Atrixes - there are a few threads along these lines now... Mine won't charge using anything that registers as an AC charger (e.g. data lines shorted) any more - in fact, the only thing that now works when the phone is 'up and running' in recovery or Android itself now is an old iPod charger (without data lines shorted.) - even the USB data connection/charging from a PC USB port doesn't work, using 3rd party cables, HTC cables, or even the original Motorola cable. Other ROMs with a full wipe don't help - it's like hardware is dead, yet it can't be since the port still works fine in RSD/Fastboot mode...
The only thing I haven't tried is a full SBF flash, re-root, etc, etc... But if this 'bug' is coming from something in the PDS partition, there's naff all we can do about it unless we have a backup that predates the issue occurring.
I came late to the Atrix party and missex tbat PDS Info. That said I.did find a few PDS dumps that could be edited with my MAC info as I can save that out now.
I'll have to read up some more, but thanks for the suggestion. Gives me something to poke at this weekend.
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Well sonova monkey. I am anal about backing up certain things and found a CM7 install from back in February. Restored it, and the damn thing is charging from the wall as normal.
So if you have a old nandroid backup, you may be able to come back from the charging woes, as nandroids save out the PDS folder.
Now to go back to nottach and see how a titanium restore goes.
Aside from that I am going to try to compare the pds backups and see if I can spot anything obvious thats different and update when/if I find anything.
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Well, doesnt look like it's PDS data. I took my old PDS backup data, put it into my current system backup, rebuilt md5's and restored, and I cant charge from the wall again. But there is definitely something getting borked along the way. I will restore back to the working older backup, flash nottach on top of that and restore with titanium and see how that goes. I know I said I would do that, but I ended up flashing a different modified stock blur ROM that was posted recently from the working CM7 flash, and it ran well and charged off the wall. I then did all my PDS changes and no dice. So back to plan A that was made into plan B.
Am I confusing myself now? It's getting late I guess.
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So flashed back to the charging backup, then installed a fresh nottach on top of that with the default AT&T kernel, and broken again. So looks like I am going to the new vanilla blur ROM for now, and going to try to restore my titanium backup and see how that goes as that ROM was charging ok when I tested it.
Well, no solution yet. Flashing my old February CM7 nandroid restores charging functionality from the wall charger every time, but once I apply any other firmware, it fails. The Blur based vanilla rom thats relatively new appears to charge for a few minutes, then it stops and never comes back. This was before restoring any apps at all, just letting it sit there. I guess my next step is to RSD the stock firmware on it and see what happens if I then root and upgrade something on top of that.
Have u tried recalibrating the battery? Worth a shot I would think.
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Recalibrating did nothing. It's not a battery setting issue as far as I can tell.
What I have found is it appears to be related to the webtop/osh partition somehow. A previous modded Blur ROM I tested seems to be 50/50 if it's going to work or not for charging. First time I flashed it, it was charging ok. Now I have done a couple of tests and it's worked briefly, and then stopped charging.
However, when I flashed my working CM7 backup, I tried skipping the webtop backup and it failed. I then rebooted and reflashed it using the osh data, and it is charging once again.
My next test will be to flash back to my working backup (after I charge a bit as I am down to 50% since the webtops are so bloody big and take a while to backup and restore) and then flash a firmware that does not include a webtop. So far I had been using Blur based ROM's as I cant stand the wifi bug in CM7, or the camera/browser bugs in CM9, but for testing we shall see what happens.
If that works I'll have to figure out how to strip the webtop out of a blur based ROM and hope for the best from there.
More updating.
So I went ahead and RSD it back to stock, perfectly clean. Was able to charge off the wall no problems. Rebooted it to get into fastboot mode so I could root the phone. All appeared well. Got my root on, rebooted for changes to kick in after doing the manual adb shell part, and no more wall charge.
Re-RSD back to stock firmware, and no more wall charge at all on a perfectly clean, stock firmware. So I am flummoxed.
Ok i rooted with sd_root_NT16or8gbV4_7 and have go launcher installed. This is my wifes nook so she might have installed something that is keeping it from working i plan to look at it closer tonight. My problem is that it will not connect to the computer and it will not charger while turned on with the wall charger or with the computer. If i turn the nook off it charges fine. When the nook is on the LED is green while in wall or computer. Power off and the led turns orange till its full then turns green. Ill post more info tonight but if youve had this problem please let me know what has helped you.
