I'm at a bit of a loss here..
Instead of powering on, the battery light goes *blink* *blink* *LongPause* ..
I have a (3 day old) Archos 101 and updated to the most recent software when it I first powered up the device. I probably drained my battery yesterday when I put it in the night stand drawer while Aldiko was trying to import a fresh ePub file..
When I turned it on this morning, it blinked once and stopped. When I plugged in the charger (figuring the battery was drained) the "blink blink longpause" started. Long pressing the power button stops the blinking. If the power is connected, the power light burns, so I figure its charging. If its not on power, the power light doesnt burn. I tried the "Hold + while powering up" to boot into recovery but that doesnt change anything.
The Archos FAQ said something about charging the battery, but its been charging for about 9 hours now and the device still wont turn on.. (Green light still burns continuously while charging, not when disconnected) My XDA forums search didnt turn up any results..
Anyone got a clue what this means, what I can do or whatever? Tnx
Maybe the screen froze. Try resetting it by holding down the power button for ten seconds or so. If you're charging it at the same time, it should boot right back up after the reset is complete.
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Yes, I tried that :/ That's what I meant by long pressing the power button. It changes the blinking pattern to just the burning power led..
Thanks for the tip though!
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Give it another shot. Disconnect the plug. Hold down the power button for a little over 10 seconds. I would do like 15 in my head. Wait a few seconds after that and press the power button quickly once. If you get the steady green light just wait. Dont keep pressing it. You should eventually see the Archos splashscreen. I have had this happen on several occassions when the system has been idle for a while with the screen off. Hope it works.
Ok; I did that.
Except that when I push the power button that last time to have it boot up; the power light just flashes once. I didnt touch it to be sure and it doesnt start.
When I plugged in the power supply after that, the *blink blink longpause* resumed.
When I hold down the power btn now, it reverts to continuous burning green power led.
Its been charging for more than 24 hours now.
This sounds like what happened to mine. it happened after about 3 days, too. I finally got my replacement the Tuesday before Christmas.
If you get it powered up, get your stuff off & clean up your personal info (something I wasn't able to do.
From my post on AchosFans Forum:
For several days my Archos wouldn't take a charge. I didn't think anything about it the first day...stuff happens. After using it the next time, not really thinking there was a problem I plugged it in (and of course it turned itself on again). So this morning it only had 8%. I messed around a few minutes before work resetting it & such - checked setting>about>battery stats and it said "charging" and 0% battery. When I came home this evening it still said "charging" & 0% battery. It then shut down (with a not-normal screen flicker) the first time I unplugged it (hoping to cycle it or get lucky) and it is now a brick. When I plug it in now the charging light did a fast-double-blink and it it remained dead.
I called Archos & they told me to send it back. She didn't ask for much info before telling me to send it, which I took to mean that it is a known issue.
Same happened to me
The same has happened to me after the archos 101 drained its battery fully. I think the firmware has a flaw where it lets the archos drain its battery too far. In that state, hooking it up to the charger wont make it start charging all the time.
I had the blink-blink-blink problem also, even after it had been on the charger for hours. Finally it started working (and charging! )again after lots of 15-second Powerbutton presses, some in combination with Volume Up or Volume Down, and some with and some without the charger connected. Suddenly it turned on (showing 0% charge in the Settings, Information panel indicating it had fully drained and hadn't been charging in the previous hours) . I advice you to keep trying pressing the Power button 15 seconds with the charger connected, and experiment with pressing it in combination with the volume button, followed by a short Power press to boor the Archos.
In the mean time (till a new firmware comes), i make a habit of not fully draining the Archos (i will install Tasker to let it shutdown at 10%) , and checking if the green led comes on after plugging in the charger. Only when the green led is on, it's really charging. And it should start blinking after a few hours to indicate its full.
My wife has a chinese android iPad clone (a Flytouch II) and guess what? It's also picky at charging and turning on.
The Gravity reply had me scared (tnx though) but I'm glad to report that pwhooftman's post helped!
