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battery issue

hi guys,
i just checked out my ARTE160 battery. when i checked out the output voltage, i found that its 3.95~4.2 v when full charged. i jus checked this out with a multi meter. the battery is designed for 3.7v only, so does this mean there is a prob???
thx guys

I'm not a pro, but I think this means that everything is alright with the battery. I would rather worry if the voltage was below 3,7 V - that would definitely mean a problem.

well i find wat u say is logical but still im having some small prob in my phone.....
it keeps working well and suddenly the phone service alone wont work and gets hanged (means no calls and sms) after couple of mins mobile just researches the network and joins.
the prob is when this thing happens and someone calls me the call is ringing but i dont get any ring or alert in my mobile.......
also sms is not delivered kater but is lost completely......
i jus looked out somewhere that these probs may be due to battery........

Battery issue reply...........
nataraj_latest said:
hi guys,
i just checked out my ARTE160 battery. when i checked out the output voltage, i found that its 3.95~4.2 v when full charged. i jus checked this out with a multi meter. the battery is designed for 3.7v only, so does this mean there is a prob???
thx guys
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I had to get a new battery and performed a hard-reset on my phone and all was well after that. make sure you have a back-up on your numbers....

well savain
thanks for ur reply.....
did u have the same kind of prob like the over voltage???
savain01 said:
I had to get a new battery and performed a hard-reset on my phone and all was well after that. make sure you have a back-up on your numbers....
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I've just chcecked the output voltage of my battery - when 45% charged - the voltage was 3.82 V.
in my opinion, your problem has nothing to do with the battery. I had same problem that you described - I switched to WM6 from WM5 - it did the trick.
now it hangs very seldom.
I guess that would help you (at least if you're using WM5).

oh but im using 6.1 at present
its TOM'S ROM.....

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*for battery issue;
buy a new battery and
charge <----- device must be off!...
when green led light shows, its done..
this should sort your battery issue..
* for issue with - ''suddenly the phone service alone wont work and gets hanged..''
try a hard reset, if it still happens, open the device - open through the back of the device and simply give it a clean, ensure all connections are connecting, in other words, scratch the pins inside device if they need it.. assemble correctly and hope this helps..
-use cotton buds, the ones you use to clean your ears with..
-use a pin/needle to scratch connections..
*sounds like a hardware issue, not rom issue so cleaning inside the device is recommended..
*I've fixed my p3300 plenty of times now by just simply cleaning inside it.
- including the ''not charging'' and ''no sim'' issue people have experienced..

Not charging
HI Geeks, I have a problem with my blackstone battery. It is getting charged only up to 50 to 55 percent. I kept on charger for one ful night. But no use. I am using official ROM. Can you suggest any solution for that?

Help PLZ
I tired both the charger and the USB cable. Still the problem remains.

A new problem
Now i am facing a new problem. When i switch off the Touch HD, it will not start. When i press the power button, it shows "Smart Mobility" then it will go off. I tried once and pressed the power button again. It lasted some more time, reaching to the HTC logo screen.
Then I Connect the phone using the usb cable to the desktop and press the power button. WOW. it started without any problem. Can you help me to get around this problem?
Roy Varghese

royi386 said:
Now i am facing a new problem. When i switch off the Touch HD, it will not start. When i press the power button, it shows "Smart Mobility" then it will go off. I tried once and pressed the power button again. It lasted some more time, reaching to the HTC logo screen.
Then I Connect the phone using the usb cable to the desktop and press the power button. WOW. it started without any problem. Can you help me to get around this problem?
Roy Varghese
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*for battery issue;
buy a new battery and
charge <----- device must be off!...
when green led light shows, its done..
this should sort your battery issue..

i have a weird kind of battery issue
i plug in my AC adapter
the orange light lights up, for about 5 seconds
then , it keeps flashes orange
i power up my phone for about 5 seconds, it dies
any charge method will keep flashing orange
is my phone battery dead?

Does anyone have my issue ???
I am charging and charging and the indication shows as charging plus the percentage is increasing like normal. However, when I restart the system it shows more than charge percent. Most cases it shows 100%. For instance, show 82 % but after restart device shows 92 or 100%. Please help me experts. Thank a lot in advance for taking your time to reply

Charging while phone is off?

