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[Q] Charging Indicator?

Just wondering if this phone will have some sort of charging indicator. I know that it doesn't have any notification LED, so I'm just curious as to when the nexus S is off and charging, how will we know when it's done?

I'm guessing the screen will turn on, displaying a charing battery. That's what the other Galaxy S phones do at least.

most of the galaxy s phones notify you with the screen turning on to tell you it's fully charged, but that is a touchwiz feature as far as i know.

SphericalPuma said:
Just wondering if this phone will have some sort of charging indicator. I know that it doesn't have any notification LED, so I'm just curious as to when the nexus S is off and charging, how will we know when it's done?
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Hi There,
Well there are a lot of apps in the market to tell you that your device is fully charged.
Some Of them Are:
BATTERYDOCTOR
BATTERY CABLIBRATION--intended to wipe battery stats.
* Download Battery doctor and configure it to beep once the phone is fully charged up.
OR
*Download Battery Calibration app and click on the option Beep When fully charged.
It will give a beep sound when device will get fully charged.
If Helped in Any Way Please Click Thanks !

Battery staying at 100% and not coming down

I just got my Gtab that I ordered from ebay in the mail yesterday.
The guy already had clockwork recovery installed and TNT, but I wanted Vegan, so I went through the steps and installed Vegan 5.1, let it boot, and then rebooted and installed the supplement 5.1.1.
The thing works great (except I can't get any market fix to work, but I'm just gonna use titanium backup to get the apps from my phone for now).
But the thing that's really bothering me is that the battery level is staying at 100%. It's not going down at all. The GTab died overnight, and it wouldn't even power on, so the battery was dead.
I plugged it in, and turned it on, and it's showing as 100%!! When I goto settings>about phone>status it force closes. Every time. Using spare parts and looking at battery history it says there is no history to display, and in battery info it says battery is at 100% but says it's charging.
I'm really confused. Do I have a dud battery? Please help as if this is a hardware/ bad battery problem I'd like to tell the guy on Ebay that I want a refund.

Does the charging light come on red, and go to green after it's charged?
You might try wiping battery stats with Clockworkmod, and see it that helps.

jmdearras said:
Does the charging light come on red, and go to green after it's charged?
You might try wiping battery stats with Clockworkmod, and see it that helps.
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Same thing happens on my Gtab. Battery meter always shows 100%.
I know that the battery is not 100% full because when I plugged it in, the LED light is red and after a while it turned green.
I will try your suggestion tonight when I get home.

jmdearras said:
Does the charging light come on red, and go to green after it's charged?
You might try wiping battery stats with Clockworkmod, and see it that helps.
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Yes, the battery light indicator seems to work fine. It is red, and then eventually turns green. But I'm a little worried, how long should I be expecting a good battery to last with brightness pretty low (around 15%) and just doing some browsing? I was guessing 8-9 hours.

junks2010 said:
Same thing happens on my Gtab. Battery meter always shows 100%.
I know that the battery is not 100% full because when I plugged it in, the LED light is red and after a while it turned green.
I will try your suggestion tonight when I get home.
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junks how long is your battery lasting?

ksc6000 said:
Yes, the battery light indicator seems to work fine. It is red, and then eventually turns green. But I'm a little worried, how long should I be expecting a good battery to last with brightness pretty low (around 15%) and just doing some browsing? I was guessing 8-9 hours.
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easily that long, on my gtab.

ksc6000 said:
junks how long is your battery lasting?
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I haven't tried to drain the battery. I always use it for a few hrs then plug it in.
Does any body know how to fix this problem?
thanks.

