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Battery is not connected.

Please help me here lol. Just got this message starting today and my battery is about to die. I plug it in the charger and it won't charge and I get that message. I didn't do anything different today. Flashed voodoo a couple days ago.
Help!

Nevermind, started working all of a sudden. Hmmm...

redlinegts85 said:
Please help me here lol. Just got this message starting today and my battery is about to die. I plug it in the charger and it won't charge and I get that message. I didn't do anything different today. Flashed voodoo a couple days ago.
Help!
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have you tried pulling out the batt with the phone on ????
Different charger perhaps ????

redlinegts85 said:
Please help me here lol. Just got this message starting today and my battery is about to die. I plug it in the charger and it won't charge and I get that message. I didn't do anything different today. Flashed voodoo a couple days ago.
Help!
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Good chance it is a bad battery. I just had it happen with two EBAY "oem" G7 (certainly counterfeits in my Epic). Sprint support said this is indicator of bad battery. It is actually specifically in the manual of the Galaxies. eg see page 8 here: http://www.wirelesszone.com/admin/uploads/11452192014c8f6de50ea6a.pdf
I swapped out to genuine batteries and both worked and both ebay batteries gave me the "battery is not connected."

aero1 said:
Good chance it is a bad battery. I just had it happen with two EBAY "oem" G7 (certainly counterfeits in my Epic). Sprint support said this is indicator of bad battery. It is actually specifically in the manual of the Galaxies. eg see page 8 here: http://www.wirelesszone.com/admin/uploads/11452192014c8f6de50ea6a.pdf
I swapped out to genuine batteries and both worked and both ebay batteries gave me the "battery is not connected."
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I doubt it's a bad battery. I was reading through the voodoo lagfix thread and more than a few people got that error after flashing voodoo.

redlinegts85 said:
I doubt it's a bad battery. I was reading through the voodoo lagfix thread and more than a few people got that error after flashing voodoo.
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I see two people total out of perhaps hundreds. to me that makes it almost a certainty they have a bad battery. Ebay batteries are proably 1/20 to 1/50 bad and eve stock batteries in the phones probably have a qc problem of 1/1000
I have bought four ebay batteries and two are giving that exact same message on 100% stock phoens.

im getting this same message on a brand new samsung fascinate ordered through amazon. have only installed clockwork mod and a few apps..

I also get that message on a brand new fascinate with root. I plugged the phone into my car charger this morning and it worked and it was working at my office...weird...
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yep, bad batteries

They are NOT bad batteries.
Sheesh. There is a kernel bug doing it.

aero1 said:
Good chance it is a bad battery. I just had it happen with two EBAY "oem" G7 (certainly counterfeits in my Epic). Sprint support said this is indicator of bad battery. It is actually specifically in the manual of the Galaxies. eg see page 8 here: http://www.wirelesszone.com/admin/uploads/11452192014c8f6de50ea6a.pdf
I swapped out to genuine batteries and both worked and both ebay batteries gave me the "battery is not connected."
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wow noobsauce

So how do I make it go away?

Jodiuh said:
So how do I make it go away?
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Me personally, and YMMV, I reflashed (is that the right term?) the voodoo 0.2 lagfix kernel I was using and it seemed to cause the issue to happen *less*.
When it does happen now, it seems to remedy itself if I do a battery pull, power-up, wait until I'm at the homescreen and everything is loaded, then do a power-down/power-up (reboot) - all without being plugged in via USB.
After that, the message seems to go away. Minor nuisance.
I saw in another forum that the 1200 voodoo kernel does not have this issue, I cannot verify this myself though.

Trust me when I say it is a bad battery. I have my fascinate completely stock (virgin), I ordered a battery off of ebay that gives me that message when I plug in my charge cable or sync cable. Doesn't do it with the stock battery
Logic my friends.

newtype06 said:
Trust me when I say it is a bad battery. I have my fascinate completely stock (virgin), I ordered a battery off of ebay that gives me that message when I plug in my charge cable or sync cable. Doesn't do it with the stock battery
Logic my friends.
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You have no clue. If they are stock....maybe its a bad battery. Maybe.
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I no longer have the problem. All I did was use rom manager and download both jts 11/16 lv voodoo kernel and superclean rom. No more message.

