When I'm charging the banker battery, the notification will go green so I think its fully charged. But I've noticed that when I unhook the cable and use the phone for a while, then plug it back in, the notification light lights green. So I'm wondering, does the light turn green for the banker battery at a certain level even though its not fully charged?
Should I let it sit on the charger a couple more hours after the light turns green?
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Charge it til it turns green, then turn the device off and charge it for another hour with it being off and it will be fully charged. This is known as bump charging, but does decrease the long-term life of your battery if it is done too often.
durps said:
charge it til it turns green, then turn the device off and charge it for another hour with it being off and it will be fully charged. This is known as bump charging, but does decrease the long-term life of your battery if it is down too often.
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+1 to that!
try this: charge battery until the LED turns green. Unplug & then wait until your battery is no longer showing 100% before you try to plug it back in. Mine will show 100% for a while before going down in percentage.
I thought android phones showed green at some point in the 90 percentile range? So if your at 98% it will still be green.
From what I understand because of the old battery the phone thinks that the capacity of current battery is the same. So unless you rooted your phone and wiped battery stats, you are not reaching the full potential of your battery. Unless you turn off your phone and let the hardware judge when the battery is full.
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My Fuze doesn't charge when connected to charger or connected to sync cable, I notice that when i connect to the charger and leave for a while the battery percentage remains the same, if i reset the phone the battery level will show a higher percentage, number would decrease but never would it increase when charger is plugged, to see the increased figure i have to reset the phone. For example, if my battery power is 1% and i plug the charger to the phone, it will remain at 1% the battery icon wont even come on, nor does the LED indicator, If i reset the phone then i would see say 20%, if i reset right away then it would show eaither a higher figer like 37% or a lower figure like 11%. I really dont whats wrong.
If we leave the battery display.
Could you confirm whether your battery is getting charged or not. I mean charger or connector is working.
How old is your battery? Could it have been over discharged?
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If we leave the battery display.
Could you confirm whether your battery is getting charged or not. I mean charger or connector is working.
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Yes the battery is getting charge, it just doesn't show the percentage increase nor does it show the fork like icon when the charger is connected, and its doesnt sync. However The battery does get charge.
e334 said:
How old is your battery? Could it have been over discharged?
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I have two batteries, one that i normally use, which is abt a year old. the other that i charge as a spare and carry with me every once in a while is abt 6 months old, and the i have tried them both,i get the same results.
hi, I'm having this problem with every ROM I try... led indicator gets green when battery reach 90% , how can be corrected? tried wipe battery status and nothing.
corvux360 said:
hi, I'm having this problem with every ROM I try... led indicator gets green when battery reach 90% , how can be corrected? tried wipe battery status and nothing.
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Give a spin to the ROM I am on and try. Mine turns green only at 90%.
Also, do u have any LED color changing apps loaded that are getting loaded when u restore with TiBu?
I'm 99% sure this is normal operation.
Does it continue charging to 100%? Or does it stop at 90%?
Mine changes to green at 90% also. I just assumed it was normal.
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I've only noticed the 90% green on CyanogenMod, running LeeDroid right now and the LED only turns green at 100%. I'm pretty sure this is a bug. In my opinion if this is intended to be a feature, there should be different notifications based on almost/fully charged. Maybe flashing at 90%, solid at 100%?
this is on most roms but its not a bad thing, its not like your battery life is bad its just showing when its basically done charging
It keeps charging to 100%. If you doubt it download current widget. It will tell you exactly how much power is being pushed to the phone.
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I'm on CM7 and my LED turns to green at 90% as well. Is this something you are seriously concerned over? It's an LED color, as long as it continues to charge to 100% who cares lol.
As others have said, it is normal for the light to go green at 90%. Every ROM I've tried (except for LeeDroid) does the same thing, and from what I recall even the stock HTC ROM switches to green at 90%, which is probably the basis for most of the custom ROMs doing the same thing.