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Ok i rooted with sd_root_NT16or8gbV4_7 and have go launcher installed. This is my wifes nook so she might have installed something that is keeping it from working i plan to look at it closer tonight. My problem is that it will not connect to the computer and it will not charger while turned on with the wall charger or with the computer. If i turn the nook off it charges fine. When the nook is on the LED is green while in wall or computer. Power off and the led turns orange till its full then turns green. Ill post more info tonight but if youve had this problem please let me know what has helped you.
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My nook occasionally does this also, but if the green light is on while charging its still charging the battery. Its not recommended to charge the nook while off(one reason why it will turn on while charging.)
ive left it plugged in over night with the screen off and powered on in the morning it was off and had no battery it had about 50% when i plugged it in.
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ive left it plugged in over night with the screen off and powered on in the morning it was off and had no battery it had about 50% when i plugged it in.
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Maybe just the root method not allowing it. Have you tried any other methods? If you have an SD cards around you can try making a boot able cm10 card and see if it charges. It won't affect any of your nook's internal settings,apps,etc.
http://iamafanof.wordpress.com/2012/11/18/cm10-0-jellybean-sdcard-img-for-nook-tablet/
Just write to an SD card and put it in your nook. If it charges from there then the root method you have is messed up. Make a backup and try another or a custom ROM.
maybe its been rooted for about 6 months though and this is a new problem within the last month. Thats the kicker i guess since it shouldnt update i dont know if there is a setting somewhere that would stop it from charging. Im going to look into the go launcher widges to see if one of them has that option first i think. ill update in about 8 hours once im home. thanks for your help though m8
ok im home and reset go launcher to stock form. my software version in 1.4.0 ota blocked.
still get a greed light on cord and its still not charging. also if i run NookHWTest and try to run the usb/charge it says that the cord is not connected
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ok im home and reset go launcher to stock form. my software version in 1.4.0 ota blocked.
still get a greed light on cord and its still not charging. also if i run NookHWTest and try to run the usb/charge it says that the cord is not connected
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I found a few threads that suggested to restore back to factory reset and re-root your device. You can use a backup app like Titanium Backup to save all the apps, pictures etc.
Something in the /system directory gets messed up, but no one knows why.
My NT will only start charging if I turn the screen on after I plug it in, or plug it in with the screen turned on. After that, I can let the screen sleep, or turn it off right away.
If I don't do this, the light on the charger stays green and it won't start charging.
Connecting to the computer isn't affected by this, though.
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well reset to factory and still doesnt charge while on. The cord works in the other nook so im going to say the port in the nook is going bad. On a side note went to [ROM]{WIP} SGT7+CM10.1+Cherry Picks,By meghd00t. 24/02/13 and it seems to be very stable so far compaired to the others ive tried in the past
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well reset to factory and still doesnt charge while on. The cord works in the other nook so im going to say the port in the nook is going bad. On a side note went to [ROM]{WIP} SGT7+CM10.1+Cherry Picks,By meghd00t. 24/02/13 and it seems to be very stable so far compaired to the others ive tried in the past
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Oh, you should have said something about it working with the other one. The ports for these can get messed up all the time. Happens a lot.
Turn the nook off when charging. This is a known bug.
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Hey I seem to be having some trouble with my Nook Tablet. I've got the 16gb version, bought it within the first month or so of the tablets getting released. It's been running fine, i have it rooted, ran cm7 for the longest time on it, switched to cm10.1 more than a few months ago and everything was pretty great, then crap started going downhill.
I noticed that when my battery would get down between 20-30% it would just shut down. The low battery screen would come on for a split second before the "tablet is shutting down" screen would pop up in front of that and it would shut down.
Now, since then it's been happening more and more. When it's at anything lower than 96ish% it'll happen. But it's got some weird symptoms.
- The screen freaks out. Like there's 100 fingers on it pushing a ton of crap at once, when I'm not touching it at all. it's sensing a bunch of false touches that usually ends on the Google Now screen before getting the same old low battery, then tablet shutting down notifications.
