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battery slow to charge, CM7 w/tweaks

Slapped CM7 with tweaks on here and so far so good aside from some small things but my battery suddenly seems to charge incredibly slow. Anything I can do to fix this?

Are you using the right cable and charger? The charger and cable are specific to the Nook...
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capnblackleg said:
Slapped CM7 with tweaks on here and so far so good aside from some small things but my battery suddenly seems to charge incredibly slow. Anything I can do to fix this?
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Charges normally for me.
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Are you using the right cable and charger? The charger and cable are specific to the Nook...
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This.

I also get very slow charge if I charge via USB on my PC. I have a few phone chargers, and only one seems to be able to charge the nook at a decent rate

poppscc said:
I also get very slow charge if I charge via USB on my PC. I have a few phone chargers, and only one seems to be able to charge the nook at a decent rate
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Use the Nook Cable and Nook Charger. Period. If you do, 1.9A charge current. If you dn't, .5A charge current.

on the stock kernal, B&N explicitly say that the ONLY way to charge the Nookcolor is via the charge brick/USB cable, that you will not be able to charge the Nookcolor via a usb port of your PC.
I did notice that once I went to the Froyo and C7 Roms that I could charge on my USB ports of my PC, but MUCH slower than via the power brick.
FWIW

miniaturepeddler said:
on the stock kernal, B&N explicitly say that the ONLY way to charge the Nookcolor is via the charge brick/USB cable, that you will not be able to charge the Nookcolor via a usb port of your PC.
I did notice that once I went to the Froyo and C7 Roms that I could charge on my USB ports of my PC, but MUCH slower than via the power brick.
FWIW
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It will charge from any source.... at .5Ah..

Yes, nook charger. I ran CM7 from SD and nothing changed but once I flashed cm7 with tablet tweaks the batt seemed to drain fast and charge slow.

There's a reason why some choose not to go to CM7. CM7 suffers the "sleep of death" and so is always ON, even when it appears to be sleeping.
This would result in slower charging as the device is fully active all the time.

Juboha said:
There's a reason why some choose not to go to CM7. CM7 suffers the "sleep of death" and so is always ON, even when it appears to be sleeping.
This would result in slower charging as the device is fully active all the time.
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Actually, I've been using it for about 5 days off the SD card and it's not as bad as I had heard. I see 1%/hr when it's "asleep" vs .2%/hr I saw on stock. So in terms of charge speeds etc, fairly insignificant.
I must say though, my time between charges since going to CM7 have been much smaller... because I'm playing with the NC a lot more

miniaturepeddler said:
on the stock kernal, B&N explicitly say that the ONLY way to charge the Nookcolor is via the charge brick/USB cable, that you will not be able to charge the Nookcolor via a usb port of your PC.
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Yes, they do say that... and yes, they are lying. Even on the stock B&N OS, I was able to charge just fine (although slowly) from a standard USB port. You don't get a "charging" indicator but, if you watch the battery level, it does slowly increase.

Juboha said:
There's a reason why some choose not to go to CM7. CM7 suffers the "sleep of death" and so is always ON, even when it appears to be sleeping.
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This is not exactly correct... All NC ROMs are subject to the "sleep of death" problem where the device can crash when put to sleep due to a kernal bug. It would frequently happen to me in Froyo.
CM7 works around this bug by simply not letting the device fully sleep. This is a temporary measure until the new kernal without this bug is ready. This technically makes CM7 the only ROM that doesn't "suffer the 'sleep of death'," as you say.
I'll take slightly shorter battery life over constantly needing to reboot any day of the week.

RoboRay said:
This is not exactly correct... All NC ROMs are subject to the "sleep of death" problem where the device can crash when put to sleep due to a kernal bug. It would frequently happen to me in Froyo.
CM7 works around this bug by simply not letting the device fully sleep. This is a temporary measure until the new kernal without this bug is ready. This technically makes CM7 the only ROM that doesn't "suffer the 'sleep of death'," as you say.
I'll take slightly shorter battery life over constantly needing to reboot any day of the week.
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Not all.. the B&N ROM doesn't do it Curious.... Could one use the B&N Kernel on CM7? Just to see if SOD was still there?

khaytsus said:
Not all.. the B&N ROM doesn't do it Curious.... Could one use the B&N Kernel on CM7?
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Not a chance, they use different scheme for power management, video and audio subsystems are difference I believe... CM7(2.3) needs a 2.6.35 kernel to run, 2.1 runs on a 2.6.29, and 2.2 runs on 2.6.32... theres not a snowballs chance in hell that a stock kernel will run CM7
And I seem to use ~10-15% battery in a day on CM7, whatever, I'll charge it every 2 days and I'm fine. CM7 RC4 @ 1.1ghz with Hard menu/back keys make this device close to PERFECT!

