This issue began several days ago. I had plugged my phone in to the LG charger it came with and went on with my normal routines. Normally about an hour later I disconnect it as its usually fully charged. This time i noticed my phone was off, and extremely hot, almost unbearable to touch. Since then, the past few times I've plugged my phone in to charge, when I come back to check on it, it's turned off and extremely hot. I assume the phone is turning itself off after reaching a temperature threshold.
In normal operation, the phone does not overheat or get too warm. This only happens when I plug the phone in to charge on its normal charger.
I am going to do some experimenting tonight and let the phone charge off of my PCs USB 2.0/1A port, as I think maybe it could be the fast-charger going bad?
Has anyone else experienced this?
It's an LG V20 VS995 flashed previously to US996 firmware/rom after my switch from Verizon to T-Mobile. It's been flashed like this for a while and this issue is relatively new so I doubt its the rom (I hope!)
Edit: Figured I should also mention, battery life is just fine. I get the pretty much the same amount of life from the battery as I did when I purchased the phone give or take a few minutes.
You should test with another charger, preferably compatible with quick charge. Can't you borrow one from the neighboorhood ? Test with another charger and other good cable that the ones you used.
Could be anything from a faulty battery, charger, cable or kernel change, app update in the background, sudden amounts of wakelocks, anything really. Your best bet is to eliminate hardware as a factor, starting with trying a different power source -> charger -> cable -> battery, testing the charge temperature after changing each thing. Failing all of those variables changing having eliminated the problem, flash the latest KDZ for your model to your phone and run it dry on nothing but a stock OS. Plug it into the charger and see if the same thing happens. If not, then you know it was software, if so, then you know it's the phone.
I've also started having this issue. However, my case is slightly different.
After leaving it on the charger for a while, the screen goes to a black background with a ghost verizon logo on top of that black background. Holding power down, unplugging, replugging, etc. does not reboot the phone. I have to pull the battery in order to get it to respond. The issue only occurs after it's been charging a while. I've tried reflashing fw 15a as well.
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I'm running a Sprint Mogul using no2chem's nueROM 2.2 Preview 7 (8's touchscreen issues made me downgrade), and having some very peculiar battery problems I'm hoping someone has advice about.
A few weeks ago I woke up, pulled my phone from the charger, and watched the battery instantly drop from 100% to around 83%. Over the next 15 minutes it dropped to the mid-70s before leveling out and discharging at a more normal rate. This occurred the next day and so on. Now this was with Seidio's 3200mAh extended battery. I then switched to my (sigh) OEM battery and didn't have the same problem, so assumed it was Seidio's battery, filled out an RMA, and sent it off to be repaired.
Now a couple of days ago the OEM battery started doing the same thing. I'd pull it off the charge and it would have somewhere in the range of 60% battery remaining. I'd have to plug it into my car charger or USB cable on my notebook to charge it up the rest of the way (albeit very slowly).
This morning I decided to watch the process from before I even unplugged it. First I noticed the orange light was on after a full night's charge. If memory serves me, the light's supposed to go out when it's at 100% (I may be mistaken). Meanwhile the battery meter was at 60%. I unplugged it and it remained there. I plugged it back in and watched no2chem's charge meter show the power connection, and I went ahead and left it plugged in for a little while before checking it again. It was now at 63%.
So what I'm finding is that at some point during the night my phone stops accepting a charge, despite the charge light remaining on.
I'm going to experiment with two things to further troubleshoot: tonight I'm swapping chargers with my wife's. I'm pretty sure the phone controls whether or not it's continuing to charge the battery, but I'm going to rule this out the only way I can. Then if that doesn't improve it I'm going to flash back to a Sprint official ROM (sigh) and see if maybe no2chem's power applet or power management settings are somehow causing this oddity.
Does anyone have any extra experiences with problems like this that might give me an idea of what else to try? Otherwise my thinking is if those two steps yield no improvements, then it's the phone's physical battery management hardware that's faulty and I'm going to have to use my insurance to replace the phone. I'd like to exhaust all the other resources before I spend the $50 on the deductible, though.
