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Froyo not charging non OEM batteries

Ever since I upgraded to Froyo my droid X doesn't charge nor display life left on Non oem batteries. It worked fine on 2.1. Any way to "fix" this?

dmeg said:
Ever since I upgraded to Froyo my droid X doesn't charge nor display life left on Non oem batteries. It worked fine on 2.1. Any way to "fix" this?
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Check this thread post #1 read after point#6 actually the whole thread is a good read lots of info. Some may pertain to your issue
http://www.droidforums.net/forum/droid-x-hacks/68222-unbricking-your-droid-x.html

dmeg said:
Ever since I upgraded to Froyo my droid X doesn't charge nor display life left on Non oem batteries. It worked fine on 2.1. Any way to "fix" this?
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either remove the battery and wait a couple of seconds or do a factory reset... both methods seem to work...

Let me rephrase. My phone charges the motorola battery. It refuses to charge or give me the remaining life of non, motorola batteries. It does run on the non motorola battery when it is charged. There is just a question mark by the life left. 2.1 charged and displayed the life left of the non motorola battery.
Thanks
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I am having exactly the same problem. The phone says "invalid battery" when using a non-stock battery that I bought off of ebay. I can charge the battery on a standalone charger, but it will not charge or read out the remaining battery life when used in the phone. The original battery that came with the phone works fine. Any ideas?

I have the same issue from a kit I got off ebay for 9.99 that included 2 batteries and a charger for them.

Battery failure during 1st extended usb trickle charge

Well, I don't think I had seen any yet but I might be the first device/battery failure as a result of using one of the new superior charging kernels.
I have been using the Netarchy 4.2.2 beta kernal (aggressive with havs) I believe and everything has been fine for the past week or so.
This afternoon I plugged my phone into USB and laid down for a nap. I woke up not long ago and my phone is completely dead now. It will not power on or indicate that it is plugged in or anything. I don't have another battery to test, but could it just be a battery failure? Or is it possible the whole device is hosed?

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Well, I don't think I had seen any yet but I might be the first device/battery failure as a result of using on of the new superior charging kernel.
I have been using the Netarchy 4.2.2 beta kernal (aggressive with havs) I believe and everything has been fine for the past week or so.
This afternoon I plugged my phone into USB and laid down for a nap. I woke up not long ago and my phone is completely dead now. It will not power on or indicate that it is plugged in or anything. I don't have another battery to test, but could it just be a battery failure? Or is it possible the whole device is hosed?
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Anything is possible. Chances are that it was not the kernel though. Try a different charger and maybe a different battery. If all else fails take it in for repair.

How full was your battery before you plugged it in? You could try pulling the battery and waiting an hour or so before putting it back in and powering on.

I was down to about 30% when I plugged it in so it was getting a full charge. I remember getting a phone call during my nap that I ignored. When I finally got up the device was completely dark. I've got it unplugged and the battery out for now. Hopefully it will power back up in an hour or so....
If not I will have to try a buddy's battery in here tomorrow to see if that does anything. If not I'm simply out the device, there is no "taking it in for repair for me" unfortunately.

I hope it powers back up for you. If not, it would be good to try your friends battery so you could start trouble shooting.

Was this the original stock battery?
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Try a different cable. A little while back I thought my phone borked on me as it would not charge even though the charge light was on. When my wife's did the same thing I got suspicous and tried a different cable. Like magic, the problem went away.

I don't think the phone is hosed, might be just the battery, I had that exact situation happen to me back in december, when plugged in theres not even a light. I tried drastic measures to get it working even heating the battery to 120f for 5 min then letting it cool for 10 over and over, it finally worked when I got to a sprint store and they plugged it in to one of their wall chargers, I was shocked after hours of doing things with no results. to this day im still using the same battery and it has the same life as when new
still using sbc kernels too

been running SBC and have had no negative effects

Original red oem battery. I've tried my usb cable and my 2 wall chargers so far. Still no lights.
I did see the screen blip on for a fraction of a second a moment ago while pressing at the the power button, so that gives me glimmer of hope. About to see what happens with a car charger on the way over to my friend's to try another battery.
Wish me luck!

