Overnight charge only reaches 20% - Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III

Hey guys Ive been having severe battery and charging issues, tried new cables/ 2.1 charger warts etc but my battery life was still crappy. I went out and bought an extended battery and its been good exept my phone will not reach 100%. It reaches 20% overnight. I can still use it and eventually its starts going from 20% down so im pretty sure its taking charge just not displaying it properly. Any suggestions?

How long has this been going on? How many overnight charges of the extended battery?
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ricanjoe said:
Hey guys Ive been having severe battery and charging issues, tried new cables/ 2.1 charger warts etc but my battery life was still crappy. I went out and bought an extended battery and its been good exept my phone will not reach 100%. It reaches 20% overnight. I can still use it and eventually its starts going from 20% down so im pretty sure its taking charge just not displaying it properly. Any suggestions?
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What kernel you using? I flashed one a couple weeks ago that caused those issues.. Went away as soon as I flashed a different one. Also, when it happens, restart your phone, unplug it and then plug it back in. It tends to make it charge correctly again. Until the next time it happens.. Over night I only got to 33% before

ReapersDeath said:
What kernel you using? I flashed one a couple weeks ago that caused those issues.. Went away as soon as I flashed a different one. Also, when it happens, restart your phone, unplug it and then plug it back in. It tends to make it charge correctly again. Until the next time it happens.. Over night I only got to 33% before
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I have the stock kernel from the moar rom. which kernel do you recommend? Sometimes I unplug the charger and it shows up as if its still plugged in and vice versa as well.

roirraW "edor" ehT said:
How long has this been going on? How many overnight charges of the extended battery?
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Ever since I got it, 4 days ago. And the original samsung battery does the same. Sometimes the phone will think its still plugged in even after I unplugged it for 10 minutes.

Sounds like a possible hardware issue? Especially since you just got it. If it wasn't completely stock when you got it, I would take it back to stock?
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Update today, did a factory reset through my twrp menu and I left it overnight and it reached 100% finally. This morning I recovered my nandroid backup to get all my stuff back and it has been running okay. Charging is still kind of crazy. My battery status app will show "Connected" But still discharging at -1200ma. I might just have to buy a even bigger battery so I that I dont have to worry about charging only at night. That could be a solution untill I upgrade.

ricanjoe said:
Update today, did a factory reset through my twrp menu and I left it overnight and it reached 100% finally. This morning I recovered my nandroid backup to get all my stuff back and it has been running okay. Charging is still kind of crazy. My battery status app will show "Connected" But still discharging at -1200ma. I might just have to buy a even bigger battery so I that I dont have to worry about charging only at night. That could be a solution untill I upgrade.
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so after the factory reset your battery inside your phone reached 100% or the extended battery?

6th_Hokage said:
so after the factory reset your battery inside your phone reached 100% or the extended battery?
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Yes the extended battery was the one that reacheD 100%. I bought this battery because I thought the original battery was going bad but that must have not been the case. It seems like the issue is somewhere else.

These newer phones seem to be lasting less and less. They are rushing too fast to make the next one LOL.

ricanjoe said:
These newer phones seem to be lasting less and less. They are rushing too fast to make the next one LOL.
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mines bran new and its lasting 2 days on a charge with the internal battery so it could be something with your exact phone and if your phone is Sprint try using Odin to go back to stock ND8 to see if the issues disappear cause that seams to cure 90% of problems

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Bad battery?

