So, I decided to do S-Off and get the official OTA. I used the guide in the Developers/General forum (I forget which one), and everything was fine for the last couple days. Today, I noticed my pocket with my phone was getting warm, so I pulled it out and noted that the sync icon was going and data was going up and down. I figured it was normal, so I put it back into my pocket. I got back home and started perusing XDA to see if anyone else was having this problem, battery at 36% (about 6hrs since I took it off the charger from last night). 15-20 minutes later and I got my 9% battery warning. I did nothing but cruise straight to XDA with it. I hooked my phone up to my USB cord that I always have on my PC, set it to charge only, and went back downstairs to do some things.
15 minutes later I came up to check on it, and it still was at 9% battery! I turned it off and left it off for about 15 minutes before rebooting. It had gone up to 26% battery, I figured that was just fine since at least it was still taking a charge and I left it on. I went outside and washed the car, which took about an hour and 15 minutes (had a massive amount of sap on it and I needed a few smoke breaks). Battery is still at 26%.
Could this be the stock ROM I installed (properly, and exactly as the instructions said to) messing up, or am I getting the OTA?
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I've done lots of searching, but I haven't found anyone with this specific problem.
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So it all started about a month ago. I plugged in my Evo 4g for the night (As the battery often lasts me a full day.) at around 10% I sleep very well and peacefully. When I wake up in the morning I notice my battery is still at 10%. "CRAP!" I thought, "Did I forget to plug it in?" So I checked everything, made sure it was plugged in, and went to class, without the phone of course. When I got back later that day, I went to my phone, and it was STILL at 10% I was freaking out. I thought my battery had died already! (At this point the phone was less than 2 weeks old.) Finally after being unable to charge, and only having 10% battery, the thing went kaput. Died. I could not for the life of me charge the phone. So I left it sitting around while I had screaming matches with not only Sprint, but the Radioshack I picked it up at. Ugh. About a week later and just as I was about to pay $100 for a new phone, I fixed it. I don't know how, or what happened. I plugged it in out of habbit, and BAM it started working. "**** YOU SPRINT!" *Hangs up phone.* I went on my marry way, being extra careful now to monitor the battery (Which was charging very normally, and lasting me a full day at little to moderate use) Then one day I was just sitting around playing videogames this past Saturday and thought "I'm not using my phone, I'll plug it in and forget about it." (The battery being at 70%.) I plugged it in and about 4 hours (And some amazing killstreaks on CoD) later, my friend called me to ask if I wanted to get lunch (He called my Evo, of course.) "Sure! I'll be right there." I hung up, closed the phone app, looked at my battery, and my heart sank. ...70% "NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" (Read: Darth Vader) How could this happen AGAIN?! I used it for the rest of the day conserving as much juice as possible, and trying to charge it every chance I got. But alas.. it died once again. Now, nothing I've tried has worked. I pulled the battery over and over, plugged it in for hours and then tried to turn it on, tried a USB charger, and wall charger (Both HTC, the out of the box original) I tried my roomates LG chargers (USB and wall) Nothing worked! Then I was randomly pressing buttons when I held Power+Up (Which apparently is some kind of hacker-magic) and I got to a white screen! I thought I was saved! I let go of the power button to move around on the screen, or do something at all. Then nothing. It immediately went back to black. And now, it doesn't even go to the white screen anymore! So my question is, (Finally, god he rambled on forever) is there anything I can do to save my amazing phone outside of buying a new battery? Is this a known issue? Even with a new battery, would the same problem occur? And most importantly: What's causing this? Am I at error? Or is it the phone's fault?
Also, sorry for the long story, but I'm sure you get 1000 "Y MY FONE NO WERK?" And I wanted to make mine interesting, at least.
TL;DR My phone doesn't charge, tried every suggestion I could find.
zebra690 said:
I've done lots of searching, but I haven't found anyone with this specific problem.
(Too long; didn't read it) at the bottom.
