Stock charger issue? (spam disconnects/reconnects) - Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

I recently bought 2 new Nexus 6's and am having issues with the stock charger phone charging status disconnecting and reconnecting about every half second till I unplug it. The first thing I did was upgrade the phones to 7.1.1, other than that the phones are both stock, non-rooted, etc.
Things I've tried:
Stock devices: phone #1 with charger #1, phone #1 with charger #2, phone #2 with charger #2, phone #2 with charger #1. (Fail)
Various known working cables with stock charger and phone combinations. (Fail)
Different outlets. (Fail)
Different chargers. (Success) All of my other chargers are old school and do not have turbo charging capabilities.
I am wondering if maybe this is a software issue? Did one of the updates break turbo charger support? I didn't test the charger before upgrading to 7.1.1.
I am also wondering if maybe this is just how turbo chargers work? Maybe they turn on and off quickly (Pulse Width Modulation style) to keep the battery cooler or something?
I have also read of people who get notifications saying they're phone entered a turbo charging state. I see no such notifications. Not 100% sure if Nexus 6 usually shows a notification for that.
Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks for the read.
TLDR: Charger issue???!#[email protected]#$TERGAVADFG

Anyone? Even a response saying "yes this happens with mine" or "no this doesn't happen with mine"?
Could be "normal" for all I know.

I have never heard of this. Certainly doesn't happen I my phone. I would suspect the USB cable first.
It's been several years since I've run stock. I can't remember if the turbo information is shown anywhere but in the battery stats. On the pure nexus ROM, it's on the lock screen.

Oddly enough my phone did this very thing. Same as yours, brand new and stock charger. I actually had a few other chargers and they all worked normally albeit very slow.
One day I decided to give the stock charger a shot and wouldn't you know it would charge for two seconds then not charge for two seconds while plugged in. Your results may be different but if I left the phone on the charger after about 3 minutes the phone would start to charge normally. Might be worth a shot if you haven't already tried leaving it plugged in for any length of time.

@n0ts0smart, the time you tried the turbo charger and it stuttered then started working, was your phone battery mostly run down?

ktmom said:
@n0ts0smart, the time you tried the turbo charger and it stuttered then started working, was your phone battery mostly run down?
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I was wondering the same thing I think you are. This issue does seem to be related to turbo charging mode. Tested the battery issue when the phone was at 90% and it charged just fine.
This issue only seems to come up when "turbo charging".

Okay. I have tried 3 sets of 2 "new" phones (second set was reconditioned). So 6 phones, chargers, and cable combinations. Always seem to have the problem. It happens when the battery is "very low" I don't know at what percentage it starts happening. I strongly suspect "Turbo 2" charging mode. Stock rom updated as much as possible also tried Nitrogen os (android 7.1.2).
No matter what I try this problem persists. Yet I can't find a single mention of it online anywhere.

Decided I'd create a video to show it in action. Current rom is [ROM] ► [7.1.2] ► [shamu] ► Nitrogen OS N ► OMS (Substratum) ► (17.Aug.2017).
Here is the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n77Kn7zMM-g&feature=youtu.be

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[SOLVED] Phone Stops Charging Randomly. Solution?

I noticed this as of yesterday. My Nexus One is plugged in to the wall charger right now, but it randomly stops charging. The light at the top disappears and the phone shows that it is not charging. Give it a few seconds, and it starts charging again. Sometimes it will charge for 30 minutes without a problem, other times it starts and stops every few minutes. I've tried messing with the cable, but it doesn't affect whether or not it charges. I plan on switching batteries with my brother to see if that has a change. I'll also try a different cable soon. I've already rebooted the device, no change. If you go to the battery usage chart, it shows huge gaps in the green charging area..
Rooted, running geo411m stock rom, Android 2.3.3, stock kernel, stock HBOOT.
Any ideas? I hope the charging circuitry isn't failing. Took like 5 hours to charge, now the phone is at 95% battery.
I would try to wipe the battery stats from recovery see if that makes any difference then maybe try full wipe 1 to 5 times and maybe a clean install or even just change ROMs and check if it's the same.
alright I'll give those a try. I just don't know what could have caused it to happen. been on this rom for months, no change in setup. just randomly started. seems like a software issue to me (hopefully not hardware). even right now as I'm using it, it's plugged in but not charging.. 81%, no charge light.
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Your charger or cable are most likely the culprit. When the charger doesn't provide enough current - the phone stops charging, and sometimes chargers fail.
Jack_R1 said:
Your charger or cable are most likely the culprit. When the charger doesn't provide enough current - the phone stops charging, and sometimes chargers fail.
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I will also try that. I'll switch chargers with my brother tomorrow.
Jack_R1 said:
Your charger or cable are most likely the culprit. When the charger doesn't provide enough current - the phone stops charging, and sometimes chargers fail.
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It was the charger! My brother has an official HTC one he bought off eBay (looks like this), whereas I have the one that came with the N1. His charged my phone fine. My charger was still screwing up with his phone. I'm just going to buy the HTC one now. Thanks for you suggestion!
twolves14 said:
It was the charger! My brother has an official HTC one he bought off eBay (looks like this), whereas I have the one that came with the N1. His charged my phone fine. My charger was still screwing up with his phone. I'm just going to buy the HTC one now. Thanks for you suggestion!
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Call HTC, even if you're out of warranty. They have been exceptional in providing replacements for broken accessories. I had somehow cracked the lens in the battery door, and when I called to ask where I can buy a new back cover they simply asked for my address and told me I could expect one the next day. Worst thing that could happen is they say "no".
I was searching an answer but found myself. The issue is something happen to system because of unstable voltage then keeps turning off charging.
I've added agni control kernel and activated ignore unstable charging power and voila!
I know this is an old thread but can you tell me - if you can remember (!) - how did you acticate "ignore unstable charging power"? I have the AGNI kernel for my Xiaomi Redmi Note 5 but no idea where the settings are! I've heard of an app but where it is I don't know.
fatihkurnaz said:
I was searching an answer but found myself. The issue is something happen to system because of unstable voltage then keeps turning off charging.
I've added agni control kernel and activated ignore unstable charging power and voila!
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How did you activate that feature? Where are the kernel settings?

