I charged the phone in my car for about 10 minutes today with no issues. When I got home and went to bed, I plugged the phone into my charger that I've used forever; a Motorola charger that originally came with my wife's old BlackBerry. I use it because the cord is about 5ft instead of 3 which seems to be the norm these days.
I didn't look at the phone again for about 20 minutes. When I did, I noticed that the backlight was flickering like crazy and that the edges of the screen were bleeding. When I unplugged it to get a closer look, I freaked out. Over the next few minutes, the flickering went away and the bleed disappeared. I couldn't even get a picture or video of it. I got the OEM charger out of the box and am using it now with no issues.
Weird.
You were using a charger for another phone? Wow man, never do that.
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Do you happen to have daydream on?
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My phone flickers from bright to dim when I use my car charger. Most likely the cord's teeth to hold it in the phone are worn out/flush against the head of the charger. Replace the old cord with a new one and it should be fine.
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Richieboy67 said:
You were using a charger for another phone? Wow man, never do that.
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I knew that would be the first reply. Typical XDA.
Richieboy67 said:
You were using a charger for another phone? Wow man, never do that.
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I do that with every phone I've had with no problem. I have random chargers plugged in all over my house and I use other people's chargers at work too
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http://addictiontogaming.com/stuff/stephen/2011-11-21 21.25.01.jpg
It kind of looked like this but about 5x as intense. Not my photo.
Probably something to do with heat, as you were using a different charger.
Nexus 4 is glass after all, so it generates even more heat.
Well you have been lucky if you just use any charger around unless you are sure they are the correct voltage etc. They are all probably similar though seeing as they use the port that plugs into a USB. Still I wouldn't do it across manufacturers.
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lowrider262 said:
I do that with every phone I've had with no problem. I have random chargers plugged in all over my house and I use other people's chargers at work too
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so do i lol, i had a super long blackberry one but i gave it to a guy when i sold my n9 :/
I am sure they are all close but it is still taking a chance and will void your warranty for sure unless you lie about it..
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I always use different chargers. Mine are a mish mash of all kinds. They all usually output 5v and 1Amp or there abouts.
Living room - Sony charger with blackberry USB cable.
Living room - playbook charger
Bedroom - HTC charger with archos USB cable
Kitchen - Samsung charger
Work - HTC charger with Nokia USB cable
The playbook charger outputs 2Amps and that is fine too.
The only charger I have ever had and issue with on any phone is an LG one I got with an optimus 2x. That used to cause BSOD even on the LG.
Whether it voids your warranty or not, they would never be able to tell what charger you had been using.
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Probably something to do with heat, as you were using a different charger.
Nexus 4 is glass after all, so it generates even more heat.
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glass itself does not generate heat
Same thing happened to me, except on the stock charger but it has something to do with overheating. Mine is recovering, but took a while and is still showing some ghosting.
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Is this my charger or my port causing this?
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Is this my charger or my port causing this?
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It's hard to say. It could be either. Does the phone ever charge up at all? (when it's powered down?). If not, I would first try another charger cable, to rule that out. If that doesn't solve it, then I'd be suspicious of the charge port, and most likely take it in to sprint. A little more info would be good.
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Is this my charger or my port causing this?
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There is a known issue with Evo charger its referred to as -charging port durability by Sprint- take it to a repair store and if you have any issues ask if it is part of the above know issue. This does not apply if its been pulled out by physical damage.
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It's hard to say. It could be either. Does the phone ever charge up at all? (when it's powered down?). If not, I would first try another charger cable, to rule that out. If that doesn't solve it, then I'd be suspicious of the charge port, and most likely take it in to sprint. A little more info would be good.
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When it's down it powers on then dies but it will blink as if it's charging
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When it's down it powers on then dies but it will blink as if it's charging
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Yes but when the phone is completely shut off and it's plugged in, does the charging light come on and stay on?
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It's your charger more likely cus it happened to me with a cheap charger. So I think its your charger. But if your using a legit charger from like sprint/htc, then something is wrong. I only use HTC chargers.
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This same thing happened to me, took it to a sprint repair center. They gave me a new USB cable and cleaned the port on my phone. Worked like new after that.
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It's your charger more likely cus it happened to me with a cheap charger. So I think its your charger. But if your using a legit charger from like sprint/htc, then something is wrong. I only use HTC chargers.
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I use my factory htc charger
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Yes but when the phone is completely shut off and it's plugged in, does the charging light come on and stay on?
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Yes it does
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Yes it does
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What rom are u on? I'm cm7 and it does the same thing when I'm using the phone while on the charger. As soon as I turn of the screen my battery begins to fill up.
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What rom are u on? I'm cm7 and it does the same thing when I'm using the phone while on the charger. As soon as I turn of the screen my battery begins to fill up.
