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[Q] Burning problem...

Hello all...
1st of all good work on all FW´s that come out from this site ...
now my problem.
I just got a brand new Galaxy S, and i need your help to see if the problem is me or the phone.
Problem 1:
When ever i put the phone to charge, it get so hot on the speaker that you cant put it next to your ear.
I got my self a new charger.... same thing... new USB cable... same thing.
I have changed the FW to JPK´s FW with droid 2.2 froyo.
Problem 2:
they sell this phone as a phone 4 internet use, but if i use it.. the battery runs dry in about 40 min...
Question:
- has any of you had the same problem ?
- does it have anything to do with the FW upgrade ?
I think it´s a hardware problem but i just whant to be sure.
Thank´s 4 all your help.
Nuno

xmodpt said:
Hello all...
1st of all good work on all FW´s that come out from this site ...
now my problem.
I just got a brand new Galaxy S, and i need your help to see if the problem is me or the phone.
Problem 1:
When ever i put the phone to charge, it get so hot on the speaker that you cant put it next to your ear.
I got my self a new charger.... same thing... new USB cable... same thing.
I have changed the FW to JPK´s FW with droid 2.2 froyo.
Problem 2:
they sell this phone as a phone 4 internet use, but if i use it.. the battery runs dry in about 40 min...
Question:
- has any of you had the same problem ?
- does it have anything to do with the FW upgrade ?
I think it´s a hardware problem but i just whant to be sure.
Thank´s 4 all your help.
Nuno
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If u use the phone when its on the charger then yes it does get warm
And the battery might of been wasted because of some app your using, I was using a custom lockscreen and it drained 50% of my battery in 10 min, YES 10 min.
Try XXJPM with darkkys steel
My galaxy s is good with that
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I have a Galaxy S GT-I9000 and I don't have this problems, with stock firmware I navigate for 2 or 3 hours without run dry all the battery.. maybe it's a battery issue of your phone.

Deedend said:
I have a Galaxy S GT-I9000 and I don't have this problems, with stock firmware I navigate for 2 or 3 hours without run dry all the battery.. maybe it's a battery issue of your phone.
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+1 same here

from you problem 1 + problem 2 i would say that's a problem with the battery. But it's only an opinion

webstar1 said:
If u use the phone when its on the charger then yes it does get warm
And the battery might of been wasted because of some app your using, I was using a custom lockscreen and it drained 50% of my battery in 10 min, YES 10 min.
Try XXJPM with darkkys steel
My galaxy s is good with that
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Thank 4 the int but the 1st thing i did was to un-install all aps but the prob is still there.
regarding calls, that i know but the thing is... get to hot just charging.
Deedend said:
I have a Galaxy S GT-I9000 and I don't have this problems, with stock firmware I navigate for 2 or 3 hours without run dry all the battery.. maybe it's a battery issue of your phone.
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thnk m8... i will give it a try.

Regarding the battery problem,
keep in mind that youre phone is brand new. AFAIK all batteries need a few cycles of loading to get their full capacity. In the first two weeks my sgs didn't make it through the whole day of usage, whereas now it has about 60% at the end of the day (Nighttime = Loading. Usagetime without or very little charging (when i plug it in @work to listen music = 08:00 AM - 11:30 PM)
(Sorry for my bad english)

mmmm could be that.
What FW do you guys use ? and how do i install it ....
Thnkx

Note flickering when battery is almost dead

Hi everyone, I've experienced a problem in these last days.
Using google I found a guy who had my same problem, as it appears in this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZQ-hbAClvE&feature=player_embedded
Never happened before I changed battery (I had the one given with the note, but last week I put another one of the two I bought, always by Samsung). One should be actually damaged because it gave me not only this problem, but several messages on screen like "battery disconnected". With the other one I started using today everything was fine until it arrived to 11% - it's not reliable though because I didn't make in time to calibrate the battery - and then it start flickering and shutted down.
Anybody know anything about this?!