I have had some issues where my phone won't wake up so I have to pull the battery and when it reboots the battery drops like 20%. Is this a bad battery or what causes this?
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what rom are you running? if i remember correctly there was an issue with one of the roms but i cant remember. but I do remember it being an older rom that did that.
as for the batt. % i get that all the time even when i reboot..tho i get a bigger drop in % when the batter is lower.. like if i was at 50% batt power.. reboot then i would be like at 20% batt. power.. but it would stay at 20% for a really long time till it caught up with it. and sometimes the batter % would rise up a bit. but eventually start to go down again.
But maybe I have a bad battery also.. so im not sure...lol
Jeepguyxj said:
what rom are you running? if i remember correctly there was an issue with one of the roms but i cant remember. but I do remember it being an older rom that did that.
as for the batt. % i get that all the time even when i reboot..tho i get a bigger drop in % when the batter is lower.. like if i was at 50% batt power.. reboot then i would be like at 20% batt. power.. but it would stay at 20% for a really long time till it caught up with it. and sometimes the batter % would rise up a bit. but eventually start to go down again.
But maybe I have a bad battery also.. so im not sure...lol
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I had the exact same problem my phone would constantly reboot and shut itself off then I would lose half my battery % I thought it was the battery too so I returned it to stock and took it to sprint they looked at the phone for 2 hours and said there was absolutely nothing wrong with it or the battery. So I took it home and re rooted using Qbking77's latest method the one that does not give you the yellow triangle and I have not had one reboot or sleep of death since and the phone just runs soo much better now so I think it was a bad root for me. I would try re rooting with the latest method and see what that does for you. Also ya out of curiosity what rom are you using because I have heard similar stories from people running the ICS leaks.
studdmufin said:
I have had some issues where my phone won't wake up so I have to pull the battery and when it reboots the battery drops like 20%. Is this a bad battery or what causes this?
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In recovery, wipe your battery stats. May help after the phone calibrates.
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I had the exact same problem my phone would constantly reboot and shut itself off then I would lose half my battery % I thought it was the battery too so I returned it to stock and took it to sprint they looked at the phone for 2 hours and said there was absolutely nothing wrong with it or the battery. So I took it home and re rooted using Qbking77's latest method the one that does not give you the yellow triangle and I have not had one reboot or sleep of death since and the phone just runs soo much better now so I think it was a bad root for me. I would try re rooting with the latest method and see what that does for you. Also ya out of curiosity what rom are you using because I have heard similar stories from people running the ICS leaks.
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I'm running caulk's fc07 1.1 with the repacked kernal. It happened to me before on GB while also running caulk's rom but it only a few times. It seems to happen more now. Here is a screen of my battery
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I believe this would happen more in most recent ROMs because everyone is focusing how fast we can run it or how long we can use it. In either case, there are lots of tweaks and mechanism to make it fast and last long.
For the battery life, there is some background process monitoring unnecessary processes and kills those or tweaks to less frequently monitor the status. So, if the process which is related to battery life is killed, next time when it wake up, it may detect the different life time based on current Voltage or mA. I'm not an expert in this area but it's highly possible scenario. Tweaking the system brings lots of good things to us but in the other side, there could be some
side effect.
If you want to verify this theory, you can just compare the non tweaked rom versus tweaked Rom.
Be sure that you don't run any battery saver apps on non tweaked rom to measure it correctly.
Attached is my last screenshot yesterday after I removed the battery saver app. Currently I'm using Calk's Stock Rom FC07 (non tweaked version). Based on my test, the battery last longer than when battery save app installed and running.
Cool I didn't know that would be an issue. Well I'll try that thanks for help
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Also a note... with my experience anything to do with 3g service... I can kiss my batter life goodbye... if im at 100% battery life.. and i have 3g on... it will last around 5 hours and its dead

