Guys, i think my xperia is broken
last night my battery was empty so no big deal i thought.
today i've connected it to the charger to charge and pressed the ON button.
when i pressed it, a red light under the ON button started burning.
i thought? wtf? mayby because it's emty or something.
but after more then 1 hour of charging it still doesn't do anything.. and now even the redlight doesn't show up!
does anyone know what to do?
renedis said:
Guys, i think my xperia is broken
last night my battery was empty so no big deal i thought.
today i've connected it to the charger to charge and pressed the ON button.
when i pressed it, a red light under the ON button started burning.
i thought? wtf? mayby because it's emty or something.
but after more then 1 hour of charging it still doesn't do anything.. and now even the redlight doesn't show up!
does anyone know what to do?
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Hello dear friend, I sympathise with you I had this exact same problem and was worried sick for a day and a half that it was dead! the red light under the power button is the battery fail light (as far as i can tell) it goes on for example when you plug the charger in and remove the battery. I've found if you run the battery down to absolute minimum it almost seems like the X1 cant detect the battery any more and displays the red light. I fixed mine by removing and replacing the battery a few times and plugging it into the wall charger for a few hours. keep trying and dont lose heart, like I say it took me a day and a half (with a sleepless night inbetween
Also mine, but after five minutes it's wake up.
Try simply to remove battery, or performe a soft reset via hardware button with the stylus.
Let you X1 charge for an hour or 2 and it will start up again, guess this is when the phone don't get a enough power to start up.
(Guess it can indicate some other error as well but probably just lack of juice in the battery .. )
thanks guys..
it is still not working but i know that the phone it self is OK.
i wend back to the store and they switched the battery from another xperia.
it worked fine
i'm so happy right now. it's charging at the moment, but still not going on, well, i have to wait and see then.
again: thanks for the posts guys
Mind you... it might take a while! I had it connected to a cheap usb charger for a night (which wasn't good enough obviously) and it took me the better part of a morning to get it to life again with the SE charger. I find it most irritating that this sort of thing isn' t mentioned in the manual. At least not where I could find it. Things like a phone that doesn't want to start make you sweat horribly.
I have this problem with mine but still no luck
Been dead for weeks now.... Finding it hard to get a copy of the receipt too bah
Only had it a month too..
It's prolly one cell in the battery that are "broken".
Had that on my X1. There are 3 cells in the battery and if one of them doesn't work as it should, the battery only delivers 3-3.1 volt.
Your phone "wakes up" at 3.335 volt but dies at 3.1. I've been measure it myself.
My phone are now back in business with a new battery, a new batterycover and latest software. No problem if you have guarantee...
PS... Try to avoid one thing. Avoid heat in battery. Lithium hates heat.
McGilljam said:
It's prolly one cell in the battery that are "broken".
Had that on my X1. There are 3 cells in the battery and if one of them doesn't work as it should, the battery only delivers 3-3.1 volt.
Your phone "wakes up" at 3.335 volt but dies at 3.1. I've been measure it myself.
My phone are now back in business with a new battery, a new batterycover and latest software. No problem if you have guarantee...
PS... Try to avoid one thing. Avoid heat in battery. Lithium hates heat.
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You are right, man.
Usually, if you discharge a battery till the very last drop, it can happen that:
A) one of the cell goes beyond its safety level, and it "breaks". That's unrecoverable, AFAIK.
B) the cells gets unbalanced, and you nedd several charge/discharge cycles to get them balanced and fully recovered.
Add to this that Usb charging is usually unable to wake up an almost totally drained battery. This won't happen with a normal charger, but Usb charging voltage is lower than normal (of course, it's usb not home plug!) so it has not enough power to wake up the dead battery. If you leave your device in charge for some minutes, it will eventually manage to wake the battery.
However, I noticed that the X1 has a bad power management. Usually my X1 low level battery threshold varies between 10% and 5%. One week ago, at 10% it just shut down and won't recharge, showing me the red light over power button. Removed battery 3/4 times and charged with home charger, it gets recovered. Try to plug the charger, remove the battery and insert it again, doing all this with the charger always plugged.
In my opinion, that's really annoying, I never know when it *really* has a low battery!
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B) the cells gets unbalanced, and you nedd several charge/discharge cycles to get them balanced and fully recovered.
yeah.. i had that with my P990i (symbian uiq3) phone the batter went in 1 day to 50% now it still has 80%
this same thing happend to me last night, i just pluged it to a wall charger & waited for an hour good thing when i pressed the power button it came back to life. was worried then and now its all good.
i had this on my xperia a while ago i think its just the battery is extremely dead.
after an hour of being plugged it in it turned on again
Red Power button Led
Glad to find this info, the red light gave me the chills at first too. My phone blacked out while using TomTom 7.4 on a stock unbranded NL Rom, after it had given me low batt. warnings. Now it's in the 'home plug' charger, sipping juice on the red light... I hope it comes out of it soon. Anyway, I was wondering if anybody has ideas on checking battery cell failure? Or battery diagnostics of some sort? It would be a shame to use a crippled battery just because you don't know it's operating below its max capacity. By the way, I'm not part of the lucky bunch in possession of a multi meter...
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As soon as I hit 'post' the notification Led's display charging! And the red light's off of course. Guess the first post brings some beginners luck, hehe. Anyway, thoughts regarding battery diagnostics etc are still welcome!
