Instant Battery Charge Glitch - Nexus 4 General

I plugged in my phone for 20 seconds and I went to check for email notifications and to my amazement it's fully charged.
This is now another possibility in battery issues. I know I'm using a faulty device (that's why I ordered a RMA) but this is kinda odd so I thought I'd share it with you guys.
Let's hope this instant charge sticks lol. I went from 7% to 100% in 20 seconds.
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Had that also one or two times. If you leave it plugged in it goes back to the correct percentage after some minutes.
Likewise a minor software glitch that will get fixed soon, nothing to worry.
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Your phone is just that awesome... I wish my phone was that cool
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Good for example you need to go somewhere and you forget to charge it. Just plug it in for 20 sec and bam it's fully charged and problem solved.
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This happens when you plug in the phone and the wall charger has no voltage, e.g. because you use a switch that is off. If you switch it on, the glitch occurs and the phone is instantly charged. Of course that's not really the case, though. Rebooting solves this most of the time.
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The Galaxy Nexus had none of these issues. I just hope that Google fixes this soon.

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wilsonlam97 said:
The Galaxy Nexus had none of these issues. I just hope that Google fixes this soon.
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this is a non-issue as it is charging fine when left. no disadvantages except when you really believe it is fully charged in a second.
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my phones done this 2 times.

abufaka said:
this is a non-issue as it is charging fine when left. no disadvantages except when you really believe it is fully charged in a second.
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Nope. It doesn't let me continue to charge until I restart the phone (for me at least).

My phone did this last night. I noticed it right away, so I just unplugged the cable and plugged it back in and bam it went back to charging its merry little heart out

wilsonlam97 said:
I plugged in my phone for 20 seconds and I went to check for email notifications and to my amazement it's fully charged.
This is now another possibility in battery issues. I know I'm using a faulty device (that's why I ordered a RMA) but this is kinda odd so I thought I'd share it with you guys.
Let's hope this instant charge sticks lol. I went from 7% to 100% in 20 seconds.
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I am also experiencing this issue with a Nexus 4 (few weeks old) running Andriod 4.2.2.
Anyone know if this issue is fixed in upcoming release?

Just happened on my Nexus with Nokia 1.2mAh charger and latest CM10.1 nightly, reboot solved it though

düdldihüü said:
This happens when you plug in the phone and the wall charger has no voltage, e.g. because you use a switch that is off. If you switch it on, the glitch occurs and the phone is instantly charged. Of course that's not really the case, though. Rebooting solves this most of the time.
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I think this is correct. I've had this happen 3 times in 6 months and it's only happened when I plug the phone into the charger right after plugging the charger into the wall.
I've since tried to leave the charger plugged in about 10-20 seconds before attaching the phone and it hasn't happened since (~3 months)

FormerSlacker said:
I think this is correct. I've had this happen 3 times in 6 months and it's only happened when I plug the phone into the charger right after plugging the charger into the wall.
I've since tried to leave the charger plugged in about 10-20 seconds before attaching the phone and it hasn't happened since (~3 months)
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Thanks, will try this approach.

i hope someday "20sec charging" will be a feature for every smartphone

Happened to me one night but when i unplugged my phone in the morning, it went down to 40% :/ so evidently it didnt continue charging after glitching. Battery usage pane confirmed this.
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I usually charge my phone during nights.. Sometimes on the morning my battery is down to 80%, it stopped charging at 100% and I assume didn't charge any longer and the phone was draining the battery, has anyone else the same problem?
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Same thing happened again this morning, so annoying
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Blocoholi said:
Same thing happened again this morning, so annoying
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For me 80% only in standby is too much. I always get Fully charged when I charge it at night.

pip0 said:
For me 80% only in standby is too much. I always get Fully charged when I charge it at night.
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Well the thing is I didn't unplug the phone from the charger..
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Does you're nexus turn off while charging?

