Do I have a bad battery? - Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

So... Starting yesterday, about 5:00pm, my battery started charging extremely slow. I plugged my phone back up since the battery went down pretty quick at about 9:30am in the morning. It went to 30% battery and from there, I don't view if it's going up anymore. I took a screenshot at 9:42am and once closer to 10am, also taking another as I typed this. I've also tried 2 different chargers, and multiple outlets.
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@rootSU, sorry for tagging you. You just seem to be extremely helpful, and reliable. ?

The last screenshot, I just hit 31%... Literally changed when I clicked the battery tile.

When you tried multiple chargers, did you also try different USB cables?
You need to rule out if it is slowly charging or if it is draining quickly whilst charging. Try turning it off and charging.

rootSU said:
When you tried multiple chargers, did you also try different USB cables?
You need to rule out if it is slowly charging or if it is draining quickly whilst charging. Try turning it off and charging.
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I attempted that yesterday when I first noticed it yesterday. I plugged it up, and left it off while I went to the market.
I left it plugged up, and I'm now at this from earlier.
I'll attempt that now with another cable.

I'm now at 100% after letting it charge while off.

Curiousn00b said:
I'm now at 100% after letting it charge while off.
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Cool
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dicecuber said:
Cool
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Pointless comment.
The device is still doing doing it. Seemed to charge faster from USB earlier, but now it seems to be back where I was earlier. I'm starting to think that maybe the charging port is the messed up part of the phone.

Curiousn00b said:
Pointless comment.
The device is still doing doing it. Seemed to charge faster from USB earlier, but now it seems to be back where I was earlier. I'm starting to think that maybe the charging port is the messed up part of the phone.
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This is why I asked you to charge whilst off. It rules out software as an issue if the same result is seen. If you've changed the cable AND power source, it can only really be the port.
Is it stock unrooted?? Does seem like the kernel gets involved in charging whilst off too , so if you're not stock, I would consider reverting to stock.
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Curiousn00b said:
Pointless comment.
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Why cant I be happy for you?
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rootSU said:
This is why I asked you to charge whilst off. It rules out software as an issue if the same result is seen. If you've changed the cable AND power source, it can only really be the port.
Is it stock unrooted?? Does seem like the kernel gets involved in charging whilst off too , so if you're not stock, I would consider reverting to stock.
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I swapped back and fourth between cables and reboots after returning to stock. I went to stock 4.4 and upgraded all the way through. I then noticed it started to charge faster, or the battery actually read that it was going up. I had Current Widget on my home screen which seemed to be pushing around 900MaH the whole time.
For now, it's back to normal, I believe. Thanks RootSU ~:good:

is it back to normal?
my phone is doing the same take forever to fully charge but i dont know if its the battery or the port

nonione said:
is it back to normal?
my phone is doing the same take forever to fully charge but i dont know if its the battery or the port
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Sorry for the late reply, it I've downloaded CurrentWidget where I can see the mA output. The OEM charger seems to be pushing out at 20-300mA. I've plugged up yesterday to an old HTC cable that I have, and although it's all beat up and near its end, it's pushing out 300-600mA.
I believe the original OEM output is near 1000mA. Possible that it was my charger that was faulty. I've been using a lot of different chargers in the past week testing with the mA's.

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[Q] Recovery + batt stuck at 99% with GREEN LED

