Phone isn't charging while it's on. - Samsung Galaxy Nexus

Alright, so first off screw Verizon warranty replacement devices. I had 5 Droid Razrs that were defective and then they sent my the Nexus (Nexus WAY BETTER then the Razr.) And so I have the Nexus, and I had it rooted and unlocked, running AOKP and Franco Kernel and my phone dies so I plug it in and I turn it back on, I have 52% battery now, so alright I take the phone off of the charger, it dies about 30ish percent, so I plug it back in turn it on, and it's hung at 0% charging so I go about sending my texts and facebook, and notice it still hasn't charged anything (been about 20 minutes) so I'm thinking "awesome screwed my phone up somehow" so I revert back to completely stock 4.0.2, problem still consisting, so I'm going to call Verizon tomorrow and have them send me a NEW damn device, cause this is ridiculous. But the whole point of me even posting this is, has this occurred to anyone else?

Are you using the same cable that came with the phone? Some times that makes a difference!

Nope.
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Battery might be wonky. Need to calibrate it. Charge it. Pull plug. Turn off. Plug back in to make sure topped off. Unplug. Pull battery for about 30s. Put battery back in. Turn on. If it still act up probably bad battery.
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Pat123 said:
Are you using the same cable that came with the phone? Some times that makes a difference!
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Wish it would have came with a cable.

@rbiter said:
Battery might be wonky. Need to calibrate it. Charge it. Pull plug. Turn off. Plug back in to make sure topped off. Unplug. Pull battery for about 30s. Put battery back in. Turn on. If it still act up probably bad battery.
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I'll try this.

Maybe your charger is to weak? How many mAh does it have? The original charger has 1 mAh. Try to charge over the usb.
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Sounds like the battery is jacked.

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Evo won't turn on|Rooted|No LED indicator.

I was internet browsing on MikG's Sense 2.1+3.0 rom, and suddenly, my phone just shuts off. So I pull off my protective case, then the back cover, thinking it was just overheated. It was warm, but not to the point where the fail safe kicks in and automatically shuts off the phone.
I've tried every fix that I could find, and nothing. I got it to turn on for a second maybe one or two times, and that's it. I have it plugged into my computer thinking maybe it's just really drained, even though I had a 90% charge. I don't think I have any other batteries to test it with (There's only my Evo, a Samsung Moment, and a LG Lotus Elite II).
So, any ideas?
Also, I bought this phone from Wirefly. Not sure if that really matters in the case of needing repairs or not.
My first guess is battery.
I ordered a new OEM one off Amazon. Hopefully it gets here before I leave for my trip.
Pull the battery and just plug into the wall. This would by pass the battery. Could have a bad charge port. Had that happen to mine. If all else fails smash it against a brick and say u fell on it to get a replacement
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I tried pulling the battery and bypassing the battery entirely, but it didn't work.
Last night at about 12:30 in the morning, I plugged it into the wall, and fell asleep. A few minutes later I was woken up by the boot animation, and the phone is back on and working as normal again.
I'm still having the OEM battery shipped to me, just in case it is the battery, even the though the phone hasn't shut off once since then.
LZLandingZone said:
I tried pulling the battery and bypassing the battery entirely, but it didn't work.
Last night at about 12:30 in the morning, I plugged it into the wall, and fell asleep. A few minutes later I was woken up by the boot animation, and the phone is back on and working as normal again.
I'm still having the OEM battery shipped to me, just in case it is the battery, even the though the phone hasn't shut off once since then.
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I had a similar issue with my old Touch Pro 2, It was the battery. Just food for thought.
So far the battery has held since the first incident. Won't have the new one till late next week probably.
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USB charging doesn't always keep up with the phone. It only charges at .5a max. Use the wall charger to get the full 1a charge.

[Q] help!! galaxy nexus won't boot!! wth..?

my galaxy nexus was lying on the table and then it just shut itself down .
I can't reboot it afterwards, so i took the battery out and put it back. put it on charge.
it just won't start .I have used any method........
WTH.... it's only 4days old..?
any one who can help pleas...
yewang666 said:
my galaxy nexus was lying on the table and then it just shut itself down .
I can't reboot it afterwards, so i took the battery out and put it back. put it on charge.
it just won't start .I have used any method........
WTH.... it's only 4days old..?
any one who can help pleas...
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4 days old......go to a VZ store and get it replaced
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Plug it in for an hour.
I'm in the same boat.
I can plug it into my computer and it'll show up as INTF2 and not accept any drivers. On the other computer it comes as INTF0. It's been charging for hours now.
Return it. If its been charging for hours and a battery pull can't get anything to work just get a new one. Especially since you don't mention flashing anything or making any changes that could cause that.
Hold your horses before you go running back to Verizon looking for a replacement.
If it is not rooted feel free to take it back.
If your phone is rooted do not take it back to Verizon unless you would like to pay for a replacement. Plug it in to a power outlet and let it sit, a couple times now this has happened to me where it wouldn't even show it was charging then a hour / hour and a half later it would start charging, then boot normally.
I had it charging for about 30 mins. I unplugged it. Removed the battery. Sacrificed an apple. Prayed to Zeus. Then put the battery in. My prayers have been answered and the phone booted up. I guess the trick is to give it a min or two between the unplugging and re-plugging the battery.
Zlatty said:
I had it charging for about 30 mins. I unplugged it. Removed the battery. Sacrificed an apple. Prayed to Zeus. Then put the battery in. My prayers have been answered and the phone booted up. I guess the trick is to give it a min or two between the unplugging and re-plugging the battery.
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All hail the mighty Zeus, who only demands the sacrifice of apple's for our devices to be resurrected!