RoboRay said:
This is not exactly correct... All NC ROMs are subject to the "sleep of death" problem where the device can crash when put to sleep due to a kernal bug. It would frequently happen to me in Froyo.
CM7 works around this bug by simply not letting the device fully sleep. This is a temporary measure until the new kernal without this bug is ready. This technically makes CM7 the only ROM that doesn't "suffer the 'sleep of death'," as you say.
I'll take slightly shorter battery life over constantly needing to reboot any day of the week.
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this is good to know. i was under the impression it was a cm7 issue. explains why my nookiecomb installation had sleep of death yesterday.
someone else mentioned that drain wasn't all that bad on cm7 when they tried it. One thread i read, that some of the more recent nightly builds seemed to lower the drain a bit. wish i'd remember the thread it was though.

[Q] charged,empty,charged, at nausem: can't run on battery anymore

My GT-N7000 yesterday developed this issue:
When I boot it (no USB cable to power it), the battery shows empty (grep battery icon, with a charging circle).
A second or so later, it switches to show a half-full battery, with charging dots below. and it vibrates for about a second.
Again, another second ro so later it goes back to showing an empty battery and the cycle continues.
If I attach a UCB charging cable, it boots fine, shows the battery as 100%
If I remove the charging cable, it loses power. When switched on again, this all starts over.
I saw this on ICS (4.0.4, stock, German) and there i also had the battery icon in normal more switching between
charging and blinking to not charging. I found a recommendation that upgrading might help, so I
did apply the JB update I had downloaded a few days ago, but this does happen
under JB too (OTA German 4.0.4, then flashed with Phil's-stock plus cwn6)
Is there anything can can be done? Is this a hardware issue or something that some form of total reset might cure?
As it is, I cannot use the phone w/o having it externally powered through my powerbank or car charger.
This happens with two batteries, so it's not the battery that is broken

I really think this one is battery problem as I have experienced the same thing..
are the batteries you tested New?
just my 2 cents.
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noteandfound said:
I really think this one is battery problem as I have experienced the same thing..
are the batteries you tested New?
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No, I've had both a fow a while.
I may buy a third just to test but I fear I may have to get a replacement phone soon , sniff

Though I would suggest that you get a new set of batteries...they solved the problem for me.
While you are at it, please search the forum for another solution that worked for me- "cleaning the micro-usb slot"...its an easy process but needs to be done a little carefully.
either of the two would definitely work for you...speaking from experience!

sejtam said:
No, I've had both a fow a while.
I may buy a third just to test but I fear I may have to get a replacement phone soon , sniff
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Bro..i had the same problem..this morning,when the phone showed 100% in charged mode..as soon as i unplugged the charger..the charging %age goes down to 15% immedietly.. i went and bought a new charging port(only that usb charging port = very small),removed the old usb port and soldered the new usb port to the note..This works like charm..but this probably void the warranty ..so,if u want..its upto u..i wont recommend it but it works like charm for me

Get a new battery
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[Q] Cant charge with external battery

Hey guys,
I have the ZNEX Powerpack:
Capacity: [email protected],7V
Output: 5V 1A
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Unfortunately its not possible for me to charge my s3 mini with this external battery.
The cable and the battery is okay, tested that with other devices.
Anyone can solve this problem or has it too?
Thanks

Turn off phone turn on charger plug in to phone then turn phone on it should charge and you can use it at same time
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serophia said:
Turn off phone turn on charger plug in to phone then turn phone on it should charge and you can use it at same time
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Thanks for the quick answer but that doesnt work
also when the device is off and i turn on the external battery the device turns on and gets into a load mode or something (it doesnt even load at this Point, seems so that it just init the "turned off charging" dont know how i should call that )
same Thing when i restart the phone with external battery plugged on, there just happens nothing, normal boot process without any hint of charging^^

