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Dead Evo-Fixed!

Phone was running Miui's latest rom with Tiamat's 4.0.2 sbc kernel and then viperboys BSM v2. Well today my phone totally died, zeroed out. I put it on my car charger and it was charging but I noticed it stayed at 0% for some time. Anyway, I finally get home and it's around 11% while getting out of the car. I plug it into my regular wall charger and set it down and this was earlier today. I go to pick it up and it's dead. No response, no lights, not even a flicker. I take the USB cable and plug it into my computer and I get a very very feint red light that blinks maybe 3-4 times then it's gone. Well needless to say second time I tried I got it to come on but for a split second then that's it.
What could have happened?

quickbird144 said:
Phone was running Miui's latest rom with Tiamat's 4.0.2 sbc kernel and then viperboys BSM v2. Well today my phone totally died, zeroed out. I put it on my car charger and it was charging but I noticed it stayed at 0% for some time. Anyway, I finally get home and it's around 11% while getting out of the car. I plug it into my regular wall charger and set it down and this was earlier today. I go to pick it up and it's dead. No response, no lights, not even a flicker. I take the USB cable and plug it into my computer and I get a very very feint red light that blinks maybe 3-4 times then it's gone. Well needless to say second time I tried I got it to come on but for a split second then that's it.
What could have happened?
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This is indeed tragic. I say, try booting into recovery or fastboot and plug it in to do an ruu. Best of luck
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I'd say try a new battery before doing anything drastic.
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alexdemonumber3 said:
This is indeed tragic. I say, try booting into recovery or fastboot and plug it in to do an ruu. Best of luck
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I can't even get the phone to turn on. If it's plugged in via USB to computer it'll come on but if you blink you'll miss it. Quick shut on then off.
I've read if these drain too low, then the phone won't allow a charge. I've got it on a stand-alone prong charger now and it looks like it may be charging. I think it's time to invest into a extended battery.

My guess is the battery. Might need to take it to sprint and let them boost it. I've seen this a few tines where it gets so low it wont charge.
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It's Alive!
Well guess I just let my battery get too low. I've got my own fancy Chinese made charger though that will charge any battery using just 2 prongs.
I'm a happy evo user again
Here is my charger btw
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quickbird144 said:
Well guess I just let my battery get too low. I've got my own fancy Chinese made charger though that will charge any battery using just 2 prongs.
I'm a happy evo user again
Here is my charger btw
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Wow. Look at that thing. Lol. Good to see you up and running again!
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Lol yeah it's crazy.
Just for the record guys. With my setup I posted up top, I went into battery monitor and looked at the history to see what was up. Turns out my battery percentage was all over the place and eventually started de-charging itself till it KO'd. I reset the BSM and I'm now using Tiamat with no SBC. So far so good.

i was useing an sbc kernal and like many have warned to not leave it on the charger overnight thats what i did every night my phone was acting the same way put it on the charger at 65% woke up in the morning to find it at 50% took the back off the phone off put the old battery in charged perfect inspected the first battery the plastick was comeing off and the battery was slighly swollen. im glad hts all that happened switched back to stock cm7 kernal andgot a new battery happy as a clam

Dude get a NEW BATTERY..

did you try the wall charger first. PC ports only put out 500mAh at max per port, where as you typical wall charger for the Evo should put out 1Ah. (I dont know if you already did this) Also, car chargers dont have the strongest power output.
If none of that works, then try a new batter.
Disregard, didn't see that you got it fixed lol...you can use this info for future reference?

shagav said:
did you try the wall charger first. PC ports only put out 500mAh at max per port, where as you typical wall charger for the Evo should put out 1Ah. (I dont know if you already did this) Also, car chargers dont have the strongest power output.
If none of that works, then try a new batter.
Disregard, didn't see that you got it fixed lol...you can use this info for future reference?
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Yeah I tried all that and it seemed at the time my port on the PC was putting out more than the wall charger. But I'm looking into getting an extended battery. For now everything's all good.