Thanks!
sometimes mine overheats while charging, at that point the LED flashes orange until it cools down enough to resume charging, this might be happening to your in the middle of the night
I thought I heard purple meant overheating. Either way, it's not clearly describing it. Also this has never happened before, so if it's happening every single night now, I've definitely got a problem.
Anyway, just plugged it in with my wife's charger. Let's see how it turns out in the morning.
You said :
"I'd have to plug it into my car charger or USB cable on my notebook to charge it up the rest of the way (albeit very slowly)."
Sure sounds like a bad charger.
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Sure sounds like a bad charger.
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Now confirmed. Just pulled it off my wife's charger after a full night, at 100%. Five minutes later, 99%. Much better. I wonder what would cause the charger to stop charging halfway through the night, but keep the charge light on. Well, at least the mystery's been solved.
I am sort of having the same issue. A couple of weeks ago I decided to upgrade from the standard Verizon ROM for my xv6800 to DCD's 3.2.2 ROM. The upgrade went perfectly. I always plug in my phone every night before I go to bed. The light turns orange while it is charging and then it is green when I wake up. The phone always showed 100%. Now with the updated ROM, I do the same, plug in before I go to bed, the light turns orange, and it is green when I wake up. But, when I look at the battery level when I unplug it, it is usually at about 94%. The battery level also seems to go down quicker than before, but I figured that had to do with the GPS radio and WM6.1. Why do you think the battery would no longer show 100% when I unplug it? Seems very weird that right after I upgrade the ROM my battery would start failing.
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I am sort of having the same issue. A couple of weeks ago I decided to upgrade from the standard Verizon ROM for my xv6800 to DCD's 3.2.2 ROM. The upgrade went perfectly. I always plug in my phone every night before I go to bed. The light turns orange while it is charging and then it is green when I wake up. The phone always showed 100%. Now with the updated ROM, I do the same, plug in before I go to bed, the light turns orange, and it is green when I wake up. But, when I look at the battery level when I unplug it, it is usually at about 94%. The battery level also seems to go down quicker than before, but I figured that had to do with the GPS radio and WM6.1. Why do you think the battery would no longer show 100% when I unplug it? Seems very weird that right after I upgrade the ROM my battery would start failing.
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DCD roms included new code to show 1% changes. The original code showed 10% changes only. Originally, you likely saw 100%, 90%, 80% etc. Now you see 95%, 94%, 93%, etc. It seldom goes to a perfect 100% and it LOOKS like it is discharging faster. In reality it is simply showing more detail.
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DCD roms included new code to show 1% changes. The original code showed 10% changes only. Originally, you likely saw 100%, 90%, 80% etc. Now you see 95%, 94%, 93%, etc. It seldom goes to a perfect 100% and it LOOKS like it is discharging faster. In reality it is simply showing more detail.
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Yes, I noticed the 1% increments, I figured it was Windows Mobile 6.1 compared to 6.0. I think the old method was reporting in 5% blocks.
So, your battery never shows 100%? Very weird. So, my battery is probably fine and it is probably behaving just like it always has?
Thanks for the information.
I woke up this morning and my phone was off. As you probably already know, the HD2 does not stay off if it is plugged in (with WP7 on it). I checked the charger and outlet; everything was plugged in. I also used a different charger, and different outlet which I know works, and got the same result. When the phone was plugged in it would turn on and start booting then I would see the flashing light - indicating that the battery was dying- and the phone would shut off. This happened like ten times.
I took out the battery and put it back in, with no results. Then I switched batteries and it finally worked. I'm still learning about technology in general; is it possible that my other battery is dead?
Has anyone else had this issue?
your other battery is probably just flat, and cant charge because it needs a running OS, and since the OS cant get far enough into the boot sequence to start charging, the several times it bootlooped will have drained the last of the charge.