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?

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 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

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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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.

My phone charges only during the day!!

Itz weird. I'm facing this problem since the last 3 days.
What happens is, my phone does not get charged during the evening or the night. I plugged it in the AC socket, I can see the red light and the battery indicator on the status bar also shows the charging animation. But the battery percentage just does not increase!!
Like, for instance, yesterday night, I tried to charge my phone and it did not get charged. It discharged fully. Today morning, at around 9am, I kept it to charge in the same socket and it charged (upto 100%). And just now, (itz 5:48 pm here) I tried to charge it through the same socket and itz not getting charged. WTF!!
P.S. I'm running CM7 build 16 (or probably 15). I am using this build since it was released.
HTC Wildfire

I think you should calibrate the battery. If still problem persist then my suggestion will be to get a new battery. Because this problem has been asked in Q&A a long days ago. Don't remember the subject line though
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1st remove battery wait for sometime later insert it and try to charge ur phone through PC. It might work, else go to clockworkmod > advance > wipe battery > restart. This might work.

I tried that.
BTW, today my phone got charged usinng another charger. Itz still weird. My charger works inn my college but not at my home.. LoL

I think buying a new battery and keeping it as spare is the best alternative.

yash_p90 said:
I think buying a new battery and keeping it as spare is the best alternative.
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Best thing I ever bought was a spare battery and a universal (so I can use it when I upgrade too) battery charger that you clip a battery into, I never have to worry about battery life as no matter how hard I hammer it, my spare is always charged first.
Sent from my HTC Wildfire using xda premium

BTW how much it cost for original battery in India?

Amruthhr said:
BTW how much it cost for original battery in India?
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Somewhere between 700 to 800 Rs

Can't you change the phone's date and time?

[Q] Battery charged but showed 0% ?

My gf said her N7 showed a 0% charge even though 2 hours earlier she had a 60% charge. She then plugged it in and restarted, then it showed a 60% charge again.
Any ideas what may be wrong?

androidmonkey said:
My gf said her N7 showed a 0% charge even though 2 hours earlier she had a 60% charge. She then plugged it in and restarted, then it showed a 60% charge again.
Any ideas what may be wrong?
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is it rooted? maybe wiping batter stats will fix it.

Its not rooted.

Fufu_the_Great said:
is it rooted? maybe wiping batter stats will fix it.
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Not likely. Battery stats has absolutely nothing to do with reported charge level. Wiping it will have the same effect as clearing his market search history... None at all.
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Are you using the charger that came with the Nexus 7? 'Cause the same thing happened to me last month. I used a charger I got from ebay, plugged it in, charged all day, came back, unplugged it, turned on & said it was in the red!

Same thing happened to me shortly after I had the N7.... and that was with using the supplied mains charger and cable.
All I did was leave it alone for a further hour and when I then went back to check the screen it had jumped all of 13%.
I was tempted to return the N7 but as it was night and I couldn't return it I left it on charge overnight...... The following morning it was 100% charged.
Since then it's been charged dozen's of times and not once been a problem since (says he touching wood).

My problem is that it wont show that its charging even tho it is. Tried all chargers i have and even the stock one is same. Was going to return it but all the horror stories I've heard i decided not going to bother. Chances are i get a worse unit back. Personally it looks like the connector is not going all the way in. I am going to shave some of the plastic off and see if that helps. Anyway I think Google needs better quality control at Asus and even at Samsung, i remember how my Gnex was packaged.
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im running aokp JB build 2 and everytime i turn it on, the little battery icon says for example "54%" and on the lock screen it says "100%"
kinda strange. I was about to ask if it was rooted also, but someone did that before me, so im lost for words

