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My phone only seems to charge once in every session, as soon as I unplug it, it won't charge again until i've done a total reboot. Is this a common problem that can be fixed?
This happens both through usb on the computer and when plugged into the supplied wall charger.
Very strange behaviour and I wonder if anyone else has come across this or if it's an issue that needs to send the 2day old phone back!
The little lightening indicator and light come on with no problem first time round, but if I unplug (no matter where in the charge cycle) plugging it in again does no good. On the second connection, the phone is still recognising that it is connected to the computer, I can get to the sd card and all the connection windows pop up, red led on the side of the phone etc but no lightening indicator in the icon and the gauge batter widget indicates discharging.
I'm also seeing battery draining much, much faster than i expected, from 100% to 18% from 8am to 11am with some light browsing the only use.
Did you already try to update it or reflash to see if that fixes the issue?
I have absolutely no idea how to do that! Tbh, as I've had the phone for only 2 days, if it's not a common and easily fixed prob, I'm just getting the thing exchanged.
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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..
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
I was rooted and running stock att, touchwiz for a while with no issues. It started to get slow and on my nerves (and I was thinking of all the empty promises about this phone like inductive charging, google wallet, JB4.2.2, faster than iphone etc.) so I decided to kick in the bucket and install CM10.1. Install went smoothly, I accidentally installed the wrong google apps, but realized it, reinstalled everything with the correct one, and all is well and dandy.
The entire time, the phone is sitting at 0% battery, so I am assuming I am barely charging enough for the phone to keep up with my usage, but it never actually dies so all is good. The icon says 'charging 0%'. I was messing around in the settings, and got to the LED color settings. Went to change the "low battery" one, and the current active one changes. I go to change the battery charging one, and nothing changes. I unplug the phone, and it immediately goes into shutdown mode due to low battery. I plug it back in and let it sit for like 5 minutes before actually booting it back up, and it boots up but battery is still at 0%.
Basically, battery drained its way down from fully charged to 0, and now won't go back up. The fact that the LED state thinks that it is "low battery" rather than "battery charging" leads me to think it is a bug. I checked the bugs thread that is stickied, and nothing comes up close to what I have. I am using the nightly build from 03-03-2013.
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I was rooted and running stock att, touchwiz for a while with no issues. It started to get slow and on my nerves (and I was thinking of all the empty promises about this phone like inductive charging, google wallet, JB4.2.2, faster than iphone etc.) so I decided to kick in the bucket and install CM10.1. Install went smoothly, I accidentally installed the wrong google apps, but realized it, reinstalled everything with the correct one, and all is well and dandy.
The entire time, the phone is sitting at 0% battery, so I am assuming I am barely charging enough for the phone to keep up with my usage, but it never actually dies so all is good. The icon says 'charging 0%'. I was messing around in the settings, and got to the LED color settings. Went to change the "low battery" one, and the current active one changes. I go to change the battery charging one, and nothing changes. I unplug the phone, and it immediately goes into shutdown mode due to low battery. I plug it back in and let it sit for like 5 minutes before actually booting it back up, and it boots up but battery is still at 0%.
Basically, battery drained its way down from fully charged to 0, and now won't go back up. The fact that the LED state thinks that it is "low battery" rather than "battery charging" leads me to think it is a bug. I checked the bugs thread that is stickied, and nothing comes up close to what I have. I am using the nightly build from 03-03-2013.
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wipe cache/dalvik and reflash. if it does not clear the issue, full wipe and reflash. report back
Neither worked. I thought maybe I'm just playing around with the phone too much and not giving it a chance to charge, so I plugged it into a wall socket a couple rooms over so I wouldn't touch it. 15 minutes later, I turn it on and it is still at 0% charge. The phone is pretty hot at the charger port.
I'm starting to think this is a hardware issue, because it is also unresponsive when it goes into sleep/lock mode... Won't wake, and can't even call it. The only way to get it responsive again is a hard reset.
I should still have some time left on my at&t warranty, and I have a backup from when I was still on the original recovery. Where does CWM store the recovery files on CM10?
When I was using TW, they were just in a folder on the root called clockworkmod. They are actually still there, a couple "0's" down the line in the file structure... Not really sure what that does... Now the root has no clokworkmod folder, but it definitely is storing backups because I just backed up now, and restored to one when I originally installed CM10, and I can see them both when I select "restore" in the recovery menu. Is there any way that I can put one of my backups from my computer into that folder so that I can revert, unroot, and get this thing swapped out?
The battery has been giving me all kinds of issues since I bought it and all they offered last time I went was a new battery. Hopefully with it being unresponsive as well, they will just swap out the handset.
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I was able to use odin to reflash the original rom, so I am back to the non rooted state. Battery seems to be working fine, and I haven't run into a hang on lock, so it is most likely software related. I am going to redownload all of my apps slowly and see if it is one of my apps causing the hang, but the battery issue seems to still be related only to CM10.1. After all that headache, I could care less if I go back to CM10, but I think maybe you guys would want me to troubleshoot this issue, so that you can possibly fix the bug?
Let me know.
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Update:
I was able to use odin to reflash the original rom, so I am back to the non rooted state. Battery seems to be working fine, and I haven't run into a hang on lock, so it is most likely software related. I am going to redownload all of my apps slowly and see if it is one of my apps causing the hang, but the battery issue seems to still be related only to CM10.1. After all that headache, I could care less if I go back to CM10, but I think maybe you guys would want me to troubleshoot this issue, so that you can possibly fix the bug?
Let me know.
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Try AOKP next time
It seems to me...
