[Q] Aria Battery Charging problem

[Adrian Chau]

Hi, I'm new to the forum.
Recently, I have rooted my aria with Clockworkmod 2.5.0.7
however, when i switch off my phone to charge, the led light doesn't go out even after i pulled it out from the plug.
Can anyone tell me why?

 

[DubRas]

Hi,

look in this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1190227

 

[drumist]

Hi, I'm new to the forum.
Recently, I have rooted my aria with Clockworkmod 2.5.0.7
however, when i switch off my phone to charge, the led light doesn't go out even after i pulled it out from the plug.
Can anyone tell me why?

Did you use Unrevoked or Revolutionary?

 

[sannpt]

Battery stats are jumping and showing inconsistent information

Hello,
I have a strange problem with my rooted and S-OFF’ed Aria for the last six months and I have been trying to find a solution or a fix to the problem ever since.

The battery percentage is always incorrect and never shows any percentage value greater than 30 even after 8-10 hours of charging and drains within an hour phone shuts off. The phone is basically useless for me right now.

I did try all the calibration methods and other solutions (listed below) that I could find in the web and the forums here, but none seem to have fixed the issue.

Soft Reset
Hard Reset
Format System, data, cache partitions
Installed all available ROMs in the community (Liberated, CM 6, CM 7, Stock Original, Stock Update for 2.1, Stock Update with Froyo (2.2) etc).
Battery Calibration of all known procedures (Delete batterystats, discharge fully, recharge fully etc)
Did a task 29 (fastboot oem task 29)
Replaced with a brand new original battery from ATT.

Now with S-OFF, I cannot fully revert to Stock version or send it for Warranty repairs etc (Is there a way to revert to S-ON)?

So now turning on to the experts in this community to help me out and you guys are really awesome in guiding others and fixing things. Hoping to hear from someone.

Btw, I found a similar symptoms and “solution” in the Atrix forum. Please refer link below.

forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1198333

 

[drumist]

Have you tried wiping battery stats, then just using the phone normally? (not letting the battery totally discharge, etc.)

Did the problem only start happening after you S-OFF, or did it happen before then?

It does sound to me like there's nothing you would be able to do about the problem, except reverting to S-ON and sending the phone in for warranty service. Supposedly there is a method for doing this although I have no idea how complicated it would be. You should probably go to the #liberatedAria IRC channel to ask about how to do it.

 

[sannpt]

Thanks for your reply, drumist

Yes, I tried wiping the batterystats and used the phone normally for couple weeks, still no difference.

The problem started months before I did S-OFF, possibly due to multiple format, flash of ROMs etc. Somehow the phone or the battery doesn't know the correct readings/voltage data.

The max voltage on a full 8-10 hours charge that I have seen is only 3.8 v (new and old battery) and ideally it should be >4 v for a full charge.

Thanks,

 

[drumist]

The max voltage on a full 8-10 hours charge that I have seen is only 3.8 v (new and old battery) and ideally it should be >4 v for a full charge.

Yeah. It sounds to me like the mechanism in the phone that is supposed to charge the battery is failing to charge it above a certain threshold. Either that or the mechanism that measures the voltage is failing. You could figure out which one is the case by measuring the battery's voltage with a multimeter if you have one.

I know this is a long shot, but have you tried charging the phone with a different USB cable, or with a different USB power adapter, or by plugging into a different power socket in the wall (or using a different computer if you are charging through a computer USB port)?

 

[sannpt]

Today I tested both batteries using a multimeter and both had voltage > 4 (old battery: 4.19 v new 4.18 v). I tested this after charging the batteries through the phone, so it proves phone charging is working fine and the batteries are good.

Then I went to CWM and deleted the batterystats, pulled the battery out, waited for couple minutes, put it back in and restarted to generate a fresh stats file.

But the voltage displayed in the phone is totally wrong (3456 mv) and showed 20%, so there is something wrong with how the phone understands full battery voltage and percentage.

I waited for the phone to discharge and shut off (which was <10 mins), then checked the battery voltage in multimeter, it was still good at 4.10 v (lost only about .09 mv).

Is there anything that we can do to override or correct the voltage and percentage in the phone?

Thanks,

 

[drumist]

Is there anything that we can do to override or correct the voltage and percentage in the phone?

Nothing that I'm aware of.

 

[yizhixi]

Hi, I'm new to the forum.
Recently, I have rooted my aria with Clockworkmod 2.5.0.7
however, when i switch off my phone to charge, the led light doesn't go out even after i pulled it out from the plug.
Can anyone tell me why?

i'm having the same issue with you, and never find an solution to it.

 

[bhavanaG]

htc aria

my phone is not getting charged, it shows charging but reduces the charging already present. how to solve this issue