Hi everybody.
After about a year, my Tilt started having battery issues. I first noticed something was up when I would charge the phone with the battery at ~10%, only to look at it 10 minutes later...to see that it said it was fully charged.
Now, about 6 months later, I can't even take a call before it shuts off completely. I will be on it for roughly 2 or 3 minutes and it will power down. I can use the phone regularly, for the most part. However, in the past few days, even texting for about 10-15 minutes will make it power down.
If I try turning it back on, it will start to boot up, but get stuck at the RGB screen and power itself off again. If I let it sit for about an hour...it will turn on and the battery will show a high charge level.
Any suggestions, or any similar experiences? I'm assuming my battery is basically dying, and need to purchase a new one.
arun84h said:
Hi everybody.
After about a year, my Tilt started having battery issues. I first noticed something was up when I would charge the phone with the battery at ~10%, only to look at it 10 minutes later...to see that it said it was fully charged.
Now, about 6 months later, I can't even take a call before it shuts off completely. I will be on it for roughly 2 or 3 minutes and it will power down. I can use the phone regularly, for the most part. However, in the past few days, even texting for about 10-15 minutes will make it power down.
If I try turning it back on, it will start to boot up, but get stuck at the RGB screen and power itself off again. If I let it sit for about an hour...it will turn on and the battery will show a high charge level.
Any suggestions, or any similar experiences? I'm assuming my battery is basically dying, and need to purchase a new one.
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Batteries come in different prices and different qualities. While they are all Lithium Ion, some can be recharged a lot more often then others. I have had batteries that have lasted 2 years with a daily charge, and batteries that have lasted only six months.
Sounds like it is definitely a dying battery issue.
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I remember have selected an option so the battery wouldn't necessarily shut off at 0%. Now my phone shuts off at approximately 4%. Anyone remember where this option is?
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I recently noticed this as well and would be interested if there's a way to fix this.
It has happened to me, too. Yesterday my phone shut down at 25% and 14%, but after turning it on again I could use it normally.
I'm, obviously, also interested if there's a solution for this.
Mine has done the same thing a couple of times. It's only ever happened once the battery is less than 10% but it's still annoying. I also had one random reboot today but that was the only time that this has happened.
I could swear I had selected an option for this...but I can't find it anywhere. Does anyone recall having seen this??
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It has happened to me, too. Yesterday my phone shut down at 25% and 14%, but after turning it on again I could use it normally.
I'm, obviously, also interested if there's a solution for this.
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I had some weirdness with this myself yesterday (my 2nd day on the phone).. I was literally laying in bed before going to sleep, marveling at my battery life after a day of heavy use (18 hours and 39% to go, SOT 3 hours) and it just shut off. I tried to turn it back on, but got the boot loader's big fat 0% screen. So I plugged into the turbo charger, and then it said 100% within a minute, I turned it back on, and then it was 85%.. Just decided to go to bed, left it plugged in all night. Took it off the charger this morning at 100%.. then over the next 2 hours it fell down to 55%. Figured the battery just needed to settle in for a couple of days. I've had it on a USB port for about 90 minutes now, and it's back to 100%. I'm going to take it off an constantly keep it between 80-100% all day. Hopefully it just needs to settle in and get some battery stats under it's belt? I've not seen this with many, or any phones before. Would suck to be out somewhere thinking I can make it to the next morning no problem, and then have my phone die 5 minutes later and I don't have a charger.
Has anyone found a solution for this issue?
i am with the same "4%" issue
It probably does that so it can already have a headstart for the turbo charging feature.
Have you guys tried re-calibrating the battery? I've experienced versions of what you describe, and here's how I fixed it on mine;
1 - plug into the turbo charger that came with it
2 - press and hold power button till unit shuts off, continue holding,
3 - continue holding till you see a battery icon on the screen, let go of the power button
4 - phone will vibrate, and a couple seconds later, the battery icon will show a % number, that is the correct level of charge in the battery, it is now re-calibrated!
5 - press and hold power button till phone starts to boot, you should be good..
From what I've read, this "out of sync" battery calibration is caused by using certain chargers other than the stock one. I saw it happen from plugging into a laptop usb3 port and an old blackberry wall wart (don't judge me). Other people have reported it from using wireless charging (I wireless charge every night without issue).
Hope this helps, good luck!
Hello all!
I have a Nook HD+, which has sat unused for about a year. Predictably, it does not turn on.
When I connect it to the power supply (tried with multiple supplies and cables), the LED lights up green; after 2-3 seconds, it turns orange and I can hear the voltage converter whine; after a few more seconds, the LED turns off, and the whine stops.
Pressing the power button just causes the same sequence to repeat. Keeping it pressed has no effect.
