[Q] Galaxy Tab not recharging - Galaxy Tab Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Have my Galaxy Tab for about 1 month, without any problems.
I recently noticed that the Tab is not recharging anymore.
When I plug in the USB charger that came with the Tab, it will very quickly charge to 100% (and I suppose stop charging at that moment)
When I then unplug th device and start using it, I can see it count down the Batterylevel in the Status screen. It counts down the batterylevel from 99% to 15% in a matter of minutes, at which point it tells me to plug in the power cable.
Does anybody have similar experience, or is my tab simply broken?

You should send it back to Samsung for warranty claim. This is very likely a batt failure

Update:
I have done a hard reset of the device and recharged it to 100%.
I was able to use it during several days, in a normal fashion, meaning that I use it during the day, and in the evening let it recharge.
So, the problem seemed to have disappeared. This suggests to me that it must be a software or configuration problem, not hardware related.
However, today I'm again in the same situation again.
I already installed the OS monitor tool to check on active processes and their cpu consumption, but nothing abnormal there :-(
Anybody any suggestions on where to look next to try to figure this out?
thanks

Hi,
I have the same problem. I use my Tab for a month and it always works well until last friday.
In the morning I pull out the chargerplug and after a minute or so the Tab tell's me that I needs to charge and when I putt it on charge after 10 sec's it's fully charge.
So I call samsung support and they told me to bring the Tab to the repaircenter and that's what I want to going to do last friday. But before I bring my Tab I complete hard reset my Tab.
Today tuesday I get a call from the repaircenter that they cannot find any problem what so ever and the battery is hours draining.
They ask if I use a memory card and I say that I was using one (sandisk 16gb) and they ask if I can bring it over so they can test it.
But when I insert the card everything stay's as normal, so I take my Tab at home without a repair and restore my backup with Titanium Backup and I have the same settings as last friday.
This is given me not a fine feeling as I realy tust on my Tab and hope this was a one time only.
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jawadde said:
Have my Galaxy Tab for about 1 month, without any problems.
I recently noticed that the Tab is not recharging anymore.
When I plug in the USB charger that came with the Tab, it will very quickly charge to 100% (and I suppose stop charging at that moment)
When I then unplug th device and start using it, I can see it count down the Batterylevel in the Status screen. It counts down the batterylevel from 99% to 15% in a matter of minutes, at which point it tells me to plug in the power cable.
Does anybody have similar experience, or is my tab simply broken?
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I have the same problem....pretty sure it's not the charger too.
Anyone else have this issue?

strawdog74 said:
I have the same problem....pretty sure it's not the charger too.
Anyone else have this issue?
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If you are adventurous, please try this, as I have encountered the same issues previously. By disconnecting and connecting the battery, it somehow reset the battery memory in the processor and everything works fine after that.
You can read the thread for more information: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=986067

Battery issues.
Hi..
I tried the rebooting the phone method by pressing the power on key along with up volume key.
I saw four options and I selected the first one i.e. Reboot. I noticed a triangle with ! inside it and symbol of android. I left the SGT in the same mode for an hr after which nothing happened. I powered off the tab . And when I tried to power on, the tab was not all getting powered on..
I am really worrying what could be the wrong.. !
Please some one help me to bring back my tab to life...

I think that you have to reset your battery stats.It is very simple in clockworkmod recovery (aka CWM). I don't know how to do that on stock rom, but you can search this information.
Regards.

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[Q] Galaxy Tab Confused About Battery

