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Yesterday I had the worst experience on my phone. I bricked it but not only that I used odin and checked the box saying partion something... from there on out my phone would not turn on, go into download mode, nor CW. I had to take it back to the sprint store...
What exactly happened?
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maybe
Was it charged?
Haha yes it was completely charged. I'm certain of that because I was flashing a new rom when I got stuck at the Samsung screen and tried to odin back. I'm not a noob to the process is just don't know how i got a black screen showing no power and no sense of life. I killed my epic basically haha
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It's likely that your misuse of Odin overwrote the partition that "contains" download mode. This would make a rare, truly bricked Epic.
I believe thats what i did. Ive used odin many times just to get back to stock. Man was i stupid when i took it into the sprint store. I forgot to clear out my sd card. It took them an hour and a half to finally find out that i rooted the device. They replaced for freeeeeeee this time only.
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Same thing happened to me the one time. The phone was totally dead. No lights, no download mode, nothing. I left it on the charger for the night expecting to go to best buy the next day to exchange it for a new phone. About 5 hours later I decided to see if I could turn it on and viola, the phone responded and got into download mode. I don't think the battery was dead either because my battery was fully charged before I started the process. My Epic is a fighter
Last night i changed my gt. Today it's changed, 100% percent. And icm goin' to check mail, use internet etc, after 5 mins. "Battery low", 1%. I change it again, after a few min it's back too 100% percent again, and the battery decrease each 10s. I restarted and it said 77%. I didn't get it. Did anyone get the same problem as me and anyone can help me???
Thank you very much!!
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Your not alone, i always experience this, i just learned to live with it well until an maybe an update will fix this i think there is a problem with the android system, you can still try to calibrate your battery though it didnt work for me
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Some expert told me that maybe it's 'cause the changer. Any ideas 'bout it?
Thanks!
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Some expert told me that maybe it's 'cause the changer. Any ideas 'bout it?
Thanks!
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It is definately the android system. There is another thread here where the samsung rep says they know about this version of android and the battery issue. My tab went to zero yesterday in ten seconds. It took me a long time to get the battery meter to show it was charging again.
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It is definately the android system. There is another thread here where the samsung rep says they know about this version of android and the battery issue. My tab went to zero yesterday in ten seconds. It took me a long time to get the battery meter to show it was charging again.
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yep, i second you bro, if a lot of people are experiencing this then it may be due to some bug or something on the system i think its its definitely not the hardware if it is shame on samsung for manufacturing faulty devices, well lets hope for the update
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If i root my gt and install the battery fixing applications on the market. Does it help?
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Well i had the same gave it to the samsung service centre...and they replaced my battery...and now i have no.such problem...So i think its with the battery only...Dont know the cause though...
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Has anyone tried calibrating the battery? I just received a Tab for testing and it was used prior. Some battery monitor apps reported less then 12hours available after a full charge. After I calibrated it, i'm getting ~28 hours / moderate use before battery is depleted. What amazes me with the Tab is that when idle (overnight) there is no decrease in battery levels and graphing shows a complete flat line when idle.
I love this device
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Has anyone tried calibrating the battery? I just received a Tab for testing and it was used prior. Some battery monitor apps reported less then 12hours available after a full charge. After I calibrated it, i'm getting ~28 hours / moderate use before battery is depleted. What amazes me with the Tab is that when idle (overnight) there is no decrease in battery levels and graphing shows a complete flat line when idle.
I love this device
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I have done all of the battery recalibrations suggested here on xda to no avail. The only thing that has helped me is plugging in a portable kennsington battery by usb that tricks the battery indicator and it seems to slow down my battery drain.
Said at all, i have to get use to with it, right???
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Try doing a resetting on the tab, and do a full charge, I mean let it charge for 8 hrs continuously.
If it can't work, bring it to Samsung for firmware upgrade (takes about an hour), after which do the same, long charging.
Last option, ask for an exchange with Samsung.
Rooting it has never been my option
henrylam said:
Try doing a resetting on the tab, and do a full charge, I mean let it charge for 8 hrs continuously.
