My wife's phone started giving her a lot of trouble. At first, whenever she would take a picture with flash, the phone would die. Shortly after that, her battery started bouncing around percents. It would be 80%, she's reboot, then it would be %10. Now her keyboard randomly stops working. The keyboard shows up, she can type on it like normal. We get the pop up keys and haptic feedback, but nothing shows up in the editor window. It does this with both the default keyboard and Thumb Keyboard.
She was trying to text her nephew when the issue popped up, so I let her use my battery and I put her battery in my phone just to test it. When she was done, I swapped them back and now my phone is incredibly laggy (almost unusable), I'm having the same keyboard issue and my battery is draining very fast... I'm running CM 7.2.0
I wiped her phone and reinstalled CM 7.0.3 (I thought I has 7.2.0 on her SD but didn't) and the issues are persisting...
Has anyone heard of something like this transferring through a battery? Can anyone recommend a way to fix this?
Nope. It sounds like something is SERIOUSLY wrong with that battery, though. Toss it and get an Anker. I hope it didn't cause permanent issues.
Bad battery
Atma057 said:
My wife's phone started giving her a lot of trouble. At first, whenever she would take a picture with flash, the phone would die. Shortly after that, her battery started bouncing around percents. It would be 80%, she's reboot, then it would be %10. Now her keyboard randomly stops working. The keyboard shows up, she can type on it like normal. We get the pop up keys and haptic feedback, but nothing shows up in the editor window. It does this with both the default keyboard and Thumb Keyboard.
She was trying to text her nephew when the issue popped up, so I let her use my battery and I put her battery in my phone just to test it. When she was done, I swapped them back and now my phone is incredibly laggy (almost unusable), I'm having the same keyboard issue and my battery is draining very fast... I'm running CM 7.2.0
I wiped her phone and reinstalled CM 7.0.3 (I thought I has 7.2.0 on her SD but didn't) and the issues are persisting...
Has anyone heard of something like this transferring through a battery? Can anyone recommend a way to fix this?
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That battery is toast.. I go to eBay and grab the 3pk of red batteries and the single battery charger I think it's like $5. I now have 6 good batteries I rotate out for $10 and the red ones will charge in the phone (aftermarket black ones don't). If you spin the battery on a table and it spins more than 90-180* you know it's bad ( it starts to bow out in the middle).
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Hello, I first got a G1 yesterday, it was only unlocked, not rooted or anything. It seems whenever I put the phone on charge it becomes really whacky. The phone doesn't respond nearly as well and isn't really accurate. Sometimes you have to tap an icon and it takes seconds to finally notice what you did. Swiping screens is such a task and same with dragging down the notifications bar.
I ended up rooting it last night, the same problems still persist.
This only happens when charging. Once you unplug it, it works just like it should. Plug it back in, problems occur again.
Thanks for any help.
This is apparently quite common.
My phone gets a little strange when it's plugged in, with the touchscreen being a little off, but nothing as bad as yours.
Weird..
Hmph, I'll be fine with it. Don't use it too much while charging. Except for general messaging. Haven't really tried to see if that's laggy or whatever while charging.
I had a fully rooted evo, themed, etc. So I am a noob to the Epic but not android or working with app's etc. I did a search of the forum and I did not see anything that related to the exact issue I am having.
All of a sudden, about an hour ago, my phone just started telling me my battery is at 0%, I did a battery pull and it put me at like 80% (which makes sense, I charged it all night). I have it plugged into my work computer at the moment to give it some "juice" but even that is not allowing my phone to turn on for more than the boot screen loading up to homescreen, then immediately powering off.
I have not downloaded anything new on my phone, I have not attempted to root this phone, nothing special at all.
A couple of times when it HAS come to the homescreen those few seconds, there is a strange dark grey rectangle on my screen and it says "relaunch me" with an emoticon above it (in the box but above the words).
I think that may be a widget alert for my digital time widget but I can't say for sure.
