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Battery Charging

I have noticed recently that my HD2 charges when it feels like. I can charge direct from mains, usb or portable solar charger and have noticed that when plugged in and below 100% or any number down to about 10% that it does not always indicate that it is charging and sometimes stops charging before it has got to a 100%.
I have two batteries and both do the same and the phone is set to charge when on USB, so what gives, does anyone recognise this issue and how big an issue is it.. cheers..

Still trying to find an answer to this as the situation has got worse. Now I find that the battery will not charge until it has gone into the red zone and not always then.
Yesterday both batteries were in the last 10% of their life and then just stopped, even though the phone was plugged into the charger.
I have two chargers, three leads, two batteries but just the one phone so I am guessing that either the phone has issues or the rom that I am using has issues..
looking for clues and pointers..

I have had a similar issue, but it occuredmostly when I plugged in my portable charger with me. Above 50% charge, charging was not trustworthy, but below that it was. Up till now I have found the micro-usb cable to be the culprit, although I do not know exactly why.

Wevenhuis said:
I have had a similar issue, but it occuredmostly when I plugged in my portable charger with me. Above 50% charge, charging was not trustworthy, but below that it was. Up till now I have found the micro-usb cable to be the culprit, although I do not know exactly why.
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Okay I will check my cable, maybe get one that I have not used before... thanks...

Well it is not the leads. The phone defo has a mind of its own and I can not make any sense of its charging behaviour.

SORTED...
At LAST.. finally got to the bottom of this..
SPB Phone Suite has both "Profiles" and "Rules" and I had not realised that you need to set the rules up and not just leave them at the default as this was telling my phone not to charge in certain profiles..
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Panic over, phone is charging as it should..

New N4, strange charging issue

I just got my new N4 and I placed it on my charger (not the one that came with the phone) overnight. I just checked the battery and it is sitting at 99% so I checked the battery chart and saw a weird thing. It says it has been turned on for just under 7 hrs (which is not true, it has been on for over 18 hrs) and that it only has been on the charger for over 2 hrs (again this is false, it has been charging for about 7 or 8). Plus the chart shows surges of use that quickly drain the battery while I was sleeping.
Does anyone know wtf went on? I will be switching to the provided charger but I have been using this charger for over a year with my Galaxy S2 without issues.
This is on the latest CM10.1 nightly, also.
Thanks.
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According to this picture you are not using stock rom.

viktorlj said:
According to this picture you are not using stock rom.
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Yeah I said that in my post
algorhythm said:
This is on the latest CM10.1 nightly, also.
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Plug/unplug several times the cable off of the charger. Check in battery setting, charging is through AC and not USB.
If that weird thing keeps appearing, try a different standard charger and check.

calanizzle said:
Plug/unplug several times the cable off of the charger. Check in battery setting, charging is through AC and not USB.
If that weird thing keeps appearing, try a different standard charger and check.
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What do you mean "Check in battery setting" ... not sure I've seen that before. But I was using an old Blackberry MicroUSB AC charger, not a USB cable connected to an AC->USB connector like what is included with the phone.

Settings -> Battery

and when it plugged in it will say either charging (AC) or charging (USB)

S4 Charger Issue

So recently my S4 has been charging incredibly slowly, I decided to install a quick app (Galaxy Charging Current) to monitor the current output from my charger. I'm using the standard S4 charger that came with it which is supposed to deliver around 2.1A. I do understand that it'll never deliver quite as much as 2.1A due to current drop in the cable etc, but I was shocked to see 300mA being delivered to my phone which would take hours and hours to charge my phone to completion. In fact, I left my phone on charge overnight from about 15% and woke up 9 hours later to 53%, in the battery settings it showed the charge decreasing and increasing by increments.
And so I believed that something with the charger was wrong, so the first thing I did was try out two different USB cables for my charger and then test to see if the current had changed, it had not it was still at 300mA. I ended up buying a new stock S4 charger but the issue persists. However, with this new charger it outputs 1890mA at times, but then drops to 300mA randomly for periods of time. I've tried different wall sockets as well.
Anyone else had anything similar or could offer advice on why this is and how I can change it?

Bump. Issue still persists.

