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Bad Battery?

Figured I would put this out to the forum for thoughts, but i am pretty sure my battery is bad in my GTab. The tablet no longer runs, unless it is plugged into the outlet. While on, the battery says 0% charging all the time. If i pull the plug out while the tab is powered on the tablet shuts down. While powered off on while on the led does not light up green or red. My GTab is out of warranty as of January so I assume this is a hardware issue and i am screwed, unless i can get a replacement battery somewhere. Anyone have any thoughts?

Check the battery connector cable. See this thread.

Unplugged
Yes, follow the link above. The problem is probably that your battery has come unplugged inside. It is really easy to fix. Be sure to put some tape on the internal plug once you reconnect everything. That will prevent it from happening again.

Thanks guys worth a shot. Nothing to loose.

thank you
Thanks guys, you rock. Got home and took my tab apart and sure enough the connector was loose. Works great.now.

Woke up to a dead i727

Hi Guys,
I need thought my own Sky would give me problems since i take care of it so well :crying:
So last night i put the phone on my night table to charge, it had 9% battery left and the phone beeped since i plugged the charger and it was charging, now in the morning when i realize i'm late for work, i went to check my phone and it was dead(no alarm this morning). It was all plugged in still the charger and battery. Now i got to work and a work partner has a Sky too, i tested his battery on my Sky and nothing, tested my battery on his Sky and worked so my battery is fine(it was 100%), i tested my charger on his Sky and charged, i tested his charger on mine and nothing.
Tried plugging the phone with only usb cable to the pc without battery to reach download mode or recovery but nothing.
Now since our batteries are fine and chargers, im assuming my motherboard died which i was thinking if the battery would work it was going to be the charging port.
Is there a way to test each part of the phone o be more accurate about this issue?
Thanks in advance.

Can you get into download, recovery? Any vibration on long press power button? What rom was it on.. How long? Etc. Need a bit more info.
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toyes said:
Can you get into download, recovery? Any vibration on long press power button? What rom was it on.. How long? Etc. Need a bit more info.
Sent from my Nexus 4 using Tapatalk
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The phone won't do anything at all, i have fixed Sky's power button before and this is really weird. Stock Rom/Kernel, it was Android 4.1.2 and i have it for like 1year and 6 months.
If you need anything else let me know.
One more thing that could help, lately i noticed that the phone wasn't charging as fast as usual.I installed the Skyrocket charging app and when i plugged the charger to the phone it would say Fast Charge A/C 900~ mA and after like 30 seconds it would go down to 800, 700, 600 and then say Charger Wakelock 500~ mA.
Im really starting to think my board died.

Dead board. It happened to me on another Samsung phone a few weeks go. Came home from a day of fun. Put phone on table and plugged it in. Went to bed. Woke up to a completely non responsive phone. Got a new battery just in case. Still nothing. It was a great phone too. Oh well at least it died in it's sleep. lol

it happened to my sons s2 i9100, went to charge it and when he went back to it and it was dead, got it repaired under ext. warranty but cant find invoice on what they fixed if they even stated what they fixed, my guess mobo

theesotericone said:
Dead board. It happened to me on another Samsung phone a few weeks go. Came home from a day of fun. Put phone on table and plugged it in. Went to bed. Woke up to a completely non responsive phone. Got a new battery just in case. Still nothing. It was a great phone too. Oh well at least it died in it's sleep. lol
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vincom said:
it happened to my sons s2 i9100, went to charge it and when he went back to it and it was dead, got it repaired under ext. warranty but cant find invoice on what they fixed if they even stated what they fixed, my guess mobo
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OH Jesus Christ, i'll try to get a new mobo then and update this.
And i'll lose all my data and will have to restore a Kies Backup from May-2013. Great!:highfive::victory: :crying:

Had this happen once or twice. It turned out that the usb port on the bottom of the phone had some junk that accumulated in there as well as some signs of minor corrosion, and was not making a good connection anymore. It just needed to be cleaned out. First, I think I just (very carefully) used a needle or safety pin or something like that to gently extract the lint/dust/crap out of the port, and then cleaned up the metal connectors in the port, and one of the back inside corners where I saw a little bit of green/white build up, with a little bit of isopropyl alcohol. I let it sit for a little bit to make sure it was dry and when I plugged it in, it started charging again. I happened to have an Optivisor lying around which made it a bit easier to see what I was doing, but it isn't necessary. The most annoying part was getting a small, focused beam of light from a flashlight into the port at just the right angle, and then figuring out how to keep it there while I worked. Shouldn't take long, and as long as you don't do something really dumb, it can't hurt to give it a try.

