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Instant Battery Charge Glitch

I plugged in my phone for 20 seconds and I went to check for email notifications and to my amazement it's fully charged.
This is now another possibility in battery issues. I know I'm using a faulty device (that's why I ordered a RMA) but this is kinda odd so I thought I'd share it with you guys.
Let's hope this instant charge sticks lol. I went from 7% to 100% in 20 seconds.
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Had that also one or two times. If you leave it plugged in it goes back to the correct percentage after some minutes.
Likewise a minor software glitch that will get fixed soon, nothing to worry.
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Your phone is just that awesome... I wish my phone was that cool
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Good for example you need to go somewhere and you forget to charge it. Just plug it in for 20 sec and bam it's fully charged and problem solved.
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This happens when you plug in the phone and the wall charger has no voltage, e.g. because you use a switch that is off. If you switch it on, the glitch occurs and the phone is instantly charged. Of course that's not really the case, though. Rebooting solves this most of the time.
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The Galaxy Nexus had none of these issues. I just hope that Google fixes this soon.

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wilsonlam97 said:
The Galaxy Nexus had none of these issues. I just hope that Google fixes this soon.
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this is a non-issue as it is charging fine when left. no disadvantages except when you really believe it is fully charged in a second.
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my phones done this 2 times.

abufaka said:
this is a non-issue as it is charging fine when left. no disadvantages except when you really believe it is fully charged in a second.
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Nope. It doesn't let me continue to charge until I restart the phone (for me at least).

My phone did this last night. I noticed it right away, so I just unplugged the cable and plugged it back in and bam it went back to charging its merry little heart out

wilsonlam97 said:
I plugged in my phone for 20 seconds and I went to check for email notifications and to my amazement it's fully charged.
This is now another possibility in battery issues. I know I'm using a faulty device (that's why I ordered a RMA) but this is kinda odd so I thought I'd share it with you guys.
Let's hope this instant charge sticks lol. I went from 7% to 100% in 20 seconds.
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I am also experiencing this issue with a Nexus 4 (few weeks old) running Andriod 4.2.2.
Anyone know if this issue is fixed in upcoming release?

Just happened on my Nexus with Nokia 1.2mAh charger and latest CM10.1 nightly, reboot solved it though

düdldihüü said:
This happens when you plug in the phone and the wall charger has no voltage, e.g. because you use a switch that is off. If you switch it on, the glitch occurs and the phone is instantly charged. Of course that's not really the case, though. Rebooting solves this most of the time.
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I think this is correct. I've had this happen 3 times in 6 months and it's only happened when I plug the phone into the charger right after plugging the charger into the wall.
I've since tried to leave the charger plugged in about 10-20 seconds before attaching the phone and it hasn't happened since (~3 months)

FormerSlacker said:
I think this is correct. I've had this happen 3 times in 6 months and it's only happened when I plug the phone into the charger right after plugging the charger into the wall.
I've since tried to leave the charger plugged in about 10-20 seconds before attaching the phone and it hasn't happened since (~3 months)
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Thanks, will try this approach.

i hope someday "20sec charging" will be a feature for every smartphone

Happened to me one night but when i unplugged my phone in the morning, it went down to 40% :/ so evidently it didnt continue charging after glitching. Battery usage pane confirmed this.
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I usually charge my phone during nights.. Sometimes on the morning my battery is down to 80%, it stopped charging at 100% and I assume didn't charge any longer and the phone was draining the battery, has anyone else the same problem?
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Same thing happened again this morning, so annoying
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Blocoholi said:
Same thing happened again this morning, so annoying
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For me 80% only in standby is too much. I always get Fully charged when I charge it at night.

pip0 said:
For me 80% only in standby is too much. I always get Fully charged when I charge it at night.
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Well the thing is I didn't unplug the phone from the charger..
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Galaxy Note won't turn on. Weird behaiviour.

