I've noticed that software sometimes has issues with reporting unchanging battery levels, while the battery level drains to 0%.
My kindle did this on Alien JB or whatever it's called v2...
It's been on a charger for 2 days, the light is dim orange. If I try to start it, plugged in or not, it shows the "Kindle is charging low battery... please wait". It is definitely not doing anything. Am I SOL?
Don't use the charger to charge it in that state. Instead, use the USB.
http://www.amazon.com/forum/kindle?...Page=1&cdSort=newest&cdThread=Tx3NMXJO5FPUWI9 very interesting. it might not be loading beause of a loose usb port in your kindle.
It randomly turned on today while I was sitting at my computer... and it was at 27% battery...
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I let my phone's battery run out to zero. Then let it sit for a few days, I'm on vacation and I don't need my phone. Now, I am recharging my phone, but something strange happens. The phone is off, and the amber light shows that the battery is charging. After a few minutes, the phone turns itself on and the amber light goes off. The battery does not have enough juice to complete startup, and the phone dies halfway through boot. The battery then begins charging, phone turns on, etc. It's been doing this for several hours now. I can't turn the phone off while it's booting, as the OS to control the keys is not yet working. Any help, I've no idea!
5 minutes in charge should give you about 7-8% battery, enough to get it up and use it for 5 min or so. Sounds like you have a dead battery.
Hmm...doesn't seem possible, the phone is only 2 months old! I'll keep it connected and see what happens. Any idea why the phone turns itself on when not commanded? The problem isn't really the battery, the problem is that the phone won't stay off long enough to recharge fully.
Somebody else posted a thread with what sounds like the same problem -- just a few lines below yours. And devis posted the same answer there -- which sounds like the right answer.
If you have access to -- or go buy -- a new battery, that would be the thing to try.
I'm not a battery expert, but I think it's not a good idea to let the battery -- any Lithium battery -- go down to zero-dead. (That is, you should turn it off or charge it up when it drops below 10%-ish.) That could explain how a 2-month-old battery could die (if it is dead).
Assume you're trying to charge the phone with the AC-wall charger, not connected to the USB port on a computer?
If you can't turn off the phone to keep it from rebooting, I suggest you take out the battery, put it back in and let it charge for a few hours. I would just be careful to not accidentally turn on the phone. Hopefully this will bring your phone back. I read on another thread that if the battery drains completely, it may need to charge for a reasonable amount of time before you can boot it back up.
happens to me whenever i dont notice my battery draining to 0%..
it dies, and i try to turn it on.. turns on, then dies on boot.. plug in charger, and it goes through an endless cycle of turn on and die on boot.
take the battery out and put it back in, but don't push the power button. let it charge for 10-15 mins to let it get enough juice to boot all the way.. then continue charging it
This will also happen when the charger is not putting out enough power such as via usb cable. Make sure the phone is off and use an AC charger if you can.
For the archives, the problem was that the USB port on my computer went bad. I plugged it in to another computer and the phone charged normally. Now I have a broken USB to repair...on a laptop. Should be fun...
gromky said:
For the archives, the problem was that the USB port on my computer went bad. I plugged it in to another computer and the phone charged normally. Now I have a broken USB to repair...on a laptop. Should be fun...
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If you have the AC wall charger that works better anyway. Some USB ports of some laptops won't work at all -- not because they're broken but because they don't put out enough power -- by design.
Hi,
last night my Desire ran out of juice, and when i woke up it was empty.
So this morning i turned it on, entered my PIN and immediatly plugged it.
When i came back later, it was not running anymore. The LED isn't green as usual, and i can't turn it on.
It charges for several hours now, and nothing happen. I tried pulling of the battery, nothing at all.
I'm running Oxygen 2.0 RC7 (Android 2.3.2) for weeks without any problems.
tl;dr : phone not charging, no led at all. plz help.
Thx in advance for your answers !
EDIT : the phone rebooted without SIM and SD cards. Weird.
I just faced the same problem. I woke up to see the battery was compelety drained and the phone was off. I plug in the charger but the led doesn't turn on. How did you resolve this? How did you manage to reboot the device?
In my case, the phone was on with the charger plugged in but battery icon is red and empty. I reboot and clear battery stat in clockworkmod, reboot and all's well again...
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Well, in my case I had drained the battery completely. The phone neither would turn on nor would charge after the battery was drained overnight. I checked that there was about 3V in all cells of the battery.
In such case, pull out the battery and plug in your charger and you can see the led flash in all colors. This will make sure that the problem is with the drained battery and not the phone. Leave the charger plugged in for about 10-15 mins without the battery. Then put the battery back on and charge your phone, it should start charging and you will be able to see the red led. Now, let it charge till till your battery is fully charged.
i also have the problem that the phone want charge
when i insert the charger (with removed battery) sometimes the led starts flashing and sometimes it does not
at the first time i tried your method and waited for about 10 minutes
at next i inserted the battery but the phone didnt start to charge and now the led want start flashing when i connect it to the charger
ME Too1!!!!
pointia said:
i also have the problem that the phone want charge
when i insert the charger (with removed battery) sometimes the led starts flashing and sometimes it does not
at the first time i tried your method and waited for about 10 minutes
at next i inserted the battery but the phone didnt start to charge and now the led want start flashing when i connect it to the charger
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Please HELP !!! Tryed other bats and chargers, no led, no charging, it't 0% charging non stop!(i charged battery in other phone!)
