First of all. I have an international version Nexus 5 (live in Norway), I updated to Android 6.0 Marshmellow a few days ago OTA. Here is a shot the stock battery monitor, just to clarify what I mean. This thread is NOT about battery drain or anything associated with bad battery life.
A screenshot of my battery the day after I installed the OTA update:
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A screenshot of how my "battery" has been today:
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Excuse the links, just remove the ----- and spaces. As I am a newly registered user, I am not allowed to post links.
After I installed the update, I used my phone normally for that day. Then, some time during the evening, the phone turned off abruptly even though it was at 15% battery power. Okay, I thought, and found the charger. Now I noticed that it wouldn't charge nearly at the normal speed. I was starting to suspect either the charger or the battery. During the night, however, it charged to somewhere right below 70%. Now it just seemed like a battery calibration issue. Fine, I thought, and searched up tips on re-calibrating the battery.
Sadly, it turned out that the slow charging that I had experienced the night before, persisted. By this time, I had tried different chargers, USB-port and a few different outlets, I had also tried replacing the battery with a spare I had lying around, all without any luck. As the phone creeped closer and closer to zero, while having the charger plugged in and the little lightning icon saying it was charging (although saying it was not, in the battery menu), I did a factory reset as suggested by some. The reset turned out to be futile, and for the rest of the day, the phone has been reliant on the charger to live, and the battery curve has been flat as pancakes.
Here is a list of what I have tried, so you don't have to waste your time.
-Different chargers, the ones coming with the phone, as well as a plethora of different brands I had lying around
-Turning off WI-FI while charging (someone on the Great Internet suggested it...)
-Replacing the battery with one I know work
-Factory reset
-Letting it turn itself off then charge it while off
-Turning it off while charging
-Charging it in the Fastboot menu (again... someone on the Great Big Internet suggested it)
-Checking the charging port for puppies and other rubbish that we have lying around there
-Keeping the charger connected for longer periods of time
Really the only alternative I haven't tried, is rooting it and rolling it back to 5.1 or something. Although I hoped I would not have to do that when I got my lovely N5 a few years ago... Any suggestions are devoured willingly.
So I seem to have a similar issue.
My Nexus won't take charge either, but I will admit to dropping it/replacing screen and battery and its been opened a few times so my issue, as well as yours, may be on the hardware side. I am convinced it is the charging board inside the phone, which is located at the bottom and connected to the motherboard by a ribbon cable. I am contemplating buying a new charging port board on etradesupply for around 15 bucks plus shipping since I wanted to sell the phone and get a N5X.
Damn thing couldn't wait to do this for another couples weeks....spiteful little phone.
So my question is, has it been dropped/mishandled? These parts are very tiny and can be ruptured with repeated drops.
Hey, thanks for the reply.
Yes, sure it has been dropped and abused like any other phone, but the reason I am suspecting this update, is that it happened the same day as I installed it, and that I hadn't dropped the phone for two weeks before that. You might well be right, and yes, I agree, spiteful little things! It could have waited a few more weeks so I get my new Nexus 5X/6P (not quite sure yet).
I suspected the update, but I've had the update since I was able to adb flash it, so I don't think Mallow is the culprit. The part will take a few days to come and I am going to try to diagnose it before then so I'll PM you or post here if anything changes.
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Also, I didn't see this possible fix in the original post on your part for the battery issues.
Go to settings->location->location settings-> and turn off Wi-Fi and Bluetooth scanning. Then go to Backup and Reset and reset network settings. Reboot and that should fix a possible battery drain issue that plagues Mallow for now.
It was MURDERING my battery, as well as several others. It's a known issue by Google.
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Anyone come across this? I put it on standby last night after reading a bit of my book on it, and it had around 50% power remaining. This morning, it was totally unresponsive; pressing the power button does nothing at all. I've charged it for 12 hours in the meantime.
I've done the following all with and without the power attached:
- Pressed and held power for 15 seconds through to a minute
- Pressed and held volume up with power to attempt to get into recovery for up to a minute
- Pressed and held volume down with powerfor up to a minute
- Pressed and held power while touching screen (read that one off another forum)
I guess potentially it could be on and in a crashed state and unresponsive to the power, so maybe in a weeks time when it runs out of juice, I'll be able to charge it and power it back up, but in the meantime, I'd welcome suggestions.
