[Q] Charging problem - Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hi, I have a problem when charging and the phone is off. Few weeks later everything was ok - by which I mean that after few hours the phone signalised full battery by showing 5 full bars. Now I can leave the phone on charger even 12 hours but the fifth bar still blinks as if it was not charged. When online, everything goes fine: phone saying "charging" for some time, then "charged".
I`ve tried many since december and I believe its somehow related, but dont know how. I even tried formatting everythin except sdcard in clockwork and then installing a clean stock ics rom but no change ...
Im afraid of breaking the battery somehow and its also a bit weird ...

michalurban said:
Hi, I have a problem when charging and the phone is off. Few weeks later everything was ok - by which I mean that after few hours the phone signalised full battery by showing 5 full bars. Now I can leave the phone on charger even 12 hours but the fifth bar still blinks as if it was not charged. When online, everything goes fine: phone saying "charging" for some time, then "charged".
I`ve tried many since december and I believe its somehow related, but dont know how. I even tried formatting everythin except sdcard in clockwork and then installing a clean stock ics rom but no change ...
Im afraid of breaking the battery somehow and its also a bit weird ...
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Nexus S Charger download from market
Many Nexus S have a bug that makes battery charge above 95% impossible, unless you use some nasty tricks (enabling the debug option that keeps the screen on while charging and enabling the Wifi AP mode / Wifi tethering).
This app makes that easier for you:

Thanks, but Im not really troubled by the fact I cant get to 100%. My trouble is that during charging, the phone (turned off) never signals BATTERY FULL ...
EDIT 1: With my second battery the phone acts normally - charging, then stating BATTERY FULL ...
EDIT 2: I found out that when I enter my spare battery into the phone and then give back the original one, its able to tell me "battery full" ... but not without this "swap" ... Im afraid of my battery be charged all the time - and damaged ...

Nobody has the same problem???

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[Q] My phone keeps turning off.

