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Battery/Charging Issues

So then,
Recently I have had a lot of issues with my nexus. There has been on going issues related to the battery in terms of it saying its charging when its not, and not charging when it is.
yesterday the phone totally died, which wasn't ideal so I contacted Samsung and they said they need to send it away.
Now luckily I do have a extended battery for my phone which I have managed to get it working off and get it to charge which points at the old battery dying and needing to be replaced.
Issues which remain is the phone does not say its charging yet the battery is being charged. Is it possible to delete the System battery apk and re-install it and does anyone have a link to the apk. Or is it possible to re-calibrate battery settings somehow?
The phone also will not connect to the computer via any cable.
It seems as though the phone is being charged and the power is going through the phone, but there is no recognition in the USB bay of any kind, weather connected to a charger or a computer.
things done so far to solve issue:
Full wipe
Reverted to stock
Reverted back to different ROM's
Changed Kernel's
Ordered a New standard battery
Ordered a battery charger (not phone charging dock)
Wiggled the usb , changed usb cable's and chargers.
Fixed permissions
Delete battery stats
Full delvik cache wipe
This is becoming to be a serious problem with a otherwise amazing phone.
Any help would be fantastic.
Thanks,
J

I'm also having the same issue for a week or so. The phone says it's charging but it's not connected to any charger.
Lots of people are reporting the same problem. It's a hardware issue. You need to change the usb charging assembly.
http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=23789

Thanks for the heads up man , might give the USB port a little clean. Pain in the ass though pretty poor from Sammy and Google on that one :/
J
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Battery discharging vs not charging

When my Galaxy Nexus GSM is not plugged in, the battery shows itself as "discharging". Previously this used to be "not charging". I have tried multiple (Jelly Bean) ROMs, different cables, wall and USB chargers. Same problem. The larger issue: my PC no longer recognizes my phone and I have resorted to using AirDroid to transfer files.
Can anyone shed light on this issue?
I have done full wipes, including wiping battery stats.

Mine was always discharging...
And make sure that you got fast charge off if you have that on. That disables MTP capability.

I have exactly the same problem...see my thread...its recent!
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I had a similar issue, and then not long after the phone refused to charge. I had to take it to get serviced, and the ended up giving me a refurb instead.

I think it has to do with the temp of the battery, if its too hot and you have it plugged in it will say discharging.

SEALBoy said:
When my Galaxy Nexus GSM is not plugged in, the battery shows itself as "discharging". Previously this used to be "not charging". I have tried multiple (Jelly Bean) ROMs, different cables, wall and USB chargers. Same problem. The larger issue: my PC no longer recognizes my phone and I have resorted to using AirDroid to transfer files.
Can anyone shed light on this issue?
I have done full wipes, including wiping battery stats.
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First, don't use a charger other than the original. The different volts mess with the NFC chip and antenna. Try disabling NFC and rebooting. Leave NFC off and try to charge. If that doesn't do it I have another option that might work but I'm CDMA so you would have an extra step to change lines in file.

Thanks for the suggestions, guys. I tried disabling NFC but it had no effect. My phone is the international version (the box was in Polish) which is not warrantied through Samsung USA, so I guess I'm out of luck there as well. I'm just gonna hang in there until the next Nexus phone, I guess.

JediNinjafication said:
First, don't use a charger other than the original. The different volts mess with the NFC chip and antenna. Try disabling NFC and rebooting. Leave NFC off and try to charge. If that doesn't do it I have another option that might work but I'm CDMA so you would have an extra step to change lines in file.
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When will people realize that the difference in voltage won't cause any problems with the phone as long as they're within safe range.
I've been using the charger that came with my G2 (htc) on my nexus for months and have no problems. I would've continued using the original one that came with the nexus but it had an annoying whine to it.

biscuitownz said:
When will people realize that the difference in voltage won't cause any problems with the phone as long as they're within safe range.
I've been using the charger that came with my G2 (htc) on my nexus for months and have no problems. I would've continued using the original one that came with the nexus but it had an annoying whine to it.
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Really because it sure seemed to be my problem a while back and anytime i use a different one. Guess samsung and google must not know what theyre talking about.

