Battery wont charge above 52% - HTC 10 Questions & Answers

Hi guys.
Any help or advice appreciated.
Today, I replaced the battery in my HTC10.
Was initially nervous about it, after watching JerryRigEverything's video about 20 times I figured I couldn't learn any more about it, I just had to do it. Boy was he not wrong. The insides? Nightmare. Messy, Frankenstein-ed sticky taped nightmare.
I got it all back together, miraculously, and working. But it wouldn't do two things. 1) It wouldn't fast charge (safety feature perhaps?) and it wouldn't charge beyond 52%. But it did keep saying "6 hours till full charge" and so on.
The whole reason I changed the battery was because, after two years of solid use, it was dying. It would reach 30% or so and just die. I'd turn it back on and it would tell me 1%. Currently my wife is using it until she upgrades.
Any idea why these two things occurred? The phone itself all works fine. I've not found anything wrong beyond those two issues.

Wow its dead in here.
Anyway, it was charged up overnight whilst the phone was off and got to 100%, very very slowly.

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Last full charge status = Not applicable???

I got my Tilt 2 yesterday. I charged it to 100% before using it, then had it on all afternoon setting it up and adding programs. I charged it all night, but when I got up this morning the battery said 70%.
I went to the power settings and noticed there's an information tab that has status info since the last full charge. The status under Last full charge on my phone said "not applicable". I plugged it in at work this morning and waited a while to make sure the charging light turned from orange to green. It did and the battery power remaining was 100%. I left it charging another hour.
A little later I checked the information tab again. It still says Last full charge: Not applicable. HUH???
Aside from the Last full charge field, it also has stats for Standby time, Talk time and Device usage since last full charge. Since I apparently still haven't had a "last full charge" all the values are 0 on my phone.
Does anyone else have a date and time in that field on the information tab?
i got the same on my imagio.
When I first got my Tilt 2, I noticed that screen and thought "hey that's useful". It had the values all filled in properly. But when I went back later to check it, I saw "Not Applicable" just like you. It seems to be intermittent though, because I checked it just now and it has good data. I haven't noticed any correlated factors that predict whether the info will be there or not.
catcraig said:
I got my Tilt 2 yesterday. I charged it to 100% before using it, then had it on all afternoon setting it up and adding programs. I charged it all night, but when I got up this morning the battery said 70%.
I went to the power settings and noticed there's an information tab that has status info since the last full charge. The status under Last full charge on my phone said "not applicable". I plugged it in at work this morning and waited a while to make sure the charging light turned from orange to green. It did and the battery power remaining was 100%. I left it charging another hour.
A little later I checked the information tab again. It still says Last full charge: Not applicable. HUH???
Aside from the Last full charge field, it also has stats for Standby time, Talk time and Device usage since last full charge. Since I apparently still haven't had a "last full charge" all the values are 0 on my phone.
Does anyone else have a date and time in that field on the information tab?
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you should never leave your phone plugged into the charger after it has reached full capacity. you're basically draining the overall battery life of the phone, so it won't last as long off of a full charge.
did that to my old tilt before I found out about the overcharging thing, and had to use my warranty to get a new one since the phone would shut off by itself at 90%+ and turn back on again with >5% battery power left
poppinpengawen said:
you should never leave your phone plugged into the charger after it has reached full capacity. you're basically draining the overall battery life of the phone, so it won't last as long off of a full charge.
did that to my old tilt before I found out about the overcharging thing, and had to use my warranty to get a new one since the phone would shut off by itself at 90%+ and turn back on again with >5% battery power left
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I wasn't really sure that it was fully charged because of that stupid message about the last full charge not applicable. Thanks for the information. I didn't know that it was possible to ruin a battery by overcharging it.
@enisoc,
