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I think I may have fried my Incredible

I think I may have fried my Incredible last night. I was flashing or backing up my phone last night, I don't remember really, and fell asleep with it in CWM. I woke up some time later to find my phone in my bed in CWM and it was scorching hot. I took the battery cover off and took the battery out and went back to sleep.
About ten minutes ago when I woke up (yea I'm lazy lol) I tried to boot into CWM, nothing. I tried to turn it on normally, nothing. I plugged it into the charger and all I got was a blinking red light.
Anyone know if the battery is just fried or if the whole phone is fried? If it's just the battery I have an extra one at my other house about 90 minutes away (which I'll be going to in a few hours).

brando56894 said:
I think I may have fried my Incredible last night. I was flashing or backing up my phone last night, I don't remember really, and fell asleep with it in CWM. I woke up some time later to find my phone in my bed in CWM and it was scorching hot. I took the battery cover off and took the battery out and went back to sleep.
About ten minutes ago when I woke up (yea I'm lazy lol) I tried to boot into CWM, nothing. I tried to turn it on normally, nothing. I plugged it into the charger and all I got was a blinking red light.
Anyone know if the battery is just fried or if the whole phone is fried? If it's just the battery I have an extra one at my other house about 90 minutes away (which I'll be going to in a few hours).
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Hey I'm kind of a noob myself. Never had this problem, but which part was the hottest? You might be able to put in a new battery. Maybe you can order a new one like the extended battery

I don't remember, I had taken ambien lol I remember I had stretched out, felt it in my bed and it was hot, saw it was in CWM, then took the battery out and passed back out. IIRC the battery was pretty damn hot. I had this happen with my OG droid but it was only scorching hot for a few minutes and it was fine after, possibly because the case was aluminum and acted as a heatsink.

The red blinking light indicates that there is not enough battery power to boot up the phone. Leave it on the charger for about 20-60 minutes, and if it doesn't boot up then you may need a new battery-

Thanks, I'll give that a try.
Edit; that fixed it! Any idea why it would get so hot in cwm?

What all are you doing on CWM and how many hours. Brightness is also a factor.
I'm glad you saved your Incredible, though lol.
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brando56894 said:
Thanks, I'll give that a try.
Edit; that fixed it! Any idea why it would get so hot in cwm?
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I'm not sure, like the user above pointed out it likely depended on what you were doing. If it was something that involved constant CPU usage then that would cause the battery to heat up since it'd be draining more power than if it were idle.
I really don't know the workings of CWM well enough to give you a good answer

Thats the odd thing, I wasn't doing anything it was sitting there idle while I was sleeping. I have no idea how many hours it was on (could have been 30 minutes or it could have been four hours).

Just a guess, it's probably because there's no power management going on, so everything's going 100% and loading down the battery.

CWM seems to drain batteries even while charging, and causes my phone to heat up a lot. I don't know the cause, only that it happens.

Phone gets warm while turned off and charging overnight

I turn off my phone at night and charge it with the wall charger. I understand it being warm while the battery is actually charging but when I wake up in the morning after 8 hours on the charger it is still warm. That doesn't seem normal to me considering the phone is turned off. Anyone else experience this behavior or is something wrong with my phone?
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where do you put your phone overnight? is it covered? my actual Phone (HTC 7 Pro - ouch) gets warm whenever i load it, but it´s turned on all night. Also i burn my fingers from time to time because i cover it with my blanket by accident.
I think you used phones before which experience did you made? or is it the first time that you turn off your Phone for chargeing (i never did)

batano said:
where do you put your phone overnight? is it covered? my actual Phone (HTC 7 Pro - ouch) gets warm whenever i load it, but it´s turned on all night. Also i burn my fingers from time to time because i cover it with my blanket by accident.
I think you used phones before which experience did you made? or is it the first time that you turn off your Phone for chargeing (i never did)
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I charge the phone on my desk so it is not covered by anything. Previous phones I had in a case while charging overnight so I'm not sure if they got warm. It's not burning hot or anything, just warm to the touch. I just figure if the phone is off, once the battery reaches 100% charging should stop and the phone should be room temperature.

[Q] Charging phone and extreme heat

So I was charging my phone last night and it was under my pillow on airplane mode as usual, because I use it to track my sleep patterns. But this morning I woke up phone was off, with the charging battery icon showing only, and was so hot to the touch I literally couldn't even pick up the phone. I was really surprised it didn't melt or start a fire, that's how hot it was.
Now today after letting the phone cool down, it doesn't seem to be taking charge well at all, I'm having a very hard time getting past 25%, if I use the device while charging it will actually drop charge while in use (and this is with the wall charger).
I'm thinking the battery cells have been damaged by extreme heat. but just wondering if anybody else had the phone get this hot?

Sounds like damage to me! Sorry to hear that man.

