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Battery Charging Issue

I know there is a bug in which after an overnight charge, the unit is unresponsive unitl you soft reset it. I've read the thread. My TP exhibits this problem as well. However, mine seems to have an additional problem not mentioned in that thread. After charging overnight, my TP IS NOT CHARGED! After an overnight charge, the battery is nearly dead and a soft reset does not fix that. It has happened several times now. After plugging it into the charger before bed, I confirm that the charge light is on and that it shows charging on the status screen, however, THE BATTERY IS NOT CHARGING. Has anyone else experienced this quirk? It doesn't always do this, however, so I'm very confused about what is happening.

Dumb question - but are you using the factory charger? I had a problem when I purchased my Touch Pro in the fact that I used another charger which also was USB for another phone, but for some reason had that problem. Using the charger supplied with the phone fixed it.

eryeal said:
Dumb question - but are you using the factory charger? I had a problem when I purchased my Touch Pro in the fact that I used another charger which also was USB for another phone, but for some reason had that problem. Using the charger supplied with the phone fixed it.
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Yup. Factory charger and cable. Not a dumb question, BTW. That could have very well been the problem although any USB charger should work.

What about if you turn the phone off and charge?
On a related issue, I used TomTom the other day for a 1 hour trip with the phone on a USB lighter socket charger. Started with 48% full battery, when I finished the battery was down to 30%!!! Basically the phone uses more power than the USB can provide when the screen+GPS is on!! I also find plugging the phone into the charger with the screen on & WiFi on will mean the phone charges at a speed of 1% every 8 minutes - taking all day to charge from empty!
To ease the problems I purchased a separate phone+battery cradle off eBay and a spare battery. I swap to the charged battery every morning and put the other one in to charge. The used battery is usually at 25% after a good days use. Before I did this and charged using the USB plug I used to get 6 hours use before needing to re-charge.

Disconnect the cable from the factory charger and plug in in your PC, see if it charges there. If it does, then you can return your charger, if it doesn't then i'd return my TP.

I have had the Touch Pro for eleven days(got in October 31,2008) and I have issues with the phone. First, I love this phone, however, the battery will not hold a charge. I started with a fully charged battery, used sprint navigation to direct me on a 2 hour trip. My phone was dead by the time I got to my destination. The phone was extremely hot, I mean extremely hot during the entire trip. The next day I took the phone into the sprint store and they switched the battery and told me that the phone check out okay. for the next several days, i used the phone sparingly to see if the battery was okay. I made about 7 calls and 12 text messages, my battery was down 3 bars after being fully charged. I tried the navigation within the city limits and the phone again stared to get hot. My sprint picturemail would not work, it takes hours to send a picturemail. I call customer care and talked with technical support, who did not have a clue about the phone, they had me on hold, researchec, told me to do a few things and then had me to perform a hard reset. The picturemail worked for a few messages and then it started to take hours to send a picturemail. i then went into a sprint store for ready now service to see if there was something I was doing that was causing the battery loss, etc. The CSR in the store did not have a clue about the phone. He went through the computer told me a few things to do and that was it. My battery continued to perform poorly, so I again called customer care and was told afte a serious of conversations and procedures that i need to have the phone replace and that my phone could be defective. They told me to go in to a store and have them make the switch. Well, there are no phones in any of the stores in my area. I call customer care again and asked them to look at the notes on my account and send me a replacement phone, because there are none available in the stores. That was a horror story and i currently have an expensive phone that i have to keep on the charger. i actually purchased a universal charger from sprint that can be used in your car and/or in a wall socket to make certain I don't lose my charge. I think the phone is over priced for how it is operating for me. Sprint should provide an additional battery for the touch pro like they do for the Instinct. The should also include the universal charger in the box. The phone cost to much to not operate better. The sprint picture mail sucks, The sprint TV sucks, but the phone is really nice, if sprint can correct the issues mentioned.

I don't charge it at night cuz i don't like to "overcharge", so i usually charge it when i get home b4 I sleep. I have been considering getting an additional battery with a dedicated battery charger from HTC though. ever gave that a thought?

I seem to be having this same issue with my Fuze that I just got yesterday. After a full night on charger it's at 82%. I'm going to try it over usb on pc to see if it gets any higher otherwise I'll be taking it back to the store today.

