HELP phone not charging. - Sony Xperia ZL

So this is the problem: my ZL displays the charging light, it appears to be charging, but does not charge. I always had problems with charging, having to wiggle the connection or something for it to work, but not this type of problem. Sometimes it goes up for like 1%, then down again, wiggling between 10% and 20% battery. This happened in the last 3 hours, i switched cables, wall plugs, etc. Still the same. What can i do? When i keep it plugged it does not discharge, but i'm afraid that if it gets to 0%, it'll die. What can be the problem? Please help me

darkielol said:
So this is the problem: my ZL displays the charging light, it appears to be charging, but does not charge. I always had problems with charging, having to wiggle the connection or something for it to work, but not this type of problem. Sometimes it goes up for like 1%, then down again, wiggling between 10% and 20% battery. This happened in the last 3 hours, i switched cables, wall plugs, etc. Still the same. What can i do? When i keep it plugged it does not discharge, but i'm afraid that if it gets to 0%, it'll die. What can be the problem? Please help me
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Dont worry frnd.
Need some inputs before i zero down the problem
1) Are you using the stock charger that came with your phone. If so there is every possibility either the charger head or usb cable has gone faulty.
2) Type *#*#7378423#*#* and goto battery test and check its health condition. If it says condition is good then the fault is with your charger
3) Try using a charger which is a 1500ma charger.The normal charger supports only 800ma/500ma so your mobile will not be able to draw enough current from it and usually takes more time to charge or the charging rate with be equal to the discharging rate like in your case.

Hi,
I had the same problem just recently - phone wouldn't charge to above 5% or so (if I was lucky) - all original charger. When I plugged in the charger, the led light flashed red, then another color (green or yellow, can't remember), and then it didn't charge.
I actually had some problems with charging a couple of times before - it went on and off like 5-6 time, but then it did start to charge normally after a while. This last time, I tried to charge it for hours without any luck.
If i booted it up, it sometimes charged to 4-5%, then it would stop/start/stop/start endlessly. The same thing happened when I connected the phone to my computer, the USB fell off/on/off/on endlessly. I thought it was a faulty cable / charger first, but this happened to all cables and chargers I tried. I then thought it was the USB-port on the phone. Or a faulty battery.
After a while, it mostly stopped at 1-2% - sometimes immediately. I noticed that after using the "battery button" to hard reset the phone, I always seemed to get a few %'s of charge, and it didn't just blink immediately when plugging in the charger.
I had even written my problem description and was about to send the phone back to the retailer, when I did one last try of factory resetting the phone from the recovery, wiping everything. The problem still existed when I booted the phone, however, entering the recovery again after factory reset - I actually noticed that the phone charged above 5% this time. Leaving it on charging while in recovery, it got up to 8%, and then I thought the problem was fixed. Booting again, still same charging problem. I then factory reset again, and tried recovery again... Leaving the charger on - I managed to charge it to 100%. After this, I've never had any problem charging the phone. :|
I don't know what solved the problem, it could be only charging from recovery, or it could be that the full wipe deleted some battery stats or something? I did install an app to wipe battery stats after the problems occured, it also showed the charging rate of the battery, and it went up and down like crazy when I had the problem.
I don't really know if this is of any help, but I had PhilZ recovery at least which I managed to charge with.

You can try any methods, but i realy think that it because bad accumulator.
- original chargers
- hard reset
If it is not help - your way is go to the service.
Usually it the problem with accumulator or power controller.

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[Resolved] Empty desire not charging (no LED, no power on)