Hi,
I have a Galaxy Note GT-N7000. It was working properly until some day it did not turned on.
When the phone is unplugged form the USB port the phone does nothing, no power, no Download mode, nothing. Even thou I fully charged the battery with an external battery charger... You press power button and nothing shows.
When I plug the USB charger the one sign of life I get is the battery charging icon (image attached)... which shows and then goes blank every 10 seconds. That's all I can get from the phone...
I checked other posts and they say it might be a broken USB port, So i disassembled the phone and removed the USB port flex to check if it might be short circuiting the board; but no luck. When I remove the USB port the phone does nothing.
Any ideas? Could it be the phone has a broken USB port and that the phone can't power without usb port?

I think that you have a full brick. Did you flashed a FW before?
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BVB-Fan said:
I think that you have a full brick. Did you flashed a FW before?
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Nope. No flash.
Do you think its a software issue or a hardware one?
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I cant say it to 100% beacuse I am not an expert but it looks like a software defekt, and you wrote that you loaded your battery at an external station so your phone must reboot (cause your battery is full) but it doesnt. I think that your completely system is deleted and if you cant switch to recovery or download mode have you an big problem.
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BVB-Fan said:
I cant say it to 100% beacuse I am not an expert but it looks like a software defekt, and you wrote that you loaded your battery at an external station so your phone must reboot (cause your battery is full) but it doesnt. I think that your completely system is deleted and if you cant switch to recovery or download mode have you an big problem.
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It could be a mmc hardware problem then... Anyways i will check for a jtag here in my country.
Any other ideas??
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MGA2009 said:
It could be a mmc hardware problem then... Anyways i will check for a jtag here in my country.
Any other ideas??
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Your not getting an emmc hardbrick unless you flashed something in a silly fashion at some point more likely recently than not.
Did you try a different battery or not?
From a cursory review the first thing to try is a new battery and or new cable.
I am not sold yet that this is an issue with the main board or the DC in board.

+1 for new battery.
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SpyderTracks said:
+1 for new battery.
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Jackpot. The battery was broken. Switched battery and phone turned on right away.
The battery was not swollen or anything, just not working properly.
Thank you all for the help.

MGA2009 said:
Jackpot. The battery was broken. Switched battery and phone turned on right away.
The battery was not swollen or anything, just not working properly.
Thank you all for the help.
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The batteries have very short life span and very sudden extreme behaviours when they're at the end of their life. Glad you got it sorted.
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Charging with USB cable

Hello!
Did anyone notice that after update to MK7 one can charge the watch only with the supplied charger?
I tried generic USB cable with generic USB charger and stuf ain't chargin' any more.
Perfectly fine with the supplied charger.
Any ideas what Sammy came up with this time?

I can charge just fine with a USB cable.
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jerkules said:
I can charge just fine with a USB cable.
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And me, tried 6 different ones.
They all worked.

Hmmmm.
And you have the latest firmware XXUAMK7, right?

I can charge with any. How many have you tried?
Maybe the other one you tried doesn't work? Try another?
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Tried two, both work fine with the phone.
Not home now but will try them off usb port in laptop (500mA). Phone chargers ar 1A (2A for note 2 & 3). Gear's charger is only 350mA, maybe they built in damage prevention from too high currents?
le3ky said:
I can charge with any. How many have you tried?
Maybe the other one you tried doesn't work? Try another?
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Hmm could be.. Especially if they are just generic cheapish ones maybe
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I charge it with my note 3 power block and my S4 cord and it works perfect. Charges super quick.
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Yeah, charges fine with USB port from the laptop.
For those that it works from phone chargers - it used to work as well before MK7 update. Are you sure you are on MK7??
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I charge it with my note 3 power block and my S4 cord and it works perfect. Charges super quick.
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One more correction - charges fine from Note 3 charger as well....
It's the generic ones that are the problem....
kufel said:
Yeah, charges fine with USB port from the laptop.
For those that it works from phone chargers - it used to work as well before MK7 update. Are you sure you are on MK7??
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Yeah, old blackberry and old samsung charges it as well. Sorry, I guess cheapos are not smart enough for smart devices
kufel said:
One more correction - charges fine from Note 3 charger as well....
It's the generic ones that are the problem....
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I've noticed with some chargers...the gear will not display a charging icon, but the unit will charge. If this happens, you may power off the gear, and then you will receive a charging animation on your unsupported? charger.
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[SOLUTION] Phone shutting down with battery not empty

