Over the time that I've owned my GS3, I've finally began to notice that it takes longer and longer to charge my S3 and it discharges pretty quickly too. Anyone have a solution to this?
NOTE: I've pulled my battery already, wiped the cache and dalvik cache, reflashed my ROM twice, flashed 3 different ROMs (which were known for battery life and let them settle for 2 days), fixed permissions, etc. I even wiped my battery stats in case that was the issue too. Still takes about 4 hours to charge my phone through a wall outlet.
david_hume said:
Over the time that I've owned my GS3, I've finally began to notice that it takes longer and longer to charge my S3 and it discharges pretty quickly too. Anyone have a solution to this?
NOTE: I've pulled my battery already, wiped the cache and dalvik cache, reflashed my ROM twice, flashed 3 different ROMs (which were known for battery life and let them settle for 2 days), fixed permissions, etc. I even wiped my battery stats in case that was the issue too. Still takes about 4 hours to charge my phone through a wall outlet.
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Try an alternate charger?
I've noticed this as well as much as I charge my phone it will never charge anymore while using it, instead I'll lose battery little by little. I'm starting to thinking it's either the phone getting old of the battery or the mf1 rpm but if someone has mb1 and can confirm that it happens to them as well then that's knocked off.
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I've noticed this as well as much as I charge my phone it will never charge anymore while using it, instead I'll lose battery little by little. I'm starting to thinking it's either the phone getting old of the battery or the mf1 rpm but if someone has mb1 and can confirm that it happens to them as well then that's knocked off.
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I thought I was the only one with the battery draining issue. Lol. I think it's just the phone. I'm using the MK1 modem and it never happened in the past and now Ir's beginning to happen to me.
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Same thing happened to me.I wiped the internal card and did a clean flash of liquid smooth and it charges just fine and discharges normally,I do have the zerolemon
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Finally found the cause of the problem. It wasn't the cable, but rather the connector that had the issue. I tried a connector from an LG phone (don't know which model) and it's charging my phone perfectly fine now. Mods, please lock this thread because the problem's been solved.
david_hume said:
Over the time that I've owned my GS3, I've finally began to notice that it takes longer and longer to charge my S3 and it discharges pretty quickly too. Anyone have a solution to this?
NOTE: I've pulled my battery already, wiped the cache and dalvik cache, reflashed my ROM twice, flashed 3 different ROMs (which were known for battery life and let them settle for 2 days), fixed permissions, etc. I even wiped my battery stats in case that was the issue too. Still takes about 4 hours to charge my phone through a wall outlet.
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Batteries don;t last forever, you failed to mention how old your device is, but a Lion battery has about max, 500 cycles before its garbage. It may not die all at once, they start deteriorating and lose capacity an start to get hot when they charge. Batteries are cheap. If yours is getting old and tired, Try a new one.
There are also some apps out there that can tell you the condition of your battery.
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Batteries don;t last forever, you failed to mention how old your device is, but a Lion battery has about max, 500 cycles before its garbage. It may not die all at once, they start deteriorating and lose capacity an start to get hot when they charge. Batteries are cheap. If yours is getting old and tired, Try a new one.
There are also some apps out there that can tell you the condition of your battery.
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If it really matters, the phone itself is around a year old at this point in time. Normally, I would accept that to be the case, except I've seen reports of the S3s having charging problems due to something that has to do with the charger.
Problem's already been solved though. Switched my OEM Samsung charging adaptor with an LG one and it's all good (still using the stock Samsung cable though since there no problem with it)
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I Have finally busted the myth of infamous battery that hang at 100% until you reboot the phone. Some said it's the lower amped chargers, an issue with battery, and issue with the cable, charging dock or a wild combiantion of all, but i can confirm that it's none of that.
I've done many tests in the past 2 weeks, looked at many threads, solutions, suggestions. I've been able to isolate the problem to ONE variable using a bunch of test with stock batteries, andida batteries, stock chargers, charging docks, stock cables or other cables.
I've had a 2nd skyrocket for about a week because i called up rogers to have my battery exchanged and the only way they could do that was if they send me the entire phone and i would just take out the battery and send the rest back. In any case, i've taked that second skyrocket and made a different bunch of tests with both phone.