So out of this long-winded explanation I'm basically trying to figure out wth made my battery just give out? And even charging it is not helping.
No I have not dropped it nor dropped anything on it either.
I would try another battery. Maybe it's a bad battery. Go to sprint and ask them to try another battery. I don't know why your battery would do that. Good luck
I had this issue!
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I had a fully rooted evo, themed, etc. So I am a noob to the Epic but not android or working with app's etc. I did a search of the forum and I did not see anything that related to the exact issue I am having.
All of a sudden, about an hour ago, my phone just started telling me my battery is at 0%, I did a battery pull and it put me at like 80% (which makes sense, I charged it all night). I have it plugged into my work computer at the moment to give it some "juice" but even that is not allowing my phone to turn on for more than the boot screen loading up to homescreen, then immediately powering off.
I have not downloaded anything new on my phone, I have not attempted to root this phone, nothing special at all.
A couple of times when it HAS come to the homescreen those few seconds, there is a strange dark grey rectangle on my screen and it says "relaunch me" with an emoticon above it (in the box but above the words).
I think that may be a widget alert for my digital time widget but I can't say for sure.
So out of this long-winded explanation I'm basically trying to figure out wth made my battery just give out? And even charging it is not helping.
No I have not dropped it nor dropped anything on it either.
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I had this same problem, I went to sprint and they swapped out battery, charger, and cable and all is well now! been working fine ever since....
I believe I caused the issue through odining a bunch of times and unplugging and replugging! but my phone would give me a yellow exclamation mark! and say something like can't charge battery!
Looks like I'm going to have to take it to the Sprint store. I just tried another Samsung cable for my sisters epic 4g to make sure and it's doing same thing. Thank you for the responses.
*fingers crossed*
If you are still by your sister, try her battery. That will eliminate another possible item (you might also try your battery in her Epic)
George
I had similar issues and had to get a replacement (under warranty). I think it was one of the copper battery connectors coming lose (on the phone side) it was sticking out noticeably compared to the other one. It eventually wouldn't turn on at all, plugged in or not. I'd back up what you can and go visit Mr. Sprint.
My Epic has the same problem... it would just turn off. Now the screen won't turn back on after timing out while charging, i have to unplug it then hit the power button multiple times.
I put DL09 on and then added stupidfast v1.54. Worked fine at first but now it thinks its plugged in all the time and if i turn it off it wont boot unless plugged in. Is this a hardware issue or an issue with the kernel? Thanks for your help.
Had the same thing too. Started from scratch with Odin. Good as new now.
So i plugged my phone in and the notification for the USB went away. I havent tried to reboot yet, but the battery meter keeps going from 68% which the phone is at to 100%. Its very odd.
Is there a way to reset the battery? That might be way off but i dont know enough about it really.
see this thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=919770
My computer sees my phone. The battery stopped jumping too. Im gonna try to clean the port when i get home from work. I still need to plug it in to get it to boot. I was gonna try reverting to stupidfast 1.98 to see if the kernel is the issue. If it makes a difference i had flashed the circle battery and it started about 12 hours after i did so. I reverted to a backup i had saved. As this didnt completely fix the problem i assumed it was the kernel. Battery life is good with the kernel as expected but the phone just seems a little testy, some things are just a little laggy like its struggling. Any additional help would be greatly appreciated. If i cant find a solution im just gonna have to re-odin everything.
Well, seems it was a dirty port. Throughout the night things got better. Got home didnt have any rubbing alcohol so i stuck some heavy paper in there to try to rub off the port. When i tried to reboot it was hit or miss, when i held the power button the battery charging screen would come up as if i was plugging the phone in while it was off to charge. Could be due to weather here maybe i had salt on my fingers from the snow and i touched the cable before i plugged it in. However GPS isnt locking in any better than it did with DI01. Ill take it for now, vast improvement over this afternoon.
