Hey guys,
I've had my GNote since March 2012 and recently I've had some problems with it. Starting about a week ago, the phone would shut down randomly at any battery percentage and boot back up with NO power (it would say 0 or 1% battery then die again). I've tried switching ROMs (from JellyBean Sandwich to SkeletonKey), but nothing seems to be helping, which makes me think it's a problem with the battery itself. If this happens, I can take the battery out for a couple minutes then put it back in and it will work, but then it will happen all over again. This leads me to believe that it's a problem with maybe the battery heating up? I would appreciate any help with this, thanks!
Sounds like you might want to try a new battery. These batteries don't have a long usage life. 1.5yrs seems to be a common fail point. They are pretty cheap to buy on eBay.
Does your battery get hot quickly?
Does your battery appear to be a little fatter or thicker than normal?
440bro said:
Sounds like you might want to try a new battery. These batteries don't have a long usage life. 1.5yrs seems to be a common fail point. They are pretty cheap to buy on eBay.
Does your battery get hot quickly?
Does your battery appear to be a little fatter or thicker than normal?
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That's kind of what I was thinking. I was going to hold off and tough it out because I'm upgrading to Moto X next week, but I think I'm going to keep this device to use as a music player since it has the SD Card slot.
Definitely gets pretty hot when using, but it kind of always has. Maybe a little quicker now.
Not sure about the battery. Can't be a good judge of it, but maybe it's a little swollen?
Check out my thread on ravpower 2750.....read people's comments and how they like it.... Then buy one
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OBatRFan said:
Hey guys,
I've had my GNote since March 2012 and recently I've had some problems with it. Starting about a week ago, the phone would shut down randomly at any battery percentage and boot back up with NO power (it would say 0 or 1% battery then die again). I've tried switching ROMs (from JellyBean Sandwich to SkeletonKey), but nothing seems to be helping, which makes me think it's a problem with the battery itself. If this happens, I can take the battery out for a couple minutes then put it back in and it will work, but then it will happen all over again. This leads me to believe that it's a problem with maybe the battery heating up? I would appreciate any help with this, thanks!
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My batteries (the OEM from purchase & an aftermarket) both started to fail at approximately 18 months. The aftermarket had the same symptoms you describe; the OEM just wasn't providing as long a life as I liked. First I tried an oversize extended life battery, but I didn't like the size and the cheap plastic humpback. I then bought two Anker 2700mAh batteries & a charger on eBay for about $30. All is now well again, with great performance and battery life. I selected the Anker batteries because they fit in the Note without the bulk of the extended back that larger batteries require.
One point about the Anker batteries I discovered; they do not work with the Samsung OEM charger due to polarity, you must have the universal type charger such as comes with the Anker batteries in order to charge outboard of the Note. Onboard charging with the OEM USB data/charging cable is not a problem.
Good luck.
zancro said:
My batteries (the OEM from purchase & an aftermarket) both started to fail at approximately 18 months. The aftermarket had the same symptoms you describe; the OEM just wasn't providing as long a life as I liked. First I tried an oversize extended life battery, but I didn't like the size and the cheap plastic humpback. I then bought two Anker 2700mAh batteries & a charger on eBay for about $30. All is now well again, with great performance and battery life. I selected the Anker batteries because they fit in the Note without the bulk of the extended back that larger batteries require.
One point about the Anker batteries I discovered; they do not work with the Samsung OEM charger due to polarity, you must have the universal type charger such as comes with the Anker batteries in order to charge outboard of the Note. Onboard charging with the OEM USB data/charging cable is not a problem.
Good luck.
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Thank you, I actually did just go ahead and purchase a new battery, but it was the 2750mAh Ravpower that Shayne mentioned. Just popped it in last night and it definitely seems like my rebooting problems are gone. Fully charged it and it will receive the true test of battery life today at work.
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For the past couple of days, my phone's battery life has been pathetic. I kept it in my pocket for around 7 hours, and when I checked it, the battery almost completely out of juice.
Welcome to the club.
really
im having the same problem
Likewise, there seems to be little capable besides having a charger around, or maybe an extended battery. I put my charger in my pocket because I have access to an outlet or PC (for USB charger) almost always.
I also usually have my car adapter, just in case. I still want an extended battery however. They give this thing NO juice for so much power
http://store.everythinghtc.com/seidio-innocell-2000mah-extended-battery/8A37A4988.htm
That is the link to the extended battery and cover that I use. It lasts a heck of a lot longer but with most extended batteries you have to give something to get something.
