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Battery charging not possible

Hi,
I have my Diamond for about 1 year now. About three weeks ago I could not charge my battery anymore, so I bought a new battery (original HTC). With the new battery installed everything worked fine again.
After a week the problem retruned. The phone switched itself off after the battery level low warning and I tried to charge the battery after about 5 hours. So a second battery became useless.
I also tried charging by USB-cable with several PC's but without any result. I measured at the + and - poles of both batteries and measured about 0,3 Volts, so the batteries must have been drained completely. I guess the protection circuit in the battery/phone prevents charging.
On one battery I directly put power on the battery poles from another power supply, which deliveres about 10 Volts for a very short time (only for about 2 seconds). Then I measured the voltage on the battery poles; it was about 3 Volts now! I put the battery back in the Diamond and to my surprise it charged normally. I also did this with the second battery and it also functions normally again.
Tonight one of the batteries was drained again and the charger was connected after about two hours and again no charging was possible. I did 'the trick' with the other power supply and afterwards everything was working fine again.
In other situationss, when I connect the charger directly after the phone switches itself off after the battery low warning it also works normally.
The problem seems to be that the phone drains the battery completely when left without charging and when it gets too low charging is not possible in the normal way. The phone swithes itself off at about 5% charge level, so the software seems to be working ok.
Does anybody know this problem, and maybe propose a solution.
I'm using the latest stock 2.03 ROM from HTC.
Thanks in advance!

I'm having the charging issue. Having it with both of batters. Overnight charging and only 40%. Also drains like with in hour. Any solution?

Battery not fully charging?

Anyone notice that when the phone is charging while off and reaches 100% - when you turn on the phone, the battery drops to 98%? From there, it can still accept a charge and then FINALLY indicate the battery is full?
I do have another battery coming from AT&T (because of overheating problems) but I am just curious as to what others are experiencing.
background info - this isn't my first Captivate and I have drained this battery a couple of times to "calibrate" it.

This will sound weird but it worked wonders for me.
*Fully charge the battery with the phone on
*Unplug charger and turn off the phone
*Plug in the charger and wait until its at 100
*Now unplug the charger and boot up the phone
C*Wait until its done booting up and power down the phone.
*Now charge the phone to 100 boot up and use normally
Sent from my phone so excuse the spelling errors

tytdfn said:
This will sound weird but it worked wonders for me.
*Fully charge the battery with the phone on
*Unplug charger and turn off the phone
*Plug in the charger and wait until its at 100
*Now unplug the charger and boot up the phone
C*Wait until its done booting up and power down the phone.
*Now charge the phone to 100 boot up and use normally
Sent from my phone so excuse the spelling errors
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does it make any difference? like long lasting battery hours or so...?

the memory in the batter indicats full as i believe 90% and above or something.. it's normal :T .. but try to do what the previous poster said.. it's worked for some people

I did what he recommended and don't see an improvement in battery life. But, when I unplug in the morning it stays at 100%, it definately made a difference in that regard.
I did see a slight improvement when I cycled the battery a few times. Full charge to 100% dead.
Sent from my Samsung Captivate via XDA app

if it's fairly new give it a week or two .. the battery should improve in a way.. if you're still truly dissatisfied then I guess get a new phone or buy a bigger battery .. I believe they'll have better batteries soon on ebay

I tried doing that charge/power cycle.. Once the phone was powered on it immediately dropped to 97%
This is the battery that overheats also..
Wish I could get my #2 captivate back.. I returned it because of the GPS problem - not knowing it was a global issue - I had the best battery life from that phone - 5 days of use easy on that one (without power cycling or anything) - The last 3 phones (all have been overheating) I'm lucky if I get 2 days out of them..
I keep saying phones because I was in my 30 day warranty, so every time I went in they did a complete exchange.. I am now out of my 30 day exchange.

Help! Battery won't charge past 70%

I didn't notice this problem until the day before. My battery status is displaying 70% when the phone consider it to be fully charged.
I've drain it to 5% before charging overnight, but the status still display 70%.
I am not sure if this is a problem with my phone or the battery. Any help would be nice.