If it can't work, bring it to Samsung for firmware upgrade (takes about an hour), after which do the same, long charging.
Last option, ask for an exchange with Samsung.
Rooting it has never been my option
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Ok. I'll test and report asap. Thanks
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Ok. After resetting my gt. It' have the same problem with battery. Maybe i'll have to go to Samsung..
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Ok, hope it will work after new fimware upgrades. Mine sure does.
If you can let go your tab to them for a couple of days, you can ask them to check on the status of the battery as well.
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Ok, hope it will work after new fimware upgrades. Mine sure does.
If you can let go your tab to them for a couple of days, you can ask them to check on the status of the battery as well.
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Can i let my tab go? I dont think so. But i'll try..
Thanks
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Hey guys, I was in the same boat (you can see my posts on other threads) and I have tried pretty much everything from flashing rom, resetting, calibrating, and bump charging. Last night I decided to open up the tab and look at the battery, thinking maybe I should buy a new battery to test.
Long story short, I disconnected the battery from the board and let it sit for 15mins before reconnecting. I check every couple hours to see the battery level in android. So far, I only lost 1% for 20hrs in flight mode w/o any app running. I usually lost 20% overnight and would regain that after reboot. So the problem is GONE and the system is reporting the right battery percentage without fake dropping.
I will continue to monitor it and report back, but it looks great so far. Hope this helps other XDA fellows.
Thats actually ive been wanting to do just prick it open, funny though i my problem resolved it self, last night i keep rebooting my tab up to the point it hangs and froze then i left it like that for an hour then i pressed the power button for around 10 seconds to reboot it again, once it booted up it showed the correct percentage, now im still monitoring if the trick went well..
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Hey guys, I was in the same boat (you can see my posts on other threads) and I have tried pretty much everything from flashing rom, resetting, calibrating, and bump charging. Last night I decided to open up the tab and look at the battery, thinking maybe I should buy a new battery to test.
Long story short, I disconnected the battery from the board and let it sit for 15mins before reconnecting. I check every couple hours to see the battery level in android. So far, I only lost 1% for 20hrs in flight mode w/o any app running. I usually lost 20% overnight and would regain that after reboot. So the problem is GONE and the system is reporting the right battery percentage without fake dropping.
I will continue to monitor it and report back, but it looks great so far. Hope this helps other XDA fellows.
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Hi Shinji, it is quite unbelievable that the tab only drain 1% for "20hrs". But it is great, if opening the tab can solve battery issue. Now, I myself encounter some other new problems, after I solved the sudden drop in battery issue by upgrading to new firmware (e.g. 50% => ask me to shut down). Now, no matter how I charge, it will remain 67 or 70%............
Do you have the instruction to open up the tab, or any link which you can lead me too? Thanks.
Hey henrylam do you charge phone whilst on and how long do you charge for before you get fed up waiting for it to move from 70% and remove charger ?
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Hey henrylam do you charge phone whilst on and how long do you charge for before you get fed up waiting for it to move from 70% and remove charger ?
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I try both, on and off, sometimes it work sometimes it doesn't. After I have done factory reset, it seems ok for first 3 cycles. After that, the problem surfaced again.
Sometimes, it just stop charging at 65 (curvefish battery indicates) but battery icon shows like 85%. I felt like smashing the Tab and get myself a new Ipad. I am thinking to send it again to Samsung this Friday, and let them investigate for a while (hopefully 2 weeks will be sufficient). Damn it, my wife tab has no such issues. She didn't even do an upgrade on her firmware.
Hey all bought a vega from pc world and for the price(£199)im more than happy with it,if there's one negative I've come across with the vega then it has to be battery standby drain.I fully charged my vega and used it for about 3 hours,watched a film and a bit of web browsing anyway when i put the tablet into standby(with airplane mode on)it was at 39%.Then nine hours later i switched it out of standby and it was at 30%.Hmmm i thought that's quite a big drop in just 9 hours,anyway i played one 2minute video and with the vega still showing 30% i again put it into standby.12 hours later i awoke the vega again expecting the 30% to be maybe down to about 20% or 18%. But no it was at 7%.so basically in the space of 21 hours with no usage at all(one 2 minute video) the vega had gone from 39% down to 7%...compared to my galaxy tab which in the same timespan with the equivalent usage would only lose about 3% im thinking has the vega got a faulty battery or something.Maybe this is just one of them things,you get what you pay for,the galaxy tab cost me double the price of the vega. Like i say for the price the vega is pretty impressive but the standby drain is defiantly a major downer.I've now started to charge my vega overnight no matter what power I've got left on it.
