Can someone help me figure out how to recharge my battery??? The other day my phone was working just fine... until it ran out of battery while i was at school. i kept trying to turn it back on and kept doing so until it was completely dead. Now the damn thing doesnt want to charge at all... i think i must have exhausted the battery completely that it cant keep a charge. It wont even turn on and wont even charge wen i plug it into the computer usb or through a wall charger. Can someone please help.
Are you using the original charger? has to have 1amp output to kickstart device. You have to leave it quite a while connected before the light comes on - up to 24hrs. If that fails use the boost battery trick - see thread here http://forum.xda-developers.com/viewtopic.php?t=58747
hmph....
all i have to say is damn t mobile... they cant expect people to never let their battery fully drain. its almost automatic for it to happen once in a while for people. why would they release batteries that cannot charge if its fully drained and expect people to search on the internet to find answers to solves these problems themselves... oh well thanks for the help guys. ill let the thing charge for a day or so n post my results... ps i dont have the original charger. im not at home right now n ill have to check if the charger i have is 1 amp or not.
YES!
the charger thing didnt work... but using the trick where splitting the usb and charging the battery manually worked! thanks for the help! much is appreciated!
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My X1 doesn't turn on anymore! I just woke up and it was off. I left it recharging during the night... Now when I plug it in all I see is a red light on the power on/off button. Any ideas?
Could it be just the battery?
The problem is i got it from someone in England so i'm not sure about warranty.
take off the battery cover and then take out ur stylus and you will see a little hole next to the battery and then take ur stylus and push he little button in tha hole and then that will restart it.
no, that doesn't solve it... but thanks
i tried removing the battery and leaving it off for a while but nothing...
the red light appears only when the phone is supposedly charging
Then leave it charging for hours and don't touch it until the red light goes away. Then you can switch it on again.
Don't let a Lithium-battery run out of power! It drastically reduces the battery lifetime and it's not easy for the controller to charge it again.
Recharge the battery before it runs out, best at >40%
Hmm... think I encountered that red light problem before, though can't really remember how I solved it. Think encountered it when I was charging using another cable (and not the original one) and later was ok after using the original cable + charger.
Thanks guys
I'll try doing that. I never left it with less than 50% battery though... I have no idea why this happened.
I'll give news later today
mesaboogie said:
Thanks guys
I'll try doing that. I never left it with less than 50% battery though... I have no idea why this happened.
I'll give news later today
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When the battery decreases that fast (50% over night) than maybe the battery is broken. If charging over a few hours does not help, you should try another battery.
skycamefalling said:
When the battery decreases that fast (50% over night) than maybe the battery is broken. If charging over a few hours does not help, you should try another battery.
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I left it charging (it was at around 60% when i plugged it)
Still doesn't work.. the red light goes off after a bit and if i try to turn it on (while plugged) a red light by the USB port flashes 3 times.
It has the same behaviour as if the battery wasn't on.
I tried reading the voltage and it's at 3.3v which is 0.3v below normal but that's because it's not fully charged, right?
I'm afraid of throwing away another €35 for a new battery and it still doesn't work :\
mesaboogie said:
I left it charging (it was at around 60% when i plugged it)
Still doesn't work.. the red light goes off after a bit and if i try to turn it on (while plugged) a red light by the USB port flashes 3 times.
It has the same behaviour as if the battery wasn't on.
I tried reading the voltage and it's at 3.3v which is 0.3v below normal but that's because it's not fully charged, right?
I'm afraid of throwing away another €35 for a new battery and it still doesn't work :\
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Are you charging with a computer?
Try the real charger. You can always try a battery from another one who has the same phone or go to a shop where they sell it and kindly ask for a battery to try.
Should be no problem.
oh man! it's working now! i don't know what happened... I didn't do anything else. In fact, I had just sent an e-mail to Sony Ericsson
skycamefalling said:
Are you charging with a computer?
Try the real charger. You can always try a battery from another one who has the same phone or go to a shop where they sell it and kindly ask for a battery to try.