The fact that you where using the SBC can mean absolutely nothing. I have a friend with an Evo as well, I flashed every experimental kernel and Rom I can find and have had no real issue, hardware wise. Him, on the other had, had only updated via the Sprint OTA, never flashed any custom roms or kernels, never even Rooted.
one night while texting a reply to me, his phone flat out died. it was plugged in and everything, just went black and charge light went out. I put my battery in his phone the next day, swapped SD cards, etc,etc. nothing brought it back to life, it was gone.
Sprint actually replaced it for him, just tell them that you where simply charging it and it wouldn't turn on the next day. they won't be able to get it to boot up because it's dead.. no idea why his did it, I kindof feel that is what happened with yours. I don't think the kernel had anything to do with it.

Well it's been confirmed to be the battery by trying another one.
Today is the first time I've ever let the phone do an extended charge over USB using one of these sbc kernels and the battery just happens to take a **** during the process? That's one killer coincidence...

try the battery again tomorrow out after sitting for a bit, it will charge and work again

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Well, I don't think I had seen any yet but I might be the first device/battery failure as a result of using one of the new superior charging kernels.
I have been using the Netarchy 4.2.2 beta kernal (aggressive with havs) I believe and everything has been fine for the past week or so.
This afternoon I plugged my phone into USB and laid down for a nap. I woke up not long ago and my phone is completely dead now. It will not power on or indicate that it is plugged in or anything. I don't have another battery to test, but could it just be a battery failure? Or is it possible the whole device is hosed?
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This happened to me when I was using a Zendroid kernel a couple weeks ago. You should be able to just plug your phone back in and charge it again. The orange light may blink at first or not turn on for a couple minutes, but it should charge.
I'm honestly not entirely sure, though. I put my dead battery in my sister's Evo, and the light thing is what happened to me. I let it charge in my sister's phone, and it turned out fine. Worked in the morning. Hopefully, you can do it in your own phone if you don't have another way to charge it.

deathsled said:
Well, I don't think I had seen any yet but I might be the first device/battery failure as a result of using one of the new superior charging kernels.
I have been using the Netarchy 4.2.2 beta kernal (aggressive with havs) I believe and everything has been fine for the past week or so.
This afternoon I plugged my phone into USB and laid down for a nap. I woke up not long ago and my phone is completely dead now. It will not power on or indicate that it is plugged in or anything. I don't have another battery to test, but could it just be a battery failure? Or is it possible the whole device is hosed?
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4.2.2 should not have SBC.

It would not be surprising to hear that a stock battery just quits working. Sprint replaces these for peeps all the time. Li-Poly batteries are cheap to produce and like anything else, there are always bad ones in the bunch.
Seriously doubt it was caused by whatever is loaded on the phone otherwise there would be more coming up with same issue. Unless there is something with the beta and USB charging method. Still doesn't sound very likely.

deathsled said:
Well it's been confirmed to be the battery by trying another one.
Today is the first time I've ever let the phone do an extended charge over USB using one of these sbc kernels and the battery just happens to take a **** during the process? That's one killer coincidence...
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What does your Battery Monitor Widget log say?

deathsled said:
Well it's been confirmed to be the battery by trying another one.
Today is the first time I've ever let the phone do an extended charge over USB using one of these sbc kernels and the battery just happens to take a **** during the process? That's one killer coincidence...
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That is a killer coincidence...but I do believe it is just a coincidence. I am at CES right now (well prep meetings and such) and the only way I charge when I travel is through USB. I have been using the 4.3 with SBC straight off of Net's thread (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=719763) and have had no issues. Good to see you have your phone back, but I am willing to bet it was a faulty battery, not the kernal.
Hope it doesn't turn you away from the SBC kernals, it is so much nicer to see it stay between 100% and 90% for hours on end instead of 10 minutes like before.

