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[SOLVED]Phone doesnt charge?

My Touch Pro has been hooked up to a charger for several hours now, and the battery still is at like 60% (which it has been around ever since I got it earlier today).. Something is wrong here, and the device gets really hot too!
Combine that with a qwerty keyboard that stops responding all the time, I think I have a faulty device, but If you can prove me otherwise.. please try!

Restart the device and check the battery level again. Strange thing happened to me for the first time tonight after two weeks of usage. I set my Pro on charge before I went to sleep. Six hours later it showed me that the battery was only 82% full. Checked the cable and left it for another hour. 87%. Decided to reset and battery was showed as absolutelly full.

Thanks!
Not sure what I did, but its working again!

This happened to me last night, phone has been on charge for 10 hours and now only just charged! Any ideas why this hapened?

Battery meter reads battery is low

I just got my Captivate a couple of days ago (refugee from a Tilt2). I am slowly learning about Android.
I used the Pimp My Android PDF, rooted the phone and installed Launcher Pro. I charged the battery overnight and a message was on the phone that it is fully charged. When I unplugged it, I immediately got a message that the battery is low and I should plug it in. I have plugged and unplugged it a couple of times and it is behaving like the battery needs to be charged.
Any ideas what could be causing this?

That doesn't sound good. May need to take it back and get a new one. The only other suggestion I have is i've seen some folks say you need to condition the battery meter so it reads right. Leave the phone unplugged until the battery is so low it's flashing... wear it almost all the way down. Then plug it in and charge it up till the "battery full" thing pops up. Wash, rinse repeat. I saw several folks say after a few times of that, the battery lasted a LOT longer. Maybe yours is just really confused or it's bad. If you don't want to take it back (considering all the stuff you've done to it) try charging/discharging a few days and see if it's any better.

That happened to me one time when charging through a front USB port on my computer. I think it was the 3rd day I had the phone. I no longer use the front port for charging or data exchange, and haven't seen the problem again.

After Spending the day with the charger plugged in, it seems to be OK now. Maybe it was something I did. I will be keeping an eye on it for a while. Thanks for your responses.

From AWESOME to TERRIBLE overnight

Well, this was interesting... Since day 1, I have had great battery life and have not experienced what everyone else has been experiencing.. An occassional lock-up/reboot, but nothing major.
A couple of weeks ago, I switched to a backup battery (andida). Things have been going well w/ that battery. Yesterday, I updated cwm.. While the andida battery was out, I decided to switch back to the stock battery for a while. Then, the following items took place all within a few hours of use, which I have not experienced.. ever before:
- Battery temp running high.. Andida constantly hanging around 22.2 - 23.2. Stock was hitting around 43 until i rebooted the phone, then dropped to 40. It is currently running at 36.
- 2 shutdowns. I could not boot the phone past the LG logo after the shutdown. Was able to boot into CWM though > went to shutdown > tried to boot, same thing. Had to pull the battery in order for it to boot.
- Received a phone call, answered, but the phone kept ringing during the entire phone conversation.
- 2 screen lockups. Could slide the unlock, get the haptic feedback, but that was it. It would not unlock. Had to reboot.
- 1 black screen of death? Total black screen with the task bar displayed. Was able to go into settings, pull down the task bar, etc. Background was blacked out. Reboot, fixed.
- Can not get gps. Was driving for 5min trying to get a GPS lock, nothing. Opened up GPS test and not a single satellite showed up in the list.
- Finally... and worst of all. Last night I plug in the phone for a couple of hours. As I'm going to bed, I disconnect the usb from it.. and take a glance to see where it charged to - 100%. I go to bed at around 1:30am. I wake up at 7:30a, turn on the screen of the phone, and it gives low battery warning. It's at 2%. I reboot the phone to make sure. It's at 1%.
So idk.. maybe something was stuck running. I'll find out here shortly after this charge is done.. but I am seeing a major difference in the operation of the phone after putting the stock battery back in. I had not experienced this when I was running the stock battery in the past. (I had an occasional lockup/reboot.. but not to this scale.. and I had always had fantastic battery life. Every single time I unplugged before bed and had 100%, I would have 98% when I woke up).
Suggestions? Changes were updating to the new CWM 4 and putting the stock battery back in. Running Bionix RC1..which I have been running for a while. I'll let this sucker charge up and see what it does. Maybe I should wipe the batt stats?

yeah wipe the batt stats. possibly try cm7 its really stable now. i know it doesnt have the a2dp but every else works. i would say another kernel also faux's or morific work fine. use setcpu if your going to oc. if you choose to flash another i would do a complete wipe of everything then install so hopefully the problems wont pop back up in the new flash. i read in one of the thread that if your battery is dated 3/2011 it will have issues but the 4/2011 or whatever will have less reboot and freezes issues may wanna try getting a replacement if you wanna stick with bionix until krylon does an update.

