sometimes when I charge my phone I get a flashing amber light even when the unit is switched off. Does anyone know what this indicates? I thought constant green indicates charged, is the amber light used to indicate a temp problem as my battery seems to get very warm during charging?
sem92 said:
sometimes when I charge my phone I get a flashing amber light even when the unit is switched off. Does anyone know what this indicates? I thought constant green indicates charged, is the amber light used to indicate a temp problem as my battery seems to get very warm during charging?
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Getting warm during charging is normal.
Not sure what flashing amber indicates , though seems to be an indication of text receipt/missed call (whether on charge or not)
Amber=Charging Green=Charged Red=Charge Failure
Mike
sem92 said:
sometimes when I charge my phone I get a flashing amber light even when the unit is switched off. Does anyone know what this indicates? I thought constant green indicates charged, is the amber light used to indicate a temp problem as my battery seems to get very warm during charging?
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Means NOTIFICATION
It occurs even when the phone is fully switched off. It does seem to relate to the temperature during charging, I would guess that it indicates that charging is paused due to the battery temp.
I used to have this when I first got my Vario II. It was definitely temperature related and had nothing to do with notifications as there were none.
The only way to get around it was to take it off charge and take the battery cover off to let the heat escape for it to cool down. Then it would start charging again normally.
athiqueahmed said:
I used to have this when I first got my Vario II. It was definitely temperature related and had nothing to do with notifications as there were none.
The only way to get around it was to take it off charge and take the battery cover off to let the heat escape for it to cool down. Then it would start charging again normally.
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I agree, it means message/email/calendar/alarm/task during charging and could mean also overheat
So it means NOTIFICATION (or pay ATTENTION please) , it has a big CPU still isn't capable to explain exactly what type of attention is needed
How hot is normal running temp for the battery?
I see mine runs at around 46 celcius most of the time.
What is too hot?
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I have read alot about people complaining about the AMBER LED being still on despite the full charge for even over a night!
I don't know if anyone tried this but I did and it worked. Keep the device on while charging -disable the power management- and sure you will have the AMBER for few hours til it reaches 100% when you shall get the GREEN LED. In my case I use a special screen saver that slide-show a set of pix during the recharge period.
The question now is; would the screen get damaged after sometime having it on for periods like 8hrs? I mean does it lose brightness or quality after a while?
Pls advise.
Personally I use spb pocket plus which clearly displays the charge % on screen so I don't even look at the colour of the light.
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opposite problem
this is crazy but i get the oppositie thing. My main battery is supposed to be 100% charged so it's supposed to be charging the backup batter. What it does after a while is switching on from the orange light to the green light - although it hasn't finished charging. Once I disconnet the cable and connect it again then it become orange again and probably starts to charge for once again? what's wrong with it?
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Has anyone else noticed when you plug in the Phone to be recharged, occasionally the 'red' indicator does not come on or disappears?
It's now happened to me several times ~ I plug the Phone in for a recharge, initially the red light comes on then after a few seconds it goes out leaving no indication if it's charging or when it's complete.
Beards
Read this that i posted several days ago and check your charger
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=446583&highlight=power+supply
"Wiggle" the charger around and see if the charge light goes on and off!
Beards said:
Has anyone else noticed when you plug in the Phone to be recharged, occasionally the 'red' indicator does not come on or disappears?
It's now happened to me several times ~ I plug the Phone in for a recharge, initially the red light comes on then after a few seconds it goes out leaving no indication if it's charging or when it's complete.
Beards
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Could it due to bad physical connection?
No guys.
I'Ve cheched all connections.
Besides, if I leave it plugged in whilst there is no light showing and switch off the Phone the red charging light then comes on.
Beards
Well this is now really starting to bug me.
I've carried out a Hard Reset thinking something was interferring with the charge light procedure but even on a default machine with the device running the red light simply does not come on.
Swith the Phone off, then connect and the red light appears.
So.... when my machine is running I don't get the indicator (but it is charging I know because after leaving it for 30mins I've checked and sure enough it's charging).
Any other ideas???
My Trinity does this when overheating, it stops charging and blinks the LED. Unplug for 10 minutes and replug.
tnyynt said:
My Trinity does this when overheating, it stops charging and blinks the LED. Unplug for 10 minutes and replug.
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Now that's an answer I was not expecting...... Thanks tnyynt, I'll give that a go on my next charge cycle.
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No... that didn't work.... but thanks all the same.
I have now resigned myself to the fact if I want to see the red charging light the only way is to first power down the Phone, then connect to the mains electric and then the red charge light comes on.
If I want I can then switch the Phone back on again whilst charging until the green charged light shows.
