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This is my second captivate that I got to replace my other one. The other one had amazing battery life and now that I have the new one, it" sucks".
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Yes definitely broken, burn it
Right. Someone who owns half a brain please respond.
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Guy, how about some details? Your sig says gti900 so your not on stock. How can any one help you with what you posted. Are you using the exact same configuration that you had on your last phone?
oh.... You hurt my feelings by the way
Same setup, actually with out the iverclock too. Im running phoenix now percison.
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You are killing me
When did you flash
Have you calibrated your battery
Are you using the same kernel, modem
what have you tried to improve battery
How long does your phone last on full charge
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mcord11758 said:
You are killing me
When did you flash
Have you calibrated your battery
Are you using the same kernel, modem
what have you tried to improve battery
How long does your phone last on full charge
Some details
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Yes. Same everything. Tried calibrating battery. Everything that drains is off. Is it a faulty unit?
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There its always a chance
If your phone last 8-10 hrs then no you can improve by playing around. If it last like 5 hrs and you have calibrated and have gone through a couple bat cycles then maybe there is an issue.
Chances are, you need to play around
mcord11758 said:
There its always a chance
If your phone last 8-10 hrs then no you can improve by playing around. If it last like 5 hrs and you have calibrated and have gone through a couple bat cycles then maybe there is an issue.
Chances are, you need to play around
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I know, im working on it, but I don't think it will do anythong
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Using the program here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1835791
I tried to unlock my bootloader. Everything seemed to go fine until the program said the phone was rebooting.
The display went dark as if rebooting but never came back on. Since that moment I can't get the phone to power up at all. I can't get into recovery or download mode. The screen doesn't seem to even try to come on. The phone acts as if it has no battery installed even though the battery is there.
Anyone have any suggestions or do I have a legit brick?
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I tried to unlock my bootloader. Everything seemed to go fine until the program said the phone was rebooting.
The display went dark as if rebooting but never came back on. Since that moment I can't get the phone to power up at all. I can't get into recovery or download mode. The screen doesn't seem to even try to come on. The phone acts as if it has no battery installed even though the battery is there.
Anyone have any suggestions or do I have a legit brick?
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sounds like a 100% legit brick. Does it show up as a device when you plug it into a windows computer?
no it doesn't show up at all
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no it doesn't show up at all
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Did you pull the battery and let it sit for a little?
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Yes but only for about 5 minutes or so. I can try longer if you think it might help.
Did your phone have enough charge before you began everything?
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bc760 said:
Did your phone have enough charge before you began everything?
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It was over 80% charged at the time.
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Did your phone have enough charge before you began everything?
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Could be a major detail that some might overlook. That'd for sure do it. I got rid of my OG few weeks ago n I'm still stock so I wouldn't know this, but doesn't the process only take like 10 seconds if that? The actual flashing that's taking place. So it'd have to be quite the odds to lose juice in the middle of flashing. But wouldn't it be charging if its plugged in usb? I hope that my man who posted this gets it powered back up. Would be a major bummer otherwise.
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That's pretty strange see if when you take your battery out of the phone if you can plug into the wall and boot.
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bc760 said:
That's pretty strange see if when you take your battery out of the phone if you can plug into the wall and boot.
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Thanks everyone for the replies.
Yes I have tried it without the battery. Right now I'm letting it sit without any battery or power to it to allow all components to discharge. I'll try it again in a couple of minutes.
I'm beginning to think I've got a real live or rather dead brick.
rckeystone said:
Thanks everyone for the replies.
Yes I have tried it without the battery. Right now I'm letting it sit without any battery or power to it to allow all components to discharge. I'll try it again in a couple of minutes.
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Just to make sure you read and followed all steps right? This one seemed crucial
**** IF YOU HAVE ANY PROGRAMS THAT SYNC WITH YOUR PHONE THEY NEED TO BE UNINSTALLED OR NOT RUNNING BECAUSE THEY CAN CAUSE BRICKS, Pdanet, easytether, droid explorer, kies, etc., etc., on down the line. I repeat if you have a program on your computer that syncs with your phone, it is NOT COOL TO HAVE THAT RUNNING! ****
Just trying to narrow down what the hell could cause the device not to power back up, also how long did you leave the device plugged before disconnecting or pulling the battery. Did oden stop responding or say anything other then rebooting ?
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Also you were already rooted correct?