I plugged it in, put a movie on and started trying to reset/start it. It happened reasonably quickly after that.. I pressed the power button while it was off power, the power led flashed once as before. I plugged in the power. The green light lighted up. I pushed the power and + for 15 seconds, and pressed the power button once shortly. Unlike the other times, the blinking pattern didnt start and the green light kept burning. Hopeful, I put it down and waited - as the FAQ said it would start when it d charged more. Finally after a while, I pressed the power button and it booted. Not exactly exact science, but Im just happy that it works again :/
I guess the "blink blink longpause" means something like "I know I've got power but I cant seem to load my battery" - Archos should have this info in their manuals.
Thanks guys
G3n said:
The Gravity reply had me scared (tnx though) but I'm glad to report that pwhooftman's post helped!
Thanks guys
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Nice to know I can scare people...and it isn't Halloween!
I tried everything I could think of to get it to take a charge, with no luck. The problem I had with mine was the times it wouldn't take a charge BEFORE I had drained it - that is why it got drained in the first place.
I hope it was only mine!
He s at it again. Drained to 3% and now it wont charge anymore. *sigh*
except he wont even do the blinking anymore now.
Seems to be a fairly common issue with these tablets :/
Same thing was happening to me too. Dunno if this will work for people, but here is how I fixed mine.
Hold your finger on the power button for 10 seconds while the blinky light is on. This should stop the light completely.
Then plug the charger in. This gave me a continuous light rather than a blinky light. Leave it like that for a couple of hours and then try powering it on again.
Hope this works for others.
Had this happen to me once so far. Seems to have to do with it going into a sleep state or something. If I leave it for long and the screen turns off. Sometimes it won't come back up without first holding down the power to shut it down (even though I can't see anything on the screen) and then waiting to boot back up. I had to plug it in, get the steady light and then power on and it worked.
OK, I know this sounds weird...
But what's the temperature of the A101 like?
I had an identical problem a short while ago, and a forum post suggested that the tablet could be too cold. I thought it was a total shot in the dark, but I wrapped the Archos in a quilt for a few minutes, and amazingly enough, it popped back into life with the charger plugged in, and has been pretty fine since then.
To be fair, it could be one of three things: (i) temperature is the issue, (ii) coincidence, (iii) a bad connection in the pins/socket of the adapter input on the Archos 101 which just needs 'jiggling.'
I have also noticed that if I charge the Archos while it is in standby, I never get more than 92-94% battery. If I shut it down, plug in, then shut it down again when it restarts on power supply insertion, I can usually get 98% battery, at the least, sometimes 100% battery.
I agree, we shouldn't have 'quirky' devices, or have to wait for firmware to fix them, but other device makers have had similar problems in the past with battery reporting, until appropriate firmware fixes.
it happened to me last night frustrated the heck out of me couldn't get it to turn on no matter what i did, so i took it back to pc world and the guy said
"what would you like to do, out of curiosity do you like it?" I replied no and he said "then ill refund you"
i then paid the extra on a galaxy tab and not looking back the archos was a complete pile of sh!te! I almost cried when i turned it on and spent the next two months convincing myself i actually liked it.
its woefully made, cheap and tacky, screen is pathetic and the memory appalling.
i know its cheaper than tab and iphone but for 270 it should still be fit for purpose and this is not it's the worst gadget ive ever owned by a long long shot, i didn't even show it off at work because i was so embarrassed at how bad it was.
G3n said:
He s at it again. Drained to 3% and now it wont charge anymore. *sigh*
except he wont even do the blinking anymore now.
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So, how did the story end?!? Did it survive?
Ok...
I kid you not, i've tried warming the archos up with a hot water bottle for several seconds and that did the trick appearently...
Had the same problem.
TheTen said:
OK, I know this sounds weird...
But what's the temperature of the A101 like?
