Hey all, i have an odd one that i wanted some opinions on. I've been working a convention for the weekend and have been using my desktop PC for audio work. Since the desktop doesn't have a wifi card, i connected my evo to the hotels wifi and then connected it to the desktop via PDANET. i've been running it all day, about 11 hours now and even though the phone reports 98 percent, it just clicked off. No warning, no low battery, just off. When i plugged it back in via wall adapter the battery reads 3%.
My assumption is that running WIFI drained more juice then the USB power could supply and this killed the phone. My question is, how come the phone reported a full battery and subsequently neglected to display any low battery warnings?
I tether using usb with pdanet 4 days a week anywhere from 6 to 12 hours. Never had that problem. Might be a setting to not charge while tethering.
than its ur phone pdanet does not kill battery
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Leaving the Phone in USB Tether mode, it may not charge.
Today my Focus was down to about 20% charge remaining. I hooked it to the computer and it indicated it was charging. I came back a few hours later expecting to see it close to fully charged. It was showing the charge indication, but it was also showing it was almost completely discharged. (The battery icon flips back and forth from the charge icon the the current battery charge icon) I pulled the usb cable and it immediately told me the battery was critically low.
I put the USB cable back in, hooked it to the AC adapter this time and it showed it was again in charge mode.
I opened the diagnostic for the battery, *#2*#, and it showed 4% charge.
I removed the battery and it was not hot. I reinserted the battery and in the past few hours I am showing 67% charge now. I also had left the USB tethering option in there from yesterday, so I set it back to Zune and the phone rebooted for that. The battery is not very warm.
I don't know what to think. It looks like leaving it in USB Tether after i tried that yesterday might have caused it to refuse to take a charge in spite of showing the charge indicator. If anyone else has put theirs in USB Tether and not switched it back to Zune afterwards, I would like to know if it will really charge being left in that USB Tether mode.
Not odd at all. In the past, Samsung WM phones are known to disable charging when in USB modem mode.
I am trying to figure out why my DroidX will not charge fully all of the sudden. I plugged it in yesterday to a wall charger for about 2 hours when the battery was at 50%, can back after 2hrs, and it was still at 50% even though it showed the charging icon the whole time. I rebooted it, and plggeed it into my computer's USB port, and set the USB option to "Charge only". Came back this morning, after it sat there for 6 hours and same thing - it is just maintaining the current battery level, but not charging it higher.
I have only owned it for a week, and the only change between now and when it was charging properly was that I installed a wireless tethering app, however, that runs on demand, and it has not been open or running. WiFi and GPS are also completely turned off.
Anyone else experienced this? I assume unless I keep it plugged in 24/7 now, it will eventually die all the way down!!
p.s. - I also tried letting it charge while it was completely powered off, but same thing. Shows that it is charging but just maintains current level.
crobs808 said:
I am trying to figure out why my DroidX will not charge fully all of the sudden. I plugged it in yesterday to a wall charger for about 2 hours when the battery was at 50%, can back after 2hrs, and it was still at 50% even though it showed the charging icon the whole time. I rebooted it, and plggeed it into my computer's USB port, and set the USB option to "Charge only". Came back this morning, after it sat there for 6 hours and same thing - it is just maintaining the current battery level, but not charging it higher.
I have only owned it for a week, and the only change between now and when it was charging properly was that I installed a wireless tethering app, however, that runs on demand, and it has not been open or running. WiFi and GPS are also completely turned off.
Anyone else experienced this? I assume unless I keep it plugged in 24/7 now, it will eventually die all the way down!!
p.s. - I also tried letting it charge while it was completely powered off, but same thing. Shows that it is charging but just maintains current level.
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this is not normal ,while in the wall charger it should charge all the way and the same on usb but just slower ,if this problem persist i would bring it to VZW and get a knew batt or phone or both since you have only had it a week
It may not be the phone or the battery. It's probably a faulty DC adapter which is not delivering the proper amperage. I just had this problem with my Slingbox. It would light up but the lights looked dim and I couldn't connect to it. A new adapter fixed it.