Try to drain it all the way, then plug it in and immediately reset battery stats.
Reboot and charge all the way ( green light)

lifeisfun said:
Try to drain it all the way, then plug it in and immediately reset battery stats.
Reboot and charge all the way ( green light)
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I tried this but it still doesn't seem to work right. After following your suggestion, I used my gtab to browse the web. After about 1hr of browsing, the battery status changed to 97%. It does not seem right to me. Btw, my lcd brightness is set at 50%.
Or is the gtab battery that good?

junks2010 said:
I tried this but it still doesn't seem to work right. After following your suggestion, I used my gtab to browse the web. After about 1hr of browsing, the battery status changed to 97%. It does not seem right to me. Btw, my lcd brightness is set at 50%.
Or is the gtab battery that good?
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Haha, yes! I get at least 20 hours with moderate use. On standby, it seems to last forever.
Sent from my LS670 using Tapatalk

They are threads here on how to correct - usually draining the battery and then resetting the battery status on clockworkmod.
It's really not "Stuck" at 100% - the battery meter is probably off so it's maxing out at 110%, so your device just says "100%" all the time. What eventually happens is that 110 drops below 100, and then your device will show 99, 98 etc. I had this issue on my original GTAB.

I had this and first total drain didn't work but 2nd time I just made sure it was not sleeping when it shut down from low battery.

(Q) how to know when anker battery is fully charged

When I'm charging the banker battery, the notification will go green so I think its fully charged. But I've noticed that when I unhook the cable and use the phone for a while, then plug it back in, the notification light lights green. So I'm wondering, does the light turn green for the banker battery at a certain level even though its not fully charged?
Should I let it sit on the charger a couple more hours after the light turns green?
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Charge it til it turns green, then turn the device off and charge it for another hour with it being off and it will be fully charged. This is known as bump charging, but does decrease the long-term life of your battery if it is done too often.

durps said:
charge it til it turns green, then turn the device off and charge it for another hour with it being off and it will be fully charged. This is known as bump charging, but does decrease the long-term life of your battery if it is down too often.
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+1 to that!

try this: charge battery until the LED turns green. Unplug & then wait until your battery is no longer showing 100% before you try to plug it back in. Mine will show 100% for a while before going down in percentage.

I thought android phones showed green at some point in the 90 percentile range? So if your at 98% it will still be green.

From what I understand because of the old battery the phone thinks that the capacity of current battery is the same. So unless you rooted your phone and wiped battery stats, you are not reaching the full potential of your battery. Unless you turn off your phone and let the hardware judge when the battery is full.

[Q] CM10 not charging past 90%

I'm running the 12/28 CM10 nightly, and I'm having an issue with charging my battery. When the phone is on, the battery charges normally to 90%, at which point the LED changes from red to green, indicating full charge. If I leave it plugged in, the phone continues to charge to 100. However, the battery doesn't really charge past 90 because once I begin to use it the charge drops really quickly down to 90. Similarly, if I restart the phone, even if it said 100 before, when it is on again it says 90. I have had this issue with previous CM10 nightlies as well. It is a software issue, because if I turn the phone off and charge it, it charges to 100.
Any ideas on how to fix this? Thanks!

This is a suggestion out of the blue but maybe try recalrubratung your battery

omario8484 said:
This is a suggestion out of the blue but maybe try recalrubratung your battery
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I did to no avail
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A0A said:
I'm running the 12/28 CM10 nightly, and I'm having an issue with charging my battery. When the phone is on, the battery charges normally to 90%, at which point the LED changes from red to green, indicating full charge. If I leave it plugged in, the phone continues to charge to 100. However, the battery doesn't really charge past 90 because once I begin to use it the charge drops really quickly down to 90. Similarly, if I restart the phone, even if it said 100 before, when it is on again it says 90. I have had this issue with previous CM10 nightlies as well. It is a software issue, because if I turn the phone off and charge it, it charges to 100.
Any ideas on how to fix this? Thanks!
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This is the intended bahavior. The type of battery used in phones last longest when they say between 80% and 20% of charged. So your phone will pull the maximum amount of power it can until it hits 90% then reduce power draw to a trickle charge.
The rapid drop is power is often the chip in the battery lying that it is fully charged when it is not. That is why you may see a rapid decline to 90% where your battery drain will go back to normal.
You might also see the phone telling you that it has 15% power then turning off. Upon reboot it will say it's at 0% or 1% that also is the battery trying to protect it self from damage.
This is a simplified explanation of how all phones work these days. The only difference you'll notice is how good the software is designed to lie to you about the power level. If it's good you won't notice these types of anomalies but they are still there.

