I have a problem with my One M8 battery charging time (it tooks like 3-3:30 hours from 15% to 100%) and i just talked with HTC tech support. They gave me 2 procedures to fix my problem and to recalibrate my battery. I made this thread because i didn't find a tutorial like this on XDA's One M8 forum.
1st procedure - Try this first:
1. Please go to settings and look for power and fast boot, it must to be off or unchecked.
2. Turn the phone off.
3. Press and hold the volume DOWN button and then press and hold the POWER button until you see a white screen with letter on different colors.
4. Press volume DOWN to select Recovery and then press the power buton.
5. A red triangle with an "!" in the middle will appear after a while.
6. Press and hold the volume UP and press the POWER button just for one second, a blue menu will show.
7. Press volume DOWN to select WIPE CACHE PARTITION and press the POWER button.
8. Ii will show on yellow letters "Wipe cache completed".
9. Now please select "Reboot system now" by pressing the power button.
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2nd procedure - they said to do this if the 1st procedure didn't work, but is not recommended to do it frequently
**This process will reset the battery's memory and it will works with a better performance after it.**
1. Have you charged the phone today for at least 10 minutes?
2. Does it have at least 20% of charge?
3. Please turn off the phone.
4. Please, plug it into the charger. Do not do this process using a USB port, it is so slowly for it.
5. Press volume DOWN, volume UP and POWER keys at the same time.
6. Keep pressing the 3 buttons from 2 to 3 minutes. It will light, vibrate and reboot several times.
7. Then unplug the phone and use it as normal until it totally dies, then plug it and be sure that it gets a fully charge.
8. Use the phone as normal and check the battery performance.
I put this prints here to see the "authenticity" of conversation with HTC tech support.
Have you tried these procedures? Any positive result to report?
TwistyValhalla said:
Have you tried these procedures? Any positive result to report?
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I will do the second procedure as soon as possible
I have seen the second method posted on here before quite a while back. The OP also said that they were informed of this by HTC support.
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I have seen the second method posted on here before quite a while back. The OP also said that they were informed of this by HTC support.
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I've seen it too, but i ddn't trust this is a procedure recommended by HTC's tech support.
This is such a load of old BS. Seriously, how is wiping cache gonna help the battery? Ignore it, it does nothing other than serve as a placebo
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This is such a load of old BS. Seriously, how is wiping cache gonna help the battery? Ignore it, it does nothing other than serve as a placebo
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Well it seems it isn't meant to "help the battery" but to make the phone forget it's stored battery stats. But I agree, the first solution is absolute crap and probably made to silent the caller . No idea about the second one, never heard about anything like that.
Actually , clearing cache help you with wakelocks that result in a bettery battery life .
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Well it seems it isn't meant to "help the battery" but to make the phone forget it's stored battery stats. But I agree, the first solution is absolute crap and probably made to silent the caller . No idea about the second one, never heard about anything like that.
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Doesn't help or atleast should not and didn't when I tried before on my desire hd/ hox.
1st: li-on battery doesn't have memory effect to go full charge cycle, etc
2nd: battery stats wipes themself after every full charge and the phone recalibrates itself after few charges. The thing is if the meter is not right to leave it little more even if it's green. The battery will stop charging on hardware level(protection from overcharging) while the software things it's full. Then the system will reflect the charge correctly.
3rd: xda rulez.
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Doesn't help or atleast should not and didn't when I tried before on my desire hd/ hox.
1st: li-on battery doesn't have memory effect to go full charge cycle, etc
2nd: battery stats wipes themself after every full charge and the phone recalibrates itself after few charges. The thing is if the meter is not right to leave it little more even if it's green. The battery will stop charging on hardware level(protection from overcharging) while the software things it's full. Then the system will reflect the charge correctly.
3rd: xda rulez.
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Yes ...hes correct ppl, theres no such thing a battery cal on lithium batteries, theres no memory effect, just tiny board with overcharge protection/cut off at full charge that's it. The best way to keep a litium battery healthy is to not let it go flat, too flat will result in the lithium ion creating a gas and thus potentially blowing up your phone, yes its true. If your battery is faulty you have more of a chance of going pop. Don't leave you phone on the bootloader to drain the battery, that's letting it go too flat.
