I wanted an external charger so I could charge my spare battery while I was using my main one (have a momax 1700mah thats a few months old). I got a cheap one on ebay, it wasn't overly impressive, really light and cheap as you might expect. Pretty much nothing in the way of instructions came with it, the light is blue when its plugged in empty, and purple when charging. I put my momax in last night to charge from almost dead, and I took it out before bed and tried it, my phone said 83%. I put my stock back in and left it alone, would charge fully after work today. I did that, eventually the light went to blue so I assumed it was charged, but my phone wont boot with it, not even plugged in, theres nothing. Seems like this cheap charger has killed my battery somehow.
I mean...its a friggin battery, there isn't much you can do in terms of repair, not that I know of. The battery is only a couple months old so there should be warranty, but in the mean time, any suggestions?
Try to use a genuine one so that your phone may not be damaged.
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Hey guys
Well I got my 3200mah seidio battery yesterday. Charged it up overnight for around 10 hours. The phone was off all night, the light was green this morning.
I turned it on while still connected to power and the device said 100% charge and I thought ok sweet now ill test how long it can go!!
once I disconnected it from the power the screen went blank.. so I pressed the power button to turn the screen back on.. however the device was off and came up with the X screen this appeared for around 1 second then off again and on again for 1 second then off again it did this a couple of times before giving up...
Tested the battery in my wifes nexus and its the same
Is there anything I can do? or its a DOA?
I live in Australia and purchased the battery off ebay (brand new in box) so fear that its going to be hard to do a return.
It looks like it might be a bad battery. If you plug in your phone to the charger with this battery installed do you still get that blank screen?
If the battery is bad im sure Seido will replace it...they are a very reputable company.
But why put that hunchback battery on your sleek phone.. Seido has a nice 1600mah that fits perfectly with your N1... you get a little bit more power but dont comprimise the look.
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It looks like it might be a bad battery. If you plug in your phone to the charger with this battery installed do you still get that blank screen?
But why put that hunchback battery on your sleek phone.. Seido has a nice 1600mah that fits perfectly with your N1... you get a little bit more power but dont comprimise the look.
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If I plug my phone back into the charger the light is orange again.
After an hour it returned to green I turned the phone on to test it but kept it on power and it reported 100%.
I powered the phone off disconnected it
Tried turning it on again, this time it got to the desktop but battery status indicated it was critical and the phone would shut down...
The original charge covered the 2-3 hours of charge on the green light that seidio's website recommends
Now its been on charge again for an hour and is orange still...
total charge time on the wall charger is around 12 hours now.. im pretty sure its dead...
As for why I want a chunky battery I need it for while im at work.. and I actually am liking the increased depth in my hands fits them much better.
I bought the 2800mAh battery when it came out. When I plugged it in, it did some weird stuff. Took few charges/discharges to settle. I'm not saying yours isn't a dead battery, but I had similar weird stuff happen to me.
I recently bought and finally received my brand new seidio battery for my nexus one. As soon as i tried to charge it however, I had issues. At first, the charge LED flashed orange and then green as if there was no battery in it at all. then after a while it finally started "charging" as indicated by the orange light. I left it overnight and most of today, more than 12 hours, and it still says it is charging. Even WORSE is that my phone won't even boot at this point, even though it has been "charging" for more than 12 hours. I have tried both a usb and wall charger, but the wall charger for 99.9% of the charge. Anyone heard of anything like this happening? I have searched for a while and found bubcus. Not even an FAQ from seidio or something.
That sounds like a shorted battery, probably blew a fuse in the Nexus motherboard.
That sucks and Seido does not cover damages caused by their products to the phones.
Bummer.
Well my phone still works just fine with the standard battery. It just won't boot with the extended one. guess I just have a lemon. Just wanted to confirm before I sent it back
Tell them they sent a faulty product and try to get a refund. Good luck
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Exactly what I will do. Are they usually diffucult to deal with when it comes to returns? Or do they actually act like they want to help?
They are kind of hard to deal with verses Mugen
I recently obtained the Xoom LTE version from a family member. It wasn't used in quite some time, so naturally, I plugged it in to charge. The indicator lit up white, so I turned it on. After boot, there was indication that the battery was charging, but remained at zero percent. I left it to charge for about 25 minutes and when I came back to it, still zero percent. I removed the charger, the device shut down immediately. I plugged the charger in again noticing that the indicator light did indeed light up, but after a short amount of time it turned off. I also tried using the dock, and the same results occurred.
Basically, the device is only operable while plugged it. It's been on the dock for a couple hours now and the battery is still showing zero percent. I'm thinking it's a battery problem, but what else could it be? Is it possible to change the battery in this thing, or do I need to send it into Motorola? I did a factory reset, but nothing has changed.
Thanks for any help, I really appreciate it!
Best bet is to send it in for a new battery. Sounds like the current one is shot.
Yep usually Li-ion battery does that, you said they haven't used it for months? My bet is that the battery is fine, but it's dead due to the fact it went under the level of voltage where it can't be recharged. It's like bricking your phone... Lol
Definitely sounds like a bad battery.
You can try to order one online and replace it on your own (here is ifixit's teardown guide).
Or you can send it in the Motorola and have them do it for $99. If you've never opened up a tablet/phone/etc before, I'd highly recommend this route. It might look easy but I totally borked an old phone thinking I was handier than I actually am...
Your battery is covered by your warranty if its fully charged capacity falls below 50% of rated capacity in the first year of ownership. Out of warranty replacement of the battery (OOW due to the length of ownership or physical abuse) is $99.