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I have the exact same problem on both my Mobii's (same as vega) it looses like 1-2%/Hour on standby and I have seen some other ppl having the same issues, so sadly i guess it is more or less normal for the vega/Mobii to drain like this.
I have solved so that I power it down when i am out and about and dont have a charger near.
Hi slipurson Even turning the vega off doesn't help for me.When i seen how poor the vega was in standby i decided that when i'm not going to use the vega for a while I'll power it off.One night i had 42% left so knowing i wouldn't be using it for a good 12 or so hours i switched it of,when i turned it back on it was showing 17%.
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This might be wrong, but I recall reading that the Android phone function is enabled on the tablets, and this can cause a hit on the battery.
Not sure if you can fix this with a hack or with a new ROM, however (I've been putting up with it so far)
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This might be wrong, but I recall reading that the Android phone function is enabled on the tablets, and this can cause a hit on the battery.
Not sure if you can fix this with a hack or with a new ROM, however (I've been putting up with it so far)
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With the Corvus ROM the creator provides a phone removal set of files to install through Clockwork. However when I applied them I got a message on each boot about some process or other not working. I had to install the ROM again over the top to remove that message.
Both my wife's and my Vega also drains when in standby but not as much when fully powered off. As neither of us used the original ROM I do not know if it is caused or made worse by any of the modified ones or just a problem of the hardware.
We are both using the nightly builds of CM 7 now. Whilst I can't be sure as yet, having only recently changed over, the battery drain issue might not be as bad, but that ROM also has all the dialler and phone components remaining.
Hi vimesUK The battery drain on my vega was happening whilst i was running the stock Rom,I've recently put on Paul's modacco r8 Rom because i hated the big notification bar at the top and also to get access to the full market.Gotta say though that even now I've changed from the stock Rom to a custom Rom that the standby battery drain still seems to be there.
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We both like the CM 7 build with the tablet tweaks. This enables us to have the status bar at the bottom with the option for it to remain on top of any running app or not. I didn't think that having it on the bottom was a big thing but having tried it I much prefer it that way.
@wildcat777 As you have noted the battery draining issues on both the std and modified ROM, as well as others reporting it, it must be assumed to be a common issue. I will have to try and noted what my battery percentage is when I shut down my Vega, I keep forgetting to do that, and see if the improvement that I think we have noted in the CM 7 build is actually happening or, as I suspect, no different as I can't see how it would be if the Vega is shut down rather than just in standby.
FYI: I remembered that I unplugged my wife's Vega this morning at 9:00am when it had fully charged. Just checking it now (it was left switched off) by booting it up and it is at 100%.
That represents 5 hours of being off charge but powered down.
Mine has been powered off for at least 15 hours and it seems to have lost about 2-3% charge, but then a reboot will also use up some power.
I've known my Vega to be at 60% when I switch it off, when I switch it back on a little later on or even the next day the battery level has dropped right down to about 18%.
There's obviously a problem somewhere, I don't know if somebody is trying to pinpoint why this is happening.
Vimes the problem seems to start after the vega has been turned on and used for a bit,what i mean is,when i charge the vega whilst of then unplug it,i can leave it for 6 or 7 hours then turn it on and its still at 100% or 99% charged,but after that 1st initial switch on after the charge anytime i put it into any kind of prolonged standby and it will lose power hand over fist,even switching it of doesn't help.personally i don't think there's a fix for this,i think it's just something we'll all have to put up with.There is one possible solution that im considering.I also own a galaxy tab and the battery meter was giving out fake readings.so say the battery was at 60% it would suddenly drop to 3% even though i knew for certain it had plenty of charge left.anyway the fix for this problem was to open up the tab and remove the battery,wait for 30 minutes and replace the battery.this 100% fixed the problem,there's a thread on the galaxy tab forum on this i'll try and post it for you all.don't know if this might work with the vega or not could be worth a try.