Chargers are rarely the problem, however different usb cables might be the problem instead.

New glitch spotted when phone is of and in the charger it wil chrage for like 2 seconds and then the animation saays the phone is full!but 2seconda later its charging again so on and so on... sort of chargingloop..
But it never charges
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Am using samr original charger and cord. Works fine

I have this same issue
My Galaxy Nexus from Verizon has worked flawlessly for several months now. It updated about 4 days ago to JellyBean 4.1.1 and I have been charging the same two wall chargers, car charger, and USB cables every day since I got the phone. I even was using the USB charger to deploy and debug a simple application I am building around noon today. This evening at about 8 PM while on the wall charger I noticed the charging stopped. No lightening bolt icon, status says Discharging, and I noticed one time that it said Not Charging. Neither of the wall chargers work, nor is it recognized by the laptop using the USB cable. It is at 65% charge and is dropping fast. It seems that no one has a fix for this other than replace the phone.
Very difficult for me to believe that the USB port just went bad using the same chargers every day. Hard to blame JellyBean that has run at least 4 days with no issue even though several sites point to a possible charging issue. I even dialed *#*#4636#*#* and checked the battery status, and it's health was good. I have not rooted or placed anything on this phone that is obscure beyond my simple near "hello world" development apps. I have rebooted, and performed a battery pull with no such luck. With the number of posts pointing to a JellyBean issue, and users experiencing the same issue after the upgrade to 4.1.1 I am leaning towards this being a software issue, but it is interesting at the number of posts saying that the their only fix is a refurb phone replacement from the carrier.
Pretty odd occurrence, and extremely frustrating. As I said the phone worked fine all day today. This just started a few hours ago for me.

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... No lightening bolt icon, status says Discharging, and I noticed one time that it said Not Charging. Neither of the wall chargers work, nor is it recognized by the laptop using the USB cable. It is at 65% charge and is dropping fast. It seems that no one has a fix for this other than replace the phone...
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OK I have fixed my issue. and it does appear to have been hardware related. I will preface this with you must be very careful not to break your phone with the solution below. I read several posts about using contact cleaner on the USB port, so I looked at the port on the phone and noticed that the "toungue" inside the reciever USB port appeared to be slightly bent down. With the phone off and battery removed I used a needle to wedge under the toungue and bend it up ever so slightly making sure I would not break it. Pluged in the phone and it still did not charge. (That was last night) this morning with the phone at 55% and thinking it was going to need to go back to Verizion I did it again phone off and battery removed only this time a bit more forcefully out of desperation. I definitely moved the "toungue" up and even had a bit of difficulty getting the USB cord to slide back into the connector. But when it did the Phone is charging again. Appearantly I must of jammed the plug into the phone upside down last night when getting into my car and bent the "tongue" in the USB port. Lesson learned, and hope this helps others.

Means the battery has been recharged and discharged to the point were it holds less of the charge. Basically its an older battery, or its been tappered with with, probably a rom using to much ram or pussing the device a bit too far nightly and ported roms could be the cause I say stick to stock kernal unless you really now what to do
Scrap that wrong fourm I think

[Q] Will NOT hold charge. Help. No solution so far.

Yes, I know I know this question has been asked a million times on here. I have tried looking through past forums & none hold my unique problem. Just please, help you guys. OH MY GOD! My phone will not hold its charge and ive literally tried EVERTHING. I have a nexus galaxy and one night it decides to not charge after I connect to about 3 different chargers. I take it to Sprint & they tell me the port is busted so they replace it & it works fine. I charge it at home & the little battery icon says its charging but the battery itself is getting lower & lower. That makes no sense. How could it obviously say its charging but the freaking battery not charge? so I go in again & they give me a new battery. Still to no avail. I even bought a new charger and when I come home to charge it, the battery gets lower as if its not being charged. the lock screen says its charging but when I log into the phone & check the battery options on settings, it says its not. its so frustrating and I don't know what else to do. please help! is it probably something internally wrong with the phone to where I have to replace it to a whole new one?