I had an identical problem a short while ago, and a forum post suggested that the tablet could be too cold. I thought it was a total shot in the dark, but I wrapped the Archos in a quilt for a few minutes, and amazingly enough, it popped back into life with the charger plugged in, and has been pretty fine since then.
To be fair, it could be one of three things: (i) temperature is the issue, (ii) coincidence, (iii) a bad connection in the pins/socket of the adapter input on the Archos 101 which just needs 'jiggling.'
I have also noticed that if I charge the Archos while it is in standby, I never get more than 92-94% battery. If I shut it down, plug in, then shut it down again when it restarts on power supply insertion, I can usually get 98% battery, at the least, sometimes 100% battery.
I agree, we shouldn't have 'quirky' devices, or have to wait for firmware to fix them, but other device makers have had similar problems in the past with battery reporting, until appropriate firmware fixes.
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G3n said:
I'm at a bit of a loss here..
Instead of powering on, the battery light goes *blink* *blink* *LongPause* ..
I have a (3 day old) Archos 101 and updated to the most recent software when it I first powered up the device. I probably drained my battery yesterday when I put it in the night stand drawer while Aldiko was trying to import a fresh ePub file..
When I turned it on this morning, it blinked once and stopped. When I plugged in the charger (figuring the battery was drained) the "blink blink longpause" started. Long pressing the power button stops the blinking. If the power is connected, the power light burns, so I figure its charging. If its not on power, the power light doesnt burn. I tried the "Hold + while powering up" to boot into recovery but that doesnt change anything.
The Archos FAQ said something about charging the battery, but its been charging for about 9 hours now and the device still wont turn on.. (Green light still burns continuously while charging, not when disconnected) My XDA forums search didnt turn up any results..
Anyone got a clue what this means, what I can do or whatever? Tnx
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HERE is the FIX ! I am on my second A-70/250 - my wife has the 8gb version, and I thought the 250gb one was simply defective - evidently, this IS a known issue, but it can be fixed, and I sent back my other one without reason
Anyways, no more pity party for me, here is the fix - if you have the flashy-power light dealio going on, plug your Archos into the power adapter, plug the adapter into the wall, and plug in the USB CABLE to the Archos, and to your PC - the Archos WILL pwoer up, when it does, it asks if you wish to mount the USB to copy files, select, "YES" and let it sit and charge ! Now - the REASON it does this is VERY simple, and it kills me to admit that I was killing my tablet all by myself ! Disable the "never off" screen thingy - set it for 10 minutes - (settings - display - screen timeout). Go into your power settings as well - (settings - power management) and make sure there is a checkmark in the deep sleep area ! THAT IS IT ! You are fixed ! Dang... I REALLY wish I would have found all this out before I returned the other one - I had SO much stuff loaded on it ! GAH !! - SenKat !
I got the same problem yesterday, it kept blink blink and could not turn on. After 5 hour charging, I warmed it up by hair dryer and suddenly it's on. Crazy amazing! Hahahahahuahuahuahua.
Temperature is main problem. Try with your hair dryer!!! Heheheheheh
Its sounds unbelievable, but low temperatures are indeed a cause.
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my a70 had this same problem, left it rest a whole night, then plugged it in to usb and power (usb 1st) and it booted up, hope this helped
so every once in a while, i'd say every 4 or 5 days... i'll take my phone off the charger and start my day like normal. but on these days, (sometimes i notice and do a hard reset before all this happens) the upper half of the phone will get really warm and even if i do absolutely nothing on my phone, my battery will drain from full to dead in 3-4 hours.
has anyone else noticed this? i'm thinking it may be some sort of cpu cycle leak or some sort of infinite loop some background driver might get itself into.
its pretty annoying if i dont catch it right away and an hour after i unplug my phone while i'm at work to take my phone out of my pocket and have it over half battery gone already.