Hi, take out your battery and look at the serial number. if it starts with BD and maybe looks swollen, its faulty. Samsung will replace it with a new one for free.

speedwayfan75 said:
Hi, take out your battery and look at the serial number. if it starts with BD and maybe looks swollen, its faulty. Samsung will replace it with a new one for free.
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It isn't the swollen battery issue I'm afraid, already checked.
Also: the phone charges at 1800mA sometimes and then sometimes I see this, it's driving me insane not being able to charge properly
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Ultra fast battery drain problem

Hi,
So my phone started to act weird while being charged (it was for about month), when battery hit 9, 14, 27, 44 and something near 80 and 90 [%] it acted like cable didn't connect and always at these levels, but I didn't care as long as it charged. I've tried to maintain battery levels between 20-90% (said the most healthy for Li-po batteries) and charge it only via original charger (original cable mostly, then not cheap 2.4 A cable).
Yet, yesterday happend sad thing.
I've plugged my phone as always after hard day at 6% charged and after 30 mins BOOM! 100%! (impossible). I was shocked and couldn't believe it so I did restart it without unplugging it from charger; my phone did reboot but didn't turn on, I've unplugged it, tried again - it's on with 56%, so I think it's ok let's leave it at this level but my phone though differently - every second my battery was drained for 1%.
Since then, whenever I turn on my phone it loses battery like that; while turned off and plugged in it behaves like cable is broken (disconnect and connect) yet displays 0% and random value (75%, 84%, 91%). Sometimes when I turn it on it displays SD card error but it's totally random.
I've managed to take this SS, hope someone knows if it is battery issue or motherboard.
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Do a clean/fastboot flash and see if the problem persists.

It did help, but charging problem remains, with these magic steps where cable looks like it's disconnecting.
Thanks for your answer and sorry for delayed reply.

PeterSfeter said:
It did help, but charging problem remains, with these magic steps where cable looks like it's disconnecting.
Thanks for your answer and sorry for delayed reply.
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Try another cable maybe, or charge your phone switched off or from pc/laptop/powerbank.

kibria.mgk said:
Try another cable maybe, or charge your phone switched off or from pc/laptop/powerbank.
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As I mentioned, I've checked every charging option available, yet this problem still occurs, I've flashed global 9.5.1.0 Stable via fastboot without any problems, so I guess it's not USB port problem, yet I couldn't check if it was charging/discharging battery in this mode.
P.S. Yes, I've checked in stock recovery and on turned off phone and I must sadly admit that it still disconnects/connects during charging like it was bad cable.

Charging anomaly / Ghost recovery mode?

Summary: Charged phone from a power bank, now it won't charge anymore.
My mother charged the phone from some power bank from a friend, as she describes it "it charged very fast and it was very hot". Then it also drained pretty quickly. Now when connecting the original cable and charger from a power outlet it won't charge, nothing shows up (even after 1 hour).
- the power button doesn't do anything, recovery mode won't work either, not even launching in safe mode
- the cable and charger work perfectly (they tested with the other p10 lite phone they got in the house)
- after connecting the cable, not even the led light won't turn on
Here is the strange part.
RANDOMLY ! It will boot up itself into recovery suggesting to update it, after they hit update, they connect successfully to the house Wifi, it will say something like "package information failed to gather". Other options are wipe/factory reset, reboot, shutdown.
Now, I guess I'll try a wipe/factory reset next time it goes into recovery by itself, it happens randomly, can't be done manually since the power button doesn't do anything.
I told them to connect it to the laptop, to which the phone is showing the Huawei logo for a while, then it disappears. But after many tries, we got it to somehow connect with "fast boot" and I managed to take this screenshot.
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I then installed Hisuite and tried to connect to their recovery thing, but this device isn't supported for that.
Some final thoughts, I am still confused as to what the actual issue is, or if there is more than 1 issue.
- the port might be fried from the power bank, but then it still works sometimes, just it doesn't actually charge
- the power button doesn't do anything, maybe because the phone is on 0 battery
- the phone data is corrupted somehow and it won't load the OS, because after connecting to the PC instead of finish loading the OS (after the huawei logo) the logo disappears and nothing happens.
I'm hella confused about this situation. I also told them to use a toothbrush to clean the usb port, still no results.
Any suggestions?