My phone will randomly turn off out of nowhere. Earlier today I had 17% battery and it just turned off instantly. I turned it back on and had 87% battery. About 10 minutes later it instintly turned off again and when I turned it on I had 25% battery. It's getting really annoying. I never had this problem before, nor have I ever dropped it.
Is there something wrong with the pins on the back of the case or something?
Thanks in advanced for the replys.
Hypercore said:
My phone will randomly turn off out of nowhere. Earlier today I had 17% battery and it just turned off instantly. I turned it back on and had 87% battery. About 10 minutes later it instintly turned off again and when I turned it on I had 25% battery. It's getting really annoying. I never had this problem before, nor have I ever dropped it.
Is there something wrong with the pins on the back of the case or something?
Thanks in advanced for the replys.
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Hi,
A little information is always useful when seeking help.
ROM,
Radio,
Kernel,
Mods,
Themes,
I have the same issue, my phone turn power off randomly, sometimes on high percentage of battery and sometime on low level, some days it works fine and some days it happen 5 or 6 per day , the weather so clod now so i'm sure it's heating
my phone info:
Android Version: 2.3.4
Kernal Version: 2.6.35.14
Rom: Android Revolution HD™ 3.6.8 XE | 4.1.8 Sense 3.5
Any Help will be appreciated
Thanks
tantan911 said:
I have the same issue, my phone turn power off randomly, sometimes on high percentage of battery and sometime on low level, some days it works fine and some days it happen 5 or 6 per day , the weather so clod now so i'm sure it's heating
my phone info:
Android Version: 2.3.4
Kernal Version: 2.6.35.14
Rom: Android Revolution HD™ 3.6.8 XE | 4.1.8 Sense 3.5
Any Help will be appreciated
Thanks
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nvm................
i had this same issue, for me it helped to move all my apps back to my SD card and reformat my sd card. Since then it happend once again and that was after i dropped my phone and my sd card unmouted. but besides that occasion havent had it for about a three week now.
might be related to moving apps to sd card, not sure do if this actually started the problems for me.
I m on stock ROM and i live in europe
I've got the same problem since about a week, phone randomly turning off. Though never when i'm using it, alsways when the phone is in standby mode, including the strange battery level jumps. I thought it was an app so i did a hard reset, but the turning off remained. I switched from Sense to Launcherpro, still no change.
My phone runs on stock rom, 2.3.4, Sense 3.0, Kernel 2.6.35.13
This weekend i'll backup my SD-card and reformat it, if this helps i'll let you know.
Try a new battery
My battery's only 6 months old!?
Noppe said:
My battery's only 6 months old!?
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Mine had 2 months
Mains said:
Mine had 2 months
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Been there, done that; problem still exists... I have tried a new battery new software (factory reset and hard reset in the repair centre), boardsap, other simcard, other sd card... The problem still is there, I am trying to get a new phone. The problem is the phone ... My question is is this only a normal sensation problem or is this also a problem on the Sensation XE?
My phone is starting to show the same symtons again. Overnight it also has shut down. So i guess the sd format did not get rid of the problem. But on my phone it definitively made it less frequent. As before the format i had it 5 times a day and now i have it once a 2 days. Probably will get worse overtime as the last time i had it.
snah65 said:
Been there, done that; problem still exists... I have tried a new battery new software (factory reset and hard reset in the repair centre), boardsap, other simcard, other sd card... The problem still is there, I am trying to get a new phone. The problem is the phone ... My question is is this only a normal sensation problem or is this also a problem on the Sensation XE?
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Let me know if u succeed, i contacted HTC today and they told me to factory reset my phone. Not looking forward to that, do. Might do it next week.
forgot to ask, did HTC give u those out of warranty our did u buy them yourself?
Let me ask you a question. Have any of you polished your covers to chrome? I have had the same issue of my phone turning off in my holster, but only when I have my polished case on it. When I put my spare one that has not been touched, the phone works flawlessly. Not sure if there is some weird static buildup that is shorting the phone. Also, to get it to turn back on, I have to pull the battery first.
