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[Q] Weird battery behaviour makes my X5 unuseable.. HELP!

Hi Guys,
Since a few weeks I have a weird problem with my u8800. The first thing I noticed was that the phone didn't charge properly; after a night of charging it would still not be fully charged. I thought it would be the battery that died (tho that would be a bit quick after half a year) so I replaced it with a replacement battery. This battery showed the same behaviour within a few days. Then I replaced the charger for another one; this kept things working for some time but eventually the problem returned. I also tried Wipe Battery Stats to no avail.
What's wrong? I dont't get it. If the phone's on the charger now, the red light is blinking. It doesn't charge beyond 3% so I can never take it off the charger.
I have Aurora ICS since a few months, keeping in pace with updates.
Any help would be very welcome cause this thing makes it impossible to use the phone as a mobile phone..

Install the official android 2.2 and see if the problem persists

Wipe the battery stats (in recovery). Afterwards try to fully reload the battery (even if it keeps blinking red) and keep it on the charger for 1-2 more hours. Then disconnect the charger and do not reload the battery until the phone turns itself off. Charge it fully one more time.
After following this procedure your battery should be fine. If wiping the battery stats in recovery does not work, there should be a program on the market which does the same.
If the procedure does not resolve the problem please send the device in for repair. If the battery charge does not go up to 100% after following the procedure please do the same. This is a hardware error.
XphX

Hi,
I wiped battery stats but charging won't go beyond 5%. What is the name of the app you talk about?

FORGET wipe battery stats, everyone knows that is placebo!!
sr21 said:
Install the official android 2.2 and see if the problem persists
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Try that, its the best solution.
Sent from my U8800 using xda premium

I would do that, but it seems risky on a battery with only 5% accu left. AFAIK you cant do these operations with the usb connection as power source right?

toeter80 said:
I would do that, but it seems risky on a battery with only 5% accu left. AFAIK you cant do these operations with the usb connection as power source right?
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Plug your phone to the charger (not usb) and you shouldn't have problems...

But how do I flash 2.2 without usb connection?

Format sdcard and put update on it with some adapter or go CWM > mounts and storage > USB mount.
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toeter80 said:
But how do I flash 2.2 without usb connection?
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Put update file into the sdcard/internal card, plug the phone to the charger, and start the update by simply press Vol+, Vol- and Power.
Simple

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Sorry for asking, but is there any clear reason why you guys expect flashing 2.2 might help? I ask because I expect this will cost me quite some time and I am trying to see what my succes chance is.
And, do you think I would be able to go back to Aurora ICS after flashing 2.2? I wouldn't want te be stuck on 2.2..
Thanks!
mrasquinho said:
FORGET wipe battery stats, everyone knows that is placebo!!
Try that, its the best solution.
Sent from my U8800 using xda premium
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toeter80 said:
Sorry for asking, but is there any clear reason why you guys expect flashing 2.2 might help? I ask because I expect this will cost me quite some time and I am trying to see what my succes chance is.
And, do you think I would be able to go back to Aurora ICS after flashing 2.2? I wouldn't want te be stuck on 2.2..
Thanks!
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Because 2.2 is the most stable rom/kernel. This way you can see if the problem is with your actual Aurora, or it's an hardware problem.
And yes, if you flash 2.2 you can go again to 2.3 and then flash Aurora ICS.
And please, read/search a little bit on the forum before placing those questions. Those questions have been answered a million times!

mrasquinho said:
FORGET wipe battery stats, everyone knows that is placebo!!
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Not everyone knows that, at least I did not. I thought that maybe the ROM just wasn't showing the information correctly and therefore suggested wiping the stats. But if it does not work, forget it.
In this case flashing a different ROM won't help. A battery that cannot be loaded is a hardware defect - there has not been a single report that switching to Android 3 or 4 leads to this problem. The charging of the battery is only hardware-related (if it was software-related you would not be able to charge your phone when it is turned off!) and therefore the only possibility is that the device is defect.
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Because 2.2 is the most stable rom/kernel. This way you can see if the problem is with your actual Aurora, or it's an hardware problem.
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This is wrong as I just explained. The charging process does not depend on Android or any software the OP could modify/change.
XphX