The HTC touch pro (with factory ROM) is protected from overloading. Which means that overnight it will load for about 3 hours from an empty battery and then it is full (white light will go from sliding to full circle). After that the charging stops. Which means that if you sleep for 8 hours, the remaining 5 hours your phone will be using the battery.
Now the question remains, what is drianing your battery in 5 hours? The initial suspects are GPS (any GPS software should be cleared from memory, press the most right corner icon to see what's running), the wifi or the HSPA / 3G connection. Use comm manager to put those off.
Of course, the second option is that the charging is not happening because of a defect, in that case return it to the shop.

Pretty sure this is a common problem, I don't think returning the phone will solve a thing.
My phone does the same. Though if you charge it with the phone turned off, it charges fine. I purchased a separate charger and spare battery and just swap them over when I need to (1.5 days with moderate usage).
Pretty sure this is all down to the phone using more power than it should be, hopefully future rom updates will fix this. Even when using Tomtom in the car with the phone charging on a USB cigarette charge cable can't charge it - it actually has less charge at the end of a long journey.

Oh and I can also mention that I have the original HTC battery and two spare batteries (which look like copies with, the HTC sticker is there but not quite the same). The spare batteries act just the same as the original HTC battery.

[Q] Battery Staying at 100%

I've noticed that the battery meter will sometimes stay at 100% for a while and then all of the sudden drop to the actual percentage sometime later. A reboot after unplugging the phone will fix the problem and report the battery % at the correct level. I was wondering how many other people were experiencing this, or if it is just a hit or miss thing?
I'm still on stock, unrooted, no mods. It's a straight out of the box Skyrocket.
Also, does the problem remain after rooting, modding, etc.?
I asked this on the battery results thread in general, and only received one response, so I figured this would be better in Q&A.

I had the same issue, but it has only happened one or two times.
Showed 100% for hours then rebooted and it showed 73%

I don't know how long you've had your phone, but it takes several cycles from full to empty for the battery to calibrate correctly. During that time you can get some really funky readings on it.

I am experiencing the same problem.
I've also had a hard time charging the phone. I've left it plugged in upwards of 18 hours, only to find it saying its only 83% charged. That may just be another symptom of the same problem though.
Do you think this is a phone or a battery issue?

bl2520 said:
I am experiencing the same problem.
I've also had a hard time charging the phone. I've left it plugged in upwards of 18 hours, only to find it saying its only 83% charged. That may just be another symptom of the same problem though.
Do you think this is a phone or a battery issue?
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That sounds like you were plugged into a pc vs ac power and had heavy usage during that time.
Mine charges very quickly when at idle and plugged into the wall.

I've had my phone since the day it launched (the 6th) and just experienced this for the first time yesterday. It was indeed quite odd to see.

I have had this happen one time. I also noticed the phone got very hot.

It actually happend yesterday, stayed at 100% almost all day then just shut off and wouldnt reboot.... freaked me out!!
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I have had this issue only when using an old iphone wall charger have. i can charge with any of our multiple other chargers with no issue....i use a usb cable plugged onto that apple wall charger and it happens every single time
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I think that the battery is pretty wonky. I am not sure if the NFC addition is causing these issues but some people are having amazing life ans some people (me included) get horrible. I am getting a warranty exchange on my battery. No way I should drop 12% in an hour and 20 minutes when the only usage is 19 minutes of checking email. If I have to have it plugged in every time I turn around it is not exactly a wireless device now is it?
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00mred00 said:
I have had this issue only when using an old iphone wall charger have. i can charge with any of our multiple other chargers with no issue....i use a usb cable plugged onto that apple wall charger and it happens every single time
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i think that u just solved my and many more ppl's problem i am using the same iphone wall charger and i just plugged my usb in there and the battery wouyld stay at 100% all day long and when i connect the charger it says "disconnect charger battery is full" but i think this will solve my problem man thank u very much for posting this ! im glad ive read it because this is the my second galaxy s2 with the same problem i went to the warranty and the exchange it but still the same problem so now i know it HAS to be the iphone charger!!