I had the same problem on my Sensation, turning off randomly (not reboot). And the battery would display wrong reading once it is back on. Initially I thought this was due to bad rooting or a custom ROM issue, I restored back to stock and right there on the language selection screen on first start and without the SD card, it went off. That made me sure it was a problem something else. I thought then it would be due to bad charges in the battery, used different charger to charge, didn't work, then I replaced the battery, somehow the problem stopped and when I insert back my old battery the problem still didn't come back. I don't have an explanation to this behavior. It works fine now.
That sounds weird, I didn't polish my back to chrome... And I also do not need to pull my battery to turn it back on. A few times I had that it turned of and it would directly turn of again after it was restarted (home screen loaded). The only way to get out of that was to hook it up to the charger.
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It's really odd. I can't even use the phone any more.
When I turn it on, as long as the screen stays on it will not turn off.
Once I lock it and put it in my pocket, about 40 seconds later it shuts off. This isn't just powering down, it just instantaneously shuts down. I also can't turn the device back on no matter how many times I press power, I have to physically pull the battery and put it back in to turn it on.
One more thing to add: My girlfriend smacked my phone out of my hand once accidentally and the case doesn't click in. It stays in place but if you hold the case and attempt to take it off it falls off. I'm thinking it could possibly be a problem regarding the pins, but from what I know the pins only control the screen.
Edit: One last thing, when it's connected to my computer and being charged it never shuts down.
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I had this same problem two days ago. Left work and my phone just shut off while in my pocket. I was running sense-o-maniac Desense 3.5. It continued this behavior for the next day. Also my battery was showing random charge percentages. There were two issues"
1. I was had used the battery calibrator app from the market to erase my bat stats - problem - it kept erasing my battery stats.
2. I was using set CPU and after reading many dev forums about such issues, I realized that setting the idle below 384 mhz, it causes the phone to random reboot.
Once I conducted a complete wipe and flashed MIUI I was good. no issues.
My Suggestion: Try a complete wipe, then Android Rev HD wipe, then reflash, Wipe cache, Davlick Cache, Fix permissions, then reboot. Drain the battery, then recharge to 100% and wipe bat stats
TMO US Sensation 4g
Baseband:10.56.9035.00P_10.14.9035.01_m
Kernal: 2.6.35.14-Bricked-v1.5-ondmnd-1536-192.show-p1984
ROM: Sexy MIUI 1.12.9.01
2nd factory reset and reformatting the microSD did not solve my problem...
@anari101: I'm a big fan of custom roms, but currently my sensation's still running a stock rom. I'd rather not void the guarantee at the moment by flashing it as the phone isn't functioning properly. If i can't fix this problem without flashing a custom rom, i can return it to HTC and hope for a repair or a new device/battery...
Anybody got any other ideas?
i also dont want to root a phone that might have problems.
I did not do any factory reset yet, but the problem is comming back now i have once a day it just shuts down. The last time when i picked it up and pressed the power butten the screen was white for a split second. However if i look at my history of battery monitor widget it stopped recording an houre earlier. clueless to why this happens.
If your phone is rooted, I agree with anari - use current widget and battery calibration to re-calibrate your battery. Let phone charge all the way and then some like another 2 hours. Use battery calibration to get rid of batterystats.bin. Let battery completely drain (Hopefully it doesnt shut off in the process). Definitely seems like something is wrong with your ROM's battery settings.
If you dont have your phone rooted. Have you received any updates lately? If a factory reset didnt help - go to your local Tmobile and just have them ship you a new phone. Not worth dealing with the issue and they can get you a new phone within a couple days.
EDIT: If you have NOT factory reset your phone. You can try to copy all data off your SD card, reformat it. Insert it, let the phone recognize and set it up then add everything back on. If that doesn't work, factory reset (after using Astro to backup all apps). If THAT doesnt work, go get a new phone.
I am having this same problem. Mine always happens when I take my phone out of my pocket after it's been sitting for a while. It also seems that my battery is always around 30-40 percent. It will unlock then just turn off. I turn it back on and after about 30 seconds it turns back off. The only way I can get it to stay on is plugging it in to the charger for a couple of minutes after turning it on and it won't do it again for a while. I don't know what it is but I'm thinking battery or SD card.