note 2 update to 4.1.2

hey i was a while ago waiting for the 4.1.2 update of the note 2 n7100 ... i saw a couple of days ago that people are not satisfied with the update and that it is causing problems ,, mainly the " SDS" and others complaining about freezes.
can someone tell me what is the update version that is having this problem??
also have anyone here faced this problem with the update
if your eMMc chip is vulnerable to sds, the 4.1.2 temporaly fix it,also it fix exynos abuse
The problem i have faced since the update is:
The phone will never go on deepsleep,reducing battery life.
Is highly recommended that if your phone is vulnerable to sds upg to 4.1.2
well i checked and my phone is not vulnerable ,, i saw that the update has some new features that seemed to be useful , i will consider updating ...
anyway thanks bro
There are no problems with 4.1.2, it has several small improvements. Never had reboot or freeze or anything wrong happen. The only problem is battery life which is shorter then with 4.1.1....
dalanik said:
There are no problems with 4.1.2, it has several small improvements. Never had reboot or freeze or anything wrong happen. The only problem is battery life which is shorter then with 4.1.1....
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the battery drain issue is that report from your personal use of the update??
i need a battery test for that matters if someone can post it here
aboalghool said:
the battery drain issue is that report from your personal use of the update??
i need a battery test for that matters if someone can post it here
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I don't have any "numbers" but it is so OBVIOUS, not small difference.... I.e. overnight drain was 1-2% now it is 10% at least... previously I charged my Note II until midnight, in the morning it was like 98%, I used it whole day at work and came home at 5pm with like 40-50% battery. Now I charge it at work until lunchtime (12:00) and come home and it is like 40-50% level... so NOTICABLE diference....
dalanik said:
I don't have any "numbers" but it is so OBVIOUS, not small difference.... I.e. overnight drain was 1-2% now it is 10% at least... previously I charged my Note II until midnight, in the morning it was like 98%, I used it whole day at work and came home at 5pm with like 40-50% battery. Now I charge it at work until lunchtime (12:00) and come home and it is like 40-50% level... so NOTICABLE diference....
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thats makes this update for me a major FAIL
aboalghool said:
thats makes this update for me a major FAIL
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Yes, I agree, I wouldn't flash if I was not afraid of Sudden Death Syndrome, since I have the chip they say can fail under 4.1.1....
dalanik said:
I don't have any "numbers" but it is so OBVIOUS, not small difference.... I.e. overnight drain was 1-2% now it is 10% at least... previously I charged my Note II until midnight, in the morning it was like 98%, I used it whole day at work and came home at 5pm with like 40-50% battery. Now I charge it at work until lunchtime (12:00) and come home and it is like 40-50% level... so NOTICABLE diference....
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O really? Sorry to prove you wrong but, you're really really wrong.
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Taken on my 4.1.2 stock device. And that's with BT on all the time, and WIFI on when the screen is on, and just a brief 10 minutes or so on charge.
Battery life on 4.1.2 is just fine.
some devices will have normal battery life on 4.1.2, my phone got a random wakelock with 4.1.2, while my mother note 2 with 4.1.2 got normal battery life.
pd: i see you charged your phone in that screen.
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pd: i see you charged your phone in that screen.
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Try reading.
and just a brief 10 minutes or so on charge.
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I state quite clearly that I did charge it, briefly. It makes bugger all different to the overall power consumption, which you can see quite clearly.
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Try reading.
I state quite clearly that I did charge it, briefly. It makes bugger all different to the overall power consumption, which you can see quite clearly.
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forget everything now,,, look guys i am updating my phone .. tonight i will post my battery status
however; tonight i will include battery status of my phone with no background apps..[i will shut down everything including wifi , BT , antivirus]
tomorow i will turn on BT, WIFI & lookout antivirus
I was expecting to find more people talking about issues with the 4.1.2 upgrade - does appear to be a minority (that I am unfortunately in)
Since upgrading, my (sim free) Note 2 has gone from being just about perfect in operation and behaviour to suffering;
- Daily episodes of freezing (often requiring a battery out to reset)
- 2 or 3 times a day it will randomly re-boot itself
- whilst typing on keyboard often suddenly goes very laggy
- battery life has *defnintely* worsened (probabbly by around 15% or so per days use - it does deep sleep though)
- calendar view/settings reset themselves every re-boot (annoying)
All the above annoy the cr4p out of me, as I am super picky with my phones/devices and I'm pretty dissappointed with this - given the phone was SO slick pre-update. I can't stand to have a buggy phone, so unless there's an update to cater for these issues very soon (.3?) it's S4 for me.
(I would roll back to .1 in a heartbeat, but looking at how to do it, it's tantamount to a rooting processs in it's 'complexity' - you guys may be adept at such things, but to me they just look like an uneccessary ball-ache - shame there can't be a kind of 'macro/apk/idiots program' that does it all for you! But there you go, I'll have to suffer for now and see which way to jump in a few weeks I guess).
My advice? DON'T upgrade to .2 - I can't see any discernable benefit in day to day use, but I can see a LOT of irritating downside.
Very pi55ed off
Sounds like you've got something else going on than the 4.1.2 update. I have NONE of those issues at all, and battery life is just as excellent as it ever was.
i'm on 4.1.2
I've updated my mobile to 4.1.2
Baseband version : N7100XXDLK7
Build number : N7100XXDMB5
and i don't have any single problem with that update....
and the battery performance has really improved
overnight test ... without BT or WIFI but antivirus is on
tonight i will put BT and WIFI on