A few weeks ago I updated it to the official ICS build that was released, but did the update myself rather than using KIES, as KIES didn't even recognise my Tab's firmware original version. It's been absolutely fine before the update, and since. I only mention it because I've read about the Samsung build of ICS being prone to self bricking itself, but I couldn't determine what the symptoms of this vulnerability were.
Thanks for any help offered,
Will
did you try connecting USB cable and plugging it into your PC? did u get any activity? can ADB recognize your tab?
I think your tab just ran out of juice and the battery's protection circuit has kicked in. Try taking it to an electronic shop and plugging in different chargers preferably one with an output more than 2.1 amps to kickstart the charging. Plug it in and wait till the charging animation starts.
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Had the same problem while on holidays. Once the battery goes below a certain level, you won't be able to charge it through USB any more. Instead you need to use the wall charger.
I think it's bad enough that the 7.7 doesn't have a micro USB port, but things like that are just stupid and Samsung made a big mistake here. It don't think it's the same with the newer tablets though. It's also not possible to just buy cables or chargers for this strange Samsung port, so when you forget your wall charger at home at some point you won't be able to use your tablet any more.
As long as you charge with the USB cable early enough, you can avoid it though.
A few months ago I experienced the same thing, the Tab just wouldn't turn on anymore.
I tried all there is without any luck.
Contacted amazon and they replaced it with a new one in less than 48 hours.
So far not Problems with the new device.
I have the P6800 and this morning I took it off charge. Put it into standby and only used it for about 20 mins then left in standby all day. It had about 95% remaining when I did so.
Picked it up this evening and the lower left area of the screen was warm and it would not switch on. Didn't think of the ADB idea but will try this next time but I had to reset it and when it powered on tonight after the reset, it was down to 15%. Within about 2 mins of checking stuff it was down to 3%.
Something is running when it is in standby but as I can't switch it on I can't check with BetterBatteryStats or CPUState to know what is wrong.
It does this every day. I am tempted to do a factory reset and reinstall only limited software.
Dave...
I see this thread is a little old but this has just happened to my P6810 too. A pity nobody reported back what the end result was.
My device had at least 95% battery last night but today I can't get it to respond at all, I've tried the wall charger and still nothing.
Anything else someone could suggest for me?
Edit. I tried getting anything from it connected to my PC but it couldn't find a device there. However I then tried it on the wall charger again and now get a blue battery icon, quite big, with a five step animation indicating that it is charging.
No idea how it went flat as the battery on this lasts a long time assuming the screen isn't on. When it boots properly I'll have a look at what the most recent apps I installed were as it has only done this once. Before this it has been perfect for the three weeks I've had it.
Cluey said:
I see this thread is a little old but this has just happened to my P6810 too. A pity nobody reported back what the end result was.
My device had at least 95% battery last night but today I can't get it to respond at all, I've tried the wall charger and still nothing.
Anything else someone could suggest for me?
Edit. I tried getting anything from it connected to my PC but it couldn't find a device there. However I then tried it on the wall charger again and now get a blue battery icon, quite big, with a five step animation indicating that it is charging.
No idea how it went flat as the battery on this lasts a long time assuming the screen isn't on. When it boots properly I'll have a look at what the most recent apps I installed were as it has only done this once. Before this it has been perfect for the three weeks I've had it.
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This is the infamous Sleep-Of-Death issue that is randomly experienced by myself and other users here, usually happens when WiFi bugs out due to weak signal
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This is the infamous Sleep-Of-Death issue that is randomly experienced by myself and other users here, usually happens when WiFi bugs out due to weak signal
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hhmmm, interesting.
I was having trouble with wifi just before this happened. Both my GS2 and this have been claiming to connect to my wifi but aren't actually getting an IP address from it.
I can't remember if it was last night or the night before but I manually set an IP address, the signal strength is fine as my abode isn't very big.
After it has recharged I'll have a poke and see what I can find, thanks for the reply.
So my device seems to be working fine again. It had gone SO flat that the date and time were incorrect!
After I could power it on I had a look at Better Battery Stats and nothing looked wrong so I have no idea what happened. None of the apps I'd installed the day before it played up had long wakelocks and weren't running when I turned it off.