- It only happens when it's running on the battery. It's never ever happened while it's plugged in.
- It only seems to happen when the wifi is on. If the wifi is off and i'm at home just reading a book or something, it'll drain all the way down to 15 or whatever before telling me the battery is low, I plug it in, all is fine. If the wifi is turned on the freak out happens.
- If it starts freaking out and I plug it in while it's happening, 1 of 2 things, It either completely stops and everything works fine, or it just turns off dead right there, not shutting down, just turning off.
- I HAVE had it drain pretty low (around 23ish) with the wifi on, but it did do the same freak out thing once it got there. It just seems to be so random when it happens, any time the battery is between 15 and 96%.
- If I turn it back on after a freak out without plugging it in first, it will restart fine, then last about a minute or 2, freak out again and shut off. If I turn it on again after that it'll do the exact same thing. And if i turn it on again after that it'll get to the CM10 boot screen, just about to where it's going to go to the lock screen, then boom, makes the beedoop battery sound and shuts off without ever actually showing the lock screen. THAT happens everytime just like that. If I plug it in first and then turn it on, it runs fine.
I've tried factory reset and reinstalling and all that stuff, nothing seems to be working. I even started from scratch not letting google or titanium backup restore my apps, completely formatted and wiped the sd card when reinstalling, nothing seems to be fixing it.
Basically this thing is useless without being plugged in. Ive even lost a 32gb sd card because of it's constant just turning off screwing it up (i'm guessing) since it's not being properly dismounted or whatever before being shut off. That card cant seem to read/write anymore. I now have a 16gb in there I'm hoping wont get screwed up because of the same thing (although I'm sure it will eventually if this isnt fixed)
Is this a battery issue? A hardware issue? User Issue? Can anyone help? I can provide any information you might need.
I've been searching for months trying to find an answer, but the symptoms are so weird I cant find anyone having the same problem as me..
Also, my fiancee also has the same Nook tablet, bought them the same day, rooted and hacked them the same way that day, and put CM10.1 on both of ours the same way the same day, hers is fine, mine is acting a fool. (I also use mine about 1000x more than her though, I use mine for EVERYTHING, EVERYDAY, she reads Sandra Brown books and watches YouTube movies once every month and a half)
Help? =[
the finger touch thing at random on your screen without touching it is your charger cable , its a crap cable , i had this happen to me too , B&N will swap the cable and charger for free, i highly suggest you do that and get a new one swapped , mine still has issues , when its plugged in and charging , i sometimes cant use the touch screen , its the charger , they are like 1 in 3 garbage and cheaply made ,
take it to the store they will swap the charger for free, if they hassle you ***** up a storm , they are supposed to just swap them , its well known fact the cables are cheap garbage and not easy to get new ones that are not garbage, i use micro usb's it takes longer to charge but i get quality cables from amazon cheap as piss 2.49$ if you want the link ill find it , again takes longer to charge , but i no longer have touch screen issues and can use tablet while its charging ill re read the rest of your post and make an edit if i can help on anything else
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how long are you charging it for at any one time ? i do believe if my memory serves me right , theres a problem with the battery level on both cm 10 and 7 , seven is way worse, the battery level is not reported correctly , its being worked on by better minds than ours , im sure one of em will chip in here shortly ,
if i were you you have cynoboot installed to emmc ? i would turn the thing off completly , and charge the **** out of it , with a good cable , id use your girls cable it sounds like she got a good cable. like leave it over night charging on hers while you sleep , then in the morning boot it check the batt level in cynoboot and then in cm10.1 , im keeping mine juiced up , last time it died it ended in a boot loop that i had to unplug the battery to fix , most people dont want to crack a case even though its easy peasy ,
again , try her charger , if your powered up check how long it takes to charge fully it should be 6-8 hours on the nook 2.1 amp factory charger , i think you need a new charger though , i would try to swap cables until i found a good one , then look at ipad travel charger they are 30$ , but they output 2.1 amp and apple crap is quality which is why its 30$ , or look for a samsung galaxy tab charger USB output 2.1 amp ,
Ahhhh.. see. The battery level being reported wrong makes sense for why it happens so randomly. Another interesting thing you said was it should take 6-8 hours to charge with the stock charger, mine was reporting 100% battery after 2.5 - 3 hours charge time. This could be the problem.