Except that he ruled that out by swapping batteries with his friends phone.
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N5 dead, won't charge/turn on

OK, so long story short:
- Had water damage screw up the digitizer on my screen, middle vertical 1/3rd was unresponsive to touch, after time there'd be a million fake input events hammering the device
- Order replacement screen from Aliexpress
- Replacement screen is completely bunk (and crap quality), take video showing the seller the difference (my screen still displays perfectly so I can show nice A/B comparisons)
- I leave my phone on I think with the original screen, which probably will kill the battery very fast (as the device doesn't go to sleep during the fake input events)
- Phone dead
Now, there is nothing I can do to charge this freaking phone. I've tried everything from leaving it on a 2A charger for 24 hours, every button combination imaginable with volumes + power, disconnected the battery to hard reset, nothing, nothing is happening. I don't think its charging at all because normally the battery/charging circuit has a bit of warmth when charging, but there's absolutely nothing. Tried a Qi charge, nothing. Slow PC trickle charge, nothing.
Is my phone dead dead? Does anyone know how to try and potentially force a charge to the battery? I'll buy another battery from Aliexpress but I'm hesitant to spend too much money on it as the screen is pretty much bust and Nexus 6 is around the corner. I just want to get my pictures and stuff off the phone.

Water usually ruins more than one single thing. I never advise people spend money trying to fix anything, like the screen in your case, cause often more ends up being wrong.
Keep your money in the future and just replace water damaged devices.
I think you are out of luck anyway... Sorry to say.

vostok4 said:
OK, so long story short:
- Had water damage screw up the digitizer on my screen, middle vertical 1/3rd was unresponsive to touch, after time there'd be a million fake input events hammering the device
- Order replacement screen from Aliexpress
- Replacement screen is completely bunk (and crap quality), take video showing the seller the difference (my screen still displays perfectly so I can show nice A/B comparisons)
- I leave my phone on I think with the original screen, which probably will kill the battery very fast (as the device doesn't go to sleep during the fake input events)
- Phone dead
Now, there is nothing I can do to charge this freaking phone. I've tried everything from leaving it on a 2A charger for 24 hours, every button combination imaginable with volumes + power, disconnected the battery to hard reset, nothing, nothing is happening. I don't think its charging at all because normally the battery/charging circuit has a bit of warmth when charging, but there's absolutely nothing. Tried a Qi charge, nothing. Slow PC trickle charge, nothing.
Is my phone dead dead? Does anyone know how to try and potentially force a charge to the battery? I'll buy another battery from Aliexpress but I'm hesitant to spend too much money on it as the screen is pretty much bust and Nexus 6 is around the corner. I just want to get my pictures and stuff off the phone.
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Have you had any luck recovering the pictures? I'm having a similar problem

erikscbd said:
Have you had any luck recovering the pictures? I'm having a similar problem
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If your phone doesn't turn on.. Then no, you can't recover your files. Tough luck. Backup all your important files from now on!
- Sent from an IceCold Hammerhead!

Just an FYI as I have managed to fix the dead battery issue. I ordered a battery from AliExpress (this one: http://www.aliexpress.com/item/100-...T9-BLT9-Battery-Free-Shipping/2005328706.html), and it arrived today.
I plugged in the battery, and the phone turned on when I asked it to (success!). Now can I save my old battery? I plugged it into a 2A charger, and pulled the old battery connection (while the phone was at the homescreen). The phone turned off, however turned on immediately to the low-level charging screen (battery icon with lightning bolt in it), this is with no battery plugged in. So I quickly plugged in the old dead battery while it was at that screen, and BOOM, it started to charge!
Left it on for a good bit, charged to 75%, and now I've got it connected to the PC and pulling my entire /sdcard/ contents before I wipe it.
Just an idea if anyone else has a super dead battery!

vin4yak said:
If your phone doesn't turn on.. Then no, you can't recover your files. Tough luck. Backup all your important files from now on!
- Sent from an IceCold Hammerhead!
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i see your very helpful lol,Tough luck you could have put in another way dude,regard's