My Galaxy Tab this evening seems to have started experiencing a rather catastrophic problem. I boot the thing up, and then within a few minutes it powers itself down.
It seems to be confused about how much batter power it's got. I have had it on the charger all day long while I was working. About 15 minutes ago I picked it up to have a play, and the next thing I now it was telling me it had no power and was shutting down.
But I can immediately start it up again without any problem. It boots up and shows almost full charge. However, within a few minutes it shuts itself down. Sometimes I see the battery indicator go flat before this happens.
Actually while typing this up, it has rebooted a couple times. While off it first shows no power on the "off, but charging screen". However, it then quite rapidly goes to full charge (according to the same screen).
This happens while the tablet is both on and off the charger.
Has anyone experienced anything like this or have a clue?
This is, btw, a Galaxy Tab I bought from a Car Phone Warehouse in the UK (in case that makes a difference). It has the stock ROM on it -- nothing done to it except installing way too many apps.
Any tips on what to try to get it back in working order? Perhaps some sort of hard reset? Or is this maybe an actual hardware problem?
(alas, I won't be able to visit the Car Phone Warehouse until Monday...)
I hate to say it but the term "defective" pops into my head.
Have you tried doing a factory reset just in the slim chance that some piece of software is causing this?
The battery on my GT has been great. The issues you are describing sounds like a hardware defect or the actual OS having a problem reading the battery. Neither are going to be good for you.
As a technical care representative with T-Mobile I would have to second that. Anytime the phone shuts itself off and does not reboot on its own typically means a physical power issue such as the battery. If the phone rebooted itself I would say likely a software issue. It never hurts to try the master reset though. My tab is due to be delivered on Tuesday so I am keeping my fingers crossed I don't have any similar issues. Best of luck to you.
-Scottprotege
Dear
1. please try hard reset by
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remeber that it will erase all your internal storage. Back up all data before do it
2. If this cannot solve your problem, you need to upgrade to latest version
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I wouldnt bother trying to fix it return if you can as it is defective. I bought my galaxy from CPW too have an issue with losing wifi and data connection constantly so i will be paying them a trip for an exchange.
I got the same problem. Just unplugged after a night, it can show me 0 % left and shut down.
And I can turn it on, and then it shows me 100%.
I think it have happend 4-5 times in the last 3 weeks.
Hmmm maybe it's time to upgrade the firmware.
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For how long did it work fine before this started to happen?
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Same problem here
I bought my Galaxy Tab on November 3. It worked well for about two weeks but then I noticed that when the battery indicator reached about 40% it would drain the remaining charge very rapidly. It basically went from 40 to 3% right away. Today I could actually watch how the battery indicator gradually went from 75% to 0 in about 5 minutes. When I started charging the battery level was at 91% so I guess the charge is there but the pad doesn't recognize it some how.r
scottprotege said:
As a technical care representative with T-Mobile I would have to second that. Anytime the phone shuts itself off and does not reboot on its own typically means a physical power issue such as the battery. If the phone rebooted itself I would say likely a software issue. It never hurts to try the master reset though. My tab is due to be delivered on Tuesday so I am keeping my fingers crossed I don't have any similar issues. Best of luck to you.
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Thanks everyone for the advice.
Oddly, within about a half hour of leaving the office last Friday, my Galaxy Tab magically sorted itself out. I do plan to visit the store about the problem and see what they say.
I suspect you are right Scott, and others, that I'll be best to just exchange now while it's still new... Let's see what they say....
Ayern said:
I bought my Galaxy Tab on November 3. It worked well for about two weeks but then I noticed that when the battery indicator reached about 40% it would drain the remaining charge very rapidly. It basically went from 40 to 3% right away. Today I could actually watch how the battery indicator gradually went from 75% to 0 in about 5 minutes. When I started charging the battery level was at 91% so I guess the charge is there but the pad doesn't recognize it some how.r
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YEAH, Same problem HERE >.< this TAB just run out the battery after i charged it, i charged in the night, unpluged in the morning at 9am (100%), play some games, download with 3G, listen to music, and the indicators show around 60% and i open some games, than it just show 3% need recharged (araund 12pm), weird, need some help here... after i see 3% battery, i turn off n turn on again, and it shown 48% again until now... O.O' Heeeelllppp... >.<
Occasionally the battery dat file becomes corrupt.
Try this ~ With the Tab screen off Press & Hold the Power Button AND place your finger on the screen.
Wait until you see the battery indicator pop up.
Now power down the the Tab and then power back up again.
You should now see a correct battery readout.
Beards said:
Occasionally the battery dat file becomes corrupt.
Try this ~ With the Tab screen off Press & Hold the Power Button AND place your finger on the screen.
Wait until you see the battery indicator pop up.
Now power down the the Tab and then power back up again.
You should now see a correct battery readout.
