My Z1 has started playing silly games, it no longer charges properly! It will be fine for a while, typically ten minutes or so, then it will pop up a warning message saying the connected power source isn't charging the battery. It will then drain faster than it can charge. Last night for example I put it on charge around 7pm with 67% and took it off at 8am this morning, but it's dropped to 3%. I've tried various chargers and cables, the dock, all 3 of my magnetic cables (how I normally it charge anyway) and tried all the usual methods of reset such as holding the red button under the SIM port down. Nothing works. It started around two weeks ago, since then I have flashed another firmware but the problem persists.
My phone is currently plugged into a 2 amp capable magnetic dock plug with the Sony plug that comes in the box. Just typing this message it's drained the battery 9% while on charge, wifi on and network off, screen brightness down and no other apps open.
I've spoken to Sony and they won't do anything, my rear glass is cracked so they won't even look at it and they seem to think it's water damage! The phone hasn't ever seen water so that's a load of BS from them.
What can I do?
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Use the normal USB charger
gregbradley said:
Use the normal USB charger
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That doesn't work, the problem still persists. That's the first charger I tried when the handset started not taking a charge.
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Looks like you need a new device as it could be when the back cracked the battery got moisture (not direct) infected
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AndroidDan said:
Looks like you need a new device as it could be when the back cracked the battery got moisture (not direct) infected
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Greaaaaaaat. That's the last thing I need :-S I've just tried my girlfriends iPhone charger and it seems to charge it, very slowly. I will have to dig my Blackberry out as a back up and see how the Z1 goes.
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I have the same problem after updating to KitKat. I'm using dock station too, but not the one that came with my phone (I didn't got any with it).
I put my phone to charge, and after 5-10 minutes it starts to show the message. One time I found my phone drained till 0% in the morning. So, I found a simple solution for my phone. Before I put the phone to charge, I turn it off, wait 2-3 seconds then turn it on. I immediately put the phone to the dock in the boot process. That's the only way I can properly charge my phone.
Hope this will help you...
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I have the same problem after updating to KitKat. I'm using dock station too, but not the one that came with my phone (I didn't got any with it).
I put my phone to charge, and after 5-10 minutes it starts to show the message. One time I found my phone drained till 0% in the morning. So, I found a simple solution for my phone. Before I put the phone to charge, I turn it off, wait 2-3 seconds then turn it on. I immediately put the phone to the dock in the boot process. That's the only way I can properly charge my phone.
Hope this will help you...
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Excellent! I will have a go and see if it works for me, Thankyou!
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Yesterday when I got back home from work, I pulled out my phone only to find out it was dead. No light, no nothing. I thought it ran out of battery so I hooked it up to the charger for 5 mins but nothing happened (the led light didn't even turn on). So I decided to pry my phone open and pull out the battery (I hate doing this because the battery cover is fragile) and the phone booted up and acted normal again. I'm just wondering what happened. Should I be worried or something?
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Are u using a cutom rom? It might be cuz of ovrclock ...
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Well i can relate... but with my Xperia X10 (still can't use the Incredible S as my daily phone yet).
The X10 became dead, i hooked it to the charger, did absolutely NOTHING. Figured what gives, it's not charging so i decided to pull the battery and insert it back in while connected to the charger and there ya go, it came back to life.
No, I'm not using a custom rom. No overlocking or mods whatsoever. Just gingerbread updated through OTA then I did a factory wipe after. I'm wondering if it's a hardware problem or something or it's just a software mishap?
This happened to me once with my xperia mini.... I did some research and found that it happens coz of abuse of RAM.....some program is using the RAM continuously so we need to reboot the device and the only way is battery pull....
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OR it could also be that the phone was completely out of charge.
it does happen sometimes when the phone is used till the battery completely drains out.
Once you connect the charger, it can take between 2-10 mins to start up again.
Maybe there is a minimum charge the phone needs to even start or show the charging led...
its good though your phone is back!
Yesterday my phone shutted because my battery, I connected to my car and charged a while, I got out from charging and using 2-3 minutes more and battery died again. When I got home I connected it to AC power and powered on, It was working without problem. I left my phone maybe 1 hour charging and when I took it again it was dead: screen dead, no life signal, just the led blinking slowly when connected to power (either AC and USB)...tried to take off battery but nothing. Today I connected it to PC and windows has recognized it but cannot identify it (on the PC the classic USB device not recognized error with yellow triangle on top) and the led is always blinking.
Any idea? should I have to buy a new phone?
thanks
Sounds like your battery is dead. Try replacing your battery
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Sounds like your battery is dead. Try replacing your battery
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Do you think is a battery problem? phone should boot even without a battery when connected to power...or not?
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Do you think is a battery problem? phone should boot even without a battery when connected to power...or not?
