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evo not charging but the light is on..

so today i noticed my evo was running out of battery and i plugged it in my laptop with my usb cord and in charge only method about an hour later i checked my current widget and noticed it said that it wasnt charging and battery was almost dead but the orange charging led was on..
how can i fix this??..

alexdogg said:
so today i noticed my evo was running out of battery and i plugged it in my laptop with my usb cord and in charge only method about an hour later i checked my current widget and noticed it said that it wasnt charging and battery was almost dead but the orange charging led was on..
how can i fix this??..
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Does it charge on the wall okay? I would try a different kernel out, see if that remedies it. If not, I would be suspicious of a damaged/faulty USB cable(they do/can go bad), or a faulty battery. Have you tried clearing your battery stats yet? I would do that, as well.
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I'm guessing battery too, sprint should have a machine to check it by the way...
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It's happened to me a few times. Sometimes the cable wiggles or something I guess.
I just unplug and replug and its fine.
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alexdogg said:
noticed it said that it wasnt charging and battery was almost dead but the orange charging led was on..
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I've had this happen consistently over the past few weeks, only with my car dock though. It charges fine both in my dock at work and on the standard charger at home. I'm using a Seidio dock, and I've done multiple things to find the issue. Both my wife and I have EVO 4g's with Seidio car docks. I swapped my dock for hers, no change. I swapped out the charging cable, no change. I used a different charger, no change. I tried my normal setup on my wife's phone, no change.
I don't know what else to do to figure the issue out. I have ordered a new charger that supplies 2.1A, as I've read that a low charger output could be the issue.
I am confused, as this combination has worked fine for about 8 months now. Why all of a sudden is it no longer charging properly? The battery could be the issue, as I know that the chemistry changes over time, but I'd like to know for certain before swapping out the battery.
I'd love to hear from others who are having the same issue.

Seidio Dock issue?
I've seen a few other posts with the same problem. Particularly this one: Post #1175
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=16499063&postcount=1175
The one thing that is similar is that he is using the same car dock as I am, the Seidio dock.
I've been playing with this a bit, and have managed to isolate it to the Kernel. I flashed back to MikFroyo and the problem disappeared. It charged perfectly fine.
In Gingerbread (MikG 2.42), with both the stock Kernel and the Freedom Kernel, the phone won't charge properly in the dock. I've been keeping an eye on it with Battery Monitor Widget. Here are the results:
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While I am driving, the kernel is showing a 100% full battery, however, it is discharging instead of going into the float mode. As soon as the phone is removed from the dock, it goes from 100% down to 80%. When I put it onto a desk charger, it charges fine with a normal float charge. If I remove the cord from the Seidio dock and plug it into the phone (with a mini -> micro USB adapter), it will charge normally and go into float mode.
Something was changed in the GB Kernel update that affected this behavior. Unfortunately, I'm not a programmer to get that deep to find out where the problem is.
Is there any help possible from anyone???

This always happens to me on AOSP roms. If you happen to be on an AOSP rom, just plug the charger back in then take it out.

Andr3wD said:
This always happens to me on AOSP roms. If you happen to be on an AOSP rom, just plug the charger back in then take it out.
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I've tried that previously with no luck. I'm using a Sense ROM, currently MikG 2.42, but I had the same issue with the stock GB ROM.
Thanks for the suggestion.

phone won't charge, but will connect to pc

i tried wall charger, usb 2.0 and 3.0 ports. everytime i plug in it will show charging for like 3 seconds then stop. i can connect to pc and share storage just fine however.
when i turn off the device and charge, it shows me this
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anyone know what that sign means?

I think that's the international symbol for broke ass battery.
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RTFOP said:
I think that's the international symbol for broke ass battery.
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rofl, thanks, it is 100% just the battery right? guess time to buy another.

You might wanna try a different charging cable/usb wire. I had a USB cable go bad and it would mount the phone but it wouldn't charge it. Then I would check the charger itself, then consider a battery issue
Process of elimination

mrgodai said:
rofl, thanks, it is 100% just the battery right? guess time to buy another.
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Most likely. While it's not a bad idea to keep trying other chargers, I've never had a bad charger show a battery warning like that. Looks to me like the device isn't connecting to it, so it's either a bad battery or a bad connection in the phone.
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rlee008 said:
You might wanna try a different charging cable/usb wire. I had a USB cable go bad and it would mount the phone but it wouldn't charge it. Then I would check the charger itself, then consider a battery issue
Process of elimination
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i have cables and chargers from motorola, samsung and htc, all of them gave me the same thing. Galaxy S3 on the other hand works fine with all those cables and chargers

mrgodai said:
i have cables and chargers from motorola, samsung and htc, all of them gave me the same thing. Galaxy S3 on the other hand works fine with all those cables and chargers
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Look at your actual USB plugin on the phone. I just sent mine in to samsung for repair because some of the metal contacts on the USB plugin itself got bent up and back into the phone so they would not make contact to the USB cable anymore. I think that certain contacts control data while others control charging.
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I had the opposite of what happened to you, phone would charge but not connect to PC. I cleaned out my USB hub and pushed around the pins inside with a very, very small precision flathead screwdriver. What do you know, it started working all of a sudden!
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what in the blue hell is going on? (battery charge sucks)

