When charging is the led changing to a different color or turning off when fully charged?
When I charge mine (turned on or off) the led stays orange even when fully charged so I have no way to tell if it's fully charged when I have it turned off other than watching the clock and guessing if it would be charged after a certain amount of time. Just seems strange when every other phone i've had (htc or others) all have some indication it's charged..
Hmmm weird. Mine changes to green when fully charged.
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Guess I'll try a reset and if that doesn't work send it in for a replacement. I thought it seemed strange that it wouldn't give some sort of notification
Yeah, it should turn green. I'd try a hard reset.
Just got a new battery from T-Mo today, as my battery life has been depressing since 2.3.4 update a month ago. With the old battery, I tried 5 cycles in a row of fully discharging, and fully charging while off. No difference, Juice Defender, m a y b e a little difference...been searching around for an hour, and remember a few things from reading XDA over the past month. So many different techniques, most for rooted phones, mine is completely stock(and I do plan on rooting soon still researching/learning), 1st thing I did when I took it out of the mail, was put it in the phone, and charge it while phone is off. Green LED has been on for 3 hours now. I'm scared to turn it on!! How do I calibrate this baby and make sure to the best of my ability this battery stays good?? Sorry for essay on one question.
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I read one of the MANY threads yesterday on this, a guy said to someone, something along the lines of..."use the search, there are countless threads on this...and you can find this, like I did"...
This is what he said.
Charge the batt all the way while off(wall), then unplug, plug back in, light will be amber, then change to green. Repeat this process till The amber light doesn't come on anymore.
SO, I did this...about 100 times. It would go amber, blink, amber, then to green with no blink. Then sometimes it would go amber, and blink to green. back and forth. Seriously about 100 times. It never would initially light green. Amber everytime.
So I finally gave up, went to sleep. Still getting mediocre battery life today.
Where is help when you need it??
Drain it until it turns off, plug in, turn phone back on and let it charge to 100%, unplug, drain until it dies, repeat process 3 or 4 times. Download calibration app from market and use it when 100 % is reached.
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1) Turn your device ON and Charge the device for 8 hours or more
2) Unplug the device and Turn the phone OFF and charge for 1 hour
3) Unplug the device Turn ON wait 2 minutes and Turn OFF and charge for another hour
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That was the official reply from HTC during the EVO 4G days
So instead of fully charging while off, fully charge it while it's on? And, the calibration app, is this a general statement, like any app, or a specific one?
Rhiannon224 said:
Drain it until it turns off, plug in, turn phone back on and let it charge to 100%, unplug, drain until it dies, repeat process 3 or 4 times. Download calibration app from market and use it when 100 % is reached.
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_DavidWebb said:
So instead of fully charging while off, fully charge it while it's on? And, the calibration app, is this a general statement, like any app, or a specific one?
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It's called Battery Calibrator. This is the process I found on the forums, it works, on stock battery I average 5 hrs screen time and can get over a day on one charge. On the Anker I get even better, I have been methodical about conditioning batteries and I am getting great battery life.
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Yo, when u see that green red led combo, know that your phone is telling u that battery is overheating/overcharging. It's colorful for a reason, telling u to stop.
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nrvnqsrxk said:
Yo, when u see that green red led combo, know that your phone is telling u that battery is overheating/overcharging. It's colorful for a reason, telling u to stop.
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It is not red, it's amber(orange/yellow) And it was on this thread that I read to use that technique - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1139092
He says "use search, it can only help you"
well, like I originally said, I have seen numerous techniques on calibrating. Just trying to find a solid one. That guy @KillaHurtz had a lot of thanks and seemed to know what he was talking about, but like I said, I tried his technique 100 times and couldn't get the results he was saying "repeat until no amber light showing", and that was after leaving the phone on charge(while off) 3 hours after it already turned green.
So one says, do this...another says...that is overheating/charging your phone....
are you mistaking my amber for red? I seriously hope I was not damaging a brand new battery before even turning my phone on with it.
Apple recommends this: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1490
1. Plug in the power adapter and fully charge your PowerBook's battery until the light ring or LED on the power adapter plug changes to green and the onscreen meter in the menu bar indicates that the battery is fully charged.
2. Allow the battery to rest in the fully charged state for at least two hours. You may use your computer during this time as long as the adapter is plugged in.
3. Disconnect the power adapter while the computer still on and start running the computer off battery power. You may use your computer during this time. When your battery gets low, the low battery warning dialog appears on the screen.
4. At this point, save your work. Continue to use your computer; when the battery gets very low, the computer will automatically go to sleep.
5. Turn off the computer or allow it to sleep for five hours or more.
6. Connect the power adapter and leave it connected until the battery is fully charged again.
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Rhiannon224 is right. I don't repeat the process 3 or 4 times like she does, but once a month I let my phone run down until it turns itself off. Then I leave it off and charge it overnight. I get better than average battery life, although I don't get 5 hours of screen-on time with the standard battery or with the EVO3D battery (1730 mAh). I easily make it through my normal usage for a day -- 20 to 30 emails (gmail and HTC Mail app set to push), facebook and weather sync every hour; Plume sync every 30 mins, 20 or so texts, 15 to 20 mins of phone calls, some Slacker radio, short sessions of Cordy or Angry Birds to waste a little time.