[Q] I9515 Not Charging

I have Galaxy S4 I9515 Black Edition, KitKat 4.4.2, stock rom and not Rooted.
I bought this phone new 6 months ago. I charged my phone completely yesterday and used it till midnight when its charging got 0%. I put it on charging whole night but I saw it that it was not charging. I left it for whole and night and saw it next day. I turned on my phone and it was 54% charged. I was using original charger that came with phone. I put it on charging again, it showed that it was charging but actually it was discharging. I installed battery monitor app to check it. It showed: Usb connected and discharging. Battery health was good. I used another charger of nexus 7 (2012) but it did the same. Showing that it was charging but it was actually discharging. The current sign on battery is black as it should be.
I think battery is not working well. I restarted phone. Took out battery and put it in. Still same. There is no physical change on battery. I am thinking to change the battery. It won't turn on now.
What do you suggest guys?

usama36 said:
I have Galaxy S4 I9515 Black Edition, KitKat 4.4.2, stock rom and not Rooted.
I bought this phone new 6 months ago. I charged my phone completely yesterday and used it till midnight when its charging got 0%. I put it on charging whole night but I saw it that it was not charging. I left it for whole and night and saw it next day. I turned on my phone and it was 54% charged. I was using original charger that came with phone. I put it on charging again, it showed that it was charging but actually it was discharging. I installed battery monitor app to check it. It showed: Usb connected and discharging. Battery health was good. I used another charger of nexus 7 (2012) but it did the same. Showing that it was charging but it was actually discharging. The current sign on battery is black as it should be.
I think battery is not working well. I restarted phone. Took out battery and put it in. Still same. There is no physical change on battery. I am thinking to change the battery.
What do you suggest guys?
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Buy other battery.

Joku1981 said:
Buy other battery.
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I just bought a new battery. Put it in and its still discharging. PLEASE HELP........
Any help will be appreciated

usama36 said:
I just bought a new battery. Put it in and its still discharging. PLEASE HELP........
Any help will be appreciated
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It still in warranty if you bought it new 6 months ago. Fix or replace it in the store that you took it.

Joku1981 said:
It still in warranty if you bought it new 6 months ago. Fix or replace it in the store that you took it.
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Well its imported and it has no warranty. What do you think will be the problem? What will be the cost of repairing? Another option is that I will sell it.

I reset my phone via recovery. Now its not charging with any charger. No sign of charging. What is the problem??? Please Help....

usama36 said:
I reset my phone via recovery. Now its not charging with any charger. No sign of charging. What is the problem??? Please Help....
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It could be the mainboard or USB port. You can change the USB port manually following this little GUIDE or going to one service center store.

software related?
Joku1981 said:
It could be the mainboard or USB port. You can change the USB port manually following this little GUIDE or going to one service center store.
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It could be a lot of software running on your phone bogging your cpu. Hold home button swipe away running apps. Open task manager and clear memory.
Then go to android settings, more, battery and look at what is using the most power.

usama36 said:
I have Galaxy S4 I9515 Black Edition, KitKat 4.4.2, stock rom and not Rooted.
I bought this phone new 6 months ago. I charged my phone completely yesterday and used it till midnight when its charging got 0%. I put it on charging whole night but I saw it that it was not charging. I left it for whole and night and saw it next day. I turned on my phone and it was 54% charged. I was using original charger that came with phone. I put it on charging again, it showed that it was charging but actually it was discharging. I installed battery monitor app to check it. It showed: Usb connected and discharging. Battery health was good. I used another charger of nexus 7 (2012) but it did the same. Showing that it was charging but it was actually discharging. The current sign on battery is black as it should be.
I think battery is not working well. I restarted phone. Took out battery and put it in. Still same. There is no physical change on battery. I am thinking to change the battery.
What do you suggest guys?
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its possible that your phones charger may be shot or the connections may be dirty probaby more on the dirty side clean it with a q tip

So, I sent my phone to repair centre and they said that the crystal ic in it is not working. I will be fixed from the Samsung Centre. Now I am going to send it there. Lets hope it gets fixed.