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[Q] dock battery meter?

is there a way to tell what is the battery level of the dock?

I am also very curious if there is a way to determine how much battery life is left in the dock.

Nope there isn't.

Thats not good

kojo2001 said:
Thats not good
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Not something Asus can do anything about either, Android isn't made to be compatible with battery docks. This is a completely new concept so yeah.

seshmaru said:
Not something Asus can do anything about either, Android isn't made to be compatible with battery docks. This is a completely new concept so yeah.
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Yes and no. Assus could add an api so that the battery level could be read. I know that ANT+ hardware is not supported in android, but sony-ericsson have them in there X10 mini and provide access via an api. My guess is that assus will provide support for battery level in future updates. New concepts ask some time.

What happens when the keyboard battery fully depletes, does it just become unresponsive?

No keyboard can be dead gets power through tablet
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Only way I know how is to plug it into the charger and look at the light pattern. The patterns are described in the manual. Also if it's not plugged in but drops below 10% the red light next to the charging plug will blink red (Asus calls it Orange in their manual).

I tend to disagree with everyone here.
my tablet has been in the dock for 2 days and the tablet was 100 going in and now its 97% i think my tablet might take into account the battery in the dock too. Theres no lighting bolt on the battery

biggiephat said:
I tend to disagree with everyone here.
my tablet has been in the dock for 2 days and the tablet was 100 going in and now its 97% i think my tablet might take into account the battery in the dock too. Theres no lighting bolt on the battery
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sorry if I'm coming off as a douchebag but it's plain wrong. Asus themselves have said the battery meter does not take the dock into account.

seshmaru said:
sorry if I'm coming off as a douchebag but it's plain wrong. Asus themselves have said the battery meter does not take the dock into account.
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then explain why this is happening

biggiephat said:
then explain why this is happening
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The dock isn't charged. When not attached to anything the dock still drains power on it's own. Fully charge your dock (2~3 hours) and tablet seperately to make sure they're both full, then attach the dock to the tablet and see if the battery meter starts draining right away.

seshmaru said:
The dock isn't charged. When not attached to anything the dock still drains power on it's own. Fully charge your dock (2~3 hours) and tablet seperately to make sure they're both full, then attach the dock to the tablet and see if the battery meter starts draining right away.
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docks charged...no lights have ever come on on it. wish there was more documentation about this dock. i was on 98% at 9am this morning. 15 hours later im at 97%...dock has to have something to do with that

biggiephat said:
docks charged...no lights have ever come on on it. wish there was more documentation about this dock. i was on 98% at 9am this morning. 15 hours later im at 97%...dock has to have something to do with that
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if no lights are on then it obviously isn't charged and the dock is running off tablet battery power.

seshmaru said:
if no lights are on then it obviously isn't charged and the dock is running off tablet battery power.
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sure....then im incredibly confused by this then....closing the lid when docked must practically turn everything off cause im still at 97% with 37 hours uptime.

biggiephat said:
sure....then im incredibly confused by this then....closing the lid when docked must practically turn everything off cause im still at 97% with 37 hours uptime.
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Your tablet obviously is going to sleep properly and doesn't have any apps causing many wakelocks when the screen is off. What happens is it drains the dock's battery first then after that drains the tablets battery. That's straight from Asus. What you're seeing is an affect of that. They've also said they are working on optimizing the way Android handles this second battery so we'll be seeing strange things with the meter until then.
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[Q] Keyboard not charging or not retain charge somehow!

