I purchased an unlocked Treo 750 off ebay the other day, I received it in the mail yesterday. THe battery indicator says 0%full and has the exclamation mark on it. It's been like this since yesterday and I've charged it overnight. I'm sure the battery has charge because if it was at 0 it would have died through the night and I've upgraded it to Windows Mobile 6. I"m trying to put 6.1 on there but the PC way won't let me because it thinks the battery is below 50% and i tried the bypass through the bootloader but it says the file is corrupted after 7%. Anway, anybody know how i can fix this battery indicator problem? I've tried installing other battery utilities but they all read 0%!
I have the same problem
I got a refurb 750 last week at the AT&T service center as a warranty replacement. The first few days I noticed that when the phone was plugged in to charge, sometimes it would go up to 100% and seem to discharge normally. Other times it would appear to discharge really quickly and when I would plug it in the charge % would keep going down. Finally last night it went down to 0% even when it was plugged in and it gave me warnings and finally powered off. I have an extra battery (OEM) and extra charger so I put in a battery that I know was 100% charged and it still showed 0%, but this time it never gave warning notifications and it never turned off. Now the indicator just stays at 0% with either battery whether it is plugged into a charger or not. I did a hard-reset just to see if maybe something I installed is interfering with the indicator but even after that it still shows 0% with either battery. It works fine and I'm guessing it will turn off at some point when the battery actually dies, but this is just
Had the same problem
hi,
The problem is the battery.
I had the same problem with my treo after purchasing it from eBay... (I wonder if it's the same store)
I asked the seller to send another battery and he did, now it's OK.
My advice to you is to contact the seller, if you haven't given him a feedback, don't do it until you get a new battery from him.
Good Luck
yeah, i believe it's the battery also. The battery it came with was a 1600mAh and I found out the phone shipped with a 1200mAh. I ordered my own though...only 8 bux...should be here in a day or two
Solution found!
The solution to my problem was the battery. Like I stated in my previous post....the phone came with a 1600mAh battery when i bought it from ebay. The ATT 750 shipped with a 1200mAh battery and the 1600mAh was made for the 755 and another model i don't recall. Once I placed the 1200mAh battery in the phone, it showed the correct percentage and is charging with the battery light on (which wasn't happening before). So I'm not sure if there is different circuitry in these two batteries that caused the conflict but my problem seems to be solved.
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Hi Folks,
My s640 seems to have developed an issue with the battery. It will get to about 50% and stay there for most of the day then suddenly I get the low and critical warnings, then off. The warnings then off sequence happens within about 10 seconds of getting the first warning. On one occasion I got the low and critical warnings, but then the phone reported 268% battery remaining.
Is/has anyone else experienced this issue or anything similar? I'm wondering if it is the phone or the battery.
Thanks.
I am having the same trouble.
I'll fully Charge my battery and then disconnect it and us it for about 10 minutes and suddenly it will drop my call, turn off my bluetooth and disable the radio (network), and if I don't plug it in, within 30 seconds it shuts off. If I remove the battery, hold the power button for 5 seconds and the put the battery back in and turn it on then I have my battery shows 90+% free.
I'm not sure if it's the battery or the phone.
have you tried running the battery till it won't turn on the phone. Then charging it up again?
maybe a hard reset may help?
daroota said:
I am having the same trouble.
I'll fully Charge my battery and then disconnect it and us it for about 10 minutes and suddenly it will drop my call, turn off my bluetooth and disable the radio (network), and if I don't plug it in, within 30 seconds it shuts off. If I remove the battery, hold the power button for 5 seconds and the put the battery back in and turn it on then I have my battery shows 90+% free.
I'm not sure if it's the battery or the phone.
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Yes I too am having this issue since rom upgrade so is a friend, he just purchased new battery from Telus but they shipped wrong one. Will update if new battery resolves his issues. I went throught three phones with brand new battery they all did same thing Battery is not HTC 20 dolllar aftermarket one (just before warranty expired). Have gotten 400 credit for new phone but nothing like this one out there except Touch Pro Diamond and I hear even with new battery that phone battery life is too short to last through day. Get feeling Telus broke something in software with Rom update used to be when phone battery was expiring a red light would blink (opposite of blue tooth light) now it is only notifications from WM that phone battery is critically low and shuts of radio etc. yet you plug phone in and it's charged 10 minutes later makes no sense. Rechargable batteries voltage change with charge the interesting thing when I pull my battery the voltage is the same charged or just after error messages (I have a very expensive True RMS Voltmeter from work that has been calibrated in last year) but without load this isn't an accurate test. Does make me think something is not right and beleive it software related for more see my post in Howrds Forums under phone model.