I thought it seemed like it would be a useful feature, too. Every single time I check power settings the values are null. It's interesting to know you've seen data there at least twice.
ETA: Now that I think about it, for the last two years I've plugged in my Tilt before going to bed and left it charging all night. Every morning it was 100% charged and I never noticed any adverse effects.
poppinpengawen said:
you should never leave your phone plugged into the charger after it has reached full capacity. you're basically draining the overall battery life of the phone, so it won't last as long off of a full charge.
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Maybe I've just been very lucky, but I have had a Sprint HTC Touch and before that a Samsung Blade (razr wannabe), each for two years. Every night for those four years, I plugged in my phone before going to bed and left it there. I have always had great battery life on both phones.
Specifically for the TP2, I have read that it stops charging at some point when it's done, and won't trickle even if you leave it plugged in. This has been reported by various people because they find that if they leave it plugged in for very long times, they'll end up with only about 95% battery, because after the first few hours it was no longer charging.
Perhaps less convincing, but also interesting, is the fact that (when it works) the "last full charge time" on my TP2 shows up as a couple hours after I went to bed, rather than the time when I unplugged it in the morning.
YMMV
enisoc said:
Maybe I've just been very lucky, but I have had a Sprint HTC Touch and before that a Samsung Blade (razr wannabe), each for two years. Every night for those four years, I plugged in my phone before going to bed and left it there. I have always had great battery life on both phones.
Specifically for the TP2, I have read that it stops charging at some point when it's done, and won't trickle even if you leave it plugged in. This has been reported by various people because they find that if they leave it plugged in for very long times, they'll end up with only about 95% battery, because after the first few hours it was no longer charging.
Perhaps less convincing, but also interesting, is the fact that (when it works) the "last full charge time" on my TP2 shows up as a couple hours after I went to bed, rather than the time when I unplugged it in the morning.
YMMV
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oh wow really? that's interesting. that would be nice if it's really true. what I've been wanting is an app that allows the phone to make some sort of noise (i.e. an alarm sound) when it is fully charged. just to let it's owner know that it's finished and so it won't get overcharged. I think i'll go request it at development n hacking.
I am 100% sure that you cannot overcharge a TP2, in fact I would say any phone or device with a Lithium Polymer battery.
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it's true, once the TP2 hits 100% it stops charging the battery & the usage time will kick in.
Day 3 and still no data in the battery power information tab.
do a hard reset. mebbe itll work.
Since its very new, you got nothing to lose.
flip, do you have a TP2? If so, does that tab give you data all the time?
yes, its a Tmo TP2.
it worked on the Stock rom.
I have a custom rom now, and it works as well
once the green light comes on on the touch pro 2 u it stops charging, u cannot overrcharge it
Not only can you not overcharge the lithium Ion batteries it is actually better for them to be recharged as often as possible.
Menneisyys wrote a great article on it a while ago. This confirms what I have always been told.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=342162&highlight=battery+charging
Overcharging li-ion (and li-po) batteries results in catastrophic failure, a.k.a. explosion. Therefore, chargers for these battery chemistries stop charging when they're full.
Something is wrong with ne WM6.5 driver!
Yesterday my battery duration was about 24h (with 6.1 i charge it every 2-3 days!)!!
I fully charged at midnight and now, after 15h it says 90%... It's a little bit strange!
At midnight i could see battery stats.. Now it says "not applicable".
I used Dr SigStat and it says a temperature of 2,47°C!!! (in WM6.1 temperature was normal).
What's wrong??
Over the weekend I finally got some data on the information tab. Either Saturday or Sunday morning when I checked it gave some time around 5AM as the last full charge time. Now it's back to Not Applicable.
@D J Palmis,
I wonder if anyone knows the answer to the 6.5 battery dilemma. When I was using a cooked 6.5 ROM on my Tilt I was getting normal battery duration. My battery life on the Tilt 2 is comparable to my old Tilt.
i see this on my tilt2. battery info shows up, with idle/usage times for a short while after full charge (green) if i check after a few hours, it goes to n/a. looks like a driver bug to me.