I also have the same problem, I've read that should be normal, and it does not occur with some batteries. It should be due to the power supply

AleksZ86 said:
I also have the same problem, I've read that should be normal, and it does not occur with some batteries. It should be due to the power supply
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so there's nothing to worry about? because it happened to me 3 times and twice the Note asked me to change the time, since it was resetted to 1/1/2000... and it didn't sound normal to me :/

I saw this, too, just before my Note had major filesystem corruption. I can't think of any other reason for it. I wrote it all up over in the Q&A section.
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Not adding a solution, just more info for diagnosis: My phone gets this when I'm down to 2% and using a cheapo gold battery off eBay. So maybe battery-quality is something to do with it.
As far as I know, it doesn't happen when I use the official battery.
Scared me the first few times, but it's happened five times and not damaged my Note in any way (although naturally I turn it off, give it a minute, and then start charging it back up).

well, I really hope this has nothing to do with battery quality because I bought them as ORIGINAL batteries! but they could be fake though, that's why it would be interesting to check some kind of serial to let us know if they're official or just fakes. In this case I would ask for the refund and use the old battery...
about the file system corruption, could be the battery the cause of that? because until the day I've used my original battery I haven't experienced any of these issues, so that's why I relate the battery to the problem of flickering... and that's why I don't absolutely want this junk to power my Note!

I didn't had that problem until I switched to Hydracore kernel. Now it flickers violently even under 20 % battery.
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gnotelover97 said:
I didn't had that problem until I switched to Hydracore kernel. Now it flickers violently even under 20 % battery.
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That's when mine flickered, too, and I got my corruption.
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Same here.i bought my galaxy about 2 weeks ago.so its fresh. Most of the time when battry drops to 2 or 1% the screen colors going weird and finally a flashing of screen then boom going off.
Its abviously from battry voltage.
Dont forget the screen is amoled.this behavior might be from this kind of technology.
Anyway nothing wrong here so far....
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Same here. I have two Hyperion batteries and the screen flickers when the battery is about to die. I've noticed it also does this on the OEM battery as well.
Didn't do this on Gingerbread just on ICS.

StefanoDurden said:
Anybody know anything about this?!
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Moved To Q&A​
Its a question, so belongs in the Q&A section.​

Your Note would flicker because it's trying to get more juice out on a a battery that is almost about to ran out...
Moreover, a cheapo replacement battery or an original one that has been wrongly calibrated before would also have this kind of a symptom.

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Moved To Q&A​
Its a question, so belongs in the Q&A section.​
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I'm sorry, you're right... thanks for moving the post, I'll be more careful!

I don't get it:
Yesterday night the phone was in airplane mode with a 60-70% charge.
This morning the phone is dead, and I needed to charge it again; after 10 minutes I switched on the device and... voilà, the battery level is 50%. WTF?!
I think I'll stay a couple of days more with this battery and then go back with my old one, asking the seller for a refund for both batteries.

Flickers on mine too.
I assumed it was normal.

Ye isnt it normal?
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Dude send your note to samsung service. Had the same situation. I send mine and they said that my battery port is grounded. My battery also became bloated. They will channge my motherboard for warranty.. hope i helped
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dead
My N7000 battery just died with the same symptoms. Damn, I hate samsung! :crying:
I can barely hear the sound of PWM charger for 5 seconds, and then just popping sound for about a minute-three! It's a dead cycle

i also experience that problem when i bought a new battery..but after few days it was gone..

suggest getting your note to service center better.

Swollen battery

I have got a swollen battery.My note is 1 year old.It gets switched off immediately after the logo appears but somtimes works okay.I am on an asop rom.Is it the battery or the rom?
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jayOverkill said:
I have got a swollen battery.My note is 1 year old.It gets switched off immediately after the logo appears but somtimes works okay.I am on an asop rom.Is it the battery or the rom?
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This is the most common thing now. I have seen that the stock batteries are not lasting more than a year.
Just go ahead and buy a new battery. It surely is not the ROM

Is it gona blast or something? Lol coz I really need to use that phone untill new battery comes
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Same thing happened with me 2 months back. U need a battery change. I changed my battey and my phone is ok.
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Buy A new battery & everything will become normal
The same has happened with me. My Note is 13 Months old.
I was playing game AVP Evolution till late night. And in the morning battery died, I charged it to full 100% but as soon as i boot up with in 4 second the phone again switched off , No battery low warning nothing. It is really strange but the fact is that the Samsung battery are just die completely all of a sudden, unlike other phones battery which dies gradually as it looses power and all that ........
I ordered a new battery & everything is fine now.
My old battery is unable to boot my phone even for 5 sec.

