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Battery discharging vs not charging

When my Galaxy Nexus GSM is not plugged in, the battery shows itself as "discharging". Previously this used to be "not charging". I have tried multiple (Jelly Bean) ROMs, different cables, wall and USB chargers. Same problem. The larger issue: my PC no longer recognizes my phone and I have resorted to using AirDroid to transfer files.
Can anyone shed light on this issue?
I have done full wipes, including wiping battery stats.

Mine was always discharging...
And make sure that you got fast charge off if you have that on. That disables MTP capability.

I have exactly the same problem...see my thread...its recent!
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I had a similar issue, and then not long after the phone refused to charge. I had to take it to get serviced, and the ended up giving me a refurb instead.

I think it has to do with the temp of the battery, if its too hot and you have it plugged in it will say discharging.

SEALBoy said:
When my Galaxy Nexus GSM is not plugged in, the battery shows itself as "discharging". Previously this used to be "not charging". I have tried multiple (Jelly Bean) ROMs, different cables, wall and USB chargers. Same problem. The larger issue: my PC no longer recognizes my phone and I have resorted to using AirDroid to transfer files.
Can anyone shed light on this issue?
I have done full wipes, including wiping battery stats.
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First, don't use a charger other than the original. The different volts mess with the NFC chip and antenna. Try disabling NFC and rebooting. Leave NFC off and try to charge. If that doesn't do it I have another option that might work but I'm CDMA so you would have an extra step to change lines in file.

Thanks for the suggestions, guys. I tried disabling NFC but it had no effect. My phone is the international version (the box was in Polish) which is not warrantied through Samsung USA, so I guess I'm out of luck there as well. I'm just gonna hang in there until the next Nexus phone, I guess.

JediNinjafication said:
First, don't use a charger other than the original. The different volts mess with the NFC chip and antenna. Try disabling NFC and rebooting. Leave NFC off and try to charge. If that doesn't do it I have another option that might work but I'm CDMA so you would have an extra step to change lines in file.
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When will people realize that the difference in voltage won't cause any problems with the phone as long as they're within safe range.
I've been using the charger that came with my G2 (htc) on my nexus for months and have no problems. I would've continued using the original one that came with the nexus but it had an annoying whine to it.

biscuitownz said:
When will people realize that the difference in voltage won't cause any problems with the phone as long as they're within safe range.
I've been using the charger that came with my G2 (htc) on my nexus for months and have no problems. I would've continued using the original one that came with the nexus but it had an annoying whine to it.
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Really because it sure seemed to be my problem a while back and anytime i use a different one. Guess samsung and google must not know what theyre talking about.

Chargers are rarely the problem, however different usb cables might be the problem instead.

New glitch spotted when phone is of and in the charger it wil chrage for like 2 seconds and then the animation saays the phone is full!but 2seconda later its charging again so on and so on... sort of chargingloop..
But it never charges
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Am using samr original charger and cord. Works fine

I have this same issue
My Galaxy Nexus from Verizon has worked flawlessly for several months now. It updated about 4 days ago to JellyBean 4.1.1 and I have been charging the same two wall chargers, car charger, and USB cables every day since I got the phone. I even was using the USB charger to deploy and debug a simple application I am building around noon today. This evening at about 8 PM while on the wall charger I noticed the charging stopped. No lightening bolt icon, status says Discharging, and I noticed one time that it said Not Charging. Neither of the wall chargers work, nor is it recognized by the laptop using the USB cable. It is at 65% charge and is dropping fast. It seems that no one has a fix for this other than replace the phone.
Very difficult for me to believe that the USB port just went bad using the same chargers every day. Hard to blame JellyBean that has run at least 4 days with no issue even though several sites point to a possible charging issue. I even dialed *#*#4636#*#* and checked the battery status, and it's health was good. I have not rooted or placed anything on this phone that is obscure beyond my simple near "hello world" development apps. I have rebooted, and performed a battery pull with no such luck. With the number of posts pointing to a JellyBean issue, and users experiencing the same issue after the upgrade to 4.1.1 I am leaning towards this being a software issue, but it is interesting at the number of posts saying that the their only fix is a refurb phone replacement from the carrier.
Pretty odd occurrence, and extremely frustrating. As I said the phone worked fine all day today. This just started a few hours ago for me.