Ahh really? I had same issue and my method seemed to work are you trying with ur usb cable that came with the phone or the one that cane with the battery power. Try both out
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serophia said:
Ahh really? I had same issue and my method seemed to work are you trying with ur usb cable that came with the phone or the one that cane with the battery power. Try both out
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What do you mean with "the one that cane with the battery power"?
Ive tried a lot of different usb cables they work all with the original charging-adapter but None with the external battery
tried it with the Amazon Basics usb cable, original Samsung data cable and the cable from the old Motorola xt 720 ^^
But thank you for the answer

strange.. when device is off can it charge or it doesnt charge at all with the samsung data cable. If it does charge while off, when its charging turn on the phone and it should charge as well.

witleg legislation
serophia said:
strange.. when device is off can it charge or it doesnt charge at all with the samsung data cable. If it does charge while off, when its charging turn on the phone and it should charge as well.
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Sadly that doesn´t work too. The device is doing absolutely nothing when i restart it from the turned off charging. Its like it wouldn´t know that theres a cable that wants to Charge it.

firefish18 said:
Sadly that doesn´t work too. The device is doing absolutely nothing when i restart it from the turned off charging. Its like it wouldn´t know that theres a cable that wants to Charge it.
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Dang idk then maybe the voltage is too low to be recognized. Mines a 5v 5000 mah battery supply and it works fine
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serophia said:
Dang idk then maybe the voltage is too low to be recognized. Mines a 5v 5000 mah battery supply and it works fine
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My external battery has also 5v.. and 1A should reach to Charge

Same problem here. No matter what external battery pack, this S3 mini is not detecting the battery pack as a charger. All of these packs work just fine with any other phone: tried with 2 SII, i8910, different Nokia phones, Blackberrry's etc.
I suspect that somewhere in the kernel there's no "3rd" unknown source or it has odd values, or it's somewhere else, but definitely soft problem as phone usb port works fine and recharges just fine from PC or laptop with any and every usb cable. Same goes for wall chargers. I haven't tried with car chargers just yet, but might do so. Just the phone is not mine, it's my wife's phone so I can't just take it with me.
Any suggestions?

Just a quicky: Is your phone trying or connecting to a PC in MTP mode?
XXAMA2 rom here and it always has only MTP or Picture mode, maybe this triggers something if on external power pack?
Edit: BTW, even when phone is turned off it won't charge the battery from the 3rd party external battery packs... weird.
Edit2: It started to charge out of 2.1A port on external pack after 5 minutes... then continued to charge once the phone is turned on. Later I unplugged it and plugged in again and it won't charge if the phone is on. Oh well, at least it can charge if first turned off. At least that when on the road and without wall plug...
Even more strange is what I'm getting now when plugging to Duracel external pack - phone starts the music player on it's own and starts to play... I think it's defo something related to MTP or such...

Strange. My power bank works just fine. The charging indicator shows when I plug my S3Mini with my power bank. (Cheap chinese brand. 5200mAh, 1.0 A)
Usually when the USB indicator showed up when you plug your external power source, the cable is the one with 4 lines (two for transferring data, and the other two for receiving electricity needed for charging, or +/- ).
Try using the USB cable with two lines only (electricity lines only, without data transferring lines)

kuroiraida said:
Strange. My power bank works just fine. The charging indicator shows when I plug my S3Mini with my power bank. (Cheap chinese brand. 5200mAh, 1.0 A)
Usually when the USB indicator showed up when you plug your external power source, the cable is the one with 4 lines (two for transferring data, and the other two for receiving electricity needed for charging, or +/- ).
Try using the USB cable with two lines only (electricity lines only, without data transferring lines)
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Well, after trying all USb cables I have in my house I found one that is CHARGING IT!!! I dunno what wires it has or not and I don't care ATM. Point is there's nothing (EDIT) wrong with battery packs nor the phone. It all still indicates damn MTP kicking in where it shouldn't IMO. Dang Samsung for screwing it all up yet another time.
Still, I'm happy it CAN work all right, so no more depleted battery when on the road / trip
Thanks for a great suggestion there!
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Fevves said:
Well, after trying all USb cables I have in my house I found one that is CHARGING IT!!! I dunno what wires it has or not and I don't care ATM. Point is there's nothing working with battery packs nor the phone. It all still indicates damn MTP kicking in where it shouldn't IMO. Dang Samsung for screwing it all up yet another time.
Still, I'm happy it CAN work all right, so no more depleted battery when on the road / trip
Thanks for a great suggestion there!
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Yes. The only way to figure it out is to peel it off, which is not a sensible thing to do anyway.
Glad to be a help.
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Same trouble here
So i'm having the same trouble with my powerbank, tested with 3 different S3 minis, and all have the same result, also tested my powerbank and cables with another 2 different cellphones (Sony and LG) and worked fine...
Also tried using stock ROM, same result...
When i try to charge with the phone on doesn't work, but if i turn the phone off it works, i made a video showing:
watch?v=99-SdtlV3Fk
(i cannot post youtube videos yet)
Any suggestions?
I'm running maclaw's CyanogenMod 11.0 20140610, there is any LOG to see what happens? where can i access it?