My guess as to why the light goes green at 90% is because that last 10% of charging time takes a while (due to an increase in charge trickling) and the average consumer would be waiting and waiting for their charging light to go green if it were set to 100%. The ROMs/kernels are designed to balance the convenience factor with a little loss in charged capacity.
As the battery charge gets closer and closer to 100%, the electrical charging current being sent to the battery decreases more and more. This is best practice when charging a Li-ION battery to help prolong its lifespan. In our Inspire phones I have noticed (using Battery Monitor Widget set to 1 minute intervals) that during a typical charging cycle, when the battery is between 1% and 59% the kernel or the ROM (not sure which one controls charging; my guess is the kernel) allows the battery to receive a full charge. Using the stock HTC AC adapter, this equates to around 820mA with the screen off. Once the battery reaches 60%, the software will start to throttle back the charging a little bit at a time - the higher the battery is charged, the less current is applied. By the time you hit the 90% mark, the battery is only being fed with around 100mAH of power and is still decreasing. So that last 10% takes a little while.
My stock Inspire doesn't go green until it hits 100%. I tested it twice to make sure. The last 10% does take a little longer, but still no green until charging is completed.
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Try a battery calibration
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Mine goes green at 90% while the phone is on. If charging and turned off it goes green at 100%. This is both when I was stock as well as now on MIUI
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Quincux said:
Try a battery calibration
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What? Please explain how this is done.
henrybravo said:
As others have said, it is normal for the light to go green at 90%. Every ROM I've tried (except for LeeDroid) does the same thing, and from what I recall even the stock HTC ROM switches to green at 90%, which is probably the basis for most of the custom ROMs doing the same thing.
My guess as to why the light goes green at 90% is because that last 10% of charging time takes a while (due to an increase in charge trickling) and the average consumer would be waiting and waiting for their charging light to go green if it were set to 100%. The ROMs/kernels are designed to balance the convenience factor with a little loss in charged capacity.
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As the battery charge gets closer and closer to 100%, the electrical charging current being sent to the battery decreases more and more. This is best practice when charging a Li-ION battery to help prolong its lifespan. In our Inspire phones I have noticed (using Battery Monitor Widget set to 1 minute intervals) that during a typical charging cycle, when the battery is between 1% and 59% the kernel or the ROM (not sure which one controls charging; my guess is the kernel) allows the battery to receive a full charge. Using the stock HTC AC adapter, this equates to around 820mA with the screen off. Once the battery reaches 60%, the software will start to throttle back the charging a little bit at a time - the higher the battery is charged, the less current is applied. By the time you hit the 90% mark, the battery is only being fed with around 100mAH of power and is still decreasing. So that last 10% takes a little while.
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Well said HenryBravo.
The most efficient way it seems to calibrated your battery, in my opinion, is to first download current widget. Go to widgets and add the current widget widget to your screen. Plug in your phone, and leave it plugged in until your m/a reading says zero or 0m/a. You will see one hundred percent charged on the widget, tap on the 100 and a smaller number (anywhere from 30m/a on down will be present) it is this number that shows how much charge your phone is still drawing. Even though it says 100%, like HenryBravo stated, It is STILL drawing current, and until the widget reads 0m/a, is not fully charged. When you reach the coveted 0m/a mark, open file expert (or corresponding app) and go to the data folder. Then system. Then batterystats.bin - delete the file and reboot with phone plugged in (until reboted, then unplug) and your system will recreate your batterystats.bin file and have the proper value for a full charge. Also, this can be done by booting in to recovery, going to advanced, wiping battery stats, and rebooting. There are other calibration methods I have read of, which involve fully charging, depleting, charging again, etc... I have found this method yields the same results for me. Not all phones are the same and some phones yield various results with certain procedures, I am not sure if the battery calibration falls in this Category or not. Good Luck and hope it helps!!
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When I'm running CM7 this happens to me too. But on Cleardroid ROM it stays orange and wont turn green until 100%. I think its just part of the Rom, nothing to worry about.