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... No lightening bolt icon, status says Discharging, and I noticed one time that it said Not Charging. Neither of the wall chargers work, nor is it recognized by the laptop using the USB cable. It is at 65% charge and is dropping fast. It seems that no one has a fix for this other than replace the phone...
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OK I have fixed my issue. and it does appear to have been hardware related. I will preface this with you must be very careful not to break your phone with the solution below. I read several posts about using contact cleaner on the USB port, so I looked at the port on the phone and noticed that the "toungue" inside the reciever USB port appeared to be slightly bent down. With the phone off and battery removed I used a needle to wedge under the toungue and bend it up ever so slightly making sure I would not break it. Pluged in the phone and it still did not charge. (That was last night) this morning with the phone at 55% and thinking it was going to need to go back to Verizion I did it again phone off and battery removed only this time a bit more forcefully out of desperation. I definitely moved the "toungue" up and even had a bit of difficulty getting the USB cord to slide back into the connector. But when it did the Phone is charging again. Appearantly I must of jammed the plug into the phone upside down last night when getting into my car and bent the "tongue" in the USB port. Lesson learned, and hope this helps others.

Means the battery has been recharged and discharged to the point were it holds less of the charge. Basically its an older battery, or its been tappered with with, probably a rom using to much ram or pussing the device a bit too far nightly and ported roms could be the cause I say stick to stock kernal unless you really now what to do
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Charging issue, phone does not charge at all, bad USB port?

Please help!!
So, for the last couple weeks charging my Note 2 has been extremely hit or miss. It either connects and starts charging, or it doesn't at all. Sometimes, I can plug it in and leave it over night and find it didn't charge at all. Sometimes, as I am trying all sort of different chargers/options, I eventually give up and several hours later I see the screen pop to life and show a charge coming in. I have tried:
4 different cables
3 different AC chargers
2 different computers (multiple USB ports on each)
my car's USB
Seem to have no effect on whether or not it will charge, which makes me believe the issue is either the phones USB port or the battery itself.
Behavior when plugged varies, sometimes:
Completely dead - no response at all
Empty battery icon (with circle in middle) shows on screen, then goes black - never progresses to the battery charging icon (no circle in middle, green showing progress)
Works, progresses to green battery icon.
I'm currently in the first option - completely dead. Whenever I get to the 3rd one, I let it charge a bit then turn the phone on and let it continue charging. At this point it will generally work for a while but whenever I unplug the phone there is no guarantee it will work again, even right after.
Has anyone experienced this? Any experts have an idea I can try?
Notes:
Rooted with Perseus kernel, stock rom.
Similar to this issue here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2089468&highlight=charge
Current plan:
Ordered this Anker 2x battery with external charger: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B009SYL6C0/ref=oh_details_o00_s00_i00
With this, I can at least charge the batteries outside of the phone, even if the USB port won't work. If necessary, I would need this to revert to stock before sending in to Samsung.

I had the one where you plug in and nothing, all I did was a battery pull and it worked, no issues since
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It sounds to me like you have a broken micro usb port. I went thru this with my note 1. The plastic sleeve on your phone port that the pins sit in is fragile.in my case I discovered I had snapped a pin in half prevent charging, reading the phone via micro usb..I would get a intermittent connection then after a while nothing. you can try to see what happens if plug in a USB and wiggle it in all directions to try and establish contact..in any case your best bet is to go find a universal battery charger..particularly one that charges the battery itself without the phone. (it basically sits inside of a cradle and charges) the pins can be adjusted to make contact on your +,- on your battery. After a charge try it out. they have cheap ones a radio shack that do the job. Its a hassle, but on the bright side is your phone will work. Plus deep cycle charging will make for a healthier battery . hope this helps
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Are you using a case on your device? If so, does it in any way encroach on the USB port?
If you are using a case try taking it off and plugging in with the stock charger and cable.
Couldn't hurt, and if the case blocks the port in any way it may be the solution.
Hastily spouted for your befuddlement

Thanks for the replies everyone, and yes I ordered the battery kit from Amazon, so I should be up and running. At least to revert to stock before sending it to Samsung. But still I would like to find a permanent solution for this if possible.
Coug76 said:
Are you using a case on your device? If so, does it in any way encroach on the USB port?
If you are using a case try taking it off and plugging in with the stock charger and cable.
Couldn't hurt, and if the case blocks the port in any way it may be the solution.
Hastily spouted for your befuddlement
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Yes, I have of course checked this For most of my testing and trying to get it to work I haven't even had a back panel on the phone.