Worked for me
I had a weird issue with HTC one m8, it suddenly switched off, I could not get it on again. I charged it, and managed to get it on and it showed 1% (although it had been on over 60.) within a few seconds it switched itself off again and repeated the process. The only way I could get it to stay on was keeping it plugged in.
I tried wiping the cache and although it had showed at 26% before I did that, it immediately went up to 100% and now is working OK off power. So if you have this issue, I would recommend that first. Thank you OP!
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Hi,
I forgot my prophet @ home, turned on, and i travelled for one month. When i returned, is completly dead.
Any sugestions?
Thanks
Plug it in to the wall, ignore the lack of red light, leave for at least 24 hours. Pray.
or borrow another battery from somewhere, try with that.
Salahudeen said:
Hi,
I forgot my prophet @ home, turned on, and i travelled for one month. When i returned, is completly dead.
Any sugestions?
Thanks
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Well... If nothing else help, take out battery from prophet,
find what is + and what is -, use some DC voltage 8-12V
DIRECTLY + from DC supply to + battery, - to -. Keep like this for
15-20 seconds then put battery back to prophet.
Then connect to charger.
This is not so good to do with battery often but up to now
similar things like yours happened to me few times with other stuff:
lap tops, mobile phones, GPS and so on. Nothing else helped except
"shock" to the battery. Even this type of battery will survive without any damage.
Just to remind you (and others): DO NOT DO THIS OFTEN and
NOT LONGER THAN 30 seconds.
yes ... this work ... but please ... do not use more then 5V for less secounds!
12v is to high for a 3,7 cell :-> they are built for only 4,1v maximum voltage!
note! this issue can bring your lipo to explode/blast! the best way to bring a undervoltages lipo to work, is to use a lipo charger. only with a powersupply without amper limiter is a very dangerous way! it can damage your fingers if you hold it!
i have blast some cells for 1 year ago and they work very well for newyear!
Do u guys think It will work here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=1527059#post1527059
If u look in the POST after all things going against me..
yesterday THE NEO GAVE ME RED LED
Do u recommend me to use the above steps of charging with removing the batt
Waiting for the reply.
THX
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Do u recommend me to use the above steps of charging with removing the batt
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Well... At least you could try, there is nothing to lose.
About voltage: yes battery is 3.7V and yes it is not recommended to connect anything directly. But... This "trick" helped me so many times. And for short time, beleive me, you could connect up to 12V. But be carefully. If you experience any abnormal heat of the battery just stop. But, again, nothing bad will happened for 15, 20 seconds. And just to remind you: CONNECT TO THE BATTERY WHEN BATTERY IS OUT OF PROPHET. DO NOT CONNECT ANYTHING TO THE PROPHET OR BATTERY CONNTACTS ON THE PROPHET.
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Well... At least you could try, there is nothing to lose.
CONNECT TO THE BATTERY WHEN BATTERY IS OUT OF PROPHET. DO NOT CONNECT ANYTHING TO THE PROPHET OR BATTERY CONNTACTS ON THE PROPHET.
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Hey THX bro,
Now how will i figure out which is the +ve in the batt and -ve in the batt..
So I understand positive of an source of 3.7v goes to +ve of the battery and negative of the source goes to -ve RIGHT
Also yesterday I noted another thing .
Even If I remove the batt and connect the wall charger the NEO still shows a red light.
Do u think this is normal..(can u try this like just remove the batt and put the to NEO to wall charger)
even after installing the batt the NEO just shows red light and it does not get heated at all.
THANK YOU. it just worked with me, for the past week my phone was dead and i lost my charger, i just did it your way with...