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Try Running some POST tests. As in, Power off your device and wait for few seconds. Then Press and hold your power key and your volume down key. You should be able to access your Bootloader. (If you have Rooted your device, you could access your recovery and clear the battery stats although your device's condition seems peculiar/critical). Its worth a shot If you ask me.
I have already tried it but nothing, cleared dalvik and battery stats..I cannot understand whats going on. Now phone is working again but it cannot maintain battery, I mean I kept it in charge all the night but when I power on the phone it shuts down just when it starts android (thats strange because I went to a store yestarday and tried a new battery but it didn't worked, when got home I tried to power on it again and it started)...this is driving me crazy!!
edit: I turned it on, plugged in AC charger and phone after some minutes told me that (I don't remember the exact message) power needed by the phone is more than the charger could provide...
edit2: now it is on and it is charging (USB) and it doesn't charge more than 21%...really strange
Odd that this hasn't been mentioned but perhaps try a different usb cable? Different port? Seems obvious but you never know. Cables can deteriorate.
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Odd that this hasn't been mentioned but perhaps try a different usb cable? Different port? Seems obvious but you never know. Cables can deteriorate.
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I have tried 3 different cables and 2 different computers...same result. I have flashed a new ROM, plugged in for charging and now is stuck on 15% battery (5 minutes aga was 16%, it discharges while plugged in).
Ok maybe here is a solutions:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=26492940#post26492940
What do you think about?
Hi !
So my nexus 7 is not charging anymore... 3 days ago I took it outside ( it was -20°C in Montreal) and tried to use it but it did not start ( I think the battery went off because of the cold).
When I went back home I plugged it to the AC charger but nothing happened. I checked on several forums ans finally succeeded in booting the tablet. But the as soon as the tablet is on, it displays the message that the tablet is shutting down. I can see that the battery is empty and it is like the tablet is not plugged to the charger(the icon displays a red exclamation point instead of the charging indicator)
When the tablet is off and I plugged it to the charger it displays the charging icon for a 10 seconds and then it disappears. During those few seconds I can launch the boot loader. I tryed to shut it down, de plug and re plug the charger. The charging icon appears and then disappears again after a few...
Any advice on this one ? I don't think the tablet is totally dead but I don't find the way to make it charge again.
Thanks a lot,
Guillaume
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Hi !
So my nexus 7 is not charging anymore... 3 days ago I took it outside ( it was -20°C in Montreal) and tried to use it but it did not start ( I think the battery went off because of the cold).
When I went back home I plugged it to the AC charger but nothing happened. I checked on several forums ans finally succeeded in booting the tablet. But the as soon as the tablet is on, it displays the message that the tablet is shutting down. I can see that the battery is empty and it is like the tablet is not plugged to the charger(the icon displays a red exclamation point instead of the charging indicator)
When the tablet is off and I plugged it to the charger it displays the charging icon for a 10 seconds and then it disappears. During those few seconds I can launch the boot loader. I tryed to shut it down, de plug and re plug the charger. The charging icon appears and then disappears again after a few...
Any advice on this one ? I don't think the tablet is totally dead but I don't find the way to make it charge again.
Thanks a lot,
Guillaume
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Does the charger get warm at all when you plug it in? Not that that's necessary but curious. Try charging on a different charger. Perhaps a local BB or similar would let you try plugging in in lieu of buying one. But trying a different charger/cord would be my first step.
Usually it's heat and not cold that devices hate.
HTH
Have you plugged it into a computer and left it that way for a few hours?
Did you tried pressing Power button for 30 seconds ?? It worked for some people, I was not even able to turn on my nexus 7 when its reached to my hands, i was so unlucky, today i given it to Asus service centre as its has international warranty, i lives in india & bought from US, they working on it,hoping for best.
You might have to take the back off and check the battery connector,some people have had them come loose.
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These things are freezer tested and they work. Worst comes to absolute worst complete battery replacement is not that difficult if you are out of warranty. I remember reading that in the disassembly notes.
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Hey all,
I've tried searching for a resolution and tried several, but no go,
Here is my issue.
Playing ingress today (I know, battery hog) and noticed phone down to 54%, plugged it into car cigarette power plug and phone was still extremely warm after 30 mins of charging with ingress killed and screen off.
Got back to my hotel, it was at 34% and still very warm.
Turned it off and plugged into wall charger, waited about 15 min, tuned on, and now it was down to 17%!!!!!
It would slowly charge and after 1 hour would only gain 5% with everything off (gps,wifi, in airplane mode).
I am using latest nightly CM 10.2 with thouvvak's kernel and Fast Charge enabled, but also restored a stock image and a previous backup of cm10.2
from 1 week previous. All CM roms tried with and without cusom kernel.