Hi,
last night my Desire ran out of juice, and when i woke up it was empty.
So this morning i turned it on, entered my PIN and immediatly plugged it.
When i came back later, it was not running anymore. The LED isn't green as usual, and i can't turn it on.
It charges for several hours now, and nothing happen. I tried pulling of the battery, nothing at all.
I'm running Oxygen 2.0 RC7 (Android 2.3.2) for weeks without any problems.
tl;dr : phone not charging, no led at all. plz help.
Thx in advance for your answers !
EDIT : the phone rebooted without SIM and SD cards. Weird.
I just faced the same problem. I woke up to see the battery was compelety drained and the phone was off. I plug in the charger but the led doesn't turn on. How did you resolve this? How did you manage to reboot the device?
In my case, the phone was on with the charger plugged in but battery icon is red and empty. I reboot and clear battery stat in clockworkmod, reboot and all's well again...
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Well, in my case I had drained the battery completely. The phone neither would turn on nor would charge after the battery was drained overnight. I checked that there was about 3V in all cells of the battery.
In such case, pull out the battery and plug in your charger and you can see the led flash in all colors. This will make sure that the problem is with the drained battery and not the phone. Leave the charger plugged in for about 10-15 mins without the battery. Then put the battery back on and charge your phone, it should start charging and you will be able to see the red led. Now, let it charge till till your battery is fully charged.
i also have the problem that the phone want charge
when i insert the charger (with removed battery) sometimes the led starts flashing and sometimes it does not
at the first time i tried your method and waited for about 10 minutes
at next i inserted the battery but the phone didnt start to charge and now the led want start flashing when i connect it to the charger
ME Too1!!!!
pointia said:
i also have the problem that the phone want charge
when i insert the charger (with removed battery) sometimes the led starts flashing and sometimes it does not
at the first time i tried your method and waited for about 10 minutes
at next i inserted the battery but the phone didnt start to charge and now the led want start flashing when i connect it to the charger
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Please HELP !!! Tryed other bats and chargers, no led, no charging, it't 0% charging non stop!(i charged battery in other phone!)
Any solutions to cp6ija's problem?
This morning had same problem myself. HTC Desire plugged into mains charger overnight, but this morning discovered hadn't actually been charging and battery low although phone working. Now battery drained and cant get charging led to flash whether plugged into mains charger or PC via USB. Tried different USB leads and temporary battery removal as well as charging withour batter. LED resolutely dead
As per sod's law, phone out of warranty a few months back.
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[Q] Problems charging/holding a charge/can't boot

Having massive issues right now. Last night I left my phone plugged in AC to charge and ran a sleep tracker app. Woke up this morning and found the phone dead. I tried unplugging and plugging again multiple times and managed to get the Red LED blinking then it went steady indicating it was charging. Turned the phone on but as if it wasn't charging anymore, it powered off within minutes. I managed to get recovery running and factory reset (running CM10). Same issue still there. I even tried leaving the phone in hboot and recovery to charge but after 10 mins the battery went flat again. Now I've just left the phone off and plugged into AC. The blinking LED came on again then went steady - but after 15 mins the LED light disappears. I just left it like that, now the phone tries to boot up but gets stuck at HTC logo. Also it is incredibly hot.
Any ideas? Really need help here.
Additional info, installed NFS: Most Wanted yesterday, tried playing but phone really overheated big time. Could that have cause the motherboard to fry? Just seems odd though cause it boots up fine, just won't stay on - can't even get past the initial setup wizard.
Also I would take it back to Vodafone AU but since I can't get the phone up long enough to restore to stock, they might find out I've rooted and thus voiding my warranty.
I had the same problem. I installed NFS MW and it drained my battery like help and when i tried recharging it it wouldnt charge
at all. Even when i pluged the phone on it wouldnt charge. Tried a different cable. For all it could be a adapter/cable problem.
That was what it was for me. I tried a different charger and it worked. If you are using a different charger, use something with 1A output.
If the led is blinking, it means that the battery is verryy low.
once your phone turns on, turn the airplane mode ON and display OFF and wait a few minutes before using the phone.
no luck
xzallent said:
I had the same problem. I installed NFS MW and it drained my battery like help and when i tried recharging it it wouldnt charge
at all. Even when i pluged the phone on it wouldnt charge. Tried a different cable. For all it could be a adapter/cable problem.
That was what it was for me. I tried a different charger and it worked. If you are using a different charger, use something with 1A output.
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Yea, I tried using a different cable, even tried using my old iPod USB to wall adapter. No luck there, but I think I'm on to something now. Thanks anyway
getting there
Vcek said:
If the led is blinking, it means that the battery is verryy low.
once your phone turns on, turn the airplane mode ON and display OFF and wait a few minutes before using the phone.
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Hey, yea I figured that much from searching around. Too bad it's such a big flaw. I couldn't sustain a charge at all when I was still on CM10. Couldn't even finish booting up and it would just die. Voltage was super low was my guess. Tried using the fastboot charging script (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1658084&page=5) and managed to get battery up enough to flash stock boot.img, did a nandroid restore to Stock ROM then flashed stock recovery. Seems to be stable now, in airplane mode and display off. Started up phone at 4% and now it's at 6% so fingers crossed :fingers-crossed: Thanks for the reply though - needing all the tips I can get!