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what screen off ? just normal screen off or need to turn off device?
With normal screen off, then placing my finger on the screen while pressing the power button does me nothing. It just normally doing screen on like it should.
Please guide me.
denis_sianto said:
what screen off ? just normal screen off or need to turn off device?
With normal screen off, then placing my finger on the screen while pressing the power button does me nothing. It just normally doing screen on like it should.
Please guide me.
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The Tab powered fully down first, then power up whilst touching the screen.
This should bring up the battery indicator and hopefully now rectify the battery dat file.
Once done power back down and then restart the Tab.
Beards said:
The Tab powered fully down first, then power up whilst touching the screen.
This should bring up the battery indicator and hopefully now rectify the battery dat file.
Once done power back down and then restart the Tab.
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I had this '40% to 3%' or '30% to 3%' etc battery problem before. I searched around for a solution and Beards' instructions above was one of them. Unfortunately, none of the proposed solutions worked.
For Beards' above, turning off then turning on the Tab while pressing the screen did not reset the battery stats database.
I tried many proposed solutions... a factory reset, deleting battstat.bin file, 'bump charge method' etc... all did not solve the issue.
Finally sent the Tab to the service centre and they upgraded the firmware. Samsung service centre claims that it is an issue with Froyo 2.2. They claimed Froyo 2.2.1 solves the issue. Can anyone verify??
After the upgrade, my battery problem is gone now, no more irritating '40% to 3%' issue. I am a happy man now... only for the fact that now I have a firmware with a protected bootloader.
greemme said:
I had this '40% to 3%' or '30% to 3%' etc battery problem before. I searched around for a solution and Beards' instructions above was one of them. Unfortunately, none of the proposed solutions worked.
For Beards' above, turning off then turning on the Tab while pressing the screen did not reset the battery stats database.
I tried many proposed solutions... a factory reset, deleting battstat.bin file, 'bump charge method' etc... all did not solve the issue.
Finally sent the Tab to the service centre and they upgraded the firmware. Samsung service centre claims that it is an issue with Froyo 2.2. They claimed Froyo 2.2.1 solves the issue. Can anyone verify??
After the upgrade, my battery problem is gone now, no more irritating '40% to 3%' issue. I am a happy man now... only for the fact that now I have a firmware with a protected bootloader.
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Yes, I have heard of this being a more wider problem and that as you say 2.2.1 corrects the problem.
Interesting you couldn't sort out the problem by deleting the .bin file as the method I mentioned is supposed to reset this (tip came from a tech at Samsung) and has been used successfully by some members over at Android Forums.
It's also good at reviving a 'stuck' Tab, one which when you switch it on it either will not fire up or stays at the glowing Samsung sign at bootup.
Beards said:
The Tab powered fully down first, then power up whilst touching the screen.
This should bring up the battery indicator and hopefully now rectify the battery dat file.
Once done power back down and then restart the Tab.
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I turned off my tab completely, then place one of my fingers to the screen, while pressing the power button. And NO, there is no battery indicator showing up at all. Rather it goes straight to the samsung intro.
And, why did you say 'hopefully rectify battery dat file". Did this kind of battery indicator thingy happen by chance?
Did you know 'wipe battery stats' method from recovery? Whats strange is, I've tried this method on my tab, and there's no usual status messages showing that 'wipe battery stats completed' or such...
greemme said:
I had this '40% to 3%' or '30% to 3%' etc
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I currently have this problem too.
You can refer to below links, all related to batteries issue.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=924500&page=2
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=928732&page=3
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=921848&page=2
You are not alone
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I am having this problem since i bought my first tab, i had to sell it off and get another new one. this is my 2nd galaxy tab and i am fedup with it. I am in asia with version dxjm2. Can anyone help me? I have been sending my tab to samsung twice already and all they said was do not download anything from android market. If that is so, what is the point of having a big tablet with nothing in it? Can i get a new replacement from samsung? Please anyone, i really need help.
jeromejeremytay said:
I am having this problem since i bought my first tab, i had to sell it off and get another new one. this is my 2nd galaxy tab and i am fedup with it. I am in asia with version dxjm2. Can anyone help me? I have been sending my tab to samsung twice already and all they said was do not download anything from android market. If that is so, what is the point of having a big tablet with nothing in it? Can i get a new replacement from samsung? Please anyone, i really need help.
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i Jeremy, if you are adventurous, you can try this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=986067&page=4 , currently, I am monitoring the status, so far so good. Now, I am doing my second charge after battery drained to 19% (I can't wait for it to go to 0% ). Before did, I will not be able to reach 19% and sometimes, the battery will prompt me to shut down due to battery left 3%, in actual fact, it is 30%.
Regards,

