Phone Charge issue.

diabolic · #1 (**permalink**) 04-23-2009, 08:29 AM

This is weird. It just started happening last week and seems to be getting progessively worse each day. Before I continue I have 3 different batteries and it happens with all of them.
I plug my phone in before I go to bed (around 1:30am). When I wake up at 7am my phone is fully charged. I go downstairs and have breakfast, and when I come back upstairs the battery is dead. It started off just being a few bars down, and now I'm getting the battery warning. So in the course of maybe 15 mins the phone is apparently going from full charged to completely empty.

Something like this was happening before when I would try and charge the phone off a generic usb cord at night and after an hour there was less charge than when I plugged it in.
So either my phone is fuggered or the electricity in my house is running backwards, (which I don't think is he problem because when use my toaster the bread still comes out hotter than when I put it in.)

infamousj012 · #2 (**permalink**) 04-23-2009, 10:33 AM

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Originally Posted by diabolic

This is weird. It just started happening last week and seems to be getting progessively worse each day. Before I continue I have 3 different batteries and it happens with all of them.
I plug my phone in before I go to bed (around 1:30am). When I wake up at 7am my phone is fully charged. I go downstairs and have breakfast, and when I come back upstairs the battery is dead. It started off just being a few bars down, and now I'm getting the battery warning. So in the course of maybe 15 mins the phone is apparently going from full charged to completely empty.

Something like this was happening before when I would try and charge the phone off a generic usb cord at night and after an hour there was less charge than when I plugged it in.
So either my phone is fuggered or the electricity in my house is running backwards, (which I don't think is he problem because when use my toaster the bread still comes out hotter than when I put it in.)

look @ the charger port, see if the little black thing that actually connects to the charger is intact and still straight, if you treat your chargers rough when you're pulling it out, i know it does some wear and tear on the thing the charger connects to.. i pull mine out pretty fast and it shows :/ not expert help but it's a start! haha

**nxtech3** · #3 (**permalink**) 04-23-2009, 10:54 AM

bad battery, check with the local service center, they should have some to purchase if they cant warranty or if they dont have any spares.

thejacer · #4 (**permalink**) 04-23-2009, 01:54 PM

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Originally Posted by nxtech3

bad battery, check with the local service center, they should have some to purchase if they cant warranty or if they dont have any spares.

he said he has 3 batteries and it happens with all 3.

try it with a different cord? if someone you know has a razr or blackberry they use the same plug (mini usb) as the touch.

diabolic · #5 (**permalink**) 04-23-2009, 04:15 PM

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Originally Posted by thejacer

he said he has 3 batteries and it happens with all 3.

try it with a different cord? if someone you know has a razr or blackberry they use the same plug (mini usb) as the touch.

Yeah I've tried 3 batteries, and dozens of different cords. The orange light always lights up.

detroit_doug · #6 (**permalink**) 04-23-2009, 09:42 PM

Just a side note - ONLY use the Sprint charger for the Vogue - different chargers for Razrs and others can and do have differing cycles and rates going through them and that can cause all kinds of havok over time to your mainboard controller for power as well as the batteries

do the research out there before plugging something similar shaped into anything but YMMV its your headache

Detroit Doug

imdarkside · #7 (**permalink**) 04-27-2009, 01:11 PM

gremlins at work again.

i've had the problem with the wall charger where it would be at 100% and then zap to zero but never had it with the usb charge. i'm used to the wall charger zapping it out so when i use it i dont leave it for too long before i pull it. The wall charger on mine does charge it 100% and then will zap it to zero. not always but just sometimes. i think the gremlins come in through the electric line take the power out of my phne then head out to your phone.

thejacer · #8 (**permalink**) 04-30-2009, 03:50 PM

lol didn't realize that, Detroit doug to the rescue -.-

did u ever get it fixed?

detroit_doug · #9 (**permalink**) 05-02-2009, 02:18 PM

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Originally Posted by thejacer

lol didn't realize that, Detroit doug to the rescue -.-

did u ever get it fixed?

lol yeah, there are several articles out there regarding it, especially from phone and laptop manufactures that have proprietary connectors from device to electrical source

Its not only the size, shape, pin number and/or configuration that is proprietary but also voltage and cycle rate as well in some cases hence the reason why Dell and HP laptop plugs are so vastly different as well as Dell to Dell or HP to HP, different models of hardware have differing setup and configurations in the electrical handling systems within

The most common Ive seen over time(in a corp I was working in the IT dept as we also were responsible for the cell phones as well) was blackberry users just using whatever cable/power was available then wondering why the blackberry after a short time was having no battery life or just not coming on at all even with the power cabled in directly, contacted tech support for it and they proved the fact to us that different models have different chargers and the user had basically fried out the AC power chip in the phone as well as damaged the rechargeable battery as well and as it was improper use the user had to buy another phone as they refused to handle it via warranty

Detroit Doug

FearTheElf · #10 (**permalink**) 06-16-2009, 08:44 AM

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Originally Posted by detroit_doug

lol yeah, there are several articles out there regarding it, especially from phone and laptop manufactures that have proprietary connectors from device to electrical source

Its not only the size, shape, pin number and/or configuration that is proprietary but also voltage and cycle rate as well in some cases hence the reason why Dell and HP laptop plugs are so vastly different as well as Dell to Dell or HP to HP, different models of hardware have differing setup and configurations in the electrical handling systems within

The most common Ive seen over time(in a corp I was working in the IT dept as we also were responsible for the cell phones as well) was blackberry users just using whatever cable/power was available then wondering why the blackberry after a short time was having no battery life or just not coming on at all even with the power cabled in directly, contacted tech support for it and they proved the fact to us that different models have different chargers and the user had basically fried out the AC power chip in the phone as well as damaged the rechargeable battery as well and as it was improper use the user had to buy another phone as they refused to handle it via warranty

Detroit Doug

I'm having the same problem as the OP, only worse - my phone won't power on at all, even after several hours charge. The red light is the only light that comes on when plugged in to the AC charger. I even bought a couple new batteries, assuming my original battery had finally died; same issue, no matter which battery I use. I have only ever used the AC charger that came with the phone. However, I do use a few different USB cables when connecting the phone to different PCs to charge it, transfer data, etc. Would the USB cable make a difference in the power distribution to the phone and potentially fry the thing?