[Bricked] Flat battery, Won't charge, No recovery, No root

Hello all,
I'm at my wits end to put it lightly... I have the P-605, I was trying to flash ng1 official firmware through Odin v3.09, which the file in question, I have used a few times before so it isn't a bad download.
It got about half way through and died. The tablet still boots to the 'firmware upgrade has encountered an issue screen', I can still enter download mode. One major issue I can't charge it and i have no recovery [emoji22] its now dead flat.
Even with my 2.1Amp tablet charger it boots for a few seconds and dies. I've tried multiple cables and USB wall chargers as I thought that may be the issue all to no avail! I am completely lost. Any help would be muchly appreciated
What was the firmware before you flahed the stock ng1? cm11?
Have you try to flash recovery with Odin, don't let it boot up and see if you can boot into recovery.
Did you try to flash with low battery juice??
The prior firmware version is unknown :-/ but it was X KAT v3. I did try to flash recovery but it resets before it gets it done, if I hold the PWR, VOL+, HOME the screen seems to light up stay black a little longer than if it was going to the firmware issues screen then go to 'firmware upgrade has encountered issues' screen. It seems the longer I keep it off charge the longer it takes for it to reset next time its plugged in, so I will leave it for a hour and try to flash recovery. I didn't know what the battery was at 'probably very low' as I haven't used it in yonks and it was already in a bootloop from flashing X Kat v4.0 incorectly otherwise I would have charged it
I'm thinking about taking the battery out and manually charging it with a old USB cable. From pictures on the internet the battery has 2 red 'positive' 2 black 'negative' and 2 green. I'm unsure of what the green cables are. Is there anyone that can shed some light on this?
blakie21737 said:
I'm thinking about taking the battery out and manually charging it with a old USB cable. From pictures on the internet the battery has 2 red 'positive' 2 black 'negative' and 2 green. I'm unsure of what the green cables are. Is there anyone that can shed some light on this?
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Hi,
have a look here for the USB pinout !
The original cable uses only four of the micro usb pins. The second ground pin is missing. This can be used to put the device into certain modes. I used different cables, all with five pins, no problems, but it does not mean, that the fifth pin was wired in these cables. Batteries have an internal security circuit which cuts power vis a polyfuse, if the voltage drops too low. The fuse should be re-armed when connecting the device to the charger, although the device may not recognize its own battery. Let it charge for a while, that the fuse doesn't blow again when disconnecting. Plug in again to charge fully. Some devices have a design fault which makes them unable to recover with a discharged battery. Charging Voltage is not 5, but 3.7v! The additional cables at the bsttery are either for a dumb temp probe, or a bus to communicate with the security circuit. The latter maybe impossible to charge externally. Otherwise you probably need some professional charging station, which can handle all sorts of Nimh and LiOn batteries AND have to make an adapter for the custom battery plug. Too much hassle, right?
blakie21737 said:
I'm thinking about taking the battery out and manually charging it with a old USB cable. From pictures on the internet the battery has 2 red 'positive' 2 black 'negative' and 2 green. I'm unsure of what the green cables are. Is there anyone that can shed some light on this?
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Get one of this usb filter charging adaptor and use your pc to charge it. This also allow you to charge your tablet using any power source like PC, car charger etc... you will not see the X mark when using your pc to charge.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B007IXBTCK/ref=oh_details_o02_s00_i00
This adaptor adds Apple signaling for charging currents above 0,5A. If the current charger won't support Apple stuff.
And yes, I suspect that the Note expects the Apple signal for 2A iPad charging.
I don't know whether there are any supported charge modes in between, like 900mA, but it charges from a standard 500mA usb port, but only in soft-off and idle deep sleep, and ultimatively slow.
But then, since the KK update, some people's Notes charge only during active state.
HELP
blakie21737 said:
Hello all,
I'm at my wits end to put it lightly... I have the P-605, I was trying to flash ng1 official firmware through Odin v3.09, which the file in question, I have used a few times before so it isn't a bad download.
It got about half way through and died. The tablet still boots to the 'firmware upgrade has encountered an issue screen', I can still enter download mode. One major issue I can't charge it and i have no recovery [emoji22] its now dead flat.
Even with my 2.1Amp tablet charger it boots for a few seconds and dies. I've tried multiple cables and USB wall chargers as I thought that may be the issue all to no avail! I am completely lost. Any help would be muchly appreciated
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I have the same issue.........!!!
I'm lost at this point and dont know what to do.