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Cant post the thread but if you go to forums its in the Samsung galaxy tab general section and the thread is called "FAKE STATUS OF BATTERY"read the entire thread to understand the battery removal technique this has worked 100% and has helped solve a major problem that the tab had.
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Would wiping the battery stats in ClockworkMod make any difference? I've not tried this myself.
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Would wiping the battery stats in ClockworkMod make any difference? I've not tried this myself.
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wiping the battery stats on the galaxy tab didn't work so i guess it wouldn't work on the vega either.
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I wonder if Advent are aware of this bug. I am using the Modaco R8 rom. Does this bug accur with the stock rom? Doubt anybody
has had the stock rom on long enough to find out.
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This application worked a treat with my Android phone (ZTE Blade), although I have not tried it with the Advent as I see no need, as yet...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1024867
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I wonder if Advent are aware of this bug. I am using the Modaco R8 rom. Does this bug accur with the stock rom? Doubt anybody
has had the stock rom on long enough to find out.
Yeah the problem was still there whilst running stock Rom,i used my vega for about 3 weeks before putting r8 onto it and the standby drain happened constantly.
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Maybe help if you remove phone.apk from core process
www.addictivetips.com/mobile/how-to-squeeze-more-battery-life-out-of-advent-vega/
I found simple way to remove:
I renamed with root explorer,force close is came up, and turned off and on Vega with by button.
I to have the problem of low battery after leaving the device off for a while, although it seems to be a battery gauge problem rather than a battery problem.
Because it still lasts ages before needing charging, hell sometimes it will suddenly flip from 10% to 80%.
Think battery can't read it's charge properly is all.
Hi, yesterday I installed CM7 on my android, all went well, very awesome.
Soon the LED Light messed up when I would plug the phone in via usb.
The LED had colors that were like mixed and all.
Searched on Google, and found nothing... So I then did the whole process over (wiped data...) And near the last step I wiped data instead of wiping cache.
It was like 5 in the am and I got sleepy so when I restarted the phone(Of course it would take a while), I went to lie down, then fell asleep. Woke up and my phone was still at the Motorola Logo screen. I also seen that I forgot to put it on the charger before went to sleep.
Long story short, My phone won't get past the logo screen, I would try to go back to 2.2 sbf but when I get into the bootloader screen the battery low cannot program.. error comes up.
Yeah, I explained practically everything..
What can I do to get it back to normal, so I can get CM7 back?
I only got to enjoy 20 minutes of the rom...
My phone: Motorola Bravo
Service: AT&T
You need to charge your battery some how? Does it charge at all
Do you know someone with phone?
If not ask for a battery replacement from at&t store and hope it has enough charge
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rdannar said:
You need to charge your battery some how? Does it charge at all
Do you know someone with phone?
If not ask for a battery replacement from at&t store and hope it has enough charge
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My thought on charging was when the phone is off and you charge it, it goes to the charging screen, then eventually the display turns off.
Instead of that, it just stays at the Motorola Logo screen..
I've also had it on the charger for about 4 hours now. Still remaining at the logo screen, BUT it has also gotten warm..Maybe that means its charging? (right??)
2. Since I've moved, nope. Don't know anyone that has this phone and is near me.
3. Battery Replacement. It's 1am here so, I guess I'll just keep it on the charge till the morningmorning..
I could do the bootloader sbf back to froyo thing but since the phone's battery is dead to the max, I get the error, meaning I can't do that option.
I'll call my local AT&T store to see if I could get a battery replacement if I can't get it to turn on to at least the Recovery or bootloader.
