Battery Indicator at 0%!

[mikejames07]

I purchased an unlocked Treo 750 off ebay the other day, I received it in the mail yesterday. THe battery indicator says 0%full and has the exclamation mark on it. It's been like this since yesterday and I've charged it overnight. I'm sure the battery has charge because if it was at 0 it would have died through the night and I've upgraded it to Windows Mobile 6. I"m trying to put 6.1 on there but the PC way won't let me because it thinks the battery is below 50% and i tried the bypass through the bootloader but it says the file is corrupted after 7%. Anway, anybody know how i can fix this battery indicator problem? I've tried installing other battery utilities but they all read 0%!:confused:

[tracylynnt]

I got a refurb 750 last week at the AT&T service center as a warranty replacement. The first few days I noticed that when the phone was plugged in to charge, sometimes it would go up to 100% and seem to discharge normally. Other times it would appear to discharge really quickly and when I would plug it in the charge % would keep going down. Finally last night it went down to 0% even when it was plugged in and it gave me warnings and finally powered off. I have an extra battery (OEM) and extra charger so I put in a battery that I know was 100% charged and it still showed 0%, but this time it never gave warning notifications and it never turned off. Now the indicator just stays at 0% with either battery whether it is plugged into a charger or not. I did a hard-reset just to see if maybe something I installed is interfering with the indicator but even after that it still shows 0% with either battery. It works fine and I'm guessing it will turn off at some point when the battery actually dies, but this is just :confused:

[coolestzero]

hi,

The problem is the battery.
I had the same problem with my treo after purchasing it from eBay... (I wonder if it's the same store)
I asked the seller to send another battery and he did, now it's OK.
My advice to you is to contact the seller, if you haven't given him a feedback, don't do it until you get a new battery from him.

Good Luck

[mikejames07]

yeah, i believe it's the battery also. The battery it came with was a 1600mAh and I found out the phone shipped with a 1200mAh. I ordered my own though...only 8 bux...should be here in a day or two

[mikejames07]

The solution to my problem was the battery. Like I stated in my previous post....the phone came with a 1600mAh battery when i bought it from ebay. The ATT 750 shipped with a 1200mAh battery and the 1600mAh was made for the 755 and another model i don't recall. Once I placed the 1200mAh battery in the phone, it showed the correct percentage and is charging with the battery light on (which wasn't happening before). So I'm not sure if there is different circuitry in these two batteries that caused the conflict but my problem seems to be solved:D.