PhxDroid86 said:
I had the one where you plug in and nothing, all I did was a battery pull and it worked, no issues since
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Yes, this sounds like my problem. Battery pull fixed it for me originally too, but over time it got worse and the problem happened more frequently.
Haven't been able to get it to take a charge all day.

Thought I would update on this weird issue...
I received the Anker batteries/external charger and got the phone working again. Tested charging directly with the phone and new batteries now that it was back alive. No dice. Tested it on and off over the next couple days and still could not get it to charge. So I decided I needed to send it in for warranty replacement, but life got in the way and I continued my cycle of swapping out batteries. This is actually a really nice solution! I like having a couple fully charged batteries ready to go at all times.
Anyway, yesterday I finally had some time and was going to contact Samsung. I was sitting at my desk and decided to try charging one more time. Plugged in the microUSB cable and... IT WORKED! I have no idea why it would randomly start working again, but it has worked for the last 24 hours every time I plug it in.
So now I can't really send it in for service if they can't duplicate the problem. I'm just going to cross my fingers and hope it doesn't happen again...

LucJoe said:
Yes, this sounds like my problem. Battery pull fixed it for me originally too, but over time it got worse and the problem happened more frequently.
Haven't been able to get it to take a charge all day.
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Well S***, lol, should I be worried?
Seriously though im sorry your having issues and that it progressively got worse for you, as I havent had any issues outside of that one occurrence
Keep us posted
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Wondering if this ever started back up, or if your phone just kept on working. As my phone has stopped all together charging and needed to find a fix for this. Wondering if just replacing the usb charging port in the phone would fix this up. Has someone has done this already to fix this problem. I'm torn between using an external charger and wait for the part to come in from ebay for 12 bucks or just send it in for service and be without a phone for 3-6 weeks.

Woolios said:
Wondering if this ever started back up, or if your phone just kept on working. As my phone has stopped all together charging and needed to find a fix for this. Wondering if just replacing the usb charging port in the phone would fix this up. Has someone has done this already to fix this problem. I'm torn between using an external charger and wait for the part to come in from ebay for 12 bucks or just send it in for service and be without a phone for 3-6 weeks.
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If you send it in to get it fixed I'll be interested to hear the result (and the price...!)
I've been using an external charger for a couple of weeks now. It's a bit of a pain, but you quickly get used to it.
I'm holding out for the announcement of the Note 3 and hoping that arrives sometime before Christmas!

Well it was the USB port on the phone sent it away already got it back. Telus my provider warranty'd the phone. Did get a quote to fix at a cell shop 70 buckaroo's. Personally just buy it online at ebay for 10 bucks and do it yourself not that hard. Just didn't want to wait for the part to ship and get here

Do you know the process to it... by the looks of it, it seems attached to the motherboard or is it something I can easily do thanks in advance...
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Sorry wrong thread I meant for the s3 usb port
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Do I need a new battery?

I'm using a Samsung Galaxy S 2 X t989d running liquid smooth rc9
Haven't been able to charge it, with phone turned on, or off, battery will get up to maybe around 10, and then if left plugged in it actually uncharges. Started about 2 days ago when I used a dollar store cigarette lighter charger with a usb cable, and noticed after having it plugged in for about an hour, my battery of around 90% had gone down to 10%. It seemed to have been decharging.
For a month or two the micro usb input in the bottom has been slightly falty, as in certain charges/usb cables that don't fit snug have to be pulled in a certain angle in order to connect and start charging. Some cables fit snug and work fine.
Before I go looking for a new battery, is this for sure a battery problem? Anything I should do to diagnose/fix the problem?
If it's just the battery, will a telus store carry a replacement? Or where is the best place to go? Would prefer not to have to wait for shipping.
Thanks

