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Okay Fellows,after i had a Serious Problem due to the -30% Battery **** (When the battery is under 30% of Load then you are Unable to Flash Via Fastboot etc)
My HOX stopped to Boot and i didnt Knew the Battery was that Low.
Fullwipe,Factory Reset KERNel Reflash,Nothing helped.
And i Really had no other Option to find a Solution for that.
i finally Installed the latest RUU but i had to open the Phone
Please Be Sure You have some Technical Skills (I dont have them Really)
I Show you How to Charge the Battery Without a Need of Original Charger or Custom Recovery
You Need a Usb Cable wich you dont need anymore!!! +++ A Computer Fan with Tiny Thin Fan Blades!!!!
And (Depends on how you do it) A Soldering Gun.
Look at the First 2 Attached Pics to see what i mean
I Opened the HOX with a Fanblade of a Computer FAN ,because i saw they Mostly Use Guitar Pleks.
So i Broke off One tile of the FAN and it Worked Really Good,for the Dissasembling Tut Plz Search here on XDA
After i Opened it i tried to figure out how i could Get Over that -30% Problem
My Solution:I Soldered the + and - Wires of an Standard Usb Cable directly to Two Places Inside!! of the Battery.
You need to Unwrap the Black Coating around the Top of the Battery,to get to the Little Battery Board!
Then Search for the Two Silver Plates wich you can See on the ThirdPicture!!
And now Be Carefull
I Soldered the Usb Cable To the Two Shown Thingys.
The Plus Wire To the left side
And the Minus Wire to the Right.
After that i Connected it to a LG Usb Charger,because it has less Ampere than the Original HTC Charger.
I Waited for around 1 Hour and Checked Several Times if the Battery gets Hot etc,but it was Fine.
And Then i Unsoldered the Usb Cable.......VOILA
I Was Able To Flash the Latest RUU Again and it didnt Showed me that The Battery is Under 30%.
I am Not Responsible if any Damages happen to your Phone if you Follow this Little Tut.
Be Carefull and Think about it before you do this!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I said to do this the other day in someone's 'my phone won't charge ' thread.
Have to do it to my Wi-Fi router all the time. It gets so low then won't charge by normal means.
The main thing is not to overcharge the battery, they have a tendency to vent.... With fire. A Voltmeter is handy.
Thanks for the tips!
Hi yes it is Risky
But i wouldnt give these Hints if they where too Risky
As i Wrote in the Tut i Checked the Battery Several Times,and it dont needs to Stay over a Long time on the Charger
Its just to Get Over the 30% Battery Load to Bring the HOX Back.
No Problem
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Look at the Attached Screenshot if you Wonder if my Method Harmed the Battery or something
Go into fastboot and reflash the stock recovery, and relock bootloader. Then you should be able to charge while off and then you can run the RUU.
Man.
On a non-working rom, you can charge your hox in the "HTC Quietly Brilliant" screen. You dont need to use other battery.
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Can't you also charge via the pogo pins on the back right hand side? Then you don't have to open the case.....
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My phone isn't responding no matter what I do. I've tried a jig and every combination you could possibly think of to turn it on and nothing works. I didn't flash anything or drop it in any way so I am just wondering what could have happened? I had to get rushed to the hospital and I was there for a little over a week. My phone was left in my pants in my room and there it sat the whole time that I was in recovery.
Might be a battery gone bad friend. Your phone is definitely not bricked... But we must find a solution to the problem. Is it charging?
No that's the thing that has me confused. I figured it might be the battery cause I did leave it on and it obviously it had run out of power. I tried taking the battery out with just a usb cord in and nothing.
Usually they do a 2x short vibrate with the battery out. I had my D710 flake on me after overcharging once and come back after a week and a fresh battery. Replace the battery, then test. If no go, try to vet the new battery to ensure its a gold one and pack your phone in a rice bag for a week and repeat.
