Hi guys,
Does anyone have any idea to this WEIRD issue I've had with my Desire Z?
Basically, my phone was working normally last night. I then put my phone on to charge as normal before I went to bed, and I left it on the bed. About 5-6 hours later (I had to get up early today...) I turned over and touched the back of the phone and woke up shocked, as the back of the phone BURNED me! I got very confused and looked at the phone. It was VERY hot to hold, and it was on 42% battery. I then took the battery out, and it was almost hot enough to burn me. I left the battery out of the phone until I got up properly and tried turning it back on, and it got very hot, very fast.
I figured it could be a problem with the 1800 mAh Mugen battery I was using, so I decided to put my old stock HTC battery in. I got the same problem.
It seems to have got slightly better now, but I can only really use the phone in 5-10 minute bursts now. When the phone has booted up the battery will report around 36 degrees. After 5-10 minutes it sails up to about 50 degrees before I turn it off. The battery also drops off fast between reboots, losing around 10% each time I reboot (however, it doesn't seem to drop that fast when I'm actually using the phone...).
I am rooted and using Cyanogen Mod 7, and I recently flashed to the 151 nightly. I tried flashing to some of the earlier nightlies I still had on the phone, but the issue is exactly the same.
I did have the phone in the bootloader for a while (volume down+trackball), and it didn't seem to overheat. However, when I tried charging the phone with the device off the battery seemed to get VERY hot (way more hot than normal).
Luckily I can still back up anything I need to back up, and I am going to start doing wipes soon (assuming the phone doesn't overheat while wiping, which worries me!), but I am very confused!
I'm thinking that some sort of short circuit has happened, or something?
Does anyone have any ideas? If it's a definite hardware problem I can get a replacement fairly easily, but I do love my Z, so it's the last thing I want to do...
Very lucky my dad has a Samsung Galaxy Tab I can borrow as a phone for now. It will be fun for a day or two having a 7" tablet as a phone, but it will get old fast!
Thanks a lot, all!
Edit: I think it's had it. I tried using another charger and another USB cable and leaving it charge for a bit. When I came back after about 15 mins, again the phone was very hot, and the indicator light was flashing green and orange. When I tried to boot the phone it was dead. When I plugged it back in the indicator light would flash orange on and off for a while, then start blinking weirdly. Lucky my mugen battery still has about 15% charge... xD
http://support.t-mobile.com/thread/2710?start=75&tstart=0
It's *possibly* this problem.
My phone does the same thing, gets SUPER hot when charging, and has extremely short battery life.
Mine's not charging at all now, so I'm not even sure what to do at all :/
If I use the phone a lil and my Mugen battery dies, I won't be able to turn it on at all, so I'm not sure whether to start wiping and stuff now...
General consensus is to not leave the phone to charge overnight?
not with today's technology. all batteries (atleast good ones) have an internal circuit that keeps the battery from over charging. it also provides a method to maintain the charge by letting the phone drain some battery over the night by 5-10% then performing a trickle charge to slowly (very slowly) recharge the battery.
I've been leaving my stuff charging overnight for over a decade. It's not as bad as you think it is.
I put my phone on charge just like every other day. But it didn't start charging. Nothing at all. then it switched off because battery died.
But it doesn't charge.
I have a galaxy S4 that I have not been using since I got an S6. The phone was off for a long time and now when I'm powering on the phone, it is not turning on. Once it happened and I had to charge it for a while before it started charging at 0% but now it is not charging at all. The phone did not have any battery issues prior to this.
Is the battery dead or completely discharged and what should be done other than replacing the battery?
Thanks
Hi I have had this tablet sitting in my draw for 2 years last night I couldn't sleep and decided I was going to get this thing working. So I did my homework and actually got it up and running. The only thing that seems to be a problem is it's not taking much of a charge. According to accubattery with the screen off it is only charging at 4 percent per hour. The charger I am using is a 3 amp charger. With the same charger and wire my old s5 gets 48percent an hour.
I installed the latest twrp. Los 14.1 12-19 build and magisk 18.0 for root.
Does anyone know of why it would be trickle charging like this? I am guessing it is something to do with the kernel but I don't know enough about kernels to mess with the settings. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Hi.
I've had a Samsung Galaxy Tab A6 (SM-T580) for 2 years now.
About half a year ago, it started to behave differently. Batterylife suddenly shortened by a lot, the back of the machine (to the right of the flashlight) is constantly warm (or hot when charging or in use), even when turned off it's still warm and drains battery. Overnight it drained 30 percent in 7 hours while turned off.
And it charges very slowly. It takes about 30 hours or so to get a full charge.
It has LineageOS and Android 11. I even tried replacing the battery with a new one, but nothing changed.
I know it's little to go on, but any idea what to do?
Thank you.