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Solid amber then nothing

Any help here appreciAted all the sudden my shift won't charge I plug it in and get a solid amber light for 5 seconds then nothing. Tried various chargers Anne removing as still nothing.

try a battery pull and try again

Tried removing battery SDcard still solid then off

Check the charger port. If you keep your phone in your pocket like I do, you get lint build up. I've already had to clean mine out twice. I used compressed air, and was very careful.

Tried charger port looks clean used air did try to turn it on while amber light was solid iT began to then shut off

try a different mini usb cord, see if that works. It could be a bad cord...

Also tried different cord combinations USB>AC USB>Pc etc to have same result plug in a few seconds Later I get solid amber for about 5 seconds then it goes off. Have to unplug and remove battery and replugin to get it to recognize anything again.

Can you clear battery stats? Long shot, but you never know...
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All I can do is try a power on during that 5 seconds. Which initiates a power up but it still shuts off as soon as either the white HTC screen starts or if I try recovery as soon as the Boofloader screen where it gives you boot options and shows sff that screen don't know correct name for it. Either way all I get is a quick flash of either screen when it attempts to boot then shuts off.

This is a longshot too try plugging it in and leave it for a couple hours or if somebody you know has a hero or og evo charge your batt in it for a hour or 2 then see if it is your battery or the phone. I remember reading somewhere if you completely kill those li-lon batteries it messes them up and possibly the phone too. You didn't run it completely down did you?
Edit: you may have to flip the hero or evo's battery over to make the contgacts match up,not to worry it'll work cuz I'm running my heroi 1700mha battery in my shift now.
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Themikmik.com has a thread on battery calibration, one of the options is to pull the battery during bootup. This clears the battery stats folder.
Ought to see if your local sprint store has a battery you can test b4 you buy, may be that simple. I would avoid the full service stores, maybe a mall kiosk?
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FdxRider said:
This is a longshot too try plugging it in and leave it for a couple hours or if somebody you know has a hero or og evo charge your batt in it for a hour or 2 then see if it is your battery or the phone. I remember reading somewhere if you completely kill those li-lon batteries it messes them up and possibly the phone too. You didn't run it completely down did you?
Edit: you may have to flip the hero or evo's battery over to make the contgacts match up,not to worry it'll work cuz I'm running my heroi 1700mha battery in my shift now.
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+1 You might want to try a different Battery. These batteries do not like being run all the way down to nothing. Had an issue once where I thought it was a rogue app running the battery down really quick. It wasn't, I had let the battery drain down to nothing one to many times. Fresh battery cured the issue. Actually got it from Sprint for free. Walked in said my battery was no good and they gave me a new one, no questions .

HERE is the thread on the MikMIk for Battery Calibration.

Issue resolved after 3 hrs at retail seems battery boost is all it. Needed so far although CSR tried to blame it on water damage. Saying litmus near USB port was pink which they refuses to show me when I asked to see It knowing that it's never been near moisture other then the humidity in the air. Let's hope this does it.

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Issue resolved after 3 hrs at retail seems battery boost is all it. Needed so far although CSR tried to blame it on water damage. Saying litmus near USB port was pink which they refuses to show me when I asked to see It knowing that it's never been near moisture other then the humidity in the air. Let's hope this does it.
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Water damage is their fallback answer everytime.. I've dealt with the same thing from Sprint. It's a bunch of bs.
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Glad you got it solved! We're here if ya need anything else.
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Glad you got it sorted out. That BS about water damage is just that, BS. Been told that a bunch of times. Actually showed them it was BS. They opened one of thier own unused phones, and the damm indicator was red. Never been opened and red. Oh yea, sure it's a good indicator
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Thanks for finding that link prboy, I didn't have time to hunt it down earlier.
Anyone mind tellin me what a battery boost is? New to me.
Also, according to HTC, we should be completely killing the battery once a month as maintenence. Has this proven detrimental to the life of the cell?
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No proplem, help when I can. No idea what a battery boost is . But as for killing the battery once a month. Well that's a whole different can of worms . There are different schools of thought on that. Some say it's really bad, because it kills the cells. Others say it's necessary to kill it in order to retrain it. Just Google it, but be prepared to read through a lot of info. Personaly ( IMO not that it means a damm thing ) I don't believe in the whole drain it dead phiosophy. But that's just my opinion