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so every once in a while, i'd say every 4 or 5 days... i'll take my phone off the charger and start my day like normal. but on these days, (sometimes i notice and do a hard reset before all this happens) the upper half of the phone will get really warm and even if i do absolutely nothing on my phone, my battery will drain from full to dead in 3-4 hours.
has anyone else noticed this? i'm thinking it may be some sort of cpu cycle leak or some sort of infinite loop some background driver might get itself into.
its pretty annoying if i dont catch it right away and an hour after i unplug my phone while i'm at work to take my phone out of my pocket and have it over half battery gone already.
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I have noticed the 'staying warm after charging sometimes' phenomenon....I also sometimes leave it charging all night but it doesn't seem to charge, even though the light is on. I think this is somehow connected to the wonky power button behavior...I get a green light on full charge sometime....i've never seen it turned green while powered off.....sometimes it won't turn on while plugged in, sometimes I need to do a battery pull, sometimes the SD card too, sometimes I need to press the power button a million times or hold it extra extra long....sometimes the charging light doesn't come on and it does charge, sometimes the light comes on and it doesn't...sometimes it gets really hot after charging and doesn't cool down after sitting idle....I usually just shut it off for a minute and turn it back on...somehow.
This is definitely one of my pet peeves with this phone...I also think this is linked to some phones never turning back on again, corrupted bootloader/recovery after a 'fastboot' shut-down or hot restart...
I'm diggin' the phone, don't get me wrong, but....I can't wait for the nPrime...
yeah, but it's less so the problem of it getting warm (pre or post charging) and moreso that it will start heating up a lot and you can tell that something is running the battery down in the background, the only way to stop this is to do a battery pull restart.
has anyone had similar issues with their phone going from full battery to dead in a few hours because of a hidden bugged process or something similar?
bump 10 char
I had that happen after tuning airplane mode off then back on. But that's itt
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This happened to me this morning, first time and it was very weird. I've left it charging overnight per usual and this morning when I woke up and unplugged it, it had only 10% battery left. I tried charging it in my car on my way to work and have it plugged in to my computer USB now. I disabled a bunch of stuff as shown on this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1141221
And it's now starting to charge.
I did however just update to showdown rom and had setcpu on 1.7 conservative. It still should have charged but I'm guessing a stuck process/bug drew all the power last night.
Does anyone else experience their GS2 randomly powering off?
I just got this phone yesterday and it did it twice yesterday while in my pocket and twice today. Just recently I had an incoming call (phone was in vibrate mode) and about 10 seconds after it started vibrating right as I was about to answer the call the phone shut itself down. Completely.
I had to long hold the power button to completely boot the phone back up.
I'm on rooted stock OTA 2.3.6 but it was happening before the update. Anyone else have this problem?
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Does anyone else experience their GS2 randomly powering off?
I just got this phone yesterday and it did it twice yesterday while in my pocket and twice today. Just recently I had an incoming call (phone was in vibrate mode) and about 10 seconds after it started vibrating right as I was about to answer the call the phone shut itself down. Completely.
I had to long hold the power button to completely boot the phone back up.
I'm on rooted stock OTA 2.3.6 but it was happening before the update. Anyone else have this problem?
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Nope - I suggest taking it to the AT&T store for an exchange.
Check to see if there is some movement of the battery. I read here or another forum when I was searching regarding random shutdowns and thing that seemed to be similar was that the battery did not fit very tight and could move slightly and cause a reboot.
Simple fix is to insert some paper between the battery and the case to keep it tighter in place (opposite end of the battery from the contacts). No reboots for me since I did that earlier this week.
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Check to see if there is some movement of the battery. I read here or another forum when I was searching regarding random shutdowns and thing that seemed to be similar was that the battery did not fit very tight and could move slightly and cause a reboot.
Simple fix is to insert some paper between the battery and the case to keep it tighter in place (opposite end of the battery from the contacts). No reboots for me since I did that earlier this week.
