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charging problems

Hi guys asked it once before in battery section, but no replies.
My HD doesn't charge auto, when I press the on button the battery charges for 15 sec. tried a new battery same result. I know it Physicly charges, when I charge the phone by pressing the on button a couple of 100 times (really 100x) I get 1% charge. So don't say 'HTC phones only charge when on', cause I know.. Tried a Hard reset 2 times no luck. meanwhile my batt. is dead. So I can't try other firmware.(need 50% charge min)
(chargers are fine)
In short, anybody ever heard of this problem before with other htc models/HD ?
Physicly it charges, so would a firmware change help?(then I need to get a standalone charger/new battery with charge).
My last option is to bring it to HTC but that would take a month
Sorry for number of words on this lazy sunday.
Update - firmware update doesn't work.. next is radio....

no ideas anybody?

Hi,
Unfortunately I dont know much other, then charge the battery in another HD up if available (maybe u can ask in a telephoneshop or so) and then test the Firmware changes.
Is the same if you charge it via PC/USB?

thx for the reply, did just that, changed Rom/radio, official and dutty's rom's, no change. No problem sync. have atleast 3 usb chargers none of them work. When connected to usb cable 2 lights blink 1 green 1 amber one after each other. just like a new message/ low battery even when battery has 50% I get the same light patern, (this is a new battery).
The thing is when the battery is completly flat it stil charges for 15 sec then it turns of. So when I charge it 15 (x15 sec) times or so I'm able to turn the device on again. But when it has (some) battery power the lights start blinking again and I'm completly unable to charge the battery.
The phone is almost 2 weeks old and charged normaly until I checked the "don't charge when connected to usb" option in the power menu. ??!

Then I think you wont get around, to send it back for repair.

have you tried to charge it with a wall socket or is this only when you usb to pc charge??

Jbvb said:
have you tried to charge it with a wall socket or is this only when you usb to pc charge??
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I never charges, wall/usb doesn't matter.
I just used another HD battery to restore everything to default, So I'll guess I'm taking it back..
Thx anyway.

exact same problem
Did you get anywhere with this problem? I have been strugling with the exact same thing... I have tried all the same things as you, only sometimes it seems like it might be the battery contacts.. I havent been able to consistently get it to work but sometimes if I firmly press the battery against the contacts it will behave normally

philbrown23 said:
Did you get anywhere with this problem? I have been strugling with the exact same thing... I have tried all the same things as you, only sometimes it seems like it might be the battery contacts.. I havent been able to consistently get it to work but sometimes if I firmly press the battery against the contacts it will behave normally
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Nope tried the contacts but they work fine, battery just won't charge, do your light also blink? (on the power button).
I haven't found any info on the web?!?:S

Problem is solved.. had to be sent back to HTC for repair, it took less then 2 weeks (door to door) so that was pretty fast. They swapped the mainbord, so I got my 'old' phone with a new imei.
So don't waste your time with software up/downgrades. It's a hardware problem.

I had a very similar problem.
Once my battery died some app hung system all night.
No charging at all wall charger and USB 1 day each and so many manipulations. The indicator blinks momentarily and then nothing. I didn't try (didn't know) the key presses like Dogtag. Did a hard reset still nothing...
Then thought about charging the battery with external (Lion) charger before sending for repair. I also shorted the battery compartment pins momentarily. To my pleasant surprise everything back to normal
So far no problems after that though I never drained my battery to zero.
Looks like something to do with corruption in battery calibration data - may not be in ROM?? who knows??

fantastic. can u elaberate?
hey Cragee
I did't understand what u did. Can u try to explane it to me one more time?
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crajee said:
I also shorted the battery compartment pins momentarily. To my pleasant surprise everything back to normal
So far no problems after that though I never drained my battery to zero.
Looks like something to do with corruption in battery calibration data - may not be in ROM?? who knows??
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Only two things I did can matter -
1. Charging the battery after taking it out (with a battery charger*)
2. shorting pins in the battery compartment after taking out the battery. (Warning: not on batteries)
Don't know which of the two worked.. No harm trying both anyway.
* U need a Li-ion battery charger - else invitation for trouble including fire and explosion.. These are available in electronics shop at a reasonable price.