Also seems like an irreversible damage to me :/
Some day I accidentaly left my LG GT540 letting it charge under my pillow. It got EXTREMELY hot and I unplugged it swiftly; I was so frightened that the battery (Li-Ion!) might have literally blown up.
To be honest, you should be grateful that your pillow didn't catch on fire together with your head, really... NEVER EVER LEAVE YOUR PHONE CHARGING UNDER ANY PILLOWS!

Well guys funny thing is, seems to be charging ok now.
I believe I'm having a similar problem that a lot of other people are having with the phone getting stuck on USB charging mode even with the wall adapter, so not accepting ACpower. But once I reconnected it a few times now its charing on AC and got back up towards 70%, so I think luckily I might be ok.
But damn this phone gets so much hotter than the galaxy nexus.

My phone never gets hot when charging...ever. I think you might have an issue with your phone

Battery issues!!

I've been having some strange issues with my Nexus recently...
When the phone gets to around 50% battery (sometimes happens as high as 63%, sometimes as low as 40%) it suddenly shuts off. No "Shutting down" screen or anything, just black screen and dead. Then once it's restarted (after plugging into the charger) it shows that the battery is at 0%!
The charge then jumps up really quickly (from 0-60% in about 20 minutes) and in really odd increments such as 0-8%, then jumps to 15%, 2 minutes later I'll look at the phone and it will be at 38% and then charges more steadily but still quickly to around 60% and then (mostly) normally from then on.
The battery also seems to discharge really unevenly when unplugged, the battery level will sometimes drop down around 10% all of a sudden or it will still be on 97% after charging all night.
Also this morning the battery was discharging while plugged in. I've been using my Galaxy S2 charger since launch as the wire is longer and once I noticed what was happening dug my Nexus 4 charger out of the cupboard and used that which then started charging the battery back up. I've included a screenshot showing this happening, when the graph starts raising was when I swapped to the official charger. The GS2 charged is now charging my Nexus 7 without any issues. The only other place it is charged is from a 12000mAh Powergen battery pack from Amazon. This i also used to charge other devices (Nexus 7, friends phones) without issue.
The phone is completely stock and updated to the latest version, I did replace the screen with an OEM one a few months back as I smashed it so one concern I had was that I may have damaged the battery while dismantling the phone but it has been fine up until a couple of weeks ago when these issues started appearing!
Does anyone have any suggestions or ideas?

I would do a reset
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I did a factory reset earlier and the problem is exactly the same.
New battery time? Or does anyone else have any other ideas?
Thanks

Could be a defect . If a factory reset didn't fix it. I would think it's a hardware issue.
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Nexus 4 Overheated??

I went to bed with my nexus 4 charging under my pillow for about 3 hours. This is how I usually store my phone when I sleep because I don't have a night stand and haven't had any other problems with my other devices. Anyways, I woke up and it was realllly hot. First thing I noticed was that it had stopped charging as the charging indicator was not on and this has been happening for a while now. I tried awaking it and it wouldn't do anything. I tried again and it got stuck at the Google logo. I then shut it off and tried booting it into recovery mode with TWRP and from there powered it off from there I rebooted the system. I then powered it on as normally and it worked.
I'm thinking all that work was just a way for time to pass and let the device cool itself.

michaelsp9 said:
I went to bed with my nexus 4 charging under my pillow for about 3 hours. This is how I usually store my phone when I sleep because I don't have a night stand and haven't had any other problems with my other devices. Anyways, I woke up and it was realllly hot. First thing I noticed was that it had stopped charging as the charging indicator was not on and this has been happening for a while now. I tried awaking it and it wouldn't do anything. I tried again and it got stuck at the Google logo. I then shut it off and tried booting it into recovery mode with TWRP and from there powered it off from there I rebooted the system. I then powered it on as normally and it worked.
I'm thinking all that work was just a way for time to pass and let the device cool itself.
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plugged in(generates heat) under a pillow(heat insulation).. not a wise idea, actually a very dumb idea. sounds like your battery overheated, i dont think tbe cpu would overheat before the battery. battery overheats at 60C, cpu overheats at 100C.

simms22 said:
plugged in(generates heat) under a pillow(heat insulation).. not a wise idea, actually a very dumb idea. sounds like your battery overheated, i dont think tbe cpu would overheat before the battery. battery overheats at 60C, cpu overheats at 100C.
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I've had my phone for months and only now is this becoming a problem.

michaelsp9 said:
I've had my phone for months and only now is this becoming a problem.
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if i leave my phone charging on the couch cusions, it gets warmer than letting it charge while on my table, because the couch cusion insulates better, keeping the heat from escaping from below the phone. if i cover the phone from both sided with insulation, im sure that it would eventually overheat the battery. plus right now its warmer, outside and in my home, so it warms up faster and cools down slower.

Charging under your pillow and sleeping on your head on that same pillow isn't really a good idea.1st it isn't recommended because its harmful to your health since your phone transmits radio waves. Did you rest your head on the same pillow? I agree, the pillow trapped heat of the phone.
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