Hi guys my xplay r800i keeps shutting down, it's still the original battery since I got the phone a few years ago so I'm guessing it's a battery issue.
However the stock battery doesn't keep my phone active for long anymore. Every time I use the phone it randomly shuts down within a few minutes sometimes within a few seconds from unlocking the home screen.
For the time being it stays powered on when it's hooked on the charger, but only In a locked stand by state.
I got a new battery but it's a X10Xperia 2430mah 3.7v, got it off eBay.. however it doesn't work or give any power on my phone.
As soon as I put the battery in, I tried to charge it, but nothing happened just a red blinking light, the phone does not turn on, nothing happens, even when I plug in the charger the charging screen does not come up and the phone just blinks red 1x every few seconds.
Is there something I have to do before this battery works or is it supposed to be a plug and play?
Do I have to root the phone so I can use this battery?
I'm a complete noob, but a quick learner, I have never rooted or modified my phone so if anyone has any answers could you please keep it simple for me...
Any help will be greatly appreciated
Many thanks
Maybe your new battery is empty. If you have multimeter check voltage. Empty battery level is at 3.2V and full is at 4.2V
If it's less then 3.2V then phone will not turn on (and will blink red if you try to power it on).
What you can do is to leave it charging and in few hours it should be enough charged to power on phone.
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maybe try an external charger to see if that helps.
I bought a couple of these a few months ago (Same V/mAH rating, labeled as being for an Xperia X10) and believe I was basically ripped off.
The first one I started using seemed like it burned down faster than it should have, so I tested the two "2340mAH" gold batteries against a never used SE BST-41 I have in a drawer and the one I've been using for around 10 months (With lots of charge cycles under its belt).
I overclocked my R800x's CPU to 1.6GHz and played several CPS-2 games under MAME4Droid Reloaded (Basically pegging the CPU 100%). On the stock battery I currently use in my phone this allows me around 5 hours of continuous playtime with my various kernel/OS/hardware tweaks. The new BST-41 got about 20 minutes more than this. The first gold battery ran for about 3.5 hours and the second a miserable 2.5 hours.
I recharged all of them (Once they stated they were at 100% I'd let them sit for at least an hour or two more on charge) and repeated the tests two more times, and the results drifted between +/- 10-15m relative to the first round of testing for each battery.
I have a strong suspicion these are old batteries that have simply had a gold foil sticker affixed to them making them sound better than they actually are. If that's actually the case, you may have in fact bought a dead battery which would explain why it's not working.
I remember a few years ago there were a lot of similar gold foil batteries going around for the iPhone 5 that were simply relabeled, used OEM batteries with various levels of depleted charge capacity due to wear.
(Note, I even tried changing ro.semc.batt.capacity in build.prop to match the stated mAH rating on the gold batteries after these tests and it didn't make a difference for the two gold batteries)
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So I just got this battery hm around Wednesday or Thursday, and I have let it die down to around 10% or less and recharged it overnight several times and I still only see a slight difference in battery life. I am (I would say) a moderate user and I know some people say they get around 2 days on heavy use so I wonder what I'm doing wrong..? I ran the SU command to delete the battery.bin file to wipe the stats while it was fully charged, then let it run the whole day again only getting around 12 hrs (probably would have been shorter, but I have juicedefender running, and I was at work for 5 1/2 hrs of those 12) and then I stuck it on the charger at about 7:45 and then around 12 it was fully charged and I of course turned it off, then back on and it said it was around 80% so I let it charged to full, reset it again then when I turned it back on it said it was full. I took it off the charger and within minutes it dropped 1% every minute or 2 and now around 15 minutes later it's at 86% and I'm not even doing anything, just sitting here with the screen on and Skype is running. I've only drained it/fully charged it a few times maybe 3 or 4 should I just keep doing that or did I just get a crappy battery? It's better life than the stock, so I can't help but think that it's not crappy just not fully calibrated or "worn in" yet. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
I too have a cheapo extended battery from eBay, for the first week I hated it, but finally I actually just let the thing completely die to wear the phone shut down and wouldn't turn back on, then I recharged the battery completely in a standalone charger(also ebay), then put it back in the phone and used normally, charging and discharging and now I can't even dream of going back to the OEM battery, my battery life has much more than doubled. I use my phone like most here with CM7 up to date on nightlys and I'm happy as can be. I also like the ext back on the cheapos much better than the seidio flavor.