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hi, I'm having this problem with every ROM I try... led indicator gets green when battery reach 90% , how can be corrected? tried wipe battery status and nothing.
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This is normal operation. It's not a bug. When your phone reaches 90%, that is when it resets the calculation of how long your phone has been on/off the battery.
Quoted directly from the phone manual, "As the battery is being charged, the notification LED shows a solid red light. The light turns to solid green when the phone is fully charged". Shouldn't really matter though, as long as the phone charges to 100%.
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custom roms are designed to show green light at 90% charged battery.. unfortunately...
I know you need to be rooted to calibrate a battery, but I am wondering of there is another way. Or possibly the Sensation software is jacked.
I have ahd my phone on its charger for hours. It shows full, but a battery monitor app states its only 97%. After reading, this seems to be a common issue.
I have already charged full, and pulled battery, reset phone and still the same.
I am no battery expert. Any suggestions?
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I know you need to be rooted to calibrate a battery, but I am wondering of there is another way. Or possibly the Sensation software is jacked.
I have ahd my phone on its charger for hours. It shows full, but a battery monitor app states its only 97%. After reading, this seems to be a common issue.
I have already charged full, and pulled battery, reset phone and still the same.
I am no battery expert. Any suggestions?
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Using the SEARCH function can only help you, battery expert or not. There have been many threads covering this.
1. Charge your phone til it hits 100% then turn it off while plugged in.
2. Remove charger until LED is inactive
3. Replace charger & the light should be orange/amber, charge til green again.
Repeat 2 & 3 until there is no amber light showing
Rinse, repeat a few times. If it goes from green to green right away just leave it for a half hour or so OFF and charging. Hope that helps, if not search just like I did
hello
just to say that with ClockworkMod 4.0.1.5 the phone dont charge the battery when is power off.
thanks
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tried to charge with phone off, and work. (with some energy on battery)
but i did had the problem, because i drain the battery to ZERO, and with ZERO battery couldn't charge
Mine does. I did it last night. I drained my new battery dry. And charged it last night with power off because I couldnt even turn it on the battery was so dead. Woke up this morning to a fully charged battery.
My phone does it too.
Same here, mines fine
Keep fastboot checked!!!
+4 works fine here.
OP, please change the title of your thread to "doesn't work for ME (or some people)" as it is misleading.
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Keep fastboot checked!!!
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Defeats the point of wanting to turn the phone off. I prefer to turn it off when I tell it to! Having said that, I never turn my phone off so isn't an issue
+5, works for me too.
didnt work for me...
I drained my battery completely, when I plug it in, the led flashing 11 times last 3 flashes are slow then goes dark.
put it 8h on wall charger, and didnt work...
i had to use this --> http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1198585
This just happened to me. Kept blinking heaps. So unplugged phone, boot it and instantly plugged in charger and worked after.
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I just had my phone at 73% and powered it off and even booted into HBOOT to make sure it was off then pulled the battery. Plugged it in and the orange light came on and stayed on for a bit. I then pulled it after about 10 minutes and powered up the phone, and I was up to 84%
Why do so many people insist on charging the phone while its off? I've never understood this.I have had many devices and have NEVER powered them off to charge, never had to replace any batteries either?
bonesy said:
Why do so many people insist on charging the phone while its off? I've never understood this.I have had many devices and have NEVER powered them off to charge, never had to replace any batteries either?
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I think its because it charges faster when its off. (idk it could be placebo ) I only charge mine when it is off when it dies. So is it safe to say that the issue is fixed ?
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bonesy said:
Why do so many people insist on charging the phone while its off? I've never understood this.I have had many devices and have NEVER powered them off to charge, never had to replace any batteries either?
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and if you drained your battery till its fully dead ?
what do you do ?
i had to do this --> http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1198585
Works fine here......no fastboot checked, phone completly off, charges fine.
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Yeah. I think it does charges but then theres no light. and you can't turn it on while it's plugged in ):
I've never let my battery die tbh, Always carry a 10cm micro usb lead with me as i always have access to a usb port
I did last night on purpose because I am testing an after market battery.