Battey shows "Unknown" and always at 0%

HI,
Looking for some help to get my nexus 5 working. The phones battery indicator is always at 0% not matter what I’ve tried (I’ve played youtube for like 3 hrs so I know there is juice in the battery)
[*]Whats wrong :
The phone battery indicator is always showing that it needs to be charged.
The phone battery indicator is always at 0%.
Settings -> Battery shows battery as “Unknown”
When powered on the screen does not show anything (you can tell its on cuz it connects to the computer. The battery cable has to be disconnected and reconnected as mentioned below to get the screen and phone working.)
Things done with no results
Swapped batteries from a working nexus.
Reinstalled stock ROM (L)
Left to charge overnight.
Cleaned cache from Recovery Mode
Used app to recalibrate the battery
The phone itself will boot up with a blank screen. I have to unplug the battery connector and then plug in the power USB. At this point it only shows the battery with flash. Its on for some seconds and the reboots over and over again.
I get it to work by connecting back the battery to the main board during one of the loops. (Sometimes holding the power +Volume up to get to the google display and then connecting)
Any help ??
When you installed L did you use the Google flash all bat file?
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Yes ..I ran the flash-all.bat
The phone itself was in Kit Kat when I got it with this issue. I tried it with L to see if the issue would go away.
Other than flashing 4.4.4 clean...with wipes and seeing how it is...it could be a hardware issue unfortunately.
You've discovered the holy grail of infinite battery usage? I'm not seeing any issue here. JK, it's probably a bug in the preview software as can be expected.
Could be a bad battery as well.
already tried that as well.
The phone boots up to a blank screen. Only way to see anything on the screen is to unplug and replug the battery wire. Then everythings normal up until you have to restart.
nevermindzz00 said:
already tried that as well.
The phone boots up to a blank screen. Only way to see anything on the screen is to unplug and replug the battery wire. Then everythings normal up until you have to restart.
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I am on the same page. My Nexus is showing same results. I have also replaced the battery with a new one. Only one thing different in mine, I started noticing signal drops then the radio completely started to went off. Now the battery is at 0% always whenever I get it to boot that is. Otherwise it's blank with vibrations.
A fix is in great need. Also, I have tried multiple ROMs right now I am on the latest L Build.
Can you replace your flex cable with a working Nexus and write the results? I think it might fix it from the hardware side. Where I live, the flex cable isn't available! :-/