So you use the wall charger from eBay to charge it? I don't want to take my battery out to charge it though every night, let alone turn it off because I use it as an alarm clock :X. I've read a whole bunch of different ways of how to charge it in your phone and most people even one of the legitimate companies (Seido) who sells it, says that if you let it go an hr or 2 after the light turns green its good to go, but I don't believe it charges after the light turns green hence why the charging icon on the battery goes away. people may "think" it does but I honestly don't think it does and if anybody can prove otherwise I might have to buy the external charger :/
Yes get an external charger, Preferably 2 batteries and 1 external charger.
I just ordered a wall charger for like $15 I hope this works. I'll just charge my extended battery at night and use my other battery when the extended is charging
Sent from my Evo!
I used the external charger just once to "calibrate" the battery it seemed? Since then I've not taken the battery from the phone and just charged it with the phone charger(plugging it in) and I have noticed a huge change in run time.
How do you charge it though now that its calibrated? Do you just leave it on the charger for a few hrs after it hits green or do you have to turn the phone off and back on then stick it on the charger
Sent from my Evo!
Well my cheap battery has not blown up with sbc kernels
Yeah, its been about a week and my battery still can't even hold a charge, even if it isn't fully charging. It dies quicker than my stock battery. I told the guy I bought it from, and he said he'd send me a new one so I'm back to the stock battery for now until I get this one next week :/
Hey guys, i know it's a tiny bit off topic, but what about a battery pack??
http://www.amazon.com/XtremeMac-IPU-ICP-11-InCharge-Portable-US/dp/B003FVRYBE/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1294354173&sr=8-1
i have two of those things and they work perfectly. plus, i don't have to kill the phone, open her up and swap batteries. additionally, it'll charge two devices at a time. bonus!
Hmm see that's what I'm trying to get rid of lol having to plug it in all the time. Plus I actually like the bigger back, I personally don't like the thin size of the evo I feel like I could drop it at any time.
Sent from my Evo!
How are you guys getting so many hours? I only get like 8 Hours on my heavy use and i bought a 3500mah extended battery wtf? I'm also using the net Netarchy sbc 3.2 more havs and mym rom with setcpu running profiles. What am I doing wrong? I even have juice defender running aswell.
I had my 3500 extended battery and at first it wasnt too good. But after switching to an external charger for all charges and completely letting the battery die out im getting a whole days worth of heavy use with no worries.
No rooting or any battery controls.
SilverStone641 said:
Hey guys, i know it's a tiny bit off topic, but what about a battery pack??
http://www.amazon.com/XtremeMac-IPU...1?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1294354173&sr=8-1
i have two of those things and they work perfectly. plus, i don't have to kill the phone, open her up and swap batteries. additionally, it'll charge two devices at a time. bonus!
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I think if I got one it would be the 4400mah gum charger
Sent from my evo 4g
So,
I've flashed three or four ROMs over the last week (with a few different kernels) and they're ALL having the same issue:
I use the "miagi method" to fully charge the battery, but when the phone is ON, the blue LED comes on when the phone is still reading 83%. I turn it off, plug in, and after a few minutes it's at 100%. I've wiped stats, flashed ROMs and kernels and the problem persists.
I don't know if this is having an actual effect on battery life, but it sure is annoying.
lattiboy said:
So,
I've flashed three or four ROMs over the last week (with a few different kernels) and they're ALL having the same issue:
I use the "miagi method" to fully charge the battery, but when the phone is ON, the blue LED comes on when the phone is still reading 83%. I turn it off, plug in, and after a few minutes it's at 100%. I've wiped stats, flashed ROMs and kernels and the problem persists.
I don't know if this is having an actual effect on battery life, but it sure is annoying.
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I'm going to assume you've been to this forum?
Personally, with all the phones, re-roots, re-flashes, and Odin flashing I've done I've had no need to do any battery edits, so I am limited on experience. My question to you is this: Does it hang at 83% for a while when in use, or does it immediately begin to drop percentage as if the battery never charged beyond that point? I know that sometimes after a reboot, my phone will go from 50% to 20%, but then hang at 20% for hours since it is in actuality at 50%.
If none of that helps you at all, my suggestion is this. I found the same thing for half the cost several months ago elsewhere if you look. It came with 2 batteries, one for me and my wife. The included batteries are notably not quite as good as the original samsungs. However, carrying an extra battery gives flexibility, and the wall charger does a faster and more effective job at charging any battery.