It's the kernel from my experience mostly tied to sbc kernels. My phone did the exact thing. I mean exact. Pulled battery, used different cables etc. One thing I did not use was the OEM HTC charger. I have PCs around me all the time or the car charger. My phone died in my room where I have other wall mounted usb chargers. Didn't think anything of it. A few hours later phone died. It was 54% or so when I plugged it in. I came back to a dead phone. Nothing i tried initially worked. Sprint tech support same thing. I knew they couldn't resolve it. I have spare batteries but this OEM battery was too new. I wanted to know the problem so as to not repeat it. Sprint offered to replace my phone but I said let me get back on that. Since I knew the kernels were playing with voltage and that over or under voltage can mess with the phone. I plugged the OEM HTC wall adapter in and sure enough I had a orange blinking light. I waited for a few mins. Booted into recovery and installed a nandroid backup with sense. It booted great and guess what my battery percentage was? 55%. The battery did not die but the system shut down and it wanted the exact voltage from the HTC charger to kick start it. Since then for me personally I have stayed away from sbc kernels. It might work for some but not for me.
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mrmomoman said:
It's the kernel from my experience mostly tied to sbc kernels. My phone did the exact thing. I mean exact. Pulled battery, used different cables etc. One thing I did not use was the OEM HTC charger. I have PCs around me all the time or the car charger. My phone died in my room where I have other wall mounted usb chargers. Didn't think anything of it. A few hours later phone died. It was 54% or so when I plugged it in. I came back to a dead phone. Nothing i tried initially worked. Sprint tech support same thing. I knew they couldn't resolve it. I have spare batteries but this OEM battery was too new. I wanted to know the problem so as to not repeat it. Sprint offered to replace my phone but I said let me get back on that. Since I knew the kernels were playing with voltage and that over or under voltage can mess with the phone. I plugged the OEM HTC wall adapter in and sure enough I had a orange blinking light. I waited for a few mins. Booted into recovery and installed a nandroid backup with sense. It booted great and guess what my battery percentage was? 55%. The battery did not die but the system shut down and it wanted the exact voltage from the HTC charger to kick start it. Since then for me personally I have stayed away from sbc kernels. It might work for some but not for me.
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Um, SBC and undervolting/HAVS aren't the same thing.
SBC is a new, experimental charging method that "just" came out.

Wow im a idiot

So i was trying to do rsd lite and my phone has about 20% battery life i figured it would be fine well in the middle of the process (downgrading for root) the phone died and so the computer wouldnt charge so i assumed my wall charger wouldnt i got my rc car charger tried to charge the battery and the battery blew up well now im stuck with out a phone so i did go to att's website and they don't sell batteries for the atrix yet i did contact att on the online chat and the lady said they will have them in the store i hope they do i will be going to the store as soon as they open next time i wont bother to flash my phone without a full battery
Moral of the story don't flash without a full battery =/

Andrew149 said:
Moral of the story don't flash without a full battery =/
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I'm pretty sure everyone knows that given that it's in big red letters at the beginning of the instructions on how to flash an SBF. When you say you plugged an RC car charger into your battery, do you actually mean a charger from a remote control car? How did the battery explode? If what I think is true you tried a charger not rated for the same voltage or amperage as the battery and that is why it exploded.

Andrew149 said:
Moral of the story don't flash without a full battery =/
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True moral of the story, "DON'T CHARGE BATTERIES WITH RANDOM CHARGERS" even if the charger you used was rated at the same voltage and amperage as your Atrix charger, unless you:
1) charge the whole phone on the charger
2) you ensure the charger's positive and negative terminals are the same as the Atrix charger.

The battery is the same as the droid's, I think. Can't remember. Google it.
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swanga said:
longest run-on sentence i have ever read, also with no period!!!!! you ARE *AN* idiot! just kidding good advice (keep full battery and dont charge with a non-standard cable [seriously, you are a genius]).
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Yep so today ran to three att store to get a new battery and guess what they dont sell the battery or carry replacments so they had to order one today at a help center for att =[ i will never flash with out a full battery

Andrew149 said:
i will never charge my phone with rc car charger
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i fixed it for you.
just to let u know, charging using your computer is not the same as a wall charger. the wall charger puts out more current and probably would of charge your phone.
edit: why dont you just bring the phone back to ATT and say the battery exploded when you were charging it? just dont say you used a rc charger though...

Consider blocking the battery. You should be able to order it online for significantly less than att will charge.
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My phone was almost dead and comp usb wouldn't charge it, A 30 sec google search mentioned the fact it wouldn't charge from usb when dead, wall charger is needed... pluged in and worked as normal.
I hope this was enough of a lession for you to not do something like that again.. at least you wernt hurt/ blinded.

Andrew149 said:
So i was trying to do rsd lite and my phone has about 20% battery life i figured it would be fine well in the middle of the process (downgrading for root) the phone died and so the computer wouldnt charge so i assumed my wall charger wouldnt i got my rc car charger tried to charge the battery and the battery blew up well now im stuck with out a phone so i did go to att's website and they don't sell batteries for the atrix yet i did contact att on the online chat and the lady said they will have them in the store i hope they do i will be going to the store as soon as they open next time i wont bother to flash my phone without a full battery
Moral of the story don't flash without a full battery =/
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Call Motorolas customer service, I forgot the number. But I told them I wasn't getting very good battery life, and they have already shipped me.out a new battery, and a back cover also free.
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Invalid Battery issue

I need help getting my Motorola Atrix to charge up the battery. When I plug in the charger the following message pops up in a box, " /!\ Invalid Battery
Your device battery is invalid and cannot be charged.
Replace the battery with an original Motorola battery."
I have the original Motorola Atrix battery that it came with originally. Problem occured out of nowhere. I cleared data/cache, rebooted phone, flashed different roms, took out battery then put it back in, used RSD Lite to flash back to stock 4.1.83 Atrix via sbf file but nothing worked.
Any fix for this?