This solved my problem regarding the phone turning of at 50% battery or 37% etc. You will see after applying the settings the battery percentage will change and show the real battery life.
I got this solution from a Google tech.
1) Power off your phone.
2) Press and hold the Power and Volume Down buttons. This will put the phone in fastboot.
3) Use the Volume buttons to scroll through the menu until you see "Bootloader logs"
4) Press and hold the power key for a long time (7+ seconds) until the phone reboots.

slekkas said:
This solved my problem regarding the phone turning of at 50% battery or 37% etc. You will see after applying the settings the battery percentage will change and show the real battery life.
I got this solution from a Google tech.
1) Power off your phone.
2) Press and hold the Power and Volume Down buttons. This will put the phone in fastboot.
3) Use the Volume buttons to scroll through the menu until you see "Bootloader logs"
4) Press and hold the power key for a long time (7+ seconds) until the phone reboots.
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is there a source for this information? a link or anything? did you just stumble upon this fix? or did you copy paste from somewhere else?

Circaflex said:
is there a source for this information? a link or anything? did you just stumble upon this fix? or did you copy paste from somewhere else?
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After days and days of searching and trying a zillion things without success and just as I was ready to RMA the phone I stumbled upon this suggestion in the Google forums. It was posted by a Google tech somewhere in the middle of a really big thread that I couldn't find again. No I didn't find this by myself but wanted to share for users to be able to find it easily.
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I returned my phone a few weeks ago because of this issue and got a replacement from Motorola . I do notice certain kernels will create this situation moreso than the stock rom or stock kernel will not create this issue so that's also something to think about.
However, thanks for the insight should my replacement phone display the same symptoms.
Edit: interesting, I just tried your suggestion and my battery went from 91% to 66%.
I am on the validator kernel using the suggested settings.
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markwebb said:
I returned my phone a few weeks ago because of this issue and got a replacement from Motorola . I do notice certain kernels will create this situation moreso than the stock rom or stock kernel will not create this issue so that's also something to think about.
However, thanks for the insight should my replacement phone display the same symptoms.
Edit: interesting, I just tried your suggestion and my battery went from 91% to 66%.
I am on the validator kernel using the suggested settings.
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That's good. It means that your battery would have died at about 25%.
Let me ask you? Are you using a wireless charger?
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slekkas said:
That's good. It means that your battery would have died at about 25%.
Let me ask you? Are you using a wireless charger?
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On occasion at work but not at home. Sounds like another cause. Why would it if I may ask?
I actually find them to be silly as you must plug the charger base via USB which I can do with phone! Just another step IMHO including finding the sweet spot when resting on charger.
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markwebb said:
Edit: interesting, I just tried your suggestion and my battery went from 91% to 66%.
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Bahaha, quick charge in action. Does not charge quicker, just drags down the "full" point.

markwebb said:
On occasion at work but not at home. Sounds like another cause. Why would it if I may ask?
I actually find them to be silly as you must plug the charger base via USB which I can do with phone! Just another step IMHO including finding the sweet spot when resting on charger.
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I've noticed from my own experience and after talking with others that this issue has started after I started using a wireless charger. Maybe it's just a coincidence but I'm trying to gather some info.
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doitright said:
Bahaha, quick charge in action. Does not charge quicker, just drags down the "full" point.
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How can we disable quick charge?
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slekkas said:
I've noticed from my own experience and after talking with others that this issue has started after I started using a wireless charger. Maybe it's just a coincidence but I'm trying to gather some info.
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Also raises another question: those turbo chargers. I have 3 from moto and use at home. I don't think however as phone seems to charge correctly and capacity seems to register correctly.
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Also raises another question: those turbo chargers. I have 3 from moto and use at home. I don't think however as phone seems to charge correctly and capacity seems to register correctly.
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I will be using the phone for 6-7 days without the wireless charger to see if the problem comes back. If it doesn't I will then use the wireless charger and see if problem shows up. This is an issue with a lot of people and many of them have RMA'd the phone just to realize that the problem came back and it's not a hardware issue.
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slekkas said:
I will be using the phone for 6-7 days without the wireless charger to see if the problem comes back. If it doesn't I will then use the wireless charger and see if problem shows up. This is an issue with a lot of people and many of them have RMA'd the phone just to realize that the problem came back and it's not a hardware issue.
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I am also going to use a custom kernel for a few days and then stock.
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markwebb said:
I am also going to use a custom kernel for a few days and then stock.
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I'm using Franco Kernel at the moment. Where can I find stock kernel?
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slekkas said:
I'm using Franco Kernel at the moment. Where can I find stock kernel?
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There is both an encrypted and decrypted one:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2946715
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slekkas said:
How can we disable quick charge?
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By using a regular 5v charger instead of the idiotic 5/9/12v charger that came with it.