Had that happen to me acouple of times. Thought usb was bad thought maybewall plug tried everything. Took bat out if phone and left for an hour. Put back in phone and it took a charge fine.. later search and found that evo has a safety if bat drains to low they will sometime lock the charging mechanism and to leave bat out for awhwile is only fix.
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Battery Charging Rate

Hi, I just had my SGSII for couple of days and noticed inconsistent battery charging rate which I've ruled out that is not charger/cable dependent. So I would like to ask if anyone have similar issue or could offer an explanation.
Basically I use the phone charges sometimes at 20%/hour, and sometimes at 40%/hour. I've been using both the samsung stock charger & iphone's 2A charger and there is no correlation between the charging rate & the charger I use. I use debloated Samsung ROM and the faux kernel.
The only other explanation that it could be is that when I get 40% charging rate, I was using 7b4(I think, not entirely sure), at 20%/hour, i was using stock, faux 7r2 or 9r.
below are the screen shot, among 5 times I've charged the phone #2 & #3 were at 40%/hour, the rests were at 20%/hour:
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shinew said:
Hi, I just had my SGSII for couple of days and noticed inconsistent battery charging rate which I've ruled out that is not charger/cable dependent. So I would like to ask if anyone have similar issue or could offer an explanation.
Basically I use the phone charges sometimes at 20%/hour, and sometimes at 40%/hour. I've been using both the samsung stock charger & iphone's 2A charger and there is no correlation between the charging rate & the charger I use. I use debloated Samsung ROM and the faux kernel.
The only other explanation that it could be is that when I get 40% charging rate, I was using 7b4(I think, not entirely sure), at 20%/hour, i was using stock, faux 7r2 or 9r.
below are the screen shot, among 5 times I've charged the phone #2 & #3 were at 40%/hour, the rests were at 20%/hour:
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The device will charge the fastest when it is turned off. If you are streaming music, tethering and running other applications, it will obviously charge slower.

My phone has always been on idle when it's being charged so far. what's your charging rate?

shinew said:
My phone has always been on idle when it's being charged so far. what's your charging rate?
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Depends on what the phone is doing. If its idle and there are a lot of background processes going on, the rate is slower.
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I believe it has to do with chargers in my case.
Since October I've used only two chargers the Samsung one that comes with the phone and my Kindle 1 charger.
Samsung: 40-50%
Kindle: 10-20%
90% of the time the phone is idling.

alright, i charged the phone again using the the stock charger, and it was about 40%/hour on standby mode. Weird I thought I tested it using the OEM charger and it was also 20%/hour. guess I remember it wrong...

ahh.. .here finally found the original topic http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1332522&highlight=charging
there was a lot of good info on that one, as well as some unexplained behaviour, the same you are trying to figure out
all i know is that yes 2A charger does work, regardless of what the tester shows
and the Battery Widget App, i use it too, and i have to agree it's not very accurate, as it will only show you the actual rater after 2 minutes of charging it
however it's very close to the real values, specially when it's charging and the current flow, i get readings that matches the input quality of the charger, as in USB, Wall, 1 Amp, 2 Amp, 0.7 Amp, 0.45 Amp and so on

there is also the possibility of risking to be stuck at 100% when not using them OEM charger. I have couple of 3rd party charger lying around, so I'm going to try them one by one and see which one works. At least now i know that the apple charger does not work well with the phone(at least the older one, stuck at 100% after charged, and slow charging rate despite it's rated at 1.5Ah+, going to try my newer ipad2 charger).

as for the 100% stuck, as some other have pointed out it only happens when you use AC chargers of any kind
charging via USB doesn't cause the problem
using the original Samsung AC to USB charger also does not cause the problem simply because it's still using USB charging
i had another original OEM Samsung charger that i plugged in and it was also causing the 100% stuck issue, so it's just some sort of confirmation the phone seems to be expecting from a USB power/data cord but is not found on an AC power cord

AllGamer said:
charging via USB doesn't cause the problem
using the original Samsung AC to USB charger also does not cause the problem simply because it's still using USB
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The only time I encountered this issue was when was using a USB charger.....
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Phone won't turn on :(

I've been experiencing some problems with charging and I read in out of the threads that I could use a bit of electrical contact cleaner and it would work. And now my screen protector is ruined and my phone won't fully turn on. It boots up, vibrates then it turns off. What do I do I'm freaking out right now. I'm going to put it rice to see if that works at all Anybody know what I should do I'm really scared right now.

Exactly what did you use? Link to the product.

Yea a little more detail on what you used would be very helpful.