[Q] Galaxy Tab battery drains full to empty in 20 minutes

Yesterday morning I pulled the TAB from the net adapter. Immediately it beeped and turned off. Plugging it back in, the battery indicator went from 0 to 100% in 5 minutes.
Turning it back on, it died in 10-20 minutes.
Turned it back off again, fully loaded it again and played a movie on it, 50% back-light. It lasted for just 20 minutes.
I made a backup to SD, did a factory reset and charged the unit (powered off) to 100%.
Did a restore, and everything worked again.
Battery is still working at 80% after an evening of restoring apps and a night of stand-by.
What the heck happened?
perhaps one of your apps? try installing them a few at a time to see which app is causing it
info5i2002 said:
perhaps one of your apps? try installing them a few at a time to see which app is causing it
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I also think it's a software problem, after the problem disappeared with the factory reset.
I'm going to check slowly which program is the culprit.
I just can't imagine that a program can stress the TAB so hard it realy drains the battery.
I think it could probably be a misguidance of the android OS from a wrong setting?
I had a similar problem but not nearly as bad as yours. I had my tab unplugged for a while and checked the batter: 30%. So that was fine so I opened up dolphin and INSTANTLY the screen went really dim and said I had less than 3% battery which I did not believe.
Turning the tab off and back on the battery was now at 27%. This only happened that one time and I havent seen it agian. Must be some weird battery level reading bug.....
I have the same situation and also make a backup and factory reset amd later a restore.
That was 2 months ago and until now it works like a charme.
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Power off g tab drain the batt
I have my Galaxy Tab for about 3 days ago. Charge to 100% the battery, and then, I decide power off (totally) the Tab. Hold power button, and in the pop-up window, power off the phone!!
After a 1 hour, I saw the screen message with the android icon "POWER RESET or UPLOAD MODE"....and drain totally the battery!!!
What can I do???
See the attached image.......please help me!!
Only 2 things are likely to cause this, the battery being stuffed, or the battery stats database getting corrupted. You could try the "bump charge" method and see if it resets it. (Charge fully while on from AC, unplug, turn it off, charge for an hour or so from AC, unplug, turn it on, turn it off again once booted, charge for another hour or so, unplug, turn it on).
The battery stats can be wiped from the CWM recovery if you wanted to flash that, I'm not sure where the file lives to do it manually.
Dann said:
I have my Galaxy Tab for about 3 days ago. Charge to 100% the battery, and then, I decide power off (totally) the Tab. Hold power button, and in the pop-up window, power off the phone!!
After a 1 hour, I saw the screen message with the android icon "POWER RESET or UPLOAD MODE"....and drain totally the battery!!!
What can I do???
See the attached image.......please help me!!
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Hi, just like to share my experience with you guys. I encountered the same problem as mentioned, especially the sudden request to shut down due to battery becoming 3%, although it has 50% left. I tried recharging a few times but the same thing happens, something, it will shut down at 30% battery power level. Then, one afternoon, while I was looking at my pictures (at Gallery), I saw duplication of my photos (3 times) that appeared on my gallery folder. But the key issue is I stored all these pictures (taken by camera or by transfer from PC) in the microSD card (8GB). I tried to do a deletion on the addition pictures (it showed 3, so I tried to delete 2). But to no avail, and the system keep processing even though I tried stopping it. After about 2 minutes, the promot came up, requesting me to do a shut down saying the battery level was low, although I have about 50% battery power left. So, I shut down the tab immediately and removed the microSD card. After that, I switched on the tab and it says 50% power left. But I have to make sure it is possible to utilize the tab until it drains out the battery. Finally, I managed to cross the 20% power level and the tab can still be used .
I was curious about my microSD card, thinking that it may be faulty. I used a pc to open up the content and I discovered the SD card has no problem at all, it didn't have duplication when viewed from the pc. For your information, I have installed "angry bird" onto the 8GB microSD card, I am not sure if it is causing any problem to the tab or draining power from it, because the download (from Goggle market) mentioned something about "preventing phone from sleeping - System tools". I am not sure how this is link to the duplication of the pictures in the gallery folder as well, but I am glad I have found the fault to the draining of the power by the tab.
I would suggest, before anyone proceed with the factory reset, do a check on your storage card or the apps that you have installed in your tab, try to solve the simple way and it can save us a lot of troubles .
I hope it helps............
