It seems that wall charger of my Excalibur is not functioning properly. Following are symptoms:
1. When it is plugged in, sometimes it starts charging the phone i.e. amber light on phone is constantly lit and small plug sign appears on screen. But this happens rarely. Most of the time, the phone just doesn't respond i.e. nothing happens. I tried it on several wall plugs but it remains same.
2. When I connect it through mini USB cable with my desktop computer, it charges the phone always.
This indicates that something wrong with the charger though its just 6 months old.
Anyways, Has anyone else faced this situation? Can there be some disturbed setting on phone which are causing this? I have lately installed several homescreens songs etc on the phone. Please advice.
TIA,
KC
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Hey,
(I tried searching for similar threads, but "charging" and "desire" gives me billions of results)
I have quite a sticky situation on my hands. Last night when I were to check my phone for messages, it was turned off. I grabbed my charger with the AC adapter and plugged it in. Voilà, amber led is turned on. I waited a while as I went off to grab food and that sorts, returned and turned it on. No problem so far. Small digression: I even got those messages I expected, hooorah!
Anyways, after a couple of hours I returned to my phone to check additional messages but then again, it was turned off. Even though it was hooked up to the AC adapter. I mean, the amber led is turned on and even the battery animation in the status bar when charged is doing its thing.
So I started trying to figure out what it is, but nothing have helped the slightest bit so far. I tried flashing different radios and roms but the problem seem to stick.
What's odd is that it allows charging sometimes, but it takes a long while. I have yet to find out the reason for it, but my doubts are that currently the phone needs to be off.
So far I think it could be a faulty USB cable that may cause the problem, but even though how obnoxiously stupid it may be, I turn my ears to you guys.
Thanks in advance.
TL;DR:
The phone isn't charging even though it's hooked up to the ac adapter and both amber led and animation in the status bar is indicating it's charging.
saepaan said:
Hey,
(I tried searching for similar threads, but "charging" and "desire" gives me billions of results)
I have quite a sticky situation on my hands. Last night when I were to check my phone for messages, it was turned off. I grabbed my charger with the AC adapter and plugged it in. Voilà, amber led is turned on. I waited a while as I went off to grab food and that sorts, returned and turned it on. No problem so far. Small digression: I even got those messages I expected, hooorah!
Anyways, after a couple of hours I returned to my phone to check additional messages but then again, it was turned off. Even though it was hooked up to the AC adapter. I mean, the amber led is turned on and even the battery animation in the status bar when charged is doing its thing.
So I started trying to figure out what it is, but nothing have helped the slightest bit so far. I tried flashing different radios and roms but the problem seem to stick.
What's odd is that it allows charging sometimes, but it takes a long while. I have yet to find out the reason for it, but my doubts are that currently the phone needs to be off.
So far I think it could be a faulty USB cable that may cause the problem, but even though how obnoxiously stupid it may be, I turn my ears to you guys.
Thanks in advance.
TL;DR:
The phone isn't charging even though it's hooked up to the ac adapter and both amber led and animation in the status bar is indicating it's charging.
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first things first,
search xda-developers re: USB brick. does it fit the symptoms?
do you have access to a different usb cable? does it charge better from this one?
will it charge quicker on on (for instance) your computer, compared to the wall charger?
is the charger an official charger or a third party one? if its a third party, no name brand one, chances are its crap. I bought a 1000mA rated car charger and one of the components won't let more than 100mA through.
Greetings, nzdcoy. Thanks for quick answer.
Let's see. As far as I can tell, USB brick symptoms sounds like you're unable to connect your phone using USB when booted into Android and/or custom boot/recovery. I have yet to try this, but I also read that they were able to charge the phone without problems. However, I'll give this a try seeing as it won't hurt.
I'm afraid I do not have access to another USB as these "micro" USB cables aren't that widespread. Or, at least I don't have leftovers as I do for regular USB cables.
It's hard to tell if it charges faster for whether possibilities as it doesn't charge at all if it's on. The amber led is lit, but the battery percentage still drops. I've only relied on the wall charger as I know it supports more amper than its PC counterpart. But yet again, I should try the USB brick fix. Hopefully it'll work.
Both the charger and the cable is stock, so I don't think it could be shabby third party components.
I'm also suspicious to if it can be the battery that's blasted. I've measured the voltage and it seems to be fine, so I don't know for sure. Maybe it's bad because it takes ages for it to charge? I don't have an external power supply, so I can't test this for sure though.
Anyhow, thanks nzdcoy for giving me some directions to what it could be.
Edit: Tried hooking up the phone to the computer, and I had access to the SD card. I suppose that's not a USB brick then?
at least it isn't a USB brick.
Does it positively charge when plugged into the PC? Unless you are using GPS or you are using a USB1.1 port, your PC should still charge it positively.
Yes, thankfully.
I've somehow found a method to charge the darned phone. And I could almost conclude it's a bad connection between the wire and the phone. I think the socket on the phone is damaged. Worst part is, is that it comes and goes. One day it could work swimmingly and charge in whatever position, the other day it requires one certain position to charge anything at all.
My Desire works in strange ways.
Thanks for the help so far, nzdcoy!
I've inherited a HOX which I'm trying to set up for my wife to use. It has a very unusual issue, when plugged in either to a charger or a PC, it shows no indication of charging - i.e. no red LED. On a PC, it intermittently gets picked up as an unknown device - or more correctly 3 unknown devices, maybe mass storage, composite & MTP? Not sure cos it doesn't pick up any device info. As I say it is intermittent which suggests the micro-USB socket might be at fault.