So it all started about a month ago. I plugged in my Evo 4g for the night (As the battery often lasts me a full day.) at around 10% I sleep very well and peacefully. When I wake up in the morning I notice my battery is still at 10%. "CRAP!" I thought, "Did I forget to plug it in?" So I checked everything, made sure it was plugged in, and went to class, without the phone of course. When I got back later that day, I went to my phone, and it was STILL at 10% I was freaking out. I thought my battery had died already! (At this point the phone was less than 2 weeks old.) Finally after being unable to charge, and only having 10% battery, the thing went kaput. Died. I could not for the life of me charge the phone. So I left it sitting around while I had screaming matches with not only Sprint, but the Radioshack I picked it up at. Ugh. About a week later and just as I was about to pay $100 for a new phone, I fixed it. I don't know how, or what happened. I plugged it in out of habbit, and BAM it started working. "**** YOU SPRINT!" *Hangs up phone.* I went on my marry way, being extra careful now to monitor the battery (Which was charging very normally, and lasting me a full day at little to moderate use) Then one day I was just sitting around playing videogames this past Saturday and thought "I'm not using my phone, I'll plug it in and forget about it." (The battery being at 70%.) I plugged it in and about 4 hours (And some amazing killstreaks on CoD) later, my friend called me to ask if I wanted to get lunch (He called my Evo, of course.) "Sure! I'll be right there." I hung up, closed the phone app, looked at my battery, and my heart sank. ...70% "NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" (Read: Darth Vader) How could this happen AGAIN?! I used it for the rest of the day conserving as much juice as possible, and trying to charge it every chance I got. But alas.. it died once again. Now, nothing I've tried has worked. I pulled the battery over and over, plugged it in for hours and then tried to turn it on, tried a USB charger, and wall charger (Both HTC, the out of the box original) I tried my roomates LG chargers (USB and wall) Nothing worked! Then I was randomly pressing buttons when I held Power+Up (Which apparently is some kind of hacker-magic) and I got to a white screen! I thought I was saved! I let go of the power button to move around on the screen, or do something at all. Then nothing. It immediately went back to black. And now, it doesn't even go to the white screen anymore! So my question is, (Finally, god he rambled on forever) is there anything I can do to save my amazing phone outside of buying a new battery? Is this a known issue? Even with a new battery, would the same problem occur? And most importantly: What's causing this? Am I at error? Or is it the phone's fault?
Also, sorry for the long story, but I'm sure you get 1000 "Y MY FONE NO WERK?" And I wanted to make mine interesting, at least.
TL;DR My phone doesn't charge, tried every suggestion I could find.
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This may sound really simple but......have you tried another battery?
Weird defect. Anyone else have this problem?
Edit: as of now it won't charge at all
Edit 2: After a lot of fiddling around, it decided to charge. Working great except for a single dead pixel Got to exchange it on the 9th or whenever they get their shipment in.
Mine charges while powered on.
holabola said:
Weird defect. Anyone else have this problem?
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Mine charges while on and off. What I did notice, is when I was initially setting it up it went up to 32% and while on charger it started loosing charge. I have no idea why this happened but assumed a service was running in the background. Ever since the initial setup, on or not the watch gains charge. Seemed to take about 2 hrs from near empty to full while the display was on showing time.
As of now it wont charge at all. This is driving me insane. I got it to 9% somehow but I have no idea, and Best Buy won't have any to replace it with.
holabola said:
As of now it wont charge at all. This is driving me insane. I got it to 9% somehow but I have no idea, and Best Buy won't have any to replace it with.
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Do you have the cable that came with it plugged into the cradle? I started using my cell cable into the cradle and my battery percentage was going down instead of up.
My local Best Buy said of the two they had today the first sold wouldn't charge. I saw another post on reddit claiming theirs wouldn't turn on, could also be related to a charging issue.
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My local Best Buy said of the two they had today the first sold wouldn't charge. I saw another post on reddit claiming theirs wouldn't turn on, could also be related to a charging issue.
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This is a ****ing pathetic launch. There is literally no stock anywhere and of the few that are sold a handful have defects. This is simply disgraceful.
Here's what happend with mine.
First time I powered it on it said to download the wear app..so I did that. Then, it proceeded to connect and pair with my phone. It started to download something, (wear update?) and at about the half way point it said charge your device, shutting down. So it shut down. I put it in the cradle and it initially had 23% charge. 5 minutes later it had 18%. Not knowing what was going on, I turned it back on and was met by a spinner that said just a minute... for about 15 minutes. So I turned it back off.