I have left it connected to the power supply for several hours, but nothing changed.
I have opened it and unplugged the battery. Connecting the power supply with the battery unplugged results in the LED flashing green/orange. Re-plugged the battery, and I'm back at the situation described at the beginning.
Any suggestion? Apart from "sell it for parts", I mean
hold power button for 10 seconds - it will either turn off or turn on the device.
hit on power button once again - hold it again for 10 seconds.
Hope it helps a bit.
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hold power button for 10 seconds - it will either turn off or turn on the device.
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Thanks for the suggestion, but it didn't work.
Regardless of how long I keep the power button pressed, the LED goes through the same sequence: green for 3 seconds, oranngo for 2 seconds, then turns off.
Looks like your battery is dead indeed. You could try to test its voltage using a voltimeter. How many contacts does it have? I think there are battery replacement being sold.
I had problems with my Nook HD+ last week. Though not as extreme as your issue, I left mine unplugged for a few weeks and it died completely. It didn't want to resurrect. Plugging it only showed the battery icon...even after two hours.
Left it on charge for 8 hours while I was off at Uni. Came back to it fully charged. So I would suggest at least leaving it on charge for a half day.
I tried to look into a replacement battery and they are apparently impossible to find...Hummingbird batteries are everywhere on eBay and specialty electronics sites. (I couldn't even find an HD+ battery on Alibaba or cheap Chinese sites.)
I wondered whether the aftermarket 4000mAH Hummingbird battery can be retrofitted. I haven't looked but given a soldering iron and ingenuity, I'm sure it can. A battery is a battery...given the voltage is right and 4000mAH is the HD+'s rating anyway. If you ventured to take that route, let me know how it goes.
(Also, I ended up finding a fix for the battery instantly dropping to 1% problem, which is why I came here to make a thread sharing the news for anyone else who has suffered. Off to do that now )
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I had problems with my Nook HD+ last week. Though not as extreme as your issue, I left mine unplugged for a few weeks and it died completely. It didn't want to resurrect. Plugging it only showed the battery icon...even after two hours.
Left it on charge for 8 hours while I was off at Uni. Came back to it fully charged. So I would suggest at least leaving it on charge for a half day.
I tried to look into a replacement battery and they are apparently impossible to find...Hummingbird batteries are everywhere on eBay and specialty electronics sites. (I couldn't even find an HD+ battery on Alibaba or cheap Chinese sites.)
I wondered whether the aftermarket 4000mAH Hummingbird battery can be retrofitted. I haven't looked but given a soldering iron and ingenuity, I'm sure it can. A battery is a battery...given the voltage is right and 4000mAH is the HD+'s rating anyway. If you ventured to take that route, let me know how it goes.
(Also, I ended up finding a fix for the battery instantly dropping to 1% problem, which is why I came here to make a thread sharing the news for anyone else who has suffered. Off to do that now )
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I had the same issue, I had to leave mine unplugged for like 24 hours and then leave it plugged in for a whole day. I'm afraid to let it turn off now.
I'm getting some strange activity on the watch:
When it runs out of battery and shuts down, I place the watch on the charging cradle while it is off, and it starts to charge as normal. It slowly charges up to 25% as usual, and then suddenly it's at 100%!!
When I boot up the watch it is at 100%, but then starts to lose charge very quickly. It's almost like the battery has become uncalibrated. I have tried running it down and then fully charging it while off and leaving it on the charging cradle for hours etc, but no help.
Anyone else with this problem, and any suggestions? (Can't send it in for warranty repair etc... cos I live in UK where they don't sell it, so had to buy it off eBay, it's a W280A which had an AT&T sim in it)
I think I may have fixed this, I'll have to wait and see how long a full charge lasts, but for the first time while powered off, it charged from 1% to 100% by 1% each time, I know because I watched it - it's been driving me crazy! So something had screwed the calibration of the battery it seems!
The fix was to keep the watch on until it powered itself off with no battery. Then try holding down the centre crown and turning it back on again - mine would get to the Google Circles on the boot animation, and then black out again - and I did this repeatedly, with the LG logo flashing up, then Google, then the circles, then it turned itself off again - so I knew there was more battery there (yes, I know these batteries keep a reserve so they are never fully discharged, and it's not good to take them all the way down, but I was only getting the thing to charge 20% or so before it showed 100). So I thought, how to keep the screen on, I can't keep turning it on again and again.
So I put it in fastboot mode, hold down the centre button and the lower button and it will bring up the fastboot screen - and I left it with the screen on, which seemed for like hours. When the screen finally went off, I tried turning it on, no LG logo screen, tried booting into fastboot, nothing - the watch was truly dead! So I held my breath and placed it on the charger. After a few moments, the white flashing ring appeared and 1% appeared in the centre, yaay!! I then watched it, repeatedly every few minutes pressing the centre crown to check the battery while it cycled through every percent until it reached 100! Now the watch is on and I am monitoring the discharge. I will let you know how it goes (before I couldn't get more than 4 or 5 hours out of it with all sensors off!)