My conclusion: It has nothing to do with the battery, charger or cable, the only culprit is BATTERY CALIBRATION. Every time i installed a new rom or flashed back to stock, the problem was absent UNTIL i recalibrated the battery. From that point, every time i would charge to 100%, the battery would hang at 100%. I've tried this at least 5 times, on both stock and custom roms, stock and andida battery, on 2 skyrockets, and every single time the problem appeared was ONLY after calibrating the battery.
Now that we know this, is there a patch that can be made for this? or an update to the actual app?
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I Have finally busted the myth of infamous battery that hang at 100% until you reboot the phone. Some said it's the lower amped chargers, an issue with battery, and issue with the cable, charging dock or a wild combiantion of all, but i can confirm that it's none of that.
I've done many tests in the past 2 weeks, looked at many threads, solutions, suggestions. I've been able to isolate the problem to ONE variable using a bunch of test with stock batteries, andida batteries, stock chargers, charging docks, stock cables or other cables.
I've had a 2nd skyrocket for about a week because i called up rogers to have my battery exchanged and the only way they could do that was if they send me the entire phone and i would just take out the battery and send the rest back. In any case, i've taked that second skyrocket and made a different bunch of tests with both phone.
My conclusion: It has nothing to do with the battery, charger or cable, the only culprit is BATTERY CALIBRATION. Every time i installed a new rom or flashed back to stock, the problem was absent UNTIL i recalibrated the battery. From that point, every time i would charge to 100%, the battery would hang at 100%. I've tried this at least 5 times, on both stock and custom roms, stock and andida battery, on 2 skyrockets, and every single time the problem appeared was ONLY after calibrating the battery.
Now that we know this, is there a patch that can be made for this? or an update to the actual app?
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I am glad this has fixed your problem, but those of us that have spent hours and days troubleshooting this have found it does not correct the issue for everyone..
I can still duplicate the issue in any combination, as mentioned in the other thread, on two phones, 8 cables, 7 batteries now, and 4 power blocks
As also mentioned in the other thread, running the battery calibration app does not resolve the issue in ANY of my testing.
As we concluded in the other thread, there are multiple causes for this issue. Yours is obviously cured by running the calibration app.
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I am glad this has fixed your problem, but those of us that have spent hours and days troubleshooting this have found it does not correct the issue for everyone..
I can still duplicate the issue in any combination, as mentioned in the other thread, on two phones, 8 cables, 7 batteries now, and 4 power blocks
As also mentioned in the other thread, running the battery calibration app does not resolve the issue in ANY of my testing.
As we concluded in the other thread, there are multiple causes for this issue. Yours is obviously cured by running the calibration app.
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Did I misread? I thought the OP said the battery calibration was the culprit, not the cure.
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I am glad this has fixed your problem, but those of us that have spent hours and days troubleshooting this have found it does not correct the issue for everyone..
I can still duplicate the issue in any combination, as mentioned in the other thread, on two phones, 8 cables, 7 batteries now, and 4 power blocks
As also mentioned in the other thread, running the battery calibration app does not resolve the issue in ANY of my testing.
As we concluded in the other thread, there are multiple causes for this issue. Yours is obviously cured by running the calibration app.
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please take the time to read the thread before posting. You have got it VERY wrong!
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Did I misread? I thought the OP said the battery calibration was the culprit, not the cure.
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Exactly, battery calibration is the cause of this. If you dont believe me, restore to stock, and dont calibrate, you will NEVER get the hang problem. I've tried, 5 times, every time the problem was consistent with calibrating the battery
ok gotcha..but in my testing , restoring back to stock and NOT calibrating the battery had no effect either...it still stuck....
so what now lol
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please take the time to read the thread before posting. You have got it VERY wrong!
Exactly, battery calibration is the cause of this. If you dont believe me, restore to stock, and dont calibrate, you will NEVER get the hang problem. I've tried, 5 times, every time the problem was consistent with calibrating the battery
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how did you restore to stock?
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how did you restore to stock?
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odin, stock recoveries..trust me, we tried it.
I am glad you fixed YOUR problem, but it does not solve the general issue. Hell, a number of people having the issue are stock, and can't even run the calibration.
just for the hell of it I am going to do it all over again tomorrow, though I have spent more time on the subject than I care to at this point.
it worked 5 times on 2 different phone... both with stock and andida extended battery
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it worked 5 times on 2 different phone... both with stock and andida extended battery
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I am not saying it didn't work for you...just that it isn't a fix all, just as the "turn on all power saving functions" isn't a fix all.
trust me, I would love to be wrong, but I am not. Not only can a reproduce the issue, but it affects stock phones as well. Battery calibration requires root...so it isn't a factor in those cases.