Hi Friends i have sensation rooted as we all did and since then following issues :
1. Offline charging (Fixed).
2. Now the fone charges offline but it says batt full at 99% and led turns green. Never touches 100% now. ever since flashed recovery. both old and new.
3. I can confirm this on anker 1900 mah batt.
4. can any one else confirm this also.
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lalitsehgal21 said:
Hi Friends i have sensation rooted as we all did and since then following issues :
1. Offline charging (Fixed).
2. Now the fone charges offline but it says batt full at 99% and led turns green. Never touches 100% now. ever since flashed recovery. both old and new.
3. I can confirm this on anker 1900 mah batt.
4. can any one else confirm this also.
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Yes, this is true.... The LED turns green on 99% and never touches 100%. But i did not care much about it as I was more interested in flashing ROMS...though this is a problem.... I have also ordered Anker Batt... waiting for the courier...
I noticed mine did this last night. I just kept it plugged in and it eventually hit 100%. I took about 9 hours for it to hit 100%. Hope its not like that every time. Ill be finding out tomorrow.
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silentsnow31802 said:
I noticed mine did this last night. I just kept it plugged in and it eventually hit 100%. I took about 9 hours for it to hit 100%. Hope its not like that every time. Ill be finding out tomorrow.
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well it hit 100 even when the led was green
I've noticed that the discharge is also a bit strange even on OEM battery. My battery varies very much. Sometimes when I reboot I get 5-10% more juice after boot without putting it to charge
Mash23 said:
I've noticed that the discharge is also a bit strange even on OEM battery. My battery varies very much. Sometimes when I reboot I get 5-10% more juice after boot without putting it to charge
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yes same here....what can b causing it.....can it b smthing wrong in s-off procedure
Could it be something to do with the 2.3.3? Cause my battery acted strange even S-ON so I don't think it's the S-OFF procedure itself that caused this. Might be something something to do with battery drivers or something?
AFAIK Li-Ion batteries should never be charged to 100% because it shortens their life, most phones have a safety-mechanism to prevent overcharging.
Its intended to stop charging at 95% to 99%, but will almost always show that the battery is charged to 100% so the customer wont complain about it.
yes HTC is lieing to us, but for our own satisfaction.
So after we flashed the CWM recovery this "feature" is not there anymore and we can see the true charging state.
By plugging the power in and out over and over again to reach 100% you just damage your battery with those short charging cycles.
I read a interrestion thread about it in the Nexus S forums awhile ago and Wikipedia seems to confirm it.
I hope I could help you.

Dead battery/Won't charge fix

Ok, so last night after work, I realized my phone was dead. So after getting in the car I connected the charger only to get a blinking amber light. It wasn't the regular slow/rapid blinking I usually get from a dead battery. It was very quick and intermediate, and wouldn't charge at all. Well leaving it on the charge overnight didn't help so I ordered a new battery. And since I'm so impatient I came up with something so I wanted to share
I looked at the battery and found a negative and positive symbol. From there I got to thinking. "Can I use a battery to charge the battery?" So I grabbed a AA out of the remote and some wire and connected the terminals. low and behold nothing happened.
A AA battery only has 1.5v and on my charger it puts out 5v. So I grabbed some other batteries and put them together (3 total for 4.5v). I don't want to go over 5v into the battery. After a while I put the battery in my phone. Again, nothing.
So I thought. "What if I connected the battery to the battery to the phone" Kind of like a jumpstart. (See picture)
BINGO!
I now have a solid amber light. And right now as I write this I am letting it sit. I don't wanna screw it up lol. So I will provide updates as it continues.
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that's more battery effort then i think most people would put into.
as was said in the samurai showdown games... VICTOLY!!
Well, going back to a blackberry gives all the motivation in the world
Sounds like a kernel issue I had a few bad kernels in the past that didn't allow me to charge if it was a bad flash. I would invest in a wall charger and maybe 2 extra batteries on ebay easy way to charge your batteries outside your phone.
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Well the battery will drain itself in a few hours. I have tried other kernels and roms. The new battery will help.
But as for now. I have to go back to stock because I need to get it reactivated. I hate verizon.
howephillip said:
Well the battery will drain itself in a few hours. I have tried other kernels and roms. The new battery will help.
But as for now. I have to go back to stock because I need to get it reactivated. I hate verizon.
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it's funny because if you walk in to a Verizon store with a rooted phone and show it to them they get all excited and ask about the rom, etc & may even show you their rooted phone. had that happen with a manager who was intrigued by the das bamf rom i had on my thunderbolt awhile back.
Haha I'd be too scared. The guy I saw today was cool though and they usually aren't.
I have boot manager so my rom is still on my sd so it's not like I lost anything.
That's gorgeous... hahaha.
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Well, going back to a blackberry gives all the motivation in the world
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This is the understated truth of the year. I just inherited my mom's thunderbolt and I was previously using my BlackBerry 8530.
Never going back
oh hey, wanted to also mention that sometimes those pins that make contact with the battery can bend slightly and cause the battery to not charge/phone not turn on... i've had to take needle nose pliers once and "fix" one of the pins.
also, if you take a very small amount of automotive 'spark plug grease', and apply it to the connectors, it ensures a good solid contact. (it also works putting it on the antenna pins on the back cover).
just don't use electrical spray otherwise you'll have weird grease stuck behind your screen like on mine. ^_^
i know this is old but dude u just saved my phone
djcyph said:
i know this is old but dude u just saved my phone
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And mine too. The minute I get back home to try it. My girls phone died after a quadruple restore,bootloop,battery pull debacle. On the 3rd battery pull couldn't power up, get in recovery or even use adb. Had to put her back on her old Droid charge amd man she missing that tbolt.

