Hey guys,
I'm having an interesting issue here, basically I've noticed my vibrant isn't charging the phone battery,
instead it says "discharging" when plugging it in. When i go to the 'about phone - status area'.
When I unplug the charger it says "not charging" and when I plug it in it says Discharging.
Has anyone seen this behavior on their phones? I'm not sure if there is something wrong with my phone
or if Samsung tries to regulate the battery reconditioning it?.
I would like to avoid having to return my phone if this is some sort of strange issue with the vibrant.
I have had the vibrant for over a week now, have not done any changes to it other then simply rooting it,
no flashing done otherwise. I just happened to notice this tonight before going to bed.
Also note that I do not have wifi turned on, and I wasn't running anything at the time either that should be
draining it more then a charger should put out. I have also tried charging it using the charger that came with
the vibrant and a second charger I bought.
I have only seen one post related to this on Google.
http://forum.androidcentral.com/t-mobile-vibrant/33383-battery-discharging-error.html
Update: I can tell you that my % has gone down, from 30% to now 20%, still discharging..
Also Screen Brightness is set to lowest, WiFi Off, and not running any applications in the background,
on original vibrant rom.
Video Or it Didn't Happen, Posted.
Here I took a video of it too if for some reason you can't see what i'm saying, or think i'm crazy.
Weird Camera is angle is cause the phone number just happens to be right under the battery status.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nk_JHdlMVbg
what charger are you using? and do you have another that you can test? Also if you're charging VIA usb port on your laptop have you installed the samsung drivers, if not install the samsung USB drivers, if you have then try a different USB port.
its doubtful its the phone, far more likely the USB port, charger or cable
I have charged it with 3 different chargers, and cables from different computers and usb ports, as well as in wall charger,
the samsung usb drivers are installed and i'm able to access adb.
My computer also has 3 powered usb hubs.
The battery kept draining, till the phone shut off and restarted on its own
after receiving a charge from the charger, so i'm wondering if maybe some
other people might be able to notice this behavior at all.
When it restarted on its own it said it had 60% battery from 0% right before charging,
so I am wondering if perhaps some people's phones are doing this in the middle of the night.
After restarting the phone charges normally starting at a really high %.
Could this be caused by software problems on the phone.
that is crazy... you certainly have ruled out a charger problem.
Was this just a one time thing and after the restart it's charging normally?
if it's still acting up you could try flashing the original rom via odin or to be safe take it back and exchange it.
People might not be realizing theres a discharging problem
Yeah has only happened once that I've caught so far, so thats why i'm trying to raise a little bit of awareness,
seeing that other post on androidcentral it seems like some people got to be having this problem.
Maybe they just don't realize it. Its not something you'd notice plugging the phone in before bed.
For now it seems fine after a restart, its possible that its a problem that occurs after the phone has been on for so many hours,
and perhaps a memory leak occurs of some sort. It could even be Samsung's poor attempt trying to recondition the battery somehow.
I have had some odd occurrences where I have grabbed my phone off the charger first thing in the morning and found it around 30%. Rebooted it and it charged normally. I think this has happened twice now. I didnt notice anything while I had it plugged in so I can't say if it said discharging or not.
Maybe what you could do is go to the phone settings, scroll to the about section and check out the battery status next time that happens.
On the larger scale of things, this could be a fairly common issue that noone
is taking a look at.
It could be related to why some people are having very poor battery life
and why the battery meter can be really inaccurate.
If your phone discharges itself completely, reboots thinking its at 60% battery life,
I can see that causing many problems that you just wouldn't see since people
just plug their phone in and go to bed.
Bump cause I'm having the same issues. Was a solution ever found for this?
I had this problem before but it happened to me with an after market battery, once I changed batterys the problem went away. so basically your battery is bad..
Yes! I have this problem all the time. A restart will fix it but often I will plug it into a wall charger or car charger and my Battery Indicator Pro will say "failure". Battery life is also horrible.
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This is caused by running 2.2.1 roms I think. Only got it once and was on such a rom. A restart will fix it. Its possible you didn't flash good as I have never gotten it since. Its a rom issue though.
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This is caused by running 2.2.1 roms I think. Only got it once and was on such a rom. A restart will fix it. Its possible you didn't flash good as I have never gotten it since. Its a rom issue though.