Hi,
Yesterday I came across strange issue. In WinMo, when the phone was off it was charging normally untill the battery was fully charged...
After Flashing Android to NAND I can not do that. It seems to be charging (orange LED is on) for about 10 sec. and than the Display blinks with white light and the phone dies completely.
The only thing you can do after that is to pull out the battery and put it back. Than you can turn the phone on and charge as usually.
What is that issues origin? Battery driver? Or another thingie in Firmware? It seems to be quite strange, that it lights the display even with the phone being off...

a.s.j said:
Hi,
Yesterday I came across strange issue. In WinMo, when the phone was off it was charging normally untill the battery was fully charged...
After Flashing Android to NAND I can not do that. It seems to be charging (orange LED is on) for about 10 sec. and than the Display blinks with white light and the phone dies completely.
The only thing you can do after that is to pull out the battery and put it back. Than you can turn the phone on and charge as usually.
What is that issues origin? Battery driver? Or another thingie in Firmware? It seems to be quite strange, that it lights the display even with the phone being off...
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i have this problem too

a.s.j said:
Hi,
Yesterday I came across strange issue. In WinMo, when the phone was off it was charging normally untill the battery was fully charged...
After Flashing Android to NAND I can not do that. It seems to be charging (orange LED is on) for about 10 sec. and than the Display blinks with white light and the phone dies completely.
The only thing you can do after that is to pull out the battery and put it back. Than you can turn the phone on and charge as usually.
What is that issues origin? Battery driver? Or another thingie in Firmware? It seems to be quite strange, that it lights the display even with the phone being off...
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My Kaiser does the exact same thing, and what it is, is for some reason the phone is booting back up. I came across this the other day, and my phone did the exact same thing described, and not sure what I did, but I managed to turn on the screen and Android was booted up to the lock screen.
It's even done it when I plug the phone into A/C power without the battery even connected.

so here is why it happens, basicly what would happen is in WinMo when the phone would turn off and boot into a charge loop and it would charge and shut off when finished our kernel doesnt have this built into it so it just boots like normal when power is applied

thoughtlesskyle said:
so here is why it happens, basicly what would happen is in WinMo when the phone would turn off and boot into a charge loop and it would charge and shut off when finished our kernel doesnt have this built into it so it just boots like normal when power is applied
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yup... happens to all of us, its not a big deal... there are a lot of worse problems devs are trying to solve... maybe whn they reach a point where the kernel is more stable they should pay attention to the details like this (and the camera driver, camcoder... etc)

thoughtlesskyle said:
so here is why it happens, basicly what would happen is in WinMo when the phone would turn off and boot into a charge loop and it would charge and shut off when finished our kernel doesnt have this built into it so it just boots like normal when power is applied
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Well that answers my question... Yah knew it was something inside the kernel, just didn't know if it was a bug, or something that wasn't implemented yet.

Of course this is low priority task but I just wanted to have that confirmed to know, that my oldie holdie is not broken or what

Quick question:
How old is your kaiser and/or battery ?

About 5 years with original battery
Sent from my Full Android on Kaiser using XDA App

It used to be that if Linux NBH was flashed, the phone wouldn't charge at all when off. Then somebody (dzo I believe) added code to the kernel so that the phone turns on when it is plugged in, so that it will charge. That used to work, with a full complete boot. Now, as you say, the phone tries to wake up but doesn't really make it. Maybe we should look into that, we should be able to fix that, maybe by looking carefully at the git logs for the past six months or so.
There are bigger problems, like data reliability, but if somebody wants a problem in the kernel that they can study and perhaps fix, this is a good one to start with.

To correctly charge the battery system need to be on so i can do this:
start kernel
in initrd:
if it found the power connected then the phone wait for power button (trying the sleep mode)
else
start the system
i need some testing to do it.
Windows do quite the same thing.

l1q1d said:
To correctly charge the battery system need to be on so i can do this:
start kernel
in initrd:
if it found the power connected then the phone wait for power button (trying the sleep mode)
else
start the system
i need some testing to do it.
Windows do quite the same thing.
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If only the real code was as easy as the pseudocode =)

Cannot reset SW3 ;(

Hi,
it just stop and hang this morning, the screen hold at the moment it hang .... i tried hold the power key for >15 sec but not respond .... bluetooth no respond too ....
so what can i do? other then wait for the battery die out?
please help!
thanks!
Joseph

Josephzhu said:
Hi,
it just stop and hang this morning, the screen hold at the moment it hang .... i tried hold the power key for >15 sec but not respond .... bluetooth no respond too ....
so what can i do? other then wait for the battery die out?
please help!
thanks!
Joseph
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I'm having the exact same issue, screen isn't responding and won't switch off, despite how long I hold in the power button.
Anyone got any suggestions?

Same here. Someone can help?

Ok, mine eventually died.
Whatever happened was draining the battery as the watch was warm the whole time (instead of my normal 2-3 days, it died in around 4-5 hours).
Plus point is that after plugging it in to charge, it switched back on and is currently working fine, it's sitting on my desk charging now. However am more than a little concerned about this happening again.