Should be no problem.
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oops didnt see your reply
yeah i tried the charger as well. No idea what happened here.
Thanks skycamefalling!
edit: Oh yeah... something wrong happened during the charge because now it shows just around 20% battery left! hmm... what could drain battery this fast while the phone is sleeping (and plugged in to the pc)?
Glad to hear your phone is awake again
mesaboogie said:
edit: Oh yeah... something wrong happened during the charge because now it shows just around 20% battery left! hmm... what could drain battery this fast while the phone is sleeping (and plugged in to the pc)?
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It seems your USB-PC port does not give currency to the phone. It's the other way around -the Computer sucks the power out of the battery.
You can look in the Hardware Manager (PC) how which currency the USB port provides -it should be around 500mA when the phone is plugged is.
I would suggest using the wall charger to be sure the phone is charging.
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Glad to hear your phone is awake again
It seems your USB-PC port does not give currency to the phone. It's the other way around -the Computer sucks the power out of the battery.
You can look in the Hardware Manager (PC) how which currency the USB port provides -it should be around 500mA when the phone is plugged is.
I would suggest using the wall charger to be sure the phone is charging.
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It's weird. I've been using the same port every night since I got the X1 and it always charged it perfectly. They all provide the 500mA.
Yeah, I'll use the wall charger from this day on whenever I can haha... *phew*
Hey guys
I know that there are many threads about this.
But I don't get it.
My phone is charging for more than 4 hours now and it is still stuck on 90%!!!
WTF?
Any advice?
Thanks.
PS: wifi, BT are turned off...
Sopis said:
Hey guys
I know that there are many threads about this.
But I don't get it.
My phone is charging for more than 4 hours now and it is still stuck on 90%!!!
WTF?
Any advice?
Thanks.
PS: wifi, BT are turned off...
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There has been a number of threads on this.
Best advice I can give you is to always try and charge your device switched off if possible. This makes the charging time shorter and helps the battery to "calibrate".
Also, try and let the phone completely drain out before recharging as this will help increase the length of the battery.
Charge using mains adapter...
My guess is that you are charging via a USB data cable...
If so it takes a very long time to charge via USB (mine takes about 6 hours). I believe this is due to a standard that restricts the amount of power available to run USB devices from a PC.
Try with the mains charger instead and the times improve dramatically (about 2-3 hours).
thanks both of you guys.
@gisbourne - I read that already somewhere so I always charge it with the main charger...so now it is plugged to wall for almost 5hrs...and still 92%
I have turned it off now as spartan suggested..and from now on I will do as he said...
thanks again guys appreciate your help.
Thats right.. last night i left my Leo charging, today when i woke up i noticed that the battery level was very low so.. i unplugged it and plugged it again, noticed that the orange led wasnt lighting up, neither was the phone charging.
The phone gets very very very hot when plugged to charger or USB port on my computer and does not charge at all.
Tried it all, left it all day long with the battery out of the phone, tried charging without it in.. and nothing..it just gets very hot where the connectors (pins) make contact with the battery.
Now im trying to charge the battery on a cradle to flash it with stock rom and SPL to get it to warranty..
Any of you guys has any thoughts?
I see i posted in the wrong section.
Thank u mod
Do you always charge via usb into pc? Is your cradle plugged into the wall or pc? I don't know if you have done this, probably so, but check in windows settings->system->Power and inside the battery tab see if the "When phone is on, do not charge the battery when connected to a PC" is checked.
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Do you always charge via usb into pc? Is your cradle plugged into the wall or pc? I don't know if you have done this, probably so, but check in windows settings->system->Power and inside the battery tab see if the "When phone is on, do not charge the battery when connected to a PC."
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Yeah.. it crossed my mind to check for it, and that option is unchecked.
Though the charging "orange" led doesnt turn on even if the phone is off.
I usually charge it via usb->pc, allthough i tested with the wall charger and nothing.
