I have a really wird acting SG2.
I am running as shown in attachments.
I have tried several firmware upgrades with and without partition.
The battery is only 6 months old
Problems / Issues
Sometimes I cannot shut Down the phone, it restarts itself (I can do it just after reinstalling firmware but when adding apps then I can't)
Sometimes it will shut Down but then it act like it is charging even though no charger is attached
Emmc check says "insane chip"
In "settings" "battery" the "time on battery" is very incorrect.
Screen is coming back on by itself
Battery is draining fast (I suspect the reason is the screen more or less always on).
I have used different USB chargers
Somebody got some pointers or a diagnose for what can be wrong.
Jesperbig
Could be a faulty USB port/board. I suggest you take it to a Service Centre near you. You could also try cleaning the USB port gently using a fine brush to remove any dirt or accumulations.
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Got some strange bug. In the notification "menu" it often say "mtp-initialization" even though i havent connected a usb to the phone, also it sometimes think im charging the phone and it gives me the charging animation even though i aint charging it. Why is that? It doesnt matter what rom i use the problem is always there.
Another problem i have is when i turn off the phone it shows me the green battery image plus a thermometer that shows me it is overheated or something.. its always there when i turn it off and to turn it on again i have to go to the recovery and reboot it from there to make it boot up. Why?
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me too and it's really really annoying!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! it does that every 10 secs or so!!!!!!!
I have the same issue. The common denominator is it all starts after I have charged the phone. The MTP tries to initialize even though my usb is disconnected.
When I shut the phone down, it reboots after a few minutes with MTP trying to connect.
When I pull the battery and reinstall, I get a grey battery charging icon followed by a green icon followed by a battery icon with a warning triangle and a thermometer.
Same here. Any solutions yet?
I'm having issues with MTP and my Galaxy Tab 10.1, it says MTP connected after MTP initialisation but the Tab never shows up in Windows and Kies??
Same problem here, with unrooted i9100.
I think it has something to do with the usb port. I've red somewhere that the quality is very bad and that it is very vonurable to dust.
This is sooooo annoying i just want to put music on my phone and the only way to do it is take out my external sd card and put it on.
Had this issue also recently when I watched videos for longer than usual (Only around 40 minutes). Car mode started going crazy and the device wouldn't stay powered down. I then removed the battery for a couple of hours while I was busy and when I put it in again I got the green battery image that the OP described. From my searching this seems to be a problem based around the usb port and its connector. I tried doing what others suggested in similar threads and move the metal pin up slightly but this hasn't helped.
I'll be running the device heavily again tomorrow (Video wise) so if it acts up again I'm calling samsung for a replacement/repair. This is a really ****ty problem and stranded me in the rain as I couldn't even get the device to boot for 20 minutes due to the battery image problem. I also doubt it's a problem with the battery as I replaced my Anker 1900ma battery with the stock one and the problem persisted.
Wouldn't you be able to get it fixed under warranty, expecting of course that you restock back to original state....
Sounds like a hardware fault which would definately go under warranty...
Has anyone had this problem?
After three trouble free months, my phone has developed a a very strange problem.
After charging, it behaves as if I'm constantly connecting and disconnecting the phone to a PC. It bleeps whilst showing the battery being connected to a charger and then imidiatly acts like its been disconnected by bleeping and running media scanner on both SD cards. It also shows that its connected via Kies, even though all this is happening whilst only being connected to a charger!
I've already done a full reset, which helped for a few days before it came back. It normally sorts itself out after a few minutes but the period before it "calms down" is getting longer. This morning I removed the battery for an hour but it continued in its "loop". Another, possibly related symptom is that as soon as the battery is installed, the phone boots up without being switched on. The same thing happens if I shut the phone down, it just powers up again!
Any thoughts?
had you if ever dip the bottom part of your phone? sounds like short-circuit issue or I maybe wrong.. try bringing in on to the nearest service center for warranty
Sounds a plausible theory but as far as I can tell, it hasn't got wet. Its been doing it for a few day now, so I think if it was damp, it would have dried out by now.
Thanks anyway.
I got the same problem. Let me know if you figure it out.
