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The phone shows charging without being plugged in

After taking the plug out the phone shows still charges sometimes i get high voltage warning . I tried different battery still same . The red light blinks all the time . Battery drains quick and it over heats. I am on ff02 from sfhub but i think that has nothing to do with this. By the way i used different cables to charge the phone and still same problem. What could this be and how do i fix it
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Did this randomly start happening or did it start after making a change to your phone? (flashing anything, installing an app, changing settings, etc..)

mine started doing this then when you pulled the battery it wouldnt boot without being plugged in the port was bad I got a new phone

Yeah, unless you installed a ROM that modifies your voltages with a battery saver script or you just installed something like SetCPU, it sounds like a hardware issue to me.. I'd take it back to sprint and have them replace it for you.
Go here to revert back to the official stock rom/kernel and see if you still have the issue.. if you do, then you're already set to take it back to sprint for a replacement =)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1433101

This started just out of the blue i did not do anything unusual . Thank you for the advice
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Yu should go into cwm recovery and do a wipe battery status that's under wipe dalvik cache.. Then reflash the Rom
Epic touch phone of xXHELLBoy91Xx

power problem

Hi,
noob here
be gentle
i cant recognize the root of my problem, so plz follow up my story from the beginning.
1) in march i first time rooted my phone--htc desire hd with android revolution hd.
everything was running fine, but after 2 months it started giving a problem.--whenever the battery was abt 50% or low and i used the flash the phone switched off.
i ignored it.
2) in june i installed icecold sandwich. dont remember the v. my phone became too slow and the camera didnt work, it was ****ty.
3) so i installed the upgraded version of revolution hd. 7.something. The problem became huge.
the phone lost power whenver i did anything.even if the battery was full.
It only run smooth when it was plugged in.
The charging process became erratic. it took about half hour to charge from 22%-25%.and the next second it was 100%.The problem still with me.
4)i thought its a battery problem. So i used my friends battery, but the problem persisted.
5) so i installed leedroid. i heard it was good. The problem was gone for few days, but now its worst.
Any network related proess is not possible if its not plugged in.
help plz..
my life is ruined, as whenver i plug it out the phone is switched off.

22%-25%.and the next second it was 100%.
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Sounds like your battery is dying. You may want to try wiping battery stats.

thanx
Roberto_Lim said:
Sounds like your battery is dying. You may want to try wiping battery stats.
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already tried that!!!! thanx anyway.
i even used my friends battery, and the problem persisted.

Try a triple wipe from recovery.
Wipe data/factory reset
Wipe dalvik
Wipe battery stats
Format all partitions (except sd card)
Test it without the sd card if the problem happens again. If it happens again, perhaps try cleaning the contacts. After that no idea.
Don't do all at once. Do it step by step to see if we can localize the issue.
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Dude dont Call IceCold sh itty just cause it has bugs. Its the best ICS ROM available for our phones and Lord spent a long time developing it and ironing out bugs.
Sent from another dimension...
thanks don't hurt ya know?

+1 to that
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Battery died and now my phone stays at the booting without starting?

As described at the title.
The Phone ran out of battery and when I plugged back the charger and turned it on... it stays in the AOKP *swagger activated* logo running there forever without booting.
Please help, I hope I don't have to wipe anything because I don't have a late backup

Turn the phone off by pulling out battery. Plug in charger, and leave it for an hour or so. You should be good.

Yeah, can you get into Recovery? If so, just try wiping cache & dalvik. Also make sure to charge your battery at least an hour as stated.
My phone gets goofy when it completely drains.

I tried and still the same
I'll try to backup from recovery menu, then wipe and reinstall?

Harkadenn said:
I tried and still the same
I'll try to backup from recovery menu, then wipe and reinstall?
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If you took the time to create a nandroid you could just restore. If not, and wiping cache doesn't help, try a dirty install of your current ROM. Last resort is full wipe and reinstall.

A 100% battery discharge won't kill phone OS. Turn off the phone, kill your instinct to check it, keep it on charger for a couple hours, until it says battery full. And only then turn it back on.