I used to manage batteries plus... Lithium ion batteries are the best because there arent memory gimmicks... It is not a bad thing to drain it down to 1 - 2 percent. I personally dont drain down all the way because I had an odd experience with my phone not being able to turn on (no recovery, nothing!) for about 2 hours... I thought it bricked somehow, so I let it alone for an hour on the charger and it magically (thankfully) turned on when I tried... It freaked me out so I never let my phone's battery die...
It is always a good idea to cycle the battery but the most imporatant thing to do with any cell phone battery is to charge it uninterrupted for 24 hours before using it...
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Weird battery issues

Hello all!
I just bought a used Fascinate and am having some weird issues with the battery and wanted to see what your opinions would be.
The issues I am having are:
- Very poor battery life
- Battery level jumping around after removing battery (Will be at 94% and jump to 90%)
- Slow charging time
I am currently running CM7 nightlies with the CM7 Kernel. Bad battery?
Edit: I have also re-flashed stock software and cleared battery stats a couple of times to no avail

Bump! Anyone have ideas?

Not really, maybe it's time for a new battery.
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when you are clearing battery stats are you doing so with a full charge? Also are you going through a calibration cycle afterwards i.e. Charge to full>Wipe stats>Use it till it dies>charge to full again. Do this a couple times and it should help. If not, new battery for sure. It's kind of a pain going through the process but its worth it

hesh.monster said:
when you are clearing battery stats are you doing so with a full charge? Also are you going through a calibration cycle afterwards i.e. Charge to full>Wipe stats>Use it till it dies>charge to full again. Do this a couple times and it should help. If not, new battery for sure. It's kind of a pain going through the process but its worth it
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Thanks man, Im going through this process right now... It is a pain! Hopefully it works!

No problem, it really is a pain lol. I've got two extended batteries and a standard that i've done a crapload of times. The extendeds take an eternity to die. My last cycle went 2 days 14 1/2 hours off charger with moderate use.
If you do end up needing a new one, and dont mind the extra size I would definately recomend the OEM extended.
"I didn't say that...my Fascinate has a tiny troll inside it."

Naztech has good extended battery
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Thanks fellas!

I second the Naztech ext. Get a couple days out of it.
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Just heard today on a podcast I listen to, that the old thinking of letting these batteries completely drain is actually more harmful. Now the thinking is to plug device in whenever possible. I love my naztech ext. Def getting a second.
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Bump! Anyone have ideas?

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Bump! Anyone have ideas?
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Its posts like this that start flame wars...
@jaspring, please quit posting BS to get your count up, especially here

It seems that ever since I went from TSM Resurrection to SC charge time for the phone has gone up. Battery life is still about the same (better than Froyo), but definitely takes longer to fully charge. Seems like TSM was the best overall performing ROM for me.. thinking about going back.

Phantom Low Battery Shutdown

The first time this happened to me I figured it was a fluke. Now I've had a third time where in mid phone call my Epic has "thought" it's battery was drained to 0 and hung up my call then proceeded to shut down. The first time was in a busy train station in Chicago, don't remember the situation the second, and today was when I got another call beeping in while I was on the line. Each time when I booted the phone back up it showed plenty of life left on the battery.
Has anyone else experienced this or could it be my phone? I wish I could remember specifics from the first two occurrences, but I believe it could have been a call waiting situation as well.
FWIW, I'm on the MTD CleanGB 1.0.3 rom.

Does it go through a shut down or is it just off? If it is just off may be loose battery connections. Oh you said it shut down on the call....maybe it was a modem crash. Try reflashing a modem.
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Mine actually did this last night while I was on the phone

kennyglass123 said:
Does it go through a shut down or is it just off? If it is just off may be loose battery connections. Oh you said it shut down on the call....maybe it was a modem crash. Try reflashing a modem.
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It actually goes through the shutdown. Does the low battery double beep and pop up, then says shutting phone down.

