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Phone wont charge over 85%

Hi all.. My Evo Shift 4G seems to have developed a charging issue.. I'm not sure if the phone is not reading the voltage from the battery properly or what.. Basically, my phone will not charge over 85%... In other words -- it never reaches 90%+ on the phone, which would typically cause the charging indicator to change from amber to green.
I've watched what the phone supposedly sees with 'Battery Monitor Widget'. Currently, the phone has been on the AC charger for about 7 hours... The phone reports 77% charged, 32.1 degrees C for the battery, 4024mV. I've watched it during the charge cycles, and when the battery is low, the current is definitely being applied to the battery -- around 500-600 mA. When it gets close to 70%, however, it starts ramping down the current.. Right now, at that 77% level, it is showing 0mA being applied to the charging circuit.
I have 3 batteries -- two HTC original batteries, one about 2 weeks old, the other from March.. I also have a 3rd party battery.. All of the batteries behave the same in MY phone.. If I throw the batteries into a couple of friend's HTC phones (one has a Hero, the other a MyTouch 4G) -- their phones report the charge at 100%.
I also have an external charger -- if I charge the batteries in that fully, my phone shows 85% charge, while my friend's phones will show the batteries at 100%. Likewise, if I put their batteries in my phone once theirs are fully charged, my phone will show it at 85%.
Anyone know how or if I can correct this?
Thanks,
Rick

Have you tried clearing the battery stats and re-calibrating?

Ron Overdrive said:
Have you tried clearing the battery stats and re-calibrating?
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I would suggest you do that.
Your phone would have to be rooted though.
Evo SHIFT

Enraged21 said:
I would suggest you do that.
Your phone would have to be rooted though.
Evo SHIFT
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It is rooted.. I get the same behavior on CM7 or the rooted OTA 2.3 update by x99..
I've tried clearing the battery stats.. That has not worked.. I believe it comes down to a problem with how my phone is reading the voltage of the battery..

Worked for me...
I had the same problem but the it could charge to 93ish% percent, not 85. I fixed by clearing the battery stats, setting the screen to never go off, and left it on overnight (while I'd been using it all day), recharged it to full while it was off the next morning, and unplugged the charger and reinserted it until when I could plug it in starting with the light green. Following, I turned it on while it was still plugged in, downloaded the battery calibration app from the market, and calibrated it.
Afterwards, I've been able to get the same outrageous battery life that others claimed they got on roms like evervolv and miui, and been able to charge to full. See if this works for you.

Have you tried a different charger? Say if you are using the wall try a usb or if using a usb try a wall. Just a suggestion don't know if it'll work.
EDIT: Looks like I need to follow my own rules and read everything fully. Sorry for the ignorant post it'll prob be no help!

FdxRider said:
Have you tried a different charger? Say if you are using the wall try a usb or if using a usb try a wall. Just a suggestion don't know if it'll work.
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I've tried charging via a number of different chargers:
1) HTC AC Charger (5V/1A)
2) Computer USB (5V 500mA)
3) Palm Pre AC Charger (5V/1A)
4) Palm Pre Car Charger (5V/1A)
5) Aftermarket AC Charger (5V/1A)

I think there may be a problem with CWM. I tired the wipe battery stats a few times (7) and it seems like it didn't do anything. Then I downloaded an app from the market called battery calibration, wiped with the app. I think it actually worked with the app, as my run times went from about 8-9hrs to well over 24. Hope this helps - Viperspike
From what i understand, charge to 100%, turn phone off and charge a little more, reboot, wipe batt stats and unplug. Run all the way down to zero (phone shutdown) and restart one more time (it should immediately turn off) Then plug in the charger, and reboot. Once on the charger make sure it charges uninterrupted until it reaches 100% the first charge.

Thats the problem.. I can never get anywhere near 100% -- 85% is the top.. At that point current drops to 0mA and the charging circuit turns off.
I did send a support request to HTC.. This is their response:
You were having issues with the battery life on your HTC EVO Shift 4G. You mention that you have tried another battery but you cannot get the LED indicator light to turn green or the charge percentage to go above 85%. You state that you have tested your two batteries in a friend’s MyTouch 4G and HTC Hero. Both devices show 100% when there is an indication of a full charge. Unfortunately, there might be another hardware related issue causing this to occur so I would suggest you consider a repair request for your Android device.

Dead Galaxy S2 Revived

Yesterday my galaxy s2 battery drained to 0% within a couple of hours and when i got home it would not charge or turn on. No power, boot, recovery or download. It was dead. I have seen the battery charging icon come on for a second a couple of times but it is not charging.
Today i got my Galaxy S (S1) battery and aligned 3 out of the 4 pins with the battery on an angle, then pushed the battery to hold contact. With the usb cable plugged in, All of a sudden the charging battery icon came up!! you must keep holding it but.
ill use this to make titanium backup and cwm nandroid backup, while i send back my galaxy s2 to get repaired.
report back if this works for you!
i believe the problem is either the battery or the usb charging circuit.
i gave the S2 battery some juice with my old galaxy S1 usb battery charger. now it is in the S2 and charging slowly via AC, however battery temperature is reading 66 degrees celcius.. i changed the charging current back to default values (650,450,450)

