Hello Everyone,
So I had my phone repaired at Pacific Mall due to the screen being broken and requiring replacement, and ever since then, I've been having terrible battery and heat issues.
The phone was repaired on the 5th of April and I kid you not, I could leave it just sitting on my table fully idle with data on or off and my battery will drain itself within 3-4 hours. That's not the only issue, as when I plug the device in to let it charge, it will reach pretty high temps (50-60*C). This is with the phone just sitting there plugged in.
Other then having it plugged in, the phone idles at anywhere from 35-50*C. It's usually mid 40*C on idle. I really don't understand what's wrong with the phone as before I had the screen replaced, it would not act this way. The only time it would get this hot would be if I were using the device under extreme sunlight, or if I was heavily using it while it was plugged in.
I took it back to the shop that I had it repaired, and they took a look and they told me that it could be due to one of the IC's on the motherboard becoming loose causing it to overheat a lot. And they told me that this could have originated due to a potential drop of the device or while they were opening the device..
I just want to know if anyone really believes that and what advice you could provide me with.
I thought about changing the battery itself, however, if it is just going to continually overheat, I don't see the point in doing so as it would just drain itself very quickly all the time.
I don't even use my phone that much other than what it's sole purpose is: making phone calls and texting.
Thankfully, I'm able to charge it in my car, but it's becoming a real nuisance having to charge the device constantly due to extremely poor battery life.
Phone is running CM 11-20140407-NIGHTLY-ville 4.4.2 KitKat ROM.
Had the Carbon 4.3 JB ROM before hand (thought it was a ROM issue at first, that's why i flashed CM but didn't solve anything).
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I've had my fuze since november and yesterday the strangest thing started happening. My phone is warm to the touch and the battery lasts less then an hour. It doesn't appear to fully charge, since the charging animation nevers ends, even if the phone reports the battery is at 100%.
i have:
Done a hard reset
flashed back to stock radio
flashed back to stock rom
and the issue still persists. Right now it is sitting on my desk discharging, soon to reach 0 again.
The best solution is to do a backup and get a replacement.
behrouz said:
The best solution is to do a backup and get a replacement.
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i just called ATT, getting a battery sent to me. I doubt it's the battery. But if that doesn't work, then they will send a replacement. The representative says "it's cheaper to send a battery then a phone."
I've started to see something a bit curious. I charge my phone all night, then get up and head to the office, when I get to the office, I notice that the phone is hot, my battery level has fallen to 80%, then about another 30 minutes and it's down to 65% and then starts to cool off. I've had it just sitting on my desk and it will do this very consistently after charging, it just gets hot and drains itself till it gets to 60% or so, then it goes back to normal and cools off.
Anyone else seen this happen?
This happened to me, I had to send mine in for repairs (I have the original touch pro, not the fuze)
Repair details said something about a mainboard issue, and they replaced the mainboard in my unit. Everythings been working fine since. I'd suggest you get it replaced/repaired and take a very careful look at what you're using to charge your device. I messed mine up using a ****ty 3rd party charger which wasnt really designed for the touch pro.
When I keep my phone on & just charge it up while its idle, when its at 100%, the phone is hot to the touch. Once I take it off, it cools off in 5-10 minutes. It also starts to overheat when I play games on it for at least 5 minutes. What could be the problem?
Do you have a custom rom or kernel on the phone. Mine gets mildy warm every now and again but nothing serious.
Id suggest reverting back to stock rom using your ruu and use it for a bit to see if it happens again.
i had a similar problem. my phone would overheat and not charge or charge fast enough. also after a short use the battery level would plummet. i fix the problem by changing to a new charging plug.
It shouldn't get that warm at all.
Infact, I noticed that it actually cooled down once I plugged it into the charger. I was playing a 3D game and I noticed it was getting warm, but also the battery was getting low, so I plugged it in and kept going for a bit longer, the phone actually started cooling down. I thought it was the game making the hardware heat up, but in fact, it was the battery heating up due to the power drain
Perhaps a custom rom could cause it, but I am already running mikes 6.5.2 with the 1.5Ghz firmware. But im sure others will vary.
Perhaps, if nothing else, and you're ok with taking the back off the phone, check the contacts, both on the battery and the phone, make sure they are clean. Resistance can cause heat.
I have a Motorola Droid 2 Global running CM7. It works fine, other than the usual quirks of a custom ROM, but it gave me a bit of a scare yesterday. Here's what happened:
- Battery was low, 28%-ish, because I hadn't charged it for 2 or 3 days
- Plugged USB from the netbook to charge it (I lost its AC adapter somewhere in the junkyard that I call my home)
- Unplugged it after only a few minutes because I had to go out in a hurry, battery had reached 30 or 31%. Dropped it from a height of about 50cm while doing so; a bundle of wires cushioned the fall (the phone has survived *much* harder falls)
- Stayed out about 20 minutes, nothing unusual to report, phone working fine
- Came home, put it on the desk, went about my business for about half an hour
- Found it blinking red, only noticed because a notification (stupid Astrid Task reminding me I should use it) made the screen light up
- Grabbed it and it was *hot*, hotter than it had ever gotten before and way more than anything this small has a right to get. Battery was down to 1%.
- Fearing a short I panicked and pulled the battery, then left everything to cool down.
