Yesterday my cingular 8125 phone decided not to charge the battery anymore,
I wanted to make a call and it was srangely turned off ( it was at 50% ten min. before)
so I turned my phone on and the battery meter jumped from 48% to 0% and now it wont charge at all!
plugged in it works fine with PC and charger.
Plus the battery info screen olny shows the battery meter for the main battery (0%) and not the backup battery, as if it didn´t exist! (2.17 ROM)
I wish someone could tell me if I will solve the problem with just buying a new battery or If I should sent it for repairs.
Already did a hard reset, no drops, moisture, dents, extreme temp. etc. -- and I have a Delta Electronics charger, dunno if it is the original one, it is not cingular branded. :?:
all thoughts welcome.
thanks!
Errol
You need to try the standard charger because it has an output of 1Amps and any less does not seem to kick start the battery into charging. Check your charger and see if it has an output of 1A or not (usb charger has lower output only 400mA) and if not get one or borrow one and try. Most microsoft smartphone chargers use 1A too.
Related
I've left my JAMin for a month and now I can not turn it on.Any ideas? Why the battery is not charging? I think I'm going insane Do I have to buy a new battery? PLEASE HELP ME
If you are trying to charge using usb from computer or other source it probably won't revive a really discharged phone.
Instead you need to use the wall charger, leave it plugged in overnight then check the phone out.
Mike
Batt Charging is controlled by the OS/ROM, so if the batt is completely dead the phone in all probability not charge it.
You may not need to buy a new Batt if you can find a seperate batt. charging unit....
Else, a new batterry.
10x guys.I hope I will charge it today Hope dies last
happen to me before, if you can't charge it up, you either have buy a standalone battery charger from ebay or just postive & negative to boose a charge into the battery (for pros only)
I have a problem with my SPV C500. When the battery runs down to 50% I'm not able to charge it by wall charger. It starts to charge but after a while the led goes green and battery indicator says the phone is full charged. When I plug the charger out, the battery indicator will tell the thruth - it's not been charged. Even letting the phone with wall charger plugged in for several hours doesn't help. The only way is to use USB connector and connect it to PC. In this case the "point of no return" is around 20% (I did a test with spare battery). Did you experience such a problem?
I've also had second SPV C500 which stopped to charge at all. Even USB charging didn't help. I had to sell it as faulty :-(
BTW 6.1 ROM seems to save battery life. With WM 2003 SE it took one day to drop to 50%, now it takes more than two days. .-)
Simple questions to the long story I wrote below the line(didn't realize it was so long):
I have two batteries that get a red light when trying to charge and they will not charge. I'm using a travel charger that came with the phone (used, not sure if it is the original charger). Input is 110-220V 50-60Hz Output is 5.5V 500mA. Says model T-HT-8125-SH on it.
Based on my findings, the phone should charge with 1.0A so it makes me think this is not an original charger. Old posts stated if the battery was this empty you need an original charger since it is the only thing strong enough.
The second question regards a new battery (just bought - one of the two above) dropping from having about 50% to having 0%. This is described in the story below, but could switching batteries / putting in a dead battery anything like this cause the new battery to lose it's charge all of the sudden? Or could there be damage to the phone other than the battery causing this issue?
Anyone have experience with this? What specs on a charger am I looking for that match the original charger? I may find other mini USB chargers around and if I have one that matches I can try it. I just don't want to damage the phone.
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I have a wizard I bought used a couple months ago. It worked fine until a water damage issue occurred. I let it dry out for a week and then it was back to working fine. The only thing I noticed afterwards was sometimes the battery would drop from about 75% to 25% really quickly when it did not used to.
Last weekend, it was charging overnight and in the morning it would not turn on at all. I tried taking the battery out and trying to charge it again without success. The orange light usually does not come on. I either get no light, or a red light. Sometimes the red light stays, sometimes it blinks, but usually it is red when I first plug it in for a couple seconds then goes away.
I read recently in the manual that red means it is in LDO charging mode, thus the battery is empty. I thought the battery was dead so I ordered a replacement. It arrived, I stuck it in, it worked.
Now the weird part - I let it charge some on the new battery (it was around 18% when I got it). Then I decided to test the old battery and make sure that was indeed the problem. The phone wouldn't turn on or charge. However, I put the new battery back in and there is no charge. I tried charging it and the light was orange as it should be. However, after a couple more battery switches (I found out about the red light / orange light from the manual at this point so I went to test that with the old), the new battery is acting like the old battery. Both get a red light and will not charge.