How are anker batteries in terms of reliability and can they show correct charge and mah on the phone.Which one from these two anker batteries i should buy.
http://www.amazon.com/Anker-2800mAh-Extended-Battery-Motorola/dp/B005NEHN62/ref=pd_sim_sbs_cps_9
http://www.amazon.com/Anker-1800mAh...G8/ref=sr_1_18?ie=UTF8&qid=1332675613&sr=8-18
The reason i planning to buy a battery is that the Motorola battery is being recognized as only 500mah and doesn't show the charge correctly on the battery indicator and stays on 1% all the time.
Its okay. The battery is good but the cover started to break on me in about a month. Sucked.
Tapatalk makes me wet.....
Hoshneer said:
Its okay. The battery is good but the cover started to break on me in about a month. Sucked.
Tapatalk makes me wet.....
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Thanks for the replay
Can u post some pics of the cover i want to see how it looks on atrix and check the charge-full-design in sys/class/power-supply/battery/charge-full-design
I would recommend this little package Comes with two 1800's and a nice charger... Just make sure you dont abuse the batteries (i had two in my wallet which i would sit on and such and they got messed up). They are good batteries though... I also recommend letting the batteries run dead then popping the other in, then you can charge the dead battery by putting it in the anker charger. You shouldn't ever have to plug your phone in theoretically.
http://www.amazon.com/1800mAh-Batteries-Motorola-Anker-Multi-purpose/dp/B005HNJJWA/ref=pd_cp_cps_0
Just gonna review some of the accessories I have used and what i think about 'em
First up is the 3500mAH extended battery by HHI
This battery came in at a cost of $9.99 with free Shipping! It showed up with an 80% charge which is in the acceptable range of where they like to sit. The battery performs just as one would expect it too. I am currently running MeanRom, and can easily get 16-20 hours of use with some really heavy gaming. However I recently went on a vacation and wanted to run the battery through a couple different variations of "discharging". So with the phone in Airplane mode(no radios connected) and very little use i easily can get a week out of the phone without charging. Again this is without any radios on, not connecting to anything.The stock battery cant touch these numbers. i would be lucky to get a full day out of the stock battery with no gaming and normal use.I didn't do a sticker pull to run the numbers. So I'm taking HHI's word on the 3500mAH being just that.
To conclude on this battery the $10 investment turned out to be a good choice, although it might not be a seidio or something it does more than i expected it to do. I will continue to use this battery till I get rid of the phone. The battery can be found here.
To continue on the batteries,
I also bought some of the Galilio "2000mAH" batteries, I got 3 of them with a wall charger for $13.99 on ebay, as reviewed by many others.
This is my experience with them. So they showed up in the mail and upon opening them i discovered one of the batteries look like it got dropped or skipped accross the cement, im not sure what happened, but who is gonna put a messed up battery in their phone.. So i really only got 2 batteries. I brought it up to the seller he offered me $3.00 back, it wasn't worth my time even dealing with that any further at this point. Anyways the batteries Are nice little backup batteries i take with me on trips.They make for easy backup batteries. The batteries have been suspected to be somewhere along the lines of 1000-1200mAH. I would have to agree, even with no testing with any type of tool, besides my phone. They last a most couple of hours. The wall charger that came with them actually surprised me. Everyone was reporting that it may overcharge your stock battery, which can cause some issues. This charger(as pictured below) will charge the Galilio batteries to 100% with no problems. I put my stock HTC battery into the wall charger and with repeated attempts the charger will not charge the battery past 85% even when i left it on the wall charger for 2 days. I do believe that the stock HtC charger that came with the phone gives the batteries a "better" charge, but the wall charger seems to not charge the batteries past a safe range as everyone seems to be reporting as a possible issue. My issue is it doesn't charge it well enough.
I've attached some pictures of the battery results and of the batteries.
Reserved for more... case reviews coming up next
i got the 3500 mAh from HHI. great battery, even better price.
Yea that battery is awesome!
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Going to try this battery out. Thanks for the review.
The 85% is charge limit is what a cheap charger do,
The "charger" that come with the phone is simply a power supply, the charging circuit is actually "built in" to the phone. You can connect the OEM HTC charger/power supply into one of those cheap aftermarket dock that charge a 2nd battery and it will never charge the battery past 85% either.
To make it short and sweet
There's 2 stage of Li-ion charging
1) charge to 4.2v at constant current which is 85% when it first reach/near 4.2v
2) saturation charge, once the battery reach 4.2v, continue charging but at gradually reducing current until it reach about 3% of default charge current
Cheap charger have a simple/cheap circuit and cannot do stage 2 charging, where the charging circuit built into each phone would do stage 2 charging
http://batteryuniversity.com/learn/article/charging_lithium_ion_batteries
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The 85% is charge limit is what a cheap charger do,
The "charger" that come with the phone is simply a power supply, the charging circuit is actually "built in" to the phone. You can connect the OEM HTC charger/power supply into one of those cheap aftermarket dock that charge a 2nd battery and it will never charge the battery past 85% either.