I have had three Mytouch 4gs replaced because every one of them I get turns itself off and wont turn back on until the battery is pulled out and put back in. This happens about 6 times a day.
I have tried a new SIM card, new sd card, new battery, factory reset, factory reset with a format of the sd, and they still turned off even without any apps installed and not signed into google.
I am baffled. Does anyone here know what could be wrong here?
i dont know why this has happened to you so many times but it happened to me this morning and immediately after the battery was pulled and reinserted i went to rom manager and fixed permissions. took a while to finish cause i have buku apps but hasnt happened since.
hope it helps ya!
I was running completely stock when this happened, but I've since upgraded to virtuous fusion. Is it better to boot into recovery using CWM to fix permissions or am I fine doing this from the app?
Well I fixed permissions through CWM and it just turned off on me again. Ugh. I'm guessing its not a problem with the rom but with my hardware. Should I try flashing the latest radio?
Does anyone else here have this problem? Wtf is going on?
idk if its the same problem you're having but mine has recently started turning the screen off, the buttons still turn on as well as the led blinking if i have a notification but the screen wont come back on until i do a battery pull
so i'm also wondering what the problem is, fyi i'm using the kernel that came with cm7 and the latest radio
Hmm not sure. When my screen wont turn on I get no lights at all.
One of the causes can be the battery going bad.
I had the same issue until they sent me a new battery.
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One of the causes can be the battery going bad.
I had the same issue until they sent me a new battery.
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I have tried many different batteries with no effect.
I have noticed however that if it goes unresponsive and I plug it in the charging light comes on and I am able to boot the phone. It will turn off rather quickly though. Like in 20 minutes as opposed to 2 hours. Very weird.
Wow has anyone found a solution for this Problem? I can go into recovery and flash roms with no problem but as soon as it boots to the home screen its just automatically shuts off. Only twice have I gotten it to actually stay on for an hour or so. Also while charging it flashes green then orange, I have two different batteries, any ideas?
Well mine is the same it started after a small six to eight inch drop on the floor and it randomly freezes and when i boot it up just goes into boot loader and after a while of it being off it will go into OS any ideas anybody I am thinking it has something to do with bad chip but what do i know lol tel me know if anybody finds anything out thanks in advance
I've begun encountering the same problem after flashing MIUI 2.3.30 ROM. And I've also noticed that my phone started to get hot. It never did this before. I know my battery is fine, I also re-calibrated my battery and everything. I am even also thinking that for some reason my phone is bricked. It holds charge for about 10 minutes before it dies, even on the new battery, which I have tested on another MT4G and works perfectly. The other phone is my nephews. I wonder if this has to do anything with the bad EMMC chip?
Any input for solving this will greatly help.
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drunk21 said:
I've begun encountering the same problem after flashing MIUI 2.3.30 ROM. And I've also noticed that my phone to get hot. It never did this before. I know my battery is fine, I also re-calibrated my battery and everything. I am even also thinking that for some reason my phone is bricked. It holds charge for about 10 minutes before it dies, even on the new battery, which I have tested on another MT4G and works perfectly. The other phone is my nephews. I wonder if this has to do anything with the bad EMMC chip?
Any input for solving this will greatly help.
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You might have already looked at this but have seen in some other roms I have been working with is to make sure to check the md5 sum before flashing just because it flashed doesent
mean it was right it takes is slight hickup in a download and a bit of garbage where it don't belong. Better to check it do the full wipes even a couple times or maybe even mounting and format the boot n system partitions so if on a particular rom ask in its section.
Hope that helps, wish ya well
I would agree with the above post making a clean wipe, and even the format does help. I have been trying out almost all of the newest ICS roms avaliable and I notice it helps when wiping everything/format system and boot. Even the newer ICS rom Awesomev2.1 suggest doing so for the system partition.
As others have stated, you might not have performed a FULL wipe.
Reflash, but do the wipe (I did also wipe battery stats..seemed to help in my case)
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Had the same issue when I switched to Virtuous Unity... battery wouldn't hold a charge and would randomly restart.