Henry Lam
As knightnz mentions ~ It's the Battery Stats Database being corrupt.
To repair, simply:-
Connect the Tab to it's Charging Cable and ensure the Tab is switched Off.
Next, hold the Power On Button whilst at the same time touch and hold the screen.
You will notice the battery indicator will pop up.
The Tablet will now reboot.
Everything should now return back to normal.
This procedure can also be used for a Tab that refuses to switch on.
Should I do this when the tab is off? or when it is on?
I actually tried both, but I dont see "the battery indicator pop up" as mentioned.
Beards said:
As knightnz mentions ~ It's the Battery Stats Database being corrupt.
To repair, simply:-
Hold the Power On Button whilst at the same time touch and hold the screen.
Next you will notice the battery indicator will pop up.
The Tablet will now reboot.
Everything should now return back to normal.
This procedure can also be used for a Tab that refuses to switch on.
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shinji21 said:
Should I do this when the tab is off? or when it is on?
I actually tried both, but I dont see "the battery indicator pop up" as mentioned.
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Actually, I missed out an important ingredient ~ The Power Cable.
You need to have the Tab connected to your charging cable as if you were charging the Tab and the Tab switched Off.
Next, hold the Power On Button whilst at the same time touch and hold the screen.
Next you will notice the battery indicator will pop up.
The Tablet will now reboot.
Everything should now return back to normal.
I'll amend my previous instructions to include the Power Cable.
Beards said:
Connect the Tab to it's Charging Cable and ensure the Tab is switched Off.
Next, hold the Power On Button whilst at the same time touch and hold the screen.
You will notice the battery indicator will pop up.
The Tablet will now reboot.
Everything should now return back to normal.
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This is not working for me. The battery indicator pops up, but nothing else happens. The battery indicator even does not do any animations.
Beards said:
Actually, I missed out an important ingredient ~ The Power Cable.
You need to have the Tab connected to your charging cable as if you were charging the Tab and the Tab switched Off.
Next, hold the Power On Button whilst at the same time touch and hold the screen.
Next you will notice the battery indicator will pop up.
The Tablet will now reboot.
Everything should now return back to normal.
I'll amend my previous instructions to include the Power Cable.
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Hi Beards,
Sorry to ask again, is there any way to verify that it has been solved without really draining the power to 0%? Is there any clear indication?
Thanks.
Henry
loonyt said:
This is not working for me. The battery indicator pops up, but nothing else happens. The battery indicator even does not do any animations.
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henrylam said:
Hi Beards,
Sorry to ask again, is there any way to verify that it has been solved without really draining the power to 0%? Is there any clear indication?
Thanks.
Henry
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The trick is in holding the screen whilst powering up.... It bypasses the normal start-up routines, resetting any errors that would sometimes require a Factory Reset to correct.
This info was passed on to me by a Samsung representative.
Easy fix, get a replacement, thts bad hardware, shouldn't have a problem exchanging, assuming it was purchased thru an auth retailer. No sense in messing with software and having a headache over it.
Seriously, the press screen thing doesn't work at all. Eventually, I brought it to the service center to do a firmware upgrade and it is back to normal...............
New upgrade:
Baseband version: P1000DXJM2
Kernel version: 2.6.32.9 [email protected]#1
Build number: FROYO.DXJM4
The funny thing is my wife has a unit that was using the same version as mine (old version, we bought them at the same authorised dealer), but she did not encounter such problem. I am just puzzled.
It did not work for me either. Is the charging cable supposed to be plugged in to the power socket or just the cable? (I tried both and neither worked)
I also did a firmware upgrade with Roto JMIv2. And I still see the problem.......Anyone having any suggestions please?
If your GALAXY Tab is running from fully charged to flat in under 20 minutes I wouldn't recommend anything other then... Sending it back to where you go it from?!
It doesnt go flat in 20mins. As a matter of fact, it lasts a couple days with my work load. Its just that when i put it in standby mode let say overnight at 80%, when i turn it on in the morning the battery will be at 50-60%. But when i restart it will go back up to 78-79%.
So im not losing battery capacity here i believe, but its annoying to have inaccurate reading, especially when i am on a trip or sth.
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I can understand your predicament, I have those "moments" before. Mine just dies off and need reset to get the battery back. The unknown is always not welcomed to all since we paid so much for them.