Basically I just got my TF combo for few days, and I gotta say I'm impressed with it so far. However, I encounter 1 weird bug like this:
Ok, before I go to bed, I put the TF on the kb dock and plug the combo to the wall-charger (just like I charge my other devices). I can see the battery icon on the TF changed to a thunder icon suggesting it's charging. However, I've waited and see no fully charged icon at all. Then I let it charge overnight. The next morning I wake up (I've tried this for few days), I see the thunder icon disappeared (wall-charger still plugged in btw), and the kb dock has not been charged (or has been discharged completely somehow). I can say this because the internal TF battery is now discharged under normal usage and shows no sign of kb battery or the kb is charging the tablet.
So far, due to this bug, I couldn't experience the "16 hours" claim.
If you guys have any suggestions, please advise.
Thanks.

thinh3d said:
Basically I just got my TF combo for few days, and I gotta say I'm impressed with it so far. However, I encounter 1 weird bug like this:
Ok, before I go to bed, I put the TF on the kb dock and plug the combo to the wall-charger (just like I charge my other devices). I can see the battery icon on the TF changed to a thunder icon suggesting it's charging. However, I've waited and see no fully charged icon at all. Then I let it charge overnight. The next morning I wake up (I've tried this for few days), I see the thunder icon disappeared (wall-charger still plugged in btw), and the kb dock has not been charged (or has been discharged completely somehow). I can say this because the internal TF battery is now discharged under normal usage and shows no sign of kb battery or the kb is charging the tablet.
So far, due to this bug, I couldn't experience the "16 hours" claim.
If you guys have any suggestions, please advise.
Thanks.
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Did you install the OTA update?

jerrykur said:
Did you install the OTA update?
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It came with 8.2.3.9 and no, I did not install any OTA update (I wish I could though)

its out. just check for updates, it will pop a notification. fixes most dock issues.

as far as I can tell, the 8.2.3.13 is only available to US and Taiwan customers only. Mine is UK version, so no update is available yet

With the dock plugged into power, what does the LED light next to the jack on the side of the dock do? Blinking red? Solid red? Solid green?
And the icon would be a lightning bolt, as lightning is actually electricity. Thunder is just noise from the superheated air caused by lightning.

FrayAdjacent said:
With the dock plugged into power, what does the LED light next to the jack on the side of the dock do? Blinking red? Solid red? Solid green?
And the icon would be a lightning bolt, as lightning is actually electricity. Thunder is just noise from the superheated air caused by lightning.
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Thanks for clarifying ^^ English is not my native language so excuse me for that
btw, when charging with the TF docked, the light next to it is solid orange (it's not so red ). When I'm using the combo, the light is blinking orange (slowly). I've never seen the light turns green ever!
Last night I reset the TF and unplug/replug the wall charger. I noticed this morning when I wake up, the TF still shows the lightening icon (it doesn't the other morning), but when I unplug the combo, the lightening icon disappeared immediately and showed no sign that the kb is still providing power to the TF (which I've heard it suppose to do).
I start to think I have a defective kb here...or may be just the FW problem...will have to wait till I get the newest FW update to find out But no sign of new FW for UK/WW SKU

Mine has been fine (got the combo last Friday) - charge took about 7 hours and light went green) discharging it over the weekend and not on the second recharge) - I'm in the UK with the fact installed FW - no issues here so is yours faulty? I'd get onto Asus myself?

when the dock is fully charged, the LED should go green...
hopefully the release with battery indicator of both the tablet and keyboard can be out soon...it does seem like a mystery to figure out which part is providing the power..(yes..we all know how it should work but this may not always be the case)
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Solid Green light = Battery above 95% charge.
Solid Orange (they call it orange) = 10-95% charge.
Orange blinking = Battery less than 3-10% charge.
Orange fast blinking = Battery less than 3% charge.
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Just in case... are you plugging it in the tablet or the keyboard? I don't think plugging in the tablet would charge the keyboard would it?
EDIT: ignore this post. I just realized my mistake ;-) I need coffee this morning!!!

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Solid Green light = Battery above 95% charge.
Solid Orange (they call it orange) = 10-95% charge.
Orange blinking = Battery less than 3-10% charge.
Orange fast blinking = Battery less than 3% charge.
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- It is not stated here. Does "Solid Red" mean "charging"? Thanks in advance.

How to completely discharge TF & dock?
How do you completely discharge TF & dock unit for a complete re-charge to eliminate any battery memory problem? Just use the units until it completely out of juice and shut down on its own I guess?
Thanks in advance.