It would be very surprising if its truly bricked. If all else FSA and testing has been thorough, wrote a detailed letter to Sammy regardless of warranty status and see if they will back it. If you get rejectee call and don't mention prior attempt at begging. If you are well spoken and have thoroughly ensured its just a random failure you might be pleasantly surprised by their willingness to investigate.
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I'll go get a new battery now and see if that works, thanks for the reply. Also it didnt get wet or anything. I took my pants off in my room and there it sat in my pocket till I got back.
Also if it were the battery wouldn't it still at least show that splash screen when you attach a usb cable?
What also helps is charging the phone on an apple charger. But charge it 3 days.
Apple charger: it will not load with full power.
I assume that the battery is below 2V.
And then nothing is displayed.
So it wasn't bricked it just had some water damage I guess. Thanks for all the help everyone
Somehow my HTC One X (tegra 3) phone must have bricked itself overnight. It will not turn on and when I connect the charger lead the light does not come on.
Since the phone is still under warranty I take it to Phones 4u, the guy there reckons that it is a battery fault (which makes sense to me, given the circumstances). Anyway that was all last week, today I get a phone call from P4U saying that it's going to cost me £125 to repair it because it is not under warranty. They are claiming that the phone has been opened before and the VOID sticker is damaged as is a load of the shielding tape inside the phone. This came as quite a shock to me since I bought the phone "new" from them last year and it has never been opened in the time that I have had it.
My theory is that the phone has a fault that is going to cost a lot to repair so Phones4U (Would it have been sent to HTC?) have either claimed that the phone has been damaged or they have damaged it so they can thieve some money from me.
Anyway, back to the point, has anyone else had this issue if so does anyone know how to resolve it (or if that's feasible)?
hydo1 said:
Somehow my HTC One X (tegra 3) phone must have bricked itself overnight. It will not turn on and when I connect the charger lead the light does not come on.
Since the phone is still under warranty I take it to Phones 4u, the guy there reckons that it is a battery fault (which makes sense to me, given the circumstances). Anyway that was all last week, today I get a phone call from P4U saying that it's going to cost me £125 to repair it because it is not under warranty. They are claiming that the phone has been opened before and the VOID sticker is damaged as is a load of the shielding tape inside the phone. This came as quite a shock to me since I bought the phone "new" from them last year and it has never been opened in the time that I have had it.
My theory is that the phone has a fault that is going to cost a lot to repair so Phones4U (Would it have been sent to HTC?) have either claimed that the phone has been damaged or they have damaged it so they can thieve some money from me.
Anyway, back to the point, has anyone else had this issue if so does anyone know how to resolve it (or if that's feasible)?
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I'm on the same boat
Mine was off and i put it to charge and noticed that it wasnt charging. no light! it reboots. I'm on 5% charge
nothing on ADB/fastboot.
solution!
ATTENTION! HERE IS SOLUTION! MIGHT WORK FOR! IT WORKS FOR ME!
hi there! first of all i want to apologize as my english is not perfect.