Nexus causing old and brand new batteries to drain while charging - Please Help!

So I have a CDMA Verizon Nexus running the latest version of Bugless Beast. It's been working great for a week now, but today it's had the craziest problems.
I forgot to charge it last night, woke up to a dead battery, so I plug it in the charger for an hour, but it stays at 0 percent. It never charges at all. Then I unplugged it, the phone dies, and it can't charge at all. I take it to a Verizon store, they swap it for a new extended battery, and it boots up the phone, showing it was a battery issue.
After I come home with the new battery inserted, I notice the battery is draining again even with the new one and it's charging again.
I tried to wipe it and recover it to stock so I can see if the issues are the same with stock settings, but of course, the battery died in the middle of it all.
Has anyone had issues like this? Thanks in advance!
Try a different charged are you using the stock charger and extent ion cords?
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Bfitz26 said:
Try a different charged are you using the stock charger and extent ion cords?
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Sorry, forgot to mention that I was using the stock charger and have tried other chargers for different phones laying around the house. When I took it to the Verizon store they also tried different chargers before replacing the battery, but it wouldn't turn on. Swapping it with a new battery worked temporarily, until it started to drain again even with it charging using the stock one.
Do the battery stats provide any useful info?
Petrovski80 said:
Do the battery stats provide any useful info?
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I unfortunately can't check them now because both batteries are spent and the phone won't charge them, but if it helps at all, I noticed that it would have the charging icon on the battery when plugged in, it would say "charging" on the lock screen, but when i would check the battery stats,it would go against all of that and say "discharging" instead.
Just for my understanding: the phone is off, you charge for a couple of hours, the phone does display the charge icon when you plug in a charger, but if you try to turn on the phone after a few hours of charging it's still dead?
Petrovski80 said:
Just for my understanding: the phone is off, you charge for a couple of hours, the phone does display the charge icon when you plug in a charger, but if you try to turn on the phone after a few hours of charging it's still dead?
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Almost all correct. When I say charge icon, I mean the one in the top right corner of the screen when it's actually on. I've never been able to get the black screen with a charging battery to show up at any point.
Say I have a battery that has about 35 percent juice left. The phone will be on, and I'll leave it in the charger. It will say its charging, I can operate the nexus just fine, but according to the battery stats in the settings, it's actually discharging while it's plugged in. Once it hits zero, that battery is useless.
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Almost all correct. When I say charge icon, I mean the one in the top right corner of the screen when it's actually on. I've never been able to get the black screen with a charging battery to show up at any point.
Say I have a battery that has about 35 percent juice left. The phone will be on, and I'll leave it in the charger. It will say its charging, I can operate the nexus just fine, but according to the battery stats in the settings, it's actually discharging while it's plugged in. Once it hits zero, that battery is useless.
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And you also cannot charge the phone when it's off?
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And you also cannot charge the phone when it's off?
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Correct.
In that case, I doubt there's anything we (you) can do. I'd return it to the store.
Petrovski80 said:
In that case, I doubt there's anything we (you) can do. I'd return it to the store.
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That's what I was guessing as well. My only problem is that since it's rooted, the warranty is voided, so I can't get a replacement phone. I had come so close to bringing it back to stock and unrooting it with its last bit of battery, but it died right in the middle of it attempting to re lock the bootloader.
At this point I think I only have a few options...
1.) Buying another battery from Verizon so I have some juice for the Nexus to finish up the bootloader issue mentioned above, bringing it back to stock, then bringing the phone in to replace it.
2.) Just say I lost it and hope for the best that they'll give me a replacement one. I bought it off contract from a third party vendor which probably won't help my case, but I am insured by Verizon on the phone, so it may just work.
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That's what I was guessing as well. My only problem is that since it's rooted, the warranty is voided, so I can't get a replacement phone. I had come so close to bringing it back to stock and unrooting it with its last bit of battery, but it died right in the middle of it attempting to re lock the bootloader.
At this point I think I only have a few options...
1.) Buying another battery from Verizon so I have some juice for the Nexus to finish up the bootloader issue mentioned above, bringing it back to stock, then bringing the phone in to replace it.
2.) Just say I lost it and hope for the best that they'll give me a replacement one. I bought it off contract from a third party vendor which probably won't help my case, but I am insured by Verizon on the phone, so it may just work.
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A third option could be lending/buying a charger that allows you to charge your battery outside the phone. I think DealExtreme sells those. Shipping takes a while though. Anyway, good luck. Hope you'll get a replacement.
Option Number 2 may not work out for you, do you have insurance?

