[Q] Unusual battery problem - Wildfire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hi, I have just bought an unrooted Wildfire to root and play about with.
However the phone has a weird battery problem
The battery never fully charges - the battery icon only shows amber and quickly goes to red and says only 1-2% left, BUT, the battery is fully charged and the phone will run all day long without problems.
Question - It looks like whatever measures the battery has got it wrong somehow - can this be reset?
Any other advice would be appreciated.
Thanks!

Go into recovery, wipe cache/dalvic cache and battery stat.
It should fix this bug.If not, flash custom rom, like buzz-fire or reincarnation v3.0.
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Thanks for this info!
The Wildfire I have is not rooted and had android 2.2.1, Hboot 1.01.0002, with s-on.
I have looked at various threads and getting it into recovery will be a challenge!
Are there any threads/procedures you would recommend?

Unfortunately there's no real solution for this issue. Various people faced this issue.
I face this too, but I have a silly workaround for this. Charge the phone, when you feel it's completely charged, just turn it off, now connect it to charger while it's off. now turn the phone on with charger being connected, it should show full battery. Hope this helps.

Wasimk32 said:
Unfortunately there's no real solution for this issue. Various people faced this issue.
I face this too, but I have a silly workaround for this. Charge the phone, when you feel it's completely charged, just turn it off, now connect it to charger while it's off. now turn the phone on with charger being connected, it should show full battery. Hope this helps.
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No luck - I'm going try another battery and see what happens!
Thanks!

Craigmill said:
No luck - I'm going try another battery and see what happens!
Thanks!
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Good luck

new battery
Craigmill said:
No luck - I'm going try another battery and see what happens!
Thanks!
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This worked for me.

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Phone off, charger in, goes into recovery??

Hi all, after some info if possible. It's not a major problem I have, only just noticed it after 4 months.
I'm running CM6.1.3 and CWM, which work brilliantly. The problem I have come across is not being able to charge the phone once I have turned it off without it starting up and going into CWM. Now this isn't a huge problem as I very rarely turn the phone off, but I wanted to charge the battery last night with it off after getting a full charge when on but can't as once it goes into CWM it will stop charging.
Anyone got any ideas how I stop it going into the recovery when I plug it in?
Cheers
blinky
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It's the CWM.
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Do you know how to stop it from happening??
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No . Several people reported this, but no solution found so far (as far as I know).
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Blinkydamo said:
Do you know how to stop it from happening??
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Re-enable fastboot I would assume.
leppie said:
Re-enable fastboot I would assume.
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There is no option for fastboot in CM as far as I can see. If its a common problem with no solution then I will wait, like I said it isn't a huge problem, just wondering if it was an easy fix I hadn't seen.
Cheers everyone for the replies.
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Nothing you can do unfortunately. I'm sure there will be a work around eventually.
There is only one work around for now. Remove ClockworkMod Recovery.
Your DHD when stock, and switched off, would power up into a state of HTC Recovery just to display the little orange or green charging LED, when connected to a charger.
Now since we all replaced HTC Recovery with that of ClockworkMod Recovery, plugging in the charger will start ClockworkMod Recovery.
Sadly there is nothing else we can do.
still no solutions???
Reflash back to the stock recovery.
If I flash the stock recovery and then flash cwm latest 2.x for Desire HD, will it solve the problem?
My problem starts when I have the charger plug in and use ROM manager to reboot into recovery to wipe the batt stats, before that, it was ok.
This is a good thing if you ever encounter bootloops. You just connect to charger and reflash everything. I consider this a feature
Sent from a random phone.
not a good feature for me though ...
my initial intention is to recalibrate my battery.
i'm having trouble draining my battery yesterday before this happening
today, i'm having problem stopping the drain.
i charge till green led and the moment i wipe battery stats and boot up, it's 99%.
and it's going down 1% everytime i check it
and i can't turn off the phone to charge now.
petermartin said:
not a good feature for me though ...
my initial intention is to recalibrate my battery.
i'm having trouble draining my battery yesterday before this happening
today, i'm having problem stopping the drain.
i charge till green led and the moment i wipe battery stats and boot up, it's 99%.
and it's going down 1% everytime i check it
and i can't turn off the phone to charge now.
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Booting your DHD requires more power than the charger supplies, ergo if you boot up the battery is never going to be at 100%. The fact that CWM comes on when the phone is turned off and plugged in is irrelevant, the reason you charge with it turned off is to ensure it is 100% charged before you wipe battery stats, as the phone charges in cwm just charge to 100% then use the option to wipe battery stats. For those cynics who don't believe that the phone charges in cwm get QtADB and you can monitor the phone stats in cwm and watch it charge, simples!

