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Battery completely stopped charging? HELP please!

I am riding in a car right now and was tethering 3G to my laptop with the screen set to never turn off. I was watching HULU on my laptop. About 30 minutes later of tethering, I lost my internet connection on my laptop. I look at my Evo and the LED is blinking amber orange. I tried to turn it back on but it wouldn't turn on. I had the phone plugged into my computer charge only but I was wirelessly tethering because for some reason the USB tether wasn't working. I know it isn't a problem with the charger because I have my regular DC car charger right next to me and I still have the same problem. Is it possible that I completely killed the battery by tethering for so long and having the screen on the whole time?(battery was at about 25% when I first started tethering. Phone felt pretty hot as well.

What you just described is simply overheating. The phone will shut off to protect itself.
not here cuz i "justneedafile"

[Q] Sleep of Death on GN

Has anyone else experienced this on the GN?
I've had this happen twice in the two weeks since I got it.
The device is stock.
The only common thread I can think of is that in both instances I had plugged the phone into my PC via the USB cable.
I only use 3 sources to charge, my PC at home, laptop at work, or wall charge overnight.

Meh, it is the Nexus (tame dev device). The S was way more unstable. Just pull the battery and all is well.
If you want to be cutting edge then you have to take the rough with the smooth.
R
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Never happened to mine. You might have a buggy app that doesn't play well with ICS.

Thanks lads, I'm not massively concerned, and yes, it may well turn out to be a bad app, was just posting to find out if it was more "common".
I have of course just seen another thread in this same forum dealing with the same topic (funny that my post flagged up a bunch of other threads in unrelated forums), so this'll probably be closed down...
Think I'll go wade into that other thread now

I've had it twice since I got mine, wasn't plugged in both times so for me it's not down to charging.

mine reboots everytime i try to use the picture frame widget. i select the pic, then it reboots.

The day I got my phone, I had 2 SOD's.
This morning after I woke up, it was in a SOD and 2 minutes ago, the screen went off and I had to take the battery out.
Really strange
Someone have a solution?

I noticed this issue too, whether charging from the PC or the mains charger once the phone hit 100% on the battery it would turn off and could not be started without pulling the battery. I read somewhere that resetting the phone could cure this so, as much of a pain in the ass as that is, that is what I did. SO FAR this seems to have worked for me. I was charging the phone via the USB cable to the PC yesterday and no shut off and when I went to bed last night the phone was on charge all night and again when I woke this morning all seemed good. I'm not sure if this will work for everyone suffering this issue but it worked for me (for now) so thought I would share my experience.
Good luck !

This is so weird, hasn't happened to me since that day. I was able to reproduce the issue after reading another thread on battery saving. Someone mentioned limiting background processes to 3 in Developer Options, when I did this, my phone SODed within seconds. Twice!
Think I mentioned this elsewhere and someone said he used that option with no problems so it's clearly inconclusive. I'm just going to steer clear of that for now.
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Skysurfer69 said:
Has anyone else experienced this on the GN?
I've had this happen twice in the two weeks since I got it.
The device is stock.
The only common thread I can think of is that in both instances I had plugged the phone into my PC via the USB cable.
I only use 3 sources to charge, my PC at home, laptop at work, or wall charge overnight.
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This has happened to me a number of times, usually when I was multitasking while listening to the Google Music app. It's a good thing that back cover is easy to pull off and put back on.

[Q] Strange charging problems/MTU data Doesn't work

Ok here's the rundown:
Found out about the fast charging feature of Franco's kernel.
Flashed Winner's build onto my phone.
Flashed Franco's Milestone 2 build
Purchased/played around with multiple fast charge togglers. Decided to just let Tasker do it when the phone went into car mode.
Tasker did a good job of turning on fast charge but was sloppy in turning it off.
Several days later while playing GTA I had to plug it into my computer, fast charge was on. Shortly afterwords my niece and daughter get into a fight and I put my phone down, break up the fight and take my daughter outside to calm her down (She's 14 months) forgetting about the phone.
Phone sits on the computer's USB for about an hour maybe hour and a half.
Come back, it's at about 86% realize fast charge is on and turn it off.
That night the phone won't charge.
Now, here's what I have figured out.
Phone will charge in a powered-off state.
Phone will usually charge after a battery pull.
Phone will not connect to Windows 7 machines or XP machines except to charge when off or after a battery pull. (Device not recognized, latest Samsung drivers installed)
Phone will not connect in recovery mode.
When the phone does not charge it does maintain the current battery level unless I'm using up more battery than it can replenish.
Flashing multiple roms doesn't work.
Re-flashing Franco's kernel doesn't work.
Manually entering fast-charge commands doesn't work.
Oh and when I say it doesn't charge that is on either AC or USB.
I'd send this thing back to Verizon but I can't stock and lock it.