AcidCool2K said:
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Solid Green light = Battery above 95% charge.
Solid Orange (they call it orange) = 10-95% charge.
Orange blinking = Battery less than 3-10% charge.
Orange fast blinking = Battery less than 3% charge.
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- It is not stated here. Does "Solid Red" mean "charging"? Thanks in advance.
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there's no red..so Solid Red is just Solid Orange..and it's 10-95% charge..so presumably it's still charging..

I've been charging the dock only for 6-7 hours straight now, and it still shows solid orange light. I think I'm gonna leave it plugged in overnight to see what happens the next day.
How long does it take for your docks to turn green?
btw, is there anyway I can reset the dock somehow?

AcidCool2K said:
How do you completely discharge TF & dock unit for a complete re-charge to eliminate any battery memory problem? Just use the units until it completely out of juice and shut down on its own I guess?
Thanks in advance.
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I wonder this as well ^^

OK, after plugged the kb in for at least 7 hours straight, I took it out and docked the TF. guess what? It's blinking orange, and not charging the TF at all!!!!
I just couldn't wait for the official .13 FW from ASUS so went ahead and updated by using Prime ROM. It comes with 0209 FW fro the KB as well, so hopefully it'll be fixed. I'll try and see in the next morning. But it seems like I'm having a defective kb here >_<
Damn!

How do you know what charge you have in your kb. For example my tf which is docked at the moment is showing 99% charge but that is presumably the tf only not the kb as well. So how do I know when the kb needs recharging ?
Also does the charge indicator light on the kb only show up when it is plugged into mains ?
I am using latest firmware in UK

steftymo said:
How do you know what charge you have in your kb. For example my tf which is docked at the moment is showing 99% charge but that is presumably the tf only not the kb as well. So how do I know when the kb needs recharging ?
Also does the charge indicator light on the kb only show up when it is plugged into mains ?
I am using latest firmware in UK
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At the moment the tablet only shows it's own charge, even when docked. And yes, until they add the battery meter for the dock in a future firmware, I think the only way to see the docks charge at the moment is by plugging it in and looking at that led.

It's definitely not holding any charge after fw update, and of course not charging the tablet Just called Asus, provided no help at all, said I should contact retailer for help Damn!

thinh3d said:
It's definitely not holding any charge after fw update, and of course not charging the tablet Just called Asus, provided no help at all, said I should contact retailer for help Damn!
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you probably have a defect kb dock....mine went from orange to green within two hours..

Dock Battery Issue

Hey guys,
I'm reading through the dock threads and I see a lot of issues with the battery, but I didn't see anyone with the same problem as me. Maybe it's not a problem, but I figured I'd put it out there just to make sure.
Sometimes my dock will read at 0% battery, then suddenly spike up to the proper battery percentage. It usually happens after it's asleep, then wakes up. Last night I had charged the dock to 100%, then unplugged and plugged into the tablet a short while later. It was reporting 0% and had a flashing orange light. I then charged it today and it held the charge, but still doing the strange 0% to "real" percent thing.
I have both a B60 dock and B60 tablet and I am using Prime 1.7 ROM.
Has anyone heard of this? Is my dock bad? I can still RMA it as it's brand new.
Thanks!

I did a test last night by fully charging the keyboard then plugging it into my tab at 17% battery. When I woke up, the dock had 3% and the tab had 76%. This seems pretty on par with what I'd expect. I just don't want to charge the tab and have it not hold a charge at all.

How do you even know how much your dock is charged?