I did what you said, let it charge overnight, and it did the same thing, but, not until it got down to 32%. Which is better than 82% shutdown.
When I get home tonight ill plug it in immediately and not touch it until tomorrow morning, well see what happens. Thanks for the response.
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I may have figured this out. I switched my rom to aokp 4.2.2 and then flashed the showtime kernel, set cpu tuner to no more than 999mhz and all seems to be running fine. Bbs says 14hrs on battery, deep sleep for 9 of them, and I'm at 69% battery now. (Bbs started collecting at 91% for some reason instead of 100%)
I flashed the rom yesterday around 6pm, let the battery go all the way down to the first time it randomly died, then just charged it back to 100% and I've had it off the charger since then, 14 hours now according to bbs. Ill report back if it freaks out or something later.
Edit: turns out this didn't work.
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Just did it =[ freakedout and shutdown at 77% battery, then got stuck in a bootloop.
It ran fine yesterday, I was watching podcasts on it no problem. Charged it last night and now today it seems unusable without being plugged in.
Does anyone have any other help they can offer?
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Just did it =[ freakedout and shutdown at 77% battery, then got stuck in a bootloop.
It ran fine yesterday, I was watching podcasts on it no problem. Charged it last night and now today it seems unusable without being plugged in.
Does anyone have any other help they can offer?
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I might have a solution for the battery problem. Do you have any microUSB chargers lying around? maybe for an old cellphone? If you do, use that to charge your Nook Tablet. It works, but it's slow, takes 8-9 hours for a full charge (5% to 100%) @ 500mA current. My old Motorola flip phone's charger supplies 5V @ 550mA. I'm pretty sure you have one of those lying around in the attic or garage. Anyways, let the NT charge to 100% using a microUSB charger (not the Nook Tablet's stock one, the cable is faulty and I am sure of it).
Once it's charged to 100%, go on YouTube and watch a few videos. If the battery goes down steadily, that's good. If it goes from 100% to 80% or less suddenly, there might be a problem with the battery calibration or the battery's going dead.
I bought a Nook Color off eBay that the seller listed as broken, except it wasn't. The battery was simply dead beyond the capability of the Nook's stock charger to revive it. I used the old Motorola charger. It took 10+ hours, but finally my Nook Color booted up, although with 18% battery life only. No matter what, it would stay at 18% until it shutdown without a warning. The solution to this was to delete a file called max####.bin in the /rom partition, then reboot.
Steps to recalibrate the battery (ONLY try this method if you're sure the battery needs to be calibrated):
Open the terminal (once you are 100% charged. You'll know this if the power adapter isn't warm anymore)
Type in "su", allow root access for once
Type in "cd /rom"
Type in "ls" (that's a lowercase L and S)
Type in "rm max#####.bin" (where ### are the numbers there)
Type in "exit"
Type in "exit" again
Hold down the power button and reboot. Once it reboots, it might show question marks on the battery meter before going away shortly. Hopefully, your battery will be successfully recalibrated.
Hope that helps.
Thanks a lot for the reply. I definitely have a charger lying around so ill try this tonight when I get home.
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Thanks a lot for the reply. I definitely have a charger lying around so ill try this tonight when I get home.
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Any good news? Did you charge it up?
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Just got done testing it out. I charged it for about 16 hours, pulled it off and powered it up, my battery status said charged, then 100, 99 etc. Once it got down to 87 it freaked and died.
The battery did drop way fast though. Like 100 to 87 in under 15 mins. Not instantly though.
If you search "nexus 7 phantom touch" on youtube, you'll see exactly what my nook is doing, only difference being the nook dies after about 10-15 seconds of the screen freaking out. And it ONLY happens when not plugged in.
If my battery calibration is off, would that mean maybe it could actually be around 15-20%, even though its reported as 100%, and not letting it charge passed that? Or is my understanding a bit off?
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If my battery calibration is off, would that mean maybe it could actually be around 15-20%, even though its reported as 100%, and not letting it charge passed that? Or is my understanding a bit off?