Any solutions to cp6ija's problem?
This morning had same problem myself. HTC Desire plugged into mains charger overnight, but this morning discovered hadn't actually been charging and battery low although phone working. Now battery drained and cant get charging led to flash whether plugged into mains charger or PC via USB. Tried different USB leads and temporary battery removal as well as charging withour batter. LED resolutely dead
As per sod's law, phone out of warranty a few months back.
Help!
Ok, I have spent all morning searching the forums but can't find this specific problem. Here is what I have.
Running - Android 4.0.4
Kernel - 3.0.21+
Build - IMM76I
Mod Version - aokp_otter_build-36
My fire has been doing great until yesterday. I charged it over night Monday night. Tuesday morning battery was 100%. Around 2pm, my son calls me to tell me the battery has dropped to zero. (Problem 1 - Battery dropped to zero extremely fast with very little use).
This created a huge problem. Now that the battery is Zero, the Fire will not charge. I am using the stock charger. As soon as I plug in the stock charger, the Fire turns on and boots up like normal. I charged all night and nothing. As soon as I unplug the charger, the fire dies. When I plug in the charger, it boots right up but will not charge.
HELP! What can I do?
Sounds to me that the battery has gone bad. Contact Amazon for a replacement device.
wkufan92 said:
Ok, I have spent all morning searching the forums but can't find this specific problem. Here is what I have.
Running - Android 4.0.4
Kernel - 3.0.21+
Build - IMM76I
Mod Version - aokp_otter_build-36
My fire has been doing great until yesterday. I charged it over night Monday night. Tuesday morning battery was 100%. Around 2pm, my son calls me to tell me the battery has dropped to zero. (Problem 1 - Battery dropped to zero extremely fast with very little use).
This created a huge problem. Now that the battery is Zero, the Fire will not charge. I am using the stock charger. As soon as I plug in the stock charger, the Fire turns on and boots up like normal. I charged all night and nothing. As soon as I unplug the charger, the fire dies. When I plug in the charger, it boots right up but will not charge.
HELP! What can I do?
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With the charger plugged in reboot into recovery and charge it there. Some of the older roms had charging problems. It should charge in recovery just fine.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1623244
CM9 currently eats up a lot of battery power (compared to CM7) even when it's sitting idle. Hopefully this will be improved with continued kernel development. You might also have some app that is constantly using up resources on your device. You might want to look into that when you get your battery charged again.
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inspired55 said:
With the charger plugged in reboot into recovery and charge it there. Some of the older roms had charging problems. It should charge in recovery just fine.
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I believe I am charging in recovery mode. I have TWRP at the top with 8 boxes. I do not see the battery level any where on the screen. How can I know if it is charging? In fact, I found this screen shot online. My screen looks like this but DOES NOT HAVE THE WORDS BATTERY %. This makes me think, the Fire isn't recognizing the battery and probably isn't charging in Recovery Mode.
http://deviceguru.com/files/kf-twrp-01.jpg
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I believe I am charging in recovery mode. I have TWRP at the top with 8 boxes. I do not see the battery level any where on the screen. How can I know if it is charging? In fact, I found this screen shot online. My screen looks like this but DOES NOT HAVE THE WORDS BATTERY %. This makes me think, the Fire isn't recognizing the battery and probably isn't charging in Recovery Mode.
http://deviceguru.com/files/kf-twrp-01.jpg
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bad battery????? see post 2
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josepho1997 said:
When your plug in your charger, do a hard reset on your kindle and let it charge in that mode. So start charging it and then hold power button for about 15 seconds.
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I tried what you suggested. I plugged in my charger, did a reset on the Kindle and let it charge for 3 hours. Powered back on after 3 hours, battery still shows ZERO.
Are you sure it's getting charging current and ID signal? Something seems to have gone wrong with my charging plug/socket (still debugging). But when I plug it in, I have to wiggle the plug all around to find the point where it will charge. I think the socket has detached from the board inside. In any event, when I find that sweet spot it boots and shows the green charging line in the battery icon, but then always loses connection after a little while and dies.
But for you, if it's powering up when you plug it in, you don't have a plug/socket problem like I do. It sounds like from the missing battery line on the debug screen you may have a bad battery. LiIon batteries are occasionally bad, and the main failure mode that I see is that they seem to work with light discharges and recharges, but with a deep discharge then they lose capacity, either dropping to 1/2 or 1/4 capacity or dying completely.
With any LiIon powered device or replacement battery, I would take it through a full cycle at least once early in its life to shake out a marginal cell. A good cell should maintain or slightly increase its capacity. A bad cell should will lose a significant amount of capacity or die outright.