But there is evidence that it is accepting a charge because every 10 minutes or so the phone vibrates and displays the initial start-up screen i.e. white background with HTC logo & it doesn't get past that. It doesn't show the 'Quietly brilliant' screen first like on a regular start-up. The screen stays lit for 3 minutes or so, then it flickers and turns off. Then it turns on again about 10 minutes later and goes through the same cycle. It does this continually when plugged in. I've also tried charging using the 2 end dock contacts and it goes through the same cycle. Also, the battery & board are both warm but not hot.
I've ordered a replacement USB socket which is easy to fit as its not soldered - this might help with PC access.
I've also tried using a variety of button combinations, but the buttons seem to be completely inactive and don't do anything either when it's in the 'on' or 'off' mode.
Any ideas? I've searched and haven't come across anyone else experiencing this issue.
Just realised that the charge port is soldered in place, not just pressure contacts. It's completely detached.
Has anyone replaced a charge port? Got soldering gear but that looks tricky...
So I recently purchased a Z5P unlocked, with a contract in vodafone, regardless of that ive been having many problems with the Z5P. I love the phone and all its features. On to my problems and if anyone has an idea how to fix it please tell me!
1: my first problem is the water thing, if i take it in water its all fine, until water touches the jack, say if im in the rain, listening to music(which i have done to experience this problem) it will keep going into headphone mode, this isnt a huge problem, but if theres some work around to this id greatly appreciate it.
2: This is my biggest problem, the charging port just doesnt work properly! i connect it, it charges just fine, 100% in an hour or so, then it drains throughout the day i get home from college, from about 8-5/6 its down to about 50/45% i plug it in and no charge, or even worse half way through the day it'll pop up saying charger not charging battery, with nothing connected into the charger! its just died on me and will not charge at all, until i plugged it into my computer via fastboot and the lil blue light pops up and is now charging. Slowly, but is charging. any ideas as to why it isnt charging through wall charger? all official cables, and around 3 it was charging, in college fine. i get home and it doesnt charge.
other lil problems include the brightness thing, which i guess will be fixed in marshmallow? it keeps going into adaptive brightness even though i turn it off?
another problem is when i turn it off (Press the power button>Power off) it doesnt turn off, it forever restarts, red light, sony screen, black screen-repeat.
also another problem is the lag?! not in general, its all smooth but in snapchat the device starts lagging and then heats up? might be snapchat, i dunno. but the charging ones the big one!:crying::crying:
EDIT: i have done a full reset of my phone before it fully died on me, and this is the first time its ever fully died.
I don't know what country you're in but I'd return it for a new one. To many problems you got there...
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I have the same problem as you, when i plug in the phone to the charge, nothing happend but, when i connected to my PC the phone appears to work fine until i restart it, after that, my pc wont reconice the phone either and i cant charge it until the battery is completely dead and of course, when i turn it off, the phone do the same as yours, white scren whit the sony logo after the red light and do the same thing over and over again, i tried hard reset twice but wont work, dont know what to do either............. did you connect your phone on a PC with windows XP in college???, because my problem start when i connecte to an old PC with Windows XP...
so lately my phone has been dying suddenly when it reaches 20-30ish % i've read and it seems that the solution is a battery change, that's fine. but recently i'm having a bigger problem, this is because my phone doesnt charge, i connect the usb and it shows the orange light but it simply wont charge, sometimes charges like 5 or 6% then stops and starts to drop like if there's no charger plugged, i've tried with different usb cables and with different chargers and it's the same. also with some usb cables the charging light starts to blink like if i disconnect and connect the cable everytime, so mi questions is : is the problem related to the battery thing? or maybe is the usb port of my phone, and what should i do?
Honkers said:
so lately my phone has been dying suddenly when it reaches 20-30ish % i've read and it seems that the solution is a battery change, that's fine. but recently i'm having a bigger problem, this is because my phone doesnt charge, i connect the usb and it shows the orange light but it simply wont charge, sometimes charges like 5 or 6% then stops and starts to drop like if there's no charger plugged, i've tried with different usb cables and with different chargers and it's the same. also with some usb cables the charging light starts to blink like if i disconnect and connect the cable everytime, so mi questions is : is the problem related to the battery thing? or maybe is the usb port of my phone, and what should i do?
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If you already were thinking your battery was going, it's definitely the most likely suspect. If you can get it booted, try installing an app that judges battery health, (try this - https://play.google.com/store/apps/...droid&pcampaignid=APPU_1_wisuV_aWB4Tbe4mpjogP), and see what it says.
Hi,
Since a week or so, my Moto G5 phone is experiencing charging problems.
The problem is twofold (with the first being by far the most annoying). Both started simultaneously.
1. The phone doesn't start to charge after plugging in the charger. This happens with any charger (tried multiple cables, multiple adapters & USB-PC charging).
However, after I turn off the phone, the phone starts to charge. If I then boot it, it continues charging until I plug it out again in which case I have to reboot again to restart charging.
2. When charging, it charges intermittent. Every ~15 seconds it stops charging very briefly (less than half a second) and then continues right away.
I think these are very specific issues, which might be only software related. However, I think there is a bigger chance that it has something to do with the internal charging circuit. Do you agree? Does any of you have ever heard/experienced something similar?
One thing I shouldn't forget to mention: my phone did experience a short exposure to heavy rain right before the first time this happened. Could this be related and is there a waterdamage indicator in this phone?
Thanks for any help!
Chris
I have exactly the same problem (no exposure to rain though). Were you able to solve your issues?