On previous ROMs/kernels, orange light meant charging, green light meant charged, bliking light meant error (overheat). When the state changed from charging to charged, then it overheated (like in car) and started charging again, it would show orange light and actually charge.
On 2.05 kernels (all ROMs - MIUI, AOSP, AOKP, Charmeleon Sense...) it turns green at 90% charge, but when it charges and is under load it stops charging - I have a green light and a dropping charge in car (and it is NOT drawing more than 1A from charger, and yes I am on AC charge charger). It will even keep showing green when the charge drops to 80%.
Anybody else notices this? It looks like they "prevented" overheating problems by not actually charging but still showing the happy green light. This is bull*t if you ask me - one moment you have a happy green light, and after few hours of driving it just turns off? (haven't tested this, but what else is going to happen?).
I was hoping for a real fix - like switching from battery to AC for power when charged, the phone should run from the charger and not from the (overheating) battery when under load.
90% green means you're good to go. u can continue charging up to 100%
90% ac mode with car charger because car charges tend to be unstable. ac at 100% might fry your board
the 90% green feature is also available in cm9/aokp roms. even miui
There's nothing wrong with charging up to 100%. And there's nothing wrong with output from most car chargers (and in modern cars even crappy chargers work good as the voltage is well stabilized).
I think it only depends on kernel, not ROM.
And the issue I wanted to raise is that it discharges without reason from green to "orange", without showing orange, and it's not because of overheating (when it overheats it still flashes orange/green, but it happens less often because it will not actually charge most of the time).
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Hi all
Just after an opinion really, also see if anyone else is having a similar problem with there battery??
I've had my desire now since April, and recently been having issues with the battery. When charging it, the Orange LED charge light will turn green at around 94% charge and still climb to 100%. Then when its charged (for a whole night) I unplug it, battery states 100% charge for about a minute, then drops straight to 93%. I've tried it with a few roms now, standard Rom, froyo, now on pays bravesoul release, and they all do the same...
I've tried resetting battery charge status in recovery console too, but made no difference...
Surely the standard battery can't be on its way out already??
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Info in my Sig is a bit out of date, so ignore what it says lol! Running latest pays bravesoul release as mentioned, not done any tweaks to this Rom yet!
Install JuicePlotter and then monitor the usage
report back
it should show whats using the battery when it takes a huge decrease
AFAIK the charging stops after reaching 100% (probably as safety measure)
and there doesn't seem to be a trickle charge function to keep it at 100%. This is actually a good thing 'cause Li-ion and Li-poly batteries don't like to stay in the highest or lowest regions too long.
So...charging stops at 100% and after that you're running on battery. Try charging it and unplug the charger when 100% is reached (look at the actual %, not the LED. You will notice it'll go down at the same rate it always does and no jump to 93%.
I think it charges to 100%, then allows itself to drop back to 90% (the phone still shows 100% though) and when you unplug the phone from the wall, it will drop back to the "actual charge".
If you plug it back in, it should start to charge back to 100%.
I have noticed that whenever I charge my DHD through my laptop USB port, It discharges faster than on a full charge through the charger.
Am I imagining things?
I don't know about fast discharging, but mine takes forever to charge while connected through a USB :/ however, there are ROMS that have included fast USB charging either through the ROM itself or a kernel
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Also just because the indicator light is green and battery reads 100% it doesn't mean the battery is at 100%. There is an amount of time that varies depending whether you charge via mains or USB after the light goes green/100% that the battery is actually fully charged.
I remember reading somewhere that in the case of USB charging it can actually take up to an hour after to the light turning green that the battery is at 100%. Something to bear in mind.
After the light has turned green and the battery shows 100%, power off the phone and charge for an additional hour or two. This should help.
Also use battery monitor app to watch the charging current--the battery is fully charged only when the monitor shows 0mA. Usually after the light has turned green and the battery showed 100%, the battery charging current is still 40-50mA.
Hey, i've recently started to have issues with my S.
It sometimes de charges at quite a fast rate while on charge (this is while the screen is off also).
It doesn't show the red light while on and charging (when it does charge) and sometimes doesn't turn on while on charge while off for at least an hour.
It appears to happen when the battery is already fairly low, between 1-10% charge, the battery life is as decent as it gets with an S.
I have a feeling this probably might be the charger at fault, i've not tried any other chargers with it and i am using the charger and cable that
came with the phone.