[Q] How many people have had battery problems with the Galaxy Tab S 10.5 T800?

I've spent the entire evening tonight trying to find out why I'm getting very erratic battery performance on my Tab S 10.5. I've seen the battery jump and drop 10-30% within a half hour, I've seen the battery percentage go UP from 55% to 67% after rebooting it while it wasn't plugged in, and all kinds of other battery level weirdness. I've even seen it lock itself at random and randomly reboot both when plugged in and when running on only battery.
Tonight, I had had enough and did a factory reset, and it got WORSE! After the reset, it went from 10% tom 17% when I unplugged it. Once I did, it rebooted itself and the battery dropped to 0% and shut itself off!
I've seen other people on here complaining about the same battery weirdness, but the threads seem to mix people talking about different Galaxy Tab S tablets. My question is if I return this to Amazon and get a new one, am I likely to have the same problem? Will it be better? Worse?
jfleegle said:
I've spent the entire evening tonight trying to find out why I'm getting very erratic battery performance on my Tab S 10.5. I've seen the battery jump and drop 10-30% within a half hour, I've seen the battery percentage go UP from 55% to 67% after rebooting it while it wasn't plugged in, and all kinds of other battery level weirdness. I've even seen it lock itself at random and randomly reboot both when plugged in and when running on only battery.
Tonight, I had had enough and did a factory reset, and it got WORSE! After the reset, it went from 10% tom 17% when I unplugged it. Once I did, it rebooted itself and the battery dropped to 0% and shut itself off!
I've seen other people on here complaining about the same battery weirdness, but the threads seem to mix people talking about different Galaxy Tab S tablets. My question is if I return this to Amazon and get a new one, am I likely to have the same problem? Will it be better? Worse?
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either flash stock ROM or replace it
jfleegle said:
I've spent the entire evening tonight trying to find out why I'm getting very erratic battery performance on my Tab S 10.5. I've seen the battery jump and drop 10-30% within a half hour, I've seen the battery percentage go UP from 55% to 67% after rebooting it while it wasn't plugged in, and all kinds of other battery level weirdness. I've even seen it lock itself at random and randomly reboot both when plugged in and when running on only battery.
Tonight, I had had enough and did a factory reset, and it got WORSE! After the reset, it went from 10% tom 17% when I unplugged it. Once I did, it rebooted itself and the battery dropped to 0% and shut itself off!
I've seen other people on here complaining about the same battery weirdness, but the threads seem to mix people talking about different Galaxy Tab S tablets. My question is if I return this to Amazon and get a new one, am I likely to have the same problem? Will it be better? Worse?
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For me, the biggest drain is the screen and I have it at a very low level. I put it into ultra power saving mode last night before going to bed. The batter level this morning was fine, but GSam Battery Monitor said I had the screen on for 8 hours, whereas the built in batter app shows otherwise.
I'm seeing alot of battery issues for people that root. You play. You pay.
xRevilatioNx said:
I'm seeing alot of battery issues for people that root. You play. You pay.
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I haven't rooted my Tab. I'm running stock.
Here's another example of what I was seeing. Once it dropped down to 0% last night, I left it plugged in and left it alone. hen I looked at the battery meter, it didn't show a gradual increase in battery level, it showed a huge spike up in the middle of the night. So it charged very slowly, then at some point jumped around 50% or more and continued to charge until it showed 100%.
Today my T800 did something similar, it was full, then unplugged, started to use it and it went to 92% in just 15min so I was like WTF, plugged to the charger and then immediately jumped to 99%, I unplugged and did a reboot and it once it was back was at 99% again, so I charged again to full and I will see later how it's behaving.
I did notice that when this happened it was warmer than usual
Mine is not rooted.
My T800 doesn't behave like that. I'd definitely return it.
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I'm seeing alot of battery issues for people that root. You play. You pay.
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Rubbish.
jfleegle said:
I've spent the entire evening tonight trying to find out why I'm getting very erratic battery performance on my Tab S 10.5. I've seen the battery jump and drop 10-30% within a half hour, I've seen the battery percentage go UP from 55% to 67% after rebooting it while it wasn't plugged in, and all kinds of other battery level weirdness. I've even seen it lock itself at random and randomly reboot both when plugged in and when running on only battery.
Tonight, I had had enough and did a factory reset, and it got WORSE! After the reset, it went from 10% tom 17% when I unplugged it. Once I did, it rebooted itself and the battery dropped to 0% and shut itself off!
I've seen other people on here complaining about the same battery weirdness, but the threads seem to mix people talking about different Galaxy Tab S tablets. My question is if I return this to Amazon and get a new one, am I likely to have the same problem? Will it be better? Worse?
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Mine is doing the exact same thing. Also loses all wifi connections and I have to put in the passkey every time it reboots. It started about a week or so ago. I think I'll just return it.
Guys, see this thread. Tab S 8.4 T705. I had issue with battery too and i managed to settle it by this way.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2841397
xRevilatioNx said:
I'm seeing alot of battery issues for people that root. You play. You pay.
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Do you even know what rooting is? If you did, you'd know that rooting on its own does nothing to the battery, not only that but it CAN'T do anything to the battery
my battery problems solve (maybe)
Finally after reading dozens of post and trying all kinds of apps to solve the draining and rebooting of mt Tab 5 10.5 t800 I decided to replace the battery so I watched a video on you tube about how to replace the battery and took the back cover off.it was easy I used one of my guitar pics and before I took the battery out I remembered seeing a post here on xda about the battery plastic connector not making good contact so before I took the battery out i disconnected the white plastic connector it just pulls up and off and used a q-tip with some electrical cleaner on it and cleaned the contact and plugged it back in, I charged it to 100% witch I could not do before because it would stop at 98% and put the unit through the paces playing games and videos and doing every thing i could to drain the battery and the first thing I noticed was the battery life was about 5 times greater and it did not drop or reboot yet after 7 hours im at 54 percent battery life .. the screen is more responsive and the unit is running smooth as butter. I am REALLY excited and hope this is the answer to my problems because I really dont want to buy a new battery and find out it does the same thing.