[Q] Plugging in charger has no/almost no effect on current flowing through battery

I'm having a problem charging my _new_ Nexus One. In two words - doesn't charge. Tried two batteries and two wall chargers + USB; same result - it charges VERY slowly when the phone is off - like, 1% per hour, and not-fast-enough-to-stay-alive when the phone is on.
So I've been googling for quite a while today, read several dozen threads and it seems that the issue is rather popular. However, there are a few problems:
a) No solution was advised
b) The ones advised didn't work
I've read that I'd better measure the current that's going through my battery and if it's too small, then I have a problem. I've installed an app - Battery Monitor Widget it's called, I think, and saw what's happening. I didn't know what they meant by "small" current, but my case was easy: the current is NEGATIVE even when "charging". In fact, the app doesn't see the difference between an unplugged current and plugged current. This isn't the problem with the app - reversing mA only helps with the app, but all other applications also show that the batter is draining. Note that the LED is ON, that is, the device does detect that the charger is plugged in, it even heats up like usually (I've had nexus one before).
So I thought that was a software problem with 2.3.6 kernel, so I've sacrificed my warranty (the seller p***ed me off - even if the phone turns out to be defective, I'm not bothering to send it back). I've installed Cyanogenmod 7.1 - kernel 2.3.7, but the problem persists.
So I really have no idea what may be causing this or what the fix might be.
Any ideas?

