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I have a weird problem that I think no one has reported yet. It happened two or three times now and I didn't know why but after leaving my phone charging at night, when in the morning I picked it up I only had 1% battery left. The phone simply kept discharging during the night although plugged in and on the screen showing as being charging.
After a lot of thinking and luck, I am now able to replicate the problem but I have no idea of how to solve this.
It's quite simple, if there are any unread notifications (e-mail, sms, missed calls,etc) on the notifications bar, the phone will simply not charge even if it shows you that it is and will keep discharging.
My testing procedure was as follows:
With a remaining charge of 16%, I plugged the charger on the wall socket and immediately on the phone. The orange charging led turns on (I did not have unread notifications at this time) and after a couple of minutes I had a current battery charge of 27%. All good and normal.
From another phone, I've sent a test e-mail to the Xperia's P Gmail and the orange charging led turned off like it should, and in his place the blinking green one from notifications turned on.
I've waited a couple of minutes and when I checked the battery again to confirm my theory, I had already lost 1%, going from 27% to 26% clearly showing that the phone was discharging (although the screen icon was showing like it was charging up).
After confirming this, I've cleared up all notifications that were showing and the green blinking led went off giving place to the orange one once again, indicating that the phone was charging, except that it wasn't. It didn't resume charging even after wiping all notifications and I had to unplug it from the charger and plug it back in, for it to start charging once again.
I think this is a software related issue (possibly a kernel one?) but I do not have the knowledge to provide any sort of fix.
My only solution for the time being is to clear all notifications, set the phone to airplane mode and only afterwards plug in the charger to leave it charging properly, and making sure that it does not receive any sorts of notifications that might interrupt the charging process.
It would be nice if someone could also test this to check if it only happens with my device.
My phone is FULLY STOCK with the latest B.1.54 firmware.
I think the problem is solved and was caused by having flashed the generic world firmware instead of central europe.
If the issue happens again, I'll drop a post if not...awesome.
casca said:
I think the problem is solved and was caused by having flashed the generic world firmware instead of central europe.
If the issue happens again, I'll drop a post if not...awesome.
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Ok, problem NOT SOLVED.
Today it happened again... like you can see, it actually started to charge for a bit and then stopped.
I assume once again it's something related with the notifications or notification LED.
Plugged the charger in at about 30% yesterday before going to bed, and after 6 hours:
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After unplugging the charger;power OFF;power ON:
After connecting the charger again for a while:
something is waking up the phone at some poitn...any ideas on how to troubleshoot this?
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Ok I'm really bitter right now. My wife and I each have an S2. Mine has been fine for the last 2 months and hers recently starting having problems. It keeps thinking that a USB cable is plugged in.
A Google search reveals that this is indeed a common hardware problem.
When you do a restart, you get the battery icon and flashing yellow triangle with the thermometer symbol. And the only way to get it to boot up is to plug it in.
The device functions fine other than that, but other than connecting to Kies via USB, there is no other USB related functions that is working.
Gonna give Samsung support a call and see how I can warranty this. Hoping it's not going to be a painful process.
Anyone else having the same problem? How did you resolve it? New replacement? Did they repair? How long did it take? What did you do?
Thanks.
I have the same problem, started with me recently, I had my phone with USB debugging mode on.
Can't confirm when it started for sure, but it may have been because I disconnected it from my computer once, before ejecting the device through windows explorer.
In any case, I can't turn on the phone now without removing the battery or having it plugged in.
I received the battery at 100% notification and it doesn't leave when I unplug the device.
It's become very flaky, and I don't like it. Did you have any luck with Samsung support?
Anyone have any information on this or another link to how to fix this? I'm getting the temperature gauge and can't figure out how to fix it!!
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Ok I'm really bitter right now. My wife and I each have an S2. Mine has been fine for the last 2 months and hers recently starting having problems. It keeps thinking that a USB cable is plugged in.
A Google search reveals that this is indeed a common hardware problem.
When you do a restart, you get the battery icon and flashing yellow triangle with the thermometer symbol. And the only way to get it to boot up is to plug it in.
The device functions fine other than that, but other than connecting to Kies via USB, there is no other USB related functions that is working.
Gonna give Samsung support a call and see how I can warranty this. Hoping it's not going to be a painful process.