Nexus 5 - Won't Charge, Stuck On 0% FIX

Hi All,
Just thought I'd share my.. well so far resolution to the problem I was facing. So I purchased a Nexus 5 from eBay and sure enough it ran out of the 4% battery it had, however after leaving it to charge I noticed once turned on the battery was still at 0%. I tried a different charger (Plus and USB) and again still didn't work. I read various fixes such as leaving the phone turned off and charging it for an hour, also disconnecting the battery from the mainboard and holding the power button for 15 seconds but neither worked.
I then went to flash the stock ROM but to do this it's recommended you have 60% battery so I wasn't going to risk it as it may end up being bricked but as I got to that stage I looked back at my Nexus and it was 9% charged. It seems that through following the Stock ROM flash tutorial I put the phone into "USB Debugging Mode" while connected to my laptop, it seems in this mode it charges fine. To me it seems there is a software issue (may very well have been caused by the restore carried out before the phone was sent to me" I'm going to leave it charging via USB and perform a full stock flash and root hopefully this should permanently sort the problem.
Ok
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[Q] 4G SLIDE strange charging issues

First, sorry if this has already been discussed somewhere, but I couldn't find a topic with a case exactly like mine.
I have a 4G Slide. From the beginning, as I don't like Android 2.3 (or whatever it was, 2.X anyway) I upgraded to 4.0 by installing Cyanogenmod 9.10 (stable release for Doubleshot). So I don't really know how it was before CM 9, but here's the issue.
First, this phone takes forever to charge it, even leaving it overnight isn't enough sometimes. However, it can reach 100%, it's just really slow. And here's the strange part. If you look at the charge graph in Battery menu, you can see the straight line going up, and at a certain moment you can notice what looks like a very slight break in it - not a gap, I mean that it's going up at a certain angle, and you see it suddenly change a bit, like the charging speed slowed down or something. So I found out that when you see this line break, you can just reboot the phone. And it shows 100% charge, the light is green! Otherwise you'll have to wait for hours until it shows 100%.
Also, changes in charge displayed on the screen are almost unpredictable. Sometimes it shows you it's holding charge well for a relatively long time, and suddenly, there's a sharp fall in the graph, and the phone shuts off. It's especially annoying during the night, as I use it as an alarm cloclk to wake up, and once I almost was late for work because the stupid thing died in the night, luckily I woke up by myself.
So my question is whether this can be fixed as I'm fed up. What I tried: changed the battery, tried different chargers, tried to clean the micro USB on the phone (the charging port), installed an updated version of CM 9 from this site. Nothing seems to help. So I'll be grateful if someone can tell me what it is, maybe you've seen this happen. Does it mean my phone has a bad charging controller? I also heard that flashing a different kernel sometimes helps, but there aren't any available for my phone.
Thank you.
RomanKasp said:
First, sorry if this has already been discussed somewhere, but I couldn't find a topic with a case exactly like mine.
I have a 4G Slide. From the beginning, as I don't like Android 2.3 (or whatever it was, 2.X anyway) I upgraded to 4.0 by installing Cyanogenmod 9.10 (stable release for Doubleshot). So I don't really know how it was before CM 9, but here's the issue.
First, this phone takes forever to charge it, even leaving it overnight isn't enough sometimes. However, it can reach 100%, it's just really slow. And here's the strange part. If you look at the charge graph in Battery menu, you can see the straight line going up, and at a certain moment you can notice what looks like a very slight break in it - not a gap, I mean that it's going up at a certain angle, and you see it suddenly change a bit, like the charging speed slowed down or something. So I found out that when you see this line break, you can just reboot the phone. And it shows 100% charge, the light is green! Otherwise you'll have to wait for hours until it shows 100%.
Also, changes in charge displayed on the screen are almost unpredictable. Sometimes it shows you it's holding charge well for a relatively long time, and suddenly, there's a sharp fall in the graph, and the phone shuts off. It's especially annoying during the night, as I use it as an alarm cloclk to wake up, and once I almost was late for work because the stupid thing died in the night, luckily I woke up by myself.
So my question is whether this can be fixed as I'm fed up. What I tried: changed the battery, tried different chargers, tried to clean the micro USB on the phone (the charging port), installed an updated version of CM 9 from this site. Nothing seems to help. So I'll be grateful if someone can tell me what it is, maybe you've seen this happen. Does it mean my phone has a bad charging controller? I also heard that flashing a different kernel sometimes helps, but there aren't any available for my phone.
Thank you.
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ICS may just have battery stats that don't work for your batteries. Try calibrating the battery:
http://www.androidpit.com/how-to-calibrate-the-battery-on-your-android-device
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nema.batterycalibration&hl=en
If I remember the instructions properly, install the app, charge to full (or half hour past full), open the app to press the button, run it dry, and charge it fully with it turned off (note the LED on mine turns green at the 90% mark, so leave it plugged in and off for about an hour past the time it turns green).