[Q] Phone always charging

Like the title says...
I pull my phone off the charger at 8AM. By 9AM it still shows 100% and still has the charging icon.
Finally at 10AM it drops to ~67%
It started a few days ago... Previously the charging icon would flash on and off every few minutes...
Here's a pic of the battery screen:
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Is it a bad battery? Maybe the phone is going?
Software issue?
@orb360
Give you're battery the spin test... as for the charging icon staying on... could be a dirty port or a connector touching/bent inside the port itself.. strange that it stops.. I'm not sure..
As for the bad reading and then a huge drop... have you recently changed batteries or flashed a rom... I'm kinda at a loss... I once had my battery read off by about 20 percent and I had to wipe my battery stats in recovery to get it to read right , but that was after I replaced my old battery with a bigger one..
Just my thoughts...
It won't spin much... I had a previous battery about 1.5 months ago inflate and had to replace it... ( It actually popped the back off the phone )
I picked this one up at a Sprint store around that time.
Is there a way to wipe battery stats without a custom recovery flashed? I'm running stock 4.1.2
It's a work phone so I'm not really supposed to be flashing custom stuff to it.
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It won't spin much... I had a previous battery about 1.5 months ago inflate and had to replace it... ( It actually popped the back off the phone )
I picked this one up at a Sprint store around that time.
Is there a way to wipe battery stats without a custom recovery flashed? I'm running stock 4.1.2
It's a work phone so I'm not really supposed to be flashing custom stuff to it.
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Well, You'll have to root your device to wipe battery stats
orb360 said:
It won't spin much... I had a previous battery about 1.5 months ago inflate and had to replace it... ( It actually popped the back off the phone )
I picked this one up at a Sprint store around that time.
Is there a way to wipe battery stats without a custom recovery flashed? I'm running stock 4.1.2
It's a work phone so I'm not really supposed to be flashing custom stuff to it.
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You most likely need a new battery.
Wiping battery stats... Let's just say that if snopes.com were to cover Android, this would have to be one of their first articles. There is a ton of myths about the unicorn-like magic that can result from wiping battery stats. The truth is, the contents of the batterystats bin file basically tell a part of Sec Settings some information in order to make estimates for displaying numbers in your battery stats (literally, in Settings) - details like screen on for two hours, used 40% of battery... wiping battery stats erases those few lines of information, nothing more. It doesn't somehow alter anything inside a battery, or anything else.</soapbox>
If you want to clear battery stats as it were, no harm in giving it a shot, right? It is very easy to do. Every time you charge and then unplug near a full charge you have reset battery stats. That's why it will all say "0" if you look real quick at the battery stats in your settings - poof, battery stats were reset.
You should get a new battery though. Get work to buy it. Cheers.
[Reference one Google developer's article about "wiping battery stats" here: https://plus.google.com/105051985738280261832/posts/FV3LVtdVxPT]
Edit: Wondering how you'd kill batteries so fast. Do you use your phone a lot while it's plugged in by any chance? Like, watch hours of netflix while plugged in? Just trying to think of how you might be cooking things in there perhaps, so... next battery will last longer than six weeks.
Well...
I'll see if a new battery fixes things... At only a month and a half old maybe the Sprint store will replace it no questions... hopefully...
If I turn off the phone and pull the battery...
If all I do is stick the battery in, it acts like it's charging... The "phone is off" battery charging screen comes on for a few seconds.. Then it shuts off and comes back on. Repeatedly.
So it can't be a software thing if the phone's not even turned on right?
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So it can't be a software thing if the phone's not even turned on right?
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That part is correct. Bad charging port can certainly do that, but the erratic charge status reported as in your previous posts wouldn't be because of a bad charging port, so I do not think your problem is that part of the hardware... It sounds like "classic" bad battery. I would certainly try to argue/plea/demand a replacement battery from Sprint given the short life it had. I don't know off hand their warranty on that sort of purchase, but I'd bring my I-mean-business to the store for sure. I do know they have some discretion at the store level. I'd go in anyway - show them what it's doing, bring the receipt from the battery you just bought, and hopefully get a fix. If there's some other miscellaneous hardware problem creating these problems, it's no longer within my knowledge sphere, lol. Good luck. :good:
I got a different battery to test with and the issues persist
(The charging while disconnected and unable to power on without being connected to a power source)
I've read cleaning the charging port with alcohol might help...
If that doesn't work I'm just going to send it back for a refurb.