Might need to wipe the battery stats then re-calibrate the battery. Mine has done this before, but I'm pretty sure it was from throwing the battery at my wall.

theduce102 said:
Might need to wipe the battery stats then re-calibrate the battery. Mine has done this before, but I'm pretty sure it was from throwing the battery at my wall.
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Quite possible. I think I didn't bother calibrating the last couple of times I've flashed a ROM. Going to go ahead and do that and hopefully it doesn't happen again.

CapsLockKey said:
Quite possible. I think I didn't bother calibrating the last couple of times I've flashed a ROM. Going to go ahead and do that and hopefully it doesn't happen again.
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Ya I've had the same issue I would have like 14% and while I'm in a call it would shut down
Just wipe status and calibrate it and it should be fine
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I've had this happen, only on cm7 though.
Doesn't happen often so I've not been worried about it
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This used to happen to me ALL the time. It was so frustrating, as soon as it hit 15% if I was talking it'd shut right down. Thankfully flashing the new GB roms seems to have fixed the problem. I sure hope it doesn't happen in CM7

I have this issue regardless of rom. Happens when on a call and low battery alert sounds.

Well, just did it to me again. I calibrated the battery after upgrading to the latest MTD cleanGB yesterday. I was in a building that had poor signal granted, but same thing dropped call, low battery popped up and it shutdown. I had 60% battery left.

Battery Level Not Reading Correctly...

Having some strange battery issues....
My battery was at 24%.. I plugged it in to charge and left if for an hour and it would not move past 24%. Unplugged it, plugged it back in, left it... same 24%.
I gave the phone a restart, and when it booted, it now read 65%.
Last week, I had been noticing bad battery life, so I did the battery calibration talked about here ( http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=23203126&postcount=9 ) and then cleared my battery stats...
Battery life definatly improved, but, now I had this issue today.
Any idea what could be causing it?
Oh yeah:
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I'm glad to hear calibrating your battery yielded improved battery life for you. I've experienced the same thing in the past with other ROMs, but I haven't while using my current ROM (Nitrous ROM). I may be mistaken in assuming it's because of some setting in the ROM, but it's just something I noticed. Or possibly it's because I'm using the stock kernel with this ROM? I'd be interested in hearing if anyone definitively knows what causes the battery misreadings too.

I read somewhere in the forums(cant remember where exactly) that when flashing roms, its a good idea to re-calibrate your battery after every flash....I've been doing that since I read it and seems to work as far as I can tell

vel7wil said:
I read somewhere in the forums(cant remember where exactly) that when flashing roms, its a good idea to re-calibrate your battery after every flash....I've been doing that since I read it and seems to work as far as I can tell
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I'm pretty sure they found that to be unnecessary.
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Your battery could be going bad, but if its just a reading error, then it could just be the ROM you are running.

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I'm pretty sure they found that to be unnecessary.
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You are correct it was found by members of googles development team to be unnecessary and could possibly do more harm than good in terms of the phone using the battery properly, newer phones like the et4g come stock with trickle charge kernels(read SBC) to try and discourage ppl from wiping them by giving them a more accurate reading in the 90-100 range
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I always try to calibrate battery (on full charge) after flashing a new rom. Search the market, Battery Calibration is free.

So, to rule out the phone itself/rom/etc I swapped batteries with the wife for a couple days. She has the same phone, same ROM, Same Kernel, same everything...
Anyways, long story short, the battery acts the same way in her phone as it did in mine, while her battery works perfect in my phone just as it did in hers.
So the battery is definatly toast... I've already got a brand new OEM battery on its way to me...
Figured i'd come give an update. Thanks all!
(Oh yeah, to vel7wil and the others, I DID recalibrate the battery, as I mentioned in my initial post. So, be it unneccessary or not, it didnt help me any in this case lol!)

[Q] epic just went haywire - suggestions?

