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[Q] Epic doesnt go into charging mode

My EPIC 4G started acting up recently which wasnt a problem until now.
When i plug it in to charge while its off it turns itself on and boots up.
Before i used to turn it off and charge b/c it always charged faster but now i have a new battery that i was training. Somehow it drained the battery all the way down so when i go and charge it, it boots up. The problem is that there isn't enough battery to power my epic before it runs out so it never makes it through the whole boot up process.
now if i could get it so it went into charge mode i wouldn't have the problem anymore.
i checked in all the settings and i couldn't find an option for it.
thanks for the help
pete

Let the battery charge with phone on for about 20 to 30 mins, then try it again. U might need to cycle the battery a couple times
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it won't even start...it just cycles over and over again
i had it plugged in and it restarted at least 6x before i gave up

podfreak said:
it won't even start...it just cycles over and over again
i had it plugged in and it restarted at least 6x before i gave up
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try plugging the charger into the phone with the battery off. see what it does. if it is only doing this with your new battery, there may be some kind of conflict with your new battery making the charging sensor think something odd.

Need more info
What rom?
×Marcusant

This happened to me on AOKP. ReOdin and repartition if you're up to it or on MTD. Flash your ROM again.

Nexus causing old and brand new batteries to drain while charging - Please Help!

So I have a CDMA Verizon Nexus running the latest version of Bugless Beast. It's been working great for a week now, but today it's had the craziest problems.
I forgot to charge it last night, woke up to a dead battery, so I plug it in the charger for an hour, but it stays at 0 percent. It never charges at all. Then I unplugged it, the phone dies, and it can't charge at all. I take it to a Verizon store, they swap it for a new extended battery, and it boots up the phone, showing it was a battery issue.
After I come home with the new battery inserted, I notice the battery is draining again even with the new one and it's charging again.
I tried to wipe it and recover it to stock so I can see if the issues are the same with stock settings, but of course, the battery died in the middle of it all.
Has anyone had issues like this? Thanks in advance!

Try a different charged are you using the stock charger and extent ion cords?
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Bfitz26 said:
Try a different charged are you using the stock charger and extent ion cords?
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Sorry, forgot to mention that I was using the stock charger and have tried other chargers for different phones laying around the house. When I took it to the Verizon store they also tried different chargers before replacing the battery, but it wouldn't turn on. Swapping it with a new battery worked temporarily, until it started to drain again even with it charging using the stock one.

Do the battery stats provide any useful info?

Petrovski80 said:
Do the battery stats provide any useful info?
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I unfortunately can't check them now because both batteries are spent and the phone won't charge them, but if it helps at all, I noticed that it would have the charging icon on the battery when plugged in, it would say "charging" on the lock screen, but when i would check the battery stats,it would go against all of that and say "discharging" instead.

Just for my understanding: the phone is off, you charge for a couple of hours, the phone does display the charge icon when you plug in a charger, but if you try to turn on the phone after a few hours of charging it's still dead?

Petrovski80 said:
Just for my understanding: the phone is off, you charge for a couple of hours, the phone does display the charge icon when you plug in a charger, but if you try to turn on the phone after a few hours of charging it's still dead?
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Almost all correct. When I say charge icon, I mean the one in the top right corner of the screen when it's actually on. I've never been able to get the black screen with a charging battery to show up at any point.
Say I have a battery that has about 35 percent juice left. The phone will be on, and I'll leave it in the charger. It will say its charging, I can operate the nexus just fine, but according to the battery stats in the settings, it's actually discharging while it's plugged in. Once it hits zero, that battery is useless.

MinusTheOh said:
Almost all correct. When I say charge icon, I mean the one in the top right corner of the screen when it's actually on. I've never been able to get the black screen with a charging battery to show up at any point.
Say I have a battery that has about 35 percent juice left. The phone will be on, and I'll leave it in the charger. It will say its charging, I can operate the nexus just fine, but according to the battery stats in the settings, it's actually discharging while it's plugged in. Once it hits zero, that battery is useless.
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And you also cannot charge the phone when it's off?

Petrovski80 said:
And you also cannot charge the phone when it's off?
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Correct.

In that case, I doubt there's anything we (you) can do. I'd return it to the store.

Petrovski80 said:
In that case, I doubt there's anything we (you) can do. I'd return it to the store.
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That's what I was guessing as well. My only problem is that since it's rooted, the warranty is voided, so I can't get a replacement phone. I had come so close to bringing it back to stock and unrooting it with its last bit of battery, but it died right in the middle of it attempting to re lock the bootloader.
At this point I think I only have a few options...
1.) Buying another battery from Verizon so I have some juice for the Nexus to finish up the bootloader issue mentioned above, bringing it back to stock, then bringing the phone in to replace it.
2.) Just say I lost it and hope for the best that they'll give me a replacement one. I bought it off contract from a third party vendor which probably won't help my case, but I am insured by Verizon on the phone, so it may just work.

