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[Q] Is my phone dead? :(

1. The phone won't turn on
2. The charging indicator doesn't light up when I try to charge the battery.
3. One of the sensors on the top left turns dim red in color when I connect the charging cable
4. I can't hard reset either
thanks

Did the battery die all the way? Or did you flash a radio without checking the md5? If its a borked radio install say hello to a 500 dollar paper weight if its the battery your gonna have to charge it in another phone cause I'm not sure if cwm 5.0.2.7 has powered off charging
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Yes we need a couple of info first. Also we need every information we can get in the last events before the phone got bricked. Like what did you do? what ROM? What's the status of the phone? Battery?
The more the details the better we could assist you.

Sounds like when my first Mytouch 3g broke, it would turn on the first couple of times going into a bootlope at the HBoot. It also didnt respond to charging or any other battery i tried.

Thanks for the reply strapped. I haven't flashed a radio. I did flash the virtuous infinity rom though. I'm not certain if that affected the radio. I did, however, let my battery die all the way. Do you know why one the sensors on the top left corner turns dim red when I connect the charging cable?

CJ_ said:
Thanks for the reply strapped. I haven't flashed a radio. I did flash the virtuous infinity rom though. I'm not certain if that affected the radio. I did, however, let my battery die all the way. Do you know why one the sensors on the top left corner turns dim red when I connect the charging cable?
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Oh crap the battery die all the way problem
I think your battery is dead.s
Saw dozens of problems like this on the my previous device's forum.
Li Ion batteries have this fuse inside it in which it trips off when the battery gets discharged to a certain voltage. If it does your battery goes into a suicide mode in order to protect the phone.
basically the best thing to take good care of your battery is not let it drain lower than 40% and not fully charge it to 90%.
discharging it too low drains it's lifespan drastically. While charging it too high also drains it's lifespan.
Over-discharging Lithium-ion
Li-ion should never be discharged too low, and there are several safeguards to prevent this from happening. The equipment cuts off when the battery discharges to about 3.0V/cell, stopping the current flow. If the discharge continues to about 2.70V/cell or lower, the battery’s protection circuit puts the battery into a sleep mode. This renders the pack unserviceable and a recharge with most chargers is not possible. To prevent a battery from falling asleep, apply a partial charge before a long storage period.
Battery manufacturers ship batteries with a 40 percent charge. The low charge state reduces aging-related stress while allowing some self-discharge during storage. To minimize the current flow for the protection circuit before the battery is sold, advanced Li-ion packs feature a sleep mode that disables the protection circuit until activated by a brief charge or discharge. Once engaged, the battery remains operational and the on state can no longer be switched back to the standby mode.
Do not recharge lithium-ion if a cell has stayed at or below 1.5V for more than a week. Copper shunts may have formed inside the cells that can lead to a partial or total electrical short. If recharged, the cells might become unstable, causing excessive heat or showing other anomalies. Li-ion packs that have been under stress are more sensitive to mechanical abuse, such as vibration, dropping and exposure to heat.
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maybe you guys should read this.
http://batteryuniversity.com/learn/article/charging_lithium_ion_batteries
http://batteryuniversity.com/learn/article/how_to_prolong_lithium_based_batteries

Cheers guys. Here's every bit of information I can recollect
A few days ago I created a nandroid backup and formatted my sd card via the PC.
I flashed the latest version of CWM recovery
I flashed the virtuous infinity rom 1.33 alpha v3 and then flashed the 1.35 beta 1 update.
Then i copied some music on to the SD card and installed a couple of apps.... nothing out of the ordinary.
The phone worked fine the last couple of days but I don't remember letting the battery die all the way. I should add that I have a dodgy battery; a couple of months ago my dear girlfriend spilled her drink and beer went in to back of my phone... since then the keyboard doesn't work (some keys work but its basically dead) and the battery has been affected as well since it now only lasts 3-4 hours after a full charge....but this issue can't have caused the problem I'm now having because the dead keyboard and dodgy battery have been around for a few months...
Last night, however, I think I let the battery die all the way and at some point, when I tried to turn it on, the phone vibrated as it does when you hold the power button, however, the screen didn't turn on. Since then, nothing has changed. When I connect the phone to the PC, it makes a couple of "connection" noises but I can't access the SD card or contents.

by saying latest CWM is it the 6.0 touch based CWM by chance?

sorry mate, i meant 5..0.2.7.

That's the CWM I'm using so it's safe. I'm also on latest VI for weeks without problem.
So it all points out to your battery.
Phone vibrating to power button means it's responding perfectly. Not sure about the light on the sensor only htc technician can tell.
But what I can say is if your trackpad button lights out red always then you got a brick on your hand.