5V, 6W adapter, it worked (1st time i did it for 15 secs, didnt work, 2nd time for 25 secs )
thnx again
Can anyone tells me where is the +ve & -ve on the battery, There are 6 pads on the battery
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Can anyone tells me where is the +ve & -ve on the battery, There are 6 pads on the battery
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well you just have to use an electrical "tester" if you dont know how to you can bring your battery to an electrician and let him figure out what is + and - for you ( be sure to mark it out )
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Can anyone tells me where is the +ve & -ve on the battery, There are 6 pads on the battery
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hi there...
there is another way instead of shocking ur battery with 12v.
u can use Dekstop chargers
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now plug ur battery in this charger for 45 minuts not even a single minut up...or it will blown ur battery.after this insert ur battery in ur htc prophet and turn it on...it will power ups...thank u
Hi all,
This seems a rather frustrating way to announce yourself to a community (other than to Fallen Spartan - thanks again for your help) but I need some help. The problem:
A couple of days ago my phone started to turn itself on and off at random points. It will bring up the 'Do you want to turn your phone off YES/NO screen' and even if I say no it will reappear until I say YES. This also cause the hard on/off button to stop functioning. I have been rectifying it by pulling the battery out, putting it back in, letting it turn itself back on (note turning ITSELF back on), letting it boot up, from which I can turn it off. Leave it for a min and then turn it on again. As you can imagine however this is a painful process and one I'd rather avoid on a daily basis.
I have noticed a bit of a pattern and this error often occurs in the morning after taking my phone off charge (I leave it charging overnight). In addition I haven't installed anything in the last 48 hours (the start of the issue) other than the media player mentioned here;
forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=3248642#post3248642
and the new Dusk Theme....however it was doing it before this was even downloaded.
Anyone else experienced this and more to the to the point has anyone fixed it?
Thanks
No one....?
I had my phone in my pocket while jogging in the rain. The phone didn't get really wet, but from then on the power button is now "stuck". The button is permanently pushed in. (The button appears normal, but the contact inside the phone seems to be stuck closed).
The result is that the phone acts like I'm always holding the power button down. Here's what now happens:
- when I insert the battery, the phone automatically powers up
- when the phone finishes rebooting, the PowerOffWarning.exe application crashes (this is the app that runs when you hold the power button down for a second and you get the Power Down options/Slide2Shutdown (shut/restart etc.)
- battery life is drastically short - the phone runs on a full charge for maybe 3 hours, because the power button is constantly sending interrupts to the phone's CPU which in turn can thus never go into low power mode
- battery drains totally. Normally, when the battery gets low, the phone shuts down. Since the power button is pushed in, the phone is forced to wake up, using a bit of the remaining battery, but then shuts down since the battery's too low. This repeats until the battery is so dead that the phone can't actually power up enough to start the power up sequence.
- the phone constantly reboots when on a charger after the battery has been completely drained. Since the battery is so dead, when it's plugged in to a charger, the phone has enough juice to reboot, but during the power-on sequence the screen turns on which uses too much power, and the phone shuts down. This repeats until the battery has enough charge to handle this big load. It takes 5 minutes of constant rebooting before it charges enough.
I took the phone apart and examined the switch but I couldn't fix it. The circuit is available on eBay but it's really expensive (USD$140 I think).
@GreedyFly
Have you tried the basics like a hard reset or re-flashing a rom?
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I had my phone in my pocket while jogging in the rain. The phone didn't get really wet, but from then on the power button is now "stuck". The button is permanently pushed in. (The button appears normal, but the contact inside the phone seems to be stuck closed).
The result is that the phone acts like I'm always holding the power button down. Here's what now happens:
- when I insert the battery, the phone automatically powers up
- when the phone finishes rebooting, the PowerOffWarning.exe application crashes (this is the app that runs when you hold the power button down for a second and you get the Power Down options/Slide2Shutdown (shut/restart etc.)
- battery life is drastically short - the phone runs on a full charge for maybe 3 hours, because the power button is constantly sending interrupts to the phone's CPU which in turn can thus never go into low power mode
- battery drains totally. Normally, when the battery gets low, the phone shuts down. Since the power button is pushed in, the phone is forced to wake up, using a bit of the remaining battery, but then shuts down since the battery's too low. This repeats until the battery is so dead that the phone can't actually power up enough to start the power up sequence.