I have had this twice now, the seccond time i put my nexus on charge at about 28℅ came back an hour later and it was turned off but still charging ( the white battery charging icon). Anyone else had this? I am using the charger that came with my nexus. Also this does not happen all the time.
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Never had this happen yet.
Btw I don't use Twitter or facebook...
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Are you using the wall to charge or USB on your computer?
Maybe you have a runaway app in the background constantly syncing (ahem twitter)?
reuthermonkey said:
Are you using the wall to charge or USB on your computer?
Maybe you have a runaway app in the background constantly syncing (ahem twitter)?
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The wall mate. Ive charged it about 6 times and its happend twice. Its not a big deal, just wondering if anyone else had the same thing happen to them.
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Have not had my N7 do this yet, but my TF Prime does it a lot.
leelaa said:
The wall mate. Ive charged it about 6 times and its happend twice. Its not a big deal, just wondering if anyone else had the same thing happen to them.
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I always turn it off prior to charging since it will charge faster.
I've had this happen a lot and what gets me is it happens on different kernels and roms.... It seems almost like a safety feature against overheating while charging
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DJLamontagneIII said:
I've had this happen a lot and what gets me is it happens on different kernels and roms.... It seems almost like a safety feature against overheating while charging
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Glad i am not the only one, maybe it is feature, only thing is i was not using the device when it wa on charge. :/
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Never happen to me yet!
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There is already a thread about this (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1783173).
It seems to be happening randomly, and for me only on overnight charges.
I'm not sure if it's by design or a bug, but it happens.
The weird thing is, if I leave it plugged in during the day, it will stay on. At night, it usually turns off after reaching 100%.

Lost 27% battery when phone off

I had turned phone off when it was fully charged yesterday and put my Sim in Galaxy
SII and when I replaced back today and turned Nexus 4 on today, the battery was showing 73%. I can not believe it lost 27% in totally power off mode.
My phone is not rooted yet.
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bhulku123 said:
I had turned phone off when it was fully charged yesterday and put my Sim in Galaxy
SII and when I replaced back today and turned Nexus 4 on today, the battery was showing 73%. I can not believe it lost 27% in totally power off mode.
My phone is not rooted yet.
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How long have you had your phone for? If you just got it recently, keep testing it like that for a few days. It could be just the battery sensor on the phone being new and all.
After I posted the first post, I was checking the battery in settings and it showed that my phone was on battery for over 22 hours. The weird thing is that I literally turned phone on from power off state and saw nexus boot animation came on and phone powering on.
I now think the phone actually do not power off in power off state.
Is something wrong with this phone? Or it is suppose to do that.?
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I've found a bug where sometimes the phone will sometimes report the wrong level of battery when charging, but when you restart the phone it will go back to the right level. This might be what happened to you.
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Please post in the battery impressions thread.
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4.3 Slow charging?

Anyone else experiencing very slow charge times? I plugged in at 20% at midnight. Just woke up and it only charged to 87% in 7 hours.
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BrianBaker said:
Anyone else experiencing very slow charge times? I plugged in at 20% at midnight. Just woke up and it only charged to 87% in 7 hours.
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Yep, mine been slow to charge as well. Admittedly though I just dirty flashed the update over my previous rom so I will do a fresh install see if that makes a difference.
mine charges faster as a matter of fact
especially while plugged into usb
flex360 said:
mine charges faster as a matter of fact
especially while plugged into usb
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Same here; I've noticed that battery life and recharging are a lot better.
Yeah, I noticed this last night. I plugged in about an hour before falling asleep, checked it a few minutes before knocking out and it barely moved 4%. Very concerning.
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flex360 said:
mine charges faster as a matter of fact
especially while plugged into usb
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Mine also
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BrianBaker said:
Anyone else experiencing very slow charge times? I plugged in at 20% at midnight. Just woke up and it only charged to 87% in 7 hours.
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going to quote myself on this..woke up at 87%..restarted my phone and it was 100%.To be expected since i was wipe crazy in TWRP
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going to quote myself on this..woke up at 87%..restarted my phone and it was 100%.To be expected since i was wipe crazy in TWRP
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Exactly the same thing happened to me. I just updated to 4.3 ROM, firmware, radio, plugged the charger and went to sleep. After I woke up (9 hours) phone was at 87%. Let it another hour, still the same. Than rebooted and 100%. IDK maybe the new firmware messed smth? I'll try again later and report back
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BrianBaker said:
Anyone else experiencing very slow charge times? I plugged in at 20% at midnight. Just woke up and it only charged to 87% in 7 hours.
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Mine has improved as well, actually. Before, it would take a very long time to charge fully. Especially that 99-100% gap. It would literally take 20+ minutes to go from 99 to 100. Made no sense. Battery charging and life seem to have been much improved since the update.
The one thing that hasn't changed as that as soon as it fully charges, I can still unplug it and plug it back immediately and see the battery percent drop. Usually goes from 100 back down to 96-99%. I have never once, since I've had the phone, had it stay at 100 after unplugging and replugging immediately. Weird.
Mine actually charges faster and I get better battery life. I would do a clean install. Running 4.3 stock with goodies.
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Im on Flex 2.03 and Charging seems to be normal!
Just checked my batter stats and it took roughly 7 hrs to go from 20-100%
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Weird battery drain?