After another reboot I went into the menu and selected reset device. After this it began to charge.. all the way to 100%. I turned it back on and it re-downloaded what it had to and applied the update successfully after about 3 or 4 restarts and 10 minutes. Now all seems well.
Edit.. By well I mean working. It's been merely 3 hours and with almost no use I'm down 40%. FML
yeah, i think people in their rush to use it haven't charged them fully. i plan to charge mine fully before using it.
gammite said:
yeah, i think people in their rush to use it haven't charged them fully. i plan to charge mine fully before using it.
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This was definitely my issue. The problem is the vagueness of the instructions. It basically says turn it on, download the app.. Show off (until it dies).
I had the same problem with it saying charge your battery. I put it on the charger and left. Came back, it installed an update, rebooted a couple times and then was good. I've been playing with it heavy for a few hours and it's at 69%.
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Phlip00ws6 said:
Here's what happend with mine.
First time I powered it on it said to download the wear app..so I did that. Then, it proceeded to connect and pair with my phone. It started to download something, (wear update?) and at about the half way point it said charge your device, shutting down. So it shut down. I put it in the cradle and it initially had 23% charge. 5 minutes later it had 18%. Not knowing what was going on, I turned it back on and was met by a spinner that said just a minute... for about 15 minutes. So I turned it back off.
After another reboot I went into the menu and selected reset device. After this it began to charge.. all the way to 100%. I turned it back on and it re-downloaded what it had to and applied the update successfully after about 3 or 4 restarts and 10 minutes. Now all seems well.
Edit.. By well I mean working. It's been merely 3 hours and with almost no use I'm down 40%. FML
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So, I got mine to charge and everything. So far I LOVE IT. I made a post on working apps that I've tested over in the Themes and Apps subforum. Basically, I put it on the Qi Charger I have for my Nexus 5 DIRECTLY in the center and it ended up charging then stopping again. Then, this time, I put it on the charger provided, and it worked to 100%... Very strange but I plan on exchanging it anyway as there is a single dead pixel I can see.
Same issue... Got the watch. Turned it on in the car and it started the update without promoting me to do it and now it is in the same dead cycle I've seen others post about. it will sit on the charger for hours and only be a few percent and when u power it on it tries to update and goes from 10% to 0 in less than a min or two. I just did another reset and put it on the cradle. The only feedback I have that something is happening is the watch is pretty hot. My gear live and Galaxy Gear 1 had an icon that showed charging status when the phone was off. Also they charged quickly, we're always cold and had great battery life. I can't imagine Moto not testing these devices long enough to figure that it should not try to apply an update until the battery was at a certain level or plugged in. I wish when these reviewers do features on the engineers of these devices, like have been recently done instead of ass kissing these guys would at least do some calls g out on their process. It'll like when Apple came out with the IPhone 4 and showed all these unbelievable signal testing facilities and they couldn't figure out when you held the phone normally on your left hand that the signal would drop to zero. It literally took me 2 minutes to figure out that one...
I highly advise you sink a hour charge into the watch first at least. most of these new batteries are like a lithium ion / lipo hybrid. they have a low voltage cutoff so the battery cells don't get damaged and go kaboom. Noone knows how long these sat or what charge was in them, how cold and so on during shipping. I would say people are running them low enough moto is triggering low volt cutoff.the update may have even changed the voltage values they accept as tolerable. and when you power it up this tricks it into a fail mode. ost smart chargers see the low volt and refuse the to charge for risk of a damaged cell. this sounds a lot like moto 360's issues.
When mine hit 80% on the charge, the update downloaded, watch rebooted, and the charge message started appearing.