Been running Clean GB BML rom (latest version) since it came out and haven't had any problems. Battery has been decent (not grand but not bad), and its been pretty snappy.
All of a sudden this morning i take my phone off the charger, as I do every day, and the battery meter is basically just counting down and draining. The phone lasts about 2 hours and its practically dead. I charge it up at work and again the battery is draining like crazy. I popped the battery out and cleared battery stats, no luck at all. Battery is smoking hot too.
So in an effort to hold on to juice, i fire up juice defender. This of course helps some, but still draining. And then it starts getting VERY laggy. A text comes in and the screen won't rotate for 10 seconds after popping out the keyboard and things like that.
I haven't installed any new apps in the last few days. I really haven't done anything unusual or different than I normally do.
Any ideas what might be wrong? Battery gone bad over night? Phone is actually dying?
I'd rather not have to flash a new rom, but of course if i have to i will.
help! lol

You might want to try odining to stock, rerooting, and reflashing cleangb.
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goblue30093 said:
Been running Clean GB BML rom (latest version) since it came out and haven't had any problems. Battery has been decent (not grand but not bad), and its been pretty snappy.
All of a sudden this morning i take my phone off the charger, as I do every day, and the battery meter is basically just counting down and draining. The phone lasts about 2 hours and its practically dead. I charge it up at work and again the battery is draining like crazy. I popped the battery out and cleared battery stats, no luck at all. Battery is smoking hot too.
So in an effort to hold on to juice, i fire up juice defender. This of course helps some, but still draining. And then it starts getting VERY laggy. A text comes in and the screen won't rotate for 10 seconds after popping out the keyboard and things like that.
I haven't installed any new apps in the last few days. I really haven't done anything unusual or different than I normally do.
Any ideas what might be wrong? Battery gone bad over night? Phone is actually dying?
I'd rather not have to flash a new rom, but of course if i have to i will.
help! lol
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I had this issue, except for me, it started to last 6 hours, then in December lasted for 2 hours, and before new years it lasted 30 mins. I went ahead and ordered an Epic Touch 4G battery and it's back to the norm of 12- 1 day battery. Do try Marcusant's advice, but if you ask ME, as surprising as it may be, batteries don't last forever and it sounds a lot like what was wrong with mine. They're made to last about a year or two. Buying a new battery won't hurt, and if its fixed with Marcusant's advice, having a spare will only help for when it does eventually die.
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Thanks. I think I will go ahead and get a new battery. I get a free one from best buy black tie anyways. It can't hurt.
Worse case scenario it gives me an excuse to load up cm9 ics lol.
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I'm with Shinydude
My Dad has been flying RC airplanes for yearsssss.... I mean like sences they came out in the 60s & he/we have worked with every type of battery there is on the market & to me that sounds like a dead battery ;-)
Let us know how it works out. I really would like to know if it really is a bad battery.
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Well ready for a crazy unexplained answer. The phone seems to be working just fine today. Really really strange yesterday. I'm still going to get that new battery since I get a free one from BB anyways.

My crappy chinese battery that I bought on ebay a year ago is dieing on me, the phone just shuts off randomly. I don't mean shuts down from low battery, I mean literally the screen goes black and it won't turn back on until I pop in my other battery. Kind of annoying, especially when it says I have like ~60% left
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thomasskull666 said:
My crappy chinese battery that I bought on ebay a year ago is dieing on me, the phone just shuts off randomly. I don't mean shuts down from low battery, I mean literally the screen goes black and it won't turn back on until I pop in my other battery. Kind of annoying, especially when it says I have like ~60% left
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That use to happen to me on my bad oem after I kept trying to turn it on past the 30 mins. Also another good indicator of a battery not holding charge is if you notice its got juice, and when it "dies" on you, it claims to have none, then it magically charges in about 15 mins.
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goblue30093 said:
Well ready for a crazy unexplained answer. The phone seems to be working just fine today. Really really strange yesterday. I'm still going to get that new battery since I get a free one from BB anyways.
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Be careful with that. They sent me these crap 1200 maH batteries. I went through 3 of them before 1 would work. I got fed up and called them and they said if I bought an OEM battery somewhere I can fax them the receipt and they will reimburse me. And they did. Got a genuine OEM from Ebay for $12.