Worked for me too!
My phone didn't charge overnight -- seemed dead as a doornail.
Stuck in the battery from my old Galaxy S and booted just like yours!
Don't know whether it is the battery or something else yet, but thanks!
bundi22 said:
Yesterday my galaxy s2 battery drained to 0% within a couple of hours and when i got home it would not charge or turn on. No power, boot, recovery or download. It was dead. I have seen the battery charging icon come on for a second a couple of times but it is not charging.
Today i got my Galaxy S (S1) battery and aligned 3 out of the 4 pins with the battery on an angle, then pushed the battery to hold contact. With the usb cable plugged in, All of a sudden the charging battery icon came up!! you must keep holding it but.
ill use this to make titanium backup and cwm nandroid backup, while i send back my galaxy s2 to get repaired.
report back if this works for you!
i believe the problem is either the battery or the usb charging circuit.
i gave the S2 battery some juice with my old galaxy S1 usb battery charger. now it is in the S2 and charging slowly via AC, however battery temperature is reading 66 degrees celcius.. i changed the charging current back to default values (650,450,450)
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[Q] Issues with charging when phone turned off

Hello,
Yesterday I installed Cyanogenmod 11 Official Nightlies. I charged my phone when it was powered off and later plugged out the charger. But when I tried to turn on the phone in the morning, the battery was at 0%.
I just discovered that the charging animation when the phone is turned off, is still active even when the charger is plugged out. This drains my battery.
This doesn't happen on Samsung Touchwiz ROMs.
How can I fix this?
I have the Samsung Galaxy S5 G900F.

S3 neo charges extremely slowly if it does at all

So I let the phone get below 15% the other day and I plugged it into a charger from an older samsung device and continued browsing. Before I knew it the phone was at 0% and it just shut down. While still plugged in, the phone made a few attempts to boot up but at the end I had to get the battery out. After getting the battery in and plugging in the charger again the phone didn't show any signs of life. Like I hard bricked it. After a few desperate attempts the screen flashed and a few minutes later the phone booted up like it normally would (This happened while it was still plugged in). Now it just won't charge as quickly even with the fast charger. The phone normally gets pretty hot while charging, now it just stays cold.
NOTE: I had it charging trough the night with the old charger but it didn't go over 15%.
I am running Ressurection remix 20150714.
I think it's got something to do with the hardware, and if it does, would the warranty fix this?

Sp/\ce said:
So I let the phone get below 15% the other day and I plugged it into a charger from an older samsung device and continued browsing. Before I knew it the phone was at 0% and it just shut down. While still plugged in, the phone made a few attempts to boot up but at the end I had to get the battery out. After getting the battery in and plugging in the charger again the phone didn't show any signs of life. Like I hard bricked it. After a few desperate attempts the screen flashed and a few minutes later the phone booted up like it normally would (This happened while it was still plugged in). Now it just won't charge as quickly even with the fast charger. The phone normally gets pretty hot while charging, now it just stays cold.
NOTE: I had it charging trough the night with the old charger but it didn't go over 15%.
I am running Ressurection remix 20150714.
I think it's got something to do with the hardware, and if it does, would the warranty fix this?
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That's really not normal if your phone don't get hot while charging
Try a different cable (maybe it charging too slow), buy a new charger or charge your phone on PC. Check if an app use much battery/CPU and check if the battery is swollen or try an another battery. Update your ROM version maybe it's a software bug or reflash it. If nothing solve the problem then maybe you need to clear the usb socket of your phone or it's maybe damanged . Be careful if you clear the usb socket!
Sorry for too much maybe's
Good luck :highfive:

I checked the port, it's pretty nasty but I doubt that's the problem. I'll try and clean it up with a toothpick or something.
Checked the CPU usage and apps and it all seems normal.
I'm not home currently, but I'll do a full reset and roll back to cm11 when I get back.
I've used a travel charger from an older device, an Alcatel charger which actually charged my phone and my factory charger. The factory charger works best for now but it still takes like 5 hours to charge. The phone took less than 2 hours before...
Anyway thanks for the help so far, I really appreciate it.

How much mA you get while charging with the original one? Check it via Gsam battery app

Downloaded it, here's what I got.

Gsam is alternative of Bbs, but with better gui. Look at my ss - I can saw mA of discharge and charge the battery. With stock battery Ive got around 750mA

Yesterday for whole night i kept the mobile for charging and it showed 8% charged i thought it charged up and removed the socket before I knew it the phone was at 0% and it just shut down. While still plugged in, the phone made a few attempts to boot up but at the end I had to get the battery out. After getting the battery in and plugging in the charger again the phone didn't show any signs of life. Like I hard bricked it. After a few desperate attempts the screen flashed and a few minutes later the phone showed the sign of charging but it ended up (This happened while it was still plugged in). Now it just won't charge as quickly even with the fast charger and it wont shows any sign of life.
NOTE: I charged for whole night but is charged to only 8%

Samsung galaxy s4 i9505 verz slow charging

Hi, I have an unsolvable problem with the battery terribly quickly becomes exhausted, and I have a very slow charging when I'm on Facebook and I have a phone on the AC Charger and my phone faster discharge the condenser before charged, already unsure of what I tried to reinstall the firmware I bought a new original battery and a new charging adapter with a new cable and the problem is still the same.
It is 10% battery, connect the phone to the charger and writes me the phone will be fully charged in 4 hours ,when the phone was new ,charging took about 1.5 hours. Please help me someone.
Do I have to now focus on USB charge port on my phone or it can be a problem in software? bad kernel?
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