Beards
how do you tell if your phone is fully charged when charging the x1 beside looking at the battery status when the phone is on. does the illumination light go out when your unit is charged or does it continue blinking whether its fully charged or not.
when i charge mine, the lights blink and then after several hours, i would not see it blink for a little while but then every now and then, i would see it blinking again.
just want to know if the lights stops blinking, the phone is fully charged.
Exactly what I want to know.
Yes, the side lights stop blinking when it is fully charged.
When it stops charging, the lights go out. But then, when in trickle charging mode, it is shown by the light.
how can I see the remaining battery (percentage) without pressing a series of buttons?
bugmeyes said:
how can I see the remaining battery (percentage) without pressing a series of buttons?
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You can set the clock in the menubar to show the battery power, but the the clock is gone or you use a small and nice freeware like batti: http://code.google.com/p/batti/
on8a said:
When it stops charging, the lights go out. But then, when in trickle charging mode, it is shown by the light.
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thanks, that makes a lot of sense now that you pointed it out.
My battery says 100%, then I turned it off and plugged it back in and the indicator was still white. Huh?
patass said:
My battery says 100%, then I turned it off and plugged it back in and the indicator was still white. Huh?
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The anorexic manual says Green is 95% or higher. Maybe the indicator had a margin of error or somehow used up 5% of its power cycling (which would be unfortunate)?
StarlessKnight said:
The anorexic manual says Green is 95% or higher. Maybe the indicator had a margin of error or somehow used up 5% of its power cycling (which would be unfortunate)?
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I'm not sure of the level that Motorola uses, but with Cyanogenmod 7 on my Droid Incredible the charging light turns green at 90%. Maybe this is a standard Android value???
I seem to be flying through my battery, but I HAVE been doing a ton of stuff. Even playing games via bluetooth and hdmi on my big tv... I'll leave it off and plugged in for an hour and thirty minutes and see if the indicator changes color. Still white at the moment.
EDIT - At full, 100% charge (tells me so when it's on), my LED is White. Someone please verify their LED colors for me...
During charge mine is white/blue. When it reaches 95ish percent it turns green.
Regardless of when the charge indicator turns white, green, etc like many other mobile devices the battery gauge may not be all that accurate. When the battery gets to a certain point, charging stops and discharging begins again. After a discharging for a while, charging may begin again. The amount of charge shown may depend on where you catch it in the cycle. Unplugging it after it becomes green and then plugging it in again causes a "bump charge". This is fairly common behavior and hardly exclusive to the xoom.
If you want to really know what is going on, I suggest using this free android utility / widget...
[UTIL] current widget - shows actual current output of a charger
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=776085
is yours the 3g or wifi xoom?
I've now found that I'm getting between 10-12 hours of heavy usage, probably. I was playing games and surfing and playing music for 6 hours last night and I wound up at 50%. So I guess I can ignore the LED thing, I guess. It turns red when the inner camera is on.
does any one have this issue of their max pro m2 stops charging at 70-75% and shows fully charged and notification light turns green.
i have everything from clearing system cache to hard reset of phone but this issue is still there.
it started from the last oreo build(last update we got before stable pie update for non-beta users).
only way to charge the battery to full is by removing and inserting charger cable again or by switching off the phone.
please tell me if there are any one who is facing the same issue.
I had the same issue, I used to turn off the mobile and plugged into charge for 10 minutes and turn it on when the charge limit crossed the 78% it charges like normally with red charging led on.
yea,i do that to charge my phone
Arown orton said:
I had the same issue, I used to turn off the mobile and plugged into charge for 10 minutes and turn it on when the charge limit crossed the 78% it charges like normally with red charging led on.
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i have been thinking to install a custom rom and see if this problem exists with custom rom so it will be clear that the problem is with the software
Jay Krizz said:
i have been thinking to install a custom rom and see if this problem exists with custom rom so it will be clear that the problem is with the software
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Yeah , actually I moved to Havoc os ROM which solved everything and have more customisation.
same issue
Does your phone heat up while charging?
The phone is equipped with thermal sensors for protection that if it reaches certain temperature, it cuts off charging until it cools down. Charge your phone in cool dry place.
It happened to me too when i charged it under my pillow. It became really hot and stopped charging.a good feature but sometimes misunderstood. Is it the same case foe you?
chirogan said:
Does your phone heat up while charging?
The phone is equipped with thermal sensors for protection that if it reaches certain temperature, it cuts off charging until it cools down. Charge your phone in cool dry place.
It happened to me too when i charged it under my pillow. It became really hot and stopped charging.a good feature but sometimes misunderstood. Is it the same case foe you?
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no,i dont think so,phone used to charge normally before the last oreo update,from the last oreo update,this issue is seen in many max pro m2 phones,it is also clear that this issue is happening only in official stock android not on any custom rom.
it is sure that the software has bugs.