Anyone else having the same problem? How did you resolve it? New replacement? Did they repair? How long did it take? What did you do?
Thanks.
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Brother had the same problem. Try adjusting the piece in the USB port of the phone either up or down. I used a small flat head screwdriver. Make sure the phone is off and battery out.
I'm not responsible for any further damage to the phone.
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To get around it boot into recovery then choose restart phone. (hold power + volume up + home button)
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To get around it boot into recovery then choose restart phone. (hold power + volume up + home button)
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Exactly what I do. My phone gives me the same grief.
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check this out mate. i had the same props.. and now its almost gone. read the cleaning fix it helpt me ,and putting all sort off usb stuff to the phone helpt even more..with and ON THE GO cable try plug ind af usb flashdrive when the battery is full and take it out again then it should remove the full icon(and my phone is not doing it anymore
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1216163
obs there are to other good links on the first page
My friend got this problem..plain stock phone.just playing games with charger on until the phone got hot. send back to samsung.after 3week got it back.use for 2 day and the problem reappear.. resend to samsung and they tell have to change the mainboard.been a month now.. still no good news..
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Yeah - get a replacement.
I had similar issues with mine. Took it to Carphone warehouse in uk. And they replaced usb port within 30 mins. Its a common fault.
Try to clean USB port.
This morning I just noticed this problem with my phone and I also noticed that under the battery stats it shows that the phone is always charging.
If I reboot the phone sometimes I lose about 20% from the battery, but then it starts to recharge although the phone is not plugged in.
I will try to change the battery with a friend of mine, maybe it's battery related, I will report back.
I suppose that the problem of discharging is:
A) when connected it can't enter in deep sleep mode
B) vbus_present eating battery
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Hi,
i immediately flashed my Flyer to Honeycomb after i received it and worked with the first HC leak from Paul so far. Now i updated to the newest leak (with downgrading from GB first) and i still have a problem i got from the beginning.
Unfortunately i don't know if it occured in GB too, because GB was only a couple of minutes on the flyer.. ;-)
What is the problem?
I charge the turned on Flyer over night and after disconnecting the charging icon is still shown. Turning the device of and on (Fastboot) doesn't help but completely rebooting does.
When i don't reboot i need to wait a long time until i get a message that there is more battery capacity consumed than could be charged and now i can connect the cable again, disconnect it and the charing icon disables.
Am i the only one with this issue?
I am a little afraid that this is a hardware error!?
Regards
Daniel
Noone?
Okay, who owns a Flyer, runs a HC leak and has no problems about that?
Do you charge like i do (over night, charging while turned on, plug out while turned on)?
I have us best buy flyer. Running leaked hc. I do not have this issue and charge my flyer over night while turned on. Not sure what could be causing your issue
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This is really annoying! I just connected the flyer to my pc to copy same data and after disconnecting the charger icon still remains. wtf!?
So if noone has this issue, what could be the cause?
This happens to me occasionally. Just a simple reboot usually fixes the issue.
@geebee1932: occasionally? About how often in let's say 10 charging processes?
This time a reboot did not work. I then connected and disconnected the charger and it did not word too. Only a reboot and disconnect while rebooting helped to get rid of the charging icon.
Really strange and as so many people don't have this problem i assume it must be a hardware defect!?
What about warranty of the usb port when you unlocked the bootloader with htcdev.com?
I find that if the icon is still there and I select one of the 4 options it automatically kills the icon, loads the sd card, and everything is normal. If not then I'll restart.
Sorry? What 4 options do you mean?
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Got it... Okay i will try it the next time.
It occured again.
These 4 options only appear when connecting to the pc right?
As i charge with the normal ac cable i cant use this hint. Or do i misunderstand you?
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Yes, only when connected to the PC.
Another trick I do is look at the power button, if it stays orange even after disconnecting the cable wait a few seconds then press the power button, press it to turn on the screen, and it should go away. This is more to get the SD card loaded, but will also kill the icon.
Other thing to note is that when you disconnect the usb cable at the PC, but leave the other side of the usb connected to the Flyer it will still think the usb is plugged into something. Once I disconnect it at the Flyer it will load my SD card and end the usb icon. As you can tell I have SD card loading issues more than the usb icon.