I am having the same issue after the ROM update, not sure if it's the cause. Already replaced a battery on warranty for not holding charge. But now I have had the phone over a year so telus wants me to buy a battery for $80. I know based on this information i'll be wasting my money.
i want stuff to work for more than a year what the hell is money good for?
any fixes or updates wether the new battery helped??
I replaced the battery on my phone and these odd issue I was having are gone guess we have to face the fact that you need to purchase a replacement once a year hopefully it will last a year my problems start just short of a year.
I just got my new battery from here http://www.longlast-battery.com/productCart/pc/viewPrd.asp?idcategory=0&idproduct=17483
I will post after I get it full charged and try it for a day or two
where did you get yours from?
well the battery didn't even last an hour on the way to work.
#1 it was similar but 2-3mm shorter than the OEM and barely touched the contacts on the phone.
#2 charged overnight ok and said 100% charged then withing 20min it said low battery then died shortly after
#3 would not charge a second time (on 2 of my wall chargers, two usb and 1 car charger) Just the red light would light up. Tried jiggling the battery but nothing not even a flashing red light.
so much for a battery bought from the US. Waiting for RMA
typhoonk said:
well the battery didn't even last an hour on the way to work.
#1 it was similar but 2-3mm shorter than the OEM and barely touched the contacts on the phone.
#2 charged overnight ok and said 100% charged then withing 20min it said low battery then died shortly after
#3 would not charge a second time (on 2 of my wall chargers, two usb and 1 car charger) Just the red light would light up. Tried jiggling the battery but nothing not even a flashing red light.
so much for a battery bought from the US. Waiting for RMA
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I purchased a battery from E-bay and it would not charge at all. Existing charge in battery was enough for me to know that my issues were battery related after all as phone lasted for quite awhile. Tried charging ebay battery for close to 12 hours no go, so returned it for full refund. Called Telus because my calls in were while I was under warranty still but it had since expired they credited my account for the price of battery over a couple of years (1.5 batteries really) to make up for battery not lasting more than a year...hope that makes sense. Doubt I will buy another HTC with todays battery technology there is no reason one of these batties can't last 2-3 years if taken care of. Just a money grab telus/htc on their part in my opinion.
Gave the battery I got from longlast-battery another try.
the battery is CS-DS640SL 1250mAh 3.7V
I got it to charge by turning off the phone and plugging it into a usb port on my PC. Took about 6 hours to charge to 100%.
Won't charge when phone is on which is weird. Even at 90+% charge.
Lasted a full day without charging. That's a good thing I guess. Even when I restarted, it didn't lose the typical 10% drop in charge the other battery does.
I'm going to discharge it and charge it three times to see if it starts working properly and letting me charge it normally. Was a tip someone gave me. Won't hurt anything, and if it doesn't work I can still send it back.
Curious what you guys think. do you think it's a bad battery and I should just get an exchange, or I should just get my money back, and shell out the $100+ for a Telus battery?
Well the longlast battery test failed badly. Lasted about half a day with minimum calls and data use. No wifi no bluetooth. After it died I took it out and let it sit for a bit as the battery was fairly warm. After I put it back in, it said I had about %40 left. Very odd. And it lasted for another two hours before dying.
Now it's back at the won't charge stage. So I finally got an RMA number, so this one is going back.
Hitting Telus on the way home to pony up for a new battery. Getting the extended one as it's only $20 more. Hopefully this one will last more than a year - then I can get another phone (got to love 3yr retention contracts that end early )
I've created a Facebook group to act as a petition for everyone with the notorious battery life problem.
Join the group here, it's open to everyone:
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=100925126406
Share your experiences dealing with Telus positive or negative ones.. or tell us if you've been able to fix the problem by hacking the device. Anything at all that will help the people still stuck with this phone.
I have done some efforts regarding battery capacity measurement Just lookup this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=5558383#post5558383
i juz now recieved a 1800 mah battery..i got it from deal extreme..
im unable to charge the battery.the diamond refuses to charge the battery.
when i replaced the battery with the world one..(the one came with my phone a genuine one)its charging well..
im using the custom rom and the custom radio..
please any one reply ASAP.....
I had a similar problem after purchasing a high-capacity battery. At first I thought that the circuitry was refusing to recognise the battery because it was an after-market one and gave up. Clumsily, I forgot to disconnect the phone off the charger when I gave up. Came back two days later, and miraculously, the new battery was charged.