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XphX said:
Not everyone knows that, at least I did not. I thought that maybe the ROM just wasn't showing the information correctly and therefore suggested wiping the stats. But if it does not work, forget it.
In this case flashing a different ROM won't help. A battery that cannot be loaded is a hardware defect - there has not been a single report that switching to Android 3 or 4 leads to this problem. The charging of the battery is only hardware-related (if it was software-related you would not be able to charge your phone when it is turned off!) and therefore the only possibility is that the device is defect.
This is wrong as I just explained. The charging process does not depend on Android or any software the OP could modify/change.
XphX
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As I said, it is one of two: it could be a problem with Aurora installation or an hardware problem.
Install 2.2. If it is a rom problem, it should work right with 2.2 (it could be some kind of problem during the installation that have corrupted some files.)
If it is an hardware problem, it'll continue to have the problem. Simple
Sent from my U8800 using xda premium

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As I said, it is one of two: it could be a problem with Aurora installation or an hardware problem.
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Please read once more; I stated why the Aurora installation has nothing to do with this. I cannot explain this better than I already did, but I'll try again if there is something confusing.
XphX

I don't have this problem with X5, but I've tried to fix it on a friend's other android model.
The behaviour was similar, the battery never goes to 100 % and can show from 80% 1% after minutes, and phone deactivated.
First I thought that was rom' s problem(had a CM7 custom rom), so I made a full wipe.
Problem doesn' t solved. After I changed the rom with another one(Ligux), but problem still there. Then I tried to charge it with another cable and without to power on. No difference.
So, I've flash the official rom. After that I managed to charge it normally until 100%. And seems that working fine now. The official roms change more things on the device than any custom, and seems that this problem caused from another part of the software which doesn't belong to system or boot.img(these are the parts which custom roms usually replace).

If you read the official PDF file that comes with stock roms it actually specifies that you should REMOVE THE BATTERY and connect it directly via USB while flashing the ROM So 5% charge is not even needed, just remove the battery and flash a stock rom!

OK, somehow the problem spontaneously solved itself and my phone worked fine for some time. But now it's back unfortunately. This time however I saw how it started. I think this is what happens: the battery goes too empty. So the phone crashes because of that (no proper shutdown). Then when putting it on the charger it sees the battery that is too empty as a faulty battery (indicated by the red blinking led, no charging animation visible). The phone won't power on.
There's a trick to get it to turn on though: remove the battery, plug in the power cable and it turns on. As soon as the Huawei logo appears put the battery back in (or a boot loop will happen). Then, there's a chance it will start charging again (though sometimes that only happens after many attempts).
Now the question is, why does it go too empty and is it possible to prevent this?

[Q] tf101 table and dock won't charge after full drain

Hello all,
I recently installed Cyanogenmod JB (v5 then to v6, issue happened on both) for the transformer and it seemed to have some really bad battery issues. It would die really fast and the dock stopped charging. I was able to get it charging again after a hard reset, but then it stopped after a full drain again and hasn't been able to get it to take a charge since. The tablet as well has been acting really flaky as well. It stopped taking a charge and wouldn't turn on, but randomly would start taking a charge again, completely drain, take charge, drain , etc. and now it will only randomly turn on while plugged in for a few minutes then die (about once a day). I have done numerous hard resets when I can catch up powered up, taken apart the tf101 and unplugging the battery and plugging back in, holding down every possible combination of buttons, and even tried freezing the power brick. I also tried booting into APX, thinking I managed to get into a loop somehow, but nada. I can tell the tf101 is getting power from the wall because if I put my ear really close to the port on the tf101 I can hear the distinct hiss of power being delivered to the battery and lack-there-of when it is not plugged in.
I've run completely out of ideas at this point. I feel like it has to do with the fact that the tablet battery went to 0%, but I'm not positive. Considering it happened damn near in toe with the Cyanogenmod install, I feel that has played a role in it as well.
I'm wondering if anyone else has something I can try. If I can catch it randomly powered on (who know if it will even do that anymore) I was going to try and flash a new rom and kernel really fast and hope I don't lose it. But I feel that is very risky. So I'm open to all suggestions anyone has.
Thank you in advance! =D

Just an update:
I was able to flash the AOKP ICS rom and it seems to boot more regularly, but the battery is still refusing to charge. Wiped battery stats, cache, factory reset, cold boot, the works. Just says "Charging, 0%" on the homescreen.
Thanks again!