I use a couple of the dual battery widgets (still haven't decided on one). I sent my dock in for repair on the drainage issue a couple weeks ago. Since getting it back I have noticed that when I wake the tablet up, it can take a long time (Sometimes up to ~5-10 minutes for the dock battery to show the correct voltage). I had upgraded to 3.2 while the dock was out for repair, so don't know if its something with the new dock hardware, or a 3.2 issue.
The other day had the dock reading 0 and even after an hour of use, never did show it had a charge. Thought I was screwed because I had read several threads that said if you ran the dock down to 0, they couldn't ever get it to charge again. Plugged it in overnight and let it set, fired it up the next morning and both were at 95+%.

mikelt89 said:
How do you even know how much your dock is charged?
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Would also like to know - is there a setting on the transformer that allows me to view the docks battery status?
Thanks

mikelt89 said:
How do you even know how much your dock is charged?
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321eod said:
Would also like to know - is there a setting on the transformer that allows me to view the docks battery status?
Thanks
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When you click the notification bar, it says "Docking Connected" and then the dock battery percentage to the right. I'm assuming that is the dock battery percentage... I'm not sure if it's part of the rom, but I think I remember it being there when I was stock.
lordgodgeneral said:
I use a couple of the dual battery widgets (still haven't decided on one). I sent my dock in for repair on the drainage issue a couple weeks ago. Since getting it back I have noticed that when I wake the tablet up, it can take a long time (Sometimes up to ~5-10 minutes for the dock battery to show the correct voltage). I had upgraded to 3.2 while the dock was out for repair, so don't know if its something with the new dock hardware, or a 3.2 issue.
The other day had the dock reading 0 and even after an hour of use, never did show it had a charge. Thought I was screwed because I had read several threads that said if you ran the dock down to 0, they couldn't ever get it to charge again. Plugged it in overnight and let it set, fired it up the next morning and both were at 95+%.
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Thanks for chiming in. I'm thinking this might just be a software issue and not a dock issue then. I'll see how things go over the next few weeks.

Tablet close when i unplug my charger

Helllo guys.
When i charge my tablet , all is ok ( i think ) , all works very nice and shows me that battery is 100%
but when i unplug it , instantly my talbet dies and then , it tries every 3-5 sec to open alone with out press my power button....again and again until it dies .
Then if i place my charger again, the first time the little battry icon , starts to charge from the begging, it goes on 100% and say that my tablet is full!
I think the problem is that tablet cant find my battery or something like that.
Thanks in advance for your help.

glixbourkt said:
Helllo guys.
When i charge my tablet , all is ok ( i think ) , all works very nice and shows me that battery is 100%
but when i unplug it , instantly my talbet dies and then , it tries every 3-5 sec to open alone with out press my power button....again and again until it dies .
Then if i place my charger again, the first time the little battry icon , starts to charge from the begging, it goes on 100% and say that my tablet is full!
I think the problem is that tablet cant find my battery or something like that.
Thanks in advance for your help.
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Which Tablet and i will tell you

sralli said:
Which Tablet and i will tell you
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Its an unbranded tablet from china.
U ask that because u want to see my battery ?
I try to open it and i saw that battery cables are with some metal kind of glue on tablet inside it , there is not a chip to remove for about 2 minutes and then put in again the battery.
Thanks for your help!
sorry for my english.

glixbourkt said:
Its an unbranded tablet from china.
U ask that because u want to see my battery ?
I try to open it and i saw that battery cables are with some metal kind of glue on tablet inside it , there is not a chip to remove for about 2 minutes and then put in again the battery.
Thanks for your help!
sorry for my english.
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no problem my friend (for your english)
you mean to say is that when you on your tablet, it shows 100% and it swithces off- correct? can you use ypur tablet while charging- then i may be able to help you!!

sralli said:
no problem my friend (for your english)
you mean to say is that when you on your tablet, it shows 100% and it swithces off- correct? can you use ypur tablet while charging- then i may be able to help you!!
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yea i can using it while i charging, but if i remove it , it freezes and then switch off and try to open alone with out me , but it cant ,so it tries again and again....
1 week ago i had another problem (this problem last 15 days ) but fixed alone ...i dont know why....
I have a similar threat on this site too for my last problem but now its ok ( battery stuck on 100% always and when switch off (dies because i didnt knew how % batter i had) clock and date remove)