I have never had such problems but you changed all possible hardware relating from your nexus what about software?
Maybe a complete new stock 4.2.2 flash could help. Have you tried it?
swyped with my galaxy nexus on purity rom with fancy kernel

GNex not charging past 89%

So i've had my GNex a while, and its a great phone and has served me well.
Recently, it has started acting a bit flakey regarding its battery. First thing i noticed was it seemed to drain much faster than usual. Then after some time i also noticed that it no longer registered as "full" after a night on charge. The battery meter would get to 89%, then just sit there.
Viewing the battery stats in the settings menu currently says "10 days 22h..." on battery, and the graph shows it going up to 89% each night, then falling during the day. In the past, and on the wifes nexus 4, this screen would show only the time since it was fully charged and unplugged.
I did some googling and found some odd, random posts, some suggesting a bad kernel on custom rom, some suggesting a bad battery. I'm running the stock rom, and its being doing this on both 4.2 and 4.3. After a while i decided the battery must just be worn out, so ordered up a nice new genuine samsung battery, and installed it....
Same problem continues. It gets to exactly 89% then stops charging...
Any ideas?

Aragorn84 said:
Any ideas?
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I've never heard of this before. I take it you've tried the obvious like changing the charger etc.
I wonder if perhaps somehow the charging circuit or usb connector is faulty. Have you also checked the battery connectors to make sure their clean.
If I was a betting man though I would go for some wear and tear or damage to the usb port.
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theres quite a few posts about it, and in all cases it seems unresolved, and its almost never an issue with the charger or port. It charges perfectly fine from 0% right thru to 89% with no issue, then just stops.
More worryingly, some folk seem to report the issue getting worse as time goes on:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1794231&highlight=not+fully+charging
Whats very odd, is that in those threads theres a common trait: you can charge the battery in an external charger, or another phone so its full, then when fitted to the faulty phone it immediately displays the lower level that phone gets stuck at (89% in my case, but much lower in some other peoples). This suggests that the battery IS actually being fully charged, but for some reason the phones viewing "full" as some lower value.

Aragorn84 said:
theres quite a few posts about it, and in all cases it seems unresolved, and its almost never an issue with the charger or port. It charges perfectly fine from 0% right thru to 89% with no issue, then just stops.
More worryingly, some folk seem to report the issue getting worse as time goes on:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1794231&highlight=not+fully+charging
Whats very odd, is that in those threads theres a common trait: you can charge the battery in an external charger, or another phone so its full, then when fitted to the faulty phone it immediately displays the lower level that phone gets stuck at (89% in my case, but much lower in some other peoples). This suggests that the battery IS actually being fully charged, but for some reason the phones viewing "full" as some lower value.
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From reading through some of that thread you posted I can only conclude that this is a hardware issue since it seems to affect several versions of Android and not all devices.
Have you tried opening a dialogue with Samsung?
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Aragorn84 said:
theres quite a few posts about it, and in all cases it seems unresolved, and its almost never an issue with the charger or port. It charges perfectly fine from 0% right thru to 89% with no issue, then just stops.
More worryingly, some folk seem to report the issue getting worse as time goes on:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1794231&highlight=not+fully+charging
Whats very odd, is that in those threads theres a common trait: you can charge the battery in an external charger, or another phone so its full, then when fitted to the faulty phone it immediately displays the lower level that phone gets stuck at (89% in my case, but much lower in some other peoples). This suggests that the battery IS actually being fully charged, but for some reason the phones viewing "full" as some lower value.
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this is what happened to me. verizon replaced it under warranty, no questions asked. the thread i made can be found here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2059289
edit: i should clarify that verizon replaced it under samsungs warranty. i did not have any extended warranty service through verizon.