Options - external charger, loan of a hd2 running winmo, or my personal fave, (used it three times now) usb cable with end cut off, red wire to + black wire to - on battery, hold for a minute or two, should have enough juice to boot far enough to begin charging. Best to use wall charger rather than pc usb, since the pc may connect and disconnect time or two whilst booting, preventing continual charge.
I forgot to mention that the first time that the I booted with the battery that doesn't seem to work I actually got to the wp7 home screen and it was about 20 seconds before the phone died.
Even so, I'll try that cut off cord thing when I reach home. Thanks for the advice.
I guess my phone just felt like being retarded the "flat" battery is working now.
My 6P on 6.0.1 stock with the march update has had occasional times where it will intermittently charge, then stop, then charge endlessly, changing back and forth about once a second or more often. There's been times I've woken up, like today overnight when I noticed it barely inched up a percent or two on the Google USB-C cable connected to my laptop.
To isolate this from being a defective cable issue, this has also happened with the Google charger that came with the phone. I would see the screen turn on in fact, like when you first plug the phone with the screen off, to indicate charging has begun. That would occur every few seconds.
I'm a little concerned. The time it happened with the charger, a reboot seemed to have calmed it down. But today no matter the restart, the charging just keeps cycling nonstop.
Anyone else had this? Would it be wise to file a problem with the Google forums and contact support?
Thanks for any help!
Same problem here
Dang, good to know I'm not alone!
I've also experienced higher battery drain (twice more I'd say) than normal recently. Even overnight when I used to see hourly drain rates of 0.5%, now I see 1.5% and higher. Getting worried the charging issue may be damaging the battery. But it could also be the patch or a rogue app.
I have the same issue - it started about 3 days ago
Well either the cords bad, the brick is bad, or the receptacle. Or the charging port on the phone, the battery or power control module in the phone. Or if theirs a thick case on your phone.
Sounds like it starts to charge then stops. But I'm no electrician. Oh wait, yes I am.
It starts to charge, then stops as though the cable was disconnected, then resumes within half a second, then disconnects, and so on and so forth non stop.
Case might be a reason. It's a rubber and plastic transparent Spigen one. I'll try removing it when it happens again next time.
But at this rate, sounds like 3 people are having the same issue, and if it's a hardware one, then damn....
This isn't the charger... There is something buggy with the update. I woke up a few days ago after the march update with an almost dead phone, and the charging icon flashing over the battery, as if the phone new it was plugged in but refused to charge. I unplugged and plugged it back in with the same result. I restarted and tried again, same result. I was only able to get it to charge my plugging it into my girlfriend's nexus 5x charger, which instantly started charging my phone. I went back to my charger and all of the sudden no issue and the phone was charging fine. There is definitely something up with this update.
Well then, that makes 4 people now.
What's a good way to report this?
I'm not seeing the same exact issue as you guys, but I AM having charging issues after updating to MHC19I. I can still charge my phone from the stock charger and my other USB-C chargers, but now none of them allow my phone to charge rapidly. Do you guys who can get your devices to charge from a rapid charge compatible charger see the "Charging Rapidly" message on the lock screen? Ever since this recent update, I've noticed that my device isn't (and is taking over 2 hours to charge fully from ~20%).
I have this problem too. It's fixed by a reboot so I'm assuming it's not a hardware problem. It only happens once a week or so.
The first time it happened I didn't notice the charging/not charging and only realised something weird had happened because my phone was off & showing fully charged. My phone is never switched off.
I figured it out the next time when I noticed the screen was still on during the night. Switching from charging to not charging was keeping the screen on.
So glad it's not just me.
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I'm not seeing the same exact issue as you guys, but I AM having charging issues after updating to MHC19I. I can still charge my phone from the stock charger and my other USB-C chargers, but now none of them allow my phone to charge rapidly. Do you guys who can get your devices to charge from a rapid charge compatible charger see the "Charging Rapidly" message on the lock screen? Ever since this recent update, I've noticed that my device isn't (and is taking over 2 hours to charge fully from ~20%).
