First of all, hello all!
I own a Galaxy Y, which I haven't used since an year, because of a problem that had developed then, until now when I wanted to use it again.
The problem is the following, with some information about the phone itself.
I had rooted the phone earlier, and put in a custom ROM called Jelly Blast v2.0. Later one day, the phone's battery died overnight, and then it discharged really fast, like 3% in 1 minute. So I flashed the stock ROM with Odin, and unrooted the phone. The problem persisted. Whenever I charged the phone, it became hot like hell, and charged 1% in 10 minutes or so. Then I stopped using it, until now. I checked the battery with a multimeter, and it showed 0.00v, that is fully discharged. So I grabbed a cut-off USB cable, plugged it into my PC, and charged the battery up to 3.66v ghetto style. I made sure the battery did not even warm up, for caution, while doing this.
Plugging it into my phone, it showed 1% charge. It charges really slow, and discharges extremely fast. I know the problem is not with the battery, since I had it changed and it showed the same symptoms.
I don't know what's going wrong, but I don't think it is the hardware. The problem should be in the software. Earlier, i had resetted it in CWM, and removed cache. Also, I had removed the battery stats. I don't know if that is the problem. Currently it is running Hyperion v9 Final ROM, with stock kernel I think.
So what should I do? Please help.
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whizclips said:
First of all, hello all!
I own a Galaxy Y, which I haven't used since an year, because of a problem that had developed then, until now when I wanted to use it again.
The problem is the following, with some information about the phone itself.
I had rooted the phone earlier, and put in a custom ROM called Jelly Blast v2.0. Later one day, the phone's battery died overnight, and then it discharged really fast, like 3% in 1 minute. So I flashed the stock ROM with Odin, and unrooted the phone. The problem persisted. Whenever I charged the phone, it became hot like hell, and charged 1% in 10 minutes or so. Then I stopped using it, until now. I checked the battery with a multimeter, and it showed 0.00v, that is fully discharged. So I grabbed a cut-off USB cable, plugged it into my PC, and charged the battery up to 3.66v ghetto style. I made sure the battery did not even warm up, for caution, while doing this.
Plugging it into my phone, it showed 1% charge. It charges really slow, and discharges extremely fast. I know the problem is not with the battery, since I had it changed and it showed the same symptoms.
I don't know what's going wrong, but I don't think it is the hardware. The problem should be in the software. Earlier, i had resetted it in CWM, and removed cache. Also, I had removed the battery stats. I don't know if that is the problem. Currently it is running Hyperion v9 Final ROM, with stock kernel I think.
So what should I do? Please help.
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Took the plunge and rooted my bolt on Saturday following the guide in this forum using adb. All was ok, no custom Rom, just rooted. Battery seemed to be about the same. Put the phone on charge Saturday night and was fully charged Sunday. All working as it should until Monday morning. I got the phone off of the charger and battery(2750 ma) was only14%. I freaked a little and charged the phone on the way in to work. The charge only got to around 34% and would discharge very fast when unplugged. I had read somewhere to cycle power while charging to correct errors in the reporting of battery levels, so I tried that and got different numbers every time, but not able to get a full charge.
To make a long story short, I could not get my batteries ( stock or extended) to charge. I tried imosys (forgive me if the name is wrong) on the stock Rom and even flashed the Mr2 radio and installed das bamf ginger remix without any luck. Battery would not charge under any condition. Woke up to a dead phone this morning and had to install the other battery to get the phone un rooted.
The phone is now charging as it should with both batteries.
Any ideas why the phone would not charge?
Also used 4 different chagers during the process.
you should try calibrating the battery
since you have root, you can download and run BatteryCalibration by marosige (app author shows as NeMa in the market). simple app, instructions on the launch screen.
Don't you have to have 100% battery to calibrate?
I could not get the batteries to full charge.
The Batteries were definitely discharging faster than the charger could maintain, or there wasn't any charge applied to batteries at all.
I've had mine charge at a glacial pace before and discharge so fast you could watch the percentage numbers drop just holding it in your hand for 60 seconds. Personally, I don't call a phone charged if it's on. Turn that badboy off and make sure fast boot is off as well. Even with ROMs and kernels that charged horribly, turning that thing off put juice in it in a hurry. I never had any luck getting any BAMF ROM to charge quickly, no matter the kernel I used. (I tend to use the same kernels with the same versions of android. Ziggy's for Froyo, dreamkernel for GB.) Both of those have proven to charge nicely, even if I'm wirelessly tethering the thing. I don't know what the big deal is with battery calibration and all that. I only had quirky battery charging right after I made the mistake of wiping my battery stats. Same thing happened with my dInc. I wouldn't wipe battery stats unless I had a VERY good reason, and swapping between my 1300mAh and 3500mAh battery all the time in my dInc wasn't nearly a big enough reason.
The phone was off when I put it on the charger Sunday night, and no battery left on Monday morning.
Is there a way to "undo" a bad battery calibration?
I am asssuming that when you flash a new kernel or a rom that that resets everything, At least it seems that way when I unrooted the phone.
I will probably try rooting again when I have a little time to mess around with it.
dbjones59 said:
The phone was off when I put it on the charger Sunday night, and no battery left on Monday morning.
Is there a way to "undo" a bad battery calibration?
I am asssuming that when you flash a new kernel or a rom that that resets everything, At least it seems that way when I unrooted the phone.
I will probably try rooting again when I have a little time to mess around with it.
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Just being rooted should have zero effect on battery charging. Next time you root, do a Nandroid backup before you flash anything (ROM, Radio, or Kernel). That's standard practice for pretty much anyone that regularly flashes.