Mine wouldn't charge past 98% but i just changed outlets and it started charging all the way up again. I guess my phone doesn't like my extension cord :/
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It would just stall at 98-99% for a while
andrewk7750 said:
Mine wouldn't charge past 98% but i just changed outlets and it started charging all the way up again. I guess my phone doesn't like my extension cord :/
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Even my GSM GNexus running stock 4.3 would stop as soon it reaches 98% and you need to like unplug-plug the USB to fully charge it and it
might get annoying, since to charge that 2% it might stop like 4-5 times intermittently and then get fully charged, its more like software update
issue not a hardware one as before getting on stock android I used custom ROM they had no issue while charging, even in 4.2.1 stock I had faced
similar situation.

Galaxy S3 (Telus - Canada) Charging Problems

Hi all,
I am hoping you can help. I am having a problem with my Galaxy S3 and I am trying to figure out what the problem is and how to solve it. Around the time of the 4.3 update I started noticing that my battery started to drain very quickly. Initially I just assumed that there was an issue with one of the apps or something in the 4.3 update causing the problem. I then started to notice that my battery would not charge past 51%. Here is the list of things I have tried to fix the issue:
- Different chargers and USB cables. I have tried charging from different power sources in my house and at work, also using my car charger and other peoples chargers that have a S3 that have had no issues.
- I have tried 2 other batteries which I purchased new, one official Samsung Battery and a 3rd party long life battery
- I have done a factory restore multiple times on the phone and also tried rooting and installing a custom ROM to eliminate software.
- I have checked the micro USB port for dust or lint and tried my best to clean out the connection. I haven't been to rough with it because I am worried about breaking the connection.
- I have tried charging the phone without the otter box on and I was worried that might be causing the charger not to go in completely and give a bad connection.
I have GSam installed and when the phone reaches 51% and you look to see the time till charge it always says - Calculating please come back later.
At no point when I have the usb cable in for charging does the charging light go off. Even after the battery hits 51% the charging light stays on but does not charge past that point.
If I leave the phone charging overnight I wake up in the morning and it says 100%, but as soon as I remove the charger it immediately drops back down to 51%. The outcome is the same with all the batteries I have, the only difference is the amount it charges up to. It seems to range from 48% to 51%. I have also tried charging with the unit off and on and can not get it past 51% on any of the batteries.
Any ideas or advice would be greatly appreciated!

I am having an issue myself with charging my S3. I ran into the same problem as you initially and ended up using ODIN to go back to stock. That fixed the drain/charging issue. However now mine wont stay connected. I believe the charging/USB port is going on it. I saw a lot of Samsung phones on Ebay with the same problem so it must be an issue with them. IDK if that could be your problem as well. I tried calling AT&T for a warranty replacement but they wanted me to pay the insurance premium ($200) for a phone that came out in 2012! The S5 will be out soon, they're nuts if they think I'll pay that now for a S3. The only way for me to get a full charge over night is to plug in my phone, then put my high school yearbook on the charger to apply pressure until the green light goes on. It sounds funny and honestly it is, but I'm cheap and don't want to pay the $200 until it's actually dead or I get my tax refund HAHA but then I'll probably just get an upgrade.
I was thinking of buying an extra battery with a external charger to see if that would help. Maybe if you get the external charger, charge it up then put it in your phone it will charge all the way.

Thanks for the reply. I haven't had an issue with the charge light not coming on but I am starting to think it might be a calibration issue. Somehow the issue has changed slightly. It still says 53% when i take the charger out but sometimes the battery life will increase while it is not plugged in. I am assuming that it is reading the % wrong. I am in the same boat with sending it off to repair. They want $150 as a base cost and I am worried that it might turn out they say No Fault Found and I am back to square one, and $150 shorter. I know what you mean about the S5 coming out soon, so I might try and wait it out until my contract is almost up and upgrade to the S5.