charging very slow!

help,my note now charges very slow 4-5hrs without using.
it depletes if im using it while charging.
could change rom,kernel be a fix?
thanks

Heading for a new battery me thinks.
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Are you using your stock charger? If not, how many A does your charger have?

Abagnale said:
Are you using your stock charger? If not, how many A does your charger have?
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i just bought an extra battery.lets see how it goes.
i noticed my old battery had a small bump in the middle seems bloated. hmm
i remembered last time i used xperia s charger trice,it has 1.5kA it realy charge fast. i think that caused the problem?
when my sister charge her xperia s, the charger just explode.. and she scolded me why am i using her charger.
im using my old charger which is 700ma but it charge just fine. lately when i use the xperia s charger and went back to my old one,it was acting strange. it charges really slow and if i use the phone,it depletes even when charging.
im going to flash another rom,and see if its rom related or the battery isue.
thanks for replying.

ok,im on with my new battery but still depletes while im using it. im just browsing. on the widget it say im currently charging with 1000ma. wierd, dont know how to solve this.

[SYMPTOMS I HAD] it would charge very slowly, if the screen is on, it would actually discharge. When the phone was off, it would slowly charge (i.e. >5 hours to full charge). and it would discharge very quickly (i.e. 1% per 2~3 mins). When the phone was off, it would charge sometimes and sometimes not. Figured that when the phone was off, you really are negating much of the software influences so this could be a hardware issue, however, wanted to make sure before going down the hardware route.
Did some research, searched the forums and searched some more.
I had tried 5 different chargers, 3 different USB cables and had bought a replacement battery.
Steps taken:
1. Cleaned with thick paper - no change
2. Cleaned with thick paper & rubbing alcohol - no change
3. Cleared with Compressed gas - no change (on first charge, there was a change but then back to normal)
4. Attempted to clean with vacuum (with finer nozzle) - no change
5. Used charging apps from playstore - didn't show charging details - considered the port was faulty
6. Tried to find default references for charging as mentioned in one of the forums - unable to find it
7. Found a replacement USB port charger board and replaced it - working fine
So it could be the actual port is faulty. If you symptoms match, it could be time to take it into the service centre, restoring to stock first of course. The note I am using had slow charging for about 2 months prior to really slow charging.

i had change the usb port and its back to normal. 2hrs at least and its full.

Fingers crossed, thats all you need.

battery problem ?

i have a problem when charging battery,m
y battery is only charged from pc (sub charging), when i plagued the phone to ac source the battery is decharging.
ans some time when i reboot phone the battery level indicate low value (60% to 20%)
is this a battery problem or usb connector?
help please.

Please start using the search button.
This problem didn't occur for the first time on your so special device.
For a start (but of course not wanting to ruin your chance to search yourself): replace the battery with a new one.

ThaiDai said:
Please start using the search button.
This problem didn't occur for the first time on your so special device.
For a start (but of course not wanting to ruin your chance to search yourself): replace the battery with a new one.
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thank's,
but a have already searched this forum and others but didn't found solution, for the battery it's new and i tried other battery (from i717)
but the problem remain the same. i also tried different charger and usb cables

First of all did you try another charger? i.e different power brick with different USB cable.? And a different outlet.?

nokiamodeln91 said:
First of all did you try another charger? i.e different power brick with different USB cable.? And a different outlet.?
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yes i tried and the same problem.
i noticed also that when i reboot the phone battery level change from height level to low level (ex: from 60% to 10%).
usb connector problem ?

Using the USB port of pc, the phone charges fine?

nokiamodeln91 said:
Using the USB port of pc, the phone charges fine?
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yes, and i can access to phone memory from pc without any problem.

albatron34 said:
yes, and i can access to phone memory from pc without any problem.
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If it charges fine, then i dont see why the USB port will be damaged.

Heat issues?