Another update. I was able to start getting a charge on my tf101 after flashing the ICS aokp rom. However, it is doing a trickle charge. Not sure why or how, but I suppose my power brick decided to die at the same time of me flashing the JB rom. I've tried the freezer trick, but no go on that. I was reading around and I saw that you need a usb 3.0 cable to get the 15v charge, but that didn't seem quite right, considering I was getting 15v with my USB 2.0 cable. Anyway, looks like I'm heading over to Amazon to pick up a new charger.
Thanks to everyone who checked out my issue. I'll leave this here as a brain dump for anyone else who may have this issue.

It's most definitely your charger man. It seems to be a common problem with these tablets. Mine died too so I just made my own from a spare 12V power supply I had laying around and a piece of USB cable.

Nexus 7 Not charging properly since CM11

I've had an original Nexus 7 since it was release and had kept it stock. However it was running really slowly, after suffering that for months I finally got time to look at sorting it.
I decided to root it and put on a new ROM. I choose CM11. I downloaded and installed CM11 M5 along with GAPPS. After installing it the updated to CM11 M12.
I set the nexus up yesterday with all the different apps I needed etc. I also installed the apex launcher and altered the DPI to 160 using the rom toolbox.
I noticed however that the battery was decreasing whilst I was using it even though I had it plugged into my laptop. I don't normally charge it this way so ignored it. When I had finished the battery was down to 16% so I put it on the dock and left it overnight. When I looked at it this morning it had powered off, it switched back on but only showed 2% and quickly turned back off again. I took the lead out of the dock and plugged it into the nexus and left it. When I came back later it was up to 16%. During the day it has been used some of the time (whilst plugged in) and left on charge the rest of the time. My daughter was just using it and it powered off so flat again.
With the stock ROM it charged quite quickly and would have to be doing some intensive gaming etc to use more battery than it was charging but since the ROM update just general use flattens it quicker than it can charge and charging is taking much longer.
I was using an ipad plug with the dock and the original ASUS lead, but I have tried the original ASUS plug and the original lead but it has made no difference.
Please don't tell me I'll have to go back to stock as it is so much faster now - it doesn't lag any more and I've spent ages setting it all back up as I wanted it with separate user profiles etc!
Is there an easy fix? I've done a bit of reading about fastcharge kernels but have no idea if CM11 has one but then I read that the fastcharge only affects charging from a PC USB port?

Oneplus two charging way too slowly

So this problem first started when I first flashed boeffia's kernel on top of the official cyanogenmod. The only thing i changed was the kcal settings (I like a little over-saturation). But, since then, my oneplus two charges very slowly no matter what i do. I even set the charging current to 1250 in the app, but still, it was taking almost 5-6 hours to charge fully; and even then, it would not go to 100%, but stay at 92-94 and stop charging altogether. Tried draining the battery, deleting the batterystats file, nothing.
Frustrated, I switched to Resurrection Remix today, a rom that ran perfectly in the past. Plugged the phone into the wall, apps updating over LTE. after a few minutes, I saw the percentage dropping from 36 to 33 and just staying there.
Currently the phone is off, and the battery has only gone up to 12% from 10% in the last 30 minutes.
Anyone ever face this problem? Any help at all would be much appreciated.
P.S. I only flashed the rom and Gapps(mini). nothing extra.
edit- It's been two hours now and the battery's at 18%
edit 2- Battery at 20% after 3 hours. I've turned on the "show battery percentage on lockscreen" in RR. Now I don't know how accurate that is, but it's showing "charging at 1500 mAh/hour max". Now I'm literally pulling my hair at this.