- the phone constantly reboots when on a charger after the battery has been completely drained. Since the battery is so dead, when it's plugged in to a charger, the phone has enough juice to reboot, but during the power-on sequence the screen turns on which uses too much power, and the phone shuts down. This repeats until the battery has enough charge to handle this big load. It takes 5 minutes of constant rebooting before it charges enough.
I took the phone apart and examined the switch but I couldn't fix it. The circuit is available on eBay but it's really expensive (USD$140 I think).
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THIS!
This is a very similar, though slightly more extreme version of what is happening to mine.
@Stuntdouble yes I have I am afraid I have and played with various tweaks.
Any ideas if connector cleaner (something like Servisol) would sort out the connections or is it more likely to harm?
I have an almost identical problem after water "damage" Did anyone come up with a fix/repair???
the fix is to take the thing apart, to the point where you remove the power button PCB, and CO Contact Cleaner the hell out of it, press it while its detached a bunch of times (when i say detached, its still connected to the main ribbon but not clipped into the housing), clean the physical button plastics, and slap it all back together.
theres a picture of the power button circuit board out of the housing in the bottom link of my sig.
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its a clicker type button, so if its jammed from ceasing or something, im sure it can be cleaned and fixed.
Damn I have the exact same problem. It's annoying me ****less
The first time I charged it using the wall it was pretty fast and got up to 100%. Now I charge it and it's barely moving at all. For instance, it is at 17% now and this is after I've just done a factory reset, and it just says "Collecting battery info... Please wait." for how long it is going to take but this never changes. Before I did the factory reset (desperate last resort) it was saying it was going to take 29 hours to fully charge. It's not on slow charge mode, it says "Charging (AC)" and I've used both the charger and cable that came with the phone and a HTC one and both are the same. I've only had it a month or two.
I got it online from Amazon. Please tell me I can fix this and I'm not going to have to tediously exchange emails with LG and have to package and ship it to them.
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The first time I charged it using the wall it was pretty fast and got up to 100%. Now I charge it and it's barely moving at all. For instance, it is at 17% now and this is after I've just done a factory reset, and it just says "Collecting battery info... Please wait." for how long it is going to take but this never changes. Before I did the factory reset (desperate last resort) it was saying it was going to take 29 hours to fully charge. It's not on slow charge mode, it says "Charging (AC)" and I've used both the charger and cable that came with the phone and a HTC one and both are the same. I've only had it a month or two.
I got it online from Amazon. Please tell me I can fix this and I'm not going to have to tediously exchange emails with LG and have to package and ship it to them.
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do you have it plugged directly into the wall? are you on a custom rom? You did a factory reset, but did you reinstall a custom rom. it does sound kind of strange, but maybe a little trouble shooting before you panic. what recovery are you using?
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do you have it plugged directly into the wall?
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are you on a custom rom?
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I don't know what that is.
You did a factory reset, but did you reinstall a custom rom.
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I didn't do anything with any 'custom rom'.
it does sound kind of strange, but maybe a little trouble shooting before you panic. what recovery are you using?
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I don't know, I just selected factory reset from the backup and reset menu in settings.
It will always say that when plugged in. Perform factory reset. Reboot it twice. Leave power off and charge it with OEM charger and cable. Should take roughly 1:45:00 to fully charge. Power on. If this happens again, replace it.
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It will always say that when plugged in. Perform factory reset. Reboot it twice. Leave power off and charge it with OEM charger and cable. Should take roughly 1:45:00 to fully charge. Power on. If this happens again, replace it.
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okay, if you have enough power to go to the playstore and install os monitor free. no root required. install it and go to misc settings. you will see some stats for your battery right at the top. included are - Health - should say Good. Tech, not important, capacity - will tell you how full battery is. Voltage - it changes when plugged in. when unplugged with OEM charger it should be around 3800-3825mV. plug it in and it should jump up to around 4000mV within about 20 seconds and then rise a little more maybe 50mV after about a minute. It will stabilize there when charging properly. hope that helps you figure out what is going on.
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okay, if you have enough power to go to the playstore and install os monitor free. no root required. install it and go to misc settings. you will see some stats for your battery right at the top. included are - Health - should say Good. Tech, not important, capacity - will tell you how full battery is. Voltage - it changes when plugged in. when unplugged with OEM charger it should be around 3800-3825mV. plug it in and it should jump up to around 4000mV within about 20 seconds and then rise a little more maybe 50mV after about a minute. It will stabilize there when charging properly. hope that helps you figure out what is going on.
