So I just received my glorious CDMA GNex in the mail a few days ago. Needless to say, I got crackin' right away and unlocked the bootloader, rooted, and loaded up a ROM/kernel. Everything has been great so far, up until a few hours ago. The phone simply will not charge.
When I plug it into the outlet when it is on, there is no charging status icon. The battery discharges.
When the phone is off, but plugged in, the battery is "full" and the icon remains in the center of the screen until I do a battery pull. I cannot get the phone to power on after plugging it into the wall.
When the phone is connected to my computer via USB, no notifications show up. I cannot access the contents of the card through this method.
Is there any way to revert to stock without the use a computer, so I can go and swap out for a new device? I've got about 50% charge left on the battery, so I've got a little bit of time to transfer files over WiFi, etc.
Any help would be greatly appreciated- I understand that I root/unlock at my own risk, but I really don't want to get slapped with a $650 bill by Verizon because my device was rooted and warranty was void.
Thanks.
You tried to use various cables, right?
Yup, same result. Fully charged icon when plugged in, and no response when plugged into a PC.
Some ROMS freeze the phone if charging when it's off. Does it charge from the outlet with the phone ON?
Well, looks like the issue resolved itself.
For what it's worth, the phone was not taking a charge when it was on. I was playing with some settings last night with the plugged in and noticed that I had discharged about 10%. Took the battery out, rebooted, etc. No luck.
I unplugged it overnight and pulled the battery while I slept and looks like it takes a charge now. Responds as a media device and everything. Talk about a heart attack...
Thanks for trying to help. I really appreciate it. Happy holidays!
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Hey Guys,
I am running the Cell Pro 9.5 ROM and since yesterday my phone doesnt turn on.
So this is what happened, I never got a chance to recharge my phone yesterday and so I used it to the very last bit of juice. The phone kept switching itself off with the critical level battery warning and I kept turning it back on. So it got to a point where it wasn't switching on at all. So I pluged in the phone to the computer to charge and left it there for approximately an hour (the orange charging light was on), came back and tried to switch the phone back on and it didnt respond at all. Took out the battery, tried the soft reset button etc and everything else I thought of with no luck. So I plugged it back on and suddently it turned back on, did the boot up, loaded the touchflo and I saw the battery level was at "0" and then suddenly it turned of with a "tuck" sound (similar to a PC when you hold down the power button or turn the power off without shutting down). This has been repeating since then, I have left it plugged in and every 5-10 minutes or so the phone switches on by itself and shows the boot screen, go all the way till HTC animation and powers off suddenly. I have had no luck in turning the phone back on, I dont what is causing the issue - wether its the battery or the phone.
Please give me your thoughts....I am completely lost without my phone...
- issue was that the phone kept restarting as soon as the battery stored enough charge for a reboot. I pulled out the battery at one of the restart cycle as advised below and stopped it from repeating it. After that the phone let the battery charge without a restart, did not mess with it for a long while.
Never let the battery drain all the way down to 0%. Not sure if it affects the battery, but it sure will give you enough hassle that you wont repeat it.
DesperateScorpion151 said:
Hey Guys,
I am running the Cell Pro 9.5 ROM and since yesterday my phone doesnt turn on.
So this is what happened, I never got a chance to recharge my phone yesterday and so I used it to the very last bit of juice. The phone kept switching itself off with the critical level battery warning and I kept turning it back on. So it got to a point where it wasn't switching on at all. So I pluged in the phone to the computer to charge and left it there for approximately an hour (the orange charging light was on), came back and tried to switch the phone back on and it didnt respond at all. Took out the battery, tried the soft reset button etc and everything else I thought of with no luck. So I plugged it back on and suddently it turned back on, did the boot up, loaded the touchflo and I saw the battery level was at "0" and then suddenly it turned of with a "tuck" sound (similar to a PC when you hold down the power button or turn the power off without shutting down). This has been repeating since then, I have left it plugged in and every 5-10 minutes or so the phone switches on by itself and shows the boot screen, go all the way till HTC animation and powers off suddenly. I have had no luck in turning the phone back on, I dont what is causing the issue - wether its the battery or the phone.
Please give me your thoughts....I am completely lost without my phone...
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The same thing happened to me last night... but mine works now. what I thought it was is that it kept turning on as soon as it had enough battery to do so then it would die and repeat... So every time it would turn on
I would take the battery out and let it charge some more and then when it quit turning back on I left it overnight and now its on...
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The same thing happened to me last night... but mine works now. what I thought it was is that it kept turning on as soon as it had enough battery to do so then it would die and repeat... So every time it would turn on
I would take the battery out and let it charge some more and then when it quit turning back on I left it overnight and now its on...
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Ok....I will try that and report back....