I let my battery died completely last night. When i charge it, it just blink like 5 times, and stopped. So i took off the battery and use a different charger to charge it. The orange light turned on for like 5 sec and disappeared. I thought it just need a little charge. I left the charge overnight. I tried to turn on the phone when i woke up, but it didnt work. I took the cable off, then take out battery and pput it back in. And the phone turns on and fully charged. So I guess the phone does charge, but the indicator light is not just working.
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I let my battery died completely last night. When i charge it, it just blink like 5 times, and stopped. So i took off the battery and use a different charger to charge it. The orange light turned on for like 5 sec and disappeared. I thought it just need a little charge. I left the charge overnight. I tried to turn on the phone when i woke up, but it didnt work. I took the cable off, then take out battery and pput it back in. And the phone turns on and fully charged. So I guess the phone does charge, but the indicator light is not just working.
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Charge light working fine here....plug it in, Amber light turns on, then blinks off, then blinks on again and stays on while charging.....
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I'm running the 12/28 CM10 nightly, and I'm having an issue with charging my battery. When the phone is on, the battery charges normally to 90%, at which point the LED changes from red to green, indicating full charge. If I leave it plugged in, the phone continues to charge to 100. However, the battery doesn't really charge past 90 because once I begin to use it the charge drops really quickly down to 90. Similarly, if I restart the phone, even if it said 100 before, when it is on again it says 90. I have had this issue with previous CM10 nightlies as well. It is a software issue, because if I turn the phone off and charge it, it charges to 100.
Any ideas on how to fix this? Thanks!
This is a suggestion out of the blue but maybe try recalrubratung your battery
omario8484 said:
This is a suggestion out of the blue but maybe try recalrubratung your battery
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I did to no avail
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I'm running the 12/28 CM10 nightly, and I'm having an issue with charging my battery. When the phone is on, the battery charges normally to 90%, at which point the LED changes from red to green, indicating full charge. If I leave it plugged in, the phone continues to charge to 100. However, the battery doesn't really charge past 90 because once I begin to use it the charge drops really quickly down to 90. Similarly, if I restart the phone, even if it said 100 before, when it is on again it says 90. I have had this issue with previous CM10 nightlies as well. It is a software issue, because if I turn the phone off and charge it, it charges to 100.
Any ideas on how to fix this? Thanks!
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This is the intended bahavior. The type of battery used in phones last longest when they say between 80% and 20% of charged. So your phone will pull the maximum amount of power it can until it hits 90% then reduce power draw to a trickle charge.
The rapid drop is power is often the chip in the battery lying that it is fully charged when it is not. That is why you may see a rapid decline to 90% where your battery drain will go back to normal.
You might also see the phone telling you that it has 15% power then turning off. Upon reboot it will say it's at 0% or 1% that also is the battery trying to protect it self from damage.
This is a simplified explanation of how all phones work these days. The only difference you'll notice is how good the software is designed to lie to you about the power level. If it's good you won't notice these types of anomalies but they are still there.
Have you wiped battery stats?
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This is the intended bahavior. The type of battery used in phones last longest when they say between 80% and 20% of charged. So your phone will pull the maximum amount of power it can until it hits 90% then reduce power draw to a trickle charge.
The rapid drop is power is often the chip in the battery lying that it is fully charged when it is not. That is why you may see a rapid decline to 90% where your battery drain will go back to normal.
You might also see the phone telling you that it has 15% power then turning off. Upon reboot it will say it's at 0% or 1% that also is the battery trying to protect it self from damage.
This is a simplified explanation of how all phones work these days. The only difference you'll notice is how good the software is designed to lie to you about the power level. If it's good you won't notice these types of anomalies but they are still there.
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Thanks for that informative answer. So I take it that means there would be no performance difference between turning my phone off, charging it, and then using it (with it saying 100%) vs leaving it on, charging it to 90% (green LED turns on) and then using it?