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Actually, Google Play Store isn't loading right now. Incredibly frustrating. This has happened before and it said "no connection retry" but this time it just has the rotating circle forever. The internet is working, I can access web sites. I tried installing it from my web browser on my computer but it said I haven't accessed the google play store on my device, whcih I can't do. I've tried force stopping it, clearing data and cahce and trying again and this doesn't work either.
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okay, if you have enough power to go to the playstore and install os monitor free. no root required. install it and go to misc settings. you will see some stats for your battery right at the top. included are - Health - should say Good. Tech, not important, capacity - will tell you how full battery is. Voltage - it changes when plugged in. when unplugged with OEM charger it should be around 3800-3825mV. plug it in and it should jump up to around 4000mV within about 20 seconds and then rise a little more maybe 50mV after about a minute. It will stabilize there when charging properly. hope that helps you figure out what is going on.
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It doesn't jump, it just stays at 3827 all the time. The status says "Charging[AC Power]" but it's taking long as usual.
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It doesn't jump, it just stays at 3827 all the time. The status says "Charging[AC Power]" but it's taking long as usual.
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Actually, it has crawled to 3892mV now, still charging slow as ever though. Also, yesterday it said it had 58 hours left but it ran out during the night.
Never go by those estimations. I get a full charge topped off 4.336mV. Actually says 100% ~4.1mV.
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Hello all.
Strange problem I have. I replaced the batteries in both my Moto X Pure's. One is a hand me down, the other my own. I replaced the batteries in both. But the hand me down one only charged to 85-86%. Thinking a bad battery to start, returned the battery and bought a different new one. Installed that one and same result. Only charges to 85-86%. Other than that, phone works great. Battery does hold a charge long started at 85% than it did with the old battery. Haha
I inspected for any physical damage. Looked to see if the battery or anything else was contacting anything it shouldn't. Everything looks identical to the other phone I replaced the battery in. Nothing lose or broken. Did a full drain of the battery ( if I did it right.) Then recharged it for all day. Still, only 86%. If I turned it on, will will say "Full Charge in 3 hours" or 2 hours. A day can pass and still will say the same.
So any ideas? 2 different batteries from 2 different brands and still the same issue.
Enter the bootloader, navigate to the bootloader logs entry (if the Moto X has one) and long press the power button until the device shuts off. This will clear the bootloader's logs as well as any residual stats related to the battery. Your battery should then display the correct amount, or charge fully to 100%.
UPDATE: I got it! Just held the Power and Volume Down button for a long time and it rebooted!
Strephon Alkhalikoi said:
Enter the bootloader, navigate to the bootloader logs entry (if the Moto X has one) and long press the power button until the device shuts off. This will clear the bootloader's logs as well as any residual stats related to the battery. Your battery should then display the correct amount, or charge fully to 100%.
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Thank you for the reply! I did as you said but now it is just stuck at that screen with the Bootloader Logs.
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Strephon Alkhalikoi said:
Enter the bootloader, navigate to the bootloader logs entry (if the Moto X has one) and long press the power button until the device shuts off. This will clear the bootloader's logs as well as any residual stats related to the battery. Your battery should then display the correct amount, or charge fully to 100%.
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Ok so holding down the Power Button when the Bootloader Logs option is on the screen doesn't shut off the power or anything else. Something different with the Moto X Pure? I held it for about a minute (and my thumb was losing blood lol) and it was still just at that screen. Also, because of that, I cannot cycle to the other options in the Bootloader menu. I have to hold power and volume down until it reboots. Have been looking up anyway to clear the Bootloader Logs on this phone and your suggestion (which seems to work on other phones great) is the only one I see. So weird.
Strephon Alkhalikoi said:
Enter the bootloader, navigate to the bootloader logs entry (if the Moto X has one) and long press the power button until the device shuts off. This will clear the bootloader's logs as well as any residual stats related to the battery. Your battery should then display the correct amount, or charge fully to 100%.