Plus, then you'll have a battery while you're other one charges!
RandomKing said:
I'm going to assume you've been to this forum?
Personally, with all the phones, re-roots, re-flashes, and Odin flashing I've done I've had no need to do any battery edits, so I am limited on experience. My question to you is this: Does it hang at 83% for a while when in use, or does it immediately begin to drop percentage as if the battery never charged beyond that point? I know that sometimes after a reboot, my phone will go from 50% to 20%, but then hang at 20% for hours since it is in actuality at 50%.
If none of that helps you at all, my suggestion is this. I found the same thing for half the cost several months ago elsewhere if you look. It came with 2 batteries, one for me and my wife. The included batteries are notably not quite as good as the original samsungs. However, carrying an extra battery gives flexibility, and the wall charger does a faster and more effective job at charging any battery.
Plus, then you'll have a battery while you're other one charges!
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++ on This .... I've used that calibration method (the 2nd one, off method) and it worked well for me.
hi i can solve this just follow simple steps
discharge your battery upto 17 percent
than use back camera with flash on take pictures with flash your phone will power off suddenly after 2 to 10 pictures.
just plug in charger issue is resolved your battery will be charged upto 100 percent
I had this problem: my phone (Arc S) died saying it had low battery (even though I had checked it just a minute ago with 25% still left).
I tried to charge it but nothing happened for 30 minutes.
I knew that taking out the battery and reinserting it after a while usually fixes this but this time it did't help. The phone could not be started and it wouldn't charge either.
Solution: Borrow a friends battery (if he/she has the same phone ) or buy a cheap one of the Internet (there are batteries for about 4 dollars).
Put the new battery in your phone and start it. Turn it off and quickly put the "dead" battery in again and insert the charging cable and it will charge and function as before!
My humble guess is that the charged battery leaves some juice in the phones circuits that stays there for a while and can help a "dead battery" charge again.
I know your problem : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1312398
No that's a workaround/patch to 0% battery issue caused by downgrading firmware from 2.3.4 to 2.3.2.
I've never downgraded! This problem is rather from the phones difficulties sensing the batteries power level correctly.
Thanks anyway!
I bought my Xperia Arc S LT18 in April 2012. Up until now, my phone has served me well. As with most modern smartphones, the battery will start to die. And I'm in the marker for a new battery, however. Last night, I noticed my phone would not charge, so I decided to just turn the phone off and go to sleep, assuming I would have at lease some battery left. I was wrong.
My phone was dead, after much time and effort, I managed to turn my phone on and wiggle the charger around enough so it could get a connection and charge. However, the charge does not hold. It will get to around about 3-5% then just drain, as if I unplugged the USB cable. I've tried everything I can think of to try and speed up the process of charging (Offline mode, Power saver underclock (currently at 456MHz) lowest screen brightness etc.) but it will only get to about 4% charge. I get the I need a new battery but this is just ridicules.
I've ran out of options, I'm going to bed soon and I'm going to leave it on charge over night.
In case it matters I have the stock battery, used many chargers and USB cables over the time I've had my phone, using the Ultimate HD custom ROM.
Not sure if this is allowed but bumping, I'm at my wits end and I really have no clue what the next move is.
I've left it on charge all day and the problem is still occurring. Should I buy a new battery?
I've just bought one of these (See attachment, under 10 posts..)
These capchas are the worst, 5 in a row I've failed/skipped ¬_¬
Here we goes guys,
I finally received all parts to refresh my Panda Pixel 2XL.
New screen (Ixifit)
New USB-C port (Ixifit)
New battery
New display adhesive
Because I'm on reddit, I shared my experience and a nice guys tell me this:
'You will have charging problems after you replace the battery. I've done a few, all "original batteries", two of the phones charging times went from two hours to 8-9 hours to fully charge.'
"Maybe you have gotten a different battery. But I tried two different batteries in one phone and another battery in a second phone. Both phones, even after cycling the batteries, took 8-9 hours to charge from 20-30% to full. Using the original charger. I tried new cables and charging pucks. Resetting the phone etc. Even putting the old battery back in, still had the same 8-9 hour charging time. There must be something in the firmware that doesn't like loosing power(when the battery is disconnected). I don't know. I have to warn customers now before I change them out. Hopefully you will have better results."
Is it possible that phone software doesn't support a true power cut off (or removed battery) and charge slowly the new battery?
What is your experience about this because now I'm scared.