Jesus I feel like the biggest idiot of life. You guy don't realize how F*cking stupid I am. After being in a complete rush I used the wrong type of cleaner. So After I soaked it in rice and took it out I actually used a proper Electrical Contact cleaner and and now everything is fine. But I am now certain that the cable is done because it wasn't charging or showing that it was plugged in so I used my friend's Blackberry cable and everything is fine. I'm so relieved right now.

PhoenixBlitz said:
Jesus I feel like the biggest idiot of life. You guy don't realize how F*cking stupid I am. After being in a complete rush I used the wrong type of cleaner. So After I soaked it in rice and took it out I actually used a proper Electrical Contact cleaner and and now everything is fine. But I am now certain that the cable is done because it wasn't charging or showing that it was plugged in so I used my friend's Blackberry cable and everything is fine. I'm so relieved right now.
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Lol glad to hear that its fixed.... we all make mistakes

Thanks, the only problem I'm still back to is that it won't charge, which is what was happening before. I am not sure whether it is the charger itself or the micro-usb charging port (Which I could replace). Phone thinks it's charging with the lightning bolt in the top right, but it won't charge...if I go to battery in the settings it says discharging but in the charts it that it was charging all this time.

My friend has that bug with his evo... try another charger. It might help

FrostyF7 said:
My friend has that bug with his evo... try another charger. It might help
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I'm trying that right now. If it doesn't charge does that mean that the charging port is dead or could it mean that the battery is dead aswell?

PhoenixBlitz said:
I'm trying that right now. If it doesn't charge does that mean that the charging port is dead or could it mean that the battery is dead aswell?
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Tbh I don't know but this is a educated guess.... seeing that it shows that its charging on the phone means that its receiving the charge. A good test would be to take out the battery and plug your phone into the charger. If it works that means that the port is OK and you'll need a new battery. If not then its the port. Hope this helps.

FrostyF7 said:
Tbh I don't know but this is a educated guess.... seeing that it shows that its charging on the phone means that its receiving the charge. A good test would be to take out the battery and plug your phone into the charger. If it works that means that the port is OK and you'll need a new battery. If not then its the port. Hope this helps.
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What do you mean by if it works, as in if the phone boots up and works normally when plugged in?

When you take out the battery and plug it in to the charger it should work normally as its getting power from the plug.

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When you take out the battery and plug it in to the charger it should work normally as its getting power from the plug.
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So I tried that and it wouldn't turn on. I opened up the housing and found some weird residue near the port. This is what I saw
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What on earth is this crap?

Well that's odd..... idk

Meh whatever, I smelled and it was just the smell of the wrong cleaner I used, luckily it was just on the plastic parts so I'm safe, I disassembled the rest and found the charging port. I'm ordering a new one for $10 shipped from NJ and not from HK so I should get it soon. Thanks for your help btw. I really appreciate it. :good:

Good luck bud

Update: I just replaced charging port literally just now and it still won't charge. It still says "Charging" but it's not charging. In the Settings it says discharging.
Could it be the battery? I'm thinking of buying a new one and seeing if that works.

Updated Update: The 6% that had remained on my battery before I took my phone apart to repair it is now gone leaving the battery with 0% charge. But, I believe I may have found the problem! If the phone is unplugged from my charger and I try to turn it on it won't turn on at all. But if I plug it into my charger it will boot up past vibrate to the Nexus logo (The X) and then it dies out. I think that the problem is in the charger that has a input voltage drop so it's not charging enough to keep it going. I'm going to use my friend's Samsung Charger (From his Galaxy S II) to see if that will solve the problem.

My Battery Won't Charge @ All

So Yesterday I put my phone on the charger and noticed after 2 hours it stayed at 5%. And though just to restart the device, however that didn't work. So at 3 am in the morning I turned it off and threw it on the charger over night woke up to find its at 1% as I type this now.
Is it my battery that's done for or my Note 3 HW?
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XxLostSoulxX said:
So Yesterday I put my phone on the charger and noticed after 2 hours it stayed at 5%. And though just to restart the device, however that didn't work. So at 3 am in the morning I turned it off and threw it on the charger over night woke up to find its at 1% as I type this now.
Is it my battery that's done for or my Note 3 HW?
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try new cable and charger base. If neither work, call for replacement.