Moto 360 won't go past 92% charging

Hey guys just checking in if anybody has had this issue and a solution. My moto 360 charges up until 92% and then discharges after that point. It never gets to a 100%. I've tried rebooting the device, even resetting it and it's still stuck at 92%. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!
I may have the same issue as of late. Cant seem to get it past 94%.....
I was having the same problem. I let the moto 360 battery run out completely until the watch turned off, then I let it charge on the dock overnight. It sits at 100% now, but the dock light never goes off.
cycling the battery a couple times might help, it did for me at least.
For me it didn't get past 98% for a good 4 hours within the first few days. So it's all about the charging cycles. Well for me anyways. Mine charges pretty quick to 100% now without much issue. This is with the 4.4w.1 update of course.
I just received mine yesterday, set it up, charged to about 97% last night and turned it off. Woke up this morning and finished the charge before leaving for work so that I was starting with a clean 100%. So far this morning I've been playing with it pretty heavily and showing it off to people at work but did notice that the percentages have been swinging back and forth a few times, like for example, after a period of heavy activity I checked the battery and it was at 94% but in checking a few minutes later it was up to 95%.
This sort of reminds me of when I flash a new AOSP rom on my phone and it takes a day or so for the battery and software to get in sync with each other. The graphs on battery history (still talking about the phone) show percentage going up a little, like the software predicts what it should be but then somehow determines that it has overcompensated and credits you a few percentage points. After a few days this effect goes away on the phone and it appears to settle.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/moto-360/help/moto-360-charging-t2871091
Happened to me maybe 3 times. I dont know what it is. Sometimes restarting works. I even flipped the watch upside down and that worked. one time it stuck at 97% and after it restarted, it showed 100%
RodrigoKim said:
I was having the same problem. I let the moto 360 battery run out completely until the watch turned off, then I let it charge on the dock overnight. It sits at 100% now, but the dock light never goes off.
cycling the battery a couple times might help, it did for me at least.
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Since the new update the dock light won't turn off.
RodrigoKim said:
I was having the same problem. I let the moto 360 battery run out completely until the watch turned off, then I let it charge on the dock overnight. It sits at 100% now, but the dock light never goes off.
cycling the battery a couple times might help, it did for me at least.
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Thanks for this. I completely drained my 360 and now it goes to 100%
This is what I posted in other thread:
I can honestly say that I found the issue of the Moto 360 getting stuck while charges, since I bought it almost 3 weeks ago I hadn't been able to get a full charge in my bedroom, I live in Puerto Rico and here is basically Summer all year, average temperatures 80-85 with lower around 65 degrees on Christmas time and highest around 95-100% during July and August, plus 75-90% humidity. Well, with all that said, my bedroom is closed all day, so when I get home it's very hot, as soon as I get there I open windows and all doors but it takes a while to get it cooler. Since I got the Moto 360, I was getting home, changing clothes and putting the watch to charge, it never fully charged, I've tried everything suggested here and other forums, the only place it charged completely was on my Family Room where I have a lot of ventilation and is way colder than my bedroom.
Last Wednesday I got home and just turn the A/C on as soon as I got there, 30 minutes later I put my watch to charge and it charged fully for the first time, so immediately I realized that the only difference this time was that the room was cooler. So I decided to make some tests and I have concluded that every time I put my phone to charge in a cool room it charges completely, but as soon as I try to do it in a warm or hot room it never fully charges, it's obvious that the watch gets warm and hotter while charging so if the environment in which you are charging it it's even hotter it just stops charging, maybe to just protect itself or something.
Those of you with the same issue, just try this and see what happens. Good luck
Hello,
My Moto 360 seems to be stuck at 83 or 84% after a full night on the charger...
It's been the case for the two previous nights, at least.
I've tried restarting the watch, before putting it again on the charger -> No change, still stuck at 84%.
I've then tried resetting it, reinstalling and charging -> No change, still stuck at 84%
After reading posts where people stated that a complete discharge/recharge cycle would let them get back to 100% charge, I tried that as well.
The good news is that it took 28h for my watch's battery to deplete completely, quite significantly more than what I expected.
The bad news is that it charged up to 85%, then down to 83/84% again while seated on the charger.
In a desperate attempt to find something else to try, I put my Moto 360 on another Qi charger, and the battery level climbed up to 92%, which was encouraging... Unfortunately, it stopped there, and didn't go up to 100%, so I don't know what I can make of all this.
As for the theory about the room temperature, it's always been the same here, between 20 and 25°C (70-75°F), so not anything I would call hot.
So I got mine a few days ago and I've noticed when on the charger I get 2 different level of screen brightness. I've also had the problem of only getting 94% some times 97% but what I found that worked was that if I turn the watch off then put it on the charger it turns on and the charging display is really dim and it gets to 100%. If I just put it on the charger the display does not get as dim. The fastest and best charge is with the display off I've been playing with getting this done but haven't found a sure way to get the display off while charging.
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I think there is something to the temperature idea. When I first got it, the weather was pleasant, never going above the upper 70s, so my living room was also pleasant, and it charged to 100% within an hour with no problems. Since the cursed summer heat, of 85-90 everyday, I can't get it past 98%. Which is not too bad, but I can't help waiting for another cooler day (hopefully before the fall) to see if it can get to 100% quickly again.
I do not have any problems getting my 360 to charge to 100%. What I do when charging is to set the 360 on its charger. Then with my phone I turn on Ambient Screen. When the 360 screen dims I turn off the Ambient screen. This keeps the 360 screen dark for quite a while. Works for me.
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Moto Z Play First Charge