Try this but you need a rooted phone for it: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=722862

it is just a status bar bug
the battery is probably fine
use Gauge Battery Widget instead to see the real stuff
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=8124361&postcount=46

Thank you for the link!! I am trying that now.
This is not the status bar problem as I've test out some of the widget.
The phone would only charge up to 70% no matter how long it will remain on the charge.
Going into the battery info in setting also indicated it is at 70%.
At this moment I am draining my phone with max brightness and everything turn on.
Start off at 70% at 9:30am and now (2:00pm) is at 3%
So I guess I should try to charge it full with the phone off

Did you recently flash firmware to your phone? Make sure your battery is fully charged whenever you flash firmware because it will clear the battery data. It seems to me all you need is a battery calibration. There is a procedure posted somewhere. IIRC, you need charg up the battery to 100%, power down, charge 100%, power up again and repeat a few times.

I had the same problem.
After a day of charging the battery fully charged notification appears. As soon as I unplug it the battery immediatly jumps to 70%.
Is there a way to fix this? Perhaps reflashing when the phone is fully charged (which is currently 70%).
I tried the rm /system/data/batterystats.bin but did not remedy this problem.

Same problem here. It has been this way for a month. Tried calibration, different batteries, different ROMS....everything.

who can help?

using alternative battery widget is not an option if battery stats from settings also displays 70% max
this is very unusual problem - i would suggest:
1) install https://market.android.com/details?id=com.nema.batterycalibration (phone needs root)
2) drain battery to 0%
3) take out battery for 5-7 minutes
4) put it back and turn on and drain again
5) repeat untill phone will not turn on
6) while still off charge phone to 100%
7) disconnect charger power on the phone, let it boot and use the battery calibration app
8) now let the phone discharge with normal usage untill it powers off (do not reboot, power off during discharge)
9) put the phone to charger, turn it on and let it charge to 100% wo reboots/poweroffs
should be fine

let me try tomorrow..I have similar issue..
Sent from my GT-I9000 using XDA App

Today, over night charge from 70% to 79%

have you followed my tutorial from this post -> LINK
also can you dial *#*#4636#*#* pick battery information and make a screenshot, then another after a minute or two ...

I made this thread over in the captivate forums, it explains the issues in detail
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1279925

What rom/kernal are you guys using?...
Sent from my MB860 using xda premium

concentrate on points 2 to 5 of my 'tutorial' and for god sake use only original charger
and yes, what kernel

Hey Somator, I am trying your tutorial now. I drained my battery to 0% on my phone. I then would boot it up, it would register 1%, then turn off.
I then put my battery in a coworkers phone today and it read 40% when it previously read 0% on mine. So I depleted the battery on his phone, reinserted it into mine, and I am now currently charging it to 100% while it is off. I will let you know how the rest turns out.
I have tried calibration procedures on stock rom, MIUI, CM7, I9000, and I897 Roms.

drain the battery on his if you can and then charge on yours
after that wipe battery stats with https://market.android.com/details?id=com.nema.batterycalibration
//edit: oh you did exact that - well should be fine from now - still wierd why it just 'decalibrated' by so much in the first place

the original charge has helped me, everything is fine

In case someone is looking for an answer here (considering this is the thread that comes at the top of Google's search results), this is what worked for me:
1. Take the battery out.
2. Plug phone into wall charger.
3. Put the battery back in the phone.
4. Let it charge for an hour. Mine said 5% the entire time it was plugged.
5. Remove phone from charge. Remove battery. Put them all together again.
I hope this works for others.

Verizon note 4
$omator said:
using alternative battery widget is not an option if battery stats from settings also displays 70% max
this is very unusual problem - i would suggest:
1) install https://market.android.com/details?id=com.nema.batterycalibration (phone needs root)
2) drain battery to 0%
3) take out battery for 5-7 minutes
4) put it back and turn on and drain again
5) repeat untill phone will not turn on
6) while still off charge phone to 100%
7) disconnect charger power on the phone, let it boot and use the battery calibration app
8) now let the phone discharge with normal usage untill it powers off (do not reboot, power off during discharge)
9) put the phone to charger, turn it on and let it charge to 100% wo reboots/poweroffs
should be fine
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I have Verizon note 4 that can not be rooted, any other options?

battery problem

hello i flashed telus v5 rom put my phone on charge last night and this morning my phone was on 30% plz can someone help also how do i calibrate battery its not there in open recovery thanks