- The Inspector
inspectorgadget, did you solve your socket problem as my first generation fire has now developed the same symptoms
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inspectorgadget, did you solve your socket problem as my first generation fire has now developed the same symptoms
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Yes, it turned out that the micro-usb connector had completely broken off the PCB inside. (This also happened to me with a backup hard drive and its mini-usb connector). These things use surface-mount connectors and they're not very rugged. Repeated significant stress on the charging plug (which sticks out as a lever arm and can develop considerable torque) can weaken the solder connections and/or lift the PCB traces.
I exchanged mine through Amazon under warranty. They sent out a hot-swap replacement. They first sent me a replacement charger to see if that was the problem.
I looked back over this thread. The biggest problem with the Kindle Fire is that it doesn't show charging status when turned off. Best bet is to turn it on (if you still have ANY battery power) and see if the orange light goes on and stays on when your charger is plugged in. If it does turn on, but doesn't light the charge light orange, and you try alternate chargers and if none of them turn on the orange charging light, then your connector is broken (if the plug wiggles around -- it should be snug and rigid) or maybe the charging circuit is bad (if the connector feels tight). For no charging at all, it's unlikely to be a battery problem -- we rarely see TOTAL LiIon failures. The usual LiIon failure mode is that it'll appear to charge up, maybe not reaching full terminal voltage (never finishing charge), and then discharging very quickly.
hi which rom doesn't have charging problems?
none have charging problems. are you experiencing problems? what ROM are you running?
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wkufan92 said:
Ok, I have spent all morning searching the forums but can't find this specific problem. Here is what I have.
Running - Android 4.0.4
Kernel - 3.0.21+
Build - IMM76I
Mod Version - aokp_otter_build-36
My fire has been doing great until yesterday. I charged it over night Monday night. Tuesday morning battery was 100%. Around 2pm, my son calls me to tell me the battery has dropped to zero. (Problem 1 - Battery dropped to zero extremely fast with very little use).
This created a huge problem. Now that the battery is Zero, the Fire will not charge. I am using the stock charger. As soon as I plug in the stock charger, the Fire turns on and boots up like normal. I charged all night and nothing. As soon as I unplug the charger, the fire dies. When I plug in the charger, it boots right up but will not charge.
HELP! What can I do?
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I have same problem as this, tried all the steps being mentioned here on the thread still not working. Anyone has more ideas?
Connect to wall charger, after kindle boots, hold power button till it Powers off, leave on charger over night
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loose battery connector
hi there,
I had the same issue: When connected to AC, the KF was booting but not charging and no battery level was showing. It turned out that the battery connector (the one from battery to the PCB) became loose. I glued the connector together and everything was fine again... hope that helps someone
Cheers
This happens all the time when my kindle fire uses all of the its battery. I tried three different methods of charging it and neither worked. If I plug it in it shows the twrp logo (the fire one) then shuts off about a half second later, and repeats. The battery can't be dead, can it?
Also make sure the power LED lights up when you plug it in.
It MAY be a bad USB connector on the Fire as this happened to my last one, so I had to return it to Amazon for a replacement.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1623244
Even when it's on it just doesn't charge, even when the charging light is on.
Use smirkit scripts to update your bootloader to 1.4a then charge on your computer starting from an off position via usb high level charging will bypass the charge but low level will not http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1500935 charge for a few hours after replacing your bootloader
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Use smirkit scripts to update your bootloader to 1.4a then charge on your computer starting from an off position via usb high level charging will bypass the charge but low level will not http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1500935 charge for a few hours after replacing your bootloader
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I can't do that if I can't even get into the android os. I left it plugged in for a week, and now when you plug it in, it rapidly turns on and off. Might as well throw the thing out and get the google nexus tablet.
SpudsterZ said:
Also make sure the power LED lights up when you plug it in.
It MAY be a bad USB connector on the Fire as this happened to my last one, so I had to return it to Amazon for a replacement.
Sorry, I'm really new at this...
I don't know if it has anything to do with it, but ever since I re-installed the stock rom my KF just charges for a few minutes and then it stops. What I mean is the orange light is still on but the battery on the screen is not green anymore (like when it's charging). I tried everything already.
Is it a software or hardware issue?
If it's a hardware problem and I had rooted the KF and then installed the stock rom I can still return it?
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I installed a Jelly Bean rom on my Kindle about a month ago, and it has ran and charged fine up until last week. Last week I plugged in my Kindle to my charger before I went to bed, and when I woke up the Kindle was not charged. I did have some success charging it by tilting the cable upwards, which caused the light to turn on, but now that method doesn't work.Since then I have tried numerous times to get it to charge, but when I plug the cable into the Kindle I no longer get the orange light that tells you it is charging, and my Kindle doesn't gain any charge. And to top it all off, my Kindle ran out of battery yesterday. I am confident the custom rom isn't the problem, and I'm sure the cable/charger isn't the problem either (I can still charge my smartphone with them). Any suggestions or advice would be greatly appreciated.
Plug in your computer's USB cable, boot into recovery and perform a hard shutdown. Leave it alone for about half a day and check on it. If it still doesn't charge, it's likely the USB connection on the Kindle's motherboard is broken or loose.