Strange, I was just reading this thread and thinking I have never experienced this. Then I checked my battery stat and it showed 100% even though I've been using it for an hour and a half. I restarted and now reads 90%.
Had my phone for almost a month. Rooted only on stock ROM. Just took it off USB cable from laptop an hour and a half ago.

yvrRome said:
Strange, I was just reading this thread and thinking I have never experienced this. Then I checked my battery stat and it showed 100% even though I've been using it for an hour and a half. I restarted and now reads 90%.
Had my phone for almost a month. Rooted only on stock ROM. Just took it off USB cable from laptop an hour and a half ago.
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I had the same issue. But I read on a thread that cause is that u use a charger & cable that is not Samsung. I had tested and it is true. If u charge with the charger it will befine
That's was stupid of me. I think I am on that thread
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My still stay at 100% all time with Samsung charger, any fix?

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My still stay at 100% all time with Samsung charger, any fix?
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I think we narrowed it down to being a bad charging circuit in the phone or battery triggered by a .1a charger.
When we got our new skyrockets they stopped doing it.
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My still stay at 100% all time with Samsung charger, any fix?
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I was powering my phone off, plugging the power in and allowing it to recharge. The phone would automatically power on as soon as I connected the power but I didn't think that mattered. It turns out it did. If I powered the phone on and then connected the power, the battery meter would work correctly.
This was different the Captivate I had previously. That phone had the capability to charge while powered off. There was even a charging graphic that displayed while the phone was off.
The Skyrocket did not have this same feature when I originally bought it. However, ATT did an update at some point and now it does. I've been unable to re-create the stuck battery gauge since that update.

please only use the charger that came with the phone. other chargers, after prolonged usage, may cause issues.

The charger that came with most skyrockets is a .1a charger and causes the issue as well. A few reported getting .7a chargers in the box but most have been .1
I have tested the iPhone charger theory on 5 phones now. Phone 1 and 2 experienced the issue. Phones 3-5 did not
Its more than just the charger. The phones experiencing this either have a bad battery or it's in the phone
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please only use the charger that came with the phone. other chargers, after prolonged usage, may cause issues.
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From day 1 with the skyrocket, I have used an old wall charger and cable and had this problem daily. I plug it in at night and in the morning, it's at 100% until I reboot, or some other random event that drops the percentage to the real battery stats.
Because of this thread, I dug out the box and used the wall charger and cable that came with it, and this morning shortly after unplugging the phone, it was at 99% and dropping, just as it should. Very glad I tried this.

Ummm no.....
00mred00 said:
The charger that came with most skyrockets is a .1a charger and causes the issue as well. A few reported getting .7a chargers in the box but most have been .1
I have tested the iPhone charger theory on 5 phones now. Phone 1 and 2 experienced the issue. Phones 3-5 did not
Its more than just the charger. The phones experiencing this either have a bad battery or it's in the phone
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I did a recheck of my black cube SR wall charger (Samsung part # ETA0U80JBE).. It is NOT .1a it is 1.0amps - which - interestingly enough is EXACTLY what my iPhone3g power cube right next to it delivers.
The .7am Samsung charger has the usb connector on the side, and is part number ETA0U60JBE - delivering 5v at .7 amps (30% decrease over the little cube device). That was the charger my SGS-II had. My S/R came with the 1.0 amp ETA0U80JBE version.
One amp will charge the phone MUCH faster than the USB port. Per the spec, the typical USB device cannot drain more than 500mA (1/2 of what the power cube supplies to the phone).
Unfortunately Apple and Samsung both have the cubes pretty well locked up, so I cant compare the components, but at a first glace they appear to be absolutely identical, both putting out about 5.1 volts at zero load.

[Q] Won't Charge Over 200mA?

I was searching around for something else when I came across people talking about their phones charging at 400 - 700 mA from the wall charger. Typically, mine won't charge any higher than 200 mA regardless if its in a wall charger or a USB cable, no matter how long it sits idle. The wall charger is the stock HTC and is in fact rated as having a capability of a 1A output. Interestingly enough, I have a car adapter that I use a USB cable with and I occasionally see ~350 mA from that one, but not often; it too is rated as a capable 1A output.
Also, twice now recently I have plugged my phone into the wall at night before going to bed and woken up to a completely dead phone. It happened again last night, but this time I woke up to it with only 35% battery instead of being dead, so it only charged 20% from the time I went to bed until waking up (about 8 hours).
Is this a kernel, firmware, or hardware issue? Nothing has changed on my phone in a LONG time. In fact, I am still running ARHD 3.6.7! I did flash the new OTA firmware fix at one point MONTHS ago however. I reverted to stock, got all the OTAs, then restored ARHD.
I looked for an app to make sure the phone is dropping into sleep, but I couldn't figure them out, anyone have a good thread or info on how to do that?
Thanks in advance!
~T.J.

did you check the cable?