InsouciantSoul said:
I'm using a Samsung Galaxy S 2 X t989d running liquid smooth rc9
Haven't been able to charge it, with phone turned on, or off, battery will get up to maybe around 10, and then if left plugged in it actually uncharges. Started about 2 days ago when I used a dollar store cigarette lighter charger with a usb cable, and noticed after having it plugged in for about an hour, my battery of around 90% had gone down to 10%. It seemed to have been decharging.
For a month or two the micro usb input in the bottom has been slightly falty, as in certain charges/usb cables that don't fit snug have to be pulled in a certain angle in order to connect and start charging. Some cables fit snug and work fine.
Before I go looking for a new battery, is this for sure a battery problem? Anything I should do to diagnose/fix the problem?
If it's just the battery, will a telus store carry a replacement? Or where is the best place to go? Would prefer not to have to wait for shipping.
Thanks
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Sounds more like a phone problem to me. The only battery issue that I know about is the bug that you can see in certain threads, where the phone won't charge if it's dead. In that case, you take out the battery for 10 minutes, then plug in the phone, then put the battery back in and let it charge.
Your problem seems different. However, i don't recommend dollar store chargers anyway. Try the charger and cable that came with your phone. If you need a new one, I would suggest getting one for your specific phone on eBay.
Beyond that, you've likely borked your usb port on your phone, either from using sub-standard cords, or perhaps someone has tripped over the wire while it was charging. These things happen but in that case you will have to have the phone replaced or repaired.

Well, I got it to fully charge. Oddly enough, right now the only thing that will charge it is my computer. The charger that comes with a phone, or my LG micro usb charger, or even my girlfriends pc, all seem to make the phone quickly discharge. Even when using the same usb cable that i plug into the LG charger, it works great on my computer.
I have a setting in my bios to make things charge faster through usb 3.0. I first tried without, then with, and both options work.
I think this must rule out that it's the micro usb port on the bottom of my phone. Using the same cable on different computers/plugs doesn't work. So it must be something weird with the battery, or maybe using that ****ty dollar store charger messed up how my rom/kernal is handling my battery?? Or does the rom/kernal even effect how a phone charges at all? I'm kind of confused..

I may try flashing a new rom. Any recommendations? Looks like liquid team is dead. Seemed to the best rom at the time, is there anything better now? Too many to test them all. Looking at all-star rom.. seems legit? pacman? What's stable and awesome?

I have played with so many of them... If you're looking to stay with the stock feel then try galaxy sbean - the unicef rom. Snappy and lots of goodies. Myself, I always come back to aokp. It's by far my favourite one out there.
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InsouciantSoul said:
I may try flashing a new rom. Any recommendations? Looks like liquid team is dead. Seemed to the best rom at the time, is there anything better now? Too many to test them all. Looking at all-star rom.. seems legit? pacman? What's stable and awesome?
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Pacman is the sh*t...

Charging slow???

Out of the blue I noticed my S3 was charging very slowly, it even was losing a charge while it was plugged in while I was using it. I figure it had something to do with my custom ROM so I reflash, still same outcome. The battery was still holding a good charge, so I figured it was something else. I then went out and bought a new charger, which came with a micro usb cord to see if that helped. Plugged in the new charger while using my old micro usb cord, still same outcome. Then used the new micro usb cord and old charger, charging went back to normal, problem solved! I would of never thought that the cord would malfunction from day to day use after such a short lifespan. Moral of the story, check your cords if you experience the same problem, it could save you some time and money!

I had the same issue, however it did not matter what cord I used. I cleaned all the pocket fuzz out of the charging port, and still no go. Ended up returning to stock and sending in for warranty. Mine had a bad charge port. Is a common issue with the S3.
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I have the same issue. The stock charger was taking 6-8 hours for a full charge, I just recently got the 7000 MAH zerolemon battery. It takes almost an entire day to charge that. I bought a different Samsung charger and it charges within 4-5 hours, which isn't bad seeing how my phone lasts almost 2.5 days. They say not to use any other charger for the S3 because the stock charger charges the Lithium ION cells or whatever and using any other charger starts to diminish them after prolong use. But hey, I can't wait an entire day for my phone to charge. I suggest you get another charger. I have a HTC micro sd charger and it charges pretty quickly.

Micronads said:
Mine had a bad charge port. Is a common issue with the S3.
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I'm having the same problem, but I've never heard before that this is a common issue.
Do you have any reference for this?

HiKsFiles said:
I'm having the same problem, but I've never heard before that this is a common issue.
Do you have any reference for this?
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It is called Google ...
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Charging problems

Experiencing some frustration with the fast charging option. I attach the charger, and no notification pops up saying "Fast Charger Connected"... but in Power Savings settings it says Charging USBicon1.png with the fast charging box checked but showing grey.
Used the same charger and cord in the same outlet earlier in the day and the fast charger works without problem. Been tracking this issue for two days and cannot figure out the variables creating the problem.
Tried different fast charger, different cables, different ports, cleaned out the port with alcohol and qtips....
Anyone else suffering the same problem?
Any insights that might lead to a solution?