Any attempts at flashing appear to be useless as there is now zero battery and it wont charge.
It boots straight to 'Firmware encountered a problem screen'. I can get it to the download screen.
It also made it 47% of the way through a recovery via kies, but i think the battery issue caused the failure.
If the cable is pulled out while in the firmware encountered a problem screen it instantly dies and wont start. It wont start unless the plug is in........
Anyone??? Please???
With zero battery, you can't perform any maintenance requiring a usb connection.
Without OS and/or custom recovery, i don't know any advice.
ADB and probably Fastboot operations can be performed via wifi, while the thing is at the charger, but in brick state this won't help.
lecorbusier said:
With zero battery, you can't perform any maintenance requiring a usb connection.
Without OS and/or custom recovery, i don't know any advice.
ADB and probably Fastboot operations can be performed via wifi, while the thing is at the charger, but in brick state this won't help.
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Thank You
Advice to is find a way to Charge the battery then attempt other methods.
I think Kies may work if I have Charge
Cheers
Tim
Maybe the Note froze and drained the battery till it's safety circuit kicked in.
Then you should leave the Note charging for a while(hopefully), to reset the circuit's fuse and get enough juice to not trigger it again immediately. Normally, after unplugging and replugging, the battery should get recognized again and charge normally till full. Monitoring charge in Off-State requires(only) a working kernel, i think.
It also could be a defunct usb jack or just the connection with the main pcb is loose, which is typical for the Note, like loose display and backlight cables.
lecorbusier said:
Maybe the Note froze and drained the battery till it's safety circuit kicked in.
Then you should leave the Note charging for a while(hopefully), to reset the circuit's fuse and get enough juice to not trigger it again immediately. Normally, after unplugging and replugging, the battery should get recognized again and charge normally till full. Monitoring charge in Off-State requires(only) a working kernel, i think.
It also could be a defunct usb jack or just the connection with the main pcb is loose, which is typical for the Note, like loose display and backlight cables.
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Thanks Lecorbruiser.
I have had the unit aprt a few times to verify battery connections and all ribbon connections on the boards are ok.
Im note sure of the safety circuitry uou mention though.
I have also power the device up with out the battery plugged in at all. So i know the supply is there. Maybe i have run the battery too low to recover?
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The safety circuit is in the battery or attached to it. Once its fuse has been triggered(normally at 2,5v), the battery shows zero voltage & open circuit. Current from a charger should reset the fuse and the battery will charge unless it had been discharged below 1,5v.
Normally devices with 3,7v batteries are shut down by the system at 3,5-3,0 volts, mostly 3,5 like the Note.
Well the device started to flicker and couldn't keep the screen back light on when it go low.... I'd say I have trashed the battery then if it got below 1.5?!
I have left it on charge for over 10 hours a couple of times and achieved nothing
Android shuts down at 3,5v, in case of a freeze(which could go unnoticed if it happens in standby) the circuit at 2,5v. Then it's a matter of self discharge, till the battery reaches the critical point of 1,5v.
The flickering backlight denotes one of the other cables running across the battery, like that for usb.
I think the connections loose by holding the note in your hands, pressing on the backside. A case with a stiff back will stabilize the Note, like mine. Otherwise all pressure goes thru the flimsy back and is applied on the battery, the metallic shields or some spacers. And the cables get bent very slightly during pressure. Should be harmless, but seemingly isn't.
I have done some testing... here it goes:
Battery Voltage disconnected 2.69V
Battery Connected and USB connected 2.8V
Battery not connected or ( after accidently) shorted 1.5V
From my reading android min voltage is about 3v?
Normal voltage from 3.7v to 3.2V and Charging voltage at a max of 4.4V
I also see some talk of 2.7V figure as a minimum cutoff point, this maybe why it will not give 4.4V to charge as below 2.7v maybe considered a write off?
Thanks for your info lecorbusier
With some custom roms, but none i know for the Note, you can modify the shutdown voltage, to squeeze out a couple of minutes battery life, though the voltage goes down rapidly after having reached 3,5v.
lecorbusier said:
With some custom roms, but none i know for the Note, you can modify the shutdown voltage, to squeeze out a couple of minutes battery life, though the voltage goes down rapidly after having reached 3,5v.
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Thanks for all your help.
I purchased a new battery and did a normal kies recovery and it's back from the dead... Thanks again
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Unexpected symptoms, need help assessing and figuring possible solutions