Sometimes won't charge if plugged in

I've had my N6 for about two weeks now, and lately I've noticed it doesnt charge once I plug it in, I'll go to sleep and a few hours later its still at the same percentage, I check the battery stats page and it shows "Not Charging" I unplug it for a few seconds and the Charging icon sticks as like the phone thinks its still "charging". Another issue I've noticed just now today, it says itll take 4 hours to charge from 56%! Only way for me to fix these issues it is to restart the phone and itll work, mind you this issue only happens sometimes. Although I will say I plugged my LG G2 into the Turbo Charger, so IDK if that affects the charger in any way?
Does anyone else experience this? If this is something no one has I'm planning to swap the device out for another one.
Running SinLess ROM v1.0.3
what charger are you using for your n6? and where are you plugging into? wall or usb?
simms22 said:
what charger are you using for your n6? and where are you plugging into? wall or usb?
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Sorry forgot to mention, I do use the Turbo Charger provided with the phone
XERO_Racer said:
Sorry forgot to mention, I do use the Turbo Charger provided with the phone
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This may seem obvious but try a different cable. I had a cable that, when plugged in, my phone would say is charging but doesn't actually charge.
I've had my nexus 6 for a couple weeks now and the first time this happened I was using a wireless charge so I thought I didn't have it placed on the mat right. But it happened again last night whilst plugged into an AC charger. The AC charger is an LG charger from a previous Nexus. When I look at the battery graph it just flat lines for the whole time it was plugged in.
fictionoid said:
This may seem obvious but try a different cable. I had a cable that, when plugged in, my phone would say is charging but doesn't actually charge.
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My turbo charger is doing the same thing the OP said. We have 2 6's and it also happened to my wife's the other day too. I thought it might have initially been a cable too so I changed that out and it happened to the second charging cable last night as well.
Just experienced this
I use the turbo charger also and just experienced this. I was at 25 % after playing injustice (which just murders this battery) and plugged in the USB and I looked back 5 minutes later at I was at 22 %. So I killed Injustice and waited about 5 minutes more and I was at 19%. I had to reboot to get charging and after 5 minutes of charging I was at 29% so it is weird stuff.
I've been noticing this as well, but my charger is an aftermarket charger by Tenergy (Amazon link), and I'm using an aftermarket cable. Missed my alarm this morning because the phone must have not actually been charging, even though the N6 always shows that it is charging. I haven't tested it thoroughly with the stock charger as I keep that next to my workstation, but it seems that others are having this issue even with the included charger. Frustrating, to say the least.
Same thing with my N6 on 5.1. I would say that 20% of the time i plug in it shows charging but doesn't charge, just maintains the battery at whatever percentage it was when i plugged it in.
I don't have to restart but rather just unplug and re plug in the charger, then monitor for a couple of minutes to make sure the battery is going up and if so it will charge normally.
I also have tried a few different chargers including the quick charger that came with the phone. same result.
the same. here
I have the same issue while charging n6 with Motorola terboxharger ... But it takes 3 h while charging with any other chargers .....any updates !!!
meto882006 said:
I have the same issue while charging n6 with Motorola terboxharger ... But it takes 3 h while charging with any other chargers .....any updates !!!
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Wow, same here.... only just started to notice it. Using turbo charger as well...however upon using a normal charger, it seems to always charge. it it something with the turbo charger?
Yea it seems to be turbo charger problem , but how come I bought it just one month ago !!
I started noticing the same issue recently. I'd say it started after upgrading to 5.1. I'm using the stock turbo charger. I found a workaround that, so far, fixes it for me (3 nights in a row at least).
After plugging in the phone, I notice the battery icon shows it is charging. If I actually go into the battery settings though, it says it is NOT charging. If I unplug the charging cable and plug it back in while still in the battery settings page (you know, with the usage graph), then it starts charging just fine up until I get a full charge. As long as I do this each time, I seem to get a full charge. Annoying, yes. But not as annoying as waking up to à phone that never charged.
Sometimes it won't charge when it's not plugged in either
For my N6 to charge, I need to push the TC USB cable a little downwards for my phone to charge. Sometimes, it doesn't even charge at all. I'm considering to RMA this, if I can do it here in Norway.
my nexus 6 has different behaviours, if I charge it when it is turned on sometimes it stops the charging and I need to disconnect and reconnect the cable and charging starts again, so i need to be careful because i can't be sure that my phone will charge completely if i leave it alone. if I charge it when it is turned off sometimes it starts to restart continuously showing battery in the screen again and again, without charging. hopefully this happens sometimes, i dont really like this bug, i spent so much money for buying it and i dont want to control if my phone is charging or not when I plugged it, i just want to put in charging and coming bac when it is flly charged.
RMA it
I hope the first thing anybody does is check the charging port and make sure there's nothing in there. Take a strong, sharp toothpick and carefully dig anything out that shouldn't be there. Pocket fuzz etc...
I am having this same issue, my phone is brand new yesterday, running 5.0, I have these exact issues, seems to be only with the turbo charger because I use a slow charger for overnight next to my bed and the battery was full. But I can't seem to make the percentage actually go up with the turbo charger without restarting the phone first.
Any more info on this very annoying bug??
can't seem to figure it out
i have the same issue - my N6 is a couple of months old and it started on an overnight (not) charge. Now it's happening 1 in 2 charges so it's getting worse. I cleaned the connection, tried different cables, USB chargers and plugging into the laptop - no dice. It's going back to Google - annoying...

Battery Issues ( red blinking notification light)/ Take a look

I really do not know where to begin or even explain the issue I am currently facing. I do know that it is extremely irritating and completely destroys any faith I have in future OnePlus products. I have been with Android since the beginning and never had I have an issue with any phone. Here's the issue: currently I am using stock 4.1.6 rom, but earlier (as in the last 5 hours) I was using the latest update (OB11). At first I figured the issue was related to the latest firmware, so I switched between roms then quickly realized it couldn't be a rom, so I continued to try different firmwares: OB8, OB9, OB10, OB4.1.6, and OB11. The issue I am having is very hard to detail unless you are actually looking at the phone itself, but I keep getting a blinking red notification light when the phone is plugged into the stock power supply unit (aka - receptable dash charging block). I have tried using a car charger with the same results, but less frequent. I believe the issue may actually be the block itself. However, I have tried plugging up directly to a laptop and still get weird results. The phone will connect to the laptop, but will not charge or sometimes you'll see the lighting bolt, but the phone itself will not go into a charging mood. Now i have read that the batteries supplied with the phone are somewhat crappy. Im asking to see if anyone out there has had issues when trying to charge their phone. I have also noticed that the phone no longer says fast charging or dash charging. I honestly can not remember what it says. It doesn't seem to charge quick at all. It makes no sense to me. I'm pretty sure it's not a software issue as I have literally tried every current rom available.
Could it be damage to the USB connector on the phone? Sounds as if the data + and/or - cable doesn't connect which makes it impossible for the phone to check wither the charger is a dash charger or not causing the red blinking, I dunno but maybe. I suppose you've tried also with another cable as you did try another charger.
It was the charging block. My dog had pissed on the damn charger, which shorted out the circuitry. Right now I'm using an iPhone charging block with original USB-C cord. There is no dash charging, but I don't have any other issues with blinking red light.
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Slow Charging - Max Charging Amps?