Nope the trackpad isn't red so I guess that's a good sign. I've ordered a new battery and should have it later this week. Let's see if that fixes the issue. Will report back. Thanks all!

So, a new battery has arrived, however, it hasn't helped as the phone won't charge (no orange light) or turn on...... Since I live in Australia, I don't know anyone else with this phone. Is there any other way for me to revive my brick of a phone?? Thanks

CJ_ said:
So, a new battery has arrived, however, it hasn't helped as the phone won't charge (no orange light) or turn on...... Since I live in Australia, I don't know anyone else with this phone. Is there any other way for me to revive my brick of a phone?? Thanks
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Get a universal charger for your battery.
Sent from Spaceball One.

This is a rough situation. Even with my DS I've had situations where nothing would happen when I tried to restart it, in particular when I let the system run all the way down. It is as if the battery needs to have some charge for it to charge more. I have three batteries though (the stock & two Anker 1900's) so when this happens I just swap out the battery with one that I charged in the external charger, and I haven't had any real issues with them long-term. Since you bought a battery, what battery was it, and do you think it was charged when you got it, and do you have an external charger to verify that the charge is solid when you put it back in the phone? Your phone may be completely dead however, but at this point, I don't think anybody on the thread really can tell. This make sense? I don't want to say, "buy a set of Anker 1900's with an external charger" but it was cheap enough vs. the cost of the phone, and the DS does seem to be a good one overall.

Hi All,
So I got an external charger for the battery and it arrived yesterday. I then proceeded to charge the battery and hours later, no luck. The phone still doesn't turn on. When I hit the power button, one of the sensors on the top left turns red slightly, shortly after which the phone vibrates. However, it doesn't turn on.
Where do I go from here?
Thanks

have you tried to disassemble your phone at all? you said liquid was spilled in it, could take time for corrosion to turn up. maybe a little electronic parts cleaner or rubbing alcohol may help out

Nope I haven't tried to disassemble it yet but is that the only option remaining? If yes, I might have to give it a go because this phone is now as useful to me as a brick, in its current state.

[Q] Charging and battery indicator

Hi everyone
My problem is.. my DS started to charge slowly.
Now it doesn't really charge slowly, If I check the voltage, I will get like 4220mv but as soon as it reaches that, the charging graph just goes flat.
If say I have charged it to 70% and it started going slow. i switch it off, place on the charger, and the lamp goes green. I turn it on, and it is showing 100%.
I have tried calibrations, diffirent kernels, wiping, factory resets e.t.c.
Another thing is that if I will run a v6 battery calibrator,it will show that actually I should have a 100% charge although a phone is showing only 70%.
So the summary: Phone charges normally when off (when recovery monitors charging), showing the correct voltage when on... But showing the wrong percentage if on charge.
Also sometimes if the battery is like 14% left. And I turn the phone off and then on again, it will show 22% bearing the same voltage as when it was 14%.
Question: Is there any way to tweak the battery indicator so it would show % values same as the v6 calibrator does it or is it a hardware fault, if yes, which part of it ?

This happens to me on my older (original) battery, but not my new one. I bought the second battery when this problem started happening. So, I think it's just a symptom of an old battery.
By the way, if you leave it on charge long enough, it will eventually jump up to 100%.
Other than this weird behaviour, it has no real impact on anything.
Sent from my Nexus 7

Thought so, mines been acting similarly lately, but strangely enough it seems to be getting better

I think I found out..
I actually purchased a new battery recently, because my old one was jumping like crazy and started discharging in a few hours..
This new battery I bought from a mobile repair shop.
It is a cheap chinese battery with no name, anyhow I just took it out to take a look at it...
And guess what, it sais 1200mah..
Can the phone be confused because of that ?

galaxy j7 battery problem

i think my phone has some serious problems and i'm wondering if it's the battery dying or a short circuit
when i plug it on a charger while of it shows a normal charging image but how it switches from one animation to the other so i can see the status of battery percent it's like a short on the screen happened
it chargers to 100 but when i switch it on it shows mybe 95 but never 100 and if i connect it to a charger to get to 100 it only decreases
it gets warm now days which did not happen and it like drains 50% overnight which is obviously not normal. these two days the battery life is like 4 hours with internet wich with j7's battery it should not happen. if i switch it off and then on again i loose like 20% of battery and if that is all i had i get 0% and the phone doesnt switch on. the phone never had contact with water . it's been 4 days since this started and it happened all of sudden like today my phone stays up to two days at most and i just woke up it barely finishes a day without data and with power saving mode
i'm sure it's not about background apps or any activities because i hard reset it already and i don't have any app. and it's not about wifi or sync or poor network i tried all that. i did everything it didnt help. i could buy a new battery but i'm scared it might be a short because i don't think a battery can just die in one night like this.
can anyone help me with this or it's nothing serious and i have to change the battery
galaxy j700H
running custom rom enigma v6
i had a habbit of charging my phone when i sleep and unplug it in the morning and i always switched it off while charging. never used it while charging

