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[Legend General] estilian:
Well I've been through all this problems that are described in this thread for about 4 months. As my Legend is still under warranty I decided to send the phone for a repair. It took them about 35 days and when the gave it back to me they said the problem is coming from the battery and that the warranty is not covering it. To make sure if they are saying the truth I put my battery in another Legend and it was working just fine - charging to 100% and staying alive for about 3-4 days with extend usage.

Then I went again to the HTC service... I explained that the problem is not with the battery... Then again - two weeks without phone. After they called my back again they said I was wrong and I should just buy another battery!!! I was mad but I did it - I did buy a brand new original battery. I've installed it on my Legend and guess - what a surprise... THE PHONE IS NOT CHARGING AT ALL!

This was the third time I went to HTC. Again - two weeks without phone... and after they said "Sorry buddy, this is not an original battery - this is Chinese aftermarket one. And this is why it's not charging as it should" I realized that they will never fix it...

I love my Legend but after all this problems - I really hate HTC!

Now I'm trying the hgmichna suggestion with the Battery Monitor by Simmo. So far so good - it's really showing more actual state of the battery but this doesn't fix the fact that battery is alive only for a day and a half without using WiFi, Data transfer and just a few calls.
[Legend General] hgmichna:
Maybe you are now using it more?

Fact is that a Li-Ion accumulator is about 85% to 90% full at 4.1 V and 100% full at 4.2 V. Note that the full 4.2 V charge strains the battery and shortens its service life somewhat.

Do you get at least 4.1 V, i.e. "FULL" or nearly 100% shown by Simmo's Battery Monitor? If not, have you tried to power down the phone in the evening and to charge it overnight?

There is still some uncertainty about whether and how much this HTC Legend defect reduces the actual charging. I'm not sure about it. The nightmare would be that the voltages sensed by the phone and displayed by Battery Monitor are wrong, so the cause would be in the voltage sensor. That would be really bad, and there would be no workaround. Can somebody test this by measuring the voltage or putting the same battery into another HTC Legend and compare the voltage?
[Legend General] estilian:
Well I did check the values... It's more than strange!!! First when I installed the widget there was a big difference - the phone's software status was on 3% and the widget measured 40%. But wait... here is where the funny things started to appear. I connected the Legend to charge it and immediately the widget dropped to 10%. After about 3 hours of charging the widget just stopped at 3.750V at approximately 41% and never came more than this... while the phone's software reached this values and even went up to 53% showing 3.855V and stopped charging. I've waited for 6 more hours and decided to disconnect the charger and plug it back again. After I did it the phone's charge status did not changed but the Battery Monitor Widget did - at unplugging it (35%) when putting back to charge (43%) and again - didn't want to charge more... I've tried to turn off and start again the phone... as well as take out the battery and put it back... and to charge with turned off phone - nothing changed!

If you ask me - the problem is definitely related to some hardware issues. I'll keep on trying different scenarios to see what will happen. Maybe it's a good idea to check with a multimeter the Voltage of the battery and compare it with the values the phone (and the widget) are showing. I'll keep you in touch...
[Legend General] estilian:
Well... fast update with very bad news! It seems that the problem is coming from the sensor which is measuring the Voltage of the battery inside the phone. I have just checked with a very precise multimeter the battery outside the phone and it was 4.208V while inside the phone it shows 3.763V.

Any ideas how I can fix this?
[Legend General] hgmichna:
That's indeed bad news. But the good side is that your battery does seem to get fully charged.

However, you can now set the high value in Battery Monitor to 3.76 V and the low one to the lowest value you observe. Then you have a correct charge indicator again, assuming that the voltage sensor always underreads by the same amount.

The downside is only that you get a low battery warning from Android far too early.

Anyway, why not try this and give your HTC Legend another lease of life?

I just measured my HTC Legend and found the same symptoms, albeit with somewhat higher voltages. My sensor appears to underread by 0.13 V, measured when the accumulator was nearly full.

Recommendation

Charge your phone fully, like overnight.

Take out the battery and measure it with a precise voltmeter or simply assume 4.2 V.

Put the battery back in and start the phone.

Get a voltage reading, like from Android System Info (install this app), System, Battery.

Set this as the high voltage in Battery Monitor by Simmo.

Subtract 0.7 V from this voltage and set that as the low voltage.

Of course you can do it more precisely by running down the battery until the phone cuts off, then attach the charger, charge a minute, start