I would guess there are at least 20 threads here with this exact issue.

Yea, sorry about that. I did look around but besides 1 or 2 threads of people doing the usual rom swapping and just going out to get a new phone. I just wanted to start a thread for real diagnostics of this problem.
Oh yea, I also found the phone while plugged in will maintain the charge on the battery but will not actually charge the battery. Next time I'm in the car I'm going to see if the charge script will enable fast charge (Maintain) off of a USB connection.

This is the real thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1427539

I did read that thread, I don't think that is the same problem I'm having. I actually had that issue before (Shorted contacts) and had my previous Gnex warrantied.
To tell you the truth this will be the last samasung phone I'm ever going to get. Samsung is great on glitz but short on substance. My previous i760 was the same story. Fantastic out of the box but once it was 4 months old it was a royal pile of junk. It's pretty bad when you send the things into warranty enough to where the call center people get to know you by your voice. We currently have 4 of these things in the enterprise I have had to call in on them 6 times already.
Edit: well **** on a stick, it is related. Good I can continue ranting on the absence of the 3 pin dock(s) with more vigor than before. Now off to Ebay to find a replacement charge board.

I know, Samsung has not handled this problem well. I have read threads where they claim water damage on this exact issue, and refuse to fix the problem under warranty. After so many issues with it, they REALLY should have fixed it under warranty.
After having this issue twice, and after replacing my USB charging board twice I know that you have the same issue in the sense that it is the USB charging board that it failing.
You really should star/comment here if you have not: http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=23789

[Q] Charging goes on and off, Software to blame?

Read on... before you just see the post and start flaming.
Been having a helluva trouble with my Galaxy Note II since a month now.
It all started a day in April when I was on a weekend break and my charger just stopped working. Not the charger, but the charger port. I even tried a few other chargers and none of them worked, whereas my charger worked on other phones.
So after the weekend without a phone I come back home and read some posts on XDA about moisture in the USB port. I blow dry the port with the hair dryer and things start working again. After a couple of days of flawless working, again the problem comes up. But it is nothing that a few 'frustrating' 20 minutes of fidgeting will not solve and so goes life.
There have been a few days where it has gotten so annoying that the phone simply wont charge no matter what I do and which angle I place the phone (yoga for phones, anyone?). The phone has even switched off completely at times. Yesterday was one of those days when it simply wouldn't charge.
So again I spend a lot of time on XDA and Google and what makes consensus is that there is moisture in the USB port, or there is something wrong (loose connection) with the USB port and it needs repair.
Few facts before we get to that, and my point about this being a software problem.
1. The charger, when it works, works flawlessly irrespective of whether it is on the table or hanging by the charger from the power outlet. I expect that in case there is a loose connection, the position becomes very delicate.
2. The charger, when it works after moving the wire around for a while, keeps disconnecting occasionally even though it has been placed on a stable table surface and no one is disturbing the table. After some seconds, it connects back automatically and begins charging.
2. The phone works without any problem whatsoever when I plug it into the Samsung car charger - never once do I remember it not working
Now here are my findings from yesterday after I almost broke the phone in frustration.
1. On a whim, I decided to do a factory reset of my device. After fidgeting with the phone for 4-5 hours and it not charging, it magically started charging after the factory reset.
2. After the reset and a 1 hour charge, I updated all the default software on the phone - including 1 samsung update, 1 allshare update, and 1 push service update. Within a few minutes of this update, the charger started showing the 'loose connection' problems again. I also noticed that at times the phone screen would switch on for no reason - for only 2-3 seconds.
3. Again I reset the phone, and force stopped some samsung services and disabled as many samsung services as I could and I could notice consistent charging.
I subsequently installed some apps (not going full out as I want to observe the behaviour) and occasionally the charging stops. I then go into the application manager and shut down some samsung services and more often than not the charging starts working.
After all this circus, I believe there is something wrong with the Samsung services, the phone device drivers, or the MTP service. It does something when it detects a cable being inserted and causes a malfunction of the phone. This is what it looks like to me.
In fact the same problem happens when I plug in the phone to the PC too. The connection keeps breaking and the phone is just not usable from the PC. However the interesting thing is that when the USB / MTP breaks, the charge is still working and the orange light is glowing.
So, finally the XDA relevant question. Can you guys help me find out if it really is a software problem or just some strange co-incidence? Are there any traces that I can pull out to see which app/service is causing the problem? There are many apps/services that I would like to disable, but they are greyed out - is there anything that I can do about them?
Mind you that my phone is not rooted - so all the usually available apps might not work for me. I use the phone as a corporate device and I can't violate rules by rooting the phone.
Any tips, suggestions, ideas, flames?