[Q] Battery draining after powering down

Hello All
Im powering down my phone at night (quick boot enabled) & when i wake up in the morning the battery is completely drained. There is normally at least half a charge left before i power down.
This has only just happened the past few days. The phone is around 2 months old.
Any ideas ? Has my battery become faulty ? Should i return the phone ?
Thanks.
Sounds like a hardware fault probably the battery. How did you charge the phone normally?
Try taking the battery out, see if it loses charge after same amount of time.
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I agree with sengork.
Powerdown should use only a few microamps.
sengork said:
Sounds like a hardware fault probably the battery. How did you charge the phone normally?
Try taking the battery out, see if it loses charge after same amount of time.
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Thanks for the reply
I normally charge via the mains, occasionally via usb.
Its only the last couple days its happened.
Will try taking the battery out at night & see what happens.
Normally charged the battery whilst the phone was off?
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Normally charged the battery whilst the phone was off?
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How i charge my phone varies - sometimes i will charge via the mains with either the phone still on or off at night, sometimes with the phone on via usb. I've never had a problem with regards to charging the battery.
I always turn the phone off at night (with quick boot enabled as i said) but the past 2 days, with the battery at least half full, the battery has completely drained by the morning.
Hi,
Try with and without fast boot and see if you yield any different results, I would tend to leave fast boot off if your leaving it off for a prolonged amount of time as the phone doesn't completely shut down.
Also there could be an app draining it too, so u could get autostarts and kill any unwanted apps from starting up when certain criteria are met, like when you switch your screen off, some apps are activated, i know kakao chat does that, even if it doesn't help the prob it's still a good app to have to kill apps from starting when you don't want them.
Let us know how u get on.
PS: Are you using an overvolted kernel ? Maybe knock it down to stock to see if that helps, just to test and then knock it back up when you know what the problem is.
This happened to me on my old phone. Turned out to be a problem with a torn USB cable
Well, took the battery out last night before bed with half power remaining & this morning...re inserted battery & no change at all - so i guess the battery is not faulty.
I am planning on turning off fast boot tonight, powering down the phone & see'ing what sort of state the battery is in tomorrow morning.
Thanks all for the replies so far.
mcstone said:
Hello All
Im powering down my phone at night (quick boot enabled) & when i wake up in the morning the battery is completely drained.
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I was having almost the exact same problem. Phone seemed to drain about 30 - 40 % overnight ( with phone off - fastboot on ).
Anyway I turned off Fastboot and switched off the phone and went to bed last night with about 20% battery and woke up this morning and still had 20%.
I'm not sure how Fastboot is supposed to work but turning it off seems to have solved the problem. It's not really a big loss anyway.
Thanks.
Interesting thread.
What are the benefits of fastboot anyway?
I never had it on my Hero and haven't tired it on my DHD as I've been too busy flashing ROMs since I got it!
Where can I switch of fast boot? I'm on stock rom 1.72. Searched my phone but no luck in finding it...
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KevinNolan said:
Where can I switch of fast boot? I'm on stock rom 1.72. Searched my phone but no luck in finding it...
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Menu > Applications
CitizenLee said:
What are the benefits of fastboot anyway?
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Other than stating the obvious ( i.e. the phone boots faster ) I don't think there is any other advantage. I think it is sort of similar to putting your computer ( if you are using Windows ) into Hibernate rather than shutting down completely.
Anyway there obviously was some sort of conflict with another app as a friend ( and many other users I'm sure ) with a Desire HD uses Fastboot without any overnight battery drain. Anyway I can live without it ( didn't have it on my last phone - a Motorola Milestone ).
It is odd that the battery drained more when the phone was off overnight than it would have done being left on overnight ( just with the screen off doing nothing ).
Anyway as I said - no big deal - and I certainly can't be bothered to uninstall each app one by one until I find the one responsable.
Cheers.
Haha, yeah a faster boot time was the obvious one but I was wondering if that was all.
I have it unticked anyway, and very rarely ever turn my phone off.
Anyway, I hope you manage to fix your problem
CitizenLee said:
Anyway, I hope you manage to fix your problem
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Thanks - as I said above turning off Fastboot seems to have fixed the issue for me. I'm too lazy (!) to find out what about leaving Fastboot on caused the battery drain but as it is a feature I can live without I'll just live with the mystery!!
Cheers.