As I said though, restart should be worst case if it doesn't go away which hasn't happened to me yet.
I sent it to htc for warranty repair now.
Unfortunately it got lost while shipping. Hope i get my money back from the insurance...
Hi guys, I have a problem with my Samsung Galaxy S3 I9300, there's like a couple of days where it does not charge, or barely does, sometimes it charges about 5% in 1 or 2 hours and sometimes it does not takes charge at all..I've been looking at the internet that this problem is not so unique with this model, but I don't know what to do to get it back working properly, it was working fine when I just got it, I have it since about 1 month maybe, I read that a factory reset could fix it, or even this:
First take the battery out of the phone for about 10 seconds. Then with the battery out plug the phone up, wait a few seconds, and put the battery in and immediately press power. Should be as good as new.
But I don't know, could you please give some alternatives to try? thanks a lot!
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Hi guys, I have a problem with my Samsung Galaxy S3 I9300, there's like a couple of days where it does not charge, or barely does, sometimes it charges about 5% in 1 or 2 hours and sometimes it does not takes charge at all..I've been looking at the internet that this problem is not so unique with this model, but I don't know what to do to get it back working properly, it was working fine when I just got it, I have it since about 1 month maybe, I read that a factory reset could fix it, or even this:
First take the battery out of the phone for about 10 seconds. Then with the battery out plug the phone up, wait a few seconds, and put the battery in and immediately press power. Should be as good as new.
But I don't know, could you please give some alternatives to try? thanks a lot!
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Are you using the original charger? Using other chargers with less output will stop it charging properly
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I was provided with an european original charger like this one:
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And I'm in America (bought from eBay, so I've been using this:
It was working fine until let's say one week ago...any advice? should I try the methods described above? did I damaged the phone? thanks!
EDIT: I rebooted the phone and seems like it's charging, but too slow in my opinion...
I had this problem last week. I coudnt figure out what the problem is but I took the battery out and put it back in after 10 secs. Fixed.
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I had this problem last week. I coudnt figure out what the problem is but I took the battery out and put it back in after 10 secs. Fixed.
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Well, I did what you said and it's working...it's pretty weird isn't? and looking on the web, this happens a lot with the phone :S thanks! I hope it keeps working!
Problem is still there...when I first purchased this phone did not have this problem...I'm not sure but I guess it started after updating to JellyBean, has anyone suffered something similar after updating? thanks!
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Problem is still there...when I first purchased this phone did not have this problem...I'm not sure but I guess it started after updating to JellyBean, has anyone suffered something similar after updating? thanks!
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If you look you will find a JB poor charge/ battery life thread .
jje
My girlfriend has this tablet:
http://arnovatech.com/products/g3/arn_7/specs.html?country=mx&lang=en
and about a month or two ago the charging port in it got broken, so i've sent the tablet to be repaired. the guys at the repair shop did a good job and replaced the usb port, and the tablet was working again correctly, and charging correctly.
until this afternoon when she installed this game: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=air.com.disney.aliceinwonderlandmobile.goo
the battery got quickly drained (nothing strange though, it is an older budget-friendly tablet), the battery got to about 5% and she put it to a charger. the tablet notified that it is charging, and it was plugged in for a couple of hours, during which she didn't use the tablet. after that couple of hours, the tablet still showed charging and still showed that it is at 5% of battery power.
another problem is that it started to shutdown/turn on itself. i brought it to my place and plugged in my charger, and it continued the same behaviour: i plug it in, the red led light glows, it turns itself on, and just by the time the system boots itself and i want to unlock the screen, the tablet turns itself off, and the red led indicator also turns itself off.
i googled the problem and found a lot of topics saying that the battery is completely drained and that it just needs to stay plugged in over night. i followed some instructions to completely turn it off (hold power buttons for 10-20 seconds) and then to plug it in and leave it that way for at least a couple of hours. but the problem is that after i did that, when i plug the tablet in, it shows a symbol of an empty battery with a triangle in it and an exclamation mark inside the triangle! the red led does not glow and the battery/triangle/! symbol shows only for a short time, and then the screen goes off.
is there any way to fix this problem?
i've read somewhere that i should enter recovery mode (the tablet was rooted when i bought it brand new from the store), and erase battery stats, but i can't do that because there aren't any volume buttons. the only button is the power button, and the reset button (inside a small hole).
i would hate to reset her tablet, because of all the data on it
please help and advise, anybody!
thanks in advance!