Not Charging After Full Drain. Not Turning On When Plugged In

So I'm having a problem where I drained my battery and the phone shut itself off with 1% to 2% battery life remaining. I've left it charging for a good 45 minutes now. Turned it on, and it reported 1%. Thinking that it was just a reporting error, I unplugged it, and the phone promptly shut itself off. Now another 30 minutes has passed, unplugged it, turned it on. The phone refuses to turn on! It will however show the battery charging animation, so I know it's not bricked or anything. I guess my only solution is to leave it charging while it's off overnight, even though I need to use my phone right now... That important person will have to wait :crying:
Edit: Works again... Though it does not show my battery life correctly. It says 15% when it's probably more like 2%.
Make sure it's plugged into a wall and not your computer.
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BMelz said:
Make sure it's plugged into a wall and not your computer.
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It was plugged in to the wall.
geokilla said:
It was plugged in to the wall.
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Might want to use a different cable.. i have read that the cable and possibly even the wall adapter can be flakey.. if you have a spare cable try to use it instead of the lg one..
Original LG cable is fine. It's ever since I drained the battery it's started to act weird. I plugged it in at 3% in hopes of "calibrating" the batterystats and it was charging fine. Up till now. I caught a glimpse of my phone turn itself off while charging.
Now it's randomly decided to turn itself on and bootloop... And back to charging animation while off we go. What the hell? The battery isn't charging... Switching cables didn't help btw.
Found a third cable. Temporarily working..
geokilla said:
Original LG cable is fine. It's ever since I drained the battery it's started to act weird. I plugged it in at 3% in hopes of "calibrating" the batterystats and it was charging fine. Up till now. I caught a glimpse of my phone turn itself off while charging.
Now it's randomly decided to turn itself on and bootloop... And back to charging animation while off we go. What the hell? The battery isn't charging... Switching cables didn't help btw.
Found a third cable. Temporarily working..
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Hmmm maybe the charger? Sounds to me like its not getting proper power hence the shutting down while plugged in.. but what do I know heh
I have the same problem. Plugged the phone in at about 3% and walked away. Came back an hour later to find it stuck in a loop of the LG logo and a black screen. I can sometimes get it into recovery, and from there see that the battery percentage will go from 0% to 15% and back to 0%. It's like the battery is bad.
I think it's a problem with the ROM/firmware where we can't drain it and hope to charge it up again..
I'm still running v1 of the jb release and last night I used my phone until it shut down at 2%, charged it up fine, and its been ok, knock on wood. One weird thing is that if I use the phone while on the charger, and I mean light tapatalk usage, the phone will drop to 99%, even while plugged in. Weird.
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I'm still running v1 of the jb release and last night I used my phone until it shut down at 2%, charged it up fine, and its been ok, knock on wood. One weird thing is that if I use the phone while on the charger, and I mean light tapatalk usage, the phone will drop to 99%, even while plugged in. Weird.
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That's normal. When the phone is charged at 100% it stop charging to avoid the battery to be overcharged thus reducing it's durability.
Not charging again... My phone maintained a charge between 10% and 25% or so according to the battery usage graph. So I switched cables again. I went into the service menu and got a screenshot of the charging test this time. First pic is with the LG cable. Second is with a Samsung cable. Third picture is back with LG cable after the battery successfully got charged past the "low battery zone" with the Samsung cable.
I have a similar problem with the stock charger. After a few weeks of working perfectly, it just sopped charging my Optimus G.
Bizarrely, it charges my wife's Galaxy S2 HD LTE without issues.
And the charger from my Sony-Ericsson Xperia pro charges the Optimus without issues.
It's almost like the stock charger burns out something internally such that it doesn't output enough voltage/amperage/current.
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So it happened again... But this time, it occurred in between 20% to 40% battery life while charging. It's probably the LG cable.. Gonna call support and ask for another.
geokilla said:
So it happened again... But this time, it occurred in between 20% to 40% battery life while charging. It's probably the LG cable.. Gonna call support and ask for another.
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I have a similar situation -- I powered down my phone one time at 5 %, did not wake up until one hour of charge, then last night tried again with about 40 % of battery left, same problem. I was wondering at first if the phone did not go to power down properly, and that the battery would drain through that, but then I just did another test with my battery at 30 %, and the phone did not want to restart until plugged in for 5 minutes.. It's almost as if the booting process is just this huge battery drain, sucking all the juice to start the phone in a peak of electrical rage.. anyway -- I noticed that yesterday, I was trying to restart the phone after a while, it would start to boot but it seemed it owuld just miss a little bit of juice to complete the process, then finally when it made it to screen it was at about 10 %..
Could it be that fix we used in the stock rom to get the screen at more than 65 %, and the cpu at 1512 mhz ? It seems more software related than hardware in my case, meaning I don't beleive it is the cable
Hate to revive an old thread, but as the new owner of an LGOG i just ran across this problem the other day. My phone has been able to go two day on a charge, and last week I forgot to charge it on night. Found it dead the next day. was leaving so I took it intending to charge at work or in the car. Car charger had no effect, but upper portion of phone got hot. plugged it in at home, same thing, charging icon, getting hot, but not charging. Also noted dim screen glow all the time.
tried 2o second hold on power button, vol up and down, got into the download screen and the bootloader screen, but no charge. Finally held the power button and vol. up and red charging light came on. Held it for a minute and the red charging light stayed on, let go out it went. Decided to try a couple of rubber bands around the phone to hold in the buttons, and it worked ---phone charged fully and operates as usual.
Thought I'd pass my experiance on to help anyone else with similar problem. Any idea why this worked?
I don't know, but I do know that getting to android 4.3 roms like the ones in Houstonn's thread have cured my O. G. from that, and from also constant and random camera reboot, and from also maps freaking out when plugged in in the car..
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For anybody that runs into this problem
I had this problem and tried for hours and hours to fix it. When you stick the usb charger into your phone, it literally takes like 5 hours to charge 2% when it's in this state
So it never gets to a point of wanting to turn on because the phone gets too hot trying to charge
My solution: Put a bunch of ice in a bowl, then put something over that like a bag, aluminum foil, basically anything that would be a barrier between the ice and your phone to keep it from getting wet
Now let it charge with the phone sitting on top of that ice for a few hours(make sure to add new ice as it melts) and your phone will charge up enough that it can be fully turned on. Then just let it keep charging
This worked for me after trying other things for hours. If this didn't work i was gonna open the phone and pull the battery
After the last update I have not had this issue. I've run my phone dead a few times and now it always charges - no issue.
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I had this problem and tried for hours and hours to fix it. When you stick the usb charger into your phone, it literally takes like 5 hours to charge 2% when it's in this state
So it never gets to a point of wanting to turn on because the phone gets too hot trying to charge
My solution: Put a bunch of ice in a bowl, then put something over that like a bag, aluminum foil, basically anything that would be a barrier between the ice and your phone to keep it from getting wet
Now let it charge with the phone sitting on top of that ice for a few hours(make sure to add new ice as it melts) and your phone will charge up enough that it can be fully turned on. Then just let it keep charging
This worked for me after trying other things for hours. If this didn't work i was gonna open the phone and pull the battery
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matt832 said:
After the last update I have not had this issue. I've run my phone dead a few times and now it always charges - no issue.
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What update are you referring to? I don't get over the air updates. Mine is off contract.
philliboy said:
What update are you referring to? I don't get over the air updates. Mine is off contract.
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Last fall. I had to go to the stock rom, do the update, reroot, then all was fine.