It turns out, some of the aftermarket batteries are shipped with 0% charge; whereas most branded batteries are tested before they leave the factory, leaving them with a small amount of charge. Try leaving the new dead battery on the charger for 24-48 hours.
i don't have the same problem...
Does anyone know what to do when battery says its 0% charged even after it has been fully chaged(the charge led is solid)
I have this weird problem with 2000 mA replacement batteries for the hx4700 (The original one is 1800 mA).
The thing is that both replacement batteries now report 0% to the device even after they have been charged and the amber light comes solid, indicating that the battery is charged.
First battery "died" few monts ago about a week after I charged it for the first time, that happened the day after when I took it out so I can charge the old original one, the new battery had 75% left, so I didn't want to charge that one. The next day after I used up the old battery, (which is still working fine, except that it keeps dying on around 20% power left for years now, because the voltage drops under 3.5V) I replaced it with that new battery which was supposed to have 75% of power left, but it reported 0% so the device died, so I charged it over night, the amber light was solid, but the pocket pc went with critical battery level and CF/SD card removal bull**** and turned off shortly after that, since the circuit that is in the battery reports 0%, no matter what I do, I tried cleaning contacts, tightening the cover, took the battery apart and there was no visible damage and nothing. Then I throught it must be because I accidentaly dropped the battery on the floor (it didn't sound very good), so I just out that one aside and used the another battery.
I have used the another for about a month, charged it only when the battery was actually under 20% or dead, didn't even take it out. Today the battery reported 0% just like that another one and it was fully charged. Also I'm sure its the battery not the pocket pc, I have two hx4700 the old one I have been using for 6 years and the new one that I have just assembled with parts I bought from ipaq repair a month ago, the old battery still works fine and its reporting the charge correctly in both devices and the new ones are both charged, but reporting 0%.
I worked around this problem, by disabling this driver in registry HKLM\Drivers\BuiltIn\BatteryIF\Dll
I chaged the value from "battery.dll" to "battery.dllx" so the driver doesn't work and the battery levels are unknown to the device.
The battery runs fine for hours, like it did before, meaning there is nothing wrong with the battery cells, but with the little circuit, that is inside of the battery and that its annoying, because I don't know the level, can't tell when my ipaq will shut off.
Has this ever happened to anyone? Is there any way to get the battery to work again, without disabling the driver? Should I try replacing the cells of original battery with good cells from those bad batteries? I'm really frustrated how the original battery doesn't have the problem after many years of usage and the replacements have issues after few weeks!
Recently had to replace battery.
Phone was shutting almost immediately after it was disconnected from charger. Charging status when not switched on showed the battery kinda going in reverse. Phone was really odd as it would suggest the battery had 100% charge and then within minutes of disconnecting it was shutting down.
I tried a factory reset/refresh with no change. So I ordered a Genuine replacement battery off flea bay and installed that last Thursday.
Initially phone seemed ok, then wen a bit weird and shut down even though charge was like at 70% or so. Wouldn't restart until plugged in and then in shutdown mode the battery/charging indicator would show 0% and then very quickly showed 70%. Good bit though was it was going up and not down like before.
Fully charged phone overnight. It then seemed really good and lasted until Tuesday with 66% charge still showing. I had not installed FB or Twitter which made a huge difference. Then yesterday it just shutdown again. When plugged in showed 0%, within minutes back to 70% and then charged to 100% in the space of an hour or so.
So I am looking for any advice. Is this just calibration issues that the phone needs to get past. Is it possible the phone has corruption int he ROM.
I appreciate it might be a hardware fault but seems weird that the replacement battery is clearly showing a big improvement suggesting battery was EOL after 2 years use.
TIA
G
GougeM said:
Recently had to replace battery.
Phone was shutting almost immediately after it was disconnected from charger. Charging status when not switched on showed the battery kinda going in reverse. Phone was really odd as it would suggest the battery had 100% charge and then within minutes of disconnecting it was shutting down.
I tried a factory reset/refresh with no change. So I ordered a Genuine replacement battery off flea bay and installed that last Thursday.
Initially phone seemed ok, then wen a bit weird and shut down even though charge was like at 70% or so. Wouldn't restart until plugged in and then in shutdown mode the battery/charging indicator would show 0% and then very quickly showed 70%. Good bit though was it was going up and not down like before.
Fully charged phone overnight. It then seemed really good and lasted until Tuesday with 66% charge still showing. I had not installed FB or Twitter which made a huge difference. Then yesterday it just shutdown again. When plugged in showed 0%, within minutes back to 70% and then charged to 100% in the space of an hour or so.