I've had same issue twice - first time when installing TWRP recovery (understandable ) and today having a lot of saves to watch creating a watch face. Both times reacting like,
st0nec01d said:
Whatever happened was draining the battery as the watch was warm the whole time (instead of my normal 2-3 days, it died in around 4-5 hours).
Plus point is that after plugging it in to charge, it switched back on and is currently working fine, it's sitting on my desk charging now. However am more than a little concerned about this happening again.
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I think there is a memory leak in software.

I've had a major issue where the watch turns off local Bluetooth after getting hot. The only way to turn Bluetooth on again is to turn the watch off and then charge to 100%, last turn on again and then reconnect.
This started after the 5.0.1 Update.
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The same issue
Hi!
I have the same issue. Sony SW 3 is connected to Sony Xperia Z Ultra. This issue is the second one, the first time I managed to reset SSW 3 by long pressing (about 10-20 seconds) the button on the watch.

I've got the same problem but screen is off. I cannot wake it (or turn it ON). I was charging it, it was turned off, after 30 mins of changing it vibrate, I unplugged it and now it seems dead. What can I do? t

Try long press the power button?
Powright said:
I've got the same problem but screen is off. I cannot wake it (or turn it ON). I was charging it, it was turned off, after 30 mins of changing it vibrate, I unplugged it and now it seems dead. What can I do? t
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Calvin Gross said:
Try long press the power button?
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yes i do. Probably solved the problem. I don't know why but, also if in charge, my watch reached 0% on battery, so it wasn't unable to load up. This morning tried to turn it on (yesterday it woke up for 2 sec, after it died, plugging in into charge was a waste of time) , and in the few second it turned on (in the bootlogo), i put it into charge. Now seems to work but that's quite strange because yesterday i put it on charge when it was about 10%

My SW3 hanged again this morning, i charge it overnight and when i unplugged the charger, it hanged.
as usually, nothing can reset the watch until it burn out the battery. it really annoying and i hope google or sony will fix this soon.

I had it happen once to me too, I wonder if there is some sort of memory leak or some other issue.
I have not been in the habit of powering off my watch but maybe a good idea?

I had the exact same issue was skipping through song then it froze waited 4hrs for battery to drainn
drain turned it back on and it said 0% battery so I reset it and it said 2% battery but every now and then it freezes and I have to reset it holding power for 15 sec also I notice more lag in lollipop and it did freeze on me not too long ago

The 5.0.1 Lollipop Wear update is a piece of sh!t. My Smartwatch3 was rock solid until it came along.
- Currently waiting for the battery to drain so it can come to life again...

[Q] Does someone Knows what is SDCARD MODE?

I am stuck at SDCARD MODE, I was about to play Jewels and it reboot to sdcard mode that says "up key= normal boot" and "down key= download mode" but nothing happens when I press the button.
Can someone help me please. I have a ST800 10.5.

lisboapcs said:
I am stuck at SDCARD MODE, I was about to play Jewels and it reboot to sdcard mode that says "up key= normal boot" and "down key= download mode" but nothing happens when I press the button.
Can someone help me please. I have a ST800 10.5.
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The problem is that at the tablet the battery lost a charge and because of it there was a failure in its work and it got to sdcard mode. Now the battery has no enough charge and therefore electronics of the tablet doesn't work correctly - not possibly to charge the battery and it isn't possible to turn on the tablet. The correct solution - to provide a battery charge above of minimum admissible level. But as electronics of the tablet doesn't work correctly, also the battery charge isn't possible. For a solution, it is necessary to disassemble the tablet, to switch-off the battery, to connect the charger and when on the screen to appear drawing of the battery then to connect the battery. After that the battery will accept a charge well and you will be able then to turn on the tablet after the battery is charged.
Here is the original post with solution for the same Tab, but with a screen 8.4 (Russian language):
http://4pda.ru/forum/index.php?showtopic=581689&view=findpost&p=36891478

I read in another forum about reset the battery, I waited the battery to drain empty and connected the charger and pressed power + Vol.Up + Vol.Up and it came alive again!

Anyways, I thank you for your help!

lisboapcs said:
I read in another forum about reset the battery, I waited the battery to drain empty and connected the charger and pressed power + Vol.Up + Vol.Up and it came alive again!
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Hi. Im Scared of sdcard Mode. Do i need to let the battery drain at all, then connect tablet with charger and then power+vol.up+home?
What will happen?
Will it boot to system, to recovery or it will charge like normal and then boot like normal?
Please answer me

BraianV said:
Hi. Im Scared of sdcard Mode. Do i need to let the battery drain at all, then connect tablet with charger and then power+vol.up+home?
What will happen?
Will it boot to system, to recovery or it will charge like normal and then boot like normal?
Please answer me
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Let the battery completely drain then plug in charger wait for around 5mins then it should boot.