takes fuzzy picture and then shuts down

I am wondering if someone here can help me.
I have an unrooted SGIII from Sprint and have had the phone since 2012.
In the last update, to kitkat at least I have noticed some serious battery drain...in particular when I take pictures, the pictures get very grainy and then boom, the phone shuts down. Not cool.
do i need a new battery? I have read all the information about saving battery infact I can hardly see my screen my brightness is so low.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks
Try a factory reset after backup what you want.
If that doesn't help, try Odining the stock ND8 tar from a PC, in the development (non-original) section.
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I can't tell you that a new battery will fix your problems. But, I replaced my battery after 9 months of use and I was amazed at the difference. Try borrowing someone's battery and see if it makes a difference? If you buy a new battery and that doesn't solve the problem, you've ruled out the battery and now have 2 batteries to switch between
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I have this exact same problem. Any time the battery is below 40-50%, the camera could cause the phone to shut down at any time. Really, anything will cause it to shut down, but it seems like the camera will do it every single time. The phone will not stay on after that point unless you plug it in for even 5 minutes, at which point it tells you your battery is 60-70%.
This is the reason I rooted and then flashed the Odin stock ND8 the other day (http://forum.xda-developers.com/gal...rint-galaxy-s3-complete-boot-process-t2829181). I then flashed to Wicked X v7.3. It has only been two days, but the same symptoms persist. My wife has the same phone and experiences the same problems, which all started upon the update to 4.4.2.
If anybody has any ideas, I'm all ears.
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I have this exact same problem. Any time the battery is below 40-50%, the camera could cause the phone to shut down at any time. Really, anything will cause it to shut down, but it seems like the camera will do it every single time. The phone will not stay on after that point unless you plug it in for even 5 minutes, at which point it tells you your battery is 60-70%.
This is the reason I rooted and then flashed the Odin stock ND8 the other day (http://forum.xda-developers.com/gal...rint-galaxy-s3-complete-boot-process-t2829181). I then flashed to Wicked X v7.3. It has only been two days, but the same symptoms persist. My wife has the same phone and experiences the same problems, which all started upon the update to 4.4.2.
If anybody has any ideas, I'm all ears.
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how long have you guys had your phone any water damage? hard falls things like that?
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how long have you guys had your phone any water damage? hard falls things like that?
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Got the phone in December 2012, as did my wife. No hard falls that I can remember. Up until recently I had it in an Otter Box Commuter case. I took it out after I updated and started pulling the battery to try to get things to reset (never worked and like the smaller profile so I didn't put the case back on).
Tonight I installed the Xposed critical battery shutdown module and also Battery Calibration recommended in these posts http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2781926 and (can't find the thread recommending Battery Calibration by Nema, but whatever). After I installed the module (and I think activated it), I ran the battery down until the phone shut off. Will charge to 100% tonight and start calibration in the morning.
The module does not appear to be working,as the phone shut down at 28% with no prior warnings that it prevented shutdown. That's unfortunate. To activate the module, do I just click the check mark and reboot?
from what I've seen water damage and hard falls can have a heavy impact on the OS(not like crack screen or digitizer but just a hard fall and phone survives) well except on water proof/shock proof phones.....but for the most part if a factory reset/Odin/Heimdall/what ever method back to stock you use doesn't fix the problem its a hardware issue
All's better after new battery
I just wanted to post a followup to my issue. After the shutdown mod and battery calibration didn't help, I bought an Anker replacement battery from Amazon. Since my wife had the same problem, I bought a two pack for $28. I charged the battery overnight and then in the morning hit the battery calibration button.
I noticed a difference right away - I was only down 7% after a few hours at work. My goal was to let the battery run down until the phone shut off, which happened at about the 30 hour mark with my playing HD youtube videos for the last hour so it would die. The battery life indicator actually counted all the way down to 1% before shutting off, which is a stark contrast to the 30% that had been occurring with the old battery.
With the new battery, I've also used the camera when it was under 30% with no problems.
My recommendation for anyone that has similar problems is to get a new battery. They are a hell of a lot cheaper than a new phone, so it's worth a shot.