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I replaced the battery with a OEM one. Actually found a supplier for the OEM battery! Replaced it, connected the charger to it and guess what? Again, only to 85%. But this time, it doesn't say 2 hours to full. It just says TurboPower Connected. Oh and with the OEM battery, I did what you said to clear the bootloader logs and it did actually shutdown like you said it would. But, the battery is still showing 85%.
Should I let it drain to 0% then try to have it charge fully again?
It won't hurt to let it drain to zero and then recharge.
Hello. Recently I decided to pick up my old Nexus 4 again and try seeing what happened to it.
I was using my Nexus 4 one day and dropped it from my bed, about a foot or so, and it just cut out.
I opened it up to find out that the battery cable had snapped because I had done an earlier battery repair, and forgot that I should have let the cable slack a little bit.
A few months later I get a replacement battery, and tried booting on the phone. It would get to the lock screen and say the phone is critically low, and shut off.
TWRP said the battery was at 80% charge, but the UI was flickering a bit. I asked the XDA Discord and was told it was a storage failure.
A few more months pass by to now, and I decide to try and revive my N4. I want to see if maybe the battery was seated wrong, it could've been.
I reseated the battery and tried plugging in the phone. Now, I get a solid red light, that changes to flashing, and then nothing. or a flashing light that stays flashing.
I have not gotten past this. Is the battery toast, or is the phone toast? Can I test the phone without buying another replacement battery? Thanks.
- Honkette
You can try getting a V+ measurement from the battery to get an idea of it's condition.
If it won't charge it's cable or connectors may be damaged.
Even if the battery failed it should take some charge. Obviously it's producing some voltage but maybe not enough to boot.
If the battery seems to take a charge allow it the charge overnight and see what it's voltage level is. If it still won't boot it's either the battery or hardware damage, but doing this would give you more information to make a call.
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You can try getting a V+ measurement from the battery to get an idea of it's condition.
If it won't charge it's cable or connectors may be damaged.
Even if the battery failed it should take some charge. Obviously it's producing some voltage but maybe not enough to boot.
If the battery seems to take a charge allow it the charge overnight and see what it's voltage level is. If it still won't boot it's either the battery or hardware damage, but doing this would give you more information to make a call.
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I've left it on the charger multiple times, and the phone seemingly doesn't do anything. never gets warm. I tighened down the connector screws and am using a cable I know works. I'll try to get a measurement from the battery.
Honkette1738 said:
I've left it on the charger multiple times, and the phone seemingly doesn't do anything. never gets warm. I tighened down the connector screws and am using a cable I know works. I'll try to get a measurement from the battery.
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Check the other ribbon cables, port jack/pcb, mobo etc. carefully for damage or looseness.
UPDATE:
I was able to get the phone booting, but now when i try and start android it immediately says "Power Off" "Shutting Down"
now what? bad battery? it's plugged in, it shouldn't do that.
Honkette1738 said:
UPDATE:
I was able to get the phone booting, but now when i try and start android it immediately says "Power Off" "Shutting Down"
now what? bad battery? it's plugged in, it shouldn't do that.
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May be the battery as it may draw quit a bit of current when booting.
More than the charger may be able to sink.
blackhawk said:
May be the battery as it may draw quit a bit of current when booting.
More than the charger may be able to sink.
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Should i let it charge overnight and try again?
Honkette1738 said:
Should i let it charge overnight and try again?
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cable>charger>port>battery
Yeah try that. Eliminate the cheap possibilities first. Seems like a battery or power issue.
well that might explain it
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Yay!
Phones working, forgot to say this on Monday. Although the battery percentage is fluctuating after charging overnight under LOS 15 and 17, no clue why.
New battery's dead. I'll try and get another.
I know this thread's old, but i'll just update my results with this:
She's cooked.
I got the new battery, worked fine for a bit, but the battery percentage was completely jank and would go up and down. Not too long later, it doesn't even boot. I'm guessing the EMMCs fried. If I find a smashed up Nexus 4 locally i'll for sure do a mobo swap since mine's in really good shape physically.