Porcelana my t900 got stuck in sdcard mode today. I found this thread, followed your directions and it worked like a charm.
I have no idea what sdcard mode is.
Thanks
Jim

otisdog said:
Porcelana my t900 got stuck in sdcard mode today. I found this thread, followed your directions and it worked like a charm.
I have no idea what sdcard mode is.
Thanks
Jim
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It was probably unnecessary to disassemble the tablet.
Simply letting the battery discharge until it turns off usually suffices.

this has happened to my tablet 4 or 5 times now. it does work but if I leave my tablet for a little while it does it again and again. do I need a new battery? I can't figure out how to open it either. I don't want to break it.

Nora10999 said:
this has happened to my tablet 4 or 5 times now. it does work but if I leave my tablet for a little while it does it again and again. do I need a new battery? I can't figure out how to open it either. I don't want to break it.
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4/5 times? I think you should refresh your tablet and flash the stock firmware.
It's happened to me just the once.

[Q] Can't boot up SmartWatch 3

Guys,
I've updated my SmartWatch 3 to 5.1 yesterday via OTA
Everything worked fine.
When battery was low, I charged it up from 9% to around 80% (I switched it off though)
It stuck charging at 80% as it was very hot I removed it from charge.
After 2-3 hours I charged again to complete from 80% to 100% even after 1-2 hours of charge It would not charge.
Today morning I did the same I wouldn't charge. I switched on the watch I got android wear logo and it directly switched off.
Now it's not switching on.
Any help I can get?

Yeah same issue here but it is harder than that ...
I installed TWRP on my watch, and when I received the 5.1 OTA, it seems that it did not want to install the update because I was not on recovery stock. Then, my SW3 started to lag, I was not able to install the ZIP via TWRP, and it was superhot, I was unable to boot Android Wear..
That's so ****ed up, man. I can't even know what should I do. xD

I've got the same (or really similar) problem my watch was out of battery, I put it on the charger, it showed normal charging battery icon, then when I tried to turn it on it doesn't show anything, the display is black and when I held down the power button it vibrated once. The problem is that it isn't only display fault because I can't connect to the watch with my mobile phone. Wat do?
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Mavi222 said:
I've got the same (or really similar) problem my watch was out of battery, I put it on the charger, it showed normal charging battery icon. When I woke up the watch was extremely hot and then when I tried to turn it on it didn't show anything, the display i black and when I held down the power button it vibrated once. The problem is that it isn't only display fault because I can't connect to the watch with my mobile phone. Wat do?
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edit: Well that was weird, I unplugged it from the charger and put it there again and now the charging icon is back and when I pressed the button it started to boot. Weird.

Me, too.
After OTA today, my watch is dead. Even long press power button can make freeze screen reboot.
sharukhmohammed said:
Guys,
I've updated my SmartWatch 3 to 5.1 yesterday via OTA
Everything worked fine.
When battery was low, I charged it up from 9% to around 80% (I switched it off though)
It stuck charging at 80% as it was very hot I removed it from charge.
After 2-3 hours I charged again to complete from 80% to 100% even after 1-2 hours of charge It would not charge.
Today morning I did the same I wouldn't charge. I switched on the watch I got android wear logo and it directly switched off.
Now it's not switching on.
Any help I can get?
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Okay guys, here my solution, it worked for me :
If the screen of your SW3 is completly dark:
1) Just let it plug. In fact, the watch is charging, it's just not shown up (I dunno why...)
2) Let it like that for 1 hour, and then unplug it and let it cool down for 10 mn.
3) Install the Sony Companion App on your PC.
4) Keep ressing the power button of your watch til a screen with the watch and USB appears.
5) Plug It to your PC, open the Companion App.
6) Somewhere in the menus, you can resinstall the OS of the watch, RESET it, find the menu.
7) Let your watch restart.
And you're done ! It worked for me, so try.

I left it aside from morning to evening. Didn't even touched it. It completely discharged. So I kept to charge once again and it magically booted up and now working fine. Seems pretty weird. ?
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As I read in other post, I can confirm there is some kind of bug when you are charging your SW3, if you turn it on with the usb cable charging and the screen showing the battery %, the smartwatch gets like frozen and doesn't do anything.. In case you have this problem, you should wait until the battery goes to 0%, start charging your sw3 BUT when you are going to turn it on again first unplug the usb cable and wait until the battery % display dissapears.. I did it after I read it in other post in XDA (I don't have the link here.. I was searchig for it on another computer) and worked for me.
I hope it works for all.. sorry if my English it's not perfect hehe
I found the link: http://forum.xda-developers.com/smartwatch-3/help/smw3-wont-start-t3192354