So I am looking for any advice. Is this just calibration issues that the phone needs to get past. Is it possible the phone has corruption int he ROM.
I appreciate it might be a hardware fault but seems weird that the replacement battery is clearly showing a big improvement suggesting battery was EOL after 2 years use.
TIA
G
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Same problem here i will try to install the oficial rom of xt890 if works i back here if not i don't know what to do
Sooo............issue is still present. Odd thing which I am unable to confirm, due to rnadomness of shutdowns, it that I think it is slowly learning the state of the battery as it originally was shutting down at 70% after 2-3 days on standby. then 66% hen 56%. I did a clear cache partition and a fresh install but still the issue was present.
Clearly the new battery is lasting longer than the old one, just the phone does not seem to know to reduce the charge indicator all the way to 0%.
Anyone any idea why this might be happening.
TIA
G
Just to add i'm having the same problem.
Symptoms started last week running the stock kitkat rom so i ordered and a fitted a new battery. Initially everything looked good phone said 100% left it over night and noticed it had shut off when i came back to it. Plugged it in to the charger and it said 0% so i charged back to 100%, booted up android and almost immediately it begins discharging rapidly, i would say within 15 minutes its back down to 0%.. I've done this a few times now even left it on charge overnight for 8 hours but its still discharging rapidly everytime. The craziest thing is even if it says 0% in android i can still boot in to recovery and flash away so clearly there is charge in the battery its just android thats out of sync.
What i've tried so far:
Different wall chargers/USB leads/Outlets
Wiped everything in TWRP and flashed CM11
Factory Reset several times
Various battery calibration apps
My next step is going to be trying RSD to flash the stock ROM but beyond that i dont know what to do.
I'm experiencing EXACTLY THE SAME ISSUE with my Razr i, replaced the battery and it's still discharging very fast
Eventually managed to resolve my new battery issue simply by fully charging and discharging several times. It started to hold charge after the 7th charge and after several more discharges it's now up to full capacity.
I changed the battery buying a new one on amazon, the problem was that when the phone was at low % it shut off sometimes at 20% sometimes at 40%. Ater changing battery i noticed that the problem disappeared for a week, but then reappeared, so i changed the charger and tested different cables but both charging and discharging are irregular, it charges to 100 in 10 minutes. So i ordered a new charging board on amazon, i changed it but the problem persists. Im desperate, i dont know what to do, sorry for my english. I thank anyone in advance who wants to help me.:crying:
could always try recalibrate your battery
athomix87 said:
I changed the battery buying a new one on amazon, the problem was that when the phone was at low % it shut off sometimes at 20% sometimes at 40%. Ater changing battery i noticed that the problem disappeared for a week, but then reappeared, so i changed the charger and tested different cables but both charging and discharging are irregular, it charges to 100 in 10 minutes. So i ordered a new charging board on amazon, i changed it but the problem persists. Im desperate, i dont know what to do, sorry for my english. I thank anyone in advance who wants to help me.:crying:
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I think you should change your phone's battery mate. I changed mine last week and it's as good as new now. Charges and discharges exactly how it's supposed to. My battery had similar issues before I changed it.
TRY CALIBRATION ?
1.Discharge your phone fully until it turns itself off.
2.Turn it on and let it turn off again.
3.Plug your phone into a charger and, without turning it on, let it charge until the on-screen or LED indicator says 100 percent.
4.Unplug your charger.
5.Turn your phone on. It's likely that the battery indicator won't say 100 percent, so plug the charger back in (leave your phone on) and continue charging until it says 100 percent on the screen as well.
6.Unplug your phone and restart it. If it doesn't say 100 percent, plug the charger back in until it says 100 percent on screen.
7.You want to repeat this cycle until it says 100 percent (or as close as you think it's going to get) when you start it up without it being plugged in.
8.Now, install the Battery Calibration app, and before you launch it, make sure your battery is at 100 percent again, then restart.
Battery Calibration : https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nema.batterycalibration
avi737 said:
I think you should change your phone's battery mate. I changed mine last week and it's as good as new now. Charges and discharges exactly how it's supposed to. My battery had similar issues before I changed it.
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He said he just put in anofher battery he bought on Amazon. I'm wondering at what point you stop buying parts for what is becoming an unsupported phone and just get another phone.
Tel864 said:
He said he just put in anofher battery he bought on Amazon. I'm wondering at what point you stop buying parts for what is becoming an unsupported phone and just get another phone.
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Oh my bad. Didn't read that part carefully