I faced a similar problem after flashing dirty unicorns
Well i solved it by clean flash oxygen os 3.0.2 and changing the charging adapter it solved my problem and i flashed other roms like bean stalk.rr i dint have charging issue anymore

sanjb4u said:
I faced a similar problem after flashing dirty unicorns
Well i solved it by clean flash oxygen os 3.0.2 and changing the charging adapter it solved my problem and i flashed other roms like bean stalk.rr i dint have charging issue anymore
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Trying to flash OOS 3.1.0 now... Also, I noticed, after leaving the phone plugged in, the percentage at the charging screen said 43%, but after turning it on, it was just 27%. So it's just a software side problem. Just maybe. It ain't easy getting reliable usb-c cables where I live.
P.S.- did you fully discharge/charge again after flashing? Also, nowadays we can directly flash OOS from CM with the official TWRP, right? (Haven't tried OOS in 6 months)

followup- Flashed OOS 3.1.0. Still not solved. Charging still too slow.
Also, since I have access to engineering mode (#808#), I can see that the phone is charging at an avg of 220mA from the wall.
Is my cable busted?
Currently it's going up 1% an hour(while off)
If the cable is indeed busted, can someone suggest an replacement? Idon't seem to be able to find any in amazon India.

das_aroni said:
followup- Flashed OOS 3.1.0. Still not solved. Charging still too slow.
Also, since I have access to engineering mode (#808#), I can see that the phone is charging at an avg of 220mA from the wall.
Is my cable busted?
Currently it's going up 1% an hour(while off)
If the cable is indeed busted, can someone suggest an replacement? Idon't seem to be able to find any in amazon India.
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I clean flashed the oos rom. charged it all night when morning it was 100 percent i did a battery calibration which u can find in playstore.i let the battery to drain with normal usage now i changed the charging adapter i think its 2.4amp charger i dont think there is problem with usb cable.its charging at normal speed if screen off will charge fast like 10-100 percent in 2 hrs

Guys stop wasting time flashing go directly to the cable/carger.
Battery calibration is practical useless
Sent from my ONE A2005 using Tapatalk

Solved. It was the cable. Tried a MI5 cable and "pass" finally showed up in engineering mode.
Have contacted service, will get a replacement later this week

Battery percentage and fast charging

Hi
i am facing a truly weird problem and i searched every where on the internet for the past week before i post here
i really need help in this issue
i am cureently running Gracerom 4.1v rooted custom rom with TWRP 3.0.2.0
problem with phone is not showing correct battery percantage and fast charging "which clearly connected" but not fast as it should be
the battery percentage stops at 60-70% only no matter how long charging
i have tried every possible solution
1. rebooting
2. back to stock rom (both lollipop & marshmallow)
3. tried many custom roms
4. delete every thing
5. charging fully and discharging until zero
6. changing charger, usb cable and even battery
7. battery repair + calibration apps
i found out only one usless temporary solution
removing the new battery and reinstalling it give the the accurate percentage and charging ok until the battery became less than 60% problem restarted unless i remove the battery out again
all of this happened suddenly without any water damage or dust in the charging port when i was running stock rom before any modification
in TWRP there are no batterystats to remove
i removed the batterystats from root explorer and rebooted but no luck
please any help will be highly appriciated

What sort of batteries are you using?

MrWilsonxD said:
What sort of batteries are you using?
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genuine samsung battery

rami2014 said:
genuine samsung battery
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Maybe try a replacement from Anker or other reputable company. That made a huge difference for me

rami2014 said:
Hi
i am facing a truly weird problem and i searched every where on the internet for the past week before i post here
i really need help in this issue
i am cureently running Gracerom 4.1v rooted custom rom with TWRP 3.0.2.0
problem with phone is not showing correct battery percantage and fast charging "which clearly connected" but not fast as it should be
the battery percentage stops at 60-70% only no matter how long charging
i have tried every possible solution
1. rebooting
2. back to stock rom (both lollipop & marshmallow)
3. tried many custom roms
4. delete every thing
5. charging fully and discharging until zero
6. changing charger, usb cable and even battery
7. battery repair + calibration apps
i found out only one usless temporary solution
removing the new battery and reinstalling it give the the accurate percentage and charging ok until the battery became less than 60% problem restarted unless i remove the battery out again
all of this happened suddenly without any water damage or dust in the charging port when i was running stock rom before any modification
in TWRP there are no batterystats to remove
i removed the batterystats from root explorer and rebooted but no luck
please any help will be highly appriciated
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Sounds like a ROM issue, this GraceRom is probably a full port and doesnt use Note4 base. Therefore a lot of work rounds for hardware will be implemented and many things wont work as they should