I am DIY guy. About three months ago I had issues with my Note 8 (phone). It started with battery going from 100 to 0 in just few hours, each day it would take less and less time to do that until about a week later battery wouldnt hold charge and charge at all. No brainer - Battery is dead. Ordered new battery and replaced it. Worked fine for about a month and then the same thing happened in exactly the same manner. Started scratching my head, and came to a conclusion that the replacement battery might be faulty. So ordered another one again and replaced it . Worked great again for a month , would charge and hold charge until about a week ago the exact same thing happened only this time it took only 3 days for the battery to die completely. Has anyone encountered this weird issue? Both of my batteries were from iFixit store and they werent cheap- about £25. Now I have no idea whether to try another battery ?
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Recently my phone was acting weird, the phone wouldn't charge in USB mode, and when I disconnected the cable it still thought it was in USB mode, the next day it went from a full charge to off in a few hours. After then it refused to charge, with the side light blinking. It sent off for a repair/replacement to the place I bought it from clove technology.
Just wondering if any one has had this problem, or has ever dealt with clove and their experience when dealing with them.
I had a similar problem. I notice a lot of people here are having such issues...
I my case the solution was to keep the charger connected for about 5/6 hours, after which the battery was charged 5%. After that it took a few more hours to be completely charged, but since then there were no problems.
My unit is bought from Clove also but is working well. Mine is UK unit.
w0ndersp00n said:
I had a similar problem. I notice a lot of people here are having such issues...
I my case the solution was to keep the charger connected for about 5/6 hours, after which the battery was charged 5%. After that it took a few more hours to be completely charged, but since then there were no problems.
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5/6 hours, wow that's determination, i think i charged it for 2 hours before sending it off to the place i bought it from.
I bought mine from an authorized dealer in malaysia, and I had the same problem. The charge light was blinking in rapid motion, and the phone failed to charge. Upon replacing the part, they noticed a problem with a component on the motherboard thats draining too much power. They gave me a new unit there after. Touch wood no problems with that. Some searching around got me to notice these problems have plagued the milestone range eversince, n motorola hasn't rectified it yet
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just happened yesterday,
felt my defy very hot in my pocket and turned it off. after a while, turned it on, and it was ok. the only thing i noticed was that the battery was draining very fast. i thought that this can be fixed by calibrating the battery, so i drained it till it is on 1%. turned it off and charge it. it reached 100% in over 2 hours but when i tried to turn it on, it wouldnt. so i unplug it from the wall and removed the battert. thats when i noticed that it is swollen and couldn't hold any charge.
anybody has this similar experience? is this hardware or ROM related. using ICS CM9 03/05. defy is 1yr and 3 months old.
sounds VERY BAD! lithium ion batteries explode violently and then catch fire. get rid of it immediately, bury it if you have to.
This happened to an older Nokia I had. The battery is dead and it's very risky to keep forcing it by charging. Get rid of it, better safe than sorry.
Trimis de pe Defy CM9
i did got rid of it. the question now is how did it happen if defy has overcharge protection? or is it just that i got a bad battery
I think you got a bad battery, it's not acceptable to get in that state after only 15 months. You should be in that 2-year warranty period, the battery should be changed on that basis. Give it a try, it might work.
My Nokia had over 4 years when the battery got fat and died .
Trimis de pe Defy CM9
Same problem
I had a Defy and its been about a month since i last used it and i found it just a min ago and the battrey had swelled up from the top and bottom now i have put it in a bag as the guys on here said better safe than sorry.
Swelling and/or overheating while charging can only mean you have a big problem with the battery, also if the battery feels malleable, there is something very very wrong...
Make sure that the battery doesn't leak fluids and avoid contact with water at any cost.
Also... recycle the battery and not throw it in the garbage so the chemicals will be dealt with properly.
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salingpusa said:
just happened yesterday,
felt my defy very hot in my pocket and turned it off. after a while, turned it on, and it was ok. the only thing i noticed was that the battery was draining very fast. i thought that this can be fixed by calibrating the battery, so i drained it till it is on 1%. turned it off and charge it. it reached 100% in over 2 hours but when i tried to turn it on, it wouldnt. so i unplug it from the wall and removed the battert. thats when i noticed that it is swollen and couldn't hold any charge.
anybody has this similar experience? is this hardware or ROM related. using ICS CM9 03/05. defy is 1yr and 3 months old.
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yes it happened to my defy.i tried many methods but nothing worked. my phone was bricked .so there nothing for me to do. so in order to flash i needed the battery. (back 2 froyo) my defy was 3 years old . it showed nothing till this battery thing showed up.so i went to ebay bought a battery for 6.76 dollars and flashed it back to froyo. now it is running fine on cm 11. i suggest you do the same.
I'm posting this as a single informative message, not as a discussion, but additional information is welcome.
My Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note 3 got rained on when I also got rained on last week. When I got home and took the back cover off there was a small amount of water draining from the lower-left-rear. I let it dry in a warm environment for a couple of hours before using it but the battery would discharge about five times the normal rate and charge about five times more slowly. This persisted for a week so I decided to replace it. I wanted to replace the Verizon device with a T-Mobile device anyway so this was a good excuse.
Anxious to begin work on rooting my new T-Mobile Note 3 I swapped batteries with the Verizon Note 3 and used the Verizon to charge the new battery while I used the Verizon's fully charged battery in the T-Mobile. After that new battery was charged I put it back in the T-Mobile where it belongs and gave the Verizon its own battery back. After that swap the Verizon device/battery combination has returned to the normal charge/discharge rate. Apparently, just a guess, the 'smart battery' just needed to be reset by the other unaffected charging system.
So perhaps a solution for others to try when a battery appears to be behaving badly is to use it in another device for a while.
Frank
While charging my Nexus 7 I noticed that the battery was actually draining rather than charging. This is happened in the past as well where I would plug it in overnight and find it at 42%. My Nexus also dropped from 100% to 77% in less than an hour with no use at all.
Recently while charging I went into the bootloader to shut down the Nexus. Now I plug it in and the screen is blank. I have tied a rubber band around the power button so it is constantly being pressed.
Is this a battery issue that can be solved by simply ordering a battery on eBay and changing it? The past behavior of the tablet makes me think it's either a software or battery issue.
i have the exact same thing... n7 is dead as a brick... have tried everything... i also measured the battery and it's on 0.93 v so there is still juice inside...
can't figure why it doesn't work... if u find something plz let me know too
mine done the same thing . But it done so after leaving it for a few weeks not charging. I charged for like 30 minutes . turned it on . It started updating apps. then all at once screen went off. and that was it..
I had square trade warranty as my tab was bought back when 32 gb 2012 version came out. So i sent it in and they fixed it . I have no idea what they done but it has the same serial numbers mac address and so on. So i suspect it was just revived somehow.
I sent email asking exactly what was done to fix it with no reply back.
Don't have a warranty... it the 1st Gen n7 so I called Google and it doesn't have warranty
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I'm way past warranty. I've had it a couple of years now.
I bought a battery off of eBay. I'm going to remove the back cover and replace the battery and hopefully that will fix the issue.
Will update with the results or lack of results.
Hello!
My display recently broke, and I intend to keep this phone for more 2 or 3 years.
Since I'm going to ship it to Oneplus for the repair, should I also get a new battery?
Mine had arround 85% life and it was almost crossing the 2 years mark.
It would be great if you could replace the battery as you are planning to use this phone for 2-3 years, moreover it won't cost much.