Any ideas?
No answers for you but -
My original HTC charger has the following stats:
HTC p/n 70h00051-01
Model ADP-5FH B
Input 100-240v~0.2A 50-60Hz
Output 5V 1A LPS
Thanks for the details. I suppose mine isn't an original charger as it only has half the power yours does (and is a different model). It is probably some generic third-party charger.
For anyone interested, I did manage to get the phone charging by jump starting the battery with a 9 volt battery (saw an old post about it). Just connect the positive terminal of 9V to positive end of battery, and negative end of 9V to negative on battery. I used the metal from the inside of twist ties to connect the two batteries. Hold for about 15 seconds, then see if it will charge. If not, take battery out of phone again and use the 9V for another 15 seconds..See if it will charge afterwards. It only took a couple tries before it had enough power to start charging with my charger. Just don't hold it too long as the 9V is nearly twice what you need.
Anyways - it's charging now and is at 80%. We will see if it works like it should afterwards. If so, then I will have two working batteries for the phone.
Note - this shouldn't be an issue with an original charger that is 1.0A. It seems the third party ones are less (500mA, or my car charger is 650mA). I imagine the original charger is strong enough to get it started even on a completely empty battery. If not, the 9V battery sure is.
Just an update - not sure what is going on. It finished charging and the light turned green. As soon as I unplugged the wall charger, it dropped down to 51%. Ok...so that was weird...maybe it wasn't really charged. So, I let it charge up to 100% again. Light turns green. Unplugged it, dropped immediately to 39%.
Anyone have any idea why it would lose a large amount of charge when I unplug the cable? I'm charging it for the third time now...I'm not sure what is going on.
This is all with one battery (the old one). I haven't done anything with the new battery yet to try and get it to charge, but this might explain how the new battery lost the charge it did have and became empty like the original battery - perhaps it lost it's charge when I unplugged it just as the old one is doing...in which case this seems like a phone problem...hopefully not though.
I received my HD yesterday and did what it says in the book: charge the battery right away. Within a few hours the battery was fully charged. So far so good.
But much later in the day after heavy use of the phone, the battery was again drained and when I attempted to recharge it the charger simply would not work.
Has anyone encountered problems with the charger?
Im sending the phone back to the supplier Play.com
Johannes,
Cambridge, UK.
Maybe you just need a new battery....ofcourse if you don't mind the wait..send it back for a whole new unit. New batteries can be funny. Its best to leave it charging even though it says its fully charged. Let it charge for more than an hour after it says its full on a brand new battery. Battery performance will get better after a week of charging.
Dont think battery is at fault
Thanks for reply utvol06.
Dont think the battery is at fault. When I connect the phone to my PC the battery charges OK.
Johannes.
I had same prob....
Make sure the 3 pin adapter is FULLY pushed into the charger and try again
Fully clicked into place
Yes it is fully clicked ito place. No luck.
Sounds like the charger is banjaxed
I had the same but by resetting (i.e. unplugging & replugging) the 3 pin adapter from the charger fixed it.
I would send it back
Hi!
I sent my charger back to Clove and they will send a replacement.
USB connector to charger was wobbly.. and I had apply traction to the cable to make the contacts work.
I tried a different cable in the charger and also tried the charger in my Kaiser.
Conclusion, USB connection on charger unit was duff.
Ofiaich
I bougth a 3200mAh battery on ebay, when it arrived, I changed my old battery.
The new one lasted for 2 days afther a full charge (12h BT on, 2h WiFi, and a lot of GPRS messenger)
at 2% I wanted to recharge the battery but afther 1 minute it doesent charge anymore it drains itself and charge again to 2% an stops and it does this over and over
what can I do? any sugestions?
Maybe the problem is with the charger could not withstand it or the batery that u brought has been used before when you have not buy it or the batery is spoit when arriving.
hy, meanwhile I changed back to my old battery, plugged in the charger, it showed that it's charging but it was actualy discharging, the % where going down, could it be a phone hardware problem?
buy some charger with 2000 mah or higher..
Buy The Charger That Has A Stronger Voltage
thank you for your interest, the problem was not the charger, just the Uni charging port, Because my Uni is real used the port metallic part was loosen so I tightened it together a little bit, so now my 3200 battery is charged via USB from my laptop in aprox. 9h
but it is an idea to buy a 2A charger (the original is 1A)