First time posting , I guess, usually I just browse through for info... but now I feel a bit in a dead end.
Spent a few days snowboarding with the phone in pocket, so exposure to cold subzero temp. lowest around maybe -10, only symptom during that period was camera started flickering showing purple lines but worked fine later on.
Also had trouble charging one night, as phone spent entire night being plugged in only to show it was discharging the whole time, and battery low in the morning, couldn't get it charge even after cleaning port making sure its clean and dry.
Phone ended up running out juice and powering down completely... it didn't respond for hours (tried different chargers) but than suddenly the power bank I use showed it started drawing about 9V and 0.1/0.2A for some time and it slowly started drawing more power and charging to 100% took more time then usual...
Next time I tried charging it when it became low around 20% it wouldn't charge from the wall charger or battery charger.
Tried a lot of resetting, rebooting, but the battery just started dropping really fast each reset.
Plugged it in and tried the volume up/down, power button reset but all that did was a multiple resets and still wouldn't draw charge from anything.
In the end it just stopped responding to anything.
I would show a few orange flashes when I plug it to something and than stop.
Tried leaving it plugged in all night but nothing. Leaving it alone for 3 days also did nothing.
Then it stopped even showing the few orange blinks.
Current status:
Plugged it into computer usb and started showing orange flashes, decided to leave it plugged in.
Showed on screen the battery and 0% after a few min. Screen brightness increased after 20min.
Now its been 3h and its still only showing 0% for battery and flashing the orange light every few seconds, nothing else.
Will go to sleep now and leave it plugged in computer all night.
mortalk2 said:
First time posting , I guess, usually I just browse through for info... but now I feel a bit in a dead end.
Spent a few days snowboarding with the phone in pocket, so exposure to cold subzero temp. lowest around maybe -10, only symptom during that period was camera started flickering showing purple lines but worked fine later on.
Also had trouble charging one night, as phone spent entire night being plugged in only to show it was discharging the whole time, and battery low in the morning, couldn't get it charge even after cleaning port making sure its clean and dry.
Phone ended up running out juice and powering down completely... it didn't respond for hours (tried different chargers) but than suddenly the power bank I use showed it started drawing about 9V and 0.1/0.2A for some time and it slowly started drawing more power and charging to 100% took more time then usual...
Next time I tried charging it when it became low around 20% it wouldn't charge from the wall charger or battery charger.
Tried a lot of resetting, rebooting, but the battery just started dropping really fast each reset.
Plugged it in and tried the volume up/down, power button reset but all that did was a multiple resets and still wouldn't draw charge from anything.
In the end it just stopped responding to anything.
I would show a few orange flashes when I plug it to something and than stop.
Tried leaving it plugged in all night but nothing. Leaving it alone for 3 days also did nothing.
Then it stopped even showing the few orange blinks.
Current status:
Plugged it into computer usb and started showing orange flashes, decided to leave it plugged in.
Showed on screen the battery and 0% after a few min. Screen brightness increased after 20min.
Now its been 3h and its still only showing 0% for battery and flashing the orange light every few seconds, nothing else.
Will go to sleep now and leave it plugged in computer all night.
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Have you tried a different USB cable & charger?
There have been numerous reports in these forums concerning charging issues with the device. If you've cleaned the USB port on the phone and have tried multiple USB cables and chargers, then most likely your battery is the culprit and needs to be replaced.
Magnum_Enforcer said:
Have you tried a different USB cable & charger?
