I have this strange problem that just cropped up. After a full recharge the other day the battery showed normal draining. When I tried to recharge it wouldn't; neither from the wall charger or usb by computer. So the battery showed steady drain unless charging, but never got more charge. Finally when turning on the phone on battery alone it shows 1% charge, and there's nothing I can do about it, the phone will turn itself off.
Diagnostics: I measured the battery voltage and it is ~4.2 volts. This seems like a full battery yet the phone doesn't see it.
I measured the voltage at the battery terminals in the phone while hooked up to charger which was ~4.2 volts. So it seems the battery is being charged.
Why is the phone not seeing the battery charge? Is the battery dead even though it measures 4.2v?
I did run the gps before this happened using gps tool, bit I think I turned it all off. Anyway more than one soft reset didn't help.
Thanks,
Ed
ATT Tilt 8925 running gthing Blackwood rom with Vista BatteryHide. Original ATT radio.
No real answer here but perhaps something to try:
I am dealing with another member who has a similar problem.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=377675&page=2 From post 17 onward.
With battery in, the orange charge light comes on and all seems normal. However with a few seconds of turning on the message that the main battery is critcally low comes up and the phone turns off. He has tried another battery with the same result. This happens even with the charger connected.
(EDIT: I have now read that his has - for no obvious reason started to work ok - Now even more convinced it's a charging circuit lock-up issue - given time and possibly a bit of battery fiddling and it comes good in the end - see No 2 below)
Now I'm wondering whether this could be one of two things:
1.
A hardware fault - possibly in the charging circuit or more crudely one of the battery circuit board connectors is not connecting.
OR
2.
The circuit that controls charging has to put it crudely become "stuck" in a similar fashion to those who get the RLOD red LED showing when they connect the charger. A commonly accepted trick for overcoming the RLOD is to connect the charger and wriggle the battery on and off the four contact pins. This presumably has the effect of forcing the charging circuit to re-set itself. I just wonder whether it might have the same effect in your situation.
Mike
hey.. that would be me with the similar issue.
i just tried a couple more things.. check out the thread.
More info.
Battery in and out holding the power button had no effect. Phone runs fine while plugged in. Plug it in and after 5 seconds the amber LED turns to red. While plugged in the red led will flash amber every so often.
I measured the battery voltage as I turned the phone on, it dropped to ~ 3.98v, then came back to 4.1v as the phone turned itself off. It gets all the way to my Today screen before going off. Just sitting in the phone with it off is 4.1v. Hook up the charger and the battery sees 4.18 and rising after 20 seconds. These are direct measurements at the battery terminals while in the phone.
So this looks like a software issue to me. The phone is charging the battery and there is plenty of power to run the phone, the phone somehow doesn't see it that way. It sees a dead battery. Well, I guess it could be a voltage sensor gone bad , somewhere somehow. Next step is to hard reset and see if it makes any difference.
edit: While plugged in and the screen on, the led stays amber. When the screen goes off(set for 2 minutes) the led turns red. Screen back on, led amber. I just set the screen not to go off while plugged in(charging), we'll see. The power is showing 7% now and says charging, too early to tell if it's rising or not.
edit 2: It stayed on the charger for several hours and never moved past 7%. Tried a hard reset with no luck. Next step is to send it to a repair shop(I bought it used) and hopefully spend only the $95-$125 they quoted.
Will keep you apprised.
Ed
elknimrod said:
I have this strange problem that just cropped up. After a full recharge the other day the battery showed normal draining. When I tried to recharge it wouldn't; neither from the wall charger or usb by computer. So the battery showed steady drain unless charging, but never got more charge. Finally when turning on the phone on battery alone it shows 1% charge, and there's nothing I can do about it, the phone will turn itself off.
Diagnostics: I measured the battery voltage and it is ~4.2 volts. This seems like a full battery yet the phone doesn't see it.
I measured the voltage at the battery terminals in the phone while hooked up to charger which was ~4.2 volts. So it seems the battery is being charged.
Why is the phone not seeing the battery charge? Is the battery dead even though it measures 4.2v?
I did run the gps before this happened using gps tool, bit I think I turned it all off. Anyway more than one soft reset didn't help.
Thanks,
Ed
ATT Tilt 8925 running gthing Blackwood rom with Vista BatteryHide. Original ATT radio.
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Att Tilt Power/Battery Issues.
