I have a Galaxy s4. When I plug it in to the wall charger, it says, changing paused, temperature too low. I have an app to read my phone temperature and it says give or take -5 c. I've tried a master reset and tried looking online for solutions, I also tried putting my battery in another s4 and it works fine, the only way I can charge my phone is to use a heating app for about an hour Do you have any suggestions on how to fix this glitch? i tried calibrating my heat censor but i don't think it worked, the heat sensor in my phone doesn't seem to work. Any help you can give me is greatly appreciated. maybe if i could get an app to force charge my phone, or disable my heat sensor all together? i tried finding a diagram of the mother board so i know exactly were the heat sensor is and i also had no luck. PLEASE HELP!!!
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Hey all,
Having served me faithfully for 18 months now, my TyTN has finally given up the ghost. It refuses outright to boot.
Not a splash screen, not a backlight, no response at all no matter how long I hold that power button down.
When I plug it into the mains it displays reddish on the right hand LED, having left it plugged in for a while it stops displaying even that until I unplug it and re-plug it.
I've tested the battery with a voltmeter and the power on the phone with a circuit checker, there's not broken circuitry and the battery certainly generates a current.
Though it's not TOO urgent, as I have a backup phone (Nokia 3220, ugh) unlocked and in use, and it's not TOO horrible as I was about to order a Touch Pro anyway, I'd like to keep it strictly unbricked either for sale or for backup.
Any thoughts on either:
1. What the problem is, I'm absolutely baffled.
2. How I might go about fixing it.
Thanks, Forlornity
If its only displaying a red LED when you plug it in that generally means that the power sensor has been confused or the battery isn't touching the contacts properly.
Are you using the supplied charger or a 3rd party one/usb connection. The usb and most 3rd party chargers don't deliver the right charge. If its underpowered it may not trip the charging sensor.
Try pushing the battery tightly against the contacts, I had a problem whereby the contacts had been pushed in so the battery didn't connect properly.
Clean the contacts with a cotton bud and isopropyl alcohol (surgical spirits) to remove any corrosion. DON'T USE METHYLATED SPIRITS!!! It leaves a residue.
Thats all I can think of now.
Cheers...
Isopropyl you say?
It's a pity, I've actually got meths handy.
I'm using the stock charger, I suspect I might be suffering a RLOD, but none of the usual methods are working...
I'm gonna see if I can get hold of a charging dock for the battery from expansys or suchlike (unless anyone knows anywhere better?), see if that does the trick, if not, new battery, then if THAT fails I'll have no idea
Thanks for the tip on the isopropyl!
forlornity said:
Isopropyl you say?
It's a pity, I've actually got meths handy.
I'm using the stock charger, I suspect I might be suffering a RLOD, but none of the usual methods are working...
I'm gonna see if I can get hold of a charging dock for the battery from expansys or suchlike (unless anyone knows anywhere better?), see if that does the trick, if not, new battery, then if THAT fails I'll have no idea
Thanks for the tip on the isopropyl!
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I have the same problem, and new battery didnt help! anyone got solution for this problem? I menage to charge battery with 2 wires, and phone starts, but it wont charge! i mean orange led is on, and it says CHARGING, but battery % is going down down until it reaches 0%!
I recently purchased my tab and am loving it so far however 1 problem seems to be happening regularly whenever i go to charge it says "charging paused. Battery temperature too high or low"
Now im not really sure how to check the temp(this is my 1st ever android device) but the back of it does not seem hot nor cold , so i was wondering whether or not it is my device or my charger or something.
If anyone else has had this issue or knows whats causing it it'd be great if you could share
Forgot to mention its still stock rom with nothing fancy added
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I recently purchased my tab and am loving it so far however 1 problem seems to be happening regularly whenever i go to charge it says "charging paused. Battery temperature too high or low"
Now im not really sure how to check the temp(this is my 1st ever android device) but the back of it does not seem hot nor cold , so i was wondering whether or not it is my device or my charger or something.
If anyone else has had this issue or knows whats causing it it'd be great if you could share
Forgot to mention its still stock rom with nothing fancy added
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Are you using a wall Charger or a USB charger? I have found that some 3rd party usb wall chargers charge with a different voltage and the tab does not like it, and will either not charge at all or will complain about battery temp
Download an app called elixir and it will tell you temperature stats of your battery. I never experienced such an issue. Discharge the battery completely and recharge it. If you still face such issues and indeed temperatures are up consider returning and exchanging the device.