What if the battery didn't died actually and it just shut down and now it's having problems to run back normally?
Because I'm pretty sure I saw the battery low but not over kill low, then the phone shut down and didn't wanted to power back on.
Anyways I'm leaving it charging... now.
Ok in worse case scenario, can I do a back up from recovery and then wipe it all and reinstall AOKP and run the backup recovery and get back to exactly how it was before? right?!

Don't worry too much. Normally batteries don't deep discharge. For some reason, looks like yours did. I let mine shut down by itself once in a while. Its perfectly alright... At the most you might need a new battery.
But like you said, if its a system problem, and you are able to get into recovery, copy another ROM zip on your external SD, boot into recovery n flash it.
Did you apply any CPU settings like UV or OC?
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Nope, the phone havent had any other software, just the rooting process and AOKP and the recovery files.
Ok so It's safe to back up and restore after wiping everything from it right?

Well it sucks that I had no other choice but to start all over because nothing else wanted to work...
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Sorry it had to come down to that.
don't look at is as a pain but a fresh start with the device. Explore some new roms. Have fun

Sorry to hear that. Before you wipe, try to install the same ROM again without wiping anything (as a dirty install) and see if that helps.
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Well its alright.
What exactly went wrong then?
Many thanks though
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Is the issue resolved yet? Might be a kernel crash or some rogue app.
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I had to start from scratch.
I't ok not much of a loss... but I did loose important notes I had on the notepad diary.
The only other problem im having is that my contacts tends to go away, like if it's bugged.
I import them with GO CONTACTS and then today for example I go to my contacts and it's all blank.
What it's happening with this phone?

Harkadenn said:
I had to start from scratch.
I't ok not much of a loss... but I did loose important notes I had on the notepad diary.
The only other problem im having is that my contacts tends to go away, like if it's bugged.
I import them with GO CONTACTS and then today for example I go to my contacts and it's all blank.
What it's happening with this phone?
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Search the q & a forum for a missing contacts/contacts disappeared thread. It was up a week or so ago. Not sure if it was resolved but it's worth finding and reading over. I only use Gmail to backup/restore contacts

I have seen at times that if the system runs the battery dead that it will corrupt Some files making the phone get stuck in a boot loop with a need to reflash.
As for your contacts try using a different backup program. Like super backup.

Try opening the XML file (exported contacts file) in excel. You should be able to view so your contacts there and make sure its all in place.
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Galaxy S3 bricked... sometimes??

So, lately my phone has been acting kinda weird.. Basically, it'll shut off on it's own, no matter what my battery level or if I'm on the charger, its pretty random. When I go to turn it on, it shows me the samsung logo and shuts off after about 3 seconds of the galaxy s3 logo. It does the same in download mode and recovery. The phone will stay off and do that for an hour or more, and then itll turn on and be all dandy again for hours or at least another day. I'm going to take off all my pictures on the sdcard and odin back to stock as soon as possible for warranty, but does this sound like a hardware failure or software? I read about the s3 sudden death syndrome, but this one isnt permanent. Any ideas?

I agree with your assessments.

I'd wonder about overheating or a bad battery.
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what's your setup as of right now?

Beware if it shuts down when your flashing back to stock in the middle of the process it may never turn back on.
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It might be the kernel that came with the ROM you installed. I used to have problem with ktoon kernel.

I'm running Darthstalker XI, the problem happened with both the stock kernel and the faux samsung kernel. The battery is fine, its completely flat with no bumps or humps. I managed to turn it on once yesterday but as I was getting ready to transfer over the files the phone shut off and didn't start again. I'll try to get it running tomorrow.
EDIT: Now that I think about it, the problem happened when I dirty flashed XI over X. Afterwards I did a wipe and clean install of X1 and the problem persisted. Has anyone else on Darthstalker/UDVLJA based roms had this?
EDIT2: Well after being on the charger all day, I noticed that the green samsung battery icon was on the screen, something it only does when it's about to turn on properly. I instantly pulled out the sdcard and put the latest cm10 nightly and gapps on there and I booted to recovery, wiped, and flashed them right up, no issues. I booted just fine, I signed up and I was downloading youtube, latest now updates etc (bare essentials).... and it shut off again. I'm positive now that it's a hardware failure