glixbourkt said:
yea i can using it while i charging, but if i remove it , it freezes and then switch off and try to open alone with out me , but it cant ,so it tries again and again....
1 week ago i had another problem (this problem last 15 days ) but fixed alone ...i dont know why....
I have a similar threat on this site too for my last problem but now its ok ( battery stuck on 100% always and when switch off (dies because i didnt knew how % batter i had) clock and date remove)
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a doubt- when you switch off your tab- and plug in your charger- it starts charging right? so when you finish your charging (in the off mode) and then on your tab- does it run on your battery

sralli said:
a doubt- when you switch off your tab- and plug in your charger- it starts charging right? so when you finish your charging (in the off mode) and then on your tab- does it run on your battery
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Yea, this happens if i charge my tablet with 4.5 VOlts with charger !
if i charge with 5 Volts my tablet, i dont have this problem , but creats another one ,
battery always stuck on 100% and i cant see when its on 0% so to turn it off, and when it dies all my date +clock delete .

glixbourkt said:
Yea, this happens if i charge my tablet with 4.5 VOlts with charger !
if i charge with 5 Volts my tablet, i dont have this problem , but creats another one ,
battery always stuck on 100% and i cant see when its on 0% so to turn it off, and when it dies all my date +clock delete .
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Is it rooted?? does it have CWM??

sralli said:
Is it rooted?? does it have CWM??
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Its rooted , doesnt have CWM , i dont know how to install it , cause i dont know my tablet model.

Ok i think i understand the problem now ,
It seems that if i unplug my charger from tablet, tablet starting to charge itself even without it , for example, i left it few hours to charge , it was on 71% and then when i unplug it it start to go 73-75-77-79(after 10 min) and went on 100%(after 40-50 min) until said charged.
so the problem is that when i unplug it , it keeps to charge alone

what V does your tab support?

two day ago i updated my acer tablet win8.1 iconia, the next day it started to shut down itself when i unplug the power cable and when am on the battery and i try to plug the power cable back it shut down too, i think there is something wrong with one of the software i updated. thank.

[Q] Battery temp too low and not charging

Hi All,
I have this problem of the tab not charging,
Was searching all week and had no luck. Seems like a common problem among phones especially on SGS and SGS2.
When it was on , it showed a message saying charging paused Battery temp too hot or cold.
Now the battery is drained, and when charged to the mains, it would show a yellow triangle, and a thermometer.
See picture attached..
http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j236/akatora1984/20130703_204829.jpg
Just wondering if anybody had any luck figuring out why this is happening and any work around?
Just to rule things out, Tab had not been in any wet places...

service manual
I was going through the service manual and it was saying,
"If the battery will no longer charge, completely you need to replace it with a new battery. Take you device to your local service centre.."
Thoughts?..
akatora1984 said:
Hi All,
I have this problem of the tab not charging,
Was searching all week and had no luck. Seems like a common problem among phones especially on SGS and SGS2.
When it was on , it showed a message saying charging paused Battery temp too hot or cold.
Now the battery is drained, and when charged to the mains, it would show a yellow triangle, and a thermometer.
See picture attached..
http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j236/akatora1984/20130703_204829.jpg
Just wondering if anybody had any luck figuring out why this is happening and any work around?
Just to rule things out, Tab had not been in any wet places...
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Well first if you still got factory warrenty...
get it fixed by samsung...
If you want to save a few dollars you could attempt to pry the screen out from the back cover and charge the battery externally then if thats a NO GO buy another battery online and then put it back together.
Ive read before with charging problems that if teh battery gets completely Flat it wont have enough charge in it to activate the charging circuits.eg when you plug in charger you get black secreen and no battery icon,you need to pop the screen out and remove the battery and charge it from a external source.then replace it.
Never seen anything about your particular problem though...