I purchased a 360 from Best Buy less than a month ago. I updated it to 5.0.1 right out of the box. It has been doing great until 2 days ago. I came home put on the watch. It booted up and was working fine. 30 - 45 min later the screen won't turn on. I thought it just froze so I held the power button for 30sec. Nothing. I tried throwing it on the charger even though it was at 80% last I looked at it. Neither the charging icon or the clock came on the screen while on the charger. I let it sit for awhile anyways. It never did anything even though the charge light came on on the charger. After letting it sit on the charger for 1 1/2 hours I removed to try powering it on. Nothing. I decided to leave it alone for awhile and the next thing I notice is that it is sitting at the bootloader. That is all it would do and only after pulling it off the charger. So today I left the watch on at the bootloader until it died. I put it on the charger and the charging icon appeared on the screen. The watch booted and showed the clock. Once it reached 50% i decided to do a reset just to see if it would fix whatever bug was affecting it. After rebooting I was prompted that I had the 5.0.2 update waiting for me. I charged it to 100%. I ran the update thinking if I am having a software issue, an update would definitely help. I ran the update and it rebooted. Everything seemed to be working fine. I setup it up and strapped it on my wrist. I go to turn on the screen and it wont turn on again. The watch battery was at 96%. I put it on the charger for 30min. When I pulled it off the charger it booted to the bootloader yet again... Is there a fix anyone knows of or do I have a hardware issue?
Hello all, I've had my Note II (4.4.2 Stock) for 2 years without much bother, but today it has started acting up. Being low on data and wanting to conserve battery I kept it on flight mode and then turned it back to normal every hour or so. So today when I got home it happened to drop but onto a soft carpet, not a big issue. The phone rebooted itself after this as it does when it's dropped and the battery doesn't fall out. So I waited for it to turn on and I almost immediately turned it back off for it to charge before I went off to gym. About 20 minutes later I came back and checked the battery to see that it was well above halfway already. I suspiciously turned it on and unplugged it and watched 65% battery go all the way down to 14% which doesn't bother me much as that was probably its actual charge level. I turned off flight mode and waited for the mobile data icon to appear so I could reply some messages. It didn't. I waited a few more minutes before the H+ icon appeared, the up arrow flashed and then it switched to 3G and went off again. It's done this every few minutes since then. I've tried everything except factory reset. Any suggestions?
Stock G4, Sprint, non-root, non-mod.
Sunday everything was fine, put my phone in my pocket, sat down on the couch, 30 minutes later, phone was dead. Battery pull, nothing, wouldn't show charging. With the battery out, usb plug would show the battery icon with the question mark, putting in the battery would then startup and bootloop. I could use this method to get to recovery mode, but couldn't see anything in adb. Factory reset/wipe cache, still nothing.
At this point, i went on the web and reactivated my G3.
Found a couple of YouTube vids. First one was, put it in the freezer. This worked, but only for about 10-15 minutes, and then back to bootloop.
Then i saw one about disassembling it, and running a blowdryer on the chips on the mobo for 5 minutes. Did that, and it came back to life. I let it sit for awhile, to make sure it wasn't a temp fix like the freezer was.
With everything still good after 5 hours, i went online and reactivated it. It booted up fine, no issues, and as soon as it connected to do OTA activation, bam right back to bootloop.
Just bad timing, or something else?
Any ideas/help/baseless speculation would be welcome.
Thanks, friends.
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Stock G4, Sprint, non-root, non-mod.
Sunday everything was fine, put my phone in my pocket, sat down on the couch, 30 minutes later, phone was dead. Battery pull, nothing, wouldn't show charging. With the battery out, usb plug would show the battery icon with the question mark, putting in the battery would then startup and bootloop. I could use this method to get to recovery mode, but couldn't see anything in adb. Factory reset/wipe cache, still nothing.
At this point, i went on the web and reactivated my G3.
Found a couple of YouTube vids. First one was, put it in the freezer. This worked, but only for about 10-15 minutes, and then back to bootloop.
Then i saw one about disassembling it, and running a blowdryer on the chips on the mobo for 5 minutes. Did that, and it came back to life. I let it sit for awhile, to make sure it wasn't a temp fix like the freezer was.
With everything still good after 5 hours, i went online and reactivated it. It booted up fine, no issues, and as soon as it connected to do OTA activation, bam right back to bootloop.
Just bad timing, or something else?
Any ideas/help/baseless speculation would be welcome.
Thanks, friends.
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beforethinkering with it you sould it send it to Lg to fix. or replace motherboard yourself.