Sorry you pull the battery then the cord then put the battery back in then cord. Also it will take a lot longer if you charge it on the computer.
Never mind mine quit working again...
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Never mind mine quit working again...
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I managed to get it charging after pulling out the battery and putting it back again. Charged it through a computer cause i dont have my charger with me.
I turned it on and the battery said 40% and now every second or so it is dropping by 1%. I can literally watch it dropping down sitting here. The phone doesnt want to charge when it is on. I plug in the usb and the LED turns orange and then turns off. Now the battery is at 25%, This is litterally in about a minute or less. I dont know whats wrong, is it the Battery?
I had this exact same thing happen to me twice on previous HTC hardware (wizard). The first time I couldn't save it and just had to buy a new battery. However, the second time it happened I was able to resurrect it once I got it plugged into a higher-current charging source, like the wall charger it came with, or even most car chargers (that's how I saved it when I couldn't get to my wall charger). I had to let it sit on there for about an hour before it held enough charge to stay on, and another 2 hours before it was fully charged, but it worked just fine after that.
You battery may indeed be toast from what you describe. I have had the experience of totally discharging the battery and the device not coming on at all. I recommend that if you do this, you should fully charge it using the wall charger NOT the computer (if the computer works at all. it didnt in my case). I have done this a few times now and the battery turned out fine each time.
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You battery may indeed be toast from what you describe. I have had the experience of totally discharging the battery and the device not coming on at all. I recommend that if you do this, you should fully charge it using the wall charger NOT the computer (if the computer works at all. it didnt in my case). I have done this a few times now and the battery turned out fine each time.
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Thanks.....
My issue seamed to be fixed. I had to rely on a computer as I didnt have access to my charger and by the time I did my phone was at approximately 65% charge. I plugged it in and charged it all the way to 100%. Replugged it and left it for a little more while to make sure it got charged completely. I have been using it since today morning 9am and now it is 2pm at 73% after couple of calls, messages and emails.
Few more charging cycles with the wall charger and I am hoping it will be back to normal.
Hey guys, I recently had a problem with my screen turning on and off on it's own but finally it stopped. But now I'm having even worse problems.
Basically what is happening is that my phone won't charge. Last night it was at 60% and I put it in the charger. I woke up in the middle of the night and I checked my phone and it was fully charged, so I went back to bed. When I woke up in the morning to take my phone it was only at 49%, so I plugged it back in and it charged to 54% before I had to go. I barely used to phone all day to conserve on power since I didn't really have much left. So, it's at 40% battery when I get back home and I plug it into to charge. I left it for an hour or two and went to go check on it. It didn't charge at all. In fact all the stats were saying that it was discharging. So I unplugged it from the back side (where the charger is in the wall) and the lightning bolt was still in the top corner. I freaked out and unplugged it from the usb port and it stopped, when I plugged it back into the usb (without power from the power outlet) it showed that it was still charging which was really weird. I tried everything such as taking out the battery and putting back in. I even tried to use a different usb cable to charge it with no success. But still everything says it's discharging.
I have no idea what to do? Could this a sign that the battery is failing, should I buy a new one? Does anybody have any idea of what might be happening? I've been looking everywhere but I haven't found any solutions
It's probably input voltage dropping caused by USB cable. Try another cable and see.
Well the problem stopped for a few days but now it back again, I plug it in to charge and it just doesn't charge, it recognizes that it's plugged in but it just won't charge.
I'm now attempting to charge it with a different cable again to see if it works. If it doesn't could this be a sign of a battery issue? Because if it is I can buy one tomorrow.
I'm starting to think it might be the charging point, hypothetically if I were to send it to Samsung for repairs, how much would they charge for replacing the charging port. Or would it easier to replace it myself if I were to buy one off ebay? How difficult is it to replace the charging port?
Hi guys,
Another problem with my lg g3.
So yesterday i unplugged the phone from my computer after it was fully charged, went to bed, and after waking up, the phone was 98% charged, had one miss call, returned the call, but couldn't reach the person, so i put the phone down, time to go to work, and when i try waking up the phone, it was completely dead.
I tried all the troubleshooting i read and could think of, nothing, up till this morning, the phone is still dead.
And the funniest part is, if i plug the phone using its usb into my computer, the computer makes that notification sound it often make when the phone is plugged in, so the computer recognized that something was plugged in, yet the phone won't turn on. And no red charging light either.
This is a new phone, never been dropped, not a scratch.
Unfortunately i bought this from a 3rd party brand new, so can't go to tmobile for this, since i use it with my simple mobile service, and don't have registration info that LG requires for warranty.
Any idea would help, thanks
Have you tried a battery pull to see if it will turn back on?
battery pull? what's that? I removed the battery over and over. I also pressed the up vol and power key for over 15secs , i read the tmobile troubleshooting guide as well.