I am running my note on the swollen battery for about 8 hours now xP.Sometimes it switch off as soon as I turn it on but rest of the time it runs just fine.Anyways I ordered a new battery.
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jayOverkill said:
Is it gona blast or something? Lol coz I really need to use that phone untill new battery comes
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likeliness of it "blasting"... not very likely.. possibility of it "blasting".. it is possible..
batteries just go bad... a battery is only solid for around 500 charges then they just start losing their charge faster. i mean we are using small computers so this is just going to happen more and more. different reasons could cause this.... use of phone (it is what its designed to do..lol), a "cell" could just go bad causing the swelling, the circuitry in the battery fails causing the swelling, your charger goes bad and takes the battery with it (i had a cat bite thru a cable and it ground out..next day the battery showed signs of swelling and within a week you couldnt snap the battery cover on)... etc....
use is up to the user and their needs... there is a danger of the battery shorting the phone out totally and it never working again too. its not something that happens often but it is a solid possibility, so basically use good judgement...

it's usually caused by over charged (u don't unplug the charger when it reach 100%).
I've been using my Note more than a year and my battery still flat as it is new.

razgard said:
it's usually caused by over charged (u don't unplug the charger when it reach 100%).
I've been using my Note more than a year and my battery still flat as it is new.
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i beg to differ... the batteries have smart circuitry to protect against this. overcharging has not been a problem for years... i personally have left one of my notes on charge for days... it always stays on charge for 5-6 hrs past it being 100% and it still is a strong battery.. also just because a battery is flat doesnt mean its good... the swelling just makes the fact it is going bad more obvious...

I agree with kawgirl
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Battery life is crap

Brower facebook and tapatalk for about 20 minutes nothing else. Dropped 8% . I also killed my battery yesterday watching a movie and playing a game took a total of 3 hours. What do you guys think.
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let your battery cycle a few times, this phone rivals my iphone 5's battery life, pretty amazing never had a phone before that did that.

No, if it dies that fast then it's user error.
Install betterbatterystats and look for wakelocks.

HRodMusic said:
let your battery cycle a few times, this phone rivals my iphone 5's battery life, pretty amazing never had a phone before that did that.
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How do I cycle?
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horr1blek1tten said:
How do I cycle?
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let it go from 100 to 0 a few times, when i first got the phone my battery was pretty bad but after a couple weeks im getting 20+hours on a single charge =D

There's no need to cycle with li-ion or li-po batteries. In fact it's explicitly bad for your battery to run it down to 0.
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Jme369 said:
There's no need to cycle with li-ion or li-po batteries. In fact it's explicitly bad for your battery to run it down to 0.
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well sir, link me up with a valid source stating that.

HRodMusic said:
well sir, link me up with a valid source stating that.
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I'm confused what to do here. One of you guys tells me to cycle and the other says theres no need.
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Jme369 said:
There's no need to cycle with li-ion or li-po batteries. In fact it's explicitly bad for your battery to run it down to 0.
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Running your battery from 100% to 0% is useful in recalibrating the battery in the event of cell mismatches, which can happen over time.

horr1blek1tten said:
I'm confused what to do here. One of you guys tells me to cycle and the other says theres no need.
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u need to calibrate your battery like the guy above said by using your phone for a few days

horr1blek1tten said:
I'm confused what to do here. One of you guys tells me to cycle and the other says theres no need.
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Here's a very good post for information about li-ion / lithium polymer batteries:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=40596097&postcount=3
You generally shouldn't need to recalibrate the battery on a new phone (since it's a new battery), but it doesn't hurt if you think your battery may be mis-calibrated. (for example, your phone sits at 0% battery for long amounts of time) Do you have any apps that monitor wakelocks on your phone?

i was complaining my battery was crap yesterday. iv gained 1 hour in battery since yesterday.
GSam reported 9hours 24mins avg battery yesterday. I cycled it once since then and today its showing 10 hours 38mins avg.
Hoping for further improvements.

The phone needs to know where empty and full battery is. I've always calibrated mine by fully charging and killing at least twice with every phone I've owned and had no il effects and got much better battery life afterwards.

