I got my Nexus 7 yesterday (bought from Google Play), I played with it, installed apps, etc.... at about 11pm I plug it in to my factory charger which is on a surge protector, it proceeds to charge while I continue using it for 2 hour or so. When I went to bed I turned it off. I noticed the charging indicator (battery filling up). When I got home today I unlugged it and tried to turn it on...Nothing, so I plugged it into my computer, the charging indicator came up, I waited 5 minutes and turned it on, I then went to the store and when I got back I went to plug it straight to the wall for a faster charge, when I moved it it immediately powered off. After 5 min of "charging" I powered on and went to the battery summary page, it says 0% charging (AC). Its been here for about 30 min now, the usage graph shows a flat red line. Is my battery defective?
Nevermind. False alarm, thank God.:victory: My usb extension cable seems to be the problem. Also if anyone is curious, the htc usb cable works fine and is longer.
My Nexus 7 won't charge. I've tried 3 chargers, including the provided one, all of which work on several phones, but none work on the Nexus 7. And it's been a tedious few hours in a queue on the phone trying to get hold of anything to even start the returns process. I can only assume the stories you see when you google 'nexus 7 fault' are true and that many, many people are queueing up to get their faulty unit refunded or replaced. It's a shame - I've played with a working one and it's very nice.
I've had a similar problem for a few days now. When its plugged in, on or off, it will only gain afew percent battery even over a full24 hours. I broke the tip of my stock cable, so thats not an option but ive tried with several other cables with the same results. I'm afraid to use this thing any more unless its plugged in so since it may not charge once it dies. Did you ever solve your problem?
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Hi, All
I received my Nexus One Yesterday Morning & put it on charger straight away. This Morning checked the charge on the Battery indicator & it is still at 20%. Also the Orange light did not turn green.
Has anybody else come across this issue. I have already done a brief search on the Forum but couldn't find a similar article.
Thanks
JAW$
Could be the charger.
Try the PC USB cable and turn the device off. See if it goes up after 30 minutes.
Already tried it, no difference. Wrung Google support & there collecting it tomorrow for repair.
mine went completely flat yesterday was plugged into usb for 6 hours and only charged 15% plugged into wall when i got to work and within 2 hours was full 100%
nyzrox said:
mine went completely flat yesterday was plugged into usb for 6 hours and only charged 15% plugged into wall when i got to work and within 2 hours was full 100%
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Mine was plugged into the wall for 24hours but still was charged only 20%.
So I started charging my phone earlier and it took forever, and the phone got very hot, but I didn't think more of it and unplugged it. Then it dropped under 15% and I decided to charge it again. It's been in the charger for 30 minutes and it's only gone from 9% to 10%...
Am I the only one with this problem? =S
Edit: It still gets very warm.
Turn it off and on?
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I was sort of hoping it went without saying that I had done that.
I've also tried:
Charging it through my PC
Charging it through the wall charger
Both give the same result as listed in the first post. Also tried removing everything (battery, simcard, mem.card) and reinserting it.
Still it gets very warm and charges almost nothing! =S
Are you using a different USB cable or charger than the one provided?
I have tried several different USB > Micro cables and not all of them have worked properly.
My old BB wall charger works fine, as does my old Motorola one (both plug a USB cable into), but wife's iPhone one does not.
I really don't think that's the problem... I finally got it up to 100% with the wall charger, but when I restarted it after having reinserted the MicroSD, it had dropped 13%. In a few seconds, does not make any sense =S
Night time here now though, so gonna see how much it loses in just standby, if it's a lot I'll try reinstalling the update. But this seems to be an isolated issue?
I noticed that charging it with the wall charger is at least 3 times faster.
Also, you're right, the phone can get really hot while charging and at some point it even stops charging when it's too hot , it happens easier when charging using a computer since the charge takes more time, the only thing that helped in my case was to remove the battery cover and blow some air on the battery
The problem sin't that it charges SLOWER, it charges about the same for both, currently. The problem is that it hardly charges at all...
Also, it was at 100%, then dropped to 87% just with me turning it off, reinserting the memory card and turning it on again.
I went to bed at 2am last night, then it had 87% battery. When I woke up at 9am, it was dead.
your battery is faulty
email SE telling them your battery wont charge but that your friends/spare/new battery does charge when in your phone (to rule out the usb fault that some x10's had) and then they should send you one out.
So I ran into a problem with this today, battery had run out on it last night so I set it on the OEM charger with a generic microUSB cable I had laying around that does work on other devices. Wake up today, and it wouldn't turn on. However, the charging animation would occasionally pop up, and at one point I got it to boot up, where it stayed at 0% battery the entire time.
Switched it out to the 1A charger that came with my Kodak camera, using the same USB cable, same deal.
Switched it to a USB port on a powered hub, different cable that again does work on other devices, still the same deal.
Switched it back to the OEM charger with the OEM cable, still wouldn't charge, but would turn on. Twenty minutes of it being on (screen off) and no charge, checked back and maybe another ten minutes later it was up to ten percent.
Any idea what happened?
Also, is there any word with what's going on with the dead spots on the screens on these yet? Mine recently started doing it.