[Q] Bricked Wildfire cannot power up

Hi
in need of help here....
The phone was happily running CyanogenMod 7.1.0.1 and all was well.
Had the phone plugged into the mains for a recharge and all was as expected.
However the next time that I looked the phone was off without any lights.
I disconnected the charger and tried to reboot the phone, nada
tried rebooting to recovery and again nada.
The phone is completely dead.
tried changing the battery with a known good fully charged battery,
Still cant boot the phone at all and interestingly when connected to PC via USB the PC doesn't see the phone....
Desperately need plenty of help here
TIA
Can you go into HBOOT?
see my post
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1401784
It details how to fix a similar issue i had
Doing it this way will totally wipe all your data i'm afraid.
If you cant get into HBOOT i.e. powers on but just a blank screen, let me know, i should have a fix at home (i'm at work at the moment)
Thanks for getting back to me,
But the issue is the phone is bricked ie cannot boot at all...
need the help
Arfer said:
Thanks for getting back to me,
But the issue is the phone is bricked ie cannot boot at all...
need the help
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so no power to the phone at all? what happens when you connect to PC? does the charge LED come on?
No nothing at all, as I mentioned earlier no lights and the PC does not see it at all..any thoughts? TIA
Mmmmm seems like its a gonna mate.
Last attempt I'd try removing battery and leave it out for about 20mins,then replace and without turning it on or pressing any buttons plug charger in and leave for as long as you can. Try at LEAST 10 hours then try turning it on. Sorry can't think of anything else more to try.
" once its gone,its GONE."
Thanks for that I'll give it a try overnight and post back
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Thanks for that I'll give it a try overnight and post back
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yeah try that and ive just remembered something too but not sure if it was wildfire related but i think it might be worth a mention.
sometimes the chargers have faults and need replacing so lets throw that into the pot too. if the over night power down charge doesnt work maybe try a different charger as a final last resort. really hope its as simple as that for you cos to be honest its not a bad little phone to have.
regards slymobi.
Tried as you suggested, same result. Will try and borrow a known working charger but won't be able to organize it until the weekend. Will post back then.
Thanks for now and best regards Arfer
Ah gutted. Lets hope its the charger then mate. Could try a USB charge whilst you wait for mains charger. Just try off power charge from USB this time.
" once its gone,its GONE."
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Hi
Desperately need plenty of help here
TIA
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i have a nokia 3310 you can have as a replacement.
Thanks for all the help but all to no avail. Technically speaking it's dead. Thanks anyway.
sorry mate, but i think the time has come
Arfer said:
Thanks for all the help but all to no avail. Technically speaking it's dead. Thanks anyway.
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really good excuse for an upgrade though!
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That's a good positive way to look at it ! Shame my wallet is now fully into it's own post Xmas "economic downturn"
I know this sounds like a noobish trick but I was in a similar boat today.
I ran out of juice today during school, so when I got home I plugged my phone in. Nada from it. Cut to the chase, I run CM7.1.0.1_buzz like you with CWM(2.5.0.7 I think).
Took the battery out, and pushed the white button in on it (assuming it's a reset button for the battery controller). Threw the battery back in the phone and plugged it in. I then had a red flashing light, which from what I've seen myself, just means the phone is completely flat (I've seen it twice and my battery still works, no replacement). So I'm leaving it to charge since last time I had it, a full charge got rid of the red flashing light to a solid red light (the normal charging one). I thought I had a brick too since I OC'd it since I rooted a long time ago.
Good luck!
EDIT: Forgot to add, I couldn't get in to HBOOT
Thanks for the battery button tip. Didn't work for me, have also tried putting in my mate's fully charged battery and it won't boot...the phone is no more