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After a long day of class I pass out and woke up to find that I had slept on top of my phone It was on before I went to sleep and was pretty warm when I grabbed it. Tried to turn it on, which it wouldn't. And when connecting it to a charger it doesn't charge. Taking out the battery and putting it back it gave me no luck either. The only response I get is when I connect it to my laptop in which case a White LED shows in the top right of the screen for a brief moment and the distinguishing sound you hear when you connect something to your computer, but nothing happens.
I did read and found out that the white led shows up because its unable to boot because there's not enough juice to put it in the charging process so someone suggested to get an external charger for the battery in which case i can do, but wanted a 2nd opinion.
Another thing to note is that my phone isn't rooted or anything of that kind of matter. Still in the factory settings in which I first bought it in. Any help and suggestions is appreciated.
Yeah! Charge it up and see if it gets some life.
Charge it in the wall, not in the pc. No matter what. Left the phone there and see what happens in 2hs
Left it in connected to the wall charger for a few hours - no response.
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Left it in connected to the wall charger for a few hours - no response.
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When I bought my phone it had the same issue. I got it used and the person that sold it to me forgot to remove the battery before shipping.
I tinkered with it forever, and even left it plugged in overnight and it kept the white LED.
I had an external charger from my last phone, so with rubber bands I was able to rig it in there and it got me going.
I have a spare external charger, but with cost and shipping you could get a charger and battery for the same price I imagine. $10 on Ebay.
Had white led light before when I was rooting my Atrix. Just need to get a external battery charger and charge it and try not to let the battery get drained like that again. Guessing your body heat drained all the battery cause the same thing happens to my second battery when I leave it in my pockets.
Hey guys, As title says, So the story on this thing lol Bought it new I believe 1.5-2 years ago, battery got bad, so this spring in february I replaced the battery my self, I had ordered 2, Both certainly a genuine battery, I had a S7 so I wanted a spare for mine when IT came time. After battery replacement phone was great again, good as new! then as of 3 days ago random shut offs. battery reads 80% shut off, Then I noticed If I left it off for a few hours or all night and turn it on in the am 0%! Tried charging and It's not taking a charge really, It went to 9% and stayed there for ever and was getting hot so I didn't want to risk it. ok so bad battery, this morning I swapped in my OTHER spare new battery, and Let it run up to 100% before turning on for first time, All seemed good! then all the sudden after 6 hours (before it was like every 10 minutes it'd shut off.) It started doing it again, Same thing battery is dead it figures, But it can't be.
Thinking perhaps the board it's self or something just ain't right? :\ Any thing to check or tips/tricks? I tried googling and came up empty handed.
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Hey guys, As title says, So the story on this thing lol Bought it new I believe 1.5-2 years ago, battery got bad, so this spring in february I replaced the battery my self, I had ordered 2, Both certainly a genuine battery, I had a S7 so I wanted a spare for mine when IT came time. After battery replacement phone was great again, good as new! then as of 3 days ago random shut offs. battery reads 80% shut off, Then I noticed If I left it off for a few hours or all night and turn it on in the am 0%! Tried charging and It's not taking a charge really, It went to 9% and stayed there for ever and was getting hot so I didn't want to risk it. ok so bad battery, this morning I swapped in my OTHER spare new battery, and Let it run up to 100% before turning on for first time, All seemed good! then all the sudden after 6 hours (before it was like every 10 minutes it'd shut off.) It started doing it again, Same thing battery is dead it figures, But it can't be.
Thinking perhaps the board it's self or something just ain't right? :\ Any thing to check or tips/tricks? I tried googling and came up empty handed.
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It's likely the batteries you have are not genuine. Fake copies don't have a control chip which interfaces with the device. Your phone is shutting down to protect itself from overheating and other problems caused by copies.
There are some great copies out there but trust me they're still copies.
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It's likely the batteries you have are not genuine. Fake copies don't have a control chip which interfaces with the device. Your phone is shutting down to protect itself from overheating and other problems caused by copies.
There are some great copies out there but trust me they're still copies.
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Yeah that's for sure on the copies, I had looked at how to compare what I had VS the fake ones and they seemed to be genuine? The batteries came from 2 seperate sources as well so hard to say, if the first one I put in was a copy then it did last a while but surprised then that my 2nd one never made it more than a few hours and the same issue. But you just never know. Everybody claims your buying a genuine battery but I'd assume the listing prices are tell tale of a fake/copy lol
Monitoring the battery and either the voltage sensor is bad or the battery, it'll chwrge and say it's full but yet voltage goes to 3.4v, then if I plug it in again it'll go up to 4.2v, once I unplug it, it drops of course, I was using a battery burn program and Itll drop from r. 2 to 3.4 right away, I got it to run for 15 mins one time then it dropped off, otherwise another time from 4.2v it dropped to 3.0 then shut off after starting th test in like 20 seconds, reports battery immediately as 17% after re booting.
This battery sat for a while so will try a 3rd fresh battery and hopefully genuine, though I suspect my past 2 were genuine.
Wanted to update this for anybody who may find this thread off google. I got the same replacement battery again Which was the fix, Asked the seller and they said they'd shoot me a new battery, Again whether genuine or not... Well they claim genuine. I let the phone charge to full and Performed the battery draw test by running the 2 apps to bog the phone down and make everything run to 100%. ran like that 0 issues for about 2 hours, Voltage was very stable the whole way through, before It would maybe hold for a few mins then shoot right down from 4.0 to ~3.2V. Even now after a hour It was still well above 3.7V. My old s7 battery was exactly that, sat unused on my shelf for ~2 years because it was mis-placed and even installed it was no good either.