MinusTheOh said:
That's what I was guessing as well. My only problem is that since it's rooted, the warranty is voided, so I can't get a replacement phone. I had come so close to bringing it back to stock and unrooting it with its last bit of battery, but it died right in the middle of it attempting to re lock the bootloader.
At this point I think I only have a few options...
1.) Buying another battery from Verizon so I have some juice for the Nexus to finish up the bootloader issue mentioned above, bringing it back to stock, then bringing the phone in to replace it.
2.) Just say I lost it and hope for the best that they'll give me a replacement one. I bought it off contract from a third party vendor which probably won't help my case, but I am insured by Verizon on the phone, so it may just work.
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A third option could be lending/buying a charger that allows you to charge your battery outside the phone. I think DealExtreme sells those. Shipping takes a while though. Anyway, good luck. Hope you'll get a replacement.

Option Number 2 may not work out for you, do you have insurance?

[Q] Need help

So I'm currently using the Suarom ROM, and for the most part it's been working fine. Suddenly I have a problem. Last night I plug my phone in to charge and suddenly it won't charge. I tried with two separate chargers.
It's still a new phone, so I can bring it in for warranty work. I just want to make sure I take all the steps necessary to "un void" the warranty. I'm a Rogers customer. If anyone can help I'd appreciate it.

Theres a thread in the DEV section that provides instructions of how to completely un-root and restore your device to factory before you turn it in for services.

The only problem is, my battery is at ten percent with no way to charge. The strange thing is that when I plug the phone in, the charging symbol appears. Just doesn't charge. Any idea why that would be ?

ChickenSamwich said:
The only problem is, my battery is at ten percent with no way to charge. The strange thing is that when I plug the phone in, the charging symbol appears. Just doesn't charge. Any idea why that would be ?
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Tried different chargers? maybe plug it up to your PC see if you can get some juice that way? i can see the cable/charger going bad before the usb port on the phone ( but **** happens ) 10 percent should be good enough to get your phone back to stock though, i did it at 7 percent not to long ago, you just cant play around you have to click and run and get it done so it does not die. then if it dies after at least you are stock and can just turn it back in. but to be honest for a charger problem i VERY SERIOUSLY doubt they will be looking at Software and roms. thast a defect, and i think they will just do a clean swap----JUST LET IT DIE so they can not turn it back on in the store..lol

Ya could have a derpy battery and the phones fine.
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Yeah, I have tried three chargers with no luck. Haven't tried a PC yet but will after work.
So if I'm getting the lightning bolt charging symbol, odds are it'llbe the battery rather than the port?

take it to best buy or an at&t store....and just say, hey i think i may have a bad battery do you have one i can use to see if my phone will power on and recognize the charger after it is plugged in. then you will know, unless you have an extra battery just laying around.

I had a similar problem like this before. Try charging with the phone off.
OR
If you want to troubleshoot and isolate the problem, try getting an external battery charger and a spare battery.
If you charge your stock battery and it charges with the external charger, your phone may be the problem. If not, then it's the stock battery.
And with the spare battery, try charging it via phone charger.
These are the possible ways I can think of at the moment. Hope this helps!

[q] sending rooted note 2 to service!

Hello everyone,
i was playing real racing 3 on my gn2 and had 10% battery, wanted to charge it and realized it was not charging anymore . turned off, took battery out waited a bit, tried again but no luck. tried with another charger, no luck. tried with usb cable through pc but got again the same result. phone was not recognizing any cable connection and after trying all these i was only 4% on the battery now. found out it was a hardware problem and googled the net, saw many entries about (not) charging problem and decided to send to service but it was not possible for me to flash any stock firmware since usb connection was not possible. i couldnt do anything else because battery left was only 3% then...
so i had to send it to service as is... and of course they denied repairing it within warranty as they found the custom binary count and asked for 243 euro to repair it
now i will get the phone back, of course un-repaired and i ordered an external battery charger. i will be able to reset the binary count by using triangle away but i cant use any software (odin, kies... ) to install back the official firmware.
now my question is; is there anyway for me to install stock rom on it(maybe mobile odin??) or to send it again to service after resetting the binary count and pray for them not to save my imei number and not check my firmware on the phone but to check only the binary count???
thanks in advance

you could Flash the stock Firmware from Mobile Odin and and user Triangle away .it will show as Official , after that do a Factory reset so it would remove all the Root folders.
Here is the link
N7100XXDMC3 N7100DBTDMB1 - Germany Download here- India Original Source

I don't believe it is simple charging issue, if so USB port is hardly costing >10$
they gave you estimate 243 euro, simply suggests you needs Mobo replacement.
Anyway try managing foe extra battery and check whether it device boots normally OR do you able to flash anything.

aukhan said:
you could Flash the stock Firmware from Mobile Odin and and user Triangle away .it will show as Official , after that do a Factory reset so it would remove all the Root folders.
Here is the link
N7100XXDMC3 N7100DBTDMB1 - Germany Download here- India Original Source
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thanks a lot for the answer, i will first use triangle away, i guess it requires root so after flashing official firmware it wouldnt be possible, then the stock rom via mobile odin.
thanks a lot buddy..

dr.ketan said:
I don't believe it is simple charging issue, if so USB port is hardly costing >10$
they gave you estimate 243 euro, simply suggests you needs Mobo replacement.
Anyway try managing foe extra battery and check whether it device boots normally OR do you able to flash anything.
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at first,thanks for the answer,
device was working correctly before sending it to service everything was fine apart from usb connection issue. would u suggest me to buy the usb port and replace it by myself if they again dont repair it?