Man, you guys have really bad luck.
I reflash at 100%, recalibrate, everything constantly, it'll never hang.
That's really weird. :/
As with everyone other post, this is simply one scenario... I think I can speak for most of us in that, we have all found (in most cases) a situation/setup in which we can prevent the issue, in my case I have multiple batteries and 3 phones and having "matched" a battery to each phone that has resolved my problem. I've yet to see the issue in weeks testing MANY scenarios.
Battery calibration has absolutely nothing to do with whether I seen the issue or not.
Yeah rather than arguing back and forth a post with each viable solution would make sense
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As with everyone other post, this is simply one scenario... I think I can speak for most of us in that, we have all found (in most cases) a situation/setup in which we can prevent the issue, in my case I have multiple batteries and 3 phones and having "matched" a battery to each phone that has resolved my problem. I've yet to see the issue in weeks testing MANY scenarios.
Battery calibration has absolutely nothing to do with whether I seen the issue or not.
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My phone has been acting really weird the last few day. I had [ROM][MTD]CyanogenMod 9.0.0-rc2 UNOFFICIAL by TeamAcid[R5][Jul-20-2012 installed on my phone. But it would crash all of the time. Afterwards when the phone rebooted the battery would go from 100% to 9%. If I dont boot the phone back up right after a crash and wait a little while. When I boot it up the battery will be around 40-45%. I used [Heimdall][One-Click] The T959V Heimdall One-Click Collection [05/20/2012] earlier today, Just to see if I continued to have the battery problem. I only had the phone crash once while on the stock rom, and the battery did drain about 50% but I also started having a problem where I would lose my data connection all together. Rebooting the phone brought it back, only to lose it again after around 30min to 1hr. It has not crashed for about 3hrs now and I have not lost my data connection either. Anyone have any ideas what might be going on here? I tried deleting the battery stats with the battery at 100% before going back to stock but that did not seem to help at all. I downloaded a batter calibrator from the market place and tried that as well. Used it when the battery was at 100%. None of this has worked. Now that im back on the stock rom its only crashed once, but the battery did still drain. Any ideas? I would really like to go back to CyanogenMod 9 but its not worth it if the phone continuously crashes and kills the battery. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Try Gremlins Remover.
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So you don't waste any more time, "battery calibration" is snake oil, lithium ion batteries don't need "conditioning" (and actually suffer from both high temperatures and deep discharge cycles), but the moon is made of cheese. Ok, at least the first two are true.
As you're having problems with one of the most stable and reliable GB ROMs for this phone, I suspect that you may have one or more of:
Bad battery
Bad user-land applications
Corrupt application data
Corrupt media data (for example, music on your microSD)
Bad phone
Bad luck
A "start over" approach with a complete clean-out either using the above-mentioned one-click, or doing the equivalent by hand (wiping all partitions, flashing stock, starting with a fresh microSD), then seeing how the phone/battery behaves without any apps would be the path I would take. If it passed that, I'd slowly start adding back apps, and only restoring data/preferences where you really need them.
Im doing the gremlin remover right now. I will let you guys know how to goes. Thanks for the advise, this has been driving me crazy.
Tried the gremlin remover last night and played with my phone today. Its still crashing and then when I boot it up back the battery is pretty much dead... I think i have a bad battery. Never had these problems with the phone before. Thanks for the help guys. I guess Ill get a new battery and see if that fixes the problem.
I have this EXACT same problem. I'm on AOKP and the battery with go from having a decent charge and die. Then if I take the batt out, hold the power button for 15 secs and let the phone sit with no batt for 10 minutes or so, the phone will go back to around 50% batt life. After gremlin remover and Bryan's one click back to stock multiple times, I've finally come to the conclusion that I need a new battery.
I ordered a new battery today. I will let you know how it goes.
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Mine does the same thing... doesn't really crash often.. once in a blue moon. But if I reboot. . I get that instant battery drain ...GR didn't fix it.... I just attribute it to ageing battery.
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So I looked I to this issue more. For anyone having this problem, remove the battery and place it on a hard flat surface to see if it has swollen any, if it has then the battery is defective. My battery actually rocks a little. I could actually tell it had swollen before I even put it on my desk.