Are you sure that the phone is seeing that it's being charged by AC and not USB? It may sound like a stupid question but my Note 4 recently suddenly started charging as if I'm connected to USB rather than AC, even though I'm using the same fast charger that came with my phone, and it does this about 40-50% of the time. I think it has to do with the cable I'm using, the one that came with the phone so it's 14 months old, but I'm not positive. It could be the port on the phone, which is the reason I'm mentioning it since you said you tried different cables, fast chargers, etc. I haven't noticed whether it happens when charging in the car since I don't do that much. This happened with one of my older phones also after I'd had it for a year or more, not sure if it was the S3 or Evo 3D, and back then I think it happened with any cable or charger I tried.
When this happens, I need to unplug the cable and plug it back in, sometimes it takes 4 or 5 times to get it to show as AC with fast charging.
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died4u525 said:
Are you sure that the phone is seeing that it's being charged by AC and not USB? It may sound like a stupid question but my Note 4 recently suddenly started charging as if I'm connected to USB rather than AC, even though I'm using the same fast charger that came with my phone, and it does this about 40-50% of the time. I think it has to do with the cable I'm using, the one that came with the phone so it's 14 months old, but I'm not positive. It could be the port on the phone, which is the reason I'm mentioning it since you said you tried different cables, fast chargers, etc. I haven't noticed whether it happens when charging in the car since I don't do that much. This happened with one of my older phones also after I'd had it for a year or more, not sure if it was the S3 or Evo 3D, and back then I think it happened with any cable or charger I tried.
When this happens, I need to unplug the cable and plug it back in, sometimes it takes 4 or 5 times to get it to show as AC with fast charging.
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I'm experiencing the same symptoms on two different Sprint Galaxy Note 4. At this point i'm pretty sure that is a software issue since now it's two different phones. I have tried 4 different chargers (one that was not mine) and factory reset one of them. Not sure what self updating or background self updating app (if any) could cause this problem. This is frustrating, it's like sprint and samsung purposely push software to make the phone suck and for me to update..

chico1983 said:
I'm experiencing the same symptoms on two different Sprint Galaxy Note 4. At this point i'm pretty sure that is a software issue since now it's two different phones. I have tried 4 different chargers (one that was not mine) and factory reset one of them. Not sure what self updating or background self updating app (if any) could cause this problem. This is frustrating, it's like sprint and samsung purposely push software to make the phone suck and for me to update..
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One on KK THE other on LP

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I'm having the same issue. Fast charger is plugged in, but it is charging as if its plugged into a USB. It is taking ridiculously longer to charge the phone ever since the new update for sprint came out.

Abey123 said:
I'm having the same issue. Fast charger is plugged in, but it is charging as if its plugged into a USB. It is taking ridiculously longer to charge the phone ever since the new update for sprint came out.
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I was experiencing this on both of my phones before the update on the 7th of Dec got pushed out..

I'm rooted, running a custom ROM called Hybrid X 3.0 which is still OG5. This problem suddenly started out of nowhere and I hadn't changed my ROM so that's why I figured it must be hardware. Now I don't know. Makes me wonder if they could've put a kind of self-destruct code in the software to force us to get new phones. The ROM I'm running is based off of stock Samsung software after all.
I wonder if it would happen on a Cyanogen based ROM. I don't use them because I rely on my S pen too much to use AOSP.
Edit: Is anyone else seeing that their phone shows its charging as USB? Just curious.
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Still experiencing the same thing. At this point I don't know what or who I should blame.

I myself was having tons of freeze issues and random reboots after the update on my completely stock phone. Not seeing the charging problem but since installing clean master and cm anti virus, issues were found and have since stopped. I definitely think there is something wrong with the latest update and could just be affecting people in different ways. I would maybe try clean master or something similar and see if your phone could just be infected with something. Might just have something to do with the latest "security" update. It can't hurt to try it anyway.
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Stilll experiencing the same thing. I have factory reset several times, bought a new charger and still nothing. Must be a software issue. that took place in the background....

Is anyone else experiencing this?