Short-circuiting the battery pins... seems to work
I had the same problems with my Touch HD the last few weeks:
- stopped charging after a few seconds
- didn't charge at all (nor the wall nor the computer method, on or off)
- well... it charged sometimes but randomly, keeping it on a wall charger (on OR off) for a night could bring it back to 20% and then rapidly back to 0%
- no charging indicator in the screen while turned on
- blinking orange and yellow (?) light even while turned off
- charged almost never to full and 'jumping' from high to ultra low capacity when turning it on & off
So before bringing it back to the store i tried to short circuit the battery pins as suggested (while the battery and charge were unhooked) like the thing you would do to clear the CMOS memmory of a PC in the 'old days'
And for now it seems to work, at least the charging icon is back online!
I'll keep you posted on longer term results!
Update: I switched to the wall charger and the HD died again??? Now it's back on the computer and it seems to charge fine... why????

crajee said:
I had a very similar problem.
Once my battery died some app hung system all night.
No charging at all wall charger and USB 1 day each and so many manipulations. The indicator blinks momentarily and then nothing. I didn't try (didn't know) the key presses like Dogtag. Did a hard reset still nothing...
Then thought about charging the battery with external (Lion) charger before sending for repair. I also shorted the battery compartment pins momentarily. To my pleasant surprise everything back to normal
So far no problems after that though I never drained my battery to zero.
Looks like something to do with corruption in battery calibration data - may not be in ROM?? who knows??
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When u say "shorted the battery" do u mean, turnoing phone off, taking battery out, connecting the 3 battery connectors with a wire for a few seconds?

....so what does shorting mean??

cxkx said:
When u say "shorted the battery" do u mean, turnoing phone off, taking battery out, connecting the 3 battery connectors with a wire for a few seconds?
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I thing so. You should circuit the pins WITHOUT battery. In any other case it may occurs damage on the telephone

Dogtag is right... it's defenitly a hardware problem
As posted before...i had the same problem with my touch HD, charging was a pain or sometimes seemed impossible. The phone was repaired twice.
-First they replaced the connector - no succes.
-Second time the replaced the motherboard, and everything was solved.
So imho it's the mainboard of some machines, i still wonder if it's a factory problem or a 'fried' chip of some kind after a bad charging procedure? Bad USB car charger of some kind?

Fast Charging issue.

Hi. I had my Note 4 for about 1 week now. At first fast charging was fine. After 1 week i started to have this problem that goes like this.
I would plug the phone to the charger then a notification turns up to say fast charging is enabled. Then it would stop charging after 3 seconds, then charge again, then stop after 3 seconds. Happens for about 5 times after plugging in the charger. After that, charging is fine.
Do you guys experience the same? What do I do? Will it break the phone? What could be the problem? Thanks guys.

jerverg said:
Hi. I had my Note 4 for about 1 week now. At first fast charging was fine. After 1 week i started to have this problem that goes like this.
I would plug the phone to the charger then a notification turns up to say fast charging is enabled. Then it would stop charging after 3 seconds, then charge again, then stop after 3 seconds. Happens for about 5 times after plugging in the charger. After that, charging is fine.
Do you guys experience the same? What do I do? Will it break the phone? What could be the problem? Thanks guys.
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thats abnormal, try disable fast charging on settings>battery

Connectivity problem man, loose connection somewhere. Try with a new USB cable, if that doesn't solve it, try a new power adapter.

Fast Charging Not Always Working with OEM Charger and Cables

****** Fast Charging Seems to be working now. But is very inconsistent. ***********
Fast charging was working and now it stopped. I have 2 OEM cables and chargers. Sometimes it works and then it will stop. This has happened on multiple ROMS . So far I have toggled the fast charging switch, rebooted, cleared dalvik cache/cache with no success. Any ideas? Currently running Gold Eagle Code MRA. I would put this in the thread for that rom but this has happened on multiple roms where fast charging stops working. Its not even charging normally very fast. Calculates 4 hours and 20 minutes until full from 30% charge.. Please note that Wireless charging seems to be OK (I think) It calculates about 2 hours charge time from 30% charge

spirodave said:
****** Fast Charging Seems to be working now. But is very inconsistent. ***********
Fast charging was working and now it stopped. I have 2 OEM cables and chargers. Sometimes it works and then it will stop. This has happened on multiple ROMS . So far I have toggled the fast charging switch, rebooted, cleared dalvik cache/cache with no success. Any ideas? Currently running Gold Eagle Code MRA. I would put this in the thread for that rom but this has happened on multiple roms where fast charging stops working. Its not even charging normally very fast. Calculates 4 hours and 20 minutes until full from 30% charge.. Please note that Wireless charging seems to be OK (I think) It calculates about 2 hours charge time from 30% charge
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Could be that the charging port contacts are dirty, you can Use alcohol to clean them. If after that you still have issues then it's probably the port itself.

I had this issue as well and both times it was the cable. I bought an after market one from Ebay and it's never missed a beat.

If the USB connector isn't fully inserted into the charger and the data pins don't make contact, it won't negotiate fast charging.

It's a common issue regarding the charging flex cable. I've had mine replaced under warranty for same problem.