There have been numerous reports in these forums concerning charging issues with the device. If you've cleaned the USB port on the phone and have tried multiple USB cables and chargers, then most likely your battery is the culprit and needs to be replaced.
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In a lot of cases they managed to restart the phone...
Yes I did that. Phone is still showing 0% battery after being plugged in computer usb, I find it funny how it wasn't responding at all to the wall chargers. Now for the question of the day, can I have the battery replaced without losing data? I asked a service center that kinda could be a HTC representative but cannot confirm it and they insisted that they have to do factory reset.
mortalk2 said:
In a lot of cases they managed to restart the phone...
Yes I did that. Phone is still showing 0% battery after being plugged in computer usb, I find it funny how it wasn't responding at all to the wall chargers. Now for the question of the day, can I have the battery replaced without losing data? I asked a service center that kinda could be a HTC representative but cannot confirm it and they insisted that they have to do factory reset.
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Can you charge the phone up and get the phone to boot to TWRP? If so you can mount your phone to your computer and back up all of your files on your internal storage to your computer.
Magnum_Enforcer said:
Can you charge the phone up and get the phone to boot to TWRP? If so you can mount your phone to your computer and back up all of your files on your internal storage to your computer.
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I don't have TWRP but I just did manage to enter the stock recovery? and its just sitting there not really charging up but using 9V and 0.4A to stay powered up in that mode.
Can you tell me if I go to service center to get the battery changed will I lose all data by default of that process?
mortalk2 said:
I don't have TWRP but I just did manage to enter the stock recovery? and its just sitting there not really charging up but using 9V and 0.4A to stay powered up in that mode.
Can you tell me if I go to service center to get the battery changed will I lose all data by default of that process?
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I wouldn't think that merely changing the battery would cause you to lose your data, or why they would do anything to your phone that would wipe your data from the phone.
Magnum_Enforcer said:
I wouldn't think that merely changing the battery would cause you to lose your data, or why they would do anything to your phone that would wipe your data from the phone.
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Alright, that was my primary concern, thank you. The service sector where I live is pretty bad, and they do stupid stuff, follow stupid rules.
Update: I switched through a couple of chargers, and tried going into recovery after which I initiated a restart, phone booted normally and showed 24% battery, now is connected to original QC 3.0 ... and charging up, but stopped after 1%, I unplugged it and plugged it again and it continues to charge now with steady orange light? this is really nerve wrecking... what is the real issue? battery, charging port?
My goal is to try to charge 100% back up everything and then I can send it service.

Phone charging and stops charging (charges and stops in bursts)

So I got a problem with charging this phone. I noticed it like month or so ago, but it wasn't any dealbraker and it didn't occur nearly as much so I just ignored it. At first when I plugged it in to charge it charged for like hour or so and then it would "disconnect" ie stopped charging while plugged in in AC. Today it started to be much more aggressive then that. I plugged it in to charge and it wokes up screen on and off (charging-not charging) and goes like that for a period of time, untill it stops and continues to charge normally. I thought the kernel (butterfly and dragon.). That I have been using are to blame, but after factory resetting it stil occurs. I tried factory charger and bunch of others from different manufacturers, but still the same.
Any and all help is much appreciated.

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