This is not an issue of it not charging due to the cable, it charges no matter what placement.
Edit: It's now showing the red light while charging like it normally would and has fully charged again, i am going to fully charge and wipe battery stats and see what happens, i have a feeling it's because i've let the phone run down to low.
this ebay bought magnetic chord i have lights blue led when its plugged in, and goes red when charging. however, now whenever its charging on my new z3c, it randomly fluctutates between red-blue red-blue although phone screen still shows its charging. any idea whats wrong? also, my phone is losing charge quicker since i charged with this chord (been only twice uptil now.) any suggestions? is it the phone or the chord only?
also, can generic chords actually spoil or harm the phones battery life? the first time i charged my z3c, it was with the inbox USB sony charger, and it lasted me a 10 hour night without a single % drop in battery on standby (though wifi and mobile data were both off, and i had no pending notifications in the am). Whereas, since charging with the generic magnetic chord, the battery's been dropping on standby at about 2% an hour. during intermittent screen checking, and dropped 3% last night (again wifi and data were off and no new notifications came in.)?? :-/ please help. thanks
Z3c_SK said:
this ebay bought magnetic chord i have lights blue led when its plugged in, and goes red when charging. however, now whenever its charging on my new z3c, it randomly fluctutates between red-blue red-blue although phone screen still shows its charging. any idea whats wrong? also, my phone is losing charge quicker since i charged with this chord (been only twice uptil now.) any suggestions? is it the phone or the chord only?
also, can generic chords actually spoil or harm the phones battery life? the first time i charged my z3c, it was with the inbox USB sony charger, and it lasted me a 10 hour night without a single % drop in battery on standby (though wifi and mobile data were both off, and i had no pending notifications in the am). Whereas, since charging with the generic magnetic chord, the battery's been dropping on standby at about 2% an hour. during intermittent screen checking, and dropped 3% last night (again wifi and data were off and no new notifications came in.)?? :-/ please help. thanks
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i am having a similar experience using what i think is the same cord...i bought mine on ebay as well and it has the same blue/red led light...for me the color flickering seems to start at 90%+ when charging
i have also experienced worse battery drain when idle...i had a small suspicion that it was related to the charger but i also have different magnetic one and it seems to offer similar battery results...so its might just be magnetic charging altogether...i also read that some people believe it is the firmware update that caused the battery to drain faster...so im not exactly sure i can blame it on the charger
i have not done charge cycle from low battery to full with the oem charger in quite some time...maybe i will do that and see if the battery drains just as fast...maybe you could give it a try as well and see if it makes a difference (hopefully the magnetic charging hasn't already caused "permanent" damage)
yup, same flickering LED light here, mainly after about 90% charge. I've not noticed a difference in battery life betwen USB and mg or between different mag cables (I use two ebay mag cables and one Magnector x2). I do notice that one of the ebay cables charges a lot slower than the others, however.
Call me crazy, but I think that the flickering is normal. The flickering happens while the LED is trying to transition from Red to Blue, it should display a colour in between those two, but since there are only 2 LEDS (or 1 led with only two colors) aka two available colors, it will flicker because it's trying to do something that's impossible (trying to display a color beside red/blue). Mine does the same, but it doesn't bother me since it's supposed to do that. I don't have any battery issues.
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Dsteppa said:
Call me crazy, but I think that the flickering is normal. The flickering happens while the LED is trying to transition from Red to Blue, it should display a colour in between those two, but since there are only 2 LEDS (or 1 led with only two colors) aka two available colors, it will flicker because it's trying to do something that's impossible (trying to display a color beside red/blue). Mine does the same, but it doesn't bother me since it's supposed to do that. I don't have any battery issues.
Sent from my D5803
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I think you're not far off. I have the same cable probably, and it starts flickering in the mid-90%s. It probably has to do with the device reducing the charge drawn from the wall plug as it gets close to full battery.
Could you guys provide link to those chords?
The type c end of my stock cable dipped in soup. I wiped it with tissue and used it - perhaps too hurriedly. Quick charge is working (with the message) and it goes to 100. I can't try data because I'm traveling.
However I noticed now the charging led no longer turns solid green when battery is 100. Instead it cycles between green and orange at a constant rate (like every second). I'm worried it might be damaging the battery as maybe something is off aboht ghe cable now?
When phone is shut off it does stay solid green but the screen seems to stay on (charger connected 100% battery). I think that's normal though.