I suspect it must have been a power surge that burnt in some way the PBC of the "charging module..thing"
Thanks for the suggestion
i'd check that none of the pins for the battery are in contact with each other if there is heat in that area.
Ok, I'm assuming then that the phone works, but just has low battery at the moment. If that's the case then it doesn't appear to be the battery or the leads. Any chance it's the cable? That of course assumes your using the same one with the cradle. I ask because my device didn't come with a wall charger, just a usb cable so I had to get a few extra plus a wall plug-in with a usb port.
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i'd check that none of the pins for the battery are in contact with each other if there is heat in that area.
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Yep already checked it..although if it was something wrong with the pins the phone wouldnt turn on.. i dunno
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Ok, I'm assuming then that the phone works, but just has low battery at the moment. If that's the case then it doesn't appear to be the battery or the leads. Any chance it's the cable? That of course assumes your using the same one with the cradle. I ask because my device didn't come with a wall charger, just a usb cable so I had to get a few extra plus a wall plug-in with a usb port.
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I have a car charger also.. and nothing.
Your leo didnt came with a wall charger?
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I have a car charger also.. and nothing.
Your leo didnt came with a wall charger?
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Weird, but unfortunately it didn't. I think being in the US and getting the device from Telstra in Australia may be why I didn't. Well, if it is a hardware problem and you can't get it to charge from the device, I believe you can get a cradle that will allow you to charge the battery independant of the phone. I know it's not the best option on the planet, but it would get your battery where it needs to be to flash and confirm whether or not it's a charging issue with the battery itself.
Come to think of it, this did happen to me several weeks ago. I plugged the phone in before bed as usual and noticed the charging light didn't go on and the battery drained overnight from about 60% to 15%, which it shouldn't have done. Not in standby at least. Soft-reset the next day fixed it. It hasn't done it since. I was installing a bunch of things that evening, which may have been what did it.
I had a same problem with my hd2 and by some miracle and few days of pain
it workd again...and it workd about 5 days and same thing happend al over again...and I think I have solution!
It may be stupid but it work for me...
try to connect your hd2 to charger but without battery and then insert the battery and it should start up your phone and charging...
I apologizes for my poor english
mikelebrat said:
I had a same problem with my hd2 and by some miracle and few days of pain
it workd again...and it workd about 5 days and same thing happend al over again...and I think I have solution!
It may be stupid but it work for me...
try to connect your hd2 to charger but without battery and then insert the battery and it should start up your phone and charging...
I apologizes for my poor english
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I'll try that when i arrive home..
On AC power it can take anywhere up to 8 hours to fully charge from empty and thats with no use at all, it actually loses charge if i play just a low intensity game or browse the web.
Im currently running CM7 and have flashed different ROMs / kernels and Radios to try and get a difference but without any luck.
Ive only noticed the problem within the last month and the battery seems to last a fair while and can make up to 2 days easily with little use, so i dont think theres any serious leak occurring, but having regularly flashed new ROMs i cant say exactly the point when it started happening.
Im thinking that perhaps the battery or the cable may have become faulty but is there any way to test if this is the case?
Im hoping for a software fix but any help would be appreciated.
Thanks.
Install current widget from the market, attach to a screen and let us know the reading from an AC adapter.
Hopefully you'll be able to identify if your charger isn't working correctly.
Ok so i left it on charge overnight and logged the current widget values and saw that on AC charge the readings started at around 119mA and by the morning the charging had slowly decreased to about 70mA. There are also a few periods where there is a charge loss of around -30mA for a few minutes before returning to a constantly decreasing charge.
Also, before doing this i drained the battery and wiped the battery stats, not sure if this may have any effect on the current widget results / charge time.
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Also, before doing this i drained the battery and wiped the battery stats, not sure if this may have any effect on the current widget results / charge time.