[Q]Wlidfire S Battery charge indicator 2.3.5 upgrade problem

Battery charge indicator 2.3.5 upgrade problem
Hello everyone.This is my first time come to xda-developers form.I'm from china.
Yesterday I update my wildfire S(China mainland Edition)to 2.3.5+Sense3.0 lockscreen(Taiwan Edition)'s ROM.
I charge my bbttery yesterday evening.I turn off my phone.
When charge compalate.I found that the LED light didn't change green.It was still orange.
Why?How to solve it?
PS:Maybe my post have some Grammar problem。I hope that you can Bear with it.
Try factory reset see if it helps.
Backup important information and personal stuff first.
Just try the procedure of taking the battery out, sim card, micro sd etc etc and see if that works...
are you using the stock battery?
i used to notice with my (so called) extended battery 2430mah Gold battery, the software would say it was 100% charge, but it stayed orange for around another hour or two, then eventually turned green...i assume this is because the phone software had misjudged the charge level...so although it THOUGHT it was 100% full, it was actually still charging?
so if you have changed the battery at all, leave it charging for a bit longer (only an hour or so) and see if it goes out?
should be safe, as the batteries themselves usually have an auto shut off safety to stop them from being over-charged.
I get the exact same on ALL custom ROMs, never on Stock though, would love a fix!
Ko_Ka said:
I get the exact same on ALL custom ROMs, never on Stock though, would love a fix!
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Since I unlocked my phone's bootloader, rooted and installed custom recovery I have the same problem too.
If I charge the battery with the phone turned on, the led turns green at 100% and everything is fine.
If I charge the battery with the phone off, the led stays orange forever even when I disconnect the charger. Then I have to remove the battery and insert it again so that the led turns off. If I wait enough time charging the battery reaches 100%.
This is a strange sympton that only started with the rooting/recovery flashing process.
Oh and BTW the way, I use stock battery but now I'm waiting for the arrival of two batteries I ordered on eBay.
One is a Li-Ion 1500 mAh and the other a Li-Polymer 2430 mAh.
Will see if the same happens when they arrive but I'm almost 100% sure this has something to do with the bootloader unlocking process.
Does anybody know how to fix this? I would really appreciate it.
Gloris said:
are you using the stock battery?
i used to notice with my (so called) extended battery 2430mah Gold battery, the software would say it was 100% charge, but it stayed orange for around another hour or two, then eventually turned green...i assume this is because the phone software had misjudged the charge level...so although it THOUGHT it was 100% full, it was actually still charging?
so if you have changed the battery at all, leave it charging for a bit longer (only an hour or so) and see if it goes out?
should be safe, as the batteries themselves usually have an auto shut off safety to stop them from being over-charged.
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I for example left my phone charging for 8 hours (during the night) beyond the normal charge time. And the worst is that I have to remove the battery in order to turn off the orange led and be able to turn on my phone...
miguelca said:
I for example left my phone charging for 8 hours (during the night) beyond the normal charge time. And the worst is that I have to remove the battery in order to turn off the orange led and be able to turn on my phone...
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happens to me too ... and i see we don't use same rom ... noone knows ?
Hi
have you try to wipe battery stats in recovery mode?
perhaps this will help, although I had not previously encountered a similar problem
freem4n said:
Hi
have you try to wipe battery stats in recovery mode?
perhaps this will help, although I had not previously encountered a similar problem
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I've tried wiping battery stats in recovery mode and also with Nema Battery Calibration. Nothing fixes this annoying bug.
miguelca said:
I've tried wiping battery stats in recovery mode and also with Nema Battery Calibration. Nothing fixes this annoying bug.
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Same as, pain in the arse!
Great news! At least on my phone this problem is gone.
You wonder how? Simply by updating recovery to v5.0.2.8 from ROM Manager.
I almost didn't notice it it but a few hours ago I plugged my phone to the charger while still on. After finishing my work I turned it off (no fastboot).
In the meanwhile I needed to use my phone far from the wall plug and disconnected the usb charger cable.
My gesture was to immediately remove back cover to remove the battery but fortunately I noticed the orange led went off.
So I decided to plug it again and wait for the charge to complete and for the green led. It did!
So run to the Market, download ROM Manager and let it update your recovery to the latest version.
I hope this annoying pest won't bother you no more.
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Well done MiguelCA
That sorted it out alright, now, thats all my little annoying bugs sorted!
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Well done MiguelCA
That sorted it out alright, now, thats all my little annoying bugs sorted!
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Great to hear that I could help.
miguelca said:
Great news! At least on my phone this problem is gone.
You wonder how? Simply by updating recovery to v5.0.2.8 from ROM Manager.
I almost didn't notice it it but a few hours ago I plugged my phone to the charger while still on. After finishing my work I turned it off (no fastboot).
In the meanwhile I needed to use my phone far from the wall plug and disconnected the usb charger cable.
My gesture was to immediately remove back cover to remove the battery but fortunately I noticed the orange led went off.
So I decided to plug it again and wait for the charge to complete and for the green led. It did!
So run to the Market, download ROM Manager and let it update your recovery to the latest version.
I hope this annoying pest won't bother you no more.
Sent from my HTC Wildfire S A510e using xda premium
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thanks, i will definitely try this, ive been having a hard time looking on ways how to solve this problem.. also can i now do battery calibration steps after that?
cause im having battery drain issue on my WFS after flashing of ROM, im not getting 4.219V my only maximum was 4.196V. And yesterday i tried charging my phone in OFF state for 7.5hours and when i open it 100% at 4.077V, and now 87% just after 15mins of use..
jerdict said:
thanks, i will definitely try this, ive been having a hard time looking on ways how to solve this problem.. also can i now do battery calibration steps after that?
cause im having battery drain issue on my WFS after flashing of ROM, im not getting 4.219V my only maximum was 4.196V. And yesterday i tried charging my phone in OFF state for 7.5hours and when i open it 100% at 4.077V, and now 87% just after 15mins of use..
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also try the battery saving tips from my signature links
b02 said:
also try the battery saving tips from my signature links
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thanks, il try your tips after i succeed in battery calibration.
miguelca said:
Great news! At least on my phone this problem is gone.
You wonder how? Simply by updating recovery to v5.0.2.8 from ROM Manager.
I almost didn't notice it it but a few hours ago I plugged my phone to the charger while still on. After finishing my work I turned it off (no fastboot).
In the meanwhile I needed to use my phone far from the wall plug and disconnected the usb charger cable.
My gesture was to immediately remove back cover to remove the battery but fortunately I noticed the orange led went off.
So I decided to plug it again and wait for the charge to complete and for the green led. It did!
So run to the Market, download ROM Manager and let it update your recovery to the latest version.
I hope this annoying pest won't bother you no more.
Sent from my HTC Wildfire S A510e using xda premium
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sorted it out alright,was using a universal charger for a replacement night hour charging ....thought this is just because of the overclocking.
First of all reset the phone . Am sure that will help.
john1fernandez said:
First of all reset the phone . Am sure that will help.
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Not what the problem was or related to, it was an outdated ROM manager app that caused it...