I am having the below issue.
1. If phone is around the 30% mark, and I receive a call, it would just switch off.
2. If i reboot the phone with it being around 30% mark, it will just switch off after displaying the lockscreen.
Is this behavior that is same as the one in the thread?
I tried the mentioned steps and my battery percentage stayed the same. It also shows the same battery percentage in TWRP.

suku_patel_22 said:
I am having the below issue.
1. If phone is around the 30% mark, and I receive a call, it would just switch off.
2. If i reboot the phone with it being around 30% mark, it will just switch off after displaying the lockscreen.
Is this behavior that is same as the one in the thread?
I tried the mentioned steps and my battery percentage stayed the same. It also shows the same battery percentage in TWRP.
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Yes exactly the same problem. Keep pushing the power button a few seconds longer after phone switches off. My problem was fixed but a week later it came back. For others it was fixed permanently. There's a lot of people with this problem and they keep increasing. I fear that certain wireless chargers are causing it. Are you using a wireless charger?
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slekkas said:
Yes exactly the same problem. Keep pushing the power button a few seconds longer after phone switches off. My problem was fixed but a week later it came back. For others it was fixed permanently. There's a lot of people with this problem and they keep increasing. I fear that certain wireless chargers are causing it. Are you using a wireless charger?
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No I am not using any wireless charger. I only use the turbo charger at home and a 2A N7 charger at work.
I am waiting for 5.1 and will run it for a few days to test . Hope that 5.1 will fix this issue.
Also Google suppport asked me to reboot into safe mode and see if the issue is still there.

Just tried this and it went from 82 to 85%.
I have an issue where the phone turns off at 5%

I have this problem currently with my N6 and it is beyond madding.
First it would do it only when the phone was getting to 30~35% tried the fix.
Now the phone crashes it all the time. 80% crash, charge for a little bit use again 85% crash, charge to 100% use streaming a movie from google play 65% crash. now im going to try a custom rom to see if that will fix it.
tried the fix several time only seems to make it worse.
even with a blank install after reinstalling the stock img the phone will crash.

Battery drains faster using AA

I've been using my Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge with AA on 2016 VW GTI for a while now. First of all it always asks me to connect every time I plug in the USB. After connection sometimes it stays on and sometimes it disconnects on it's own. Sometimes it reconnects ok, but sometimes it doesn't. The other problems is it drains the phone battery faster than usual. I thought it would charge instead, but I got the wrong impression.
Does anyone have similar issues? If so, were you able to find a workaround?

I have a s7e edge and 2016 golf and mine charges... And stays connected. Have you tried another usb cable? I have ~10 USB cables and it only works properly with 2.
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sdmark said:
I have a s7e edge and 2016 golf and mine charges... And stays connected. Have you tried another usb cable? I have ~10 USB cables and it only works properly with 2.
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Thanks. I never thought the cable could make a difference. I will try and get back with results.

I found that the phone gets hot when using maps and internet radio and at that point charging rate drops.
Sony z5, mk7 2016 golf r.
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sdmark said:
I have a s7e edge and 2016 golf and mine charges... And stays connected. Have you tried another usb cable? I have ~10 USB cables and it only works properly with 2.
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sdmark, looks like the cable did the trick. For the first time the battery got charged instead of draining.
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