Still can't figure out the problem.

Maybe need check warranty I use an chinese battery, and I did not get that message.
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Sent from my loved atrix ;D

I had this happen once. I just left it plugged in for a couple of minutes and it went away.
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If you have any warranty left, take it in. Most places don't even question battery problems and will give you a new one.
If not you could always order a cheap battery online and see if that fixes your issue. Or order a battery charger and spare battery. for $10, it's a pretty cheap fix if it works.

Zero-K said:
If you have any warranty left, take it in. Most places don't even question battery problems and will give you a new one.
If not you could always order a cheap battery online and see if that fixes your issue. Or order a battery charger and spare battery. for $10, it's a pretty cheap fix if it works.
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I ordered an extended battery on eBay and am waiting for it to arrive.

Blue Puma said:
I had this happen once. I just left it plugged in for a couple of minutes and it went away.
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Plugged in for a whole hour. It just stayed on Motorola Dual Core Technology screen. When i unplugged it the phone went off again.

mario925 said:
Plugged in for a whole hour. It just stayed on Motorola Dual Core Technology screen. When i unplugged it the phone went off again.
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What happens wen you charge it with the power off?...

ccrows said:
What happens wen you charge it with the power off?...
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It goes to 'M' Dual Core Technology screen and just stays there.

argggg ....you don't have an original charger ....
I have this probleme with a htc charger......with original one work great, don't boot

I've used my wifes HTC charger many times and never had any problems. If you are on AT&T call them and ask them to send you a new battery. They sent new one because my battery life sucked for free. Took about 5 days to get it.
Sent from my rooted, gingerblured badass atrix!

EclipseX said:
argggg ....you don't have an original charger ....
I have this probleme with a htc charger......with original one work great, don't boot
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yeah i do have original Motorola charger. doesnt fix issue.

I finally got the extended battery today. Same "Invalid Battery" issue occurs. Phone wont charge up battery.

how can i resolve this issue?
mario925 said:
I finally got the extended battery today. Same "Invalid Battery" issue occurs. Phone wont charge up battery.
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i have the same problem but you had this for a long time ago

i purchased two extra batteries from ebay, and upon putting it into the phone it gave me the 'invalid battery' use original from moto.
i fixed it by clearing the battery stats using the batterycalibration app. i think every time i swap batteries i need to do this, as i got the message again when i changed out my dead battery for the second charged one.

[Q] Galaxy s4 stops charging off wall charger.

I somewhat recently got an AT&T Galaxy S4 and it was working great, until I went to charge it. It seems that most of the time, when I plug my phone in to charge at night, it stops charging after about 10 minutes. I am already asleep by this time so when I wake up, I'll have like 40% battery left.
I have tried different chargers, cables, sockets, just not a new battery.
Any tips to try before buying a new battery to test? Also, what's a good slim battery for a general user?

xProtify said:
I somewhat recently got an AT&T Galaxy S4 and it was working great, until I went to charge it. It seems that most of the time, when I plug my phone in to charge at night, it stops charging after about 10 minutes. I am already asleep by this time so when I wake up, I'll have like 40% battery left.
I have tried different chargers, cables, sockets, just not a new battery.
Any tips to try before buying a new battery to test? Also, what's a good slim battery for a general user?
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Personally I think you should call it in to get it replaced. See my thread here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2349098&highlight=battery

Faluzure said:
Personally I think you should call it in to get it replaced. See my thread here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2349098&highlight=battery
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I was hoping I wouldn't have to switch it. Oh well, as long as it works. Thanks!

xProtify said:
I was hoping I wouldn't have to switch it. Oh well, as long as it works. Thanks!
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Yeah... well i mean it may not be the same issue I had but it's better safe than sorry, you know? The warranty is still valid, so might as well take advantage of it.
But in your case, at least it's charging and you're maintaining some sort of usable phone. Mine was dead for 2 whole days.
I would go ahead and call today because they ship Next Business Day. Meaning you'd get it tomorrow (if it's not too late). I had to wait 2 days because of the 4th of July.