After basically nuking my phone (full wipe, cache/battery wipes, etc.), as well as installing Creamed Glacier, the battery life is better but the random restarts are not. Plugging the phone in is the only way to keep it from restarting constantly, where it will load the T-Mobile splash screen but turn off either immediately after or as the home screen loads. But the battery is always at least 50% when I plug it in and it stays on. It also seems to take forever to recharge (plugged into laptop).
I want to think it's a battery issue, but the fact that it's not dead when I plug it in makes me think it's a hardware issue. I can't send it in to T-Mobile (shipping charges and time would be huge, as I'm in a foreign country and I rely on it so much for communication), and I'm loathe to buy a new phone.
Anyone have any ideas?
ivioi3ius said:
Had the same issue when I switched to Virtuous Unity... battery wouldn't hold a charge and would randomly restart.
After basically nuking my phone (full wipe, cache/battery wipes, etc.), as well as installing Creamed Glacier, the battery life is better but the random restarts are not. Plugging the phone in is the only way to keep it from restarting constantly, where it will load the T-Mobile splash screen but turn off either immediately after or as the home screen loads. But the battery is always at least 50% when I plug it in and it stays on. It also seems to take forever to recharge (plugged into laptop).
I want to think it's a battery issue, but the fact that it's not dead when I plug it in makes me think it's a hardware issue. I can't send it in to T-Mobile (shipping charges and time would be huge, as I'm in a foreign country and I rely on it so much for communication), and I'm loathe to buy a new phone.
Anyone have any ideas?
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I really hate to be redundant, but you formatted /system and data? System gets missed a lot and you didn't specifically mention it.
Sent from my HTC Glacier using XDA
I have had the same problem with ics zips 4.01 all of a sudden the phone stops responding to the power button and have to take out the battery and boot up the phone but as of yesterday with the 4.02 I have had the problem. I don't know if it due to the heat cause where I live it hot and its just the beginning of summer too?
every now and then when i pull my Verizon S4 out of my front pocket (screen off), it seems locked up when i try to wake it. sometimes the bottom buttons are lit up (menu, back) but the phone is unresponsive. i hit the power button a few times, or hold it for a while, press home, or whatever, and it generally reboots eventually. any idea what could be going on?
could this be a samsung sensor that it is in my pocket? i don't think it has ever happened outside of my pocket, but is has happened 3-4 times now.
it never feels warm, so i don't think it is overheating. i have a TPU case, so i don't think the power button is getting hit (although maybe it is).
i'm on Beans 6 with the KT kernel, but i think (i'm not positive) that it happened even when on stock.
Iv had very similar problems, and have been doing some reading, and it looks like it could be battery related... some one on another forum (could be this one cant remember) said that they had the same issue with there stock battery... I have just replaced my battery yesterday, ill post back later 2day\2moro.
For me when it was in this locked up mode and i connected the charger, the state of the phone was like it was fully off, the green battery charging icon would be shown on the screen, and then i could use the power button to turn the phone back on.
francis1987 said:
Iv had very similar problems, and have been doing some reading, and it looks like it could be battery related... some one on another forum (could be this one cant remember) said that they had the same issue with there stock battery... I have just replaced my battery yesterday, ill post back later 2day\2moro.
For me when it was in this locked up mode and i connected the charger, the state of the phone was like it was fully off, the green battery charging icon would be shown on the screen, and then i could use the power button to turn the phone back on.
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interesting. let me know what you find.
since this is happening when m phone is asleep (unlike many complaints about it happening when using specific apps) I am curious if it may be related to my KT kernel tweaks, which i copied from an expert, and which set certain CPU parameters to save battery when the phone is asleep. i'm going to try reverting those to default, or maybe try a different kernel.
Hey Mate, so far the phone has been real solid, iv had no lockup or anything with this new battery... still could be coincidence.. but its working great!