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I normally see it say that on the USB C charger. That being said, you seem to have an intermediate speed going on, as opposed to super slow normal USB cable speeds and the USB-C fast charger. In my experience most 1-1.5V low amp ports like my Mac's, or the car's USB port will charge at a rate of about 1% per 3-5 minutes. So a full charge would take 8-9 hours from 0%. From the USB-C wall charger it would be about 1%/m so an hour and forty is enough to get it back to full.
Based on that your charger seems to be somewhere in the middle.
But yes it isn't normal. If you are using Google's native hardware, you should see the same charging speed as I am.
I'm just terribly worried this cycling is destroying my battery. I have definitely not gotten the same battery life the last few weeks.
Hey guys!
I experience sort of the same problem as you guys, but i have the Nexus 5x
i copy from my thread at google nexus forum
My phone just randomly die. It will work for like 2 hours. Almost like the battery would been disconnected.
When the phone shutdowns it says the battery is low and try to charge. The Battery icon with a flash is showing, but just for 5-7 seconds, then it shutdown again and it's looping again and again and again.... To get out of the loop i'm booting in to fast boot, then push at start. and it is almost 50/50 if it is working. It can be booting up and you see the red/yellow/green/blue yada yada boot-up sequence then in 5-7 seconds in to the sequence it would shutdown again immediately.
I tried several factory-resets. re-flashed to stock. Nothing helps.
/marcus
Same issue
Just starting having this issue. It constantly says charging then a second later shows no charging and the process keeps repeating itself. I did a reset and the issue seems to be resolved for now. Really hope this isn't a constant issue. Definitely appears to be software related though.
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Just starting having this issue. It constantly says charging then a second later shows no charging and the process keeps repeating itself. I did a reset and the issue seems to be resolved for now. Really hope this isn't a constant issue. Definitely appears to be software related though.
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I hadn't had it for a while then recently it happened again once. I still don't know what triggers it for sure.
The battery drain is also rather random. There are days I can expect the unit to idle and drain at or below 2%/h, but lately it just goes through it way faster, twice that. I am unsure why and how that happens so randomly. Seems the Google Play Services and Google Apps are using up some %s. Not much else I can identify.
I've had this issue since a few days ago, restarted the phone and it's come right for now.
Haven't experienced this in weeks now.
Seems largely gone.
Any updates on this? My Nexus 6P started showing the same symptoms (either won't charge at all, or charging cycles on and off rapidly (< 1 second) and only sometimes charges). The issue appeared out of the blue 4-5 days ago, just before the 1 year anniversary of receiving the phone. I tried different cables and adapters, still no change. Last night at 11pm it was at 50% when I set it to charge and it seemed to charge. This morning at 6:30 am it had only charged up to 83% and was charging on and off. Worried about how to reliably use the phone if it won't charge, and also how this might affect the battery / other circuitry.
Any help/tips appreciated!
Edit: The phone hasn't been dropped or had any other issue that may affect the hardware. Also, no OS update or anything recently (AFAIK - it did not ask me to install anything, not sure if there were any silent updates). It is currently on Android 7.0 Nougat (baseband version angler-03.72, build NBD90X, security patch level Oct 5, 2016).
Have not had this in a long time. It sort of stopped on its own. :S
Solved (for me anyways)
I just had to restart the device.
I'm having the same issue on my LG G5. Started out of the blue and like others, restarting temporarily solves the problem. Anyone solve this yet?
Hello
Yesterday, I drained the battery of my Yotaphone 2 completely, and it would not wake up again, not even when plugged in.
I think what happened is that it had difficulties with the charger, it would start charging for a bit, then stop, and soon start again. Overall, that must have drained the battery.
With the battery empty, the phone would not start, and therefore it would not charge the battery. It was just dead.
Luckily I managed to rescue it, but that was a bit more difficult than it should be. I had to open the case (which is luckily not too difficult, but a bit scary), and disconnect the battery. Then the phone would charge, and after reconnecting the battery, everything was going fine.
The phone is now completely charged and working fine again, but I will be careful not to completely drain it in the future.