now the story, i have this problem for 3 months now. nothing helps to permanently fix this. it started one day, my battery runned out while i was surfing internet, phone switched off as it does normally. i did put in on charger (original) but no charging light came on, i checked it after few hours but no light where there, phone was dead! i didnt worry to much and just left it there over night to charge, but in the morning i found that red light is still not on, not charged and completely dead. i did every method metioned on any forum- holding buttons, pulling sim out combination nothing helped!!!! my HOX is rooted with custom rom and latest HBOOT version. i were so dissapointed that my warranty is void. then i decided to take phone apart, take battery out and measure its voltage with multimeter, so i did that and battery was 3.18v. so i cut USB lead and charged battery up to around 3.8v that was wery tricky to do as HOX's battery have odd connector, after that i did put every thing together and phone turned ON, i did charge it normally to 100% which measures 4.2v in APP. calibrated battery by deleting batterystats.bin file. next day battery went flat, and exactly same thing happened again. it must be something wrong happening when phone swithing off by it self, it does not switching off completely that causing it not reacting to butttons. SO i think if i put in freezer for 10-15min it will kill the battery and cut power to phones PCB (eq = battery pull) because any button combo is not = battery pool. so i wrapped it in cling film to prevent condinsation and kept phone in freezer for 15min. do not attack me with commets like "cold temp killing LI-ion battery for ever" i dont care i dont want to hear any of these stuff i did what knowing that, cuz there is no real solution to this problem! it is sounds like crazy! i know! im am russian so im used to do crazy stuff ) after i took it from freezer my HOX felt like ice.. hooked up charger and WOALIA!!! red light started to blink = battery to low to swith on. after half an hour red light came on persistant and my phone swithed ON without problems. after few weeks i replaced battery with other one but no joy! still same thing, i used to do this for months because sometimes i wasnt able monitor battery and turn phone off manually before it reaches 1% charge. I did not experienced any battery life shortening (at least i didnt spot any serious life drops) I SUSPECT THIS IS SOFTWARE RELATED PROBLEM, SO PLEASE IF ANY DEVELOPER OR ANY ONE WHO IS KNOWS WHAT EXACTLY CAN CAUSE THIS, PLEASE LOOK AT THIS CASE. IT MIGHT BE A SOLUTION OTHER THAN MINE!! cuz in the end it sux putting ur phone to freezer
NOW - solution! kind off..
when u did my methot if it worked for you of coure.. you need APP from Playstore - LLAMA location profiles. in LLAMA app you can create action based on event. se lets make event BATTERY under x% and create action for that - POWER OFF PHONE! set delay for 2min so u can stop ongoing event once u on charger and ur battery is less set %. I did set it for 5% and 2 min delay just to be on safe side. once battery reaches 5% charge action is created after 2 min, and phone turns off. dont try to power it ON!!! if u did by accident, just turn it off once it booted! dont ask me for help using LLAMA it is not complicated as it looks, play aroud with charged battery, experiment. u can add additional actions like play sound + screen on+ vibrate+ power off. if that helped u press thanks button as this text took me whole hour to type
AND PLEASE SOMEONE SORT THIS! AS HTC ONE X' PCB NEED TO BE CUT FROM POWER TO RESET AND START CHARGING. I DO THAT BY DEPLEATING BATTERY CHARGE WHRE PCB CUTS OFF POWER. SUB-ZERO TEMP DOES THAT TO BATTERY, BUT WE NEED REAL SOLUTION!!
thank you if read this til end
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ATTENTION! HERE IS SOLUTION! MIGHT WORK FOR! IT WORKS FOR ME!
hi there! first of all i want to apologize as my english is not perfect.
now the story, i have this problem for 3 months now. nothing helps to permanently fix this. it started one day, my battery runned out while i was surfing internet, phone switched off as it does normally. i did put in on charger (original) but no charging light came on, i checked it after few hours but no light where there, phone was dead! i didnt worry to much and just left it there over night to charge, but in the morning i found that ...........
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I am pleased that I haven't had to do this! I argued with Phones4U a little more and they have agreed to replace the device, I think that the repair job was far too expensive for them to justify doing it. Hopefully will have a shiny new One X (or One X+ if they have no stock) by the end of today!
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I am pleased that I haven't had to do this! I argued with Phones4U a little more and they have agreed to replace the device, I think that the repair job was far too expensive for them to justify doing it. Hopefully will have a shiny new One X (or One X+ if they have no stock) by the end of today!
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Haha ended up with a Galaxy Note 2
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Basically, I've completely bricked my phone and I'm wondering what to do with it. What does everyone else do with their bricked phones? Sell them on ebay for parts? Smash it against the wall? Brick more phones and build a house out of them?
I've already posted in another thread about the problem - I basically unlocked the bootloader and flashed a custom kernel (DooMKernel) without rebooting the phone in between, and now all I get is a red LED when attempting flashmode or fastboot or when connected to a charger. The phone doesn't respond to resets and taking the battery out made no difference.
Sometimes the phone stops charging and there is no LED at all (I have one of those chargers that emit a high pitched whine when nothing's connected) and then it'll carry on charging a few hours later. I've even tried that "rubber band" trick overnight and the phone doesn't get recognised, all it does is go through cycles of red LED on and red LED off.