I found with the app, it takes forever to get that last 1% after using it, and it takes a while before dipping below it again, but it seems to be more accurate than CM thinking I had the stock battery installed (I have a couple Ankers now). Hope this helps.
Thank you but doesn't work
Nothing helps. It's surely not related to incorrectly calibrated battery. I did 8-1-1 charge which DID help when I bought a Chinese copy of Samsung Galaxy S3 Mini (my wife is using it now, and it's working fine, battery life is very good). But my stupid phone doesn't react. Just 5 minutes ago, when I was talking to my friend, it still showed about 30% left, then it suddenly died and I even couldn't turn it on, even while it was charging, the red light was blinking. Then it turned on and showed 2%! But the most interesting thing is that now there's something else going on, which I've NEVER seen! Because when I looked at it after approximately 10 minutes, it showed 98%!!! It never did that before. What the hell is happening?????? Then I rebooted it, and now it shows 39%! How's that? I've no idea how to make it work, maybe it's the CM9 which doesn't work corectly with the battery controller, but I think that it's much more likely that the battery controller itself is faulty. Sometimes this happens, and this is a physical fault. Unfortunately, it's too expensive to fix, so I'll just probably have to get a new phone...
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Nothing helps. It's surely not related to incorrectly calibrated battery. I did 8-1-1 charge which DID help when I bought a Chinese copy of Samsung Galaxy S3 Mini (my wife is using it now, and it's working fine, battery life is very good). But my stupid phone doesn't react. Just 5 minutes ago, when I was talking to my friend, it still showed about 30% left, then it suddenly died and I even couldn't turn it on, even while it was charging, the red light was blinking. Then it turned on and showed 2%! But the most interesting thing is that now there's something else going on, which I've NEVER seen! Because when I looked at it after approximately 10 minutes, it showed 98%!!! It never did that before. What the hell is happening?????? Then I rebooted it, and now it shows 39%! How's that? I've no idea how to make it work, maybe it's the CM9 which doesn't work corectly with the battery controller, but I think that it's much more likely that the battery controller itself is faulty. Sometimes this happens, and this is a physical fault. Unfortunately, it's too expensive to fix, so I'll just probably have to get a new phone...
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Well, I am suspecting a hardware issue, but only one way to find out ... go back to stock.
Doesn't have to be true stock, if you no longer have a nandroid of the original OS. MikTouch would work just as well, as the kernels are interchangeable. If you need a download for it, I can help out with that.
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Well, I am suspecting a hardware issue, but only one way to find out ... go back to stock.
Doesn't have to be true stock, if you no longer have a nandroid of the original OS. MikTouch would work just as well, as the kernels are interchangeable. If you need a download for it, I can help out with that.
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By the way, I wanted to install an upgrade - a different version of CM found here (the thread says it's stable enough) to see if a newer system can solve the problem. I found this "[ROM][Official]MyTouch4G Slide CyanogenMod 10.1 [P-21] | 2013-06-16" - but unfortunately, it doesn't work on my phone. It's getting installed, and then it says something like "Updating Android" and then "Starting applications" and just freezes. If you reboot it, it just stops at the CM10 logo. I had this before with CM 9 and wiped Dalvik cache (I think), then the problem went away. Here, no such luck. Doesn't help at all. Will go back (as I did a backup) to what I had. But it's a pity.
RomanKasp said:
By the way, I wanted to install an upgrade - a different version of CM found here (the thread says it's stable enough) to see if a newer system can solve the problem. I found this "[ROM][Official]MyTouch4G Slide CyanogenMod 10.1 [P-21] | 2013-06-16" - but unfortunately, it doesn't work on my phone. It's getting installed, and then it says something like "Updating Android" and then "Starting applications" and just freezes. If you reboot it, it just stops at the CM10 logo. I had this before with CM 9 and wiped Dalvik cache (I think), then the problem went away. Here, no such luck. Doesn't help at all. Will go back (as I did a backup) to what I had. But it's a pity.
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Did you dirty flash, that is not wipe data before installing CM10.1? If so, that would be the cause.
If not, that's new for me. I used TBalden's CM10.1 for a year, never had a problem like that.
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Did you dirty flash, that is not wipe data before installing CM10.1? If so, that would be the cause.
If not, that's new for me. I used TBalden's CM10.1 for a year, never had a problem like that.
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I tried everything, including wiping data/cache/Dalvik cache, then installing the file, I even tried to install the GApps too. Nothing seems to happen. It just gets stuck in the bootloop. When you first turn it on, it stops at "Starting apps", then if you reboot it, it stops working at CM logo (bootloop). I waited for 10 minutes or more, no result. Luckily, I did a full backup so I went back to CM 9. Seems like my phone is simply incompatible with this mod. No luck for me here .