311y said:
i think my phone has some serious problems and i'm wondering if it's the battery dying or a short circuit
when i plug it on a charger while of it shows a normal charging image but how it switches from one animation to the other so i can see the status of battery percent it's like a short on the screen happened
it chargers to 100 but when i switch it on it shows mybe 95 but never 100 and if i connect it to a charger to get to 100 it only decreases
it gets warm now days which did not happen and it like drains 50% which is obviously not normal. these two days the battery life is like 4 hours with internet wich with j7's battery it should not happen. if i switch it off and then on again i loose like 20% of battery and if that is all i had i get 0% and the phone doesnt switch on. the phone never had contact with water . it's been 4 days since this started and it happened all of sudden like today my phone stays up to two days at most and i just woke up it barely finishes a day without data and with power saving mode
i'm sure it's not about background apps or any activities because i hard reset it already and i don't have any app. and it's not about wifi or sync or poor network i tried all that. i did everything it didnt help. i could buy a new battery but i'm scared it might be a short because i don't think a battery can just die in one night like this.
can anyone help me with this or it's nothing serious and i have to change the battery
galaxy j700H
running custom rom enigma v6
i had a habbit of charging my phone when i sleep and unplug it in the morning and i always switched it off while charging. never used it while charging
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same thing happening with me from last one week since i left my phone charge at night while i was sleeping. ? after unplugging it goes from 100% to 95% suddenly and battery backup dropped don't know what's happening and yes after removing battery and reinsert it it goes down by around 20% may be someone can help.

Also got same issue..just replace the battery

Sahibjeet Singh said:
Also got same issue..just replace the battery
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Did it work for you... I mean how is the battery life after you have replaced it

311y said:
Did it work for you... I mean how is the battery life after you have replaced it
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I get around 4hours of screen on time

Xperia Z5 not charging properly, random restarts and faulty battery indicator

I just had my Xperia Z5's battery replaced due to it bloating up. After two weeks, I noticed that the battery indicator isn't working properly.
It would go down from 100% really fast (even during standby - not using the phone) but stay around 30% down for a really long time. No difference in usage. Then it also started restarting on its own even during standby. I would check my phone and it would need me to input my pin saying its required after a restart. Another instance, I was still typing out a text message and it restarted on its own. The battery was around 60% before it restarted but after it turns on again the battery indicator showed that its at 40 something %. I don't think the battery would drain that much just from restarting.
Also, just today, it won't charge properly anymore. It will detect the charger, like it would make the sound when you plug it in but the battery icon won't change to the charging icon and the battery will continue to drain. When turned off, it would show the Sony logo then battery level on the screen but will stay at 0% or whatever % it was left at and will continue draining.
So my phone just died earlier and I just went to plug it in hoping it would still work. The battery was stuck at 0% for the longest time so I just went and left it for a few hours. Coming back to it, I noticed that the LED indicator is green. I pressed the power button and it showed 100%, then I tried turning on the phone. It still turned on, showing 100% on the battery icon and could be used like usual.
I can still use the phone, barely, but this issue is really annoying. I'm not even sure if the next time it drains it would charge again.
So far, I've tried:
using a different cable and charger
doing a factory reset
doing a repair via Xperia Companion
But the issue still persists...
Is there anything else I can do on my end to fix this?

You should replace your battery
Hello.
I'm sorry to hear that your Xperia Z5 got this problem.
Here're some personal experiences:
1.Just replace a battery for it.My Xperia Z5 had same issue last month:Its battery lasts for only 2 or 3 hours,and charges much faster than before.Then I think maybe the battery life loss too much,so I bought a battery from taobao(A Chinese Website),then everything's fine just as when I buy it.
2.According to your description,maybe the sub board(It's responsible for charging and data transmission)is broken too.You can find a used one at ebay.
That's all.I hope this message can help you.And...I'm a Chinese so maybe you can't understand my Chinglish(It means "Chinese English" )...Sorry for that.