Suddenly battery fall from 90% to 1%

Hello guys,
Suddenly my Moto G battery level is change from 90% to 1% and devices turned off.
When I turn the device on I hear connect charger notification , but device is work normally for 3 hours with 1% battery level. !!
What can I do to solve this problem?
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it's a known problem. Did it occurred while changing USB connection to PC?
for UK retail MotoGP se had an minor update (176.44.1) that should have fix the problem.
Otherwise look in the forum.
charge the device from the mains. It will start going 1 > 2 > 3 etc and then should jump to 100 quite quickly.
No, this problem occurred at no charging ( when I use the device after fully charged by 2 hours )
When I come back to my home I will connect it to charger, and I hope this problem disappear.
Now I check for update and no new update available
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Ghorab said:
No, this problem occurred at no charging ( when I use the device after fully charged by 2 hours )
When I come back to my home I will connect it to charger, and I hope this problem disappear.
Now I check for update and no new update available
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It will fix itself (or at least I think or hope it should) when you get it on a good mains charge.
Very well documented error around the net although not greatly on XDA. Mine did it once after a bad edify script execution in CWM but has never done it again.
I was going through thoughts of RMA and all sorts but it was soon fixed.
Ghorab said:
Hello guys,
Suddenly my Moto G battery level is change from 90% to 1% and devices turned off.
When I turn the device on I hear connect charger notification , but device is work normally for 3 hours with 1% battery level. !!
What can I do to solve this problem?
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Hi it seems to be a strange fault with battery calibration on a lot of moto g's ive never experienced it powering off at a high charge level mine sometimes powers off at 10% but not 90% hope it fixes itself for you I understand it must be irritating worrying if your phone is going to stay on.
Happened with me too.
Full charge > connects to pc > battery goes from 100 to 0 > phone switch off > me gone crazy.
Fixed itself though eventually. Hope the same for you @Ghorab :good:
It just happened to me today - from 53% down to 1% while I was connecting it to my PC via USB. Hopefully it will fix itself like others said.
Same thing happened to me today. After searching on the Moto forums for a little bit and seeing that yes this is a very common occurrence I was able to fix it by using it till the battery died then connecting it to a charger.
So to summarize if you battery jumps from a high percentage( >50%) down to 1% just let it die them connect it to a charger, preferably a wall charger and let it charge back to full and then some so the battery can re-calibrate.
Now that I've got that out I wanted to note since I wasn't able to find this elsewhere. With most of the individuals reporting this issue they were apparently connecting to a pc via USB when it happened. I was not. My phone was connected to a wall charger, I was holding it in my hand using it normally as I have for the past several weeks and boom it said it needed to power off due to low battery.
I really do love this phone but I really hope Motorola finishes working out the rest of these bugs soon.
It will not fix itself. It's only a matter of time before it reoccurs.
Battery drop during usb tethering
For me happened two times already in the very moment when I start usb tethering . the phone rebooted and come back with 1% battery. After this keeping in usb port for 3 minutes was back to 100 %. But I cannot share my Internet to a PC anymore and is very frustrating.
+1 for it recurring.
I know it will keep working for hours at 1% until you recharge it, however for all this time it will be cutting back to minimal operation.

