so, I've had my Gear S for about a year now... everything has been okay except for the charging cradle breaking, but I solved the problem, no biggie.... anyways... so up until last week, I had never let the Gear S run out of battery all the way, I've come close to it several times but would always get home in time to charge it. And then came last week... I had gotten lazy one night and didn't charge it when I went to sleep, the next day, I had about 40% left and I thought it would make it until I got home.... but it didn't. It was the first time running out of juice all the way to 0%. When I got home, I snapped it to the charging cradle and normally when the Gear S is powered off, but charging, the green battery symbol would still come on (to let you know the status)... but this time, it wouldn't. I just figured perhaps because it ran all the way out of juice, it would take some time before the indicator comes out. I left it charging for an hour or so... I go check and still nothing. I can't long press it to turn it on or anything... and I have TWO charging cradles (one of them is rather new), so I'm pretty sure it's NOT the charging cradles issue. I've tried different cables, and wall plugs, and still nothing. I've gone over a week now without a smartwatch (I've been wearing smartwatches for over 2 years now) and I'm really missing it... at the moment, there's really nothing else out there that I like, not to mentioned I'm hurtin' for cash.
Anyone know what the deal is? I'm hoping someone will chime in, I just want it to wake up :crying:
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I've had the the G-Tab for about two months and in the last two weeks when I plug it in to charge the unit it will not always charge. The light will come on but the battery icon will not show charging or the light will not come on at all and I must orientate the tip so it is at about a 45 degree angle to the back. I called tech support and they said its my fault that I have obviously been jamming the tip in too hard...sorry out of luck. Like most of you I have several laptops/netbooks and other electronics that use this type of power connectors and know not to force things Is anyone else experiencing this? Or did I just get a bad unit. Thanks
TheMcallan,
I have a charging problem, actually I cannot charge Gtab at all. I have been charging it as I would just like the other phones or something else. It is about a month old.
jeffkck
jeffkck,
Thanks for the response, have you contacted ViewSonic support?
Have the exact same problem. I just noticed it over the last few days. I bought mine about a month ago from the first woot deal. I tried a different power cord with the same results. I was going to contact costumer support about it. The plug is so finicky now, I'm afraid it will get to the point where I can't find that sweet spot to charge it. Let me know what you guys find.
I've had a similar issue with mine just last week. Mine was also from the first Woot offer. I think what is happening is that it gets stuck in sleep mode and can't get out. (since I had shoved mine into a bag without turning it off and then checked it about a week later finding out I couldn't get it to work. I fixed mine quite by accident. I had been plugging and unplugging it, turning it on and off (and it would sometimes turn on for a brief moment and then turn off) I then just left it plugged in for an hour or so and lo and behold, it worked!
Same problem here! my gtab was one of the earlier versions bought the day of release
Try charging it with the dock that goes with the malata zpad and g tablet. It connects through the HDMI port on the bottom and you plug the charger into the dock so that may help. Picture: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYbk__uK2Y8 they pretty much sell them all over the internet. Hope it works
You need to contact viewsonic and get them to repair it. Don't keep trying to find that "sweet spot". It will only get worse. Or you could solder if you know how.
Wow, all I can say is I've been a Gear user since the original. I skipped the Gear 2 and Neo because I felt they were too similar to the original Galaxy Gear. I got my Gear S recently, about a month ago off contract from ATT. In all, I have been very happy with my purchase. It is definitely an upgrade to say the least. Maybe I miss the camera a little bit. But anyway, I was wearing my watch, normal day nothing major. I noticed that the battery was going to be dead before I got home that day. So I tried the battery saver option that is on the watch. Needless to say, this didn't work very well, as the watch kept dropping battery like it was going out of style. Sidenote: I've been getting at least a full days use out of the watch no problem after the newness factor wore off. Well the battery went dead while I was at dinner with some co-workers. I was slightly disappointed because one of my co-workers asked about the watch. And I couldn't show it off to them. I had to tell them that it died, which was kind of stupid and really spoke to why wear a dead watch on your wrist. What's the point? But anyway. I got home to re-charge by watch battery. My charging cradle is not broken, all charging pins are fine. It clips onto the watch fine. No problems here. I could not get the watch to charge. Everytime I clipped the charger on the watch there was no response from the watch. But the charger LED would turn on, letting me know that a connection had been established. I played and toyed with all types of things, I tried plugging into a computer. I read somewhere that this might fix the problem. No Luck. Finally I called Samsung, to ship the watch back for repair.
I'm wondering if anyone has ever had this problem. Have you ever let your watch go completely dead and had any problems charging?