Or get a new battery save yourself the time you'll have to wait to get another.

It's probably the usb cable, mine went out a month ago, same thing happened to me it wouldn't charge tried another cable battery charged without any issues. So more than likely the cable is bad.
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Well I ordered two new anker batteries along with the external charger, and that but that's my problem nothing wrong with a charger or USB cable. My battery just simply would not charge it could not hold one anymore, I literally put it on the charger the entire night and the phone stayed at 5 percent and then as soon as I started do anything on my phone it literally shut my phone off while on the charger during a text message.
I guess it just died.
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This same thing pretty much happened to me. Actually exactly the same thing... including the extra Anker batteries and charger as well as testing different cords. I ended up ordering a wireless charging kit, and now all is well. I've been using it with one of the Anker batteries. I ordered the Koolpad charger and the white slim wireless chip off of Amazon. It charges through my Seidio case, and I put velcro onto the charger and the back of the case so that I could easily use it while charging. The wireless charging kit cost about $40 on Amazon (I imagine pretty close to what a new official Sammy charger and cable would cost) and the Koolpad charger came with a black and a white micro USB (not USB 3 but still...) port cover, which I thought was a nice touch.
No guarantee that this would work for you, of course, but it did for me fortunately. If it didn't I would have taken it back to the store (after re-flashing the stock ROM, which may have solved the problem on it's own). Oh yeah, not really sure if this is actually related / possible but I did theorize that the problem may have been kernel related. I had actually been following the wireless charging thread anyways, but if I wasn't already considering spending money on that, the first thing I would have tried would have been a clean install of everything. I was testing out different kernels with Tweaked ROM and the problem started around a new kernel flash, but really can't say if that's related because I was unimpressed with that kernel overall and flashed one that ran better on my phone around the time that the wireless charger showed up (got one day shipping w/ Amazon Prime because shutting down my phone to rotate batteries got old quick, as I'm sure you'll agree). Anyways, good luck. There's lots of good info in that wireless charging thread, if you decide to go that route.

Battery Issues - 65+ hours to fully charge?!?!

Hello,
I discovered a weird issue with my phone this morning. I woke up and the battery was sitting at 64% after charging overnight. That seemed a little weird so I tried doing several different things (battery pull, clear the cache, etc...) to see if it would correct the issue. It did not. I just got done draining the phone completely and then plugged it in. In about an hour's time, it charged 2%.
The only thing that I have not tried at this point is a full system restore :crying:
Has anyone else experienced this issue? Do you have any ideas of things for me to try? I am willing to try anything before using a full restore as a last resort.
Thanks,
LBS
EDIT: Well, I dug out an old blackberry wall charger and cable and it immediately fixed the issue. I think its a bad LG charger and USB cable. I guess ill toss them.

I've experienced this. Does your battery stats page look a bit like this?
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What charger AND USB cable are you using to charge the device? While I was using the bundled LG charger at the time, I was using an old HTC MicroUSB cable I had from a previous device when I encountered this problem. When I used the bundled LG MicroUSB cable instead, the device charged normally.

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573W1E said:
I've experienced this. Does your battery stats page look a bit like this?
What charger AND USB cable are you using to charge the device? While I was using the bundled LG charger at the time, I was using an old HTC MicroUSB cable I had from a previous device when I encountered this problem. When I used the bundled LG MicroUSB cable instead, the device charged normally.
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I've been using a 3rd party 6 foot long USB cable with a third party rapid charger. Last night my wife needed to borrow a USB charger, so I gave her mine and used the LG provided charger and cable for the first time last night. I hadn't really thought about it. Maybe its a bad charger?

TheLastBoyScout said:
I've been using a 3rd party 6 foot long USB cable with a third party rapid charger. Last night my wife needed to borrow a USB charger, so I gave her mine and used the LG provided charger and cable for the first time last night. I hadn't really thought about it. Maybe its a bad charger?
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Could possibly be that. I think the G3 might be a little picky with chargers and such you use with it, I'm not too sure as I've pretty much used the G3 wireless charging dock to charge my G3 (and that is very picky with what you use with it, if it's not at least 1.8A then say hello to constant beeps and errors, my old 2.1A Nexus 7 charger seems to power the dock fine.)

Changd the usb cable