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rckeystone said:
I'm beginning to think I've got a real live or rather dead brick.
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hope you arent bricked bro. but if you manage to get started up, use ez unlock for vzw sg3. its in the play store. make the whole process take literally one second.
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Could be a major detail that some might overlook. That'd for sure do it. I got rid of my OG few weeks ago n I'm still stock so I wouldn't know this, but doesn't the process only take like 10 seconds if that? The actual flashing that's taking place. So it'd have to be quite the odds to lose juice in the middle of flashing. But wouldn't it be charging if its plugged in usb? I hope that my man who posted this gets it powered back up. Would be a major bummer otherwise.
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The actual flashing takes approximately a second.
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I'm beginning to think I've got a real live or rather dead brick.
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There is a company that JTAGS the phone its $60. You can YouTube it and all the info is there. Sorry to hear that this happened but there is hope!
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egore93 said:
There is a company that JTAGS the phone its $60. You can YouTube it and all the info is there. Sorry to hear that this happened but there is hope!
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Or instead of paying shipping plus not having a phone for a week or so, you could file an insurance claim... Haha. Last I checked Asurion was still giving new phones due to lack of refurbs.
I had to run out quickly earlier to get a new sim for my Thunderbolt so I can have a phone to use in the meantime. The sim I had for it didn't work.
Some good suggestions. Thanks everyone. I'll have to ponder my options few as they are.
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Or instead of paying shipping plus not having a phone for a week or so, you could file an insurance claim... Haha. Last I checked Asurion was still giving new phones due to lack of refurbs.
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Yeah but when Vzw gets it back do they then discover it was rooted and then charge me for breaking warranty? I've always wondered how much they could tell in a situation like this.
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Yeah but when Vzw gets it back do they then discover it was rooted and then charge me for breaking warranty? I've always wondered how much they could tell in a situation like this.
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They don't have to get it. Say you dropped it off a boat and you couldn't save it. They don't need it for insurance.
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I had this happen on an HTC phone one-time. No joke, but to fix it, I think it ended up holding down power + volume down or up and then put the battery in. I tried a bunch of combinations like that until it booted. Same thing when taking the battery out. Does the red light show when the phone is plugged in?
Every since I've rooted the battery in this phone reminds me of my galaxy nexus and that's the reason I sold my galaxy nexus. I have tryed synergy ROM and cm10 with same results. Every 2 mins it drops a percent. I miss the battery life without the phone being rooted.
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How long did you riun the respective Rom's?
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Synergy for 2 days, cm for the last 12 hours
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Might just be a defective battery.
Neverendingxsin said:
Might just be a defective battery.
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root alone wouldn't do this, synergy rom/CM10 might - if you want to "go back" you should only simply have to flash a stock root rom again.
you should probably verify that the screen is turning off, or check the battery life statistics under settings. It could be a bad battery calibration perhaps? Probably should let the battery run down/charge up to calibrate (not sure if that's how it really works on phones but it works for laptops)
Yeah when I charged yesterday it only took a hour and a half from 0-100 I ran it down today to O and charged up again took 3 hours this time and its not dropping as fast very weird.
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You can try BetterBatteryStats to find out what if anything is draining battery.
Did you try to factory reset your phone? You probably need to return stock ROM first.
I oded factory 2 days ago
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I bet it is your battery. My battery has always been great.
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Sounds like a bad battery because when I rooted battery was the same and since the unlock battery has gotten even better! Kind of scary if you think about it.
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tonytownsend said:
Every since I've rooted the battery in this phone reminds me of my galaxy nexus and that's the reason I sold my galaxy nexus. I have tryed synergy ROM and cm10 with same results. Every 2 mins it drops a percent. I miss the battery life without the phone being rooted.
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My was doing that also. I use Synergy 1.7 now and use setcpu and have presets with screen off max 348 min 348 and I get killer battery. I also charge my phone when it is powered down. If you charge at night with the power on the phone stops charging at 100% so you may lose 8%. Your phone will do a trickle down to catch up to the normal reading. So you will lose 1% every couple minutes when you are on it till it catches itself. Yesterday I had tow hours and twenty six minutes of screen time with 13hrs on the battery and still had 46% battery.
