I read online that the droid is able to run without the battery in? Just while plugged in AC, but when i tried it on my milestone, all i get is a empty battery gauge with a question mark.
Any ideas?
I would think that because its running from ac and not wit the battery it would give you that symbol. The question mark without the battery would be running on ac
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I tried to find similar threads but the closest I found were people having battery charging issues with Phiremod rom and they were advised to clear the battery stats in recovery mode, which I did try but still the NC won't charge.
I haven't actually let it drain to 0(it's currently at 23%) to see if it really isn't charging or if it's a software thing that is not showing the correct battery level.
Has anyone had a similar experience and been able to fix it? Or do you think it's not a matter of the installed rom and rather maybe the NC itself is "bad" and I need to return it?
Any help would be greatly greatly appreciated. Especially since this is my wife's NC and I told her how "cool" this whole rooting, rom'ing thing was and that nothing bad should happen
Most likely it's the NC USB cable. It doesn't have a good design and fails often. I had problem with mine.
DOH!
Wow this is so embarrassing.
After your suggestion, I went to go check my wife's cable and noticed that she had the right cable with the "N" all nice and lit up...to bad she had it in her HTC Inspire plug!!^%$%^! And her Inspire in her NC plug adapter.
Hmmm...now to figure out how to delete this post...don't wanna give Nookie Froyo rom a bad name but insinuating it cause charging problems.
Actually I noticed this about nook. I plug in a general micro-usb cable, the battery % doesn't change at all.
The minute I switch back to the stock NC plug (with the led logo), the battery instantly shows it fully charged.
Does this mean I can only charge using the NC cable?
duoxx said:
Actually I noticed this about nook. I plug in a general micro-usb cable, the battery % doesn't change at all.
The minute I switch back to the stock NC plug (with the led logo), the battery instantly shows it fully charged.
Does this mean I can only charge using the NC cable?
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I believe the NC cable has extra pins that allow it to charge the NC faster. In addition, the NC charger is a 1.9 amp unit whereas most bricks are less.
A regular USB cable will charge your nook if you turn the nook off. It charges much slower though (overnight for a full charge).
Edit: thanks to this post, my problem has been solved. Thanks!
So last night I went from stock motorola 2.2 to this wonderful-seeming version of CyanogenMod on my UK milestone - the install went flawlessly, but now I have a problem - my battery is not charging at ALL.
While the phone was on last night after I charged it, it was plugged in, first to my PC and then to the wall socket. In both cases, the battery indicator had a ? (question mark) on it.
I thought it might have been some weirdness with battery calibration so I left it and plugged the phone in from the wall to charge overnight. This morning, my phone was telling me to connect my charger (despite it being plugged in) and on removing the power cable, it died due to no battery power left within 10 minutes.
While plugged in from the wall, the battery indicator comes up but again just contains a ? on it. The little white light next to the power socket never lights up.
If I plug the phone in to my PC via USB then if the handset is OFF, the white light comes on and around 10 mins later it gets enough juice to boot up. The problem is that when the CM7 software starts, the little white light disappears, the phone stops charging despite the cable being present, and it then dies 2 minutes later.
I know the battery is fine because it was perfectly fine before I installed CM7.
Anyone else experienced this problem and/or know how to fix it?
One thing I did manage to do before it died was install a battery calibration app that I found on xda-developers - this told me that the battery was running at 3267 mV - any idea if that's good or bad?
(and yes, I'm using precisely the same cable/charger I was using before I put this version of CM7 on, so I know they are fine - they charge a friend's SGS with no problems)
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So last night I went from stock motorola 2.2 to this wonderful-seeming version of CyanogenMod on my UK milestone - the install went flawlessly, but now I have a problem - my battery is not charging at ALL.
While the phone was on last night after I charged it, it was plugged in, first to my PC and then to the wall socket. In both cases, the battery indicator had a ? (question mark) on it.
I thought it might have been some weirdness with battery calibration so I left it and plugged the phone in from the wall to charge overnight. This morning, my phone was telling me to connect my charger (despite it being plugged in) and on removing the power cable, it died due to no battery power left within 10 minutes.
While plugged in from the wall, the battery indicator comes up but again just contains a ? on it. The little white light next to the power socket never lights up.
If I plug the phone in to my PC via USB then if the handset is OFF, the white light comes on and around 10 mins later it gets enough juice to boot up. The problem is that when the CM7 software starts, the little white light disappears, the phone stops charging despite the cable being present, and it then dies 2 minutes later.
I know the battery is fine because it was perfectly fine before I installed CM7.
Anyone else experienced this problem and/or know how to fix it?
One thing I did manage to do before it died was install a battery calibration app that I found on xda-developers - this told me that the battery was running at 3267 mV - any idea if that's good or bad?
(and yes, I'm using precisely the same cable/charger I was using before I put this version of CM7 on, so I know they are fine - they charge a friend's SGS with no problems)
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Try plugging the phone into the wall charger, without the battery. Try and boot it up and let it boot. Once it's booted up, give it a bit and try and put the battery in and leave it to charge.
What happens if you turn off you phone and plug it in a wall charger? If the problem isn't in your battery it will charge fully.
When you phone comes up, try to disable the 1% battery steps in settings. I got a problem with it, and after disabled/enabled it worked fine for me.