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my friend had a simmilar issue and it was damage to the usb port , it kept thinking it was connecting to the pc or charger , it also wouldnt charge when plugged into a wall point and went into usb mode and vice versa when he put it into a pc
he sent it back for repair and they sent him a new phone
it may not be what you have but it does sound simmilar
i would try a few things like a reset , format the mass memory , install firmware again , dont restore back ups but set phone up fresh like you would do if you just bought it , then see how it goes , it could just be a corrupted file or system error that could be fixed bya full wipe and fresh install or it could be like my friends and the usb could be on the way out
on the topic of usb ports i do think they could have been better designed and iam hoping mine doesnt break as its needed for hdmi out , charging , docks , etc etc
Thanks Buxz,
As a follow up, I put the battery back in after taking it our for about 3hrs and all seams fine. I know that it isn't a permanent fix but I think it points more to software than hardware, which in a way is more annoying as its all about trial and error, as you described. A mechanical fault is more straight forward.
I just dread having to charge it again!
Regards, Woolly.
UPDATE
Charged it overnight and no problems when disconnecting it this morning. So far!
If anything, the battery life it better than before the problems. The fact that removing the battery for 3hrs broke the cycle of connect/disconnect, makes me think its soft/firmware related.
Woolly.
Phone thinks it's constantly connected by usb; even when I'm done charging it still shows the 'remove charger' notification and my battery level doesn't go down. When I upgraded to ICS; it kept saying that charging was paused due to over voltage. I've gone back to different stock roms, unrooted phone, rooted it back. Nothing seems to work. I use this app 'Disp. Battery Information' and when I pull out the charger it says 'USB connected' and the health attribute says 'Voltage'. HELP!
Also I can't actually switch my phone off because the phone thinks it's connected by usb and flashes the battery charging icon alongwith with what looks like a temperature icon even though the temps are just fine
Had the exact same problem here, getting worse and worse until I had to send it to a service centre. Turns out, there was minor water damage around the USB port, got it fixed and shipped back for £28. However before you go this route try cleaning the port itself, some users have noted how this helps. Others also managed to resolve the issue by gently moving the metal clip inside towards the screen. Good luck
Hi!
I know that are simillar threads about this, but none of them have the answer to my problem. I read them all.
As many others, my Galaxy S 2 started to give that error after the upgrade to ICS (in my case, I did it because my phone sent me the "alert" directly, not because I tried to upgrade it through Odin or similar).
My problem now is that the phone is not even detected by my computer in Download Mode, If I remove the battery for 10 minutes and add it again, it does show like if the battery ran out of charge and does not start, if I plug it to the wall charger then show as charging and then can start it, but the "charging suspended voltage too high" message show every 20 seconds.
I tried to clean the usb with a toothbrush, tried also with the "knife method" but nothing of that helps. I would like to even downgrade the OS to a 3.x version, but can't make the computer recognize the phone in Download Mode. Any help would be appreciated.
I drove myself mad chasing this one a couple of weeks ago, it does indeed seem to be a problem with the connection between the USB plug and the phones mainboard.
I did find a post by a Samsung engineer in which he claimed it was a common problem and that he was seeing 3 or 4 a day.
I was lucky in that mine was solved by gently pushing the male internal connector gently forwards (upwards if the phone is on its back)
If you think logically, a usb/mainboard connection problem does make sense, in as much as there are so many differing symptoms and the claimed successes by cleaning, I would guess in these instances, the cleaning has in fact, simply moved the connector back into position.
This is a pretty poor show for Sammy, there seem to be more and more S2's failing in this way as time goes on, my own phone has only ever been charged in the Samsung dock, and still fell foul of it!
I would give repositioning the connector another try, pull the battery and use a wooden toothpick or similar, I used a fruit knife, but wouldn't recommend it. If you cant get it back in shape, I'm afraid you will have to send it back to Samsung
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JorgeC said:
Hi!
I know that are simillar threads about this, but none of them have the answer to my problem. I read them all.
As many others, my Galaxy S 2 started to give that error after the upgrade to ICS (in my case, I did it because my phone sent me the "alert" directly, not because I tried to upgrade it through Odin or similar).