Galaxy Note - Won't charge properly?

Hey,
My Galaxy Note recently decided to stop charging. Whenever i plug the charger in it shows the "first white charging logo", the one you see before the green battery being filled up - after about half a sec the logo goes away only to return 5 seconds later.
I've tried to blow into the socket, and i've looked into it with a light to make sure nothing seems off, and everything looks perfectly fine. So far i have tried with 2 cables, one third party and the original one, no difference there. Both these cables work well with my Galaxy S2. Therefore i am willing to say for certain the problem is in the actual USB port, which i find weird because I've never mishandled it in any way.
Another thing is the battery gets warm after cycling like this for a few minutes. I tried to take the SGSII-battery and fire the Note up, by holding the battery in place according to the connectors, it fires up perfectly.
Do any of you have any experience with these kinds of issues?
I am currently running Paranoid Android Hybrid-ROM, I guess my only real option here would be to borrow a friends charged battery to flash back into a stock ROM and plead ignorance with the warranty claim. The phone is no older than 4 months. Does anyone know how thorough they are when placing an RMA on a phone?
Thanks, any input greatly appreciated.
AndrewXXV said:
Hey,
My Galaxy Note recently decided to stop charging. Whenever i plug the charger in it shows the "first white charging logo", the one you see before the green battery being filled up - after about half a sec the logo goes away only to return 5 seconds later.
I've tried to blow into the socket, and i've looked into it with a light to make sure nothing seems off, and everything looks perfectly fine. So far i have tried with 2 cables, one third party and the original one, no difference there. Both these cables work well with my Galaxy S2. Therefore i am willing to say for certain the problem is in the actual USB port, which i find weird because I've never mishandled it in any way.
Another thing is the battery gets warm after cycling like this for a few minutes. I tried to take the SGSII-battery and fire the Note up, by holding the battery in place according to the connectors, it fires up perfectly.
Do any of you have any experience with these kinds of issues?
I am currently running Paranoid Android Hybrid-ROM, I guess my only real option here would be to borrow a friends charged battery to flash back into a stock ROM and plead ignorance with the warranty claim. The phone is no older than 4 months. Does anyone know how thorough they are when placing an RMA on a phone?
Thanks, any input greatly appreciated.
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Did you try to wipe your battery stat in recovery mode.
jonpaslim said:
Did you try to wipe your battery stat in recovery mode.
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No I did not infact, I'll give that a go and see if it helps. The problem is the SGSII battery doesnt fit completely, so i need to hold it by force at the pins, not sure ill pull that off while entering the recovery menu, but i'll try and see!
Edit: Tried it and it did not help unfortunately. At least i can use the SGSII-battery to safely get into menus etc.
Hell, might even be a broken battery?
I interpret the problem as "charging starts but battery refuses.." since the 1st logo keeps flashing. I read elsewhere that it might be a moisture-related problem aswell.
This I do not disregard completely because the phone has been lying near an open window, even though it's summer it cannot be fully ignored.
Either way, in the other thread they suggest putting the phone in rice (which soaks up moisture) for a few days to see if it helps. I even put one of those silica-anti-moisture-bags in there with the rice. Fingers crossed.
If nothing helps I think I'll just borrow a mates charged battery to flash back into stock, get rid of evidence etc - and place it in RMA.
Why don't you try a new Note battery or from another Note. If it fired up with a Gs2 battery perfectly then it must be your battery!
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Leave your phone without any battery for about 30 min., this helped me when my phone was refusing to charge somtimes and was giving me discharging while on the charger, after i pulled the battwry for about 30-45 min it is perfectly charging now, btw iam on paranoid also and my phone doesnt charge when it is turned off, have to turn it on frist to charge
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easy fix
hey i had a similar problem...was a bit frightened at first....ok connect your phone to your computer, if the computer recognizes then you cables and USB port are just fine.....this means that your phone has some firmware issues....ok here's the simple fix......allow your battery to die completely, then remove the battery from the phone for about 30 minutes......plug in the charger with the battery still out of the phone for 30seconds....now unplug your charger, reinstall your battery into the device and connect your charger again.....this may also work if your device refuses to power on....

