Hi, I've just bought a Pixel C after years of using a Nexus 10. One thing that I find a bit surprising is that if the tablet is switched off and it is on charge, there is no indication to show that it is charging – not even a white battery symbol for a few seconds or so as with my Nexus 10.
Is this correct? Is there anyway to see if it is charging and what the level of charge is if it is switched off?
Okay. Forget it.
I've just noticed the light bar at the back which turns green when you tap the tablet – even when it is switched off.
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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.
enricong said:
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.
Have just received new Galaxy Nexus and plugged it into the charger. The screen showed a battery icon with a lightning bolt for a few seconds, then it changed to a battery icon filling up for 5 seconds, then it disappeared. If I unplug and plug it back in the same thing happens. I've left it for over 2 hours now and there's nothing on the screen still, and no LED's lit up anywhere. Is it charging?
I don't want to turn it on in case this will affect the first charge. Can anyone tell me if it is actually charging?
(Yes this is a question, but where is the Q&A forum for Galaxy Nexus?)
Update: Now if I unplug and plug back in I see what looks like a full battery icon, but it disappears after a few seconds...
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Have just received new Galaxy Nexus and plugged it into the charger. The screen showed a battery icon with a lightning bolt for a few seconds, then it changed to a battery icon filling up for 5 seconds, then it disappeared. If I unplug and plug it back in the same thing happens. I've left it for over 2 hours now and there's nothing on the screen still, and no LED's lit up anywhere. Is it charging?
I don't want to turn it on in case this will affect the first charge. Can anyone tell me if it is actually charging?
(Yes this is a question, but where is the Q&A forum for Galaxy Nexus?)
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Yeah it's charging. If you tap the power button briefly, an animated battery icon will show it charging on the screen.
I too find it very odd that the notification LED doesn't give any visual feedback of whether it's charging or not. In fact, I noticed this morning that the LED doesn't seem to work at all when it's on charge - you have to turn on the screen to see if you have any messages.
Phew! Thanks for that, I pressed the power button and yes the icon is displayed, looking full. But I think I will leave it for a while longer until I turn it on for the first time...
The LED at the bottom is only for notifications, not for battery status. The Nexus One had 2 LEDs, one in the screen and one in the trackball. Only the small screen one lit up for batter charging/charged/low. This is because that small LED was hard wired to the motherboard, so it displayed even when the device was off and charging.
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Got mine delivered today.
It's not charging at all.
Battery icon changes to show it's charging, but clicking on the battery settings says it's discharging, in fact in ran out of juice while i had it plugged in !!!
I know it's not the charger or the battery as these have been tested on another galaxy nexus without issue.
Anyone any thoughts, I'm assuming it's a phone hardware problem, not a software problem.
Thanks.
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Got mine delivered today.
It's not charging at all.
Battery icon changes to show it's charging, but clicking on the battery settings says it's discharging, in fact in ran out of juice while i had it plugged in !!!
I know it's not the charger or the battery as these have been tested on another galaxy nexus without issue.
Anyone any thoughts, I'm assuming it's a phone hardware problem, not a software problem.
Thanks.
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Do you have another microUSB charger to try it with?
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Yes tried another cable/charger made no difference.
Ah thanks for the tip about pressing the power button
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Got mine delivered today.
It's not charging at all.
Battery icon changes to show it's charging, but clicking on the battery settings says it's discharging, in fact in ran out of juice while i had it plugged in !!!
I know it's not the charger or the battery as these have been tested on another galaxy nexus without issue.
Anyone any thoughts, I'm assuming it's a phone hardware problem, not a software problem.
Thanks.
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The same with my device .
Now battery is fully discharged and turns only for 2 sec with connected charger.
Charger itself is ok (charges another i9000).
Tried to connect PC USB - was synchronized perfectly while battery was ok but not charged.
How did you solve a problem??
I too seemingly have got this problem on the phone I got today...
EDIT
contacted Amazon, claimed they had heard of the problem and replaced it same day, it's gone back for inspection.
I exchanged my phone due to screen issues. Now i have my new phone, screen is good but it wont charge. I used both Verizon's car charger and home charger provided by Samsung (original that came with the box). When i plug in it will say "not charging" and when unplugged it says "discharging". When plugged it i do have the battery with thunderbolt symbol. I tried turning off the phone and removing battery and re-inserting it and plugged in again, same issue.
I've been having a problem with my sprint gnex when I plug it in to charge while its off. The screen turns on with the battery icon and a charge symbol like it usually would, however the icon never changes to indicate how charged the battery is and the screen never turns off. I think its almost freezing in that First state because I can't even turn it on by holding the power button; I have to pull the battery turn it on then plug it back in. The battery does charge when its frozen like that but I'm afraid to leave it in that state because I don't want the battery symbol to burn in the screen. My phone is the sprint gnex and I'm currently using the Are You Jelling Milestone 2, but I don't think the ROM would be causing it. has anyone else had similar problems and know a fix.
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.