Encountered this and according to the helpdesk, it's cos the backup battery is empty so he advised me to charge the phone for half an hour without the battery, and then charge it with the battery after that. Didn't work. Called up the helpdesk again and he said for some, they've to charge (without the battery) for an hour. Ok, tried that. But still doesn't seem to be working. Gonna just leave it charging (with the battery) for a few more hours. If still can't guess I gotta bring it down to the service centre.
there is a backup battery in xperia???
leobox1 said:
there is a backup battery in xperia???
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Remove your battery, wait 3 minutes, insert again the battery. If you have lost date & time info, no, there is no backup battery, otherwise yes, there is.
Well, anyway, sent my X1 for servicing. Over at the service centre, they tried to 'boost my battery' but couldn't get it working. So had to leave it there for them to work on it.
Just had this same problem, cleaned the battery terminals and hey presto...it's all good again..
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Astoroth
Sent my X1 to the service centre with regards to this issue and they replaced the motherboard. They'd tried boosting the battery but no use.
Same problem.. this is what happened
ok, I came back from work an as usually i plug the charger in my xperia, the baterry left was like 30%, ok, then, I connect in the 3.5mm an autput for a big Radio so i can listen full music... so.. in a while, in my house there was a power down.. really fast one... like... 0.01secs... (like down and up really fast).. in that change my cellphone went down =S.. and sice today never get up ='(... there's just that red light in the power button each time I plug the charger on... any help?.. is the same problem of the topic? :S.. plzzz.. i dont have even a month with this pretty cellphone =( poor baby
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
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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.
I charged my X1 with wall adapter. But after 2 hrs, the phone is still charging.
See the battery meter it has reached 100%. Then wait another hrs, the phone is still charging. After almost 4 hrs, the illumation light is finally off.
Q: Is it ok? Does it happen to yours?
dosen't wake up
after the x1 charges to full battery, the device dosen't wake up on pressing the power button, this thing is new, almost few weeks, i don't understand, is a hardware problem or a rom problem... can anybody help me with this,
ps... the xperia illum lights dosen't turn off after charging, and charger disconnected they still blink
It's normal behaviour of the Xperia X1 to keep charging when the battery meter has reached 100 %. And it's also common for the charging process to take some time. I don't know exactly how long the process takes because I usually charge the battery during the night but charging an empty battery is certainly not accomplished in under an hour.
Your second problem could be a software issue. What rom is installed on your phone? Custom or stock? Have you tried a hardreset yet?
It happens to all X1. AFAIK, it's okay to disconnect the charger after X1 reach 100%, no need the blink to be stopped. The same thing is happened to my previous HTC too.
I don't know any Windows Mobile Phone that stops charging immediately when the battery meter has reached 100 %. One reason is that the meter only measures in 10 % steps. So when it reaches 100 % it might only be 96 %. To charge the battery completely you have to leave it connected until the leds stop indicating the charging process.
Okay guys, I got u people's meaning, yeah I remember that it was happened to my elder PDA too, O2 mini. Thank you people, to spend your time. Sorry bother you.
So i woke up this morning and i forgot to charge my HD2, i had just rooted it a few days ago running smoothly on Core Droid. but when i tried to charge it, it didnt . no light was showing. before i had this incident the battery would run out quickly. When i try to plug it in to the charger nothing happens, and a few times it would shwo the boot screen then suddently shut down and now that doesnt happen anymore. Do i have to get a new battery?
Running Android may mean that your phone might not shut down before the battery protection circuit activates, to prevent destruction of the cell.
Once this happens the standard charger may not be able to charge this battery, although I have read that removing the battery from the phone for a couple of hours and trying again might work - do some searching on xda.
If you have access to other micro-usb chargers then give them all a go, one might work - or you may have to replace the battery.
Also try removing the battery whist it plugged into the charger then leave it as advised above
johnerz said:
Also try removing the battery whist it plugged into the charger then leave it as advised above
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Good idea. After this you have to charge the phone for 100% before turning it on again (just leave it overnight)
Then turn it on, let it drain completely until it dies.
This way you have re-calibrated the battery and you might get better battery life.
Apart from that, you can try the one-in-a-million power saving tips.
Hi guys my Xperia Z1 was charged to 100% after some use normally went down to 93% next second i pulled the phone out of the pocket it was turned off tried to turn it on got it to vibrate once but nothing showed up on display tried once again few minutzes later it booted up but just went off on bootloader. I came hame and put it on charger phone turned on showing like 50% battery drained it to zero started charging to 100 on 60-70% on charging suddenly went up to 100%
i used phone for 2 days with random reboots and after switching it on showing different percent of battery remaining, today it wont work without charger after i disconect charger phone shuts down. Could anyone tell me if this is problem with battery or its faulty motherboard maybe? thanks
ps. i need fast answer because im about to buy a battery
Tried to boot phone into safe mode and see how it reacts? Also do you use Stamina mode or any other service that changes or reads system properties?
whats the point of booting in safe mode if battery percent is going crazy even when phone is charging wile its shutdown
admir101 said:
whats the point of booting in safe mode if battery percent is going crazy even when phone is charging wile its shutdown
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You have classic symptoms of a dying battery. Replace it and the problems will go away... If you did a search, you would find exactly the same symptoms described by others and the same solution. Your battery can't hold power due to a deterioration of cells.
optimumpro said:
You have classic symptoms of a dying battery. Replace it and the problems will go away... If you did a search, you would find exactly the same symptoms described by others and the same solution. Your battery can't hold power due to a deterioration of cells.
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