Battery barely charging Evening draining while on charger! - Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III

Okay so this has been going on for a while now but never really paid much mind but now it has got to the point where the phone barely charges 10% in 40 minutes if I'm lucky! I installed AVT to keep in necessary apps from running but to no avail. What could be causing this and why? Verizon S3 running liquid smooth v2.9 OD'd to 1.2ghz thank you in advance
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http://slickdeals.net/permadeal/104...em-micro-usb-charging-sync-cable?#commentsTry a different USB cable or battery

I had the same problem. My Battery was fine but I had to get a new charging cord.

I've already tried different charger/cord combinations thinking that is what it was but no luck. I've looked around the interweb, and found a lot of others having the same problem same are saying that it is a faulty connection on the main board? I really don't want to send it in to Samsung. Wonder of it would be easier to get a new phone versus sending it in? Any thoughts? Thanks also I am now running dirty unicorn 4.3.1 and I have not messed with the oc settings so whatever the room comes preset at is where the phone running at thanks again
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Phone crash with camera flash

I've noticed that when I take a picture with my inspire 4g, with the flash turned on, the entire phone shuts down right away, but when it's turned into automatic, it works fine, has anyone else has this problem, or know of a solution?
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Need a few more details. What ROM, mods,etc. Folks here like to help, but we need to know what you may have modded on the phone.
I'm running stock 2.3.3, rooted, but no custom roms.
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trashbag said:
I'm running stock 2.3.3, rooted, but no custom roms.
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That's odd. I have never heard of that on a stock ROM. But maybe someone else here has. Good Luck
You have a bad or shorted flash led.
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I can use other apps that use the flash, like tazer, and flashlight...
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trashbag said:
I can use other apps that use the flash, like tazer, and flashlight...
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You should try wiping everything and installing a custom Rom or a rooted stock Rom and see if problem persists, could be a software issue. There are plenty of stock rooted gb Roms buried a few pages back in dev forum.
Check my sig. Stock roms. There is a rooted gingerbread PD98img, stock. I think it's the 3rd one,iirc.
With the phone plugged into the charger take a pic with flash on and see if your phone resets. Could be a battery issue.
Agoattamer said:
With the phone plugged into the charger take a pic with flash on and see if your phone resets. Could be a battery issue.
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It worked fine when plugged into the charger, should I get a new battery?
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trashbag said:
It worked fine when plugged into the charger, should I get a new battery?
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That would be my recommendation. If you knew someone with another inspire you could try their battery. Actually your battery should be under warranty. If your phone is stock looking then you could probably take it to an ATT store and let them check it out and get 1 for free. Or even a call to 611 ATT support might get you a new battery for free. Just tell them it won't hold a charge and the flash causes your phone to reboot and you tried a friends battery and it fixed the issue. ATT has very understanding customer support.
It definitely sounds like a battery issue. I had a very similar issue. My phone would shut off at random times, and one thing that caused it was the camera flash. I picked up a new HTC battery on eBay for like $14, and it runs like a dream! If you cant fork over the money for the HTC brand battery, there are lots of cheaper chinese batteries for like $2 a piece. They would be good to just test and see if the battery is the issue if you cant find a buddy that could let you use a battery for troubleshooting, before you buy an HTC battery.
Absolutely! the same thing happened to me a few weeks ago. A new battery solved the issue. If you have a warranty/protection plan call up At&T and they'll take it from there.
Man, I love forums! I was just having this problem this week! I guess my brutal punishment to my battery over Winter break has cost me (I was running the phone down to 0% multiple times a day). Time to get a new battery.
- Jim
Digging into the problem
I was going crazy with this problem! I wonder now what is the problem with the battery, because mine it seems like it keeps current like a good battery. Does anyoane has any "hardware-electrical" explanation?
Anyway, at least I have one solution and I am partially happy with it.
and18old said:
I was going crazy with this problem! I wonder now what is the problem with the battery, because mine it seems like it keeps current like a good battery. Does anyoane has any "hardware-electrical" explanation?
Anyway, at least I have one solution and I am partially happy with it.
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I'm assuming when you say it "keeps current" you have been using a current widget. The camera flash puts a heavy load on the battery. On an older battery, it may look like it's fine at idle or doing simple tasks, but it can no longer handle the tough tasks.