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Right. My Nook Color was showing 18% charge no matter how charged or discharged it was (until I deleted the max#####.bin file).
Try what I said, delete the max#####.bin file and reboot. That will recalibrate your battery. If after that it still shows the battery draining way too fast, that means your battery is going dead.
Ok, so I reset the battery stats and now I'm seeing this.. this doesn't seem right at all..
I let it hang out for a while and it did the usual freakout/shutdown when bbs said it was at -22%, android showed 69%.
I think ordering a replacement battery or finally just getting a nexus 7 is the fix at this point?
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Ok, so I reset the battery stats and now I'm seeing this.. this doesn't seem right at all..
I let it hang out for a while and it did the usual freakout/shutdown when bbs said it was at -22%, android showed 69%.
I think ordering a replacement battery or finally just getting a nexus 7 is the fix at this point?
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Or actually, you might find "for parts" Nook Tablets on eBay for <$30. I would use the battery in there instead of buying a cheap chinese made battery (which are always of garbage quality, not to mention dangerous). You could also use a Nook Color battery in there, but you'll trade off 3 hours of usage time. Nook Color batteries on eBay sell for $7 used, but genuine.
Before you buy anything, try doing a complete wipe and reflash of CM10. Boot to CWM > wipe battery stats, wipe data/factory reset, wipe cache, wipe dalvik cache; advanced > wipe system partition; go back > flash CM10, flash gapps, flash CWM (if not already installed).
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Before you buy anything, try doing a complete wipe and reflash of CM10. Boot to CWM > wipe battery stats, wipe data/factory reset, wipe cache, wipe dalvik cache; advanced > wipe system partition; go back > flash CM10, flash gapps, flash CWM (if not already installed).
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Awesome, thanks for all your help man. One more thing, I'm running CWM recovery v. 6.0.2.7, there's no wipe battery stats option in advance (or anywhere else I can see). Is it hidden somewhere I'm not looking or not in this version? Is there a newer version I can flash I overlooked?
Btw, http://www.newpower99.com/Barnes_No...cement_Kit_p/barnes and noble nook tablet.htm this was the battery I was looking at for $40, but the used nook from ebay seems like a better idea. (Cheaper too, which I like)
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Awesome, thanks for all your help man. One more thing, I'm running CWM recovery v. 6.0.2.7, there's no wipe battery stats option in advance (or anywhere else I can see). Is it hidden somewhere I'm not looking or not in this version? Is there a newer version I can flash I overlooked?
Btw, http://www.newpower99.com/Barnes_No...cement_Kit_p/barnes and noble nook tablet.htm this was the battery I was looking at for $40, but the used nook from ebay seems like a better idea. (Cheaper too, which I like)
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The CWM I used was a bootable microSD one. It had the option to wipe battery stats. At best, it will recalibrate your battery, nothing else.
I followed Ray Waldo's instructions (he's really good at explaining things in non-technical language). Download link also posted there.
You can use any Linux distro with GParted installed to set the boot flags on the card. (I highly recommend Debian, been using it for 4+ years).
http://raywaldo.com/2012/05/root-nook-tablet-with-cwm-sdcard/
I wouldn't buy that battery off the newpower site. It's a scam. You'll get a really crappy battery (3200mAH, probably chinese made, and unreliable). I would much rather buy a used GENUINE battery for the Nook Color or Tablet than a cheaply manufactured one (selling for an unreasonably high price).
If clearing the battery stats and doing a full wipe and reinstall doesn't help, I would buy a Nook Color battery for $7 off eBay. This is the last one supposedly (doubt it) http://www.ebay.com/itm/Nook-Color-...863?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item27d5fc185f
^^It's genuine, has a 4000mAH capacity, compatible with both the Tablet and Color, and wont explode in your face. (You really don't want to take chances with cheaply made chinese li-ions. Look on YouTube for li-ion fires/bloat (expansion)/explosions, not pretty). Be sure you also have a Torx T5 screwdriver to open up the NT. If you don't, order a set off eBay. (P.S. Don't get the chinese made ones, they're cheap and they don't work. Get a set from Craftsman if you can, those have a lifetime warranty).