That is only for seeing whether a cell has busted. It is normal wear and tear. That is kind of like how u lose battery life after hundreds of cycles because it is just how the current li-ion battery technologies work.
I would download the one click and also reflash boot loaders and repartition your device.
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Tried that, even with bootloaders. OP also stated they used gremlin remover as well. As we we're both having the exact same problem, I was giving him a better solution that wasn't the standard "reflash, repartition, etc."
I finally got my new battery in. And all is well now. Thanks everyone for the advice and help
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thats crazy swapping you battery worked. lol, mine does it too. not so much the crashing just a simple reboot and it will be drop down from 70% to 1%. This was doing the same thing with my phone before my charging port got busted. So i had to swap out the guts from my old galaxy s with broken screen. When i put the new internals in i started with bh's one click back to stock and flashed antonx kernal. Then flashed cm9 and it still does it. i will try a new battery as well.
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Well, I don't mean to come off as rude, but come on guys! I've had this problem for a while, and as soon as it happened I knew I needed a new battery. On top of my phone being somewhat "old", the fact we all play around with it so much, and do so many battery pulls most likely does NOT help the matter. At least I screw around with my phone and try out many ROMs...
But I'm glad I have confirmation that a battery swap will do the trick. It sucks that stores don't carry the t959v battery anymore... Guess I'll be ordering online tonight.
I just a Verizon Galaxy S3 as "like new" replacement. I bought a new oem Samsung 2100mah battery for it. I have it rooted with Incubus JellyWiz rom at the moment. I had another rom before that as well. I have an issue with the phone not charging past 85%. The phone constantly shows the charging symbol and stays at 85% when plugged in and will actually start going down while still plugged in. When I unplug the phone the battery percentage will actually slowly go up to like 92% letting the phone sit idle. I tried wiping battery stats, but the problem is I can't wipe them at 100% because the phone won't get there. Any ideas? Is the battery bad or is it something with the phone itself. This is really annoying. I get good battery life it seems, just the battery % is out of wack
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I just a Verizon Galaxy S3 as "like new" replacement. I bought a new oem Samsung 2100mah battery for it. I have it rooted with Incubus JellyWiz rom at the moment. I had another rom before that as well. I have an issue with the phone not charging past 85%. The phone constantly shows the charging symbol and stays at 85% when plugged in and will actually start going down while still plugged in. When I unplug the phone the battery percentage will actually slowly go up to like 92% letting the phone sit idle. I tried wiping battery stats, but the problem is I can't wipe them at 100% because the phone won't get there. Any ideas? Is the battery bad or is it something with the phone itself. This is really annoying. I get good battery life it seems, just the battery % is out of wack
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Did it does this stock? First step for me when I get something wacky like this is to Odin back to stock, and see how it acts. Problem persists probably is a bad battery, if it goes away something somewhere got goofed up, reroot/unlock and go from there.
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Try cleaning dalvik cache... Someone had same problem in the Inspire 4G forum a couple of years ago and that's what it was..
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Did it does this stock? First step for me when I get something wacky like this is to Odin back to stock, and see how it acts. Problem persists probably is a bad battery, if it goes away something somewhere got goofed up, reroot/unlock and go from there.
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I will try to Odin back to stock 4.0.4 first and see how that acts with the battery.
There is one seller on Amazon who was selling "oem" batteries that did not charge up completely, just as you described. Luckily I checked the reviews before purchasing. It's likely the battery itself.
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Try re setting battery stats .
I put the phone back to stock and problem is still there. Is it most likely a bad battery?
Did you try cleaning the dalvik cache?
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Try cleaning dalvik cache... Someone had same problem in the Inspire 4G forum a couple of years ago and that's what it was..
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I've dealt with this issue occasionally, both on my S3 running AOKP 4.2.2 and my wife's Fascinate running Cyanogenmod 4.2.2. A simple reboot while it's plugged in and charging has always cured it. Today, however, it stopped charging at 75%. After a reboot, it charged to 78% and stopped. Several more reboots didn't help. I cleared Dalvik, and my phone charged right up to 100%. Thanks for the advice.
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I've dealt with this issue occasionally, both on my S3 running AOKP 4.2.2 and my wife's Fascinate running Cyanogenmod 4.2.2. A simple reboot while it's plugged in and charging has always cured it. Today, however, it stopped charging at 75%. After a reboot, it charged to 78% and stopped. Several more reboots didn't help. I cleared Dalvik, and my phone charged right up to 100%. Thanks for the advice.
