I have no experience with LG phones - I've been an HTC guy forever so there's a bunch of stuff here I'm not used to. I picked up the black leather sprint version from bb last night, charged it overnight, and activated this morning. I've been playing around with it all day, and there are a few things that are confusing me. I'm guessing that I'll need to wait until root for some/all of these.
1 - Is there any way to change the opacity of Smart Notice? We've got that great screen, and Smart Notice just blots it out.
2 - Is there any way to turn off the boot sounds?
3 - For the camera, is there any way to set a review time after the pic is taken?
4 - Where's the GPS toggle? Is it just always on?
5 - How do you set the phone to silent? There's no silent sound profile - is priority only interruptions the same as silent (meaning that the phone is silent, but my alarm clock app will still go off)?
6 - The led glows red while it's charging with the screen off, but when the screen turns comes on, the led goes away even though it's still charging - is there anyway to keep that charging led with the screen on?
And this is why I think my phone might be defective;
1 - It gets pretty hot doing normal things (not gaming)
2 - It takes FOREVER to charge. Even doing lightweight things like browsing and whatnot, the battery will still deplete even though it's plugged in to ac. I have it plugged into ac right now at 52% and it says that it will take 4 hours to fully charge from here. I'm pretty sure that if I leave the screen on while plugged in, it won't charge at all.
3 - When I plug the stock included charger into usb, I get a message that says "Use standard charger to charge faster". I get this message on usb even on cables that I know should work fine, and again, this happens even on the stock cable.
This battery thing is driving me nuts because I can't use the phone - that's not normal, right? The problem is that I'd have to exchange it at BB, and apparently none of the stores in my area have any.
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Hey guys,
So I just bought myself one of these:
http://store.androidcentral.com/seidio-innocell-1750mah-extended-battery/8A37A6040.htm
And so far I've been fairly pleased by the performance.. although I haven't yet done a real good test of it (I will this week). One issue I've noticed, though, is that no matter how long I leave the thing on the charger, the light (infuriatingly ) remains red. If I reboot the device while it's charging, or turn it off, the light will turn green, indicating that it is charged up, but if I unplug & use the device, then put it on the charger later, it will never come back to 'green'.
Does anyone know what this means or how to fix it (other than just popping my stock battery back in..)?
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I just got rid of the sense homescreen, and the default one displays the battery charge; it's stuck at 96%.
This morning, my phone was dead. I tried plugging it in but found a blinking orange light. I tried turning it on but it wouldnt turn on. Does this mean there is a problem with my battery?
I've gone on several trips lately where I used my phone as a GPS. I just got a new dash mount for it. On those trips, I had noticed a blinking alternating orange and green light. I thought this meant it was charging and I had a notification, however, now that I do some searching it looks like it means overheating perhaps.
The orange blinking did turn solid after a while and I was able to boot my phone.
Could be a battery issue. If the phone is completely dead, it takes a few minutes on the charger before it can power on. Let it sit for like 5 - 10 minutes on the charger, and when the light goes solid it should be able to be turned on. You may want to invest in a new battery.
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This morning, my phone was dead. I tried plugging it in but found a blinking orange light. I tried turning it on but it wouldnt turn on. Does this mean there is a problem with my battery?
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This is normal behavior for a completely drained battery. The phone will not turn on until it achieves partial charge (I'm not sure off-hand what %), and it will give you the flashing orange to let you know.
As you observed, once you charge it enough, it will turn on normally and everything is fine again.
As for the blinking you observed during navigation, that could have meant notifications while charging, as you suspected. It's also possible that you were overheating, but if so the phone would have stopped accepting charge and the battery icon would have changed to indicate such.
Thanks, it is working again now. I'll have to keep an eye on the battery life to see if it has really gotten worse.
In the car, I know there was one time where it got really hot. I held it next to the AC vent for a few minutes to cool it down. Also, my charger cable may be going bad. I noticed that eventhough I turn off the screen, sometimes it will randomly come back on. I figure maybe this is the cable getting disconnected and then reconnected.
This happened to me before and it turned out it was my charger not working properly. I even got a message multiple times saying that the charging accessory was not compatible but it was the the stock data cable. The problem turned out to be it didn't have enough voltage or something like that because it kept telling me to connect to a wall rather than through USB, while I was using the A/C adapter.