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It is not red, it's amber(orange/yellow) And it was on this thread that I read to use that technique - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1139092
He says "use search, it can only help you"
well, like I originally said, I have seen numerous techniques on calibrating. Just trying to find a solid one. That guy @KillaHurtz had a lot of thanks and seemed to know what he was talking about, but like I said, I tried his technique 100 times and couldn't get the results he was saying "repeat until no amber light showing", and that was after leaving the phone on charge(while off) 3 hours after it already turned green.
So one says, do this...another says...that is overheating/charging your phone....
are you mistaking my amber for red? I seriously hope I was not damaging a brand new battery before even turning my phone on with it.
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Hah, sorry for the late response. When I said red, I was referring to amber. There are only 2 LED colors for the Sensation. Have you tried disconnecting the charger, turning off the phone, then connecting again? If it wasn't at full cap, it'll go back to being amber. Do this too many times, you'll notice it'll start flashing green and amber, signalling that the battery is getting overcharged.
If your phone is on and charging and you get say a text/email or other notification, you will get the green/amber flashing as well. I'm not sure if the battery is overheating of it will flash multiple colors or not however owning a sensation I can tell you from experience that my phone has been hot to the point where it is uncomfortable to hold charging or not and the only time I have seen an orange/green flashing combo is when it was charging and I had a notification. Orange by itself means charging. Green by itself means fully charged. Hope that helps with the confusion. For the battery life, if your phone is rooted, I recommend using faux clock to manage your CPU levels and keep your battery life up. If not, try lowering the brightness of your screen in order to make the battery life last longer. My phone gets me through a full day without charging (pre and post rooting) and I'm on it quite frequently and all I do is use my phone as usual and drain it until it dies once or twice a month to help prevent the "memory effect". Hope this helps!
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Hey everyone, I'm just curious if the Motorola docks stop charging when the Xoom is full or if they keep charging all the time. I like keeping it in the dock, but I don't want my battery to go bad fast because its charging all the time. Thanks, JacobAndrew.
not sure but...
While in the dock the charging light will occasionally turn from green (charged) to white (charging) . This leads me to believe that although the charger is always powered up the xoom knows the difference. Maybe just knows when it's at 100% but a real answer would be best , I leave mine in there all the time as well.
Thanks, I never shut mine off so I never get to see the green led.. Not exactly sure why they wouldn't have it turn green when its awake, but oh well... I guess I won't worry about it so much
Hi all,
I just noticed a problem today.
When I plugged my charger cable into the Asus TF300T Keyboard Dock as I normally do, instead of just glowing a solid orange, I'm getting a flashing orange light.
I tried to look in the documentation to see what a flashing light means and I can't find anything.
I tested plugging in the charger directly into the tablet itself and that LED glows a solid orange as it should.
Does anyone know what the flashing orange means?
Thanks
Rob
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UPDATE: Seem search did not find anything before I posted this thread. I ended up finding a post where someone said the cable might be bad. I wiggled the cable and now it went back to a solid orange. Maybe I should call Asus and have then replace the cable?
Yeah I have gotten a flashing orange light a few times now. The light flashes when the dock battery is low. The dock is designed to drain itself before the tablets battery. I have used it docked for over two hours with the light flashing. When I plug it into the wall it will continue to flash till the battery is charged to a certain percent. I haven't seen it on any websites or manuals however if you have a laptop and the battery gets to a critical level they it will also flash. Keep it plugged in and charge it up and it should go back to solid.
I think that is normal... I have an Asus netbook that also flashes the battery led when it is lower than 10%. I think it is there just to warn you that the battery is over.
Still, this shouldn't happen on a dock, since you can use it without battery, and it gets pretty annoying...
It's a 2-step charging process. If the dock is used it will go to 0% by transferring charge to the tablet. Plugging the cable into the dock starts to charge it but at the same time it discharges into the tablet. The flashing light is just a low power warning on the dock, nothing to worry about.
My led is flashing RED, 2 seconds interval, I suspect a fully depleted or dead battery, anybody seen a RED light instead of orange please? Thank you.
Alvera said:
My led is flashing RED, 2 seconds interval, I suspect a fully depleted or dead battery, anybody seen a RED light instead of orange please? Thank you.
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Never seen a red flashing light on mine. Does it respond to charging?
My battery is on 0% and not charging, maybe dead, I think this is the sign, a 2 sec red color on/off pulse.
I think is red only when battery is heavily depleted.
I don't know if turning LED indicator on does significantly affect battery life or not.
I really want to leave it on because it's really cool showing the red and green light while charging.
What do you mean by leaving it on? Leaving it on while charging or all the time?
If you leave it on while charging, it shouldn't affect battery life at all because you're charging the phone. If you're talking about all the time, then I'm not sure what the effect on battery would be.
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What do you mean by leaving it on? Leaving it on while charging or all the time?
If you leave it on while charging, it shouldn't affect battery life at all because you're charging the phone. If you're talking about all the time, then I'm not sure what the effect on battery would be.
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When there's a notification while not charging, the light will flash as well.
chasse5594 said:
When there's a notification while not charging, the light will flash as well.
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This is standard. 99.9% of people out there leave their notification light on. The effect on battery is minimal.
I keep the LED light on. I don't notice it affecting my battery life.