Pain.. pain in my brain.
try to get it plugged in w/ no logo, to ensure it's off off... if not you might have to let it sit off the charger till it's dead enough that it doesn't try to boot...
i think it's trying to boot, but boot looping and not aquiring enough of a charge,
do you have it on a wall charger? make sure it's like 800 mah or higher, i think the phone comes with a 5.1v 800mah which was weird to me tha tit was 5.1 cause all other phones are 5.0 but anyway maybe you're not getting enough of a current to it to overcome the drain from the bootloop?
Are you able to get into custom recovery? (Do you see the blue LED at any point when the phone begins to try to power on?)
You have soft bricked your phone, so the only way to get it working is to sbf back to 2.2. The problem is, the bootloader doesn't allow you to sbf if your battery is below a certain point. You need to either get that battery charged or get a new one.
If you can't get anything at your store, I will cross-ship/trade you a charged battery (1 year old) for your current one and $3 for shipping? Let me know if you'd be interested in something like that...
I also bought a battery from Amazon (OEMShop or something), and I think it came 40%ish charged... You could try your luck?
Just so you understand the charging, Android uses the OS to monitor the charging. If the phone is bricked it doesn't charge… plain and simple. It sucks if you try to sbf after the battery is drained, but the only thing you can do is get another one. Hope your search for one comes up well.
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Just so you understand the charging, Android uses the OS to monitor the charging. If the phone is bricked it doesn't charge… plain and simple. It sucks if you try to sbf after the battery is drained, but the only thing you can do is get another one. Hope your search for one comes up well.
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Yeah..no.. I'll be getting a replacement phone (same one). Basically in 4 to 6 days..
I'm so happy, my phone kept restarting anyway when using data.. But yeah, thanks though.
Before you send other phone back... sbf with other battery back to stock.
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Yeah..no.. I'll be getting a replacement phone (same one). Basically in 4 to 6 days..
I'm so happy, my phone kept restarting anyway when using data.. But yeah, thanks though.
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Before you send other phone back... sbf with other battery back to stock.
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Yeah, I thought of that when I got of the phone with them. Thanks for the heads up though!
My replacement phone came in the mail earlier this afternoon! Thanks for all the help you guys. Glad I came here. So excited, just 10% more and it's fully charged.
I think I may get a extra battery just in case for my phone. Great post!
This just happened to me too. I thought what to do...
Spliced one of my old car phone chargers and hooked it to my phone battery... plugged it into my car fir 5 minutes and was charged enough to sbf.
Don't recommend it if you don't know what your doing
Cheers
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rubbachicken said:
try to get it plugged in w/ no logo, to ensure it's off off... if not you might have to let it sit off the charger till it's dead enough that it doesn't try to boot...
i think it's trying to boot, but boot looping and not aquiring enough of a charge,
do you have it on a wall charger? make sure it's like 800 mah or higher, i think the phone comes with a 5.1v 800mah which was weird to me tha tit was 5.1 cause all other phones are 5.0 but anyway maybe you're not getting enough of a current to it to overcome the drain from the bootloop?
Are you able to get into custom recovery? (Do you see the blue LED at any point when the phone begins to try to power on?)
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Yes, I know I know this question has been asked a million times on here. I have tried looking through past forums & none hold my unique problem. Just please, help you guys. OH MY GOD! My phone will not hold its charge and ive literally tried EVERTHING. I have a nexus galaxy and one night it decides to not charge after I connect to about 3 different chargers. I take it to Sprint & they tell me the port is busted so they replace it & it works fine. I charge it at home & the little battery icon says its charging but the battery itself is getting lower & lower. That makes no sense. How could it obviously say its charging but the freaking battery not charge? so I go in again & they give me a new battery. Still to no avail. I even bought a new charger and when I come home to charge it, the battery gets lower as if its not being charged. the lock screen says its charging but when I log into the phone & check the battery options on settings, it says its not. its so frustrating and I don't know what else to do. please help! is it probably something internally wrong with the phone to where I have to replace it to a whole new one?
Wrong section bud. This isn't the nexus galaxy forum, it's the nexus 4 forum.
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Time to buy a new battery?
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Time to upgrade to the Nexus 4.
Orrr buy a new battery. :thumbup:
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