Phone stuck on charging logo after charging it turned off

Hey guys!
My phone died on me yesterday since I forgot to charge it the day before, it was dead in my pocket for 3 hours until I got home.
Without bothering to do anything, I simply plugged my dead phone into the charger and went to bed. I woke up today, unplugged it from the charger and the phone stayed with the charging symbol stuck, I pressed the power button and nothing so I had to make a battery pull to get it to turn on.
Any issue to what could have caused this? also any interesting battery saving tips? sprints crappy 3g network in my area is draining the battery quickly so I turned off mobile data.
EDIT: Snap, I think this belongs in the Q&A section sorry mods
forcing 2g mode should help.
you can also get a spare battery
letting a lithium battery drain to 0 reduces its life.
Not sure what could have happened to make your phone get stuck at boot when charging.
As far as battery saving tips, there are tons all over these forums, but it really depends on what you are willing to give up as far as features in order to save battery. You can always turn down screen brightness, turn off WiFi/Bluetooth/3G, uninstall battery-hogging apps, turn off sync and background data etc.. Its all about finding a good balance though.
martonikaj said:
Not sure what could have happened to make your phone get stuck at boot when charging.
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That's not his issue.
gab2012 said:
Hey guys!
I woke up today, unplugged it from the charger and the phone stayed with the charging symbol stuck, I pressed the power button and nothing so I had to make a battery pull to get it to turn on.
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That's a sign of either:
dirty usb port, clean it.
Faulty or going faulty usb port.
Sometimes Rom, kernel issue.
atifsh said:
That's not his issue.
That's a sign of either:
dirty usb port, clean it.
Faulty or going faulty usb port.
Sometimes Rom, kernel issue.
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Can I use compressed air to blow the possible dust out?
I'm running ru jellying m1 with no special kernel.
gab2012 said:
Can I use compressed air to blow the possible dust out?
I'm running ru jellying m1 with no special kernel.
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I have that ROM as well this is one of the few listed bugs in the OP of that thread.
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sstory792 said:
I have that ROM as well this is one of the few listed bugs in the OP of that thread.
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Thanks, should have red the OP first

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