Hi I'm having the exact same symptoms as you I wondering if you got to the bottom of the problem? Many thanks
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My wife has same problem with her note 2 since yesterday. I'll test and share the result.
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Are you sure it's not the cable? Because many stock cables tend to be crappy, just try another one if you haven't. It doesn't have to be just loose connection.
Works here fine without issues, so doubt it's software. I rooted mine almost immediately, so can't say much about that though.

Ive tried 3 different cables and every time I plug one in s voice launches lol
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Could be a problem with newer Samsung phones and their construction. I have a friend who has a Galaxy S3 (not Note 2) who's gone through FOUR phones so far -- all of them with the same problem of the charging port dying after a while. T-Mobile's insurance company is starting to give him dirty looks, poor guy ...
He gets intermittent charging before the phone stops charging completely. Now his phone is hooked up to the charger constantly while he's at home because of battery issues, so it's possible he's putting excessive strain on the charging port. My thinking is that it's a hardware issue rather than software, but who knows with these things.
mudge

my friend's note 2 having quite similar problem, every time plug in the cable, the phone start charging after some minutes. not the problem of cable, i tested the cable and charger with my phone. Plan to send it to service center.
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Exact same problem for N7100 (international version)
I have been facing the exact problem described above. The service center has blamed water logging to be the issue. But seriously doubt it since the port seems to be working fine when it really functions. Also i noticed that when i restart my phone few times it starts to work fine(without me touching the charger cable or the charger itself). I guess its a lot to do with the software than the hardware

note 2 Gt-n7105 bootloops, with charger doesnt boot loop
Hi,
My note 2 seems to work perfectly fine when i connect my charger. But when I disconnect the charger when its full charge it turns off.
When I turn the phone on without the charger it comes on the screen where it shows the "samsung galaxy note 2 gt-n7105" its begins to boot loop.
Can someone please give me some solutions.

Has anyone ever solve this? I have the same on my S4....

I too have the exact problem of phone getting connected and then disconnected automatically in few minutes.

I fixed mine with the same issue

Power usage
Hi,
I first saw this when I was using my sat nav app in the car, I turned off the Performance optimised when plugged in option in favour of a lower power option and the problem went away. As I get more applications on my phone I see this more and more.
Could this be the power usage of the phone? The charge will supply 500ma, if the phone is already using a good portion of that the battery will not charge, so the phone shows the charge intermittently as the phone uses slightly more and slightly less power when the cpu, etc wakes and sleeps. More apps running uses more time on the cpu so more power. And of course as the battery gets older this would display itself more.
Just an idea based on what I've seen...

My Note 5 just started doing this, and only on the car charger using the Adaptive Fast Charge port. Charges for 2 seconds, off for 2 seconds, charges for 2 seconds. Using the normal port it charges fine, just slower. I have the Adaptive Fast Charge adapter at home and in the car, it works fine at home.

usb A3 usb issues
for mine it is intermittently not being recognised in file manager and also charging and then not charging round and round making beeping noises. This started when I dropped it partially in a bowl of oxtail soup. At the time it wouldn't recognise any cable at all. After I cleaned it with a cotton wool bud it was working again for ages but every now and then it wouldn't be explorable in windows. Now its acting up again, very difficult to get it to detect in windows, it starts charging when I plug in the cable but not in file explorer.
It's a real pain because its a samsung a3 which is difficult to open. I think really I will have to get it repaired - opened up and cleaned inside properly or have the usb port replaced.
I've watched many videos about mtp drivers and cleaning and bending the usb port a bit etc etc for many of you I think cleaning the port and/or bending the usb tab a bit would help, good luck.

Stop posting your damn problems so some one can answer it. Jesus look at the posts and see if there is an answer.l cuz you asking makes no difference because u have to scroll to the bottom to see an answer any ways. So just w8. Also ya it's software thing.... Samsung kinda sucks but what the hay I love them anyway even tho thay, including the expencive ones, are crap

Charging while tethering?

Hey, has anybody tethered with this phone (specifically PDANet in my case) and noticed it loses battery? In my experience I've had phones that either gain charge or stay equal, but first time I've seen it lose.

gpgorbosjr said:
Hey, has anybody tethered with this phone (specifically PDANet in my case) and noticed it loses battery? In my experience I've had phones that either gain charge or stay equal, but first time I've seen it lose.
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how are you getting pda net to work. mine wont with verizon, And yes i was loosing the charge just syncing all my accounts.

Pdanet works on tmobile. I noticed a slight loss.