Have you wiped battery stats?

dc211 said:
This is the intended bahavior. The type of battery used in phones last longest when they say between 80% and 20% of charged. So your phone will pull the maximum amount of power it can until it hits 90% then reduce power draw to a trickle charge.
The rapid drop is power is often the chip in the battery lying that it is fully charged when it is not. That is why you may see a rapid decline to 90% where your battery drain will go back to normal.
You might also see the phone telling you that it has 15% power then turning off. Upon reboot it will say it's at 0% or 1% that also is the battery trying to protect it self from damage.
This is a simplified explanation of how all phones work these days. The only difference you'll notice is how good the software is designed to lie to you about the power level. If it's good you won't notice these types of anomalies but they are still there.
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Thanks for that informative answer. So I take it that means there would be no performance difference between turning my phone off, charging it, and then using it (with it saying 100%) vs leaving it on, charging it to 90% (green LED turns on) and then using it?

[Q] Can you disable the charging LED

I charge my phone with the dock on my bedside table. The LED being on all the time is annoying. I use light flow but it seems unable to control the charge state for the LED.
Anyone know if there is a way, short of rooting, to stop the battery LED.

3Shirts said:
I charge my phone with the dock on my bedside table. The LED being on all the time is annoying. I use light flow but it seems unable to control the charge state for the LED.
Anyone know if there is a way, short of rooting, to stop the battery LED.
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I don't think there is way to disable charging LED,probably root will be able to
But for now,you can try to change the led colour to make it not that bright...
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=hk.ChargingLED

Yes.. Turn your phone screen down to disable

Sindroid said:
Yes.. Turn your phone screen down to disable
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What do you mean? I've tried setting the brightness to minimum (and turning auto off) and it makes no difference. LED still shows while charging.
EDIT: Oh I see, you were being a wise-ass and suggesting I put the phone face down. Anyone got anything useful to contribute?

Kinda off topic but why the hell does the led turn green BEFORE its fully charged lol This is just so stupid because ive often seen the led turn green, and unplugged the charger thinking it was fully charged only to see it on 90+ %. Would be so much better if they just kept it orange and it does not turn green until it reaches 100!! Dont think you can turn it off either by the way but you can for notifications

3Shirts said:
I charge my phone with the dock on my bedside table. The LED being on all the time is annoying. I use light flow but it seems unable to control the charge state for the LED.
Anyone know if there is a way, short of rooting, to stop the battery LED.
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I wrote about how I fixed this in the Z3C forum. Check it out: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=55818000

Cool, thanks. That basically works.
I am using Light Flow and it seems that if you try to use absolute black (HEX Code FF000000) it doesn't work and the default charging colour overrides it.
If you use any other colour it does work so I set the charging and fully charged events to use HEX Code FF000001 (which is as good as black) and that works! It still uses the normal charging colours when the screen is on but that's not a problem.
I can finally have a dark bedroom while the phone is docked!
Can a mod mark the title with [Solved]. I think this would be helpful to a few people.

Blaalad12 said:
Kinda off topic but why the hell does the led turn green BEFORE its fully charged lol This is just so stupid because ive often seen the led turn green, and unplugged the charger thinking it was fully charged only to see it on 90+ %. Would be so much better if they just kept it orange and it does not turn green until it reaches 100!! Dont think you can turn it off either by the way but you can for notifications
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I agree 100% but that's the code in the AOSP. Cyanogenmod, slimroms etc all do it. It's just the corporate stock roms that don't, generally - this is the first one I've seen which does it.
I have absolutely no idea why it's not perfectly clear to everyone that you only want the led to go green when the charge level reaches 100%, so that you don't have to perform two checks to see if the battery is charged: one for the LED colour, and a second to see if the value is 100.