Although i've ordered for a new battery, not sure if battery is the problem or not. But the fact that the phone connects to my computer tells me it isn't totally dead.
Perhaps the battery was no longer taking charge?
did you leave the battery out for a bit without the phone on the charger?
yea, did all that
Okay, so I installed CM13 sometime in April I believe. It was working fine for the most part, battery life wasn't any worse than stock, and I couldn't do OTA updates and had an early nightly build on it.
A couple weeks ago, after my kids let the battery deplete all the way (again), I plugged it in overnight. I should add that when the device was being used while charging, it would get VERY warm at the USB port. The next morning, when I turned it on, it flashed the Samsung boot logo, flickered a bit and shut off. I tried going into recovery, looked through these wonderful forums and even re-seated the battery. It would showed the large empty battery symbol once, sometimes boot the Samsung logo again but always flicker and shut off in about 1-2 seconds. This happened about 3-5 times. Now it doesn't do anything at all.
Before I drop any funds on a battery (I'm on a very tight budget) should I try anything else? Should I be thinking of changing the USB port instead?
try another 5v 2+A charger and micro usb cable
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Okay, so I installed CM13 sometime in April I believe. It was working fine for the most part, battery life wasn't any worse than stock, and I couldn't do OTA updates and had an early nightly build on it.
A couple weeks ago, after my kids let the battery deplete all the way (again), I plugged it in overnight. I should add that when the device was being used while charging, it would get VERY warm at the USB port. The next morning, when I turned it on, it flashed the Samsung boot logo, flickered a bit and shut off. I tried going into recovery, looked through these wonderful forums and even re-seated the battery. It would showed the large empty battery symbol once, sometimes boot the Samsung logo again but always flicker and shut off in about 1-2 seconds. This happened about 3-5 times. Now it doesn't do anything at all.
Before I drop any funds on a battery (I'm on a very tight budget) should I try anything else? Should I be thinking of changing the USB port instead?
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I know that once my battery is completely depleted, I had to re-seat the battery connection cable, then I plugged the tablet into my PC for about an hour and got that same battery symbol with a circle indicator. After the hour passed, I plugged it into a standard Samsung charger and let it charge from the adapter fully. This has happened to me a few times and the above method has always worked for me! Good Luck!
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I know that once my battery is completely depleted, I had to re-seat the battery connection cable, then I plugged the tablet into my PC for about an hour and got that same battery symbol with a circle indicator. After the hour passed, I plugged it into a standard Samsung charger and let it charge from the adapter fully. This has happened to me a few times and the above method has always worked for me! Good Luck!
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I'll give it a shot, thanks! At the very least, I know the USB port is doing something since it gave me a quick battery/circle indicator after I plugged it in to a plug charger this time!
predator1584 said:
I know that once my battery is completely depleted, I had to re-seat the battery connection cable, then I plugged the tablet into my PC for about an hour and got that same battery symbol with a circle indicator. After the hour passed, I plugged it into a standard Samsung charger and let it charge from the adapter fully. This has happened to me a few times and the above method has always worked for me! Good Luck!
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Well, it took about 15 hours of being plugged in to fully charge, after bring plugged in for a full day just to get it to power up at all!
So now that I can turn it on and stuff, it's getting VERY warm to the touch. I do remember it getting warm before, but never this warm. Right now it's not in it's case, which might have hidden the heat before.
It's mostly on the left side of the device where the heat is most intense, right about at the middle of the device. Is this a signal of the battery needing to be replaced?
And thanks! :good:
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Well, it took about 15 hours of being plugged in to fully charge, after bring plugged in for a full day just to get it to power up at all!
So now that I can turn it on and stuff, it's getting VERY warm to the touch. I do remember it getting warm before, but never this warm. Right now it's not in it's case, which might have hidden the heat before.
It's mostly on the left side of the device where the heat is most intense, right about at the middle of the device. Is this a signal of the battery needing to be replaced?
And thanks! :good:
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Glad to hear you got the device to come back to life, but in regards to the battery... I've always noticed the heated area in the center left side of the device when multi-tasking. Personally, I flashed a CyanogenMod Rom and have seen less heating issues than when I used the standard TouchWiz Roms. I'm really trying to prevent my tablet getting to the point of a battery replacement, but the Rom seemed to make a difference for me.
The cpu/soc is in the bottom middle (when device is held landscape mode), it will get warm / hot depending on what tasks the tablet is doing, under idle conditions it should not be hot, turn screen brightness down too, when charging it should get warm near the usb port and maybe slightly warm on the back but not hot.
