The battery level is now displayed as a percentage when charging and the phone is off. Just press the power button but not long enough to boot the phone up. Nice little number in green. Anybody else notice this? Never seen it b4 on stock Android.
My bad if it's been discussed.
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Hello, im kinda new on the forums, anyway the lockscreen battery counter stays at 99 percent even after charging it for a while. This had been happening ever since I upgraded my phone to gingerbread. Any way to fix this?
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Hello, im kinda new on the forums, anyway the lockscreen battery counter stays at 99 percent even after charging it for a while. This had been happening ever since I upgraded my phone to gingerbread. Any way to fix this?
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Go into CWM delete the battery stats. Reboot phone once it is fully booted, pull the battery out and hold the power button for 15 seconds. Let the phone site for a minute or so after you hold the button. Put battery back in power phone on.
Use the phone as normal and let it drain to about 50% then attempt a full charge. It should reset the battery monitoring circuitry.
Hi,
Have a SG3, Slim 2.3 on it, no issues at all. Phone battery got low and went to zero, tuned off. Now it won't charge at all, wall or USB, at least no signs I can tell. I pulled the battery and held the power down, did this same move with the battery and SIM card out. When I pull the battery and put it back in the phone will vibrate briefly and the battery shows with the circle on it then turns off. Nothing after that. Any tips?
Thanks in advance.
Update: Repeated battery/sim/power move for longer duration, fixed. no clue. sorry for the clutter
Device:
VZW Blue SGS3 32GB, original battery
The issue:
This only happens when the device turns itself off due to low battery. When I try to turn on the phone it shows am empty battery icon (i.e., no green or red) with a huge grey recycle type symbol in the center of the battery (a circular grey version of the green recycle symbol, with two half circles instead of three corners of a triangle). This image flashes on screen for maybe 3 seconds and then immediately powers off.
At this point the phone doesn't respond to normal reboot measures (hold power button, hold power + volume, etc). The only way to get the phone to respond is to re-seat the battery. Then, when you plug the power cord in, it will vibrate once then show the battery icon again and turn off.
At some random point in time the phone "revives" itself. Here's where the fun begins. When it "revives" itself (can be anywhere from 10 mins to 10 hours later) the battery looks like it was charging the entire time (i.e., after 2 hours it has a 40% charge)! One time when it revived it was fully charged!
Background:
This happens on the stock ROM as well as Slim Bean (2.6 & 2.7). That's half the reason I went with Slim Bean...exceptional battery life. And, it has worked, as it's only happened twice since switching to Slim Bean. It was happening once a week with the stock ROM because the battery would frequently go below 15% without my knowledge. Now, sure, I can control this by making sure the battery never gets down to 15%. However, a $600 device shouldn't lock up just because the battery gets low!
I did call VZW about this and they were pretty much clueless. They didn't seem to be familiar with that symbol. Their only suggestion was a new battery. I will take them up on the offer, just to get a free battery, but I really don't think it's the battery. If it was the battery then you would imagine this should happen randomly and not just when the battery was low. To me it sounds like the battery charge/protection circuit flaking out. Here's the real thing to consider to discount the battery: the grey icon remains even when the battery itself is at 100%.
Has anyone else seen this problem? I'm at a loss because I can't even google for it...the search terms are too common. So if anyone knows a specific name for this problem, do share!
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Whenever u let ur battery drain way 2manytimes to d red zone w/o charging b4 it gets 2 d yellow warning signal - ur puttin 2much work on ur battery - and it shud eventully need 2b replaced.
Lol, same exact thing that is happening to my phone. Ive learned to deal with it because my phone has physical damage was tl buy a stronger charger or keep the one I already had and not let the phone die. The things you described is 100% my phone lol.
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Hi there,
so apparently my phone battery died today when my phone fell under my car seats.
tried to charge it at work but only had a charger <1A, thought that was too less because it wouldn't move from the 1% screen.
at some point i noticed it wasn't really charging no matter the charger.. tried some tricks from this and other forums. right now it will display the 1% screen when plugged in but the LED is not lit. i can power it up but ofc with a low batt like that it will vibrate briefly and shut off after like 10-15 secs.
pressing vol+ and power button leads to vibrating 3 times and seemingly soft reset, i can plug it in after that and the LED is lit red for charging, but will stop after like 15-30 minutes (1.5A charger) and display 1% screen again.
yellow switch, do i hold that one down 5-10sec with or without any charger plugged in?
as said, without pressing anything after soft reset now i can briefly press power and the screen shows it's "stuck" at the 1% screen, after being plugged in for like half an hour, after the first 15 mins the red LED went out. i'll leave it like this over night but don't have much hope, think it aint charging without the red LED lit?
any input on how i can reboot this thing properly without loosing any data on my phone is greatly appreciated!
oh and i also read the battery cable/contacts inside can be disconnected.. as said the phone fell down in the car, could that be a problem with the symptoms i'm seeing as well?
quick update, let it plugged over night and in the morning it was still showing 1% and no LED.
unplugged it and pushed yellow button for 15 secs, with no reaction. let it sit some minutes and plugged it again, red LED for some secs, then 1% screen and no LED again.
came back after an hour and it shows 30% charge and boots up!
however, no charging LED whatsoever and once booted, it doesn't charge any more (no charging icon anyways).
turned the phone off again and will try to charge it that way..
still seems strange whatever is going on here.
any input?
I hope someone who knows more about this issue comes by to help you! All I think of to ask is if your phone is maybe only charging when the display is on? I have a GPD XD that won't charge if the display is off, it can be plugged in for hours and the battery won't increase. Found that out with a charger that lights up... so I have set it to daydream when charging and it charges that way. I don't know if this will help you at all, if maybe your device is sleeping a little TOO deep :laugh:
The original issue i had was my phone black screened and became unresponsive. power+down did nothing, neither did charging it(wouldnt get charging led or the animation. ) now after plugging it in for a while i could do volume home and power and it restarts but then it powers down partway through it. The current issue is that +_the fact that my battery is draining. im leaving it charging overnight, hopefully itll fully drain and recharge but im not betting on it. any ideas or tips to get this taken care of?