Overall the Gear S is a decent watch, I just wish that Samsung would take as much pride in their watches as they are starting to do with they're phones. Better materials, such as a metal casing for a watch of this caliber would have been a major win. Just seems like most manufacturers coming out with watches now are using nicer materials and concentrating more on style. I would like to have the style with all of the functionality the Tizen OS. Android wear seems to be too locked down right now. Just my two cents. What do you guys think?
Just to let you know, on sunday after a full day I was not able to charge my watch, on monday I was at work, when my watch vibrates, advising me to charge it since its battery was too low, needless to say being at work I did not have the charger at hand (I know it was not smart to leave my charger at home, taking into account, the charger backup battery could have charged the watch all the way up to 50%, but you knou Murphy's law? ) In the afternoon after I got home, I finally connected the charging cradle to my watch, I was not surprissed it did not turned on, since the battery was completely dried, but after a couple of hours, I tried to turn on the watch and no luck at all, I tried everything from connecting the craddle to other chargers I use, to connecting it to my laptop (after googling my problem I found out this is a common problem with the Gear 2, and some of the user could fix this by connecting the watch to a laptop for for several hours, others with enough expertise to dissassemble their watch, could fix it by disconnecting the actual watch's battery terminals, and then reconnecting them) well, after about 12 hours connected to my lapto my watch was still dead, in a final effort, I just connected the charging craddle like a bavkup battery (by this I mean just the charging craddle was connected to the watch, not the actual AC charger), after about 3 hours, my watch came back from dead, it was just indicating battery at 1%, then I connected the AC charger, and after 01:30 it was at it full 100%.
After this near dead experience, I just would say, it is not advisable to let the watch die on its battery, if you are not able to charge it right away, I would think it would be better to turn it off, and charge it ASAP. If following my advise I helped some one with the same problem, I would be very happy!
Best regards!
Before I get started, YES, I'm fully aware this is the Gear S thread.
My wife's Gear Fit actually did something similar this morning after she unplugged it from charging it wouldn't turn back on, although I can't say for sure if it was light up or showing a charge when it was plugged in, but I can tell you it just wouldn't turn on. After fiddling with it for a minute I decided to just hold the power button down for a while and after about 30 seconds or more (not like I had a stop watch timing it) of holding the button down it finally turned on. For some odd reason it said "rebooting..." as if it were already on, usually it just says Gear Fit blah blah blah.
Not sure how long anyone holds down on the power button but I would first suggest holding it down for a prolonged period of time.
If that doesn't work hold down the power button and menu button for a prolonged period of time.
(Try both ways unplugged from charger , if that doesn't work then plug device in and retry above steps)
Verizon
Haven't taken an update since the last kitkat one.
(No root)
Had been running crappy for about 2 months.....last thing I installed was Viber. I un installed it weeks ago.
No change though.
I've also experienced the thing smoking through battery.
Bought 2 batteries with an external charger. Think it was mostly the original battery was bad....
Still....Isn't/wasn't charging over night with the stock charger/mini usb...have been rotating the 2 batteries I bought, charged externally. But they don't last a whole day.
I'm 50 years old. I don't game or watch videos all day. Just text phone and some surfing/Facebook occasionally listen to music/I heart radio.
So, I've been putting off the inevitable hard reset, by running it in safe mode for the last few weeks.
Slightly better battery life, but, pretty useless in that mode.
Also, the wifi and blue tooth turn off on their own. Never leaving the house/range.
It wouldn't turn back on.
I don't have any of that stuff set up, to ever shut it off.
The only thing that fixes it is the 3 or 4 hits on my knee. I found that here somewhere. Honest. It worked. (Why would something that's Solid State respond to being struck?)
Up to this point the phone was never dropped on anything harder than carpet a couple times, wearing a protective case
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So, I was going to download helium to back it up........so I rebooted it. To get it out of safe mode, for the trip to the play store.
It WAS working. ...had just used the phone. Was on wifi, reading about helium.
That was it......She's dead Jim.......
It has never made so much as a red light for the charger being plugged in. Nothing.
I didn't download anything. Haven't messed with trying to get the lollipop OS...
So........
Removed battery, sd card, sim card., charger port clean as a whistle, used with w/out different chargers, (the one from my samsung tab 10) held power 30 seconds, let off for 2, push again. (Some secret trick I found reading? ).... , held every button for minutes with battery out. ?..
Battery tested with multimeter. It's charged. Both of them are. Have tried both.
Not so much as a blink/flash/vibrate. ..
So from my extensive reading here, it might be my charging board? Something about a cap being bad?
Plugged into the computer I don't get anything. No charge, no acknowledgement it's plugged in by the computer (Win7, , get the sound and an installing driver/what do you want to do Window. Nothing).
I've got Kies installed. Been a long time since I used it though. But again, the computer doesn't recognize it's plugged in.