To make it short and sweet
There's 2 stage of Li-ion charging
1) charge to 4.2v at constant current which is 85% when it first reach/near 4.2v
2) saturation charge, once the battery reach 4.2v, continue charging but at gradually reducing current until it reach about 3% of default charge current
Cheap charger have a simple/cheap circuit and cannot do stage 2 charging, where the charging circuit built into each phone would do stage 2 charging
http://batteryuniversity.com/learn/article/charging_lithium_ion_batteries
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im just saying its not gonna over charge your battery like everyone warns you about all over the place lol
Makis709 said:
Going to try this battery out. Thanks for the review.
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Awesome!!! its well worth it!!
Hello guys... I'm having a major problem with my battery not taking a charge or just being stubborn.
I used multiple chargers and the phone refuses to charge. It discharges even though it says it's charging and it mounts via USB with no issues and data transfer is faster than ever. I have the OEM stock and the Laza extended battery but the Laza takes much too long and the stock battery won't come back at all because the charger kills it...
This started when I left my extended battery on the charger overnight and it was at maybe 30%. I woke up and it was dead; it wasn't responding to anything unless I pulled the battery and it gave me the blinking orange LED. Any ideas?
*phone was dropped once but a WHILE ago
did nothing special and it was charging great 3 days ago
charging while powered down actually kills the battery FASTER
I'd appreciate any help.
Have the same issue. I believe my USB port is coming loose from the board and needs repair or replacement. I tried physically bending bits of the port with the battery removed to mixed success short-term, but now I have trouble just getting data to connect over the cable. Could try to work around the issue by buying a couple of wall chargers for just the battery pack, then circulate between two or three batteries through the day. Used Battery Monitor Widget app to see my device can eat 500 to 1,000 mA an hour, so I got two 500 mAh chargers and spare batteries to keep pace with max drain rate.
Okay, thanks for the recommendation! My Droid MAXX has arrived but my battery is actually doing pretty well right now. It decided to charge overnight but still no luck with the stock. But I still want to use this phone to test ROMs, and it's difficult to do so with the discharged battery. Anyways thanks a lot, I will look into this. Or maybe I could buy another Rezound for cheap or a Thunderbolt (if it works).
Hey guys,
I had been using a UMI Zero as my daily for about 6 months. Apparently the Zero has been known to have the swollen battery issue, however i had no problems with it.
That was until an unrelated issue brought that phone to its death. So i ordered a new UMI Zero since i love the phone. But just 4 weeks in to my new phone, my battery is swelling.
Now, here is the problem. With the first phone, my charger was outputting 5.85 volts (exactly as the specs says it should) THEN just before the second phone arrived i had to charge a Galaxy S5 with the charger from my first phone. That didnt work (didnt charge) and my charger got hotter than usual (Red flag no. 1). I have been using the charger and cable from the first phone, on the second phone. Shouldnt be a problem since they are identical in every way. Now i have noticed, that my charger is outputting 6.00 volts with the second phone (Red flag no. 2). Also my battery life is now pretty bad - at around 40%, it just loses the will to live and drops to 0% in minutes (Red flag no. 3)
So, my question is:
Is it more likely that attempting to charge the S5 damaged the charger which has in turn damaged my new battery?
OR
Could it just be that i got one of the faulty batteries that the UMI Zero is known for?
Obviously the battery needs to be replaced but my concern is that it will just happen again if i dont replace the charger too
Extra info:
I no longer have the first phone in order to rule out the charger
I have not noticed a change in the amperage supplied
Have reflashed ROM's multiple times and performed full charge/discharge cycles to calibrate it, no worky
Opinions?
Thanks guys
To be honest it could be both. The prob with some of these off brand oem is that they tend to use sub par components. So just to be safe use the charger that came with the second phone.
zelendel said:
To be honest it could be both. The prob with some of these off brand oem is that they tend to use sub par components. So just to be safe use the charger that came with the second phone.
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+1 for ^^^
Also having the battery over heat will also tend to make it bloat up faster. So it is best not to heavily use your device while charging. The Umi zero is pretty popular, so I bet you can find a replacement battery and a tutorial for how to replace it online. This should be cheaper than a new device. You will want to do something because the stuff inside the battery is toxic and it will leak all over the place if it bursts. If there is still gas inside it can even catch fire...neither are particularly fun to deal with
Thanks for the help guys. Ive ordered the battery and the charger so hopefully that will sort it
Thanks again!