Galaxy S5 Quit Taking a Charge

I'm trying to troubleshoot what might by wrong with my S5. I woke up the other morning and my phone was completely dead. It was plugged in, but no LED was on and the phone was not responding.
I've tried he various troubleshooting that I've seen around the internetz, such as:
removing the battery / discharging with power for 1 minute...plug back in and try again
use a different charger / cable
clean out the charging port (I used my air compressor to blow out any dust that might be in there)
I feel like I've exhausted all I know how to do. I do have another S5 coming in a couple of days, so I'm hoping to use that to see if it's either:
a problem with the battery
a problem with the charging port
something else?
My guess is that if the new battery comes in and I put it in my old phone, that will help me tell if it's the charging port or not, correct? My assumption is that if everything else is fine, then my old phone should power on.
I am a little nervous that it's something else though; I measured the voltage out of my battery and it was registering nothing the other day. When I plugged it into the phone and allowed it to charge (even though there was no indicator and the phone would not turn on) I measured the voltage again and it was registering ~2.8V.
Anyway, thanks in advance for anyone here that can offer any other guidance as to what I can look into to troubleshoot what the problem might be.

I've verified that another battery allows my phone to boot, so my guess is that it's the charging port.
How hairy are these to swap out? Is it a realistic repair?

skankwilsonite said:
I've verified that another battery allows my phone to boot, so my guess is that it's the charging port.
How hairy are these to swap out? Is it a realistic repair?
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ive cracked an S5 apart, and getting to the charge port isnt so bad if you can get the back plastic cover off, but you might have to remove the screen too. The S5 is waaaay harder to get apart than the early notes

You can get a wireless charging receiver or an external battery charger to charge you battery instead. I charge mine wireless as much as possible to help save the charging port for when I actually need it.

Samsung Galaxy S8 Plus Dead?

Recently I got the notification that my charging port has moisture and I waited for it to dry to place my phone to charge. The thing is it charged without problems (not using fast charging) but I got the notification that my port is wet again after some time. The thing is the screen will not turn on at all. Could it be the screen died because of the electric shock?
Thank you in advance!

dedq said:
Recently I got the notification that my charging port has moisture and I waited for it to dry to place my phone to charge. The thing is it charged without problems (not using fast charging) but I got the notification that my port is wet again after some time. The thing is the screen will not turn on at all. Could it be the screen died because of the electric shock?
Thank you in advance!
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Did it actually get wet? There is a bug that sometimes if these devices die they dont want to boot back up. If you feel its the second look up s8 and deep discharge bug.

TheMadScientist said:
Did it actually get wet? There is a bug that sometimes if these devices die they dont want to boot back up. If you feel its the second look up s8 and deep discharge bug.
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I never let it discharge fully. The thing is it is instresting that the display died because of water getting in. I stil do not believe it.

dedq said:
I never let it discharge fully. The thing is it is instresting that the display died because of water getting in. I stil do not believe it.
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Did you get it wet? The moisture in USB detected disables charging. You can only wireless charge if that's showing

TheMadScientist said:
Did you get it wet? The moisture in USB detected disables charging. You can only wireless charge if that's showing
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The thing is it got wet but when I booted it (because I was unable to charge it in other way because it started vibrating) it charged normally for a short period of time (not using fast charging).
I think the water got in somehow and I do know how. My indicator for water in the SIM tray is red.
The display obviously died because of the electric shock from charging.
I do not know why the the phone did not prevent itself from charging. Seems like it cheated me somehow.
Guys, be aware.

dedq said:
The thing is it got wet but when I booted it (because I was unable to charge it in other way because it started vibrating) it charged normally for a short period of time (not using fast charging).
I think the water got in somehow and I do know how. My indicator for water in the SIM tray is red.
The display obviously died because of the electric shock from charging.
I do not know why the the phone did not prevent itself from charging. Seems like it cheated me somehow.
Guys, be aware.
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It should have stopped charging and displayed the warning. I would assume the mother board not the display these displays are pretty durable in thise standards. Ive seen them wet before.

I had the same problem, sometimes it didn't even charge with the cable plugged. Went to Samsung store and they replaced it under warranty. I also got the moisture thingy popping up, they replaced my battery and charging port and in less than an hour I was gone. My battery was faulty they said.

I see other parts of the motherboard working such as LED indicators, it charges as well. The screen just does not turn on (after turning off). I do not know why it took it so long to die since the time between charging and the phone dying was couple of hours (if it were the electric shock it would have died instantaneously).