Looking forward to hearing some of your suggestions
You could send it to get fixed, or try to fix it on your own and discover some cool new technique that works. What do you have to lose?
On a sidenote, some people here have recovered from these red led problems.
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Yeah, I'm currently trying to discover a new unbricking technique - wish me luck!
I've learned a couple of things from this experience:
removing the battery in the xperia s is surprisingly simple
the back cover is held on by a random mix of both torx and "+" shaped screws
the torx screws are T5 sized, not T6 as stated on the xperiablog disassembly guide
the design of the 3.5mm audio jack is quite cool - the actual jack is attached to the phone's back cover and is not soldered to the main board. Instead, a set of copper 'legs' on the jack touch some contact points on the PCB. This means that the stresses from a set of earphones (e.g. accidentally tugging on the cord) will not rip solder joints from the PCB :good: Not sure if other phones or media players have this design but I like it.
my phone is still bricked
I took a voltage reading of the battery and it was down to 3.5v (nominal voltage is 3.7v, max is usually around 4.2v) so maybe this is why it can't enter flashmode or fastboot. I found that when the phone is on a charger and spends a few hours with the red light on followed by a few hours with the red light off, it's actually just doing endless charge/discharge cycles. However, it never reaches anywhere near a decent voltage and this might be why the 'rubber band' trick didn't work.
Right now its charging with the red led off and its at 3.4v. I'm too afraid to leave the phone charging while I'm out the house so I've not been able to continuously charge it for more than 12 hrs at a time. Maybe after a few days it'll eventually get back up to 4.2v?
I got a mad idea when I noticed the battery terminals in a few of my older sony phones were the same, except the polarity is reversed. So I took a fully charged battery from a W995, flipped it round so the polarity was correct and forced it to make contact with the battery terminals....and nothing! Still no fastboot, flashmode or anything. Tried the same thing using a battery from an xperia ray and again, nothing happened.
I'm all out of ideas, I might phone sony and try asking for a quote. I'm so annoyed at this, the phone itself is in immaculate condition. Can't justify buying another smartphone, I've returned to the stone age and I still find myself trying to tap the icons on a non-touchsreen phone
supermeerkat said:
Yeah, I'm currently trying to discover a new unbricking technique - wish me luck!
I've learned a couple of things from this experience:
removing the battery in the xperia s is surprisingly simple
the back cover is held on by a random mix of both torx and "+" shaped screws
the torx screws are T5 sized, not T6 as stated on the xperiablog disassembly guide
the design of the 3.5mm audio jack is quite cool - the actual jack is attached to the phone's back cover and is not soldered to the main board. Instead, a set of copper 'legs' on the jack touch some contact points on the PCB. This means that the stresses from a set of earphones (e.g. accidentally tugging on the cord) will not rip solder joints from the PCB :good: Not sure if other phones or media players have this design but I like it.
my phone is still bricked
I took a voltage reading of the battery and it was down to 3.5v (nominal voltage is 3.7v, max is usually around 4.2v) so maybe this is why it can't enter flashmode or fastboot. I found that when the phone is on a charger and spends a few hours with the red light on followed by a few hours with the red light off, it's actually just doing endless charge/discharge cycles. However, it never reaches anywhere near a decent voltage and this might be why the 'rubber band' trick didn't work.
Right now its charging with the red led off and its at 3.4v. I'm too afraid to leave the phone charging while I'm out the house so I've not been able to continuously charge it for more than 12 hrs at a time. Maybe after a few days it'll eventually get back up to 4.2v?
I got a mad idea when I noticed the battery terminals in a few of my older sony phones were the same, except the polarity is reversed. So I took a fully charged battery from a W995, flipped it round so the polarity was correct and forced it to make contact with the battery terminals....and nothing! Still no fastboot, flashmode or anything. Tried the same thing using a battery from an xperia ray and again, nothing happened.