My problem now is that the phone is not even detected by my computer in Download Mode, If I remove the battery for 10 minutes and add it again, it does show like if the battery ran out of charge and does not start, if I plug it to the wall charger then show as charging and then can start it, but the "charging suspended voltage too high" message show every 20 seconds.
I tried to clean the usb with a toothbrush, tried also with the "knife method" but nothing of that helps. I would like to even downgrade the OS to a 3.x version, but can't make the computer recognize the phone in Download Mode. Any help would be appreciated.
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1. if you have warranty and not used odin, better take it to the samsung service center.
or
2. try to get a full charge battery from your friend and finish your job in dwnl mode using odin
or
3. try usb jig method to reset and start your mobile in recovery/dwnl mode.. you can search the forum on this and there are lots of posts reg this.
explains the randomness
If the connector moves its presumably broken connection with motherboard. Wonder if a teeny drop of superglue.....
Its odd how its become a feature after ICS but I suppose if its an age/ wear and tear thing that works too. Mine is drvibg me nuts too
Not solved with Stock ROM
Im also having the same problem . Not able to fix it. But if u want to connect to PC , just connect ur phone to PC and restart the phone. Then the drivers will installed and it will detected . Now u can flash it using ODIN . I tried updaing through the Kies with latest version of ICS patch , now the warning mesasge is not coming , but the battery icon blinks every second and if i check the status it shows NOT CHARGING instead of DISCHARGING
Im using android 4.0.4 (officially updated) on my galaxy s2 and when i put the charger the phone dont even recognize it ,and it shows like is charging all the time.The battery icon on the corner keeps going and showing again after some min i take out the charger .This happens until buttery goes to 60% or something like that and than the text (charging) on the lock screen goes away and the icon on the corner stays like normal,but if i put the charger the same thing happends again. I tried different chargers and another battery.
My brother told me that after i updated my phone he saw something like "Charging paused. Voltage too high" but i havend seen it anomore.The battery on options menu says "1 day 8 hours 16m 33s on battery which is not normal i thing"
Please help me with this thing.
sorry for my bad english.
funnycun said:
Im using android 4.0.4 (officially updated) on my galaxy s2 and when i put the charger the phone dont even recognize it ,and it shows like is charging all the time.The battery icon on the corner keeps going and showing again after some min i take out the charger .This happens until buttery goes to 60% or something like that and than the text (charging) on the lock screen goes away and the icon on the corner stays like normal,but if i put the charger the same thing happends again. I tried different chargers and another battery.
My brother told me that after i updated my phone he saw something like "Charging paused. Voltage too high" but i havend seen it anomore.The battery on options menu says "1 day 8 hours 16m 33s on battery which is not normal i thing"
Please help me with this thing.
sorry for my bad english.
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check the usb port may need cleaning this happened to me and one of pins were bent unlucky for me i fiddled and broke usb completely now i swap battery's from desktop charger.
DJBoxer said:
check the usb port may need cleaning this happened to me and one of pins were bent unlucky for me i fiddled and broke usb completely now i swap battery's from desktop charger.
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Hmm , can you tell me how to clean the port or what to use not to bent them and one more thing, as i can see the pins are so small so how do i know if one of them is bent or not
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tried cleanin the port,removing the battery for 20 min and still the same
its port problem, i tried fixing myself but didnt work, i had exact same problem, i sent it in for warranty, and samsung just sent my phone back today, and they replaced "usb port" according to receipt
"Cyber Clean" did it for me, was able to get in to the tiny spots and pull out the dust, etc. that was causing the problem.
DO NOT try to shove anything hard (Like a Q-Tip) into the space, it will break the connection.
You can also place a *newish* USB port in and out a few times, often that can dislodge whatever got in there.
BE VERY GENTLE as this is the weak part in the phone. If you break this you will need to use a wall charger.
i tried cleanin with a lot of things and it seems to be so clean now and the pins are not bent , but i dont think that the problem is at this part because when the battery goes under 60% everything returns to normal ...
I also have the same issue...is it the hardware or software issue?? kindly assist....
This is called "ghost charging". It has dozens of threads already, use the search before posting.
Your solution is here - http://bit.ly/10U9n1r
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