I am having somewhat similar issues with my Tilt, with the power/battery problems as described previously. I woke up this morning, and attempted to turn my phone on, and it wouldnt come on at all. I then plugged it into the ac adapter, and the LED comes on, and goes green. I waited a few moments, then powered the phone on to take a look at the battery life, and the phone boots up, then reboots during the splash screen. After it reboots itself, I check the battery indicator and it shows 1%. If I exit the battery screen, and re-enter it, it will say 100%. Now, as soon as I remove the charger from the system, it automatically powers down. I played with it for about 15 minutes, but needed to head to work, so I took the phone with me, and attempted to use my car charger. Same problem. Now, I figured, fine, I'll see how it behaves while I am at work, so I brought my charger to work, and have it plugged in at my desk, and if I leave it plugged in and on, it stays on for about 5 minutes, then automatically reboots. LED stays green, but phone will not stay on, if unplugged, or plugged in for longer than 5 minutes. I have never dropped it, and have babied the phone like no other, concidering I paid $400 for it. I'm a little bummed out, but cant determine if its a battery or hardware problem. Any advice/input for me from any of you guys? before I head to the ATT store, and cry for a new phone? Thanks a bunch for any responses to this.
*UPDATE* After I got off work, I went into my local ATT store, explained the situation, and was given a brand new replacement phone in like 10 minutes. I was under 30 days owning it, so he just swapped it out, barley any questions asked. (altho i explained my situation in detail as it was). So.... hopefully it doesnt happen again, or else I'll have to use the warranty. Anyways, Any insight on what may cause this would always be helpful for both myself and the community. =)
new news
EDIT: They got it Monday and I got it back Friday. Good turnaround! They fixed the problem, it works perfectly now. I recommend these people.
Ed
Sent it off to Cell Phone Repair(CPR) in Chicago that gave me an estimate of $95 (inc. ship. back) based on my description. They just called and told me it was corrosion around and in the power/usb port. They got it yesterday and will send it back repaired tomorrow with a 90 day warranty. No more saunas for this phone(it was only one! )
I'll let you know if they work out well or not.
Ed
elknimrod said:
I have this strange problem that just cropped up. After a full recharge the other day the battery showed normal draining. When I tried to recharge it wouldn't; neither from the wall charger or usb by computer. So the battery showed steady drain unless charging, but never got more charge. Finally when turning on the phone on battery alone it shows 1% charge, and there's nothing I can do about it, the phone will turn itself off.
Diagnostics: I measured the battery voltage and it is ~4.2 volts. This seems like a full battery yet the phone doesn't see it.
I measured the voltage at the battery terminals in the phone while hooked up to charger which was ~4.2 volts. So it seems the battery is being charged.
Why is the phone not seeing the battery charge? Is the battery dead even though it measures 4.2v?
I did run the gps before this happened using gps tool, bit I think I turned it all off. Anyway more than one soft reset didn't help.
Thanks,
Ed
ATT Tilt 8925 running gthing Blackwood rom with Vista BatteryHide. Original ATT radio.
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This isn't really a question, so much as just something that happened to me over the weekend. Take it for what it's worth I guess.
When I purchased my Edge, I also picked up a Verizon branded wireless charger, and Fast Car Charger, with some other stuff. The car charger didn't look exactly "new" when I opened it up, and sure enough only worked for about a week. Since I'm a half hour in the wrong directions to a corporate store, I just reverted back to my old normal car charger in the meantime. Everything else worked as expected, though the phone would get a little warmer if I was tethering and on the wireless charger. But nothing I would call unexpected.
Saturday, I managed to go past a corp store, and went in and had the charger exchanged. This one was definitely new, and a coiled one instead of a straight wire. Whatever, I prefer that anyway. Plugged it in, red light, good. Got home, and was on skype and saw my battery getting down to the 30%ish area, so I reached for my trusty Samsung charger and plugged it in. And whereas the Fast Charging would show up in the dropdown, this time it didn't. Just Charging, and 4 hours to full. Um... weird. I cranked the brightness down and turned on powersaving, and it still was dropping very steadily, which never happened before. I tried another cable, same result. "Normal" charging, but not able to keep up if the phone was actually in use. Tried another wall adapter, with combinations of either cable, same. Wireless WOULD keep up, barely, and the phone would get ridiculously hot after a few minutes. Plugged that new car charger in, red light charging, no Fast Charge though.
Tried a soft reboot, tried turning it off and let it charge all the way, nothing. So when I resigned myself to needing to try a factory reset on it, I plugged it into the computer to try to save off pictures. No go, computer won't recognize the phone, in any of the half dozen USB ports, and no matter what cable. The phone doesn't recognize a connection there either for transfer, no notification, just a trickle charge.