I'm all out of ideas, I might phone sony and try asking for a quote. I'm so annoyed at this, the phone itself is in immaculate condition. Can't justify buying another smartphone, I've returned to the stone age and I still find myself trying to tap the icons on a non-touchsreen phone
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The battery from three W995 probably doesn't have enough power to run the phone. Just keep trying and see what you come up with.
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supermeerkat said:
Basically, I've completely bricked my phone and I'm wondering what to do with it. What does everyone else do with their bricked phones? Sell them on ebay for parts? Smash it against the wall? Brick more phones and build a house out of them?
I've already posted in another thread about the problem - I basically unlocked the bootloader and flashed a custom kernel (DooMKernel) without rebooting the phone in between, and now all I get is a red LED when attempting flashmode or fastboot or when connected to a charger. The phone doesn't respond to resets and taking the battery out made no difference.
Sometimes the phone stops charging and there is no LED at all (I have one of those chargers that emit a high pitched whine when nothing's connected) and then it'll carry on charging a few hours later. I've even tried that "rubber band" trick overnight and the phone doesn't get recognised, all it does is go through cycles of red LED on and red LED off.
Looking forward to hearing some of your suggestions
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I am noob here,but my kindle fire has the similar things happen like this,Just has little battery the kindle fire can't start,just when the charge all finish ,it can start once,if I didn't others like flash a rom,or just wipe my kindle,after finish I reset,it can't be start,so I start the kindle,let the battery all finish,and then go on charge,when the charge full finish,it can start again,so I have only one time to flash the correct rom,or something after all battery off,and charge full.So I think if you have the same problem like this,if so,just press start button,do nothing to your phone,untill the battery finish(the big point is the battery must run down),and then charge,after full charge go to fastmod to flash what you want,or I think you can just flash stock onto your device.
I thought about buying a replacement battery just to get enough juice to start the phone, but there's no guarantee that it will arrive fully charged and the phone might just drain the new battery anyway without allowing it to enter flashmode!
I have tried charging the battery as much as possible and taking it out the phone for a few hours, then putting it back in while immediately trying flashmode and still no luck.
Last night I phoned sony to ask how much it would cost for a repair. Unfortunately, the nice lady I spoke to didn't understand what a bootloader, kernel or ROM was and just said that sony can't touch the phone if the software's been modified
if you buyed a replaced batterey, you dont you charge full it and then put into your phone and flash the stock? Try this,and dont forget installing the driver for your phone into your pc
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I'm not sure a replacement battery will let the phone enter flashmode, I mentioned earlier that I tried various spare sony ericsson batteries (same voltage rating, but fully charged) and the phone still did nothing
I think I'm either going to sell the phone on ebay as faulty and perhaps get a new phone after that....or I could buy a faulty xperia s from ebay (with superficial faults like touchscreen damage) and do a motherboard swap.
Edit: I've managed to fully charge the battery using a borrowed phone, confirmed it was over 4v with a voltmeter, but still no flashmode
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Hi everyone,
My phone (almost 2 years old, changed LCD for three times) started to lose a lot of its battery capacity from a month ago, and since yesterday I realized something's wrong with it, as it had some trouble charging the battery. At first, I was using my phone and its battery was around 20%, and then as soon as I connected the charger (genuine fast charge) it turned off and the red LED indicator kept turning on and off and refused to charge. then after a reboot, it started charging again, and then I left it charging at the night and at the morning I realized it only charged to 60% and the red LED didn't turn on at all. And now that all the battery is drowned out it's not charging at all and drawing no current from the charger ([email protected]).
Has anyone had any experience with it before? Is this a battery problem or the USB charging port flex cable which has some ICs on it (example)?
I'd appreciate your answers.
I can't tell from your story that you tried another charger ? I recall a similar charging issue from my HTC One X a few years back.
Replaced the charger and all issues disappeared.
Mr Hofs said:
I can't tell from your story that you tried another charger ? I recall a similar charging issue from my HTC One X a few years back.
Replaced the charger and all issues disappeared.
