Phone says charging but batt drains instead. - HTC EVO 3D

I haven't been using my evo v because everytime I try to charge it, it says its charging but the battery level drops. Right now its on cm10.1 with an overclocked kernel but it would do this to me on the ruu as well. Any ideas? (I'll probably get a new battery to see if that helps soon)

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Try pluging it in without the battery. If it works fine, your battery is dead
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Dead as in dead forevor?

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Yep
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Ok thank you

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Yw
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Your cable might be broken. Mine had some faulty wires after some time and it only pumped 20-40 miliamps while charging. So it barely maintained the battery level. If I twisted the cable in a certain way it charged normally.
So maybe try another cable before buying a new battery.
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trackattaker said:
Your cable might be broken. Mine had some faulty wires after some time and it only pumped 20-40 miliamps while charging. So it barely maintained the battery level. If I twisted the cable in a certain way it charged normally.
So maybe try another cable before buying a new battery.
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I had a broken cable too, sometimes it was fine other times wouldn't charge at all.... Ditched it and haven't had problem since
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I've tried a buch of different cables laying around the house and none of them worked. I'm fine with buying a new battery I just don't know where to get one. Does anyone have any recommendations?

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donkeykong1 said:
Try pluging it in without the battery. If it works fine, your battery is dead
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Just got home and tested this. My phone won't boot up without the battery and turns off when I take it out regardless to wether I have the cable plugged or not

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Then it's a hardware problem
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And a hardware problem would require a new phone right? :/
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dgray66 said:
I've tried a buch of different cables laying around the house and none of them worked. I'm fine with buying a new battery I just don't know where to get one. Does anyone have any recommendations?
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Laza Zcell 3460mah HTC Evo 3D Extended Battery on amazon
This battery works great! its cheap with the right rom can last 4-5 days im on harmonia and it doesnt make the phone bulky i think it makes the grip better. only con to me i noticed that if i dont let the batery die completely it wont last long for example if i charge it at 40% i get 1 and a half maybe 2 if i charge after it dies completely it last 4 days, it also takes along time to charge completely. Also make sure your using a htc cord i used a blackberry cord and it never charged my phone. i hope this helps!

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You could try using someones battery just to see what happens. If the phone works, buy new battery and if the same thing happens there is something wrong with the motherboard. Just google which phones are battery compliant with yours and hope someone you know has that phone
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wtf are u talking about, evo does not work without battery.
problems with discharging while charging are:
-smth is eating too much juice - kill it;
-bad cable;
-bad charger;
-bad charging unit in phone (thats a problem).
try to download battery widget pro, charging current should be up to 600 mA.
try changing cables or charger

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Hey I was wondering what type of charging cable the evo v uses? 1000mah 900mah the cable that cones with phone.
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cickvoa said:
wtf are u talking about, evo does not work without battery.
problems with discharging while charging are:
-smth is eating too much juice - kill it;
-bad cable;
-bad charger;
-bad charging unit in phone (thats a problem).
try to download battery widget pro, charging current should be up to 600 mA.
try changing cables or charger
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Some of the 3vos will run without the battery. One of the older rooting methods required you to pull the battery and start an ruu then disconnect charger causing a brick state. The newer 3vos will not work without a battery though.
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oh, than i have new evo lol
tnx for info, didnt know

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jlmancuso said:
Some of the 3vos will run without the battery. One of the older rooting methods required you to pull the battery and start an ruu then disconnect charger causing a brick state. The newer 3vos will not work without a battery though.
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I have the old one and it works without the battery.
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I had same problem with charging after downgrading hboot from 1.53. to 1.49.007, but only with charging from USB (pc), with the same cable if it was adapter charging was ok.
So i upgraded hboot back to version 1.53. and its ok for now, but on 1.53. you cant run cm10 roms i think.
Maybe this can help you..