Ultimately, called into tech support, 56 minutes of basically rehashing everything I had done to ensure that I didn't miss any steps. I understand the need to go through the checklist but man, at the end of the list, don't try fishing online for other "options". I could tell, too, because they were reading word for word the same sites I had just spent an hour looking through. "Let's see... phone will charge faster with the phone powered off"... Really, Sherlock? Doesn't change the fact that it's not behaving normally. So they ordered up for a replacement device, which I'm awaiting confirmation of. And I have a feeling my lunch break will be calling back to verify, because this was at 8 O'clock last night, and here it is 2:30 in the afternoon and I have yet to get any information on the replacement. (EDIT: Sure enough 3 minutes after hitting post, I get the txt with the tracking number. Go figure.)
I'll also be sending the car charger to a friend of mine who works the corp store I got the phone at, sometime, so he can plug it into THEIR phones and test it. If it is in fact a problem with that charger that fried something in mine, I'm not about to plug it into another one of mine first. I've been very lucky with phones over the years, but it never changes the frustration when it DOES happen.
Same
I had a similar issue with my S6 Edge this past weekend. I tredi charging it with 2 different fast chargers and three other cables. It said charging and I would walk out of the room and within minutes, it was no longer charging.
My wife's edge charged just fine.
I called VZ and we walked through all the typical stuff. Finally, we did a "wipe cache" option on the boot screen (Hold Power and Home button Reset)
It worked.
Rep said there must have been some corrupted file that was screwing me up. I had just downloaded a game about an hour earlier from the app store. I deleted that for good measure. (though in fairness, no idea if that is what caused it-- but seems logical given that is the only change made since last charge)
Hmm odd. Usually charging issues are hardware related and I don't believe I've heard of a software action fixing it. Good for you though.
Very strange, I had the very same issue last night and today. Since I ordered mine online it was a bigger hassle especially considering the gold platinum variant is out of stock everywhere. they're sending me a new one and then I'll return this one does this week.
Wow I thought I was the only one with this issue. I also picked up a Verizon branded fast charger and now I can't even charge my phone with it since it'd just slow charge and whereas with the original charger would tell me normal charging but give me a time estimate of 2 hours from 70 percent.
Yeah, the replacement phone works fine, including with the fast car charger. Now it's been just shy of one month since getting the replacement phone, and I had the original about a month, so guess we'll see if it lasts, but I'm pretty confident it was a rare phone issue instead, and keeping my fingers crossed that this one continues going fine.
CharlzO_2000 said:
This isn't really a question, so much as just something that happened to me over the weekend. Take it for what it's worth I guess.
When I purchased my Edge, I also picked up a Verizon branded wireless charger, and Fast Car Charger, with some other stuff. The car charger didn't look exactly "new" when I opened it up, and sure enough only worked for about a week. Since I'm a half hour in the wrong directions to a corporate store, I just reverted back to my old normal car charger in the meantime. Everything else worked as expected, though the phone would get a little warmer if I was tethering and on the wireless charger. But nothing I would call unexpected.
Saturday, I managed to go past a corp store, and went in and had the charger exchanged. This one was definitely new, and a coiled one instead of a straight wire. Whatever, I prefer that anyway. Plugged it in, red light, good. Got home, and was on skype and saw my battery getting down to the 30%ish area, so I reached for my trusty Samsung charger and plugged it in. And whereas the Fast Charging would show up in the dropdown, this time it didn't. Just Charging, and 4 hours to full. Um... weird. I cranked the brightness down and turned on powersaving, and it still was dropping very steadily, which never happened before. I tried another cable, same result. "Normal" charging, but not able to keep up if the phone was actually in use. Tried another wall adapter, with combinations of either cable, same. Wireless WOULD keep up, barely, and the phone would get ridiculously hot after a few minutes. Plugged that new car charger in, red light charging, no Fast Charge though.
Tried a soft reboot, tried turning it off and let it charge all the way, nothing. So when I resigned myself to needing to try a factory reset on it, I plugged it into the computer to try to save off pictures. No go, computer won't recognize the phone, in any of the half dozen USB ports, and no matter what cable. The phone doesn't recognize a connection there either for transfer, no notification, just a trickle charge.