For reference they were:
My Tracks
MyTrails
Google Earth
AndSMB
I'd turned both of the GPS tracking devices off before I turned it off for the night.
It hasn't played up since but it hasn't been long so I'll see what happens.
Yeah, the sleep of death is incredibly annoying. Honestly, the GTab 7.7 is a **** device. Samsung made way too many mistakes and won't do anything to fix it.
A similar thing happens to me every once in awhile. The way i check to make sure everything alright is to see if it boots into download mode. I just leave it plugged in for a couple hours and it eventually comes back on.
someth1ng said:
Yeah, the sleep of death is incredibly annoying. Honestly, the GTab 7.7 is a **** device. Samsung made way too many mistakes and won't do anything to fix it.
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this is why my 7.7 is the last tablet/phone from Samsung i'll never trust them they are just bombarding the market with new devices and leaving the old ones to dust
^thats what I thought too but that gs4 is really tempting. I've heard worse about HTC in that regard anyways so that why I'm not going with the one.
Finally.. i bought Sony xperia Z.
I'll sell my galaxy tab 7.7. I.m very disappointed with samsung.
Sent From XPERIA Z
kishd said:
I think your tab just ran out of juice and the battery's protection circuit has kicked in. Try taking it to an electronic shop and plugging in different chargers preferably one with an output more than 2.1 amps to kickstart the charging. Plug it in and wait till the charging animation starts.
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Unbelievable! ... this trick still works ... thank you very much for you help ...
^^ yo, this 'trickle charge' trick did NOT work on my (long) dead P6800... any other suggestions??
Quite strange because my Samsung GT-P6800 tablet was fully charged, it went completely blank dark as if it was off. To my amazement, SMS keeps dropping and calls kept coming in. Yet it is still as blank as though the tab was off. I pressed the power button and the volume up bottom for it to reboot. It rebooted without the screen coming up. It has been blank for two days now. What could be the cause? And what possible solution can be given?
Hello,
I went out last Friday and came home late. My phone is out of battery and dead. I plugged it in and woke up the next day with a dead phone. Apparently, there is a bug with the OPO. If the battery is too low, it won't even charge after you plug it in for charging. I have tried all tricks and even contact the OPO Tech Support Team. This thread describes how horrible they are:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/oneplus-one/general/tech-support-onepluse-one-horrible-t3084022
I am at my wit's end. I have tried all the the tricks. This is a thread that I found that seems to have the same problem as I have.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/oneplus-one/help/oneplusone-phone-dead-t3079256
The only choice I have left is to open the phone, disconnect the battery connection and reconnection it again. Hoping it will recharge. However, there is a warranty sticker and I don't want OPO to deny my warranty. I am not new to Android and I have fixed phones before. I also think of buying a new OPO battery and switch it with the factory one. Since the new battery will be charged, I think that will work in fixing it. But, doing that is much more complicate and it requires me to remove more components. If you have a good working solution for my problem, please help.
NOTE: please don't ask me to check my charger or use a different one. I check it 1000 times already. The original charger works, the cable works. I use different chargers and cables. Same result.
Thank you for your help.
Have you rooted and unlocked? I had the same problem when I got mine at first. It would show charging but never fully charge. 73% was all it would do. So after rooting and flashing a custom kernel the problem went away. Now I can go back to stock and the problem has never comeback. Maybe just a small software glitch or something. I'm just happy it's gone!
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Have you rooted and unlocked? I had the same problem when I got mine at first. It would show charging but never fully charge. 73% was all it would do. So after rooting and flashing a custom kernel the problem went away. Now I can go back to stock and the problem has never comeback. Maybe just a small software glitch or something. I'm just happy it's gone!
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The phone is unlocked and rooted. The issue is not fully charged or not. The issue here is the phone does not charge after the battery die. The phone is dead because I let the battery run to 0. When I plug it to recharge, the low battery screen does not even come up. The phone is dead and refuse to recharge. There is no issue with the charger or the charging cable. I have checked it several time already. I am very frustrated with OPO Tech Support right now.
I see. Only other thing I can think of is try holding the power button for 60 seconds while it's plugged in. That does suck man.