I put my phone on the charger last night at 1%, went to sleep. Woke up this morning and it was off. Turned it on while it was still on the charger and it was at 6% Notice on the far right of the screenshot it got fully charged then died on charger.
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Also sometimes my phone likes to turn off by itself. Have to hold down volume down+power then let go of volume for it to come on.
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Check for corrosion and gunk in your charging port and connector. If none found try a different charger. The picture you submitted shows a quite odd report. Also could try wiping battery stats... but I think you might need an unlocked phone for that.
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I have a similar problem. It just started recently. I had 19% and then I dropped to 1%. I charged it and had to reboot my phone for something when it was 14% and when it turned back on, it was at 3%.
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Has anyone tried another charger that has higher amp output, I use iPhone @ 1.5 amp charger and works great, also AHD phones need minimum .750 amp chager.
Has anyone tried also to re-calibrate battery?
HD-man said:
Has anyone tried another charger that has higher amp output, I use iPhone @ 1.5 amp charger and works great, also AHD phones need minimum .750 amp chager.
Has anyone tried also to re-calibrate battery?
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I have. I had this issue just once, but after that, my battery life its been worse. I feel like I have a 20% of unused battery or something. I have calibrated it multiple times with no luck.
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[SOLUTION] Phone shutting down with battery not empty