(Edit) I just reread your post and noticed you are charging it on your PC's USB port. Try the wall charger or another PC. Some PCs don't put out enough juice to charge.
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BBJohnnyT said:
It may not be the phone or the battery. It's probably a faulty DC adapter which is not delivering the proper amperage. I just had this problem with my Slingbox. It would light up but the lights looked dim and I couldn't connect to it. A new adapter fixed it.
(Edit) I just reread your post and noticed you are charging it on your PC's USB port. Try the wall charger or another PC. Some PCs don't put out enough juice to charge.
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This is somewhat true. The phone should charge with less power regardless of the source. You notice this most on say a USB hard drive and this is why you have y cables sometimes on the drives that take more power. Does the computer you happen to be charging it on happen to be a Laptop?
FYI - I charge from a desktop PC that has a 1000W corsair powersupply and hig end motherboard.
With that asie though, I was able to get the charging back - works fine after I did a hard reset. Most everything was backed up via Google, so all I had to do was rearrange my icons on home screen and change a few android settings.
I still have all the same apps, so I do not know what caused it. Whatever, it is fine now, but if it happens again I will take it in - I do not want to have to hard reset every few weeks. (I have the $6 a month full protection plan, even if I lose it, it gets replaced)
i fully charged the phone and finally tested mt4g as a router.. i used for about 80 minutes and i noticed the battery was quickly losing power.. less then 50%! is this normal? never tether before
Yes, this is normal. Transmitting wifi signal uses a lot of power.
I use my mt4g as wifi for my ps3. I play call of duty for hours before i start seeing signs of the battery dying.
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I always :
1) plug the laptop in
2) plug the phone into the USB on the laptop
The wifi hotspot is a resource hog and the only thing you can do is plug the
phone in while using it.
I also plug the laptop in because charging the phone with the laptop will
drain the laptops battery too.
Hi,
Ive had the oppo for just over a day now and the first day all was well until last night. I had about 10% battery and left the phone on charge. half an hour later i came back and it was on 2% and then it died. I connected my phone to my computer via the usb cable and the charging indicator came on. The phone has been charging for 3 hours and is still on 0% and as soon as i take it of the phone dies.
hope someone can help
thanks
mo123456789 said:
Hi,
Ive had the oppo for just over a day now and the first day all was well until last night. I had about 10% battery and left the phone on charge. half an hour later i came back and it was on 2% and then it died. I connected my phone to my computer via the usb cable and the charging indicator came on. The phone has been charging for 3 hours and is still on 0% and as soon as i take it of the phone dies.
hope someone can help
thanks
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sorry to hear about the charging problem. I have not heard of that. Some have complained that it charges slow. I have the opposite experience, mine charges relatively quickly I think. Anyway, have you tried contacting OPPO support. They will respond withing 24hrs, assuming it's not the weekend!
I also experienced some charging issues. Connected my Find to my laptop the other evening, closed the lid and went to bed.
The next morning the phone was out of juice. For some reason, my Find 5 will not charge when my laptop is hibernating. It charges fine otherwise.
No other phone I've owned has this problem. I tested it with my old Galaxy Note and HD2. No problems charging when laptop is hibernating.
I also noticed that sometimes when connected as Media Device (MTP) it says charging....but the battery level still goes down.
Zhoreb said:
I also experienced some charging issues. Connected my Find to my laptop the other evening, closed the lid and went to bed.
The next morning the phone was out of juice. For some reason, my Find 5 will not charge when my laptop is hibernating. It charges fine otherwise.
No other phone I've owned has this problem. I tested it with my old Galaxy Note and HD2. No problems charging when laptop is hibernating.
I also noticed that sometimes when connected as Media Device (MTP) it says charging....but the battery level still goes down.
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Probably the power output is not enough to charge the phone properly, it also happens to me, but with the stock charger it does it well.
Hi, I'm in a bit of a trouble here. My battery is running low but I have a fully charged external battery that connects via USB. T he problem is that as soon as I connect it, the phone says 'charging' but disconnects right away, even the portable battery.
Why is this, am I missing any setting?