I've been having all kinds of trouble getting my tablet to charge. It's acting really weird. Over the last couple of days, I will turn the tablet on and it will say 80% charged (after being plugged in all night). Then, with it still plugged in, it will drain down to 15% in about 30 minutes. Why would it drain so fast (if at all?) when it's plugged in? It's also been taking hours for it to charge once it hits that 15% and I don't use it.
At first, I discovered my charging cable was to blame. I'd plug it in, but the tablet wouldn't detect it was connected unless I pulled on the wires just right for them to make contact. Apparently there was a broken wire inside the plug of the cable. So I replaced it with a new cable. Everything seemed to be working good then, and was actually getting proper charges again. Now though, it doesn't seem to want to work.
I was using the tablet yesterday to check my email. It had been plugged in all day and not being used. It said it was at 100%. After about 10 minutes though, the tablet shut off saying "battery low". When I try to turn it back on, I get the battery indicator showing it's at 0%. So I left it plugged in the rest of the day and over night. I just went to turn it on about an hour ago, and it's still sitting at 0%!
I thought maybe the cable was bad again, so I found another charger and tried that. It does the same thing the other cable does.. It stays off until I plug in the cable. Then, as soon as it's in, the tablet "wakes up" and displays the battery indicator. Like, it detects a power source has been plugged in. But no matter what I do, and how long I keep it plugged in, it stays at 0%. I can force the tablet to turn on by holding the power button. It goes through the boot animation prior to loading the screen. Then, in about 5 seconds, it turns itself off again.
I don't think the battery is truly at 0%. If it were, how would it be able to boot up without even a cable plugged in? I really don't know what to do now. I've rooted it, so I can't send it in to Samsung for repair. I don't even think the warranty would still be good at this point anyway. The tablet is at least 3 years old (based on when I joined this site looking for root help). And I think it was 2-3 years older than that before I bought it. Is there anything I can do?
I can't wait anymore. So frustrating to own something that's worked great then all of a sudden decide to no want to even power on anymore. I've spent all day trying to get it to charge with other cables. I've tried chargers, I've tried just straight cables. Plugging into the wall, plugging into the computer, plugging into the USB port in the car. Nothing works. So I hopped over to Amazon to just order a new tablet. I can afford it, not big deal there. But then I saw a ribbon cable used to replace the USB port on the tablet. Maybe the port is bad? Lots of "highly recommended" reviews. I went ahead and ordered one. It was less than $7. If it doesn't work, I still have the money to go forward with buying a new tablet. If it does, money saved! I went ahead and bought the "customers also buy" kit, with a replacement battery (just in case it's not the port), and a set of tools. If the cable is all I need, I'll have a spare battery. If the battery is all I need, I'll have a spare ribbon. If it still doesn't work, I'll go back to my original plan.
Just kinda bummed this is where I have to go now. Why would it suddenly just stop altogether like that? Is it because I keep it plugged in 95% of the time? Should I keep it unplugged till it's drained then charge it and unplug it again right away? I used to have to do that with an old cell phone. This is my first tablet so I dunno. If I end up needing to replace the whole thing, it'd be nice to know from experienced users what the best way to do it is, and what, if anything, I can do to prevent it happening again.
I'd suspect the battery is kaput.
It's not a good idea to keep the battery on permanent charge, there's no need. Let it cycle normally.
Well, all told this was an educating experience. I got the battery first. It came about 40% charged. Once it was installed I used TWRP to create a system backup and downloaded it to my computer. Then I left it plugged in overnight. The next day it was down to 30%. So the "charging" indicator on the screen was just a bunch of lies. I got the replacement charging port a day later and installed it. I didn't do anything else with the tablet, just left it turned off and the charging cable plugged in. It said it was charging, but again, after about 12 hours of charging overnight, the following morning it was down to 18%. So I'm returning both the battery and the port. They may still be working fine, and the problem is elsewhere in the tablet. I accidentally broke the little metal connectors over the power button (it's a contact sensor, and the connectors sit on top and complete the circuit when the button is pressed) when I took the back off to replace the parts. I also cracked my screen, although I think it's just the protector I put on it. I'm not sure what else to try at this point. The tablet is essentially a paperweight now. I can turn it on and watch the battery slowly drain to 0%, but I'll never get any more use out of it. So I decided to do a system wipe prior to putting it away for some future project to try and rescue it. Now it's stuck with the "Teamwin" screen flashing at me. I give up. I looked at Amazon to see if I could just buy another one, but they don't have any "new" left. They're all refurbished or "slightly used" from 3rd parties. I looked at other tablets, and bought a new Samsung Galaxy Tab S5E. It looks like it has the best reviews and marks. The only issue would be the wifi, but it seems to be a hit or miss with people. Some people say it's a problem, others say they don't even have a problem. So.. <shrug> I'll see how it works for me.