Did you perform a complete wipe of your phone before installing?
Try installing a different Kernel or look in your setting under "About" and then "battery use" and see what has been using the most battery.

yes i did full wipe

I did something I reade here at http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=11514494&postcount=624
Shutdown phone, charge until 100%, retire battery, wait until apperas ?? symbol, put battery again, it will be at 60% and start charging again.
As you may not flashing a new rom, try the second tip
with phone booted, charge with wall charger (not PC) until 100% (full charge).
After unplug charger and shutdown telephone.
Charge again until 100%. Boot again. It should clean statistics.
I did this also, but using Openrecovery I deleted batterystats.bin file to be sure that statistics are out.
I prefer to charge always via wall charger and with phone off, I notice more long usage during day than charging the phone on. And charging using PC is really very slow, I use only in emergency.
But do not left battery very low (5%) and try to charge via PC and USB, because perhaps it does no boot and you have no phone, I had this problem once, So I was a couple of hours without phone until arrive home and full charge via wall charger.
Regards,
Claudio.

[Q] Tegrak 100% battery charge?

Hey all,
Noob question. I recently went to JVP (doc kitchen) and tried out multiple kernels (speedmod, fugu, tegrak). I only noticed this issue after going to tegrak's kernel so suspect it's kernel related.
The issue I'm having/suspect is that after "100% charge" the battery would start to be consumed (even if it is plugged in). This is most noticeable if I'm at my desk at work all day (phone on charge) or when I leave my phone charging overnight. When I disconnect to go home/go to work, I can see the battery is at 85% or similar (as if the phone wasn't on charge). If I was to disconnect it as soon as it hit "100%" it'll be at 96/97/98% as expected.
I'm not an expert and logcat confuses the heck out of me to be honest, but would anyone know what strings I can search for to determine if the phone "stops charging" when it hits 100%? I'd prefer it to be on a trickle charge (ie keep the battery at 96/97/98%) so that when I disconnect, I have a near full battery.
Is this a kernel issue? or a battery level calibration issue?
TIA

cheddarchi said:
Hey all,
Noob question. I recently went to JVP (doc kitchen) and tried out multiple kernels (speedmod, fugu, tegrak). I only noticed this issue after going to tegrak's kernel so suspect it's kernel related.
The issue I'm having/suspect is that after "100% charge" the battery would start to be consumed (even if it is plugged in). This is most noticeable if I'm at my desk at work all day (phone on charge) or when I leave my phone charging overnight. When I disconnect to go home/go to work, I can see the battery is at 85% or similar (as if the phone wasn't on charge). If I was to disconnect it as soon as it hit "100%" it'll be at 96/97/98% as expected.
I'm not an expert and logcat confuses the heck out of me to be honest, but would anyone know what strings I can search for to determine if the phone "stops charging" when it hits 100%? I'd prefer it to be on a trickle charge (ie keep the battery at 96/97/98%) so that when I disconnect, I have a near full battery.
Is this a kernel issue? or a battery level calibration issue?
TIA
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Please do this procedure and see... once u finish ur 2 or 3 cycle u'll get the result...
- Charge your battery full, bump charge to get the highest level possible ; note that it's not a big deal if it shows 97% when you unplug after bump-charging
- Drain your battery to 0% until it shuts down by itself (without plugging the charger or connecting the phone to a pc)
- Wait 2 minutes and reboot the phone to ensure the battery is completely flat (it might reboot fully, half way, not at all, don't worry) until it dies again
- Remove the battery and wait 2 minutes
- Replace the battery and plug the charger without switching the phone on until it shows 100%
- When phone shows 100%, boot in recovery (volume up + home + power) and go to > Advanced > Wipe Battery Stats > Confirm (move up/down using the volume keys)
- Reboot the phone and unplug the charger when the "battery full notification" comes (wait for the notification before you unplug the charger)
- Now use your phone until the battery is flat again and charge full (no need to have it turned off, unless you it to charge faster). Repeat 2 or 3 times and your battery will be calibrated
- Only wipe battery stats once, run a few cycles of full charge / discharge and after that just use your phone as normal (i.e. no need to deplete / charge fully anymore).