EDIT: ADDITIONAL INFO: i googled and found the same picture that i get when i plug the tablet in or try to turn it on:
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UPDATE:
I followed a friend's advice and plugged it in a charger with higher amperage. already after half an hour the tablet started to show first signs of life - instead of the triangle it started to show the charging animation. it ever started a power-up process (boot animation), but alas, shut itself off during the boot up process.
so i decided to leave it over night to make sure it got charged
this morning (after some 7 hrs), i tried to turn it on, and was surprised that the tablet gave no reaction at all! no animation, no battery symbol, nothing!
i plugged out the charger, and plugged it back in, and for a second, the red led lid up and then turned off. i tried to cautiously insert the charger cable, and found that at one position the led lights up, and the boot animation starts up, but only for about two seconds after what it shuts itself down once again.
is there any help to this devise at all? and any way to reach the data on it?
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I am getting the same as you but I plugged it in for the first time in months and the battery is reacting like it just got a virus. Its not a virus because before the issue, I backed up all data and reset the device. So, its either the connector, cable or the internal battery itself.
When this post was posted, spectrifyfunride was running a trickle charge on their Arnova 7h G3. If it works for me, it will work for you.
Hello,
My HTC DNA suddenly turned off while plugged in the charger and does not want to turn on. (I suppose it was fully charged)
When plugged into the charger, it has no signs of life the charging light does not even flash.
I have tried almost all the possible key combinations (Vol Up + Vol Down + Power, the same while being plugged in, etc...)
I have taken it apart, disconnected battery from the motherboard and left for several hours. That did not work also.
I tried to wake it up using different chargers and pc, that did not work also.
When it is plugged into the wall charger, the ac adapter warms up a bit.
What can else can I do to wake it up? I am in a desperate situation, because the only alternative at least for several months is Nokia XpressMusic with a bad screen and earspeaker. It is a big downgrade.
I have found threads with similar problems here and on other forums too, but still could not find solution.
Any idea will be VERY appreciated.
Thanks.
The issue you explain is the phone failing. It is an issue with the main board. The only solution is sending it to HTC for a board swap which was $180 last I checked for this device.
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Uzephi said:
The issue you explain is the phone failing. It is an issue with the main board. The only solution is sending it to HTC for a board swap which was $180 last I checked for this device.
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I brought it used and can't repair it under warranty. For $180 I can buy better phone, but I have no money at the moment.
Is not the motherboard repairable?
If we assume, that hardware of the phone is okey, what possible fixes of the issue are avialable?
Thanks.
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I brought it used and can't repair it under warranty. For $180 I can buy better phone, but I have no money at the moment.
Is not the motherboard repairable?
If we assume, that hardware of the phone is okey, what possible fixes of the issue are avialable?
Thanks.
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Only other solution is jtag. It is a special module some skilled people have to force responses from phones. It is a long shot, but it might work.
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Okey guys, I have a big update.
I have left my phone in a battery disconnected state for about 24 hours and it finally turned on. Then it had audio problems (squeezing noise only in speakers, sound in headphones was fine), after trying to make a call, it shut off itself again.
I have disconnected the battery again, flashed new rom and the problem with audio remains. In the beginning it had problems with charging, but after several minutes in the wall plug it began to charge.
By the way, I have lost the black tape, what was between the motherboard and case. I think, that the phone won't have problems without it. What do you think?
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Okey guys, I have a big update.
I have left my phone in a battery disconnected state for about 24 hours and it finally turned on. Then it had audio problems (squeezing noise only in speakers, sound in headphones was fine), after trying to make a call, it shut off itself again.
I have disconnected the battery again, flashed new rom and the problem with audio remains. In the beginning it had problems with charging, but after several minutes in the wall plug it began to charge.
By the way, I have lost the black tape, what was between the motherboard and case. I think, that the phone won't have problems without it. What do you think?
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your problem is probabbly died tfa 9887 sound chip. you can take it from htc m7 and other motherboards.