This solved my problem regarding the phone turning of at 50% battery or 37% etc. You will see after applying the settings the battery percentage will change and show the real battery life.
I got this solution from a Google tech.
1) Power off your phone.
2) Press and hold the Power and Volume Down buttons. This will put the phone in fastboot.
3) Use the Volume buttons to scroll through the menu until you see "Bootloader logs"
4) Press and hold the power key for a long time (7+ seconds) until the phone reboots.
slekkas said:
This solved my problem regarding the phone turning of at 50% battery or 37% etc. You will see after applying the settings the battery percentage will change and show the real battery life.
I got this solution from a Google tech.
1) Power off your phone.
2) Press and hold the Power and Volume Down buttons. This will put the phone in fastboot.
3) Use the Volume buttons to scroll through the menu until you see "Bootloader logs"
4) Press and hold the power key for a long time (7+ seconds) until the phone reboots.
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is there a source for this information? a link or anything? did you just stumble upon this fix? or did you copy paste from somewhere else?
Circaflex said:
is there a source for this information? a link or anything? did you just stumble upon this fix? or did you copy paste from somewhere else?
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After days and days of searching and trying a zillion things without success and just as I was ready to RMA the phone I stumbled upon this suggestion in the Google forums. It was posted by a Google tech somewhere in the middle of a really big thread that I couldn't find again. No I didn't find this by myself but wanted to share for users to be able to find it easily.
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I returned my phone a few weeks ago because of this issue and got a replacement from Motorola . I do notice certain kernels will create this situation moreso than the stock rom or stock kernel will not create this issue so that's also something to think about.
However, thanks for the insight should my replacement phone display the same symptoms.
Edit: interesting, I just tried your suggestion and my battery went from 91% to 66%.
I am on the validator kernel using the suggested settings.
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I returned my phone a few weeks ago because of this issue and got a replacement from Motorola . I do notice certain kernels will create this situation moreso than the stock rom or stock kernel will not create this issue so that's also something to think about.
However, thanks for the insight should my replacement phone display the same symptoms.
Edit: interesting, I just tried your suggestion and my battery went from 91% to 66%.
I am on the validator kernel using the suggested settings.
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That's good. It means that your battery would have died at about 25%.
Let me ask you? Are you using a wireless charger?
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slekkas said:
That's good. It means that your battery would have died at about 25%.
Let me ask you? Are you using a wireless charger?
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On occasion at work but not at home. Sounds like another cause. Why would it if I may ask?
I actually find them to be silly as you must plug the charger base via USB which I can do with phone! Just another step IMHO including finding the sweet spot when resting on charger.
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markwebb said:
Edit: interesting, I just tried your suggestion and my battery went from 91% to 66%.
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Bahaha, quick charge in action. Does not charge quicker, just drags down the "full" point.
markwebb said:
On occasion at work but not at home. Sounds like another cause. Why would it if I may ask?
I actually find them to be silly as you must plug the charger base via USB which I can do with phone! Just another step IMHO including finding the sweet spot when resting on charger.
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I've noticed from my own experience and after talking with others that this issue has started after I started using a wireless charger. Maybe it's just a coincidence but I'm trying to gather some info.
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Bahaha, quick charge in action. Does not charge quicker, just drags down the "full" point.
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How can we disable quick charge?
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I've noticed from my own experience and after talking with others that this issue has started after I started using a wireless charger. Maybe it's just a coincidence but I'm trying to gather some info.
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Also raises another question: those turbo chargers. I have 3 from moto and use at home. I don't think however as phone seems to charge correctly and capacity seems to register correctly.
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Also raises another question: those turbo chargers. I have 3 from moto and use at home. I don't think however as phone seems to charge correctly and capacity seems to register correctly.
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I will be using the phone for 6-7 days without the wireless charger to see if the problem comes back. If it doesn't I will then use the wireless charger and see if problem shows up. This is an issue with a lot of people and many of them have RMA'd the phone just to realize that the problem came back and it's not a hardware issue.
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I will be using the phone for 6-7 days without the wireless charger to see if the problem comes back. If it doesn't I will then use the wireless charger and see if problem shows up. This is an issue with a lot of people and many of them have RMA'd the phone just to realize that the problem came back and it's not a hardware issue.
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I am also going to use a custom kernel for a few days and then stock.
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I am also going to use a custom kernel for a few days and then stock.
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I'm using Franco Kernel at the moment. Where can I find stock kernel?
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I'm using Franco Kernel at the moment. Where can I find stock kernel?
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There is both an encrypted and decrypted one:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2946715
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slekkas said:
How can we disable quick charge?
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By using a regular 5v charger instead of the idiotic 5/9/12v charger that came with it.
I am having the below issue.
1. If phone is around the 30% mark, and I receive a call, it would just switch off.
2. If i reboot the phone with it being around 30% mark, it will just switch off after displaying the lockscreen.
Is this behavior that is same as the one in the thread?
I tried the mentioned steps and my battery percentage stayed the same. It also shows the same battery percentage in TWRP.
suku_patel_22 said:
I am having the below issue.
1. If phone is around the 30% mark, and I receive a call, it would just switch off.
2. If i reboot the phone with it being around 30% mark, it will just switch off after displaying the lockscreen.
Is this behavior that is same as the one in the thread?
I tried the mentioned steps and my battery percentage stayed the same. It also shows the same battery percentage in TWRP.
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Yes exactly the same problem. Keep pushing the power button a few seconds longer after phone switches off. My problem was fixed but a week later it came back. For others it was fixed permanently. There's a lot of people with this problem and they keep increasing. I fear that certain wireless chargers are causing it. Are you using a wireless charger?
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Yes exactly the same problem. Keep pushing the power button a few seconds longer after phone switches off. My problem was fixed but a week later it came back. For others it was fixed permanently. There's a lot of people with this problem and they keep increasing. I fear that certain wireless chargers are causing it. Are you using a wireless charger?
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No I am not using any wireless charger. I only use the turbo charger at home and a 2A N7 charger at work.
I am waiting for 5.1 and will run it for a few days to test . Hope that 5.1 will fix this issue.
Also Google suppport asked me to reboot into safe mode and see if the issue is still there.
Just tried this and it went from 82 to 85%.
I have an issue where the phone turns off at 5%
I have this problem currently with my N6 and it is beyond madding.
First it would do it only when the phone was getting to 30~35% tried the fix.
Now the phone crashes it all the time. 80% crash, charge for a little bit use again 85% crash, charge to 100% use streaming a movie from google play 65% crash. now im going to try a custom rom to see if that will fix it.
tried the fix several time only seems to make it worse.
even with a blank install after reinstalling the stock img the phone will crash.

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