I will enquire to Samsung, not expecting much because, tab7.7 was never officially launched in Aust.
Ho do you go about charging, externally?
MRBR7 said:
Well first if you still got factory warrenty...
get it fixed by samsung...
If you want to save a few dollars you could attempt to pry the screen out from the back cover and charge the battery externally then if thats a NO GO buy another battery online and then put it back together.
Ive read before with charging problems that if teh battery gets completely Flat it wont have enough charge in it to activate the charging circuits.eg when you plug in charger you get black secreen and no battery icon,you need to pop the screen out and remove the battery and charge it from a external source.then replace it.
Never seen anything about your particular problem though...
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Try plug in wall charger for 30 mins then hold power button for 15 seconds.This is good for waking it out of deep sleep and getting it to trigger charge.
another thing is possible fix from factory reset in twrp?
i would try a few things like this and leave opening it up as a last resort.
for your info google how to open up galaxy tablet and you can find pics
how to prise the screen out of the back cover.ive bought tools for this but havent done it yet as worried about damadging screen or cracking it.
there are clips around it and you have to pop the clips out.
Australia samsung probly wont fix it as not australian model..

another thing to ry is charge using ipad 2ma charger...

Experienced exactly the same issue in May 2013. It was functioning well and charging without problem all along and suddenly turned out like this. Tried different method to have it charged but no luck. I have to bring it back to the service center for repair finally.

sk78 said:
Experienced exactly the same issue in May 2013. It was functioning well and charging without problem all along and suddenly turned out like this. Tried different method to have it charged but no luck. I have to bring it back to the service center for repair finally.
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Did the Samsung guys tried to explain anything about this?
What did they replace? Did they just replace a battery?
Please let me know.
Cheers
JK

Galaxy GT-N5110 Note 8.0 - Charging paused...battery temperature too low...
I purchased a Galaxy Note 8.0 (GT-N5110) last July. It's been working great until yesterday when a window popped up stating "Charging paused. Battery temperature too low."
I tried shutting the Note down and charge the battery whilst turned off. It seems to be charging just fine at the moment. Will check it in a few hours when the battery has been fully charged.
I installed an app called Battery Monitor Widget. It's reporting that the battery temp is around -2c to -4c while charging.
UPDATE: Battery is charged @ 100% and the Note is still on AC power. Battery Monitor is reporting that the battery is -3.7c then to -5.9c...
My next test is to completely drain the battery and see about charging then.... Will keep you posted...
Can't post screenshots for now...
Skol!
~Z
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TheZStation said:
I purchased a Galaxy Note 8.0 (GT-N5110) last July. It's been working great until yesterday when a window popped up stating "Charging paused. Battery temperature too low."
I tried shutting the Note down and charge the battery whilst turned off. It seems to be charging just fine at the moment. Will check it in a few hours when the battery has been fully charged.
I installed an app called Battery Monitor Widget. It's reporting that the battery temp is around -2c to -4c while charging.
UPDATE: Battery is charged @ 100% and the Note is still on AC power. Battery Monitor is reporting that the battery is -3.7c then to -5.9c...
My next test is to completely drain the battery and see about charging then.... Will keep you posted...
Can't post screenshots for now...
Skol!
~Z
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UPDATE: Now on battery, the battery temperature is reporting at -4.7c...

I some how fixed it by accident..
First I thought it was a faulty battery only to realise that replacing the battery did not work...
Next I followed one of the remedies I read where it said to connect the charger to the unit with the wall charger connected and connect the battery (there is a ribbon cable).
Some how it worked. Started charging etc.
I noticed that the battery had full charge as I had it plugged in for a whole night before when i was experiencing the TEMP too low symptoms.
It seemed as if it was charging all along but was showing that stupid error on the surface...
Hope this helps some people.
JK

Have this issue with one of my S4's (fortunately I have a couple so can swap things about)
The phones had a life of luxury on my desk, except it suddenly started reporting 'battery temperature too low' issue and not charging
The same battery in another S4 is absolutely fine, so the battery itself is ruled out (and indeed 2 other batteries will not charge in the unit having problems, despite working fine in other S4's)
It seems that something has died in the S4 itself internally. and is likely going to require replacement/fix at a service centre.
How many other people have this? - it could be an issue with the device build.