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I'm pretty sure that a blinking orange light during use is a "hot battery" notification. On one trip, I had navigation going, while streaming XM and had the car charger plugged in. When I noticed the blinking orange, the temp was at 119F and really hot to the touch. I immediately stopped navigation and streaming, and unplugged from the charger. Since I had the air on, I removed the phone case and battery door and let the AC blow on the phone which cooled it down and the blinking stopped.
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that could have meant notifications while charging, as you suspected.
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No. It doesn't do that. If you are charging, you get a solid red and no indication of notifications.
The blinking red/green means the battery is too hot and is not charging, as other people have confirmed.
Stock, rooted, leaving he phone charging overnight.
Next morning (every morning) I notice the backlight is slightly glowing -- looks like the back light is on and the screen set to black. Not the LED alert signal, that's sometimes flashing sometimes not (depending on whether I have a message), but there's a soft glow. If you had any room light on you cannot see it.
This morning I used the on/off button to turn the screen on, then off -- glow vanished. So it's not always there, and not related to (just) having the USB cable plugged in (which it still was).
The phone does charge, it is not hot, there is nothing that I can see unusual in Better Battery Stats. Normal battery life (well, seems reasonable, better than my GS2, about 50% for my average day).
Can someone take a look after a normal charge in a completely dark room -- is your backlight on? Again -- LCD solid black, just a dark grey glow through it.
PS. I will check tonight -- I am not sure if it starts on or not, I only have noticed it now on several mornings in a row, and forget to look as it starts charging.
Weird. I never seen that happened to me. Mine is completely stock and rooted with Rogers.
Now I'm really confused. I was curious and woke up a few times to look.
First, on hooking it up - no glow.
Then only one of three times was there a glow, but it was there - same symptom, you bring up the screen with the power button, then put it back to sleep - gone.
I think it must be some app. It may relate to the calendar notifications, last night one went off in the middle of the night which is why I checked it.
I'll try to see if I can pin it down; it's more curiosity than anything else. The phone charges fine, and it's not bright enough to bother, and I suspect the backlight could run 24x7 and not burn out before I have 5 new phones. Just weird.
A few hours ago my phone started emitting beeps as if some notification was turned on (I have all such off). I have not paid much attention, as the beeps eventually stopped (!!), except for when noticing, a while later, that the phone - albeit plugged in and with the battery indicator showing "charging" - the percentage was decreasing. I watched it for a while, and the batter was discharging while plugged in. Did the followings:
- replaced the battery with a new/charged one (my spare) - same behavior
- replaced the cable with the original samsung - still the same problem
- tried wall outlet charge, laptop charge (via USB), etc - same problem
The questions for those having experienced such:
- would the beeps be indicative of a problem, or just coincidental???
- the phone is definitely the culprit here - the question is if there is something that could be done for some sort of cleanup of the port, or improving the connection (seem to recall some such from a site - maybe this, maybe another forum - could not find the article by searching), or further tests I could carry out, before I take the phone into the repair shop (which I am not sure if there is such in my area)
TIA,
Stefan
can your phone charge with the phone off? Turn off the phone and then plug it in, do you see a big battery icon charging? Also is your phone rooted?
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can your phone charge with the phone off? Turn off the phone and then plug it in, do you see a big battery icon charging? Also is your phone rooted?
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Upon turning the phone off and first plugging it in, it depicts a grey battery with a non-spinning wheel in the center. After approx. 10sec the screens starts showing a semi-filled with green battery, with a scrolling bar of dots underneath it (active this time, unlike the wheel described before).
I am sure that everyone knows what I am talking about, having seen it many times before, even if my description is not that good. The issue is that I have never paid attention to this part - mostly because I almost never had the phone plugged into power and not immediately turned on.
Observation after doing the above: after having left the phone off for almost an hour, the battery charge decreased (84% -> 80%) while the phone was plugged in.
NOTE: When the charge was 100%, by using a battery I charged with an external samsung charger, I also re-calibrated the battery using the app (phone is rooted, but always using the stock ROM). Just FYI - if that matters.
Thanks for any [ongoing] assistance.
ok if your phone was off and plugged in, and was still losing charge then I'm not sure what to do, sorry, hopefully someone else who has experienced and solved this can help you out.
my issue was similar to you where i couldn't charge my phone while it was on, i could only do it while it was off...it was a software issue, so i flashed the stock ROM, started from scratch and everything was fine from then on.
if you havent already, make a back up of all your important data (msgs, apps, etc.) download a stock rom (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2276645) and flash it, maybe that might solve the issue
The beeps may have been the phone detecting the charger on then off multiple times. Check the charge port on the phone for any breaks or debris.