This thread may help to answer some of your questions.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1823377
Hi,
By battery was running low so i turned the tablet off, plugged it in and went out. When i came back i turned it on only to find that the charge was at the same level as when i left it. I first thought it was the charger, but after testing it was fine. On plugging the charger back in the battery symbol comes up and shows that it is full, before the screen goes black for a short period before the symbol comes back up again showing it is full (Im unsure if it normally does when charged as i cant remember)
I then turned the tablet back on and left it to charge. The device charged slowly, but when i checked the battery status the tablet claimed that it was NOT charging.
Im worried that when it runs down it will not charge to turn back on. On the other hand it might recognise the battery is flat and charge normally.....
Anyone got any suggestions?
Update: I left it on and plugged in overnight and it charged back up to 100%, albeit very slowly (I woke up once and checked and it had only reached 75% after about 4 hours).
So still not sure what to do. Factory reset?
Even i had the same problem
Try changing ur usb cable,
it worked for me
Stock USB cable lasted one day for me. Absolute garbage. No problems using the stock cable from my ancient HP Touchpad.
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Update: I left it on and plugged in overnight and it charged back up to 100%, albeit very slowly (I woke up once and checked and it had only reached 75% after about 4 hours).
So still not sure what to do. Factory reset?
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Sorry to jump on a fairly of thread, but....
Hi Barking Mad,
Did you ever get to the bottom of your particular charging issue? I've bought a TN7from ebay, and I'm having ng exactly the same problems as you described. Not really charging when turned off and the screen showing the charging symbol for a couple of seconds before going black and then showing the same symbol again. It will charge whilst turned on, albeit it very slowly.
I was just hoping you may be able to shed some light on my problem for me!
Thanks
David
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Sorry to jump on a fairly of thread, but....
Hi Barking Mad,
Did you ever get to the bottom of your particular charging issue? I've bought a TN7from ebay, and I'm having ng exactly the same problems as you described. Not really charging when turned off and the screen showing the charging symbol for a couple of seconds before going black and then showing the same symbol again. It will charge whilst turned on, albeit it very slowly.
I was just hoping you may be able to shed some light on my problem for me!
Thanks
David
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make sure you use a hi capacity charger 1A plus most phone chargers are too low and will only trickle charge when the unit is off, also my four came from ebay with no power faults and I patched a QI charger inside the casing as the usb ports had failed.
I'd do that to any tn7 now as the port is just too fragile and might be needed for an emergency recovery.
I recently went on vacation this past Sunday. I had a good time, however, I didn't expect to come back with a 500$ paperweight.
The night before I was set to check out, I began experiencing problems with the charger I had brought with me. It was a brand new AUKEY 27W USB Charger, with a hella nice metal USB C cable from WGGE. Both of them had great product reviews, yet to my utter dismay, I began to experience issues with the charger only three days after I had bought it.
I went to plug in my charger and began to experience what I can only describe as a flickering power source. (the "battery low" notification kept on reappearing) I thought it was an issue with the ROM I was running (AICP 13.1 Official), so I shut off the phone to charge it without having the phone turned on. Little did I know, this would be the last time my phone would work.
The notification LED began to flash red over and over again when the charger was plugged in. I had experienced this before when I was using the stock charger and let my phone battery run completely dry, so I figured it was okay to leave it charging while I walked to a local 7-Eleven to buy a temporary USB-C cable to get my phone to 100% and then throw away. (i don't trust gas station chargers)
I get back to my hotel, and when I go to plug in my phone, I notice the red LED was gone. Strange, considering the phone was still plugged into the faulty charger mentioned earlier. I figured that the phone was charged and was on the lockscreen, however when I went to press the power button, nothing happened.
Uh oh.
My heart sank to the floor, as I realized what was occurring. I only began to use Android devices instead of iPhones back in 2016, and I had never had a phone simply refuse to power on no matter what I tried. I plugged it into the 7-Eleven charger, and I got no response. Worried, I brought the phone and the 7-Eleven charger down to the public computers the hotel was offering to guests. I searched for answers for 30 minutes, trying to see if there was anything I could do to get the phone to even get to the bootloader. I finally got the notification LED to flash red when I plugged the phone into the computer and held down the volume down and power buttons for 15 seconds. I had high hopes, yet those hopes were shattered when the LED stopped flashing only a few seconds later.
I tried every solution that was offered to me. I left it charging for 30 minutes on the 7-Eleven charger, I let the phone sit untouched for 2 hours, I even put the damn phone in the fridge for ten minutes as an act of desperation to get my poor baby to wake back up. My efforts were in vain, as my phone has yet to even power on, and I doubt it will ever turn on again.
Nevertheless, I ask you: what can I do to fix this thing? I'm not the richest person in the world, so I'd rather not purchase a new phone right now, and I love my Essential Phone. Its probably my favorite phone I've had. Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated, as I am at a loss as to what to do. Thanks!
I had a similar experience with my son's Moto z Droid. His cat chewed through the charging cable while the phone was connected. Same symptoms as your having, almost exactly. Drained the battery below it's safety threshold because it shorted across the usb-c turbo charger. Only way I was able to fix it was to replace the battery.
You may try leaving it hooked to a computer for a couple days. The USB port may trickle charge it enough to power up.
I've had this happen to a coupe of cheap phones and was able to get them back by removing the battery and charging it straight from battery terminals until the phone was able to boot then charged to 100% with usb.