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Question about charging the phone

Hi there! I just bought a Cingular 8525 Unlocked phone and absolutely love it! After having it for two weeks, so far i have upgraded to the 2600mah extended battery and i am currently using PDACorner v20 rom (nonRBSN)
Now to my question, is it bad for the phone i keep plugging it in randomly throughout the day on the charger or USB? I upload files sometimes and i just leave the phone plugged in the computer or I would sometimes charge the phone when it hits 70% and unplug when done and would charge again before going to bed.
Also, is it ok if i leave the phone on the charger even if the light turns green? sometimes charging would be done around times when im knocked out....and usually dont unplug it until i have to leave.
Thanks for your help/replies.

h2opoloplyr_11 said:
Hi there! I just bought a Cingular 8525 Unlocked phone and absolutely love it! After having it for two weeks, so far i have upgraded to the 2600mah extended battery and i am currently using PDACorner v20 rom (nonRBSN)
Now to my question, is it bad for the phone i keep plugging it in randomly throughout the day on the charger or USB? I upload files sometimes and i just leave the phone plugged in the computer or I would sometimes charge the phone when it hits 70% and unplug when done and would charge again before going to bed.
Also, is it ok if i leave the phone on the charger even if the light turns green? sometimes charging would be done around times when im knocked out....and usually dont unplug it until i have to leave.
Thanks for your help/replies.
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Well, I don't think that's such an easy question to answer. There have been the following reports:
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Attempting to charge the battery with either PC USB or non approved charger (500mA) if the phone has less than 10% charge can lock up the charging circuit and result in a Red no charge LED showing.
2
Leaving the phone on charge overnight for example can result in the curious situation of having a flat battery and RED LED showing in the morning.
3
In general problems can result if 500mA 5v chargers are used instead of the 1000mA official charger - particularly if they are used when phone charge is low.
Now despite all the above, I regularly charge overnight without problems - and clearly that means the green LED is on for most of the night. I frequently top up the phone with the PC USB and do sometimes use a non standard charger. I have only ever had the RLOD red light of death once and was able to kick start it eventually.
I generally do not let the phone fall below 20% - but even when it does I have had no problems.
Mike

Thanks for the reply. I never let the phone fall below 40% so i should be ok on that. But when i bought the extended battery it came with a wall charger but its 500mA.....im guessing its ok for the battery since it was packaged with it.
But i might look into buying a charger from ATT. Leaving it charged till i wake up should be ok then....thanks!

[Q] U8800 X5 Battery Not Charging

Hi Guy,
First post here. I looked around and could not find a solution to the problem so here we go:
So I have a U8800 X5 which I've rooted and installed Clockwork Mod and the MIUI Custom Rom.
I had been running that set up for about 3 to 4 weeks and it had been going great until recently when it started acting buggy. A few hours ago I used my phone until the battery fell to about 3% and while the phone was still on, I put it on charge.
It said "Charging" but the percentage was not increasing so I went to sleep with the phone still on charge thinking maybe it needed some time.
Now, in my sleep, the phone turned off and it will not turn back on. I have tried plugging it into another socket, charging through my pc, taking the battery out and putting it back in but every time it's the same result:
The 4 buttons at the bottom of the screen light up and the LED next to the speaker flashes red. There is NO activity WHATSOEVER on the screen itself.. I personally don't think it's charging.
Is it my battery? Is it the ROM? Is there a solution? :/

And I believe that the U8800 also works without a battery if the charger is connected (by getting power directly through the Mini-USB Cable).
It refuses to turn on when I take the battery out as well.

the same thing happened to me. it was a problem with the usb cable. i bought a new one and everything works fine again

Well, first of all try to connect it to a computer USB port with a different USB cable. If it still does not charge, then it might be that your batter is dead. OR if you're unlucky then there might be something wrong with your phone (though I don't think that. Most likely it is your battery)
You can try to connect your battery to a separate charger and see if it charges.

[FAULT] Battery not holding or taking charge even when showing that it is charging...