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Op was running stock rom.
You need to delete your battery stats, but to do this you need to be rooted.Looks like your phone is not charging at all .... plug the charger in and take out the battery and see if it starts charging.... hope this helps ....
this is happening to me, right now. i've had it happen once before, i shut down, pulled the battery, replaced it and booted. it charged fine afterwards. but i don't want that as an answer.
mine is at 84 hours uptime, i don't remember what it was last time i had this issue. whats weird is i was just charging at work not 30 minutes before i got home and plugged it in to charge. worked fine half an hour ago. but not now.
i've got a stock vibrant on 2.2. wonder what's causing this.
This happened to me and i could only get it to charge by rebooting it. I eventually had to replace my phone because it also was doing soft reboots too but discharging also.
I think I found a solution. Is anyone still having this issue tho? If so ill post it.
elsolo00 said:
I think I found a solution. Is anyone still having this issue tho? If so ill post it.
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I have this problem and have been for a while. Will you post the solution please?
Thanks in advance.
here too... but with a htc wildfire (aka buzz)
it discharges while in charge
very strange!
I tried almost everything, also replaced battery with another one original of course... nothing changes, also replaced AC charger... nothing!! my mobile become a fix line
unluckily I don't have a rooted phone so it's not possible for me to recalibrate trough SW
ive had a battery issue similar to this. my battery never discharged while plugged in, but after flashing a 2.2.1 rom(bi-winning) and then installing "battery left" and reconditioning my battery, the "battery left" app had a roughly 18% difference in battery charged then the system...as the syatem read the battery as being lower then the app showed i had. it would shut off with "low battery" when the app said i had about18% left. after flashing again and reconditioning my battery again the problem went away...could be some software setting somewhere!
Is anybody having issues with the charging of their SGS3?
It seems that my device charges as and when it wants. I wanted to find out how wide spread the issue is and the different cases in which it does not charge.
This could possibly help find some sort of temporary resolution.
My Galaxy note is extremely temperamental when it comes to charging. It doesn't seem to like any other cable than the one that came with it. I've been through several cables trying to find another that will charge it.
Some cables said they were charging the unit (and it the meter was going up) until I unplugged the cable to find the battery level drop from 100% to 5% in a second. With another cable, the handset said it was being charged, but the screen locked out and wouldn't recognise gestures. Others just wouldn't charge and the phone didn't even recognise them. It was all very odd.
In the end I gave up and just used the stock cable. It could be a Samsung thing?!?
Zobbster said:
I unplugged the cable to find the battery level drop from 100% to 5% in a second.
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Same for me on SGS2 (GT-I9100). Often it discharged so much, it was switched off by the battery's low-voltage-protection-circuit. Then the phone started again because it had 5V at the USB and tried charging, but couldn't because the battery was not able to power the phone until the charging process started, so I had a nice bootloop
I had to build a constant-current-circuit with a LM317 to charge the battery a bit until it could be charged by the phone again.
It seems like the only way of getting rid of this is by using the original charger..
(Would be great if Samsung could make their devices be able to run from usb-power only)
For past few days, I'm facing this strange problem that the phone doesn't charge beyond a particular limit, and sometimes at all. When I plug in the charger, it displays 'Charging' but the battery level doesn't go up. I tried few things to understand where's the problem:
1.) I changed the charger and used the other ones (700mA, 500mA, USB charging with PC) and they worked well for a while, although slow charging, but afterwards the issue re-appeared and phone stopped charging even by them.
2.) I changed the battery, thinking it's a battery issue. The one that I got from a friend charged perfectly well with my own MMX charger for the first time, but now it's giving the same issue again and not charging beyond a particular level, say 40%, which will eventually come down and it won't charge at all.
I'm confused as what kind of problem it might be - hardware issue with the charging socket, charger/USB cable issue, or a firmware issue? Has anyone faced this problem till now wherein the their phone doesn't charge, even though it shows 'charging'? Please share what did you do to resolve it. I'm currently located at a remote place and cannot visit a service center.
how old is your device? if it's more than 9 months you might have to replace your battery. you could find it on ebay.