R3velation issue

First, sorry for the new thread & odd spot. I looked for 30 minutes to see if I was duplicating a question, but the search function on this app seems to do absolutely nothing. I also can't post in dev, yet; so I hope The Collective checks this forum.
R3velation works great, and looks even better; I'm very happy I gave it a look.
That said, I have 2 issues:
1. The battery drains FAST. Sitting idle with WiFi & Bluetooth turned off, I lose 50% of the charge in 6 hours. I'm still researching how to operate things like the voltage app that came with the ROM, but if anyone has tips I'd love to hear them.
2. The main reason for this post; sometimes when the screen is off, it just won't come back on. The only thing I can find that works is to remove the battery. Any ideas what this might be!?
Thanks to The Collective for this awesome ROM!
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Question 2 is a sod which they are working figuring out what is causing it. add for battery drain there is an app on the forums called better battery stats you may have to search for it on a computer to find it because i agree the search on this xda app sucks. But that app will help find the cause of the battery drain
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Awesome, thanks! I'll look it up when I get home.
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I'm having a major issue with R3V v2 and I need help fixing this ASAP because it is the best ROM I have flashed to date!!!! Everything works like clockwork except data. I can send text messages but any other app that requires a data connection does not work (no network connection). Does this sound like a modem flash error? X- I downloaded the ROM from your sig.
Have you tried re-flashing? I had a similar issue with a different ROM on my tablet. Re-flashing the ROM fixed it.
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AllWrong74 said:
Have you tried re-flashing? I had a similar issue with a different ROM on my tablet. Re-flashing the ROM fixed it.
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Yes, I had tried re-flashing the original ROM I had downloaded for Experiments signature. That file might have been faulty? idk. Last night after posting about my issue and not wanting to wait another moment to enjoy this awesome ROM I did some research on XDA and found a post where Nun had a link to download R3V v2 but the file had the letter "F" at the end so I figured it to be a different file. Long story short, a little late for that huh? IT WORKED!! Thanks to the Collective, especially Experiment for this splendid ROM.
I know, right? This ROM is the nicest I've seen for Android, yet. Run R3velation OTA, and look at some of the further mods you can get for it. Under "Themes", there's one called "Mongo Toggles (blue)" by X and Mongo41. It looks VERY sweet. The light amounts of blue mixed with the beautiful toggles for the quick panel are awesome. I need to get in touch with them and ask them to make one that has purple in place of the blue. I'd never need another theme if I had that, heh.
Glad you were able to get up and running.
Did you battery life ever smooth out? There is a typically a period of three days or so where you need to wait for a rom to, "settle" before the battery will calm down. Then it should start acting much better.
The SOD issue is one that has been driven to the point of extinction. I ran R3V for a long time, and had no issues. I am now running another rom, and I am having issues. It's all what your phone likes and doesn't like I think. Good luck figuring it out man.
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It's still draining fairly quickly. I didn't get that battery stats app, because it's a pay app, and I don't have the money until payday.
AllWrong74 said:
It's still draining fairly quickly. I didn't get that battery stats app, because it's a pay app, and I don't have the money until payday.
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Hint: you can find a free one on XDA. and
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1510745
[Tips & Tricks] Battery Power Saving on Samsung Infuse
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I had the same battery trouble as you. I flashed the KL2 modem over the LB3, and now my batty life is hundreds of times better.
bigryedog said:
I had the same battery trouble as you. I flashed the KL2 modem over the LB3, and now my batty life is hundreds of times better.
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Thanks for the heads up. I just put the KL2 on the phone, we'll see how that does me.
Maybe it's my imagination, but this modem seems awesome. Battery life seems to have tripled, and I'm not dropping calls at the dead spots in town. What all does the modem cover, just phone & AT&T data? It doesn't handle Bluetooth or WiFi, does it?
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As far as I understand, a modem is only responsible for pulling the voice and data connections from your provider. The best explanation I've found on it is from this thread here:http://http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=22913686&postcount=1
That's what I thought (I had originally misunderstood, and thought there was a modem for voice, for data, for WiFi, for Bluetooth...found out a couple weeks ago that was wrong).
Anyway, that KL2 modem is great. I've only lost 13% of my battery in the last 9 hours with WiFi, Data, GPS, and auto-rotation all turned on. This is as opposed to 50% in 8 hours with WiFi only turned on. (Idling both times, as I was asleep.) It also seems to not be affected by the same dead spots the other modem had, as I didn't drop calls while driving past them like I used to.
I keep getting a FC when trying to open play store help please
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Answered my own question thank you
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L2 modem
has anybody flashed this modem over a stock setup (rooted of course)