The andida battery doesn't have a temp sensor, so it's worthless for testing temperatures.

well, idk.. who knows what the crap happened. I charged to 79% and unplugged. 2.5hrs later, I'm still at 72%. That's around 3% an hr. Last night was 17%/hr.. Something happened last night.. Man, I'd love to know what took place.
Either I had an app going wild all night, or the battery really never charged.. and the 100% was deceptive. It's just nuts how all of these probs all of a sudden surfaced right after cwm 4 and putting the stock battery back in. They never surfaced b4 on the same ROM and with the same battery that I used for weeks and weeks.
O'well....

schmit said:
well, idk.. who knows what the crap happened. I charged to 79% and unplugged. 2.5hrs later, I'm still at 72%. That's around 3% an hr. Last night was 17%/hr.. Something happened last night.. Man, I'd love to know what took place.
Either I had an app going wild all night, or the battery really never charged.. and the 100% was deceptive. It's just nuts how all of these probs all of a sudden surfaced right after cwm 4 and putting the stock battery back in. They never surfaced b4 on the same ROM and with the same battery that I used for weeks and weeks.
O'well....
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I know, it is just weird but it does happens from timr to time.
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When the battery is less than when it removed,After some time and putting it back will be full power display
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You should wipe battery stats when doing any major rom change (stock to custom or between different roms).
Battery will always be wonky the first time before a full charge/discharge on the rom unless it is 100% and battery stats are wiped.
Typically what I do (on CM7), is when I wake up the phone is at 100%. I download the latest nightly while I'm in the shower. Jump out, it starts to flash. When its done and booted up, I wipe stats then unplug the phone and go to work.
I don't always wipe stats. But with all of the battery tweaks and fixes he's done, I will occasionally.

I very rarely ever completely turn my phone off, but last night I decided to turn it off right before I went to sleep. My battery was down to 25% right before I turned it off. When I woke up this morning the phone would not turn on. So I decided to plug it into the wall charger to see if it would help. Well the phone did turn on after I plugged it in and to my surprise the battery was showing as 0% charged which is why it wouldn't turn on without being plugged in.
So, that means that something drained my battery from 25% to 0% while the phone was completely turned off. What in the world would be running while the phone is turned off that would drain the battery like that?

[Q] Battery issue (I think?)

So, my tablet fully died today, 0% battery on tablet and dock, and now when I plug in the tablet the screen comes on and off showing the battery with one red bar, is this normal and if not what should I do?

CorkedA said:
So, my tablet fully died today, 0% battery on tablet and dock, and now when I plug in the tablet the screen comes on and off showing the battery with one red bar, is this normal and if not what should I do?
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Perfectly normal. It means that the tablet doesn't have enough power to boot up yet, give it ten minutes to get at least 15%. It should boot up automatically after that,

LOL. I've made the mistake of letting mine run all the way down twice. The 1st time it scared the tar out of me and I thought I was going to have to send it back to Asus because it wouldn't come back on after I plugged it in LOL. After letting it charge for about 15 minutes it booted right up. It did the same thing the 2nd time I ran it all the way down too. Even though I know it will boot back up after sitting on the charger for a little bit, I still watch my battery level very closely now. It's a bad feeling when I press the power button and nothing happens!!

Has anyone else experienced very short battery life after the last update? Used to be that if I didn't use my tablet for a week it would only lose like 10% now it goes to 0 in 2 days even if it isn't touched. Only started after the last update. I'm thinking I should do a factory reset just to see if that settles things out.
Or does anyone know of any good battery monitors that can tell you what was sucking all the juice before is died?

[Q] Battery problems

I hope I am in the right forum for this...
Lately my two year old tf700t won't stay on for more than 10 mins at a time. I have the dock and both parts say more than 100% charged.
Due to my device being out of warranty and thinking something was wrong with my stock asus rom. I downgraded the rom, rooted it, unlocked and tried several different roms.
My tablet is still turning off even though it says it is 100% charged.
Is my problem a bad battery? I think it has discharged "fully" (to where it warns me) maybe 10 times in the two years i've had it in the dock. It has almost always been plugged in or lightly used around the house. It has never been drained and recharged repeatedly to the point that I would have thought it to be worn out by now.
When I've had batteries go previously, they just drain fast from 100% to 0%. Both batteries are at 100% and it won't stay on but maybe 10 minutes unplugged. When I plug it in, it takes about 5-10 mins before it turns back on again. Meanwhile, the led by the power button blinks orange like the battery is dead. When it turns back on, it tells me I'm fully charged. grr
Does anyone know what is going on? Is there a way to test the battery or is there some chip inside the thing that needs to be reset or something.

jesman0 said:
I hope I am in the right forum for this...
Lately my two year old tf700t won't stay on for more than 10 mins at a time. I have the dock and both parts say more than 100% charged.
Due to my device being out of warranty and thinking something was wrong with my stock asus rom. I downgraded the rom, rooted it, unlocked and tried several different roms.
My tablet is still turning off even though it says it is 100% charged.
Is my problem a bad battery? I think it has discharged "fully" (to where it warns me) maybe 10 times in the two years i've had it in the dock. It has almost always been plugged in or lightly used around the house. It has never been drained and recharged repeatedly to the point that I would have thought it to be worn out by now.
When I've had batteries go previously, they just drain fast from 100% to 0%. Both batteries are at 100% and it won't stay on but maybe 10 minutes unplugged. When I plug it in, it takes about 5-10 mins before it turns back on again. Meanwhile, the led by the power button blinks orange like the battery is dead. When it turns back on, it tells me I'm fully charged. grr
Does anyone know what is going on? Is there a way to test the battery or is there some chip inside the thing that needs to be reset or something.
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It sounds like that you have a calibrations issue with your device. When your device is shut off by itself, you should leave it unplug about a day. Then recharge your device after a day of depletion and hope that it will solve your problem, good luck...:fingers-crossed:

Mhhhh - "almost always plugged in"?
Not the best use for these batteries. 2 years of that could have killed it.... And then - may not have anything to do with it if the battery went bad. 2 years is not an unreasonable life expectancy for a battery for a portable device.
In addition to LMK's suggestion, you could try this:
Let it die and then sit for a day unplugged.
Connect it via USB to your PC and let it trickle charge for 8+ hours (charging indicator will not even come on). Make sure your PC doesn't shut down or go into sleep mode during that time.
It should be charged enough to boot it. Check if it made a difference.