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Mine had stopped at 95% (GN2 + PP 399 Rc2) and deleting the Dalvik fixed that instantly. So one can conclude the bat was charged, but something in the cache was preventing the display of charge to reach 100. Strange one!
Seems like about two or three weeks ago, just before moving to mf1, I started noticing my phone, while on the charger would not charge positive. It will actually loose battery, even though its plugged in. I have tried multiple chargers, and bought a new battery, but still the same. After a brand new flash, like what I'm on now which is Hyperdrive, it seems to charge initially, then within a few hours of use, it goes the other way. It won't get over 79% even when left on charge overnight. I am considering odining back to stock unless there might be a fix for this. Its almost like the charging drivers are screwed u. When I power the phone off, and try to plug in the charger, no battery symbol shows like it use to, and it just vibrates intermittently. I have to unplug it and power it back on for it to charge.. any help on this would be great.
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Try stock for a few days and see if the problem persist! i would say you probably have a defective battery..I had the issue where the phone would die at full charge and never turn on again and then after a few days the battery would work again..I called Samsung and told them about my problem and they will replaced it for me
I think it's related to the mf1 rpm that is screwed up. My battery tends to hang around 23 percent and will take forever to charge, but in reality it's the reporting that is wrong but your battery is actually charging.
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Try stock for a few days and see if the problem persist! i would say you probably have a defective battery..I had the issue where the phone would die at full charge and never turn on again and then after a few days the battery would work again..I called Samsung and told them about my problem and they will replaced it for me
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well, it was doing it on my original battery, so i thought maybe it was gone bad, and I bought a brand new one and it still does the same thing, so i probably didnt need to spend the 42 bucks..lol
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I think it's related to the mf1 rpm that is screwed up. My battery tends to hang around 23 percent and will take forever to charge, but in reality it's the reporting that is wrong but your battery is actually charging.
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I'm gonna go total stock, take the updates, see how it goes then I will re root if that fixes it.. if not I'm going to take it to verizon and demand a new one.. lol
Hi There. I started having trouble with battery usage. Some services were using SO much power...battery would last an hour or two. It had been a good while, so I went ahead and wiped the phone and flashed a new rom. I was on CM10, now I'm on SlimBean 3.1.0 (also CM10).
I have a few batteries, and just replaced a third party one with actual an Samsung. Using new or old battery, they charge to 75% and stop.
I'm pretty sure they're charging all the way..once I start using them, it'll stay around 70% for a WHILE before droping below that.
I'm guessing there is some combination of draining/charging/resetting stats, but I have not found it yet. I tried resetting stats when the battery was full (at least.. around 75% and not increasing). Maybe I should drain it and then reset? I'll try that next...
Has anyone been through this with a Blaze that can offer some clues?
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Hi There. I started having trouble with battery usage. Some services were using SO much power...battery would last an hour or two. It had been a good while, so I went ahead and wiped the phone and flashed a new rom. I was on CM10, now I'm on SlimBean 3.1.0 (also CM10).
I have a few batteries, and just replaced a third party one with actual an Samsung. Using new or old battery, they charge to 75% and stop.
I'm pretty sure they're charging all the way..once I start using them, it'll stay around 70% for a WHILE before droping below that.
I'm guessing there is some combination of draining/charging/resetting stats, but I have not found it yet. I tried resetting stats when the battery was full (at least.. around 75% and not increasing). Maybe I should drain it and then reset? I'll try that next...
Has anyone been through this with a Blaze that can offer some clues?
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Craaaaap. I thought I had moved out of the dev forum. I'm retarded. Thanks for pointing that out.
Try pulling the battery, sim, and sdcard.
Let phone sit for about 5 minutes.
Pick up phone and hold the power and volume buttons for about 30 seconds.
Place phone down for another 5 minutes.
Put sim, sdcard, and battery back in phone.
Charge for about 30 minutes to an hour.
Turn phone on and let charge completely.
It's best to do this with a battery that is less than 50%.
Don't allow your battery to die completely if you can avoid it.
This trick also helps with laptop batteries.
NEVER, drop your phone in the toilet no matter how pissed you are at it...
Good luck, hope this helps, and next time make sure you are in the right section please.
Thanks. I'll try this.
Ugh...embarrassed. Will do.