Galaxy s8 intermittently not cable charging

Hi!
My girlfriend's new S8 will intermittently not charge overnight. I'd say maybe 5 times since she bought it last month she'll wake up to an almost dead battery, while it's still plugged in. Not sure if there are any messages or anything.
This is using the charger that came with it.
Anyone else experience this?

joshbgosh10592 said:
Hi!
My girlfriend's new S8 will intermittently not charge overnight. I'd say maybe 5 times since she bought it last month she'll wake up to an almost dead battery, while it's still plugged in. Not sure if there are any messages or anything.
This is using the charger that came with it.
Anyone else experience this?
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I don't charge my phones overnight, but haven't seen it with my S8.
There could be a process of a particular app that is using resources and it makes CPU work harder and/or the charger isn't giving enough power to keep things going.
Of course do simple stuff like checking out the cable/charger + try another one if you have, try different outlet....
Before putting it on a charger: Items 1 - 2 do every time you charge the phone - it is very helpful.
1) Clear all recent apps
2) Restart the device(this usually gets rid of any app that are stuck)
3) Also try to charge not overnight by couple of hours before going to bed, so it would be easy to monitor what is happening.

Charkatak said:
I don't charge my phones overnight, but haven't seen it with my S8.
There could be a process of a particular app that is using resources and it makes CPU work harder and/or the charger isn't giving enough power to keep things going.
Of course do simple stuff like checking out the cable/charger + try another one if you have, try different outlet....
Before putting it on a charger: Items 1 - 2 do every time you charge the phone - it is very helpful.
1) Clear all recent apps
2) Restart the device(this usually gets rid of any app that are stuck)
3) Also try to charge not overnight by couple of hours before going to bed, so it would be easy to monitor what is happening.
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Thanks for the reply, but we'll find it's either slow charging (it actually says slow charging), or it won't even show it's charging/plugged in. I've tried clearing recent apps and restarting.

joshbgosh10592 said:
Hi!
My girlfriend's new S8 will intermittently not charge overnight. I'd say maybe 5 times since she bought it last month she'll wake up to an almost dead battery, while it's still plugged in. Not sure if there are any messages or anything.
This is using the charger that came with it.
Anyone else experience this?
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I had the same issue as you had yesterday
It seems that samsung did some update that checks the amperage current that it charges and if its low or unstable, the phone stops getting charging.
Try use original adapter and short length type c cable like the original, it won't happen.

deliad said:
I had the same issue as you had yesterday
It seems that samsung did some update that checks the amperage current that it charges and if its low or unstable, the phone stops getting charging.
Try use original adapter and short length type c cable like the original, it won't happen.
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Great.. I'm using the original charger and cable that came with the phone.

One PLus 5 isnt charging

today my op5 stopped charging after dying down in the morning (atleast thats what i'm expecting)
first i thought maybe its charger issue or socket issue but after checking them to be OK i thought maybe charging port of mobile is out
but just atm i connected my phone to computer to saw that its actually connecting to my computer showing
"qualcomm hs-usb qdloader 9008 com 5 connected"
Can anyone point out whats the issue exactly to my phone
at the same time i requested for a repair up also through their official website but still couldnt be able to figure out if its hardware issue or software

I have the same issue intermittently. Originally cleaning the port seemed to fix the problem then it came back. Sometimes it wouldn't charge at all, other times it would slow charge but not fast charge. Now it's back to fast charging as long as the cord isn't stressed. I ordered a charging port and if I can get the damn thing open I'll replace it and the battery.
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Thanks mate ..good to know I'm not only one
I already requested for a repair if the problem is regarding Charging port and battery then I guess it won't be a huge setback on my wallet (<$100)
But now If I think about it..yeah I do face minor issue when charging ..sometimes it don't straight away do fast charge or so and stick to basic charge and then after some time it goes to its fast charge

Sounds like it's very similar to my issue. My phone is about 16 months old and out of warranty. My battery shows 82% health. Was as low as 81 percent but it went back up a percent. Lol.
One morning it died overnight which never happens. I believe I went to bed with between 30+40 percent and usually plug in when my alarm goes off in the morning and it's charged by the time I hit snooze the third time. This time something must have drained the battery. It only happened once and never again. It usually takes a long time to drain the last 1/3 of the battery and it doesn't drain much overnight when it's low.
The charging port I can understand having an issue because I work in the woods and it gets gunk in the port from my work vest (bits of tree branches etc). I had to clean it several times and it fixed charging issues then but not lately. I wanted to buy a replacement battery while they were still easily available and not very old. Now I'm not too rushed to fix it because it's been charging okay again recently and the battery is still almost impossible for me to kill in a day despite being at 82% health. That and I couldn't get the screen off with the suction cups I have.

Tried to print some pictures from my phone at Walmart today from my phone and it wouldn't connect via their usb c cable. I guess it's time to fix it sooner than later. Last time I had to transfer pics was for work onto the server at work. It worked but I had to keep from moving the phone at all or it would disconnect.
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