Yes, I should have mentioned that. I do have multiple cables. I have the one the phone came with, two others from a previous phone, and the one that stays in the car. I have interchanged the cables with various chargers plenty of times, doesn't seem to make a difference, but I honestly didn't look hard since this is a newly discovered issue. I will try switching them around and noting what happens with each.
Thanks for the tip!
~T.J.
EDIT: I also downloaded watchdog from the market and my phone has been sitting idle for a while now, just checked and it says there are no misbehaving apps, whatever that means.

The n8010 charging problem - My second Note 10.1 is about to be returned

I thought it might be worth writing a post about my second tablet's failure before returning it as I'm not sure whether to get it fixed/replaced or look for a refund. Maybe someone has some thoughts? After suffering the apparent failure of two Note 10.1's I'm getting worried that there is something fundamentally wrong with this tablet.
Now, I should say here that my tablet was bought refurbished. It shouldn't make a difference- I've bought plenty of refurbished tech before and I've never had problems like this but I thought it might be worth mentioning.
So, the first Note arrived faulty. It would not charge above 17%. The charge up to that point was faultless... It just wouldn't go higher than 17%. That made me think it was a software issue but nothing I could do would fix it. Back it went. It was swapped on the door so I know the second tablet was an entirely new tablet (with new charger).
The second Note I received has worked for just shy of 2 months before it too is having a lot of charging issues. It will only occasionally charge now- most of the time I can leave it for hours and it won't go up 1% but every so often it'll start charging again. The lead is fine but I can't check the charger as I don't have another to try out.
Due to my paranoia of charge failure I've monitored the second tablet with 'Battery Mix'. The graph created by the app shows a perfect flat line when the ac adaptor is plugged in. That in itself seems weird... If there was no charging occurring, wouldn't the battery lose charge rather than remain at a constant level?
The flatlining behaviour is what has me worried. Both the tablets had the same issue, the first just stuck at 17% whereas the second will stick at seemingly random levels. But the symptoms of the fault are similar.
Searching the internetz reveals similar cases as mine and, seeing as a refurb device only has a years warranty, I'm not feeling particularly confident in a third Note behaving itself over the long term.
Oh, and after all that whinging... I do actually love the Note 10.1 when it works. It's a really nice bit of kit which I am loathed to have to return.

I have had fits using the supplied stock charging cable. I bought an aftermarket cable & it charges perfectly. Unfortunately, I broke the cable two days ago & had to use the stock supplied cable. Charging is so slow it is ridiculous. I plugged it in yesterday morning at 7% & today, 20 hours later, it is only at 22%.
With the after market cable, it would charge to 100% from 3% in about 3-5 hours.

Just to follow up, I picked up a Samsung dock for the Tab 10.1 & used the charging cable from that to test it & my Note 10.1 started charging very quickly. It went from 21% to 56% in about 30 minutes.
I have no idea why the stock cable is so bad with charging, but it is definitely the culprit.
The Tab 10.1 dock is currently on clearance at my local Verizon store for $10. I am going to swing by later & grab the other one they had for a spare.

Cable is a noted problem in other Sammy forums on XDA .
jje

Thanks for the comments.
The tablet has now gone back for repair/replacement.... It's back to the old Hannspad for me until it returns. Oh joy.
I'm not sure the lead is the problem in my case although this is all just speculation on my part. I guess it makes sense in some ways- the charging became intermittent when plugged in which fits with the dodgy lead idea but when it played up it would just sit on whatever percentage it had been on when I plugged it in. Surely a bad lead would result in more uneven results rather than no change in charge (up or down) after hours of AC power?
I'm now kicking myself that I didn't save a screenshot of the behaviour as seen on the graph created by 'Battery Mix'. It was quite literally a straight horizontal line, no charge up and no discharge down. Most odd.
Fingers crossed the tablet will come back fixed. I have a fear it's going to behave itself as soon as it arrives to be tested but hey ho... We shall see. When it returns I'll definitely be investing in a third party lead.