I had similar issue, my conclusion is the bootloader charging function is broken.
Basically I would start the charging, it would charge for about 10 seconds or so, and then stop. I thought my battery was dead.
I couldnt boot the os as wasnt enough charge.
So eventually I just kept repeating the process, 10 seconds charge at a time, and eventually had enough juice to boot android and after that point it charged to full ok.
Never had this issue on any of my samsung phones.
Also to point out when it went dead it was plugged into my pc usb at the time with twrp loaded.
My phone is not charging sometimes and when it is, it charges at about 1% every 15 minutes. I've tried many known working chargers and cables so rule that out. I switched custom ROMs because of this issue. and a few days in it began to happen again. What are some things that could be causing this?
Im desperate! really, it's only phone for communication. My last resort is back to stock but I really like my setup now and battery is amazing. Please help lol
If the same thing happens with several known working chargers and cables, then likely you have a hardware issue with the phone itself.
(On my first Nexus 5, the charging port came slightly loose and would only charge with the cable at a very specific angle. Got it replaced when it was still under warranty)
To be absolutely sure it's not the rom or kernel or some strange mod, make a nandroid backup, copy it to pc, then go fully back to stock. See if it charges properly.
Try out apps like Ampere etc which display the charging rate. Your battery might be dead or as mentioned in the above post
Just spent a whole day doing all that stuff, It's def the phone :'( It's absolutely heartbreaking since I don't have money to fix it......... Uuuuughh...
charging was wonky, been checking it constantly
Hi guys, I've searched anywhere but I couldn't found a workaround for my issue, so I decided to make this post since it's driving me nuts.
I recently decided to substitute my opo battery since it was swolling up, with this one https://www.amazon.it/gp/product/B00W9ZAURM/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o02_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
Installing it was easy, but i quickly encountered some problems! First, the battery would not charge. The opo died at 2% and no matter how much time I left it in charge, it took almost a day to get it back little by little. Anyhow I managed to make it work, but the problem now is different: most of the times, I have to use caffeine to keep the screen on while charging, otherwise it won't work. I know that since I'm using AccuBattery Pro to check the incoming power. Sometimes it doesn't even work this way and I have to shut the screen off, unplug the cable, plug it in again, and then keep the screen on. I noticed that since I left the phone in charge for 1 hour and the battery percentage was still the same as it was earlier. Take a look at the screen so you can understand.
Ah! I almost forgot! 2 or 3 times has happened that the phone powered off all of a sudden. I'd like to throw it from my f******g window.
P.S. I'm using opo's original charger & cable; i tried with a different charger & cable still made by oneplus since my father has the same phone, so it isn't a cable\charger problem.
pr091 said:
Hi guys, I've searched anywhere but I couldn't found a workaround for my issue, so I decided to make this post since it's driving me nuts.
I recently decided to substitute my opo battery since it was swolling up, with this one https://www.amazon.it/gp/product/B00W9ZAURM/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o02_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
Installing it was easy, but i quickly encountered some problems! First, the battery would not charge. The opo died at 2% and no matter how much time I left it in charge, it took almost a day to get it back little by little. Anyhow I managed to make it work, but the problem now is different: most of the times, I have to use caffeine to keep the screen on while charging, otherwise it won't work. I know that since I'm using AccuBattery Pro to check the incoming power. Sometimes it doesn't even work this way and I have to shut the screen off, unplug the cable, plug it in again, and then keep the screen on. I noticed that since I left the phone in charge for 1 hour and the battery percentage was still the same as it was earlier. Take a look at the screen so you can understand.
Ah! I almost forgot! 2 or 3 times has happened that the phone powered off all of a sudden. I'd like to throw it from my f******g window.
P.S. I'm using opo's original charger & cable; i tried with a different charger & cable still made by oneplus since my father has the same phone, so it isn't a cable\charger problem.
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The original swollen battery has battery backup issues too? If not,I advice you to use that again,as no better,or equal and genuine batteries are available anywhere.
No, never had a problem with the original one but it was starting to break the back cover... So I threw it in the bin ? the seller sent me another sealed battery, maybe I should try it. Any advice on how to calibrate it properly?
pr091 said:
No, never had a problem with the original one but it was starting to break the back cover... So I threw it in the bin the seller sent me another sealed battery, maybe I should try it. Any advice on how to calibrate it properly?