So do I calibrate or cycle? If so, how do I do that? Im fully stock and the only battery app I have is the battery guru made for snapdragon devices. Idk if that's what's killing my battery.
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It does no harm to run the battery to 0% occasionally, but the advice i have seen is to try to not run li-ion / li-po batteries below 10% too often as that can shorten their life.
For a new device i would run it down to around 10% with normal use, then give it a real long charge till it indicates fully charged, then unplug it and wait a minute or so then plug it back in and leave it on charge another couple of hours to make sure it is fully 100% charged.
After you have done this whole procedure maybe 3 times, you should have a properley conditioned battery. My HTC One is usually at 50% or better after a 12 hour working day, so i am more than happy with the battery life.

HRodMusic said:
well sir, link me up with a valid source stating that.
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You are totally wrong I am afraid. LiON and LiPO batteries do not have memories and neither like a complete discharge/recharge cycle. The rule is 'a little and often' as far as charging is concerned.
Here is a link to an article which will explain further http ://batteryuniversity.com/learn/article/how_to_prolong_lithium_based_batteries

proctologist said:
You are totally wrong I am afraid. LiON and LiPO batteries do not have memories and neither like a complete discharge/recharge cycle. The rule is 'a little and often' as far as charging is concerned.
Here is a link to an article which will explain further http ://batteryuniversity.com/learn/article/how_to_prolong_lithium_based_batteries
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They do NOT have memory effect like nickel-based batteries, but they CAN suffer from cell mismatches which require re-calibration (aka fully charging, discharging, and recharging).

mang0 said:
They do NOT have memory effect like nickel-based batteries, but they CAN suffer from cell mismatches which require re-calibration (aka fully charging, discharging, and recharging).
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exactly!

Basically just use your phone for about a week, then you can start fixing it

My experience and questions
Thanks for this excellent post! I got my new HTC One day before yesterday and like the Vincent's post says, the phone had about 40-50% of charge when it came in the box. I was very excited to see the phone that I totally forgot about recalibration of the battery
I used the phone out of the box, and I have charged from 2 nights (from about 15% to 100% charge) and haven't run the battery the battery down to 0% yet (when I say 0% what I mean is the level of charge when the phone automatically turns itself off to protect from complete discharge). My questions below:
1) What should I do now to accurately calibrate my battery life? When I called HTC customer service today they asked me to do battery reset (steps below).
- Untick the quick boot under settings -> power
- Turn off the phone
- Hold down the volume up, volume down and the power button continuously for 1 minute (the phone seem to boot up and shut down 3-4 times during this process)
- Run your battery all the way down to 0% and then charge it fully to 100%
This seems to be a fair procedure but since it was told by customer service, I'm a bit skeptical. So I would very much love to hear some opinion of battery gurus here
2) Does the 2 night charging that I did affect my battery capacity (has the dent been made already)?
Please let me know, and thanks in advance!
PS. The battery life in my experience in the past 2 days has been decent (I have about 20% from 7am - 9pm) and I'm a moderate-heavy user!

Battery issue :S

I have searched this but could only find one other person having this issue and no one really knew. But when I charge my htc one to 100% take charger out and then put it back in it shows 98% all of a sudden.
So I let it charge more and take it out and in again still does same thing. Done it repeatedly too. Anyone else having this issue ? Or a solution? It is like it thinks it's charged fully put it hasn't. And it's annoying. Thanks
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technostein said:
I have searched this but could only find one other person having this issue and no one really knew. But when I charge my htc one to 100% take charger out and then put it back in it shows 98% all of a sudden.
So I let it charge more and take it out and in again still does same thing. Done it repeatedly too. Anyone else having this issue ? Or a solution? It is like it thinks it's charged fully put it hasn't. And it's annoying. Thanks
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Try the battery calibration app from the playstore, that might fix the percentage drops.

this is normal behavior, my one does that too and gets perfect battery life. this happens because the phone charges to 80-90% very quickly then trickle charges (on and off) for the remainder of the capacity. this is to prolong the battery lifespan and is a healthy way to charge the phone. my iphone 5 did the same thing.

Wicked Stunts said:
this is normal behavior, my one does that too and gets perfect battery life. this happens because the phone charges to 80-90% very quickly then trickle charges (on and off) for the remainder of the capacity. this is to prolong the battery lifespan and is a healthy way to charge the phone. my iphone 5 did the same thing.
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I tried calibration didn't work :/ and oh good stuff. Just found it a little frustrating. Thanks guys
Ktan188 said:
Try the battery calibration app from the playstore, that might fix the percentage drops.
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