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Yes I have, Also seconds before it ran out completely I tried to check if adb works. connected it to my laptop and on the bootloader mode the adb recognized the device but the red LED didn't light up.
m.m.m said:
Yes I have, Also seconds before it ran out completely I tried to check if adb works. connected it to my laptop and on the bootloader mode the adb recognized the device but the red LED didn't light up.
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That's correct because a device doesn't charge in bootloader mode. Only off state, running OS or Dr TWRP recovery.
If you tried a different charger it can be pretty much only down to hardware, can't give any advice at that level.
Mr Hofs said:
That's correct because a device doesn't charge in bootloader mode. Only off state, running OS or Dr TWRP recovery.
If you tried a different charger it can be pretty much only down to hardware, can't give any advice at that level.
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Oops, I meant recovery mode.
does the device charge in the stock recovery?
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Oops, I meant recovery mode.
does the device charge in the stock recovery?
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I'm afraid not, only the custom one.
I had almost the same problem with my phone. I sent it to a repair center and acording to their report, the circuit which is responsible for the monitoring of the charging process had a loose connection. Maybe because I dropped the phone a few times. Unfortunatly the circuits of modern phones are all on the same circuit board, so they had to change the whole motherboard of the phone. But now everything works fine.
So I just opened the phone and disconnect/reconnected the battery connector and it eventually started charging with the stock charger, but it charged up to 60% and then stopped. retried the same steps and no luck this time. then I tried charging the battery with an external li-ion charger (I know it's a dangerous task )
this time it charged up to 4.11 volts and then I turned on the phone and again the battery dropped to 60%. so I believe the battery is really dead and needs replacement. I'll update you when I replace it.
KingGong said:
I had almost the same problem with my phone. I sent it to a repair center and acording to their report, the circuit which is responsible for the monitoring of the charging process had a loose connection. Maybe because I dropped the phone a few times. Unfortunatly the circuits of modern phones are all on the same circuit board, so they had to change the whole motherboard of the phone. But now everything works fine.
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Turns out I was wrong, my case was similar to yours. had to waste $9 on a battery to find out
it just fixed by disconnecting/reconnecting the USB connector bottom of the board, but I don't know how the flex cable for the back button got cut so now I have to replace the whole bottom circuit ($17 approx.) :crying:
m.m.m said:
Turns out I was wrong, my case was similar to yours. had to waste $9 on a battery to find out
it just fixed by disconnecting/reconnecting the USB connector bottom of the board, but I don't know how the flex cable for the back button got cut so now I have to replace the whole bottom circuit ($17 approx.) :crying:
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So I went through the hurdle of replacing my battery and charge port, and the battery transplant went well, went from 70% to 100% battery health (yay!).
The first charge port I purchased (this is all eBay stuff) had a busted Recents button (copper trace in ribbon cable was nicked - when the part was removed from original phone for sure), so I complained and got a replacement; second one works well.
And because all bad things come in threes, the phone developed an echo (on the opposite side of the conversation) which I think I caused by ripping a bit of the mic rubber isolator which points towards the mic hole in the battery cover.
I believe I fixed it (still testing) by glueing some foam padding on the backside of the mic (on the charge port PCB, facing the battery cover).
Long story short, opening up the phone is a b###h, so do multiple repairs together, be careful not to break anything else (easier said....).
Good luck, let us know how it went.
So here's an update, First of all, I'm pretty happy with the battery replacement, It can hold like 10 hours of my usage while the old one could handle up to 6-8 lately, it's unbranded, and I got it from a local phone part store.
Second, the replacement for the charger flex turned out to be pretty good quality, and I've had no problems with it so far. I got it for $11 from AliExpress, but now it's about $10.5. But when I replaced everything and tried to reassemble the phone and tighten the screws it showed up with charging problems again, and I tried disassemble/reassembling the phone and reconnecting the charger flex, and the next time it charged but with no fast charge, so in the next try I also tried cleaning the flex connector with cleaning alcohol, and for the third try it finally started charging with no problems.
So now after like 2 weeks, it's had no problems so far.