It seems to me that the charging problem only happens when there are notifications waiting. As long as there are no notifications waiting, the red LED is on and the phone charges just fine. When a notification comes in and the blue LED starts flashing, charging stops or slows to a crawl or starts discharging. The longer this condition continues, the hotter the phone gets. After clearing the notifications, the red LED comes back on and the phone starts charging normally.
This seems to happen with Samsung chargers and off brand chargers.
Again, I don't know if this really happening. It just seems to all coincide.
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After clearing the notifications, the red LED comes back on and the phone starts charging normally.
This seems to happen with Samsung chargers and off brand chargers.
Again, I don't know if this really happening. It just seems to all coincide.
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I have the same problem with at least 3 sammy based roms. If anybody has a solution please let us know. It is definitely related to the notifications.
how/what are you wiping before each flash?
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It no longer seems to me that the flashing blue notification LED is the problem. I've identified two other issues with chargers.
The Samsung charger works well and fast, especially when plugged into the power outlet adapter and not computer's USB. I guess that's typical... something about only one pin being available for charging when the USB cable is connected to the port on the computer. The off brand charger (charger only, not USB/charger combo) was much slower and sometimes wouldn't charge at all.
The first I thing did was look at the tips. They are slightly different, but the thing I noticed is that two little "fangs" on the tips were more prominent/stiff on on the Samsung charger. I used a needle to pry/bend those fangs out on the off branded charger so that they pop out more. That resulted in a much more secure/tight connection to the phone and fixed the problem with the battery actually stopping charging or discharging while plugged into the off brand charger.
Next, I compared the power ratings on the two chargers. The off brand charger accepts 100-240VAC, 47-63Hz and 0.2A. Its output is 4.3-5.0V and a MAX of 0.8A.
The Samsung charger accepts 100-240VAC, 50-60Hz and 0.15A. Its output is 5V and 0.7A (seemingly a constant output no matter the input).
I hypothesize that the off brand charger's output is directly related to its input. So, the output at 120VAC input would be about 0.4A and the output at 240VAC input would be 0.8A. The Samsung charger, seems to have a constant output of 0.7A whatever the input is. So in the US with our approximate 120VAC, the off brand charger would put out maybe 0.4A and the Samsung charger would put out 0.7A or 75% more current than the off brand charger. This would explain the difference in charging rate between the two chargers.
I suppose I could get my multimeter out and verify this idea, but I'm too lazy and I'm satisfied with my hypothesis.
This happens to me once every 4-5 flashes. I usually get everything set up, reboot, then power down, remove battery for 30 seconds, power on (without charger), then plug in and it charges normally. If that doesn't work try enabling fast charge (if your kernel supports it).
Fast Charge FTW
A few hours ago my phone started emitting beeps as if some notification was turned on (I have all such off). I have not paid much attention, as the beeps eventually stopped (!!), except for when noticing, a while later, that the phone - albeit plugged in and with the battery indicator showing "charging" - the percentage was decreasing. I watched it for a while, and the batter was discharging while plugged in. Did the followings:
- replaced the battery with a new/charged one (my spare) - same behavior
- replaced the cable with the original samsung - still the same problem
- tried wall outlet charge, laptop charge (via USB), etc - same problem
The questions for those having experienced such:
- would the beeps be indicative of a problem, or just coincidental???
- the phone is definitely the culprit here - the question is if there is something that could be done for some sort of cleanup of the port, or improving the connection (seem to recall some such from a site - maybe this, maybe another forum - could not find the article by searching), or further tests I could carry out, before I take the phone into the repair shop (which I am not sure if there is such in my area)
TIA,
Stefan
can your phone charge with the phone off? Turn off the phone and then plug it in, do you see a big battery icon charging? Also is your phone rooted?
MilkSteakJellyBz said:
can your phone charge with the phone off? Turn off the phone and then plug it in, do you see a big battery icon charging? Also is your phone rooted?
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Upon turning the phone off and first plugging it in, it depicts a grey battery with a non-spinning wheel in the center. After approx. 10sec the screens starts showing a semi-filled with green battery, with a scrolling bar of dots underneath it (active this time, unlike the wheel described before).
I am sure that everyone knows what I am talking about, having seen it many times before, even if my description is not that good. The issue is that I have never paid attention to this part - mostly because I almost never had the phone plugged into power and not immediately turned on.
Observation after doing the above: after having left the phone off for almost an hour, the battery charge decreased (84% -> 80%) while the phone was plugged in.
NOTE: When the charge was 100%, by using a battery I charged with an external samsung charger, I also re-calibrated the battery using the app (phone is rooted, but always using the stock ROM). Just FYI - if that matters.
Thanks for any [ongoing] assistance.
ok if your phone was off and plugged in, and was still losing charge then I'm not sure what to do, sorry, hopefully someone else who has experienced and solved this can help you out.
my issue was similar to you where i couldn't charge my phone while it was on, i could only do it while it was off...it was a software issue, so i flashed the stock ROM, started from scratch and everything was fine from then on.
if you havent already, make a back up of all your important data (msgs, apps, etc.) download a stock rom (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2276645) and flash it, maybe that might solve the issue
The beeps may have been the phone detecting the charger on then off multiple times. Check the charge port on the phone for any breaks or debris.
Otherwise I dont know what to tell you aside from try another cable and charger. Sorry.
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Damn ! I had this error too but it would charge but so SLOW! It was on a ROM/KERNEL that i've flashed , I cant remember wich one. Try charge your battery in Recovery ( this was my solution )
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!
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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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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.