Even tried latest nightly CM10.2 incase here was an issue with that one build..
Everytime I tried to charge it, it would get extremely warm. I know this phone gets warm, but this is warmer than normal..
For a while it was flashing red light, even while charging and cool (ish).
Now it doesn't show any charge light, won't power on.
Tried turning on under bright light, Vol up+vol down+ power, and any other key combination.
Anyone else ever have this issue?
I have it sitting on HTC Original charger now and will see what happens overnight.
Thanks!
Bryan
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Hey all,
I've tried searching for a resolution and tried several, but no go,
Here is my issue.
Playing ingress today (I know, battery hog) and noticed phone down to 54%, plugged it into car cigarette power plug and phone was still extremely warm after 30 mins of charging with ingress killed and screen off.
Got back to my hotel, it was at 34% and still very warm.
Turned it off and plugged into wall charger, waited about 15 min, tuned on, and now it was down to 17%!!!!!
It would slowly charge and after 1 hour would only gain 5% with everything off (gps,wifi, in airplane mode).
I am using latest nightly CM 10.2 with thouvvak's kernel and Fast Charge enabled, but also restored a stock image and a previous backup of cm10.2
from 1 week previous. All CM roms tried with and without cusom kernel.
Even tried latest nightly CM10.2 incase here was an issue with that one build..
Everytime I tried to charge it, it would get extremely warm. I know this phone gets warm, but this is warmer than normal..
For a while it was flashing red light, even while charging and cool (ish).
Now it doesn't show any charge light, won't power on.
Tried turning on under bright light, Vol up+vol down+ power, and any other key combination.
Anyone else ever have this issue?
I have it sitting on HTC Original charger now and will see what happens overnight.
Thanks!
Bryan
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Connect it to your pc and tell me what you see in device manager.
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Nothing when plugging in to PC USB port.
No sounds even.
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n3m35155 said:
Hey all,
I've tried searching for a resolution and tried several, but no go,
Here is my issue.
Playing ingress today (I know, battery hog) and noticed phone down to 54%, plugged it into car cigarette power plug and phone was still extremely warm after 30 mins of charging with ingress killed and screen off.
Got back to my hotel, it was at 34% and still very warm.
Turned it off and plugged into wall charger, waited about 15 min, tuned on, and now it was down to 17%!!!!!
It would slowly charge and after 1 hour would only gain 5% with everything off (gps,wifi, in airplane mode).
I am using latest nightly CM 10.2 with thouvvak's kernel and Fast Charge enabled, but also restored a stock image and a previous backup of cm10.2
from 1 week previous. All CM roms tried with and without cusom kernel.
Even tried latest nightly CM10.2 incase here was an issue with that one build..
Everytime I tried to charge it, it would get extremely warm. I know this phone gets warm, but this is warmer than normal..
For a while it was flashing red light, even while charging and cool (ish).
Now it doesn't show any charge light, won't power on.
Tried turning on under bright light, Vol up+vol down+ power, and any other key combination.
Anyone else ever have this issue?
I have it sitting on HTC Original charger now and will see what happens overnight.
Thanks!
Bryan
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Never use fast charge!
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This happened to mine running cm, had to pay £170 to get it fixed, never using cm again ahaha
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l.m.prowse said:
This happened to mine running cm, had to pay £170 to get it fixed, never using cm again ahaha
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What needed to get replaced?
Motherboard or battery?
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What needed to get replaced?
Motherboard or battery?
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The report said the main board, they just stuck the screen of mine onto a new body
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jthatch12 said:
Never use fast charge!
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Why not?
I am asking this because I have always had it on..
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What needed to get replaced?
Motherboard or battery?
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don't know if this will help, but try: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2481211
Since I got Xperia T updated to Android 4.3 I have been through problems. The problem now is that the phone can't be charged when it is turned off and I got my battery completely drained resulting in a dead phone that can't either get charged or turn on, only blinking red LED when power button is pressed. I have tried many methods like putting it on charge over night and even 24 hours, putting the tape on power button while charging (it turns on though but as soon as it pass the boot animation the battery looses its charge and it turn itself off and this keeps happening). Now I'm really wondering if someone here had faced such problem and was able to work it out so please share what you did.
I opened the phone, taking away the screw that you see when you open the Sim card and the memory card cover, unplugged the battery for about one minute then plugged it in again, and put back the screw, then charged. When it works, consider changing the firmware, for me I went back to 4.1
It is working great now.
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Ghaiooth said:
I opened the phone, taking away the screw that you see when you open the Sim card and the memory card cover, unplugged the battery for about one minute then plugged it in again, and put back the screw, then charged. When it works, consider changing the firmware, for me I went back to 4.1
It is working great now.
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thanks for the reply but isn't there any other way that requires no disassembly ?