Not charging past 50%

My phone won't show that it's charging, but it is and it won't go past 50% I even factory reset it and same thing. Anyone else having this issue?
Are you using the charger and USB supplied by OnePlus?
Are you plugged into the wall and not charging via USB?
Yes and yes and still nothing.
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Did you tr with OPO switched off ?
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Did you tr with OPO switched off ?
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Yes apparently this is an issue with the 64GB version, there is a video on Youtube saying to leave it uncharged for a full 12 hours then it should be fixed... i will try that then report back.
CM11S ?
Which version ? 25R, 30O, 33R ?
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CM11S ?
Which version ? 25R, 30O, 33R ?
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33R.
Case and point
What kind of screen on time are you seeing? You might try wiping cache and dalvik...
I have same kind of issue, its not charging past 99% even though i left it charge a full night.
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I have same kind of issue, its not charging past 99% even though i left it charge a full night.
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You'll have to recalibrate your battery, drain it complete til its turns off. Hold the power on, it'll boot and turn off to make sure its flat then recharge, it should take it til 100%
Kerjifire said:
You'll have to recalibrate your battery, drain it complete til its turns off. Hold the power on, it'll boot and turn off to make sure its flat then recharge, it should take it til 100%
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I already did this...
dev-DaT said:
I already did this...
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Maybe a bad battery?
Op I think your battery has damage.
Kerjifire said:
You'll have to recalibrate your battery, drain it complete til its turns off. Hold the power on, it'll boot and turn off to make sure its flat then recharge, it should take it til 100%
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Don't do that to much, it lower the battery life and won't help much the best is to not over heat and don't let it drop less than 25%.
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Maybe a bad battery?
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Nope i somehow fixed it...used an app called battery calibration it said it was possible to calibrate battery below 100% and that worked...
I gave up on this, I simply traded my phone for a G3, the guy I traded said he would fix it, since he has his own shop.

One plus one @slow charging

Hi Friends, i had experiencing this for almost one month..
my opo doesn't charging well, even like discharging when used while charging cable plugged in..
its very slow... like 8-10% per hour, that too not using it
i tried with other cables and chargers, no luck
i saw in synspse.. it not taking more than 300ma from ac charger
i tried battery calibration too... no luck
changed roms, flashed stock... no luck
please help me...
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Hi Friends, i had experiencing this for almost one month..
my opo doesn't charging well, even like discharging when used while charging cable plugged in..
its very slow... like 8-10% per hour, that too not using it
i tried with other cables and chargers, no luck
i saw in synspse.. it not taking more than 300ma from ac charger
i tried battery calibration too... no luck
changed roms, flashed stock... no luck
please help me...
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What charger are you using? What cable? What ROM are you on? Are you using AK? Give us some info man.
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What charger are you using? What cable? What ROM are you on? Are you using AK? Give us some info man.
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official oneplus charger, 2.1 mA output
i am on temasek unofficial 17.2
with ak kernel
i tried without kernel and boeffla too
even roms blisspop and cm12.1 nightlies, exodus too..
no luck bro
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Is the cable loose in the socket of your phone?
try a different cable
although i never had any trouble with the official opo cable i did find out that certain cables don't let the phone charge very fast, even if you use the right charger
you can also always start an RMA request to get a new cable and/or charger if you are shure the problem sits there
I'm having a similar issue i get the feeling that it is potentially an app issue, however I haven't seen any thing in my battery stat reports so far. I plan to monitor it a little more closely this week to see if i catch any thing suspicious.
Turn your phone off and charge it that way, its deffo gonna be quicker but see if its much quicker. if so you have a dodgy app mate
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Turn your phone off and charge it that way, its deffo gonna be quicker but see if its much quicker. if so you have a dodgy app mate
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I agree with this approach. In my case it seems to be app related, and from what i observed The prime contributor to the change in charge discharge rate is Spotify for my setup.
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