[Q] My Note cannot work without charger! Im Panicking!!

I bought a galaxy note GT-N7000 on March 10th, 2012. Today while using the phone, it automatically switched off. I thought "ok fine...just an android glitch" and switched it back on. But as soon as it turned back on and the home screen appeared, not even 3 seconds later, the phone screen flickers for half a second and the phone instantly turns off. This keeps on happening if i turn the phone on again and again as it switches off, but when I connect it to the charger and turn on the power, the phone doesn't turn off. So now, I cannot remove the phone from the power supply and Im freaking out! :crying: Oh and I tried factory resetting the phone twice but it doesnt solve the problem! ANY help would be a life saver! I have not rooted my phone and it runs samsung's stock ICS and I dont even have any launchers. I use my phone as clean and careful as possible; its been 9 months and I still havent removed the laminations on the back panel or the charger, so you can imagine what kind of guy I am! Please HELP ME, im panicking!! Thanx in advance!
First of all stop doing a factory reset on stock ICS kernel as dont know when your phone will get bricked.
It could be a pins contact probelm in the battery compartment. Remove the battery and check if the pins are fine and touching the right places. Clean it ... or the battery just died on you and need a new battery.
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1st. Do not factory reset or format anything if you still on stock ICS kernel.. You phone will brick.
2nd. Try new battery or borrow from you friends.
omg! I didnt know that factory resetting on stock ICS can brick your phone!! Thanks for the precious info! I checked the terminals...they look brand new...so does the terminals on the battery (I rarely had the need to open the back panel). I will try another battery and get back to you guys. Thank you so much for your help!
Id bring it back for warrantee if I were you
I am also having same problem, my problem arrived once I flashed my note with 4.1.1 JB ROM.
My note powers off even it is above 90% of battery, if I try to connect 3G data.
If I start it same it powers off after 3-5 seconds on home screen.
If I connect it to charger and start it; it works fine even if I disconnect charger once note starts.
It works normal until I connect again to 3G data ot battery drains below 40 -30 %
After 40% it randomly power off or some time works till full battery drain.
If any one have solution please share.
Thanks in advance
Back from service center. Dead Battery and replaced mother board.
Hey guys, I gave my phone to the service center on 26th and got it back yesterday. They said that they replaced the main board and said that the battery is dead and they had lost 2 screws of the mother board which I found only when I came home and opened the back body by myself (opened cause there was a minute misalignment on the back body). I replaced them with 2 screws from the back body for now and have to take the phone to them again or buy those screws from some electronic shop. They also said that they don't have a Galaxy Note N7000 battery in stock and so did the other service centers here in Chennai, India. I tried searching for it in almost 7 to 8 cellphone shops but surprisingly nobody has stock of it! Can a year old phone's accessories just disappear so fast? I also tried ebay.in but all of them sell it in loose packing with seller warranty which makes me think twice about the genuineness of the product. Any advice as in what direction I must proceed now?
desaipa said:
I am also having same problem, my problem arrived once I flashed my note with 4.1.1 JB ROM.
My note powers off even it is above 90% of battery, if I try to connect 3G data.
If I start it same it powers off after 3-5 seconds on home screen.
If I connect it to charger and start it; it works fine even if I disconnect charger once note starts.
It works normal until I connect again to 3G data ot battery drains below 40 -30 %
After 40% it randomly power off or some time works till full battery drain.
If any one have solution please share.
Thanks in advance
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It might be a problem with your battery. My phone gives the problem described above because its battery is completely dead but works fine with a different battery. But my friend who has our same phone has a puffed battery and has the problem that you described. Also his battery drains faster than a normal GT-N7000 battery and sometimes switches off while playing games or doing other tasks that consume more power. Just try to use it with another battery and see if the problem still persists.
guys check the accessory section, there are some batteries suggested as well as vendors if you want new batery.
If warrantee covers it try that first. If like in above example they dont have in stock demand an alternative, especially if its covered by warrantee. You have rights you know.
A couple of days ago I ran into the same issue with my 10 month old note...
Not able to fully boot up phone... After 3 seconds since the power up
It was shutting off.
Battery was showing charge.
Got a new battery... Everything perfect now
Youve got a problem on your battery..you can try that using a new battery that should fix your problem if the problem still there,take your phone to the ssc
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My Note 3 wouldn't turn on..