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Synergy for 2 days, cm for the last 12 hours
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The general rule of thumb is that a Rom usually takes anywhere between 3 - 5 battery cycles before they Rom settles down and the battery normalizes
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Check for wake locks.. fb used to be hell on my vivow
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not bad
I went to bed normal. Plugged in my s3 into the charger . My battery was like at 4%. I leave the phone on because I use it as an alarm clock. I woke up at 6am and NY phone is really really hot I have no idea why? Why would this be? So I turn it off and let it cool down. Mean the screen was off and everything. Could my charger be bad or? It was so hot you couldn't touch the screen for long.
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well do you have a custom rom on it does it have fast charge is it on? kernel? oc? voltage tweak?
clean rom 3.0, no overclock of any kind, no fastcharge
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I went to bed normal. Plugged in my s3 into the charger . My battery was like at 4%. I leave the phone on because I use it as an alarm clock. I woke up at 6am and NY phone is really really hot I have no idea why? Why would this be? So I turn it off and let it cool down. Mean the screen was off and everything. Could my charger be bad or? It was so hot you couldn't touch the screen for long.
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clean rom 3.0, no overclock of any kind, no fastcharge
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We're going to need more info then that I am afraid to figure out what happened (if we can at all )
You flashed Clean Rom... did you
Use a custom kernel?
Flash the new firmware for the new update?
Flash the new radio for the update?
Any other things you flashed with the rom?
Any apps that have root permission?
I don't think it could be a bad charger .... key words don't think...
If it's not software related and it happens again it could be a bad cell in the battery perhaps and it's still trying to charge to capacity .... the more info you give us the more we can try and trouble shoot it.
Thank You for messaging XDA Anonamooose Tech support .....LOL
Anyone else have some insight?
Actually this happened before on my gnex . Thought the battery was bad but it can't be this battery also. What's weird was it charged it to 15% instead of 100% its like all the power after 15% was just heating it up instead of charging? Or could the battery be bad because I. Plugged it in again and it charged 33% in like 55minutes a 4400mah anker battery
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Airplane mode was also on
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thrgk said:
Actually this happened before on my gnex . Thought the battery was bad but it can't be this battery also. What's weird was it charged it to 15% instead of 100% its like all the power after 15% was just heating it up instead of charging? Or could the battery be bad because I. Plugged it in again and it charged 33% in like 55minutes a 4400mah anker battery
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its probably because your using a third party battery
Should I use siedio?
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So it really wasnt on fire, it was just really hot.
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Should I use siedio?
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i would just use the stock battery, its pretty darn good.
I almost always get 24 hours on stock battery. You people are crazy for needin to switch batteries
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You may have also had hot spotting on, this has happened to me bfor, leaving hot spotting on for any long period of time can have the same effect.
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Happened to me. It was under my pillow. Had to put in freezer for 4 minutes
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Happened to me. It was under my pillow. Had to put in freezer for 4 minutes
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Taking a hot expanded object and exposing it to quick contraction is how you pop solders and crack circuit boards.Exposing to sudden heat is not as bad as sudden cold. Plastic shrinks at a different rate then metal, and so on.
You got lucky.
I have the chinese variant of the standard battery and it's not nearly as good.
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I have the chinese variant of the standard battery and it's not nearly as good.
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Because its a chinese knock off...
Disappointed to come in here and seeing your phone was just hot and no actual pictures of it being on fire
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Disappointed to come in here and seeing your phone was just hot and no actual pictures of it being on fire
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Me too! Ir took it literally. Good way to get your thread some attention though....
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leyvatron said:
So it really wasnt on fire, it was just really hot.
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LOL, my thoughts exactly......ppl exaggerating again
Yeah I left mine under my pillow while charging. Thought I was gonna burn my hand xD don't worry though because the gs3 can take a LOT of heat to the point of being too hot to toutch.
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Ok so I'm already on 4.3, but I think I may have messed something up. Is it ok if I flash the 4.3 firmware with Odin to get back to plain stock. Here is the file:
http://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=23269279319199798
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Yes, it just erases /sdcard and restores you to OOTB factory settings.
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Ok because I'm having a bad battery issue. Won't stay charged long and charging is unbelievably slow. Like 1% in 30-45 minutes. It's a brand new phone!
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ProtheusIRC said:
Ok because I'm having a bad battery issue. Won't stay charged long and charging is unbelievably slow. Like 1% in 30-45 minutes. It's a brand new phone!
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Dang, that's pretty terrible