I downloaded the app it says its -5 celcius. And im using the standard wallcharger that came with the device.
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I downloaded the app it says its -5 celcius. And im using the standard wallcharger that came with the device.
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-5 degrees C? you aren't standing outside in alaska are you? normal running temp should be about 29 degrees C. I would have to say that you have a bad device.
Thats weird. Reboot the phone and recheck temp again. If its still stuck something might not be quite right with the temperature sensors.
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Thats weird. Reboot the phone and recheck temp again. If its still stuck something might not be quite right with the temperature sensors.
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I tried rebooting but its completely dead now, and still not charging when plugged in.
If it is the sensors i need to send it in then? or there might be another way to fix it? (i really dont trust the tmobile guys i'll probably never get my tab back once i send it in"
Hello,
Unfortunately I do not have any pictures to show the issue so I will try to explain the problem as best I can.
I recently replaced the screen and bezel on a LG G2 (D802) Moving everything accross from one bezel to the other went fine with the only difficulty I had was removing the battry from the old bezel (The battery got a little bent, but nothing major).
After putting everything back together in the new bezel/screen I started getting a strange issue. The phone refused to turn on and if I plugged the charger in it would show me a battery symbol with a thermometer in a yellow triangle. After a few minutes it would then turn on.
When the phone is on, it will charge and work perfectly fine until the phone is turned off next.
Looking online I have read that after changing a screen on this particular phone some people have reported that the battery reports its temperature being -30c.
Does anyone have any idea what is causing this issue, and if it is the battery temperature sensor, where is this located?
Have you been able to fix thi problem? i am having the same issue after changing my screen
I'm having the same issue. sometimes when i'm getting the -30 temp issue, I'd literally bang the phone a few times and it would correct itself. while showing -30 temp it would not charge... with the charger connected, it would remain at the same battery level.
I'd appreciate if someone would find a way to hack the charging function not to look at battery temperature as i'm sure it does. I think this is something that runs deep within the device - not a simple OS parameter since the device wouldn't even boot up if it's "too cold".
not sure what i have to replace to fix this issue. I never removed the battery, the issue started after I changed the screen myself (kept the same chassis)
Hello people,
I have problem with my Samsung Edge 7 and please if you can just tell me what can be a problem and on which way should I go to solve this problem I would appreciate it very much. No need for step by step solution just tell me what can I do except send it to Samsung repair shop or recycle it. I will take it apart by myself if needed but I don't have a clue which part should I look to replace or what.
So... the problem is that I manage to charge the device one day when it don't want to charge and after that I managed to turn it on. Everything was working fine, didn't try anything much just unlock screen and put it to sleep.
After that I turned it off so it don't consume battery while I would be able to backup my data. When I was able to do backup I turned it on and it powered up normal so I proceed to backup my contacts (export to SD card).
When the export finishes phone just froze and I have to turn it off with POWER + VOLUME DOWN button combo.
After that few times when I try to power it on it just froze on boot up logo and I turned it off that few times with the same button combination as before. Until it don't want to power on anymore. So I tried to put it on charger to see if anything will happen, and nothing did.
I just left it to sit on my desk and I noticed that the phone is heating but I got no reaction at all from the phone (powering on or charging)
The day after when the battery was drained obviously I managed to charge it up again but when I power it on after it got to 100% charge it froze again and there goes same procedure as before (button combination restart, no response, heating, battery dead, charging...)
So now I can't even charge it anymore and I took out SD card to check if my contacts are there at least. But nothing, that contacts vcf file is not even saved on SD card even I choose that option when exporting my contacts.
Now I don't know what else to do since my phone wont even charge or power on and I would like to backup my data at least and then I can recycle it if I must.
So please if you have a clue just tell me where can I look at what can I try to do.
Thank you in advance and have a nice day
some of sgs has these problem. The motherboard is broke, i had same problem and sent to samsung service, they changed motherboard. I guess it's related to cpu temp sensor, inside the cpu.
Thank you Ganjax for your reply. That was the thing I was afraid of. So all my data goes away with motherboard?
I will wait few more days with some replies even I find your very useful and accurate since you had the same problem.
hey I also have the same issue, putting the phone in the freezer and letting it freeze makes it so that it can turn on for only 5minutes or till when it drops back to room temperature hopefully this will be enough to get your photos back.
millkyway4 thank you for you reply.