[Q] serious hardware issue

Hey guys,
My beloved nexus s 4g appears to be on It's last leg. After running cm9 stable for weeks without flashing any new roms or kernels it started freezing and locking up randomly. Eventually it started freezing midboot and doing nothing. Sometimes it hung on the splash screen and wouldn't boot. Sometimes it randomly rebooted into recovery out of no where.I tried wiping everything and starting clean, same issue. Most often, it will freeze after being asleep for a while and lock up when I press the power button
I tried running stock, same issues.
I tried relocking and unrooting, same issues.
I tried raising the voltages of clock speeds, same issue.
I have noticed if it's plugged in to a charger, it works perfectly. Any chance It's just a bad battery or something else?
Thanks for any advice guys and gals
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Very strange...
RU insured? If so then swap it.
Have u tried to run a logcat to see if it shows anything after reboots?
I think batteries are like $10 bucks or so... or just go to phone store and tell them ur issue and use one if their batteries... but of course you'll need to be back to stock in case they check it
Good luck
Vs Nexus S 4G
brokentoaster24 said:
Hey guys,
My beloved nexus s 4g appears to be on It's last leg. After running cm9 stable for weeks without flashing any new roms or kernels it started freezing and locking up randomly. Eventually it started freezing midboot and doing nothing. Sometimes it hung on the splash screen and wouldn't boot. Sometimes it randomly rebooted into recovery out of no where.I tried wiping everything and starting clean, same issue. Most often, it will freeze after being asleep for a while and lock up when I press the power button
I tried running stock, same issues.
I tried relocking and unrooting, same issues.
I tried raising the voltages of clock speeds, same issue.
I have noticed if it's plugged in to a charger, it works perfectly. Any chance It's just a bad battery or something else?
Thanks for any advice guys and gals
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It could be the battery not giving you appropriate voltage. I'd buy a replacement. At worst you're out of 10$, at best you Nexus S works.
Not insured. Upgraded to evo 3d, but I miss the nexus. I love the pure Google and form factor of the ns. Gonna try buying a new battery. Thanks gang
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Got a new battery. Still has issues booting but seems to be a little more stable. Still not sure its usable as a daily phone :/
Thanks for the suggestions though
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T959V shutting down randomly...

Seems like my phone shuts off every time I turn off the screen. Doesn't shut down when plugged in or when I'm using the phone... I'm using Domination ROM 100% supercharged. Any input on the cause would be greatly appreciated! I have a log cat but I don't seem to see a attachment button!!
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Snowrdr said:
Seems like my phone shuts off every time I turn off the screen. Doesn't shut down when plugged in or when I'm using the phone... I'm using Domination ROM 100% supercharged. Any input on the cause would be greatly appreciated! I have a log cat but I don't seem to see a attachment button!!
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I recently had an issue like this. My phone would randomly shut down. I found it persisted across ROMs so I knew it wasn't that. It ended up being my battery. Bought one off of Amazon and it has been like new ever since.
So my answer .. check the battery if you can. I was lucky enough to know some one with the same phone and was able to swap batteries for a bit to confirm it.
Take the battery and place it on something flat. If it spins easily (swollen). That's a good sign that it is on the way out.
Yeah... the battery seems a tad swollen! Thank you!!
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Snowrdr said:
Yeah... the battery seems a tad swollen! Thank you!!
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Buy these as replacements, you will not be sorry. They are 1800mah, stock is 1650
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005HBH1R2/ref=oh_details_o02_s00_i00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
Is anybody else scared to buy new batteries after that guys sgs3 exploded due to using a non stock battery?
pisherthefisher said:
Is anybody else scared to buy new batteries after that guys sgs3 exploded due to using a non stock battery?
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Even the best batteries can go bad. I've even seen the iPhone split apart from a bad battery swelling up inside.
I've been using an Andida(?) 2300 mAh battery in my GS4G without issue. My HTC G1 has pretty much only been used with random eBay batteries (as the original HTC battery swelled up and stopped working years ago).
I've had some cheap batteries last a long time, and I've had OEM batteries crap out on me.
It's all kinda random.
So... About six and a half hours ago decide to check out that Xylon Ultimatum ROM (still haven't bought a new battery) was runnin P.A.C. All In One, and my phone has not shut off once. over 6 hours now! Could that have been a ROM issue? i thought for sure it was battery cause i been using that P.A.C. ROM for awhile now. and it just started this shutting off thing. i havn't seen anyone post anything with this issue running PAC All In One.
I'm thinking my battery is all good! It's been over 24 hours now and the battery is holding a great charge! Could the pac rom have that issue?
i messed with my voltages with SETCPU app the same way i did with the PAC ROM, and my phone shut off the first time i shut off screen! i subtracted 25 to 50 on all MHz levels. i changed them back and everything seems proper! could this be the cause of my shut down issue???
Thank you!!
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[Q] Samsung Galaxy Blaze 4G will no longer charge