First try getting battery charged, then it will be easy to diagnose whether it is usb issue or something else.
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Possibilities are if you replace it yourself locally then you will Void your warranty so better to try all other Possible ways

this may sound a bit stupid but it happened to me once.
i wanna as OP... after completely draining ur batt... u plug it in to charge for how long?
here's what happened to me. forgot to charge my phone overnight... went to work with 40% charge... by 1pm totally drained my battery. i was on field that day with no access to charger and constantly on the go from 1 customer's place to the next... only managed to charge it when i got home at 10pm.
after i plug it in... totally no reaction. as if charger is not functioning. i left it plugged in.. after 5 minutes or so (im not sure how long.. i went for a shower) when i got back to my room i see it charging with the red battery on the screen... after it got to around 30% i switched it on and let it continue to charge overnight.
so y not try plugging it in to charger a bit longer... see if it starts to charge. it worked for me.
for my case, to prevent this from happening again i got myself this
http://www.samsung.com/us/mobile/cell-phones-accessories/EB-H1J9VMAGSTA
but i got mine in white. comes with an extra original battery. so in the event i forgot to charge it overnight i can quickly swap the battery.
give it a try. no harm trying

vash_h said:
this may sound a bit stupid but it happened to me once.
i wanna as OP... after completely draining ur batt... u plug it in to charge for how long?
here's what happened to me. forgot to charge my phone overnight... went to work with 40% charge... by 1pm totally drained my battery. i was on field that day with no access to charger and constantly on the go from 1 customer's place to the next... only managed to charge it when i got home at 10pm.
after i plug it in... totally no reaction. as if charger is not functioning. i left it plugged in.. after 5 minutes or so (im not sure how long.. i went for a shower) when i got back to my room i see it charging with the red battery on the screen... after it got to around 30% i switched it on and let it continue to charge overnight.
so y not try plugging it in to charger a bit longer... see if it starts to charge. it worked for me.
for my case, to prevent this from happening again i got myself this
http://www.samsung.com/us/mobile/cell-phones-accessories/EB-H1J9VMAGSTA
but i got mine in white. comes with an extra original battery. so in the event i forgot to charge it overnight i can quickly swap the battery.
give it a try. no harm trying
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thanks buddy, got myself an external charger with an extra battery already, so lets see

[Q] Phone charging extremely sporadically. PLEASE HELP

Hello everyone,
I am currently going through hell with my sph-l710. This all started a few days ago.
My phone refuses to charge sometimes, but the charging light comes on. I have never gotten the phone to charge above around 20%. I took it to sprint. First they said it was a software issue but they wouldn't look at it because i was on a custom rom (Liquidsmooth) and rooted. So I went home and did a reflash of md4 via odin.
This didn't fix the issue.
So I went back in. This time, they said it was the battery. So I bought a brand new battery.
That didn't help the issue.
So I went back in, and they said they had to keep in for an hour to see if I simply needed a new phone. When I came back, they said it worked fine on multiple chargers and they got it up to 56%. So I came back home thinking maybe they were just covering their asses for the previous times they couldn't figure it out.
That didn't help the issue.
It once again wouldn't charge and while I was bored I flashed cleanbean v4.0. Still not charging properly. I noticed that while it was plugged into my PC, it got up to like 30% so I got excited, but when I rebooted the phone after unplugging it, it went down to 17% immediately.
I'm literally pulling my hair out over this. I have used my mom's charger for her htc evo and that won't charge it either.
Can someone pelase tell me what in the world is wrong with my phone??
Cheers

The charger, do not use a charger for HTC, make sure you use the charger that came with the phone. USB charging from the computer is slow. But your wall charger should have it fully charged within an hour. If not then your charger is bad or the cable is bad.
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Check the port on the phone for pocket fuzz, Try a different usb cable, try a different charger. It's likely one of these is the problem. If not, is your phone running hot? If so, maybe an app on the phone is drawing so much current that the charger can't keep up. What does the battery usage display in settings say? Does it show something eating up battery that shouldn't be?

edfunkycold said:
The charger, do not use a charger for HTC, make sure you use the charger that came with the phone. USB charging from the computer is slow. But your wall charger should have it fully charged within an hour. If not then your charger is bad or the cable is bad.
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As long as its compatible it doesn't matter what chargers you use over the years I have usrd various ones and they all worked whit no issue wheter they are intended for my device or not..
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shahkam said:
As long as its compatible it doesn't matter what chargers you use over the years I have usrd various ones and they all worked whit no issue wheter they are intended for my device or not..
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I used to think the same thing, but when I use my Kindle's charger or my old Evo 4G's charger, my phone doesn't charge, it just maintains the same level. My Palm Pre's charger, though, works like a charge. The Funkiest Ed wasn't saying that only Samsung chargers would work, but that it's likely the charger doesn't work anymore.