So for all those that are getting exceptionally poor battery life out there, your watch may be lying to you - when it runs out of juice and powers off, before charging it again, turn it on again and again until nothing appears on the screen, or enter fastboot/recovery and the let the screen drain the rest of the battery. Obviously I take no responsibility if it messes up your watch.
I can confirm that this has fixed the problem. I'm getting easily one day out of the watch now, even after going out for a 2 hour half marathon mid day. This watch rocks now!
admisi said:
I can confirm that this has fixed the problem. I'm getting easily one day out of the watch now, even after going out for a 2 hour half marathon mid day. This watch rocks now!
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I tired your procedure but no luck
Also can confirm the fastboot drain worked - took 3+ hours (I went to bed) on high brightness but then recharged in about 2 hours and has 60% left after 8 hours use (battery saver and I turn screen off manually).
Thank you Admisi I might try this for other devices forgetting where the bottom of the battery is. Good stuff.
Hey folks,
Trying to figure out if I need to go get a new phone today.
I have a Nexus 6 that's 3 years old and it's been struggling, but getting the job done.
Last night, it seemed to have completely died despite being plugged in all night. It had the green notification light on when I woke up this morning and would not turn on.
When I finally managed to get a screen pulled up, I checked the battery stats and they showed that Bluetooth has used 501198 mAh since last full charge, which was 1 day & 17 hours ago. I have my phone plugged in now and it's dead, but appears to be charging. I'm not sure though.
I've used it moderately heavily for 3 years and then in the last 20 weeks or so, it's seen extremely heavy usage since I drive for Uber/Lyft full time to pay the bills. The phone screen is on for 5 - 10 hours / day, with bluetooth on for 5 - 6 days a week + GPS.
Is my phone shot? Do I need to get another one? I need something up and running by tomorrow or Wednesday at the latest.
Any thoughts?
Thanks!
More than likely the battery is shot. There are instructables/YouTube video how-tos on replacing it.
When the battery is *really* depleted, plugging it into a low power charger, like the USB port of a computer, is the way to start it back to life. The original high power charger pushes too hard and the battery doesn't actually charge when it's totally dead.
When unplugging then re-plugging the cord causes the battery charging icon to display, there's enough juice in the battery to switch to the fast charger.
Once charged, reboot to bootloader scroll through the options to bootloader logs and then long press the power button +7 seconds until the device reboots. Then charge fully again. That might help buy some time.
"Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment." - Will Rogers
I would bet you a small unspecified sum that a new battery will have your Shamu running like new. It's not difficult to do.
The impossibly high Bluetooth power use is a known software bug. It just reports wrong. It isn't related to your main problem.
When my battery get 28%... Automatic shutdown and i got 1%... ¿Some solution?
The battery is dead
You have to change the battery.
IMO you are better off buying a new phone. I tried replacing my Moto X battery 2 times, and both new batteries lasted only a few months before starting to randomly shut down again. The first battery was not original and lasted around 1 month before starting to randomly shut down with any battery charge whatsoever, It could shutdown with 99% or 1%. The second battery was original, came with all Motorola seals of approval, and lasted only 5 months, it started to shut down with 30% and ramped up to shut down with 50% or even 70%. I suppose that any battery you buy today was manufactured at least a couple of years ago, so most of them are reasonably aged even tough they didn't went through charge cycles, so It might explain why they tend to fail so quickly.
One advice: if you still plan on changing your battery even after reading this, do not use the Moto Turbo Charger included unless you really need fast charging, try to use a slower charger to try to preserve the battery integrity. Older battery + too much current and too much heat will lead to bigger fail rate. Also, try not to leave the phone charging overnight, trickle charge still isn't good for the battery, and it should be worse for older batteries.
Since my last battery started to fail, I'll be finally buying a new phone. Good luck.
Hello, I changed too the battery, I've successfully installed it in May. Compatible one (Losoncoer).
After only 4 months, I got some problems now. Almost the one described above.
The phone shows over 90% battery level, but it switch off. I try to switch on again and again but it can't boot.
Only if I plug-in with charger/power bank it will switch on, showing the same charge.
I tried also to uncharge the battery, keeping on in the recovery, till 3%.
I then charged the phone switched off about 8 hours.
No solution, switched on at 100%, after 10 minutes it went off.
Could you advise if you have any suggestion?
Could it be the battery? If I boot in recovery, it seems more stable...
Thanks.