What the actual f**k?

So here I am, just checking my phone after charging it.
I lowered my phone mhz before to save battery. Was putting it back to normal, when all of a sudden my phone just stops. Screen goes black. Like it was off. So I am like... umm.. dafuq? I try to turn it back on, nothing, and I try to put it into fastboot mode, NOTHING. Wat just happen. Any ideas? I pulled the battery out too, and well. This sucks. I really hope I didn't get bricked or some crap. I doubt it is though.
I hate to state the overly obvious, but is there any chance your battery is dead?
Synchorizer said:
So here I am, just checking my phone after charging it.
I lowered my phone mhz before to save battery. Was putting it back to normal, when all of a sudden my phone just stops. Screen goes black. Like it was off. So I am like... umm.. dafuq? I try to turn it back on, nothing, and I try to put it into fastboot mode, NOTHING. Wat just happen. Any ideas? I pulled the battery out too, and well. This sucks. I really hope I didn't get bricked or some crap. I doubt it is though.
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Happened to me, mine was the 100% dead, had to get a warranty replacement, hope that's not same for you
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Lithium batteries have a fail safe in them, they kill themselves when they reached absolute zero, if the lithium has no charge at all and you attempt to charge it, bad things will happen (like your phone blowing up) buy a new battery off eBay, if that doesn't fix it, send it in to RMA
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Before doing any of the above, plug the phone into a wall outlet and let it charge for 5 to 10 min as it can take some time for the phone to have enough juice to turn back on.

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