I'm yet to receive my Moto Z Play (later today, or tomorrow tops) and I've been reading all the wonders this phones packs with it's everlasting battery, and wondered what's advisable for the first charge. When I get the phone out of the box do I use it until it get's to the 15% mark and it advises me to charge, or do I get it out of the box, turn on to see if everything is in place and, right off the bat, plug it to the wall and wait the 100%?
I've seen some unboxings, but they are all mixed, some advise you sync first, then charge, some say it's best if you charge all the way and then start using, some say to use all the juice that already comes with it and then charge until it hits 100%, there's just not a straight answer to charge it for the first time.
It doesn't matter. Of note, mine was charged 100% when I got it
It doesn't really matter.
I agree that it does not matter...mine also was already charged to 100% when I unboxed it. I just went through the process of setting it up and restoring everything from my S6 Edge. The process took about an hour and a half and ended up leaving my battery about 85%...I just topped it up from there and moved on with life.
emailrob said:
It doesn't matter. Of note, mine was charged 100% when I got it
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Wow amazing! I hope mine also comes charged all the way! it's frustrating to get a new phone and still have to wait for the first charging cycle

Battery not charging properly?

Hi guys,
I'm pretty happy with the device so far, battery life is pretty god (at least for me). I tend to charge the phone every other day, however a couple of times battery has drained completely and after that it gets pretty difficult for the phone to begin charging the battery again.
Either pluged in or wirelessly, phone does not seem to "recognize" that it's being charged. (I've waited for about 15 minutes with the phone pluged in and it just won't charge).
This only happens on drained battery; I don't remember this being an issue on my old S8+.
Please let me know if anyone else has been having the following issue and if so, if you've found the cause or a possible solution (other than "not letting it discharge").
Cheers to all,
Joyousfrank
Original charger and cable?
raul6 said:
Original charger and cable?
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Hi Raul, yes original charger and cable, also wireless charger is Samsung's, but it's the one for the old S8/Note 8 line.
I remenber a similar issue in the days of the note 8, which refused to start charging after depleting the batt, now, just avoid going to zero, as it is really bad for any battery
joyousfrank said:
Hi guys,
I'm pretty happy with the device so far, battery life is pretty god (at least for me). I tend to charge the phone every other day, however a couple of times battery has drained completely and after that it gets pretty difficult for the phone to begin charging the battery again.
Either pluged in or wirelessly, phone does not seem to "recognize" that it's being charged. (I've waited for about 15 minutes with the phone pluged in and it just won't charge).
This only happens on drained battery; I don't remember this being an issue on my old S8+.
Please let me know if anyone else has been having the following issue and if so, if you've found the cause or a possible solution (other than "not letting it discharge").
Cheers to all,
Joyousfrank
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From my experience,
with charging all my old Android devices,
when battery completely depleted.
I found this to be normal behavior.
Battery takes a quite while to "show" that it's actually charging.Even my old Galaxy Gear watch did this.
I also agree with @winol post that it's not good practice to let battery be completely depleted /flat
Good luck.
Thank you all, then I guess it actually is normal, just wanted to check that.
As you mentioned, will try to avoid battery depletion from now on.
Have a great day all.

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