Hi All,
My Note 3 suddenly switched off over the weekend and wouldn't turn on. I did try battery pull, tried rebooting to recovery, tried connecting to Laptop, it wouldn't start for any of the methods, It's not even going to Bootloop or stuck in start screen.
Only response I get from the Note 3 is when I connect my charger, gray charging icon with charging symbol comes up every 5 to 6 seconds, makes vibration and disappears. Also I did extensive search in Google and XDA before posting, couldn't find any solution so far.
Couple of things I ruled out so far.
1) Not a battery issue - One of my colleagues has Note 3, swapped batteries and his phone works fine but mine wouldn't start.
2) Not a micro-USB charging issue because I have wireless charger as well, wireless charger indicates it's charging but I can't start my Note 3.Also when I swapped batteries with my colleague, my battery was almost 80% full so charging is still happening.
I am thinking it must be some hardware issue but not sure what it is, is there anyway I can identify the issue and possibly make a DIY fix? Would greatly appreciate any assistance.
Thanks
Neel
neels_neils415 said:
Hi All,
My Note 3 suddenly switched off over the weekend and wouldn't turn on. I did try battery pull, tried rebooting to recovery, tried connecting to Laptop, it wouldn't start for any of the methods, It's not even going to Bootloop or stuck in start screen.
Only response I get from the Note 3 is when I connect my charger, gray charging icon with charging symbol comes up every 5 to 6 seconds, makes vibration and disappears. Also I did extensive search in Google and XDA before posting, couldn't find any solution so far.
Couple of things I ruled out so far.
1) Not a battery issue - One of my colleagues has Note 3, swapped batteries and his phone works fine but mine wouldn't start.
2) Not a micro-USB charging issue because I have wireless charger as well, wireless charger indicates it's charging but I can't start my Note 3.Also when I swapped batteries with my colleague, my battery was almost 80% full so charging is still happening.
I am thinking it must be some hardware issue but not sure what it is, is there anyway I can identify the issue and possibly make a DIY fix? Would greatly appreciate any assistance.
Thanks
Neel
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something like that happened to a friends note 1 and it was the power switch was broke and stuck on so his shut off and would want to reboot but would stay off because the switch was stuck and it kept resetting, same thing would happen with the charging it would flash for a second and restart. don't know if this is your problem or not but just a suggestion to look into
peterson65 said:
something like that happened to a friends note 1 and it was the power switch was broke and stuck on so his shut off and would want to reboot but would stay off because the switch was stuck and it kept resetting, same thing would happen with the charging it would flash for a second and restart. don't know if this is your problem or not but just a suggestion to look into
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Thanks for the reply, I am also suspecting the power button as device was randomly getting restarting before this happened. I took mine to one repair shop, they checked it for some time and said they can't find out what's wrong with mobile.
Do you know if your friend's mobile got repaired with power button replacement?
neels_neils415 said:
Thanks for the reply, I am also suspecting the power button as device was randomly getting restarting before this happened. I took mine to one repair shop, they checked it for some time and said they can't find out what's wrong with mobile.
Do you know if your friend's mobile got repaired with power button replacement?
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that did fix his problem. if thats what is wrong with yours but its easy to wear out the power switch
peterson65 said:
that did fix his problem. if thats what is wrong with yours but its easy to wear out the power switch
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Thank u for confirming, I will try taking it to different repair shop...
Take it to the galley.
U Hav overheated the phone damaging the LCD.
nothing else

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