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If the battery is that loose, the device is probably defective.
i went to radio shack where i bought it from yesterday and after a bit of a struggle i managed to get them to exchange it for a brand new one.
i also read about the loose battery connection but i felt that if that were the case i do not want to spend the next 2 years or so (i hold onto my tech for as long as possible) dealing with wedging things behind the battery.
i'll update if the new s2 i got has this same problem
two times when i've woken up and checked my phone its been powered off.
I figured it was SetCPU (having the CPU at .2Ghz min/ondemand and 1.6 max)
may have made the phone turn off.
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two times when i've woken up and checked my phone its been powered off.
I figured it was SetCPU (having the CPU at .2Ghz min/ondemand and 1.6 max)
may have made the phone turn off.
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Overclocking/undervolting always carry a risk of the phone crashing or hanging.
I've recently started having this issues. It's not a battery loose issue and I do not OC / UV my CPU. Started about 3 weeks ago and has happened 4 - 5 times intermittently. Its a "sleep death" issue where the phone goes to sleep and doesn't turn back on until you manually boot it by holding the power button down for about 10 - 15 seconds. For now AT&T is sending me a new battery. This is a possible cause because with investigating this issue, I have been checking my battery stats every day by typing *#0228# and having it do a quick start. The battery percentage will always drop by 5 - 40% after the quick start, but will increase about 3 - 5% within approximately 5 minutes.
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I've recently started having this issues. It's not a battery loose issue and I do not OC / UV my CPU. Started about 3 weeks ago and has happened 4 - 5 times intermittently. Its a "sleep death" issue where the phone goes to sleep and doesn't turn back on until you manually boot it by holding the power button down for about 10 - 15 seconds. For now AT&T is sending me a new battery. This is a possible cause because with investigating this issue, I have been checking my battery stats every day by typing *#0228# and having it do a quick start. The battery percentage will always drop by 5 - 40% after the quick start, but will increase about 3 - 5% within approximately 5 minutes.
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It's a known issue that if the fuel gauge is reset when the battery is at a lower state of charge, it'll get thrown off and report lower than usual for a bit until it stabilizes.
I think what happens is if you do a reboot, the fuel gauge is assuming a "relaxed" battery when in reality the battery is at high load due to the boot process. So the fuel gauge thinks it's lower than it really is.
Google Maxim MAX17040 - while we have a 17042 with a few extra features, it's VERY similar in operation to the '40.
As many of us are aware, there is a issue that can occur with a Nook Tablet going crazy with phantom touches. Essentially it looks as if you are tapping on the screen when you are not. It usually happens very quickly, one minute ok, the next everything is getting tapped all over the screen. This can cause data loss as the device thinks you are touching the screen. For example a file you were working on may abort before saving as it thought you hit "close".
I have been bugged by this issue on and off. Some people replace batteries to fix the issue, and while that will fix it 99% of the time, there is an easier (and cheaper way).
The problem appears to be the newton loses battery calibration. There has been talk in the past of deleting the battery file via CWM or other Android app that deletes this file (or even doing it manually with a file browser app, which may need root access). This battery file is only data since the LAST time you charged the device. Not the calibration data. And this file is deleted automatically everytime you plug it in to charge.
How I fixed it
After a lot of research I found that many Android devices there often a way of recalibrating the battery charge system. The steps are:
1. If you get phantom touches hit the power button as fast as you can to put it to sleep ande prevent anything occurring you might not want (aka a file deleted you wanted to keep etc).
2. Charge the battery to full, until the green light is lit on the charge indicator located on the Nook Tablet charge cable
3. Unplug the device from the charger
4. Use the Nook Tablet for 20 minutes with a high drain app (aka watch a video)
5. Plug the Nook tablet back into the charger and wait until the light turns green again.
6. Repeat steps 2-5 several times. I would suggest 3 or 4.
7. See if you get phantom touches again when the Nook Tablet power gets low. If you do try steps 2-5 again several more times.
In my experience after a few times of this, I no longer had the phantom touches issue.