So I recently picked up a T813 to replaced my Nexus 7 (2013), I've had a few weeks now, and as with all my devices I slow charge it. This tablet generally took ~30 hours or so to charge at 0.35-0.45 amps, but I didn't think anything of it. This week I went on a trip and plugged it into a charger that can output anywhere from 0.8 to 1.8 amps depending on the port you are using (all the current ratings I'm listing are what I've measured, not what the devices are rated). My tablet said "Charging" at first, but then once it hit 75% all it would say is "Charging Slowly" no matter what. Now that's all it will say. Sometimes after a restart it will say "Charging" briefly, but then it goes back to "Charging slowly". The charger I was trying to use was an Anker product, so not a complete "no-name" charger.
I did some more checking and it appears my tablet has an upper charge limit of 1.5 amps using even the factory charger which is rated 2.0 amps. That same factory charger plugged into my Nexus 5X outputs 1.88 amps. Anything less than 1.5 amps, my tablet behaves as the rest of the devices. If I plug the tablet into a power source that current is limited to 0.5 amp, using the same cable, using an Honor 5X, and the Tab S2, both draw the ~0.5 amp.
Now the "Charging" and "Charging Slowly" messages were on Lineage, however since I have returned home, I and done all the subsequent testing, I have used Odin to return completely back to the factory Samsung software. Right now I have some videos playing to run the battery down, and am planning to trying to charge the battery all the way up using the factory charger to see how long it takes. If it also takes 30 hours, I'm going to assume it has to be a hardware problem?
Anyone else have any ideas?
My T813 arrived with Nougat on it. The only Odin firmware I could find that would successfully flash was a Marshmallow so I let videos play overnight (which did actually play overnight surprisingly!) to fully drain the battery. This morning I started charging the battery with the OEM charger, and from fully dead to 100% it took roughly 4.5 hours. So I would say this is normal from what I've read. I would say this rules out any hardware issue.
My next test will be to find a flashable Nougat OEM image as it doesn't want to update itself. Then see how it performs then. I'm starting to wonder if Samsung changed something in the firmware to make it charge slower on purpose just to prevent any "Note" like issues from happening? Finally then I'll have to also go back to Lineage, as I don't plan on using it at all with the stock software, as it's quite unbearable. There's a reason I only buy devices that Lineage is available for.
So after updating to Nougat, and letting it update, then fully draining the battery again, which again took overnight, it seems to charge even faster. This time from 0-100% taking just under 4 hours using the OEM charger, at roughly 3 hours 45 minutes.
I'll put Lineage back on it tonight, however this definitely calms my concern that I had a hardware issue. It's definitely fine. I'll see what kind of charge time I get with Lineage.
It charges with ~1600mah
I've had slow charging issue twice. I sent it in the first time and Samsung sent me a slow charger (not fast charger) to use. Worked fine for about 10 months. Once I update to Nougat, my charging became slow again.
Seems like many people have slow charging issues with this tablet. I have the Verizon tab s2 9.7
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It charges with ~1600mah
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Yeah this is what I've noticed. This seems to be about the upper boundary. Despite being shipped with a 2 amp charger. I did reinstall Linage, and it charges fine with the OEM charger, so it's not a bug on their end, or a hardware problem for me. With LOS and the OEM charge it's still ~4 hours to charge with is what I would expect roughly based on my other tests, even though LOS still reports charging slowly.
I think my problem early with the 30+ hours of charge time was related to the hub I was charging with. I have been having issues where I would wake up and my phone wouldn't be charged at all. Most nights it would though, so I figured my cable was starting to go bad. Swapped the cable and same issue. Measured the current on the ports, and it was far below what it should be on a USB port, the charge ports were getting 0.18-0.2 amps, the regular ports were 0.2-0.3 amps (not sure why the regular ports were getting more). Then I noticed the power adapter was not plugged in all the way into the wall. After plugging it in all the way the current on those ports returned to normal. This honestly doesn't make any sense to me, so it maybe time to replace that hub. Either way, I know the problem is not the tablet, which calms my fears about it, since it was the new piece of hardware.

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