Hello. My wife recently dropped her S2, with enough force to eject the battery. It had worked after she put it back in and all, and even called me to tell me about it. However, the battery ended up dying before she plugged in it. When plugging the phone into usb, the button lights would flicker and the battery charging icon would flash on for about a second. Rinse and repeat. If there is no battery in the phone, it just flickers the buttons, and the screen will flicker back, and just do it over and over.
The USB port on it was already really shoddy, so I bought a new ribbon and replaced it. Same symptoms. Pretty sure this is a hardware problem, although what the problem is exactly I do not know. I've already reseated all of the ribbon connections I could find. There's obvious signs of previous water damage, but it looks like very old damage. I wouldnt' be surprised if something is corroded, but the timing of this happening after it was dropped makes me think something else came loose. I just don't know what. I could potentially try to reflow the motherboard with my heat gun, but before I waste my time doing that, I was wondering if there's _anything_ else that could be causing these symptoms.
Thank you.
Over the 2-1/2+ years I have been reading this forum, I have seen a number of cases reported where the battery discharges fully and then will not recharge in the phone, while the phone exhibits symptoms similar to the ones you report. As far as I can remember, in every case the phone would boot up when a fully charged battery was inserted. And once the battery was charged, phone would then recharge the battery as long as it was not completely discharged. Not all phones behave this way. For instance, I have fully discharged my phone on several occasions without issue.
Therefore, I would first try inserting a fully charged battery to see if the phone boots up ok, and see if it will charge with a partially charged battery. Some have had to buy an external charger just for this purpose, or borrow a charged battery from another phone, etc.
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Over the 2-1/2+ years I have been reading this forum, I have seen a number of cases reported where the battery discharges fully and then will not recharge in the phone, while the phone exhibits symptoms similar to the ones you report. As far as I can remember, in every case the phone would boot up when a fully charged battery was inserted. And once the battery was charged, phone would then recharge the battery as long as it was not completely discharged. Not all phones behave this way. For instance, I have fully discharged my phone on several occasions without issue.
Therefore, I would first try inserting a fully charged battery to see if the phone boots up ok, and see if it will charge with a partially charged battery. Some have had to buy an external charger just for this purpose, or borrow a charged battery from another phone, etc.
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Thanks for the detailed reply. I will try to find a battery. I do have a question though. If the battery was the cause of this, should the phone not act like this if the battery was not inserted? I would expect it to boot up just fine with the wall charger plugged into it without the battery in it, but that does the same thing (minus the battery icon).
Thank you.
I'm just not sure the answer to that. I can't remember if anyone mentioned that, although as I think about it, it seems like someone mentioned that as well. Still, I think this should be the first step in trouble shooting, because if this is the issue, and the phone is otherwise fine, then you don't want to be using a heat gun on it, or any other more difficult steps until you have eliminated this possibility.
Also, you might consider sending the phone out for repair if this step does not solve the issue. Assuming you are in the USA, Mobile Tech Videos is a very reputable shop that can deal with many issues.
You may be correct on this. The battery won't even charge through the external charger (my atrix battery charges fine on it so the charger is good). New battery (even though this is new) it is.
Update: The pins on the battery were labeled wrong. The label wasn't placed in teh correct position. I looked up a pic of another battery and found the label was offset by 1 pin, so I offset the charging pins by 1 and bam, it started charging. 50% charge, popped in the battery, and boom, booted right up.
Thanks creepycrawler!
hello,
i bought pretty beat up i9100 (it wasnt charging, i fixed it by replacing usb port in it). phone works now, but the battery acts weird, it discharges way too fast and charges way too slow, sometimes its discharging even if its connected to charger and it skips percentages. it doesnt generate too much heat. battery calibrations, apps that monitor battery usage and other crap didnt help and im running fresh and clean cm12 on it, and there is yellow triangle in boot animation (that might indicate some trouble). according to some internet tutorials i found i9100 is susceptible to short circuits and they indicate that soldering some ic on main board might fix it, but before i do something im probably going to regret i'd like to ask here how could i prove its really shorted and that the problem doesnt lie somewhere else. according to previous owner battery should be okay and phone was behaving the same even with completely new battery.
when i insert charger phone doesnt recognize its charging for about 10 secs and when i disconnect charger phone keeps showing its still charging for about a minute after disconnecting it.
many thanks for any help and/or suggestions.