I started to have the same problem. The phone would charge a little bit, turn on, then stop charging and turn off, charge a little bit.....
I managed to enter the recovery menu, charge the phone for sometime and reboot.
I made a factory reset but the problem still continues once the charge drops below 15% or so. It would say it is charging, chargers light turns on but the battery drains.
Maybe it also sort of problem that i experience... since it is dead for some time maybe reconnecting tha batt resurect it... but i have not got tools to open it - i will let it do by some sort of service points - even if it not fix it I also have broken YD201 for mobo swap.
No tools required - I just used my fingernails. If you want something slightly stronger, get a guitar pick. There are also proper tools with a handle etc.
At the end of the day, this seems to be a design problem with the charging circuit. Usually, it would wake up once you connect power, but it did not do that in my case.
Try to fix it sooner rather than later, otherwise the battery might need replacing.
So. My phone has this problem, and its pretty weird (IMO). It is possible that it is a hardware problem.
I going to work and I dropped my phone. Didn't think much of it. The phone worked fine for several hours. It started around 40% and only declined somewhat, until about 2-3 hours later where it dropped rapidly to 6%. It was in my pocket when it dropped. I figured at the time that I had just forgotten to turn the screen off, so it drained much more battery. I then plugged it in, and it charged for a little while on a non-turbo charged cord, getting to 21% (which is what it said when it was off). After I turned it on however, it was only at 12%. I didn't bother with it at the moment, but after about 5 minutes it dropped to zero in about 5-10 seconds from when it started dropping. This was concerning, but I had to go back to work so I plugged it back in. When I came back and rebooted it showed 11%, and it stayed at 11% for several hours while I was using it, even though I wasn't charging it. Then randomly it dropped super quickly and died. I turbo charged it overnight. In the morning I booted it up and it immediately shut down claiming there was 0% battery life. It will not boot up without being plugged in. This goes on.
Usually, I charge it for a while and it will give a higher number than it will say when it boots up. It sticks at that boot up number for longer than it should, then dies rapidly. Occasionally it will boot up to be 0% and immediately die. I have tried turning in on and off again (without it dying) and it wont turn back on claiming too low of power regardless of how charged it said it was before. I have tried various charging cables and wall outlets. I have tried several battery repair apps, which did nothing. I was going to try and do a root version, since I figured that would be better but cannot root it. (Using adb to sideload comes up with an error (signature verification failed), trying to flash twrp fails (pre-flash validation failed) and normal root methods fail.) Oh yeah, and I've also factory reset it a few times.
So it seems to me that it's a software problem, namely the battery driver, since it appears to be charging and holding a charge for the most part, but then shutting down randomly due to the driver saying it is at 0% battery life. Alternatively, it could be a problem with the battery or charging port, although nothing seems to be wrong with the charging port visually.
Also potentially of note is that my normal turbo charger, when plugged in, puts a lightning bolt icon in the battery symbol, but on battery usage it says not charging. This could also be the chargers fault, since it had begun to fail previously (only working at certain angles) but it worked earlier the same day and now doesn't.
I didn't install any new updates to the OS or installed any new apps before this occurred either.
Any idea whats going on and how to fix it?
EDIT: I've been trying to look up and see if there was a driver or something for the battery that I could reinstall but I couldn't find anything. So, I ordered a replacement battery of Amazon. Now the question becomes will that fix my problem if I replace the battery?
Think so this might solve your issue ,but getting it checked before ordering would be wise.
Going through your rooting steps , i didnt see that you unlocked your device thats why you are getting errors of signature verification failed.
There is no separate battrey driver for Android its the part of OS itself so you dont need to mess up with that area
Uh... yeah well, Droid Turbo 2's can't root. It wont work. The bootloader is locked up tight, even if you select it in developer options it does nothing.
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Uh... yeah well, Droid Turbo 2's can't root. It wont work. The bootloader is locked up tight, even if you select it in developer options it does nothing.
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HI,
has your problem resolved after replaced the battery?