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i think u need to call ur provider and ask for a battery replacement explain why u need it... they will send u a new battery and then check if the problem persists if so then it mite be problem with ur cable or the adapter
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i think u need to call ur provider and ask for a battery replacement explain why u need it... they will send u a new battery and then check if the problem persists if so then it mite be problem with ur cable..
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Exactly that, I get around 800mA on AC. There is a fault somewhere.
I had the same problem awhile ago. Turned out to be my charger that stopped working.
But that was an old Samsung charger so I just started using the HTC charger that came with the phone instead
Try another charger first and see if it's better. Or ju try to plug it in the computer and see if it charges then.
Problem solved, turned out to be a cheap cable bought from ebay that caused the issues. Thanks.
I am in the bootloader but it is flashing saying battery low cannot program. I pulled the battery to truly get it to turn off, but no go. I had it plugged in all night, and the green light is on, but I am still getting the battery low cannot program message.
Any ideas to help this situation?
Steve
Edit: NM I figured it out. It needed to be plugged into a wall charger.
I'm having this problem too although leaving it plugged into the wall isn't helping.
Plug it into a wall charger, and then do a battery pull. Turn it on after that and you should be good to go.
Here's to hoping. It seems to be discharging in the bootloop, or just enough juice is getting through to power that, but not the battery. I'm gonna leave it in the wall for a couple hours and see how it goes. Thanks.
Oh and I just ordered another battery, I hope it comes with at least 50% charge.
It won't actually shut off afaict. After a battery pull it just goes back to the bootloop, and somehow I think that's preventing it from charging. I was hoping not to have to wait the two days until the new battery arrives.
This means you are still connected via USB to your PC. Connect to a wall charger and not to the USB port of your PC. When its on the wall charger you will not get this.
I appreciate your help, but something else must be wrong, as it is connected to the wall charger. After about an hour and half on the wall charger the bootloader still says battery low, cannot program. I'm just gonna leave it connected to the wall all day and see if it manages to charge. I can live without it for a day.
I've done that before while sbf' ing... U have to some how charge ur phone battery using a friends phone buy a new battery or take ur battery into vz & having them charge it other wise ur forever stuck w/the green light after that u will b good to go
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Oh plus it won't charge While in boot loader mode Just fyi
Oh & if u ever do anything w/the boot loader in the future make sure ur battery is at least @70% to b safe
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So are you saying that if you connect it to a wall charger and do a battery pull that it goes back to the bootloader? If so then I cannot help. It will boot properly after the battery pull for me.
I meant it goes into the bootloop again. I'm attempting the USB cable strip procedure right now. I found it in the newb's guide up top. It's kind of scary but seems to be progressing. I hope I don't blow it up.
Will the guys at VZW charge me for a recharge? It seems, I don't know anyone else with a Droid X.
Ha! I did the rip open a USB cable, and connect the leads trick, and it worked like a charm. Now charging to full before I go back to Liberty 2.0.1 (at least until the official OTA for GB.)
Thanks guys for all the tips!
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I meant it goes into the bootloop again. I'm attempting the USB cable strip procedure right now. I found it in the newb's guide up top. It's kind of scary but seems to be progressing. I hope I don't blow it up.
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Man be careful doing this!!! I hope you have the battery out of the phone while it's charging. USB has 5VDC and this phone runs on 4VDC!!! There is a voltage regulator inside the phone to control this when it is charging.
Also if the phone will not boot it will not charge the battery. Sounds like you are in a bootloader error from a bad flash. The battery for sure will not charge in this state.
fasthair
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Man be careful doing this!!! I hope you have the battery out of the phone while it's charging. USB has 5VDC and this phone runs on 4VDC!!! There is a voltage regulator inside the phone to control this when it is charging.
Also if the phone will not boot it will not charge the battery. Sounds like you are in a bootloader error from a bad flash. The battery for sure will not charge in this state.
fasthair
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Yeah I did it outside the phone. There is no way I could weave the wires into those prongs successfully anyway. I already ordered a battery, so if I fried the batt, no big lose. I wasn't willing to risk the phone itself.