I am not in a possibility to try your method because I disassemble my phone and striped down battery for research purposes.
Neither I think that those 5 minutes will be enough to transfer all my data but if I ever reassemble my phone I will give it a shot.
So... Considering my research and striping down the battery the things goes like this (if someone is interested in this topic):
I disassemble the phone and remove the battery. Battery is connected on motherboard by some connector that I don't know the name or type, so if someone knows I would like to know too.
Since I couldn't find positive and negative lead on that connector (because of microscopic leads) little bit down on flat cable, near the battery, I removed coating and manage to find leads and measure voltage of the battery to confirm positive and negative lead.
By the measurements I assume that battery voltage is fine (~3.7V), but when I connect it to external charger which have built in ampere meter the battery doesn't charge as other batteries and ampere meter readings vary by 100mA +/- I set up to be initial charge. In normal case when I charge batteries amperes only goes down by the time the battery charges so I find this event an anomaly.
Since that is the case I removed the chip (from which the flat cable is coming out) that is on the battery assuming that it is causing that anomaly. Leaving the battery with only positive and negative lead that I connected and also measure and put on my external charger. But the same thing happens as with chip, or what is called, on the battery.
Going further with my research I cut down flat cable from battery chip (electronics) and connect positive and negative lead, I found before, directly on my charger on which I adjust voltage on ~3.75 volts and connect the connector with flat cable back to motherboard. So you probably see what I did here but if you don't the research I want to conduct is that my external charger acts as battery for the phone and I try to power it on like that.
In this case ampere meter shows 0 since the current which is flowing trough the phone is none. After I am sure that this is the case I tried to power on my phone with connected external charger like that and my ampere meter shown a current draw of 100-200mA on the POWER button pressed but the phone doesn't turn on.
So now I need someone with a little bit better knowledge of the phone, batteries, working order and type of connections like this to tell me what did I do right and wrong so I can prove that Ganjax statement, and my assumption, that motherboard is dead is really correct.
Ganjax don't mean I don't believe you or something, I appreciate your reply, this is just for research purposes because I would like to play with this stuff and that is the things that interest me.
And if there is some "fanatic" like that to tell me what can I do next and try or point out what should I do and don't make next please leave a comment and we can discuss this matter together and find out something about this case.
Thank you all and have a nice day
Have a Sm-T530NU that has misbehaved for a long while, originally the OEM battery was thought bad. Yet after it was changed to a new off-brand battery and working on and off for a year and some, the tablet has started misbehaving again, mostly not charging and turning off alone. And recently has started showing the temperature warning icon while charging while off.
So, I've opened it again and digged down, and discovered the battery connector on the PCB wasn't well soldered, the contacts danced in the pad, so I retouched the soldering with flux and a little new solder and it seems ok (I can recheck again later if needed be), so I tested the original battery with multimeter and seemed acceptable, so I installed the original battery back. Charged it for a while, and, again, warning icon for temperature while off, and it switches back and forth between charging and warning... I turned it on, and it works, but throws an error once in a while about being too hot and closes all apps... this, I think should be something related to cpu heat and not battery one... (also wasnt charging during this). So, I read online that some of these tablets with a modem have a service menu (*#0*#) but of course this one has no dialer, so I've tried several programs to try and get into the service menu, my idea is to see if it's possible to recalibrate temperature sensors, for battery and for cpu, but I've not been able to open the service menu by any means (the last mean I have is trying an intent initiated by am but the tablet is not rooted and there's permission issue for asking an intent of uid 2 from uid 0....).
My questions are:
1) Is it possible to get to the service menu of this model somehow? with or without rooting? Is it possible to recalibrate sensors from it?
2) Should I recheck the battery connector? would a battery "overheat" (caused by a bad connector connection to the sensor cable, or a miscalibration) cause app shutdown during run? or is it related to cpu/gpu overheat? I see some phoen models (S2) can cause this message from torubles with the usb connector/pcb, this doesn't sound too logical on my case, but, is it a possible source of problems for this tablet too?
3) If it IS a cpu overheat (though tablet feels cool to the touch) is there anything can be done to help with this issue? micro disipator maybe?
Thanks for any advice. I'm willing to try odd or hard stuff to fix this.