Poco f2 pro charge only to 89%

Hello guys,i bought poco f2 pro global a week ago.My problem is the follow:
When i put my phone for charging the process go to 89% and freeze there.if i disconnect and connect again the charger then its make it 100%!?u can wait 5 h but no more than 89%.
Its very anoyning ,coz when i got to bed i put the phone on charge and at the morning i get it on 89%.
Factory reset didn't solve it.Any ideas?thx

Try draining the battery to 0%, then let it charge uninterrupted and see if that helps..

Hi if you've seen some of my posts. I got a Poco F2 Pro and on the second day it started showing 1% battery charge all the time. As well as an overheating issue and would close the camera after 5 seconds. Not sure what I did other than turned it off and let it charge a few times. For no known reason it started working fine. That was a week ago, so haven't had the problem occur since.
I'd check while the phone is off what the battery level shows as. If it still shows 89% it might be more serious, otherwise could be a bug

Fast78i said:
Hello guys,i bought poco f2 pro global a week ago.My problem is the follow:
When i put my phone for charging the process go to 89% and freeze there.if i disconnect and connect again the charger then its make it 100%!?u can wait 5 h but no more than 89%.
Its very anoyning ,coz when i got to bed i put the phone on charge and at the morning i get it on 89%.
Factory reset didn't solve it.Any ideas?thx
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ITs not uncommon a miss-calibrated battery. Make a full discharge, wait all the time until your phone is power off. Once completely drained, try (without charger) power on some times, to be completely sure is totally death. Now, make a complete Full cicle. This time, the phone should reach 100%

Thank you all for the suggestions. I discharged the battery to 0 %,then plug it again and the result was 92%.So no luck..I really hope that this is software bug and will be fixed with miui 12 .Will be very unlucky if my unit is defective.the phone is a week old .what do you think,if i download the present software and flash it , maybe that's will help?

Theliels said:
ITs not uncommon a miss-calibrated battery. Make a full discharge, wait all the time until your phone is power off. Once completely drained, try (without charger) power on some times, to be completely sure is totally death. Now, make a complete Full cicle. This time, the phone should reach 100%
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This so called "calibration of the battery" is total BS.
At every boot with at least the latest 4 Android versions it will "calibrate" itself and nothing one can do about it to "trigger calibration" or that kind of stuff.
When the battery won't charge beyond 89% something else is causing it, faulty battery or software related.
Did you unlock your device or is it still locked?
When locked try to manually download the whole rom new from the update menu and reflash it.
Then check if it charges correct of not.

Snah001 said:
This so called "calibration of the battery" is total BS.
At every boot with at least the latest 4 Android versions it will "calibrate" itself and nothing one can do about it to "trigger calibration" or that kind of stuff.
When the battery won't charge beyond 89% something else is causing it, faulty battery or software related.
Did you unlock your device or is it still locked?
When locked try to manually download the whole rom new from the update menu and reflash it.
Then check if it charges correct of not.
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Some devices that I have seen with the same behavior would not think the same as you, obviously with a healthy battery. A bad battery can behave abnormally too, but I doubt that is the case.
And yes, it can be called a ... "calibration", although nothing to do with the supposed magic cures of deleting the battery statistics file. What happens is not that % battery is lost or that the battery is not fully charged. In fact, if the battery is fully charged, it is the count that fails. This is perfectly evident, when the phone reaches 1% it stays in that% much longer than usual, because the phone really did not have 78% (for example) and is not full drained yet. Once the battery is completely drained, the margins are recalculated correctly again. It is not a bad battery that is not fully charged, it is fully charged, what happens is that the battery reports incorrect data due to a "calibration" mismatch.
In any case, the partner will be able to tell us perfectly if it worked, or not . I repeat, there are many phones that I have seen with this behavior and many that have returned to their being. It is clear that if the battery is bad it will continue to be bad. It has happened to me in the past with a pair of Xiaomi phones, the last one a Redmi 6, is not uncommon

Snah001 said:
This so called "calibration of the battery" is total BS.
At every boot with at least the latest 4 Android versions it will "calibrate" itself and nothing one can do about it to "trigger calibration" or that kind of stuff.
When the battery won't charge beyond 89% something else is causing it, faulty battery or software related.
Did you unlock your device or is it still locked?
When locked try to manually download the whole rom new from the update menu and reflash it.
Then check if it charges correct of not.
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Hi
Sorry , i don't have anything intelligent to say about battery calibration (except that if the battery sound faulty, take advantage of the phone warranty while you can!)
So... I just saw @Snah001 had a F2 pro and a Mi 9T pro... Could you please give us your quick opinion and advice here ? https://forum.xda-developers.com/poco-f2-pro/help/poco-f2-pro-t4137287
Thanks so much
Cheers !