I only posted my experience because I have not found any others with ALL of these symptoms.
Sorry if anyone thinks it's a repeat.
I've been on here reading for 2 days now.
Pulling my hair out. Would like to salvage this thing. Don't want to get stuck in another contract.
So, , obviously,I'd like to get it running so I can at least back it up, and do a reset. And hopefully get it back to normal.
Also, is there a fix for this wifi/bluetooth thing, or am I going to go around pounding it on my knee every day? Pretty annoying.
Thanks in advance for your thoughts. (Sources for parts)
Chris
Wow. ?.
Nothing?
Did I leave some bit of info out?
I can't tell you what build or version anything is on the phone because it is dead.
McGyver9 said:
Verizon
Haven't taken an update since the last kitkat one.
(No root)
Had been running crappy for about 2 months.....last thing I installed was Viber. I un installed it weeks ago.
No change though.
I've also experienced the thing smoking through battery.
Bought 2 batteries with an external charger. Think it was mostly the original battery was bad....
Still....Isn't/wasn't charging over night with the stock charger/mini usb...have been rotating the 2 batteries I bought, charged externally. But they don't last a whole day.
I'm 50 years old. I don't game or watch videos all day. Just text phone and some surfing/Facebook occasionally listen to music/I heart radio.
So, I've been putting off the inevitable hard reset, by running it in safe mode for the last few weeks.
Slightly better battery life, but, pretty useless in that mode.
Also, the wifi and blue tooth turn off on their own. Never leaving the house/range.
It wouldn't turn back on.
I don't have any of that stuff set up, to ever shut it off.
The only thing that fixes it is the 3 or 4 hits on my knee. I found that here somewhere. Honest. It worked. (Why would something that's Solid State respond to being struck?)
Up to this point the phone was never dropped on anything harder than carpet a couple times, wearing a protective case
.
So, I was going to download helium to back it up........so I rebooted it. To get it out of safe mode, for the trip to the play store.
It WAS working. ...had just used the phone. Was on wifi, reading about helium.
That was it......She's dead Jim.......
It has never made so much as a red light for the charger being plugged in. Nothing.
I didn't download anything. Haven't messed with trying to get the lollipop OS...
So........
Removed battery, sd card, sim card., charger port clean as a whistle, used with w/out different chargers, (the one from my samsung tab 10) held power 30 seconds, let off for 2, push again. (Some secret trick I found reading? ).... , held every button for minutes with battery out. ?..
Battery tested with multimeter. It's charged. Both of them are. Have tried both.
Not so much as a blink/flash/vibrate. ..
So from my extensive reading here, it might be my charging board? Something about a cap being bad?
Plugged into the computer I don't get anything. No charge, no acknowledgement it's plugged in by the computer (Win7, , get the sound and an installing driver/what do you want to do Window. Nothing).
I've got Kies installed. Been a long time since I used it though. But again, the computer doesn't recognize it's plugged in.
I only posted my experience because I have not found any others with ALL of these symptoms.
Sorry if anyone thinks it's a repeat.
I've been on here reading for 2 days now.
Pulling my hair out. Would like to salvage this thing. Don't want to get stuck in another contract.
So, , obviously,I'd like to get it running so I can at least back it up, and do a reset. And hopefully get it back to normal.
Also, is there a fix for this wifi/bluetooth thing, or am I going to go around pounding it on my knee every day? Pretty annoying.
Thanks in advance for your thoughts. (Sources for parts)
Chris
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Still nothing?
I got a new phone but would still like to fix this one for a backup.
Please?
Note 2 completely dead.
McGyver9 said:
Wow. ?.
Nothing?
Did I leave some bit of info out?
I can't tell you what build or version anything is on the phone because it is dead.