so i tried charging my phone in different outlets, using my other family's charger, different cables, everything.
as of like 15 days ago or something, the charging is extremely slow (like it will take 8 hrs to COMPLETELY charge)
look at the graphs.
what in the world is going on here??? sometimes juiceplotter tells me that my wi-fi is on during the charging (which it shouldnt be since juice defender is supposed to turn it off when screen is off, but EVEN if it was on 100% of the time, the charging should NOT take that long)
but in most cases, the wifi is actually off so wtf is going on?
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thegame2388 said:
so i tried charging my phone in different outlets, using my other family's charger, different cables, everything.
as of like 15 days ago or something, the charging is extremely slow (like it will take 8 hrs to COMPLETELY charge)
look at the graphs.
what in the world is going on here??? sometimes juiceplotter tells me that my wi-fi is on during the charging (which it shouldnt be since juice defender is supposed to turn it off when screen is off, but EVEN if it was on 100% of the time, the charging should NOT take that long)
but in most cases, the wifi is actually off so wtf is going on?
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i think its the stock charger
I got some retractable charger from radio shack and it charges my phone twice as fast

yeah but this problem persists no matter what charger i use...and this has only happened as of a week ago.
the only key point worth noting is that im on the leaked kelly bean LT7 ROM

bump?

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thegame2388 said:
so i tried charging my phone in different outlets, using my other family's charger, different cables, everything.
as of like 15 days ago or something, the charging is extremely slow (like it will take 8 hrs to COMPLETELY charge)
look at the graphs.
what in the world is going on here??? sometimes juiceplotter tells me that my wi-fi is on during the charging (which it shouldnt be since juice defender is supposed to turn it off when screen is off, but EVEN if it was on 100% of the time, the charging should NOT take that long)
but in most cases, the wifi is actually off so wtf is going on?
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Not sure what this issue is or what causes it but I experienced it when I flashed the jb leak that came right before the OTA jb one but I let my phone die and recharged it fully went to work & came home and it was gone... and my phone seemed to charge a tad faster
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FLBoy1991 said:
Not sure what this issue is or what causes it but I experienced it when I flashed the jb leak that came right before the OTA jb one but I let my phone die and recharged it fully went to work & came home and it was gone... and my phone seemed to charge a tad faster
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i have the JB leak from a few weeks ago but now i want the OTA JB....how do i do this without messing up my phone?

thegame2388 said:
i have the JB leak from a few weeks ago but now i want the OTA JB....how do i do this without messing up my phone?
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Odin back to the LEN build & just reaccept all the OTA.. I did that this a.m.& been running it all day
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okay i did that. the problem still persists....this is ridic. it takes like 11 hrs to fully charge!!!

Maybe it is your battery. Did you try a new one?

eyecon82 said:
Maybe it is your battery. Did you try a new one?
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ive only had this phone since june....

thegame2388 said:
ive only had this phone since june....
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It could still be defective though
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It's not your charger that's fine but a better charger that put out more power than the stock charger.stock charger suck, I went to Wal-Mart and bought a charger that put out three times the stock battery output and it takes me less than a hour to fully charge it works my stock charger is not used at all. I had the same problem until I searched around. Hope that helps. It helped me and others you will be amazed at how fast it charge.
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It's not your charger that's fine but a better charger that put out more power than the stock charger.stock charger suck, I went to Wal-Mart and bought a charger that put out three times the stock battery output and it takes me less than a hour to fully charge it works my stock charger is not used at all. I had the same problem until I searched around. Hope that helps. It helped me and others you will be amazed at how fast it charge.
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Yep. The stock charger sucks. I got one area radio shack and i can also charge mine from 0-100 in 1.5 hours.
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I use my stock charger at night when I don't care how long it takes to charge (it takes a ridiculous ~8hrs to charge). When I need a quick boost I use my old HTC charger and HTC cable. I think the output amps is higher but it seriously only takes an hour to fully charge my S III.

My Battery Won't Charge @ All

So Yesterday I put my phone on the charger and noticed after 2 hours it stayed at 5%. And though just to restart the device, however that didn't work. So at 3 am in the morning I turned it off and threw it on the charger over night woke up to find its at 1% as I type this now.
Is it my battery that's done for or my Note 3 HW?
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XxLostSoulxX said:
So Yesterday I put my phone on the charger and noticed after 2 hours it stayed at 5%. And though just to restart the device, however that didn't work. So at 3 am in the morning I turned it off and threw it on the charger over night woke up to find its at 1% as I type this now.
Is it my battery that's done for or my Note 3 HW?
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try new cable and charger base. If neither work, call for replacement.

Or get a new battery save yourself the time you'll have to wait to get another.