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Search battery thread in accessories section.
Mind telling me what is the serial number on the battery connector? those serial number can tell you whether you bought an original battery or OEM battery...
Hello All.
I've been very happy with my U11 for nearly 2 years (ugrade due in june this year).
Recently i've had a problem where connecting a charge cable has been intermittent, either slow charge or no charge until after a few attempts, it works fine and shows 'charging rapidly'
Eventually, a couple of days ago, i started to get a USB error when I plugged in in, telling me to clear any obstruction or liquid from the port.
I used a small shard of soft toothpick and some alcohol to pick some bits of fluff out of the depths of the port and give it a clean, being as careful as I could not to damage it, I'm electronics sensitive, not ham fisted and I got quite a lot out.
Now when I plug the cable in, it charges rapidly but says it's only charging on AC power, charging takes the normal amount of time but the battery discharges rapidly
The attached image shows a full charge in the evening and consistantly dropping overnight until it died sometime in the morning, even though It was obviously just sat not doing anything on my bedside table. Normally, i'd get between a day and a half and 2 days.
It's clear i've damaged the port somehow, perhaps bridged a couple of pins so it's discharging?
Does anyone have any suggestions? Can these ports be replaced easily?
Cheers
Chris How said:
Hello All.
I've been very happy with my U11 for nearly 2 years (ugrade due in june this year).
Recently i've had a problem where connecting a charge cable has been intermittent, either slow charge or no charge until after a few attempts, it works fine and shows 'charging rapidly'
Eventually, a couple of days ago, i started to get a USB error when I plugged in in, telling me to clear any obstruction or liquid from the port.
I used a small shard of soft toothpick and some alcohol to pick some bits of fluff out of the depths of the port and give it a clean, being as careful as I could not to damage it, I'm electronics sensitive, not ham fisted and I got quite a lot out.
Now when I plug the cable in, it charges rapidly but says it's only charging on AC power, charging takes the normal amount of time but the battery discharges rapidly
The attached image shows a full charge in the evening and consistantly dropping overnight until it died sometime in the morning, even though It was obviously just sat not doing anything on my bedside table. Normally, i'd get between a day and a half and 2 days.
It's clear i've damaged the port somehow, perhaps bridged a couple of pins so it's discharging?
Does anyone have any suggestions? Can these ports be replaced easily?
Cheers
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Without the cleaning part of the charge port I had a similar experience. In my case, rebooting the phone once was the solution. It might sound obvious to try, but I walked around for a week before I tried that so may be you haven't tried it yet. I normally hardly ever reboot the phone.
So you might give it a try.
Regards,
Salvolin
Just an update to this post if anyone's interested.
I sent the phone off for repair with HTC, the phone is still in warranty.
Even after explaining the problem in detail, they replaced the battery and sent it back to me.
The same problem persisted so after talking to them again and only just managing to contain my frustration, I sent it back to them again.
This time they took 3 weeks to repair it, I received it back today and guess what? . . . . same problem persists.
It's obvious they have not replaced the port (there's a tiny mark in the plastic I recognise).
Attached is the battery usage at standby for one hour after a full charge and the second brand new battery.
I'm still under warranty and i'm still in contract with EE (UK), so i've asked for a replacement phone from HTC. but I feel I may be better chasing taking this up with EE.
Chris How said:
Just an update to this post if anyone's interested.
I sent the phone off for repair with HTC, the phone is still in warranty.
Even after explaining the problem in detail, they replaced the battery and sent it back to me.
The same problem persisted so after talking to them again and only just managing to contain my frustration, I sent it back to them again.
This time they took 3 weeks to repair it, I received it back today and guess what? . . . . same problem persists.
It's obvious they have not replaced the port (there's a tiny mark in the plastic I recognise).
Attached is the battery usage at standby for one hour after a full charge and the second brand new battery.
I'm still under warranty and i'm still in contract with EE (UK), so i've asked for a replacement phone from HTC. but I feel I may be better chasing taking this up with EE.
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Have you tried clearing caches?
Go to recovery and wipe dalvik/cache.
Generally solves the problem for most.