Otherwise I dont know what to tell you aside from try another cable and charger. Sorry.
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Damn ! I had this error too but it would charge but so SLOW! It was on a ROM/KERNEL that i've flashed , I cant remember wich one. Try charge your battery in Recovery ( this was my solution )
Been using my Moto 360 for months, no problem. Yesterday I was travelling so I used up more battery before going back to the dock than I usually would. I want to say it was down to maybe 10%. Maybe lower.
Threw it on the charging dock. I see the small blue circle, charging, and I walk away. Come back a few minutes later and the screen was off and white LED on charging dock was off. Couldn't do anything to get the white LED back and show that it was charging. I could pick up the watch and use it, but had very low battery. At some point I think it died, and again, I could never charge it.
Got frustrated, left it off the dock (because I read something on a moto support page about leaving it off the dock for 30 minutes?), and went to bed.
This morning, woke up, and put it on the charger. The white LED came on and the watch booted up. At first it shows charging and even says 13%. How that's possible I don't know, but the white LED wouldn't stay on. It would go off, at which point the regular watchface would show up and also the warning about being below 15%. Then a few seconds later the white LED would come back on and I'd get the charging screen. but that would only last a few seconds, then it would go off, and my watch face would show up. I just watched as it did this and you should see from the times the charging screen did pop up that it was actually draining battery (if you believe I was even at 13% this morning, which I don't). After a few minutes of this, the white LED was off and I can't get it back to charge at all. I'm sitting here this morning just as I did last night: watch won't come on and no white LED light on the dock and what looks like no charging.
What is going on here? Again, ZERO problems until this. Now my battery is so low that it shut off and I'm just leaving it on the dock hoping that somehow it is charging, even though the white LED on the dock is not coming on. I know I shouldnt have let my battery get so low before juicing it up, but that doesn't mean I should be sitting here unable to charge up my watch. I really don't think something all of a sudden yesterday happened to my watch and dock.
Anyone have any ideas here? Im on the road, so no qi plate here to test using a different method to charge it up (I have it at home, but I really wanted my watch to use for this trip!). Don't know anyone with a moto 360 either.
Thank you!!
Try a different USB cable/charging brick combination, they could be bad. If this doesn't work, most likely a bad dock.
Well I tried a different cable, no change. Left it sitting on the dock all day, nothing happened. Came home from going out and the charging/not charging is happening now ( and all of a sudden the watch got juice? Makes no sense to me.). I videoed it. Does this video shed any light on the cause? Thanks! I ask because it's hard to believe the dock is bad after no issues for months now.
Video: https://youtu.be/jmMH15ThOwg
Thanks again.
HEHE, same issue mate:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B_Qhf7E5ZWBTbW56elNSVUZLR1E
I have sent mine to Motorola twice now for the same problem.
They just sent the watch back to me and I don't get the issue anymore, however they have introduce a new problem for my watch where I can't even use tilt to wake anymore...
Fed up with their repair team, just asked them to replace the watch now because either their repair team has no clue how to fix it or that there is some other fault they cannot find.
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i have a similar issue. it seems that the craddle connection is not as strong as it used to be. I often times see my watch charge all the way to 100%, and then begin to slowly dwindle down. I have to take the watch off the charger and then place it back in "more securely", and then it would charge again.... anyone else?
i think i figured it out. i had a dual USB wall adapter that both my phone and watch were plugged into. only recently did I get a QI wireless charging pad. it appears that when both devices are charging, the phone took up all of the juice, leaving none for the watch (until the phone reached 100%). when I separated the two into different USB wall plugs, then they both charge up as normal.
hope this helps others.
I'm experiencing this exact same issue right now. I'm leaving it on the dock hoping that it starts to charge at some point. Have you discovered a fix or a possible cause for this issue so far?
I'm having the same issue. Started yesterday afternoon. I have 2 charge cradles and its the same on both so it leads me to believe its not a cradle issue. When I put the watch on the cradle, the charge light will come on for a few seconds and then go back off. After this happens a couple times it just wont come on anymore. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
I have the watch for almost 2 weeks and it never charge full and it loose all its charge in minutes I only used it 2 and it was off charge. Wife wi go home I am tired I like the watch. But I didn't use it I tried everything from the above mentioned proposals but seriously nothing worked I'm from Egypt and I bought online from USA from Nordstrom what should I do