It's probably the usb cable, mine went out a month ago, same thing happened to me it wouldn't charge tried another cable battery charged without any issues. So more than likely the cable is bad.
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Well I ordered two new anker batteries along with the external charger, and that but that's my problem nothing wrong with a charger or USB cable. My battery just simply would not charge it could not hold one anymore, I literally put it on the charger the entire night and the phone stayed at 5 percent and then as soon as I started do anything on my phone it literally shut my phone off while on the charger during a text message.
I guess it just died.
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This same thing pretty much happened to me. Actually exactly the same thing... including the extra Anker batteries and charger as well as testing different cords. I ended up ordering a wireless charging kit, and now all is well. I've been using it with one of the Anker batteries. I ordered the Koolpad charger and the white slim wireless chip off of Amazon. It charges through my Seidio case, and I put velcro onto the charger and the back of the case so that I could easily use it while charging. The wireless charging kit cost about $40 on Amazon (I imagine pretty close to what a new official Sammy charger and cable would cost) and the Koolpad charger came with a black and a white micro USB (not USB 3 but still...) port cover, which I thought was a nice touch.
No guarantee that this would work for you, of course, but it did for me fortunately. If it didn't I would have taken it back to the store (after re-flashing the stock ROM, which may have solved the problem on it's own). Oh yeah, not really sure if this is actually related / possible but I did theorize that the problem may have been kernel related. I had actually been following the wireless charging thread anyways, but if I wasn't already considering spending money on that, the first thing I would have tried would have been a clean install of everything. I was testing out different kernels with Tweaked ROM and the problem started around a new kernel flash, but really can't say if that's related because I was unimpressed with that kernel overall and flashed one that ran better on my phone around the time that the wireless charger showed up (got one day shipping w/ Amazon Prime because shutting down my phone to rotate batteries got old quick, as I'm sure you'll agree). Anyways, good luck. There's lots of good info in that wireless charging thread, if you decide to go that route.

My LG G3 is Charging at almost 20Amps. Good or Bad?

I just got the LG G3 a few days ago and its charging at a rate of over 18+ amps! (Over 18000+ mA). My phone was on 35% about 10 min ago. Now it is at 63%. This is the first time i checked the charge current for this phone. My previous phone was a galaxy s3 and it averaged a charge current of 0.8-1.1 amps. I am not sure if this is a good or bad thing. My phones temp doesnt seem hot, also its charging incredibly fast. If anyone has had this happen please reply. I know this is not normal. I took a screenshot of the charge monitor. The app i used. To test the currents was "Battery Monitor Widget". In the picture you will see a red circle with a arrow pointed to it. That is the time when i took the charger off and replaced it with my other adapter but kept using the same cable.
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Grizzie said:
I just got the LG G3 a few days ago and its charging at a rate of over 18+ amps! (Over 18000+ mA). My phone was on 35% about 10 min ago. Now it is at 63%. This is the first time i checked the charge current for this phone. My previous phone was a galaxy s3 and it averaged a charge current of 0.8-1.1 amps. I am not sure if this is a good or bad thing. My phones temp doesnt seem hot, also its charging incredibly fast. If anyone has had this happen please reply. I know this is not normal. I took a screenshot of the charge monitor. The app i used. To test the currents was "Battery Monitor Widget". In the picture you will see a red circle with a arrow pointed to it. That is the time when i took the charger off and replaced it with my other adapter but kept using the same cable.
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That is wicked, though it had me scared! I tested wireless charging (I bought an insert for the back from AliExpress.com to make it Qi compatible) and also tested from the power adapter given to me with the phone. Below the yellow line is wireless charging and above is with the stock power cable. Notice that they are 0.5mAh different, but the mV is the same, so they charge about the same. Interesting! I'll have to test this further.
Cheers for posting this!

This could be why I burnt through a series of chargers a few weeks ago.....

Ok so I am now using the standard charger that i get up to 1800mA with. I gotta say though my charger that i modified charged my phone lightning fast with no heating issues as well or damaging of the battery. Unfortunately the modified charger can only be used with the newer phones. I had it tested with the galaxy s4, galaxy s5, and the htc one m8. But the only newer phone that didnt work with was the one plus one. The LG G3 definitely had the highest amp charge out of all of the phones. I will be doing more tests soon. But just to be safe i will be using my normal charger while i am away from the phone or when im sleeping. Here is the screenshot of the current charge with the stock charger.
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Here is the testing results with the htc one m8.
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Highly doubt that app is reporting accurately.

Omg can believe you guys are missing the mA flow ... +5197mA (+199.88%) per hour
These aren't output from your power adapter, it's a tally of how many mA have been recorded. Also from looking at your notification bar you have two blue tooth devices one of which isn't fully charged. There's a good chance this app doesn't account for that.

If you are using the standard charger, you can get 9 watts from it. No more. Given the voltage of the battery of 4v, there's little reason to think you could really be charging more than about 2200mA actual current into device, probably less due losses. For the the a 3000mAh battery, this means about 75 minutes to charge. I think the app is reporting something else or we are miss interpreting the data.
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