Why it happens
I am not sure all the details as to why, but one time I do know for a fact that one time it happened after I had the tablet on the charger with a full charge (I had not got around to unplugging it yet) when the power to my home failed. It came back on a few minutes later but that night when I was using the device I got phantom touches at about 50% power left. Which I never had before. After doing the above method it is working fine again even down below 15% power (which I never let it get that low normally).
I suspect that the power failure caused the charger system to recalibrate and since the battery was already at full, messed up the whole system. I also would NOT leave the Nook Tablet on a charger for long periods. If it sits at 100% for a long enough period it is possible for the battery to drop down a little and start charging again. This could start a recalibration again, bringing back the phantom touches issue.
I have not posted until now as I was not certain what fixed it before. If it was the charge to full, use for 20 minutes, then charge again method or turn it off then charge method worked. I tried several before and wasn't sure which one worked. Now I can say the put to sleep, charge, use, charge again method does work. But don't turn off the device then charge if you can help it. If the Nook tablet is powered all the way off (not sleep) doesn't seem to do a battery recalibrate. Or at least my best experience is to plug it in while in sleep mode, charge to full (green light), use for 20 minutes, and then charge again.
Sorry if this has been posted before. But a quick search didn't reveal any hits.
UPDATE:
Upon further tests, often powering off the device fully (holding power for 30 seconds or pressing for 5 and saying yes to the popup to power off), then plugging it in, letting it turn on and charge to full will fix the problem as well.
Long story short. Another Z compact down. This time it's my Z5C.
Unrooted Z5C E5823. I flashed some marshmallow from xperifirm (build 32.2.A.5.11) some 8 months ago...
Description of events:
Just finished texting. Turned screen off. I go to turn it on again but the phone turned off, because pressing the power button doesn't do jack. Long press it and doesn't turn on.
... great.
Volume down + power button and it turns on after 3 vibrates. Battery level plummeted from ~70% to 20%. So I just put it on a wall charger and wait.
Some 20 minutes later, I'm surprised to see that the phone is still at 20%. So at this point I'm sure something is very wrong and I start browsing for solutions. Nothing worked.
The only thing I didn't do is a factory reset. But I seriously doubt it's a software problem.
So I say "screw it" and I unplug it from the charger and start using it normally. At some point the phone turns off on itself so I have to do the volume down + power button combo again. But this time, alas, it doesn't work either. So I try the little yellow "off" button on the SD bay + holding power button. This time the phone vibrates 3 times. Then I turn he phone on again. But this time it turns off after some 40 seconds. Then it began a short power on/off cycle and then remained off. Won't turn on. Like if it was hard bricked. I fiddled with the yellow off button while plugged in on the charger and it turned on again but still won't go past or below 20%. Ever.
I remove it from the charger and go home from work. Phone is unresponsive. PC doesn't recognize it. No key combination works. Charger and key combinations don't do jack. But THEN out of the blue, I sense 3 very faint vibrations (i just kept trying to power it on, I wasn't giving up ) and now the phone is on again. Battery at 20%, obviously. Service menu doesn't have a battery test anymore. How convenient... Battery usage menu is always the same when I turn it on. PAst history is gone, app % use are all the same ratios.
I'm trying to backup my data now. But at the meantime. Phone is on and still stuck at 20%.
So, is the battery dead? Wth is going on?
i have smailer problem
my phone wont pass the 90% . also after factory rest (stock rom\kernel\no root\lockedBT)
still, im not sure 100% is my batt i think is started from android 6 (now im at 7)
also my phone wont pass some voltage also (4.300) was 4.350 when the phone was new with 5.1.1
but in QC2 quick charger its 4.308volt max with 92% so i dont know whats goin on:|
hi,
I had same problem somes weeks ago.
try flash new rom, phone stuck at 20% but seems to have same battery's autonomy .
after a week I changed the battery, now all works fine
I think this is the lithium controller that is dead not the battery itself .
Battery and turn off problem
My Device have charge (50,60,70 or more), unnexpected it show 0% and turn off.
Hardware problem maybe ???