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Cm7, but this been happening even when I flashed different roms or factory
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Cm7, but this been happening even when I flashed different roms or factory
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Does it do it on Factory UNrooted? If so, I'd say take it back to sprint while it's unrooted and on the factory stock rom and have them replace or fix it
I had the same problem with a refurb I got that replaced my original Evo. It worked fine for a week or two, then one night, I plugged it in as usual and woke up the next morning with a battery on the verge of dying. The charging light was even still orange when plugged in. I tried every charger I had (evo original, BlackBerry, Samsung, Sprint car charger...) to no avail. Charging with a wall adaptor and USB port on computer yielded the same lackluster results. It did this when rooted and not, with custom and stock roms, and didn't change with kernels. I ended up having to charge my spare battery with a wall charger for the battery and switch every hour or two. I went to the store and they looked at it and gave me 2 new batteries and a new charger (for palm pre) and tried to send me on my way. I plugged the charger into the wall at the store and showed the repair person that it was still losing battery while plugged in and "charging". Needless to say, I got another refurb right away that didn't do the same thing.
Bring it in to the store and get yourself a "new" phone. It worries me a bit that they might be pushing these refurbs out to stores a bit to quickly.
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I had the same problem with a refurb I got that replaced my original Evo. It worked fine for a week or two, then one night, I plugged it in as usual and woke up the next morning with a battery on the verge of dying. The charging light was even still orange when plugged in. I tried every charger I had (evo original, BlackBerry, Samsung, Sprint car charger...) to no avail. Charging with a wall adaptor and USB port on computer yielded the same lackluster results. It did this when rooted and not, with custom and stock roms, and didn't change with kernels. I ended up having to charge my spare battery with a wall charger for the battery and switch every hour or two. I went to the store and they looked at it and gave me 2 new batteries and a new charger (for palm pre) and tried to send me on my way. I plugged the charger into the wall at the store and showed the repair person that it was still losing battery while plugged in and "charging". Needless to say, I got another refurb right away that didn't do the same thing.
Bring it in to the store and get yourself a "new" phone. It worries me a bit that they might be pushing these refurbs out to stores a bit to quickly.
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That's how my phone is.
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Hello everyone, I have a new nexus 7 and love it, but it seems to take way too long to charge. After a full discharge, my tablet takes more them 24 hours to charge. I have drained my battery twice to the point that my nexus powers off. Then I plug in, some back after more then a nights rest and still not fully charged? Not sure what'd going on, but this does not seem normal....
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criminal666 said:
Hello everyone, I have a new nexus 7 and love it, but it seems to take way too long to charge. After a full discharge, my tablet takes more them 24 hours to charge. I have drained my battery twice to the point that my nexus powers off. Then I plug in, some back after more then a nights rest and still not fully charged? Not sure what'd going on, but this does not seem normal....
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are you plugging it in a usb or a wall charger? usb will take much longer.
I am using the wall charger adapter and cord which came with the nexus...
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I am using the wall charger adapter and cord which came with the nexus...
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try a different outlet or a different charger? to make sure its not the n7 that's having an issue.
Great idea! I should have thought of that, now I feel like a retard....lol
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I'm in the same boat. It makes no sense. I've called Google Play support once already because it randomly died at over 30%. This last time I was using it I was at I assume over 20% since the battery level wasn't red and then it made the noise that battery was low and then turned off. What is the proper way to calibrate a battery since there are 90 million different ways if you search Google. I am running stock, rooted 4.1.1 btw. The last person's suggestion and lols following are not uncommon nowadays on xda, we just need some real solutions, thanks.
I feel my Nexus 7 is slow to charge, but it does do so overnight.
When plugged in to the charger and cord provided by google/asus, under Settings/Battery it says it is charging(AC), though once it did say charging (usb).
Would this be a safe idea it terms of the life of the battery down the road? I also bought a 3rd party car charger.
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Would this be a safe idea it terms of the life of the battery down the road? I also bought a 3rd party car charger.
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I use chargers from various phones. Have used different phone chargers with all my phones. Never had or noticed any problems. I'm sure you will be fine.
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Yes, it's safe. I'm using an old Samsung charger to charge my Nexus. The charger doesn't really matter IMO.
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When using chargers that don’t come with the device, the only difference it can possibly cause is the rate of charging (how fast your device charges).
Just take a look at the milliamp rating on your charger. The N4 comes with a charger that outputs at 1400ma. I found that if I charged my N4 with a charger made for SE Arc, it takes forever to charge which isn’t a surprise since that charger outputs 750ma.
Don’t worry about using a higher milliamp charger on a device that’s rated to charge at a lower rate. The device will only draw what it needs. I’m not sure what’s the maximum ma the N4 will charge at, but let’s assume it will charge at 1400ma maximum. Even if you use a 2A charger, it will still charge at 1400ma.
Even I thot its safe and was using my Nexus 7 charger with the Nexus 4 . everything was fine for a few hours. Then suddenly it froze and the screen started getting weird lines on it .I immediately removed the charger and while the device was rebooting I could notice that the screen had a burn in kinda image on it. It slowly faded away later. Haven't used the Nexus 7 charger since and I've never got the same issue again.
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okay thanks for your answers guys
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Even I thot its safe and was using my Nexus 7 charger with the Nexus 4 . everything was fine for a few hours. Then suddenly it froze and the screen started getting weird lines on it .I immediately removed the charger and while the device was rebooting I could notice that the screen had a burn in kinda image on it. It slowly faded away later. Haven't used the Nexus 7 charger since and I've never got the same issue again.