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my note 2 did the same yesterday.i was outside talking to my daughter,put the phone on the wooden porch rail.call came in,answered,put phone back.i am very careful with my phone.did not bang or drop itit was cold outside..i bring it upstairs and go return the call,and the phone is black.totally dead.i tried everything.changing the battery with one i know was charged,did all the button combinations,etc.most threads and videos,and i went through many,have fixes for phones that at least have an led light.this one is dead as is nothing alive at all.i tried to hook it to the laptop but its so dead,its not recognized.i am besides myself.its out of warranty and i am flat broke.if anyone has figured out a fix,please email me [email protected]
p.s-i warmed it up on the heater and now i am going to wrap it in foil because i dont know what else to do.this phone is my business and i am done without it.if i could at least save photos and contacts,call logs.this really sucks
So as of last night my LG V10 has been having major issues with charging. First off I will plug it in and for a second the little battery icon will do the animation and then stop. I went to the battery status screen and it said that the phone was not charging. Secondly it will restart on its own when plugged in and it's not charging. i first noticed something was up about two weeks ago. I left my phone to charge overnight, then I went to use it when I woke up and it was at 1% battery then turned off. I plugged it back in and it charged fine. Later in the day i was on my way to work and I went to check my phone but it would not turn on. I'd press the power key (on the back) and it would just do a quick little vibration but would not turn on. I then took the battery out and put it back in. Since then it has worked fine until last night. i tested out two cables and I tried them both on my PC. T he phone would still not charge. I just went to sleep with it plugged in, hoping it would somehow charge at some point in the night. Woke up and no dice. I tried one last time to charge it and somehow it charged normally. All the way to 100%. I could even use it while charging. Just a few moments ago I tried to test it again. Surprise surprise...it would stop charging. As I type this it just restarted twice while plugged in. i just removed it from the cable now. I really have no idea what is wrong with my phone. Here are a few things I believe may have something to do with it: I use it to hear music in the shower (potentially vapor), I sometimes put the charger the wrong way (somewhat roughly), and I have it in my pocket while at work where it get hot and has lots of moisture. I am waiting on doing a factory reset. I just ordered a new battery. At this point I'm lost on what to do. I really hope someone on here can help me figure this out. I'm on AT&T by the way.
I returned mine to T-Mobile for a new one. 1 yr warranty.
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Dug out my trusty Z3TC 16GB WiFi to browse the web and its dead and refuses to charge on 4+ different chargers. Won't respond to power+vol up or show any activity.
Software was fine when I last checked, running CM12.1 and no issues.
Anyone see a similar issue and know if the battery is likely to have failed or something more fundamental?
I'm ordering a pogo pin charger to see if that works, had a couple in the past but the connecting wires in the stand broke.
belrik said:
Dug out my trusty Z3TC 16GB WiFi to browse the web and its dead and refuses to charge on 4+ different chargers. Won't respond to power+vol up or show any activity.
Software was fine when I last checked, running CM12.1 and no issues.
Anyone see a similar issue and know if the battery is likely to have failed or something more fundamental?
I'm ordering a pogo pin charger to see if that works, had a couple in the past but the connecting wires in the stand broke.
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Happened to me. Try this: NEVER LET IT GO FULLY DEAD
https://www.ifixit.com/Answers/View/225037/No+Power+&+Not+Charging
Yup, saw that thread. Looks like I'm out of luck as I certainly can't resolder any of the components.
did u try with a quick charger?
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I've tried most chargers and I have a lot of them, including original chargers for Z3 and Z4. Even trickling on a slow charger should recharge after 24 hours but nothing.
Wish I'd remembered to keep it charged, can't even get a bootloader up.
Try this??
Press the volume up button and power button together for 10 seconds. This should cause your device to vibrate 3 times and then show the battery charging screen.
Nope, I've tried all of these already. Probably need to open it.
weird dude.as far I know,li-on batteries need to fully discharged once in 30 charges.I made it once (it closed from battery) but nothing weird happened to me.I am always on KK 4.4.4
or u can try press the tiny reset button near to usb port.here says that nothing is being erased.
http://sony-xperia.mobi/eng/sony-xp...restart-button-on-sony-xperia-z3-compact.html
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Good news! Thanks to everyone here who convinced me to persevere and not sell this tablet as broken!
For 4 days I have been charging the tablet and trying power+vol button combinations a couple of times each day and finally, on day 4, I was able to first get a red led. After the led went out about 10 mins later I tried vol+power again and got the emergency battery graphic plus red led. Led went out after ten mins again and had to use vol+power. Seemed to go a bit strange at that point and charging halted. Swapped chargers and waited.
Next time was the trick, got red led, it went out and I was able to get the normal, smaller charging graphic. Let it get a couple of % for safety and hit power, resulting in a full boot. Tablet is booted at 4% and charging OK.
Thanks to everyone that helped out.
glad to hear!so can u tell us the working process so just us to know just in case?....
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kos25k said:
glad to hear!so can u tell us the working process so just us to know just in case?....
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Exactly as per above, keep repeating the power & vol- sequence and putting on charger for a few hours. Exact brand of charger doesn't seems to matter, the one it worked on was a no-name two-socket UK plug charger from Amazon. Obviously a 2A+ charger will help. The cable used was a generic Samsung 1m (3ft) lead.
Just repeat the process and leave it on the charger in between. I'd recommend not charging a unit like this unattended in case the battery is damaged and there's a battery failure, I've seen a lipo fire and they're ugly.
Thanks dude!enjoy the best tablet! ?
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Dude glad you got it working. I love mine but i have it rooted. hoping that the latest stamina battery return update is rootable