Hope this helps.
On plugging it into a wall charger, the phone comes up with its special battery charging screen (i.e. a fullscreen battery level indicator) - no amount of pressing the power button seems to get it to boot properly (with or without the battery).
I'll see if I can get in and get rid of the 1% steps thing later, thanks for the suggestion
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What happens if you turn off you phone and plug it in a wall charger? If the problem isn't in your battery it will charge fully.
When you phone comes up, try to disable the 1% battery steps in settings. I got a problem with it, and after disabled/enabled it worked fine for me.
Hope this helps.
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Dude, that was PERFECT.
Managed to get enough juice into the thing to get into the menu for a moment and was able to disable the 1% battery steps option - soon as I touch that tickbox, the battery indicator switches from a ? to the charging symbol and the phone starts charging. Thanks a million!
Nop dude, you are welcome
Hello, I've had my NC for a year this month and never had any major issues. I installed manualnooter 4.6.16a when nook was updated to 1.3.0 some time ago and all was great in the NC world. Recently I noticed that my battery is stuck @ 29% no matter what! I never charge via usb thru the computer always plugged in a wall socket. I dld batt solo widget, and many other battery widgets just to make sure, and of course they all say 29%.
Here's the thing, the n on the cord is green which usually mean its fully charged. I used it til it died, plugged it back in to recharge two days and the % is the same. I went ahead and wiped it, updated it back to 1.3.0 stock and you guessed it, it still says 29%. What do you think the problem is, please help.
The problem may be that your charge cable no longer works with an AC source. I know it sounds far fetched, but mine would not charge above 33% with the cable that came with it, but once I used my cable I use in my car it started charging fast again, and is now charging to 100%.
Download the battery monitor widget and it will tell you if your cable is charging AC or USB.USB charge is very weak vs AC. Try recalibrating your battery either with an app (I use nemas version) or do it under advanced in recovery. Assuming you are rooted.
Ian
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Download the battery monitor widget and it will tell you if your cable is charging AC or USB.USB charge is very weak vs AC. Try recalibrating your battery either with an app (I use nemas version) or do it under advanced in recovery. Assuming you are rooted.
Ian
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Assuming he is having the same problem as I did, The nook just stops charging, and will not charge any higher than whatever percentage it stops at. The only thing that worked for me was using a new Nook Color Cable. Just an odd bit of wonkiness.
ianPhillips1 said:
Download the battery monitor widget and it will tell you if your cable is charging AC or USB.USB charge is very weak vs AC. Try recalibrating your battery either with an app (I use nemas version) or do it under advanced in recovery. Assuming you are rooted.
Ian
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Also, boot into clockworkmod and clear your battery stats. You're battery should be right around 4200mv fully charged (Spare Parts on CM7 can tell you this). Sounds like you just have an issue where its not recognizing full charged as fully charged.
I turned my XT860 off while it was charging today because I thought it would charger faster. Instead, it fully discharged. I had to disconnect it and reconnect in order for it to start charging again.
Here's what I observed:
1. Battery was dead. Plugged it in to charge (into my laptop)
2. After some time, the device turned on.
3. I turned it off, because I thought that it would charger faster that way.
4. I checked it hours later and found that it wouldn't turn on, not even to show a low battery alert. It's still plugged in. So I unplugged and plugged it back in, and now the white charging light is on.
Anyway seen this behaviour before?
Some laptops use a low power usb connection. A lot of the time this is true when the laptop is running on battery power. I know that charging mode actually requires an os running (which is why everyone always recommends keeping your phone charged before doing an SBF recovery), so I can easily see how if your laptop was sending the minimum power for data connectivity, and your phone was running in "charge mode" how it could drain.
That being said, I usually carry a upgraded my battery to the verizon extended, and also carry around a fully charged original battery, as well as an energi2go XP2000.
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Some laptops use a low power usb connection. A lot of the time this is true when the laptop is running on battery power. I know that charging mode actually requires an os running (which is why everyone always recommends keeping your phone charged before doing an SBF recovery), so I can easily see how if your laptop was sending the minimum power for data connectivity, and your phone was running in "charge mode" how it could drain.
That being said, I usually carry a upgraded my battery to the verizon extended, and also carry around a fully charged original battery, as well as an energi2go XP2000.
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Actually, people recommend that you have your phone charged before doing an SBF is because the phone will not allow any programming to take place unless it has more than 50% battery. I discovered this the hard way when I bricked my phone with a low battery and was unable to charge it because it had was unable to boot. I wound up having to "hotwire" a charger directly to the battery terminals.
Hi all, I bought a busted Droid A855 from a friend with a few problems and I can't fix one of them.The battery wouldn't charge and showed the gray question mark battery icon. I thought the battery was defective because the phone is old and I bought a new battery, however it still would not charge and still showed the question mark. It was a knock-off brand battery, so after some forum searching, I bought an OEM battery. That battery behaved just the same as the knock-off battery. When I power the phone on without a battery, it says connect your charger, shows the gray question mark battery and says I have 5% battery under system information. That's the part that stumps me. It also won't power up when connected to a USB port without a battery. I have an OEM USB cord and outlet brick. It's running 2.2.2 stock with no root. I have no idea where to go from here, and would try just about anything short of smashing the phone at this point.