Ultimately, called into tech support, 56 minutes of basically rehashing everything I had done to ensure that I didn't miss any steps. I understand the need to go through the checklist but man, at the end of the list, don't try fishing online for other "options". I could tell, too, because they were reading word for word the same sites I had just spent an hour looking through. "Let's see... phone will charge faster with the phone powered off"... Really, Sherlock? Doesn't change the fact that it's not behaving normally. So they ordered up for a replacement device, which I'm awaiting confirmation of. And I have a feeling my lunch break will be calling back to verify, because this was at 8 O'clock last night, and here it is 2:30 in the afternoon and I have yet to get any information on the replacement. (EDIT: Sure enough 3 minutes after hitting post, I get the txt with the tracking number. Go figure.)
I'll also be sending the car charger to a friend of mine who works the corp store I got the phone at, sometime, so he can plug it into THEIR phones and test it. If it is in fact a problem with that charger that fried something in mine, I'm not about to plug it into another one of mine first. I've been very lucky with phones over the years, but it never changes the frustration when it DOES happen.
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I've sent my phone to Samsung and they fixed the problem changing the charging port, the battery and the fast charger.
Original Problem:
POWER - CHARGING ISSUES - PHONE BEEPS W/O BEING CONNECTED
Problem found:
IF/CHARGING PORT - FWT - INTERNAL BATTERY FAILURE - SIDE KEY FAILURE
Solution:
REPLACED COMPONENT
If you have any additional questions, please call us at 1-800-SAMSUNG
We bought it used but in good condition from eBay. It was well-taken care of. We only charged it a few times in the past month since we got it. The first time, we got a low battery warning, left it plugged in all night, and the next morning it was at 100%.
(Note: we do *not* have the official charger from Amazon)
The next time the battery got so low that it shut off. We charged it all night again, but it wouldn't get past 50% or so, regardless of how long we leave it plugged in.
Would a different charger help or is it one of these infamous battery/charging problems that I'm reading about?
Edit: I found another charger that puts out 2 amps and it charges it, but slowly.
Hello everyone I need some help figuring out what wrong. 3 weeks ago my wife dropped her nexus 6 and broke the power contact on ribbon cable. I ordered one online and it worked great until the phone started turning itself off show 50% or more battery. I would charge it to 100% and at below 85% life it would shut off. I tried the battery bin file deletion but it did not work so I ordered a new battery and a midframe because the original was dented. I installed the Midframe and battery yesterday and now it does not power on or show a screen when charger is plugged in. I can put it on the wireless charger and the charger light shows charger light shows it working. I did try to reinstall the old midframe and Battery and I still have the same issue. I don't know what I did wrong. If anyone has had a issue like thing please steer in the the right direction.
johnnylachingga said:
Hello everyone I need some help figuring out what wrong. 3 weeks ago my wife dropped her nexus 6 and broke the power contact on ribbon cable. I ordered one online and it worked great until the phone started turning itself off show 50% or more battery. I would charge it to 100% and at below 85% life it would shut off. I tried the battery bin file deletion but it did not work so I ordered a new battery and a midframe because the original was dented. I installed the Midframe and battery yesterday and now it does not power on or show a screen when charger is plugged in. I can put it on the wireless charger and the charger light shows charger light shows it working. I did try to reinstall the old midframe and Battery and I still have the same issue. I don't know what I did wrong. If anyone has had a issue like thing please steer in the the right direction.
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may be your phone connector breaked
MiroALG said:
may be your phone connector breaked
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I bought everything new and still nothing. All ribbon cables are new and so is the battery. When I connect the phone to the charger nothing happens even tried the wireless charger the base shows it's charging it but it will not power on or show its charging.
mine too , i drop my phone few time
and now at 90% it will shutoff
i alway charge it to keep phone work
I recently upgraded to the Note 20 Ultra 5G after about three years of the Note 8. After transferring everything to the new phone, the Note 8 would not turn on. Despite all the suggestions online about, the power button, Bixby button, volume down buttons, etc. the phone was dead. I took it to a local place that repairs phones and they replaced the battery and it turned on with no problem. I was using this phone for navigation while traveling and kept the battery charged. However, when I got home and didn't charge it for about a few days, it is doing the same thing where I cannot power it on. Plugging it into the charger does nothing. When I put it on a wireless charger, the light on the charger comes on for a bit and then fades out and so on but the phone does not show charging. I did find that even after the battery was replaced, the phone would lose a charge very fast even when the phone was off and I plugged it back in a day later (down 40% or more while it was off).
Any ideas what is going on? I don't want to have to replace the battery each time ($80 or so). The phone is still good as far as operating, just the battery and now not turning on is the problem now.
Check ribbon cables and contacts.
Replace port pcb (they're cheap) with the correct one. There may be more than one variant... if you use the wrong one it will charge but with no phone or internet service.
If all that fails it's likely a mobo failure.