Battery completely dead or other hardware issue? [semi-resolved]

Hi All, my wifes s6 (using xtrestolite rom) has stopped taking a charge. Im trying to figure out what the issue is. Unfortunately im travelling for the next month so have limited trouble shooting options.
Background
- wife has been complaining that her phone battery dies quickly. I kind of dimissed her assuming it was in her head. she said it loses 10percent in standby mode in 1hr roughly. Shes been complaining about this for a week.
- yesterday at the airport her battery was at 12% and when we plugged it in to charge it wouldnt take a charge. Bolt icon did not come up and still said "connect charger" on the screen. Normally when connected the red Led comes on, but now it doesnt.
-our normal chsrging method is using and aukey 3port charger as fast charging mode.
Troubleshooting/diagnosis
- i have an s6 as well so i tested all the cables and chargers on my phone and it works. We even had the official samsung charger and cable but same issue.
- after the phone was completely dead, if you plug in the charging cable the charging bolt icon comes on for a few sec, the top left says "kernel is on seandroid enforcing" for a sec and then everything goes blank. Red charging led doesnt come on. So it seems like it detects the cable but wont charge enough to boot up.
- i was able to boot into twrp recovery but where its supposed to have a battery level its completely blank. Originally i was able to do this without any canles but then it wouldnt. My guess is that i orginally had a bit of juice and then it was completely dead.
-after leaving it plugged in for a sec, im able to turn it on where it boots and i can see it says 0% battery. It stays on for 5sec before turning off itself.
- i also tried plugging it into laptop, but laptop does not detect it. The phone does detect the power though and does the same as above but this time bolt charging icon stayes on for 1-2min before going off and seeing the "kernel is on seandroid icon". Once the seanadroid goes away nothing seems to happen. After doing this i was able to turn it on and it showed 1%. I thought this was promising but after trying this a few times ive never been able to get to 1percent again.
- with the brief charge thst i guess its getting, i was able to go i to twrp recovery and do a factory reset. This was with cable plugged in the whole time. Without cable in i dont think it would complete the action.
That about summarizes whats happened.
Ive concluded the following:
- charger and cables are ok and not the issue
- it is not the charging port since the phone does seem to be getting some juice bacause charging icon comes on for 2sec whenever cable is plugged in.
- its not a software/app issue since it wont charge even in recovery mode. Also factory reset was done and no luck.
My best guess is that the battery can only hold a 0-1% charge which is enough to register it being plugged in but not enough to do anything else. But if everything else is ok shouldnt it work when if the cable is just left in. This makes me think theres something else going on.
Any suggestions or theories would be much appreciated trying to decide if i should pay to get battery replaced.
Sorry for the long post. Figured it is best to give all info.
Thanks in advance!
Update June 3:
Hey everyone, just a correction on the above. It looks like it is able to charge in recovery (slowly). I realized that although there is no battery level during recovery, no charging led, and not booting up after being charged for a bit, maybe its just going slowly.
So i went into recovery and left it overnight on the non-fast charging and woke up after 8hrs and it was at 78percent!!!
Im not sure why it didnt go to 100% in 8hrs.
The phone still doesnt charge regularly when plugged in, so still need to fix that.
Do you guys think its a rom issue (only factory reset done before) ? I will see if i can get a rom for flashing.
Update 2:
Reflashed xtrestolite rom but still no luck. It wont charge.
Seems like a dead battery.
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Battery.
Hey everyone, just a correction on the above. It looks like it is able to charge in recovery (slowly). I realized that although there is no battery level during recovery, no charging led, and not booting up after being charged for a bit, maybe its just going slowly.
So i went into recovery and left it overnight on the non-fast charging and woke up after 8hrs and it was at 78percent!!!
Im not sure why it didnt go to 100% in 8hrs.
The phone still doesnt charge regularly when plugged in, so still need to fix that.
Do you guys think its a rom issue (only factory reset done before) ? I will see if i can get a rom for flashing.
Update 2:
Reflashed xtrestolite rom but still no luck. It wont charge
Bump.
Went to the phone store and they said its probably not the battery but the ic chip for charging? This will cost 150, but doesnt include the screen if they break it...
Does this make sense since i can charge in recovery.
Thanks. Any direction or input is much appreciated.
Go on the local store and change your battery (if isn't in warranty)
Hi all, just wanted to update the post that the issue is semi-fixed.
I brought it into a repair shop who offered to diagnose the problem for free before paying to replace the battery.
He told me there was nothing wrong with it and not sure what my issue was. Plugs in the charger and lo and behold it was charging. He said he didnt do anytning to it except blow some compressed air on the port.
Im guessing the comporessed air cleaned out a short? So now it charges properly.
The issue remaining is that the pc doesnt detect the phone. It shows as charging on the phone but no conmection. Tried to install the latest samung driver (1.5.4xxx?) but no luck. On occation sometimes it says "usb port has malfunctioned" but other times nothing.
My s6 does actually connect, so definitely my wife's s6 itself and not comp. Im tempted to buy some comlressed air and give it ankther blow, but dont want to risk messing it up again. im pretty happy that it at least charges up.
Hope this helps others that might have similar issue.

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