With the original supplied charging cable plugged into the tablet, the device would drop in charge while in use. Meaning, it wasn't drawing enough/any power while in use. Also, it would sit at 22%. Never go any higher. I left it plugged in for 2 days & it never reached higher than 22%. This is on Jellybean. If I switched back to ICS, it would charge just fine.
I found several threads on the web stating exactly the same behavior.
I have since purchased 2 spare cables from Amazon, 2 Samsung branded travel chargers, & a Power+ travel charger, & ALL of them charge the tablet quickly & to 100%.
If I switch back to the supplied cable, it actually drops charge while in use.
I promise you, it is not the tablet.

My HTC One X Is Dead??

Hi dudes I have a big problem with my htc one x, my cell phone doesn't charge anything (the red led dont turn on and the charge dock doesnt get heat) It didn't crashed or something, it was with low battery and I took borrowed his charge dock (I was in his house), but it didn't charge anything, as I said my cell phone wasn't crashed or hitted by nothing, It just stopped charging, what can I do to revive it? Please help mee :crying::crying:

Did u let it fully die? Sometimes power cycling is not a good idea...shooot.. Doing it isn't good period. Let it stay in charger overnite.. What ROM you running ?

Yes the charge fully died, and turned off, I let it in the power plugged last night the whole night charging and nothing happend, It was working well untill I pluged it with my friend's charger, his charger is 5v 800mA, since I plugged it on, it stopped charging, that might damage my phone? I mean all chargers are the same but , seriously that charger could kill my phone? is weird

Not all chargers are the same. Have you tried using your own charger?
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Yeah I tried with 2 diferent chargers but nothing happend, since I plugged in my friend's charger my cell phone doesnt want to charge anything :crying::crying:

What happens when you connect it to a PC? Do you get a connect/disconnect sound at all?
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Nothing happens, the red led is off always, dont even't flashes

How often did you power cycle (let it die completely) the device?
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ummm that's really weird when it happends, I'm always with my phone charged but yesterday I wasn't able to charge up and it ends with the battery charge

That doesn't really answer the question, how often did you let the phone die completely?
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maybe once every 3 weeks or 1 month

Ok. I'd keep trying to charge the phone, but unfortunately this kind of thing does happen with electronic devices from time to time. There's no real way to say exactly what's happened but it's very possible you have a brick.
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the last 2 weeks my cellphone was automically rebooting, the bottons of the cell phone (back,home,and the other) start flashing and automatically rebooting, I don't know If that says something what do you think?

Could he possibly hold down vol and power..for a long time...maybe it could get to boot loader,,,,?

I tried but still dead x_x

Power cycling shouldnt bother a mobile phone battery to be fair, unless it's left in a low state for an extended period of time (8% discharge per month roughly) so it's a bit of a misnomer. Lithium batteries should never be fully discharged but as a safeguard you will find when the battery reaches 0% as displayed on the phone the battery is still more than halfway charged to prevent this kind of thing happening. (Most phones register 0% at 3v but the safety threshold is around 2.2v, absolute battery death is 1.5v. Bare in mind at full capacity a cell is 4.2v so your pretty safe when it gets to 0%)
What is more likely an issue is using a faulty charger, there are dozens of cheap chargers which will trash a battery. It is disgusting what gets through the borders from places like China, these things don't have adequate power regulation or filtering. At best you reduce the phone lifespan, at worst it burns the house down. Never ever use a charger than costs less than $15 as there's a reason, decent components cost money unfortunately..
Now, if the device won't charge (a usb 3 port on a pc is ideal as it provides a stable 5v at 900mA or more if a genuine HTC charger isn't available) or switch on you can try removing the battery (be careful as the HTC screen is delicate and there are special tools you need), there are guides on the net or if your not confident then take it to a service centre and they should replace it for you for a fee.. if you buy a new battery off eBay then don't bother with the high capacity as they're fakes, if HTC could cram extra mA into the same size they would - but it's against the laws of physics to get double capacity.
I'm sorry your phone appears dead. I hope it's just the battery, just be very wary about unbranded docks/chargers as they're evil.
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Check the Charging port and switch the cable
Maybe the charging port is broken.
On the other side maybe the cable is broken did you try charging another divice with it?
The solution may be simpler than you think.

Friends when I plug in my htc one x to my computer, my computer made a sound, but it didn't detected my cell phone (just made a sound when you plug-in any divice), and my cell phone doesn't charge is there any I can do? Or is dead

You might be able to get a jtag repair done.
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