mejorguille said:
I'm running Darthstalker XI, the problem happened with both the stock kernel and the faux samsung kernel. The battery is fine, its completely flat with no bumps or humps. I managed to turn it on once yesterday but as I was getting ready to transfer over the files the phone shut off and didn't start again. I'll try to get it running tomorrow.
EDIT: Now that I think about it, the problem happened when I dirty flashed XI over X. Afterwards I did a wipe and clean install of X1 and the problem persisted. Has anyone else on Darthstalker/UDVLJA based roms had this?
EDIT2: Well after being on the charger all day, I noticed that the green samsung battery icon was on the screen, something it only does when it's about to turn on properly. I instantly pulled out the sdcard and put the latest cm10 nightly and gapps on there and I booted to recovery, wiped, and flashed them right up, no issues. I booted just fine, I signed up and I was downloading youtube, latest now updates etc (bare essentials).... and it shut off again. I'm positive now that it's a hardware failure
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If you have an app that controls kernel voltage that is still set up for set on boot and the voltage is too low when it boots or is granted root it'll kill it in this manner. Otherwise your phone is [email protected]#
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I'd wager that if any overclocking/undervolting was done, it was disabled at the onset of problems. OP seems smarter than orangutan.

I used the phone for work, not play, no overclocking was done neither was any undervolting. I ran stock kernel settings.
Aerowinder said:
I'd wager that if any overclocking/undervolting was done, it was disabled at the onset of problems. OP seems smarter than orangutan.
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I remember a time when XDA had helpful answers and users weren't reduced to insults. I've been around a couple years, hacked more phones than I can count and flashed hundreds of roms in my days, back when everything was still done in adb and terminal emulator. It's no wonder a lot of decent user has started moving over to rootzwiki

[Q] Boot Loop/Won't Boot

Hi everyone,
My S3 would all of a sudden just turn off and I wouldn't be able to turn it back on. I've tried taking the battery out and putting it back in. The phone would turn on by itself, but once it flashes the S3 logo, it would go black and the power button would become unresponsive. Sometimes it would keep vibrating. The only way I was able to keep it on long enough to re-flash/do a hard reset was if I took the battery out and left it overnight. But when I managed to re-flash/hard reset, the problem would come up again after a few hours. I was wondering what might be the cause of this. The first time it happened I was just streaming music, the second time it was just charging. I just got it back from warranty because of a loose power button and this problem was never there before. I was wondering what might be the cause of the problem and how I can go about remedying it. Thanks!

Sounds like the battery is failing. To be sure though, you said you can get it up and running for a few hours, right? That should be enough, but first make a nandroid backup. Then recharge, then do a full wipe and odin flash the stock firmware. (Only do this if you are certain it won't die during the flash.)
Are you on a stock rom now? If so and you're not sure enough to use odin, factory reset, including internal sd, and see if it continues.
If it does go to a Tmobile store and see if they'll let you test with a known good battery.
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DocHoliday77 said:
Sounds like the battery is failing. To be sure though, you said you can get it up and running for a few hours, right? That should be enough, but first make a nandroid backup. Then recharge, then do a full wipe and odin flash the stock firmware. (Only do this if you are certain it won't die during the flash.)
Are you on a stock rom now? If so and you're not sure enough to use odin, factory reset, including internal sd, and see if it continues.
If it does go to a Tmobile store and see if they'll let you test with a known good battery.
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I did a full wipe and odin flashed it with stock firmware after the first time it happened. I thought I was in the clear, but it happened again couple hours later. I've tried it with my spare battery but it does the same thing, it would turn on by itself, flash the S3 logo, then the screen would go black.

I'd take it to T-Mobile, let them see it happen do their thing, and ask them to note it on your account if they tell you to call support.
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