Well, a short it wasn't otherwise it would have stopped working entirely; rather I think for some reason all of the hardware was working 100% constantly, though I'm surprised at just how much heat that can put out. There was nothing weird about the phone's behaviour up until this. A software bug? It had a really long uptime, something like a month and a half without being turned off (I keep it in airplane mode at night)... I've heard that Android in general and custom ROMs in particular can freak out if they're left unrebooted for very long. Otherwise it would have to be a hardware problem, but it's a weird hardware problem that leaves a phone working even while it bakes itself.
I'm recharging it right now and no abnormal heating is going on.
W, I ask, TF?
I feel your panic. My HTC Sensation can heat up even from browsing the web to around 40 degrees centigrade Sometimes eve too hot to hold.
Sent from my HTC Sensation Z710e
Got an Optimus 2x that gets way hotter when using than the Desire it replaced. It also has a cheap Chinese battery which I strongly suspect does not work as it should. Perhaps your battery is giving problems and needs to be replaced or there was a temporary problem with the charging circuitry?
Hey all,
I am currently running CM9 (bhundven's 7-29 herring build) on my Galaxy S 4G, and I am having some problems with random shutdown. This has only been happening for the past few days or so (EDIT: and I have been running CM9 for about three months with no issues). It seems that the phone works perfectly fine until the charge gets to about 60% starting from a full charge, and then the phone randomly shuts off. The phone will not start back up unless I have it plugged into the wall, and the results are a little unpredictable. The first time it happened, I turned it back on and it said the battery was at 1% and charging. Now, after clearing the battery stats, it reboots to 60% battery. It seems to work perfectly fine after that, and yesterday it went all the way down to about 12% before I started charging it again. It just happened again today, and when I turned it back on it said it was at about 60%.
My charging habits are pretty bad for Li-Ion batteries; I tend to let the charge drop all the way to about 10% or 5% before I plug it in and charge it all night, way past what is necessary to get to 100%.
The battery does look a tad swollen, but I might be exaggerating.
I just wanted to know if this is a bad battery with 100% certainty, or could it be a problem with the OS or internal parts, etc. I can easily buy another battery online, and I probably will.
EDIT: Also, I have had some overheating issues with this phone, and I can often smell electrical smoke in the charger port area behind the speaker, which is why I say it might be an internal parts issue.
Thanks everyone,
cpkelley94
You need a new battery. I was having the same issue lime 3 months ago; phone was dying at half charge the when it rebooted, battery would be dead. Then when I plugged it in, it would charge in 20 minutes and the repeat the cycle. Put the battery on a table to see if its still flat. If it rocks or spins excessively, its usually an indicator of a bad cell.
Mine JUST started doing the exact same thing last week. Battery is definitely swollen. I replaced it just this evening and I'm in the process of doing a full charge from 0->100 to see how things go. I'm 99.999% sure the battery was dead. Replace yours.
Sorry for the thread necro, but I wanted to thank the OP for asking this question and to the helpful replies. We just had a heat wave here and maybe coincidentally to that, I've been having random shutdown problems. Having looked at this thread and my battery, I can tell that I definitely need to replace that. So thanks, all!
Hi all
I've had my Xperia Z3 for about 2 years now (currently running Marshmallow), and over the past say 6-12 months the battery life has been ordinary (may or may not coincide with any software update, not that i recall).
More recently, i've had the phone do some funny things but it more or less has become unusable now since the last incident which was:
Battery dropped over a day down to 50% (which was about normal given the usage of it). The battery level then stayed at 50% for length of time, and then started flashing between 50% to 100%, then it died.
performed the reset and plugged it in again, the battery level was at 0%, dark red light flashing etc., charge reported from 1% to 29% to 100% rather quickly, eventually i could turn it back on but it went from 100% to 0% "shutting down" quickly.
so now it will charge and stay on at 100% for a period of time, but will either a) stay at 100% for hours then turn off, or b) slowly discharge to say 96% then suddenly die.
either way, when it is plugged in it will say 0% battery and slowly show charging to say 20-odd% then be at 100% charge (and the cycle repeats.)
If while it's at 100% i reset the phone it will restart at 0% and power off.
(at the moment I've removed the sim and am using a backup phone at the moment so the only usage it gets are some wifi access and podcast / music listening connected to bluetooth headphones)
oh, while i remember - when the phone has done this abrupt shutdown, upon recharge the bluetooth is always switched off, which is strange but makes me wonder if this is more sinister than simply battery issues.
The phone is out of warranty but there's a local phone repairs shop that have quoted me a reasonable enough price to replace the battery, so my question is: what are the chances that this is purely a battery problem and would it be a sound investment to spend $$ replace the battery or am i wasting my time and money and the phone has a nasty chip or motherboard issue and really is just halfdead?
Aside from these recent battery problems, I am fairly happy with this phone and don't want to pay $1k for a brand new phone just yet if i can avoid by spending under $100 for a new battery and giving it a life extension.
Any feedback welcome
Cheers
***EDIT***
Sorry, amateur mistake, this should have gone into the Xperia Z3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting section
can this thread be moved - please accept my apologies
I had that problem few times on different phones, battery dies.. You should replace it.
Replace the battery and you're good to go. If you've opened the back cover of your Z3 then maybe you should try considering to replace your battery by yourself. You could easily get one from aliexpress.