Power Problems??? Can't charge and message of device/battery overheating

Ok, this may turn into a long question but here it goes. I the a TMO Samsung Galaxy S4, been running fine now for over 1 year, 3 weeks ago, I flashed one of Dan's 12/12 builds of GPE 5.0. Around the 20th of December, I woke up with my phone underneath me and I must have fallen asleep with it while it. (Problem isn't associated with ROM, just giving you guys everything leading to issue) I went to turn on phone and battery was pretty much dead. Ok, so I go to plug on charger and but the battery icon just keeps recycling. I decide to to pull the battery inspect everything and all is good. I cannot get the device to charge or boot! I figure it's a dead battery, bad charging cable or USB port on phone is broken.... So I take my wife's battery (she has same phone) BOOM phone boots up, I put my battery in her phone and it charges normally.
So I connect everything to the computer because I originally thought, maybe something is either wrong with the recovery, ROM or firmware. Well... USB works perfectly fine for connecting data, I'm able to transfer files to SD card without a problem. So I tried to download the newest build at them time which was 12/24. I downloaded the GPE 5.0 12/24 build then installed with success. I rebooted and literally the second it hit the homescreen setup, the phone said "powering down - shutting down" I couldn't get past that screen. I tried this a few times, same results. I thought it was a bad download, tried alternate mirrors, same result. As a last ditch resort, I downloaded the Newest firmware that was out (yes I understand it has knox, but at this point I didn't care) installed a factory IMG and rebooted into ROM. Ok.... It let me in, BUT!!!! Almost immediately I get a message saying, "device/battery overheating - closing all 2 applications......." literally could only use phone and that was it!
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At this point, I'm pretty stumped on what is going on, I think ok.... Battery is good, works perfectly fine in my wife's phone, it's not the battery. So I try charing again, the red light is blinking, error states there's a problem charging your device and the battery icon is also blinking. At this point, I'm not positive it's the USB board here's why. I cannot install any newer ROM without getting an overheating message that pops up. I also tried downloading the 12/25 build of Dan's GPE 5.0 ROM and I had the same results as the 12/24 build. The phone will boot and immediately shut down.
Here's the weird part... I can install and boot the 8/30 GPE build which is last kitkat built from Dan, I can't charge it, I get the same blinking light, but it works. My question is.... 1. Does anyone know what my issue is? 2. Are there any further troubleshooting steps I can take? 3. I would love to install one of the newer builds, but I can't what's different from 8/30 GPE to the newer 12/25 build that shuts the phone down. I'm guessing it is a safety measure because it says the phone is getting to hot.
Sounds like hardware issue. The reason it shuts down is probably as you guess it, safety measure of the kernel. Probably different than what you used or was baked with the older build. Does the phone get hot even when you don't use it?
serio22 said:
Sounds like hardware issue. The reason it shuts down is probably as you guess it, safety measure of the kernel. Probably different than what you used or was baked with the older build. Does the phone get hot even when you don't use it?
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Yeah that's what I'm guessing. As far as the phone getting hot, negative. Phone is cool to touch if it's idle. Even when I turn it on I don't understand how it could be "overheating" The kernel is intersting.... I wonder if I was to flash the newest GPE ROM then flash say KT kernel isntead of the Googey kernel if that would have any affect. I'll give it a shot later. Thanks for the reply.
RBalber said:
Yeah that's what I'm guessing. As far as the phone getting hot, negative. Phone is cool to touch if it's idle. Even when I turn it on I don't understand how it could be "overheating" The kernel is intersting.... I wonder if I was to flash the newest GPE ROM then flash say KT kernel isntead of the Googey kernel if that would have any affect. I'll give it a shot later. Thanks for the reply.
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That really is odd. Does the battery drain unexplainably?
serio22 said:
That really is odd. Does the battery drain unexplainably?
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Negative. Battery has regular drain in stand by or sleep mode.
RBalber said:
Negative. Battery has regular drain in stand by or sleep mode.
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Then it must be getting a false reading somehow

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