Gotcha. Will try everything you mentioned and if no luck ill hit up ebay. Thanks again for all your help (and saving me from a potentially harmful choice of battery)
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Gotcha. Will try everything you mentioned and if no luck ill hit up ebay. Thanks again for all your help (and saving me from a potentially harmful choice of battery)
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Have you have made progress?
Also, let me know if the battery (if you ordered one) works well. I think my Nook Color's battery is about to kick the bucket. It takes like 15 hours to charge from 15% to 100% (compared to 8-9 hours for my Nook Tablet, using the same specced charger).
My 16gb nook tablet with CM10.1 is doing the exact same thing as yours. Random touches and sudden shutdowns. The OS does not know how charged the battery is. I am eager to hear your results.
Updated "Please help: VZW S4 not charging..." (The refurb/replacement is busted)
First of all, big thanks to this whole community and the wealth of info that led me through my first time rooting and flashing ROMs. But now on to the sour part (search didn't bring up anything useful to my situation).
Short history of phone in case it helps:
I've been rooted since June (rooted on MDK). I've been on the CM 10.1 and then 10.2 nightlies ever since. I've followed all directions, and am glad to say that I had a great experience (a few hiccups from dirty flashing a few times, but nothing that couldn't get sorted). Last ROM I was on was CM 10.2 nightly from 2013-10-11.
Anyway, last night my battery gets low, but I didn't charge it right away. It got down to about 8%, and then I try to charge, but the battery icon doesn't indicate charging. Indeed after a few minutes fiddling, the % drops to 7%. Trying to charge it while powered off caused the phone to vibrate once every 5-10 seconds or so, but no LED or on-screen indication it's charging. I tried my wife's S4 charger and cable. Same result, not charging. I restored to a previous CM nightly backup I had from September. Same result, still not charging. I restored to my rooted stock ROM backup made right after I first rooted in June. Same result, not charging. Charging from the wall or PC doesn't make a difference. I ended swapping batts with my wife, using her stock never-been-rooted S4 to charge my batt, which worked just fine.
The USB port on my phone does work since I could see the device in Odin. Tried reflashing the stock kernel. Still not charging. I spent the rest of last night restoring to out-of-the-box stock. Now I'm back to a completely stock, unrooted S4 (still on MDK kernel, haven't accepted update to ME7), and it still won't charge. No notices or anything that the charger is connected. Except this morning, for no reason discernible to me, I now get the following warning message when I connect my or my wife's charger:
"The connected charger is incompatible with this phone. To prevent damage to your phone, charging has been stopped. To continue charging, use the original charger and cable that were provided with this phone."
Thoughts, please? And thanks in advance to you all.
Update 1 at 2013-10-13T17:30EDT
So I did some more digging and came across what looks like a similar problem (that's what I get for not using Google for search anymore). Sorry, can't post links yet.
forums.androidcentral.com/rogers-samsung-galaxy-s4/297925-samsung-galaxy-s4-not-charging-grey-battery.html
The biggest difference is that I don't get the grey battery symbol when plugged in while powered off, just the cyclic vibrating. And mine doesn't charge at a reduced rate at all (I lost 7% battery in 45 minutes while plugged in and powered off due to all the vibrating).
Further, my "incompatible charger" warning has ceased. I'm just back to the phone not recognizing a charger is plugged in at all. Phone still talks to my PC just fine though.
Is it likely I need to replace the USB charging port flex cable as suggested in the Android Central post? Thanks for anyone reading and pondering.
Did you try to flash back to stock?
kheltek said:
Did you try to flash back to stock?
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Yes. I flashed via Odin back to unrooted stock (MDK kernel) and stock recovery, which is the phone's current config. I haven't yet done the ME7 update, but it auto-downloaded today, just haven't installed it.
How long have you had the phone? My suggestion would be to make another backup and put it on your computer. Then restore back to full stock, no root or anything. Take it to Verizon / Best Buy and tell them it's not charging. Hopefully it's not water damaged.
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Quentin.Sheley said:
How long have you had the phone? My suggestion would be to make another backup and put it on your computer. Then restore back to full stock, no root or anything. Take it to Verizon / Best Buy and tell them it's not charging. Hopefully it's not water damaged.