I'd re-root, nandroid, then flash whatever ROM you want....Some of the older GB Sense kernels had a "slow charging" bug, which has since been fixed. Check out the Kernels post on the dev board, the newest kernel has fixed the slow charge bug.
Im using Cyanogen Mod 10.1 build Jan 23 on my phone. Till recently (2 days specifically) my battery has started acting up. When i connect it to the wall charger it charges super slow. Also if I'm browsing or using the phone for an email or anything during charge the charge on the battery still drops. I also charged the phone using a blackberry charger same issue happens. The battery takes 6-8 hours to charge completely.
This also happened to me the first time i charged my phone when i got it. But it fixed itself after that.
It behaves the same when i switch off the phone and charge it.
Plz Help.
Samsung Galaxy S3 [I9300]
CyanogenMod 10.1
Sounds like a bad battery imo. You didn't turn down the charging rate in a custom kernel by anychance?
CM10 nightlies are still under DEV so you can expect a battery drain until stable versions comes out !!
Im using Stock Kernel on the device. No changes made to it or battery charge rate. Should I buy a new battery? Or can it be a hardware issue?
Like being said before CM10.1 is still in dev.
Try flashing back to stock and test.
Welcome to the baffled S3 charging issues thread....
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1727540
I'm pretty certain it's not a ROM or a kernel issue. The same is happening to me.
My suspicions lie in the actual charging port and/or the battery. I don't have a spare battery to test. But this happens no matter what rom I use. It tends to be fine after a fresh ROM install or a fresh wipe. But it goes back to 'acting up' after some time.
For example, I left it at around 4% last night only to wake up to it at around 33%. Where before, it would fully charge after around ~4 hours or even less.
Another symptom is that when on wifi/data (whilst plugged in) the phone still drains and even faster so when it is actually downloading something.. This isn't your typical battery drain.
NOT a rom/kernel issue as some would like to suggest (for a "quick thanks" maybe...? ) as this isn't your usual battery drain.
Hi, I flashed Paranoid yesterday. Installation went fine and I spent the evening customizing it to my liking. I put it on charge overnight and woke up to find it completely drained of battery. I immediately put it on charge thinking it must have slipped out or something. I left it for an hour or so, turned my phone on to find it was at 4%!! Then, even though it was still on charge, my battery started going down then died again.
I have even tried again to find it was no more than 4%. It seems to me that the ROM is somehow causing it but I can't even restore the stock ROM that is backed up with CWM as I can't get past 4% battery!
Any help at all would be appreciated! I can't even use my phone
Oli.
perceptic said:
Hi, I flashed Paranoid yesterday. Installation went fine and I spent the evening customizing it to my liking. I put it on charge overnight and woke up to find it completely drained of battery. I immediately put it on charge thinking it must have slipped out or something. I left it for an hour or so, turned my phone on to find it was at 4%!! Then, even though it was still on charge, my battery started going down then died again.
I have even tried again to find it was no more than 4%. It seems to me that the ROM is somehow causing it but I can't even restore the stock ROM that is backed up with CWM as I can't get past 4% battery!
Any help at all would be appreciated! I can't even use my phone
Oli.
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I had a similar problem.
When I connected my phone to the charger it said 0% battery and the phone would immediately turn off when i plugged it out.
So I removed my battery, waited a minute, put it back in and turned it on to see that it was at 100%.
There's a bug in the battery stats I presume...
I've bin on this ROM and had no problems with it. Did you do a full wipe ? Sig is a bit messed up but its solid ROM. Like post before pull battery out then reinstall with all the wipes. How old is the battery?
RR 4.2.2
Ok so I have a galaxy s3 gt-i9300, which is about 20 months old, and it started to have this problem a month or so ago. The phone was running a kit Kat cyanogenmod rom, and it was draining the battery somewhat faster than the stock rom, and one day the screen started flickering at around 30% battery, which followed by the phone turning off itself. It can't be turned on until it's plugged in, and when I do so, the battery is at 0% charge, so I figured this was a battery problem and I replaced the battery for a new, original samsung battery. I thought this would make the trick. But I didn't, so my last thought was to return to stock software and this didn't solve the problem either. This always happens to me in every single charge at around 30%-40%. The rest of the charge lasts as long as expected, so the phone basically uses 60%-70% of a charge. I'm all ears for solutions to this and I also want to know what is causing it.
Try a battery from another phone, one that is known to be working correctly.
Else try a full wipe, including preload and internal sd, before you flash the latest stock rom for your country. Factory reset again in recovery after flash.
Hey, I have an S2 (fairly old I know, but can't really change my phone right now :/). Since a few months back I started having problems like the phone shutting down at 12-15% battery left, reboots sometimes consumed 10-15% of the battery. So I bought a new battery but the problems continued.
Now leaving those problems aside, since a few weeks ago my phone started to discharge even thought it was connected to the charger, so I when to see a tech guy and he told me the charging port was loose so he fixed that apparently, bought a new charger after that but the problem persisted, the phone charges sometimes and sometimes doesn't and when it charges it takes hours to reach 100%.
Another thing it's that sometimes I left the phone charging at night and when I wake up the phone says it's 100% but when I take off the charger it drops down to 70-60%.
I'm using 5.1.1 so I thought it could be a ROM problem since Lollipop is a battery killer, I decided to change from Paranoid to CM but still the same story.
Now I'm trying to charge the phone while it's off and seems to be working, although very slowly.
I had the same problem with a Xperia X8, I've changed the battery and flash the stock ROM. Try to do this