Hi everyone - I hope this isn't a redundant or duplicate thread however all information I can find on battery problems centre around the issue of having to power off via the bootloader. This is different. A little backstory....*wibbly lines*
My N7 is two weeks old. Last week I decided to make a pogo pin dock for charging and I guess this is where the problems started. Whether this is coincidental or not is difficult to ascertain. The tablet no longer recognises USB chargers (stock or otherwise), however it had been sporadically charging for short period via USB and now not at all. It has been possible to charge via the pogo pins, yet leaving the house today with a 100% charge and minimal usage the battery was dead less than six hours later. Minimal like, less than 15mins of non-intensive work. Battery history details shows 1h 55m on battery with a slow decline over that entire period to maybe 95% then a total drop to nothing. Plugging in the tablet to my pogo charger shows charging both in the OS and in the black and white powered off charging script. The N7 will boot up however the battery shows 0% and has done for the last couple of hours. Removing the pogo charger shuts the N7 off straight away - whether that is battery deadness or OS terminating because of an apparent flat battery, unsure.
I suspect that something is very very wrong here. Possibly screwed battery management? Faulty battery? Anybody else with the same experience would be gratefully welcomed into the discussion. I'm about to start an RMA and wondering whether I should flash back to a stock kernel/ROM and wipe the tablet first....

Nice to see a warm flow of conversation over this fault.
Unit RMA'ed. I doubt I'll get feedback as to the cause of the problem as I pushed for a complete replacement since repair would take 2-3 weeks off a device only a little over a week out of the box. Hmph.

Good luck with the replacement unit.
Based on the chronology you describe (& other factors) I think I would be reluctant to use your homemade charger on the replacement.
Prostheta said:
My N7 is two weeks old. Last week I decided to make a pogo pin dock for charging and I guess this is where the problems started.
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charging issue

Hi,
Ive had the oppo for just over a day now and the first day all was well until last night. I had about 10% battery and left the phone on charge. half an hour later i came back and it was on 2% and then it died. I connected my phone to my computer via the usb cable and the charging indicator came on. The phone has been charging for 3 hours and is still on 0% and as soon as i take it of the phone dies.
hope someone can help
thanks

mo123456789 said:
Hi,
Ive had the oppo for just over a day now and the first day all was well until last night. I had about 10% battery and left the phone on charge. half an hour later i came back and it was on 2% and then it died. I connected my phone to my computer via the usb cable and the charging indicator came on. The phone has been charging for 3 hours and is still on 0% and as soon as i take it of the phone dies.
hope someone can help
thanks
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sorry to hear about the charging problem. I have not heard of that. Some have complained that it charges slow. I have the opposite experience, mine charges relatively quickly I think. Anyway, have you tried contacting OPPO support. They will respond withing 24hrs, assuming it's not the weekend!

I also experienced some charging issues. Connected my Find to my laptop the other evening, closed the lid and went to bed.
The next morning the phone was out of juice. For some reason, my Find 5 will not charge when my laptop is hibernating. It charges fine otherwise.
No other phone I've owned has this problem. I tested it with my old Galaxy Note and HD2. No problems charging when laptop is hibernating.
I also noticed that sometimes when connected as Media Device (MTP) it says charging....but the battery level still goes down.

Zhoreb said:
I also experienced some charging issues. Connected my Find to my laptop the other evening, closed the lid and went to bed.
The next morning the phone was out of juice. For some reason, my Find 5 will not charge when my laptop is hibernating. It charges fine otherwise.
No other phone I've owned has this problem. I tested it with my old Galaxy Note and HD2. No problems charging when laptop is hibernating.
I also noticed that sometimes when connected as Media Device (MTP) it says charging....but the battery level still goes down.
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Probably the power output is not enough to charge the phone properly, it also happens to me, but with the stock charger it does it well.

Yotaphone 2 doesn't turn on or charge!

Hello
Yotaphone 2 arrived 2-3 days ago and I it doesn't turn on. I can't even charge it. I left it charging for hours but nothing.
I thought charger was not working but it does charge other smartphones I have...Yotaphone text on the charger lights when its charging other phones,
but when I plug it in Yotaphone 2, it doesnt and I when I put ear close to charger I can hear low buzzing noise but cant hear the noise when charging other phones.
Is the battery really dead or what? I asked for a refund of seller.
Package took 25 days to reach my location so I thought battery drained of course but I cannot charge it.
One interesting thing is when I plug it on PC it does recognize the USB Device.
Please, any help!

You can try a different cable, a qi-charger or charge it with the pc.

This is not normal, ask for refund

Ask for a new one or for your money .

After few weeks, I bought tools for disassembling smartphones.
I plugged Yotaphone 2 in the charger, disconnected battery from the phone, heated the battery with fan for 10min, I connected the battery and it immediately turned on and it was flashing android logo.
I left it charging for 10-15 min and the phone works fine.
I've seen some people recording videos about the same issue I had so this helped me to get phone back alive.
Probably the phone stayed for a long time in the warehouse and battery fully drained. Heating the battery with fan (on max temperature) for 5-10 min will make it hot and it will work, make sure it's disconnected from the phone first while the phone is charging. cause it will restart the battery.