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I've had the phone since the end of May (so I've owned it 4.5 months). Since I've already restored to full stock, I'm thinking tomorrow I'll take it to a VZW store near me to see what they say. Is Samsung's manufacturer warranty handled through VZW? Or do I deal with Samsung directly? Note, I have no extra insurance/warranty on the phone.
That should be manufacture warranty and you normally have1 year from purchase. Good luck and again just ensure you completely wipe it off all root and custom Roms. They'll try to blame it on that.
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Back to VZW to replace the replacement phone
Update:
I went to my local VZW store on Monday and they tried cleaning the USB port. No luck, so they shipped me a refurb since this is still under the 1 year hardware warranty. I paid the extra for overnight shipping. My refurb phone arrived yesterday. I moved over my sim, micro SD, and battery from the old phone to the refurb/replacement phone, and plugged in the wall charger. BOOM, battery starts charging no problem :victory:. I spent last night getting my phone all set up. I also checked and this phone has the ME7 update so no more CM or any other ROM for now :crying:.
But otherwise, everything looked good with the replacement device...until this morning. I had the phone powered off all night, tried turning it on this morning and it won't turn on. Won't boot normally, won't boot into recovery, won't boot into download. Tried a battery pull...no luck. The phone had like 95% battery when I shut it off last night. Now, when I plug in the wall charger, the phone buzzes once, the grey battery icon with the circle shows up for 10-15 seconds, then the screen goes blank, then that sequence repeats.
Back to VZW today to get the replacement phone replaced .
dang...you have some bad luck. I had some similar issues and the phone seemed to fix itself?? Did not want to lose custom recovery, so actualy ordered an external charger and two batteries and of course the day the batteries came, the phone started charging normally again. Anyways...good luck...hopefully the new device wont have the newest update (which i dont think it's ota yet...just over wire). Dont let the store update anything at all or you may not even be able to root!
Hi all. So I was using my device, had about 7% battery left at night I plugged it in, in the morning it had 2% charge left. So I turned it off thinking an app was causing a glitch and it would charge faster so I could figure out the problem. But it didn't ever charge again and of course won't turn on since it has no juice ! Now that I think back it wasn't an app and the problem is the charging . The cable is fine, tried different chargers different ports and pc.
I read somewhere the problem was the port and moving the tab in usb port helped alot of people with different devices so I did that and still no charging
Any one has any idea ? I don't have warranty on this so it's either fix it or get a new one which may very well have this problem again .
Oh and it vibrates when I press power, or hold power, or power + volume down together just nothing comes up
Same here!
What did you do to solve your problem?!
When I bought mine I had the same problem after I started flashing custom kernels. I solved it by installing fire and ice kernel.
Similar to this issue, my stock charger won't charge my device for some reason. It will begin charging but one I come back an hour, it would be at the same percentage (I'm using Fire-Ice kernel). I have to use my N7's charger for now.
I sent it in for HTC to fix - all they did was reset the software.. From Mrshmallow with the March 206 patch back to the January patch. It went out with 38% when I sent it, and came back with 15%. Still doesn't charge! THey did not even test it as far as I can see. I have called them to understand whether they did fix it or not, as there is no note that indicates anything on the return package. Still waiting to hear back from HTC. Awful customer service :-/
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I sent it in for HTC to fix - all they did was reset the software.. From Mrshmallow with the March 206 patch back to the January patch. It went out with 38% when I sent it, and came back with 15%. Still doesn't charge! THey did not even test it as far as I can see. I have called them to understand whether they did fix it or not, as there is no note that indicates anything on the return package. Still waiting to hear back from HTC. Awful customer service :-/
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You could run it over with your car and send it to HTC for service, and all they would do is flash an outdated factory image. They're useless. You can tell them the specific problem, one of which they are very well aware(ie bad motherboard causing scrambled screen freeze), and they will refuse to do anything other than flash an image.
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You could run it over with your car and send it to HTC for service, and all they would do is flash an outdated factory image. They're useless. You can tell them the specific problem, one of which they are very well aware(ie bad motherboard causing scrambled screen freeze), and they will refuse to do anything other than flash an image.
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Still waiting for them to call me - I did chat, did a phone call. Argh