I have a SGH-T769 (Blaze Galaxy S 4G) and I have rooted and put a Cyanogen Mod ROM on it (Note screen shots please!)
Here is the problem:
No matter what battery I use in it (I've tried 3 different ones - all known good - relative term) but it will not charge past ~5-7% now. I've tried the battery calibration application - probably 4-5 times now.
I have wiped the ROM (in the recovery menu) three times. New, never been used SD card. So, it's a clean phone (unless someone has an idea of something that I missed)
The battery(s) work and can get to a full charge in other SGH-T769 devices (T-Mobile stock).
Any other ideas on how to remedy this? It's driving me nuts.
What am I missing?
Glen
If you charge a battery in another phone to 100% and put it in your phone what % does it display? Also I recommend you either use CM 10 (everything works) or CM 11 (newest) as 10.2 was never really developed for our phone.
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I'll look at that for sure
I just used the installer for my phone. You know, the application on the phone, then the Wind-blows installer. I'll update to the version you suggested.
As for the battery in another phone. It was my daughter's SGH-T769. She is able to charge this battery to 100%. I'll have to try that and see what happens.
Thank you for your suggestions.
Glen
tommyboy8125 said:
If you charge a battery in another phone to 100% and put it in your phone what % does it display? Also I recommend you either use CM 10 (everything works) or CM 11 (newest) as 10.2 was never really developed for our phone.
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No luck
I put the version that you had suggested. No luck.
My battery still stops charging at about 5% if I'm lucky.
I think it's a hardware problem. I'm thinking the micro USB port is somehow broken.
I'm going to research an induction charger. Try one out to see if it works. Either that or I'll look at a Galaxy SIII on eBay.
Glen
bartock said:
I just used the installer for my phone. You know, the application on the phone, then the Wind-blows installer. I'll update to the version you suggested.
As for the battery in another phone. It was my daughter's SGH-T769. She is able to charge this battery to 100%. I'll have to try that and see what happens.
Thank you for your suggestions.
Glen
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Only about 5%
Hey - I tried what you said - my battery - I took it and charged it in another phone until it was 100%. My phone says 0% and then after leaving it plugged in/charging for several hours (overnight) it only reached about 5%.
I have tried the wiping of the battery cache - twice.
If you know of any other tricks - I would be very appreciative.
Thanks - G
tommyboy8125 said:
If you charge a battery in another phone to 100% and put it in your phone what % does it display? Also I recommend you either use CM 10 (everything works) or CM 11 (newest) as 10.2 was never really developed for our phone.
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Just curious even though it says 5% how long does it last?
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Not long at all...
Hey - thank you for responding - I'm lucky to get about 20-30 minutes out of it. It's now only charging to about 3%.
The battery will say 100% in my wife's or daughter's phone.
Any ideas? I'm at a loss here.
Thanks - Glen
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Just curious even though it says 5% how long does it last?
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Well you have tried different phones, chargers, batteries, and ROM's. Sorry to say but you may be screwed. I'm out of ideas.
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Yeah - I have
I kind of like this phone - however, I'm going to save some pennies and look at a Galaxy S III. I'm seeing them for around ~$100 USD now. Sometimes cheaper. I'd love a Galaxy S 5, but I've never been one to 'need' the latest and greatest. Let someone else pay for all the R&D I always say!
Thanks for your help - I appreciate it.
G
tommyboy8125 said:
Well you have tried different phones, chargers, batteries, and ROM's. Sorry to say but you may be screwed. I'm out of ideas.
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