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Did you overheat the phone?
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Did you overheat the phone?
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I don't think so. Cuz I wasn't even using it. It was just lying there most of the time. I switched on the display and was looking at battery monitor widget to check the charging status and then maybe twitter or something and it just froze. Held down the power button for 10seconds then restarted it.
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As a rule of thumb I'd keep then Nexus 4 away from the Nexus 7 charger.
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The N7 charger is rated at 2A. I sometimes use it to charge my N4. Most of the time, I use a generic 2A charger. At the office, I use a Samsung 2A charger for my N4. I’ve encountered zero problems.
Truthfully I'm more concerned using a 12v in the car. Any suggestions what I can get?
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Those jagged lines are from the orb. It doesn't slip or anything and I've tried different outlets but the orb still decides to barely charge. Do I have to RMA this thing?
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Try a new orb, or perhaps it is the heat induction coil in the phone, RMA the phone, or the orb see whichever fixes it
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IRX120 said:
Try a new orb, or perhaps it is the heat induction coil in the phone, RMA the phone, or the orb see whichever fixes it
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The phone is brand new. Someone suggested there's poetically a rogue app sucking my battery at a high rate
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This happened with mine just yesterday like it would barely charge my phone I just used the plug for the night and then it was working good again today ... Don't know what's up with it
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Those jagged lines are from the orb. It doesn't slip or anything and I've tried different outlets but the orb still decides to barely charge. Do I have to RMA this thing?
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try different position first. I see lots of screen on there you probably used it and pushed it out of charging sweet spot maybe? try leave it there. Don't touch it
monkey hung said:
Those jagged lines are from the orb. It doesn't slip or anything and I've tried different outlets but the orb still decides to barely charge. Do I have to RMA this thing?
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Make sure you are using the charger plug that came with the orb. The one that came with the phone doesn't put out enough juice.
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I'll try that out. I've got a similar issue. My charger is stuck to the wall next to my bed with command strips. I have a full body screen protector on my phone, and its very grippy so it sticks to the charger all night (I can confirm because the phone is still exactly the same distance from the wall as when I went to sleep). Despite all of this, I still wake up to a phone charged to between 80 and 90 percent. My charge history doesn't look as jagged as his though. It'll just stop charging once its fully charged, leaving me with a phone that has been running on battery for a few hours when I wake up.
I can confirm that my cheap qi charger from eBay set up in my car charges just fine, but it had similar issues when using a cord other than the included one. It would cycle charging every 5 seconds or so.
I'll see what switching back to the included lg cord does.
I'll try the included usb cord.
Anybody else seeing that even if your phone is plugged in it will continue discharging if you are using it?
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Isn't this always the case? My understanding is that the phone is always powered by the battery and not the plug. If your using the phone and using more power than the charger is supplying then the phone will discharge accordingly. Could be wrong but that's always how I thought it worked.
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This is the first phone I've had that discharges when being used and pluhed in....
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What's your battery life like? You may have some issues with software maxing out the CPU.
Anyway, the One X battery can run out when using navigation software and on car charger (maybe 0.5A).
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Anybody else seeing that even if your phone is plugged in it will continue discharging if you are using it?
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What are you using the phone for when it is discharging? Also, are you using stock AC charger or car charger?
Battery life seems fine, i am basically just browsing the web and watching a few yoitube video's, i am usin a 2A car charger.
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Battery life seems fine, i am basically just browsing the web and watching a few yoitube video's, i am usin a 2A car charger.
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Can you please try and replicate the same problem with the stock charger? 2A seems fine but just to be sure..
Yeah i will try when i get home from work.
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I ran into that when I was using a under rated charger or just plugged into a USB port. Official chargers (or equivalent) didn't have that problem it was slower if I was constantly using it while charging, but it did it.
Playing games, navigate, heavy tasks - looses percentage.
Browsing,messaging, mailing,etc - The battery charges.
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Mobile charging.
t0mke11y said:
Isn't this always the case? My understanding is that the phone is always powered by the battery and not the plug. If your using the phone and using more power than the charger is supplying then the phone will discharge accordingly. Could be wrong but that's always how I thought it worked.
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I believe this is correct. Whenever I used my Lumia 920 for gps+music on a cheap car charger, it would always discharge faster than it would charge. This is because 1) 12V-car/usb chargers charge at a slower rate than AC chargers and 2) some cheaper car chargers output even lower than normal USB charging rates.
Shopping for a new mobile/car charging solution for my Asus TF300T (gonna use for GPS.. tethered to my HTC One) and my HTC One, i ended up getting this multi-use charger. Initially, i was going to get this high power charger just for usb (which is the first charger on amazon i've seen to output 18 W / 3.6 A), but wanted a more unified solution that I could plug both my One and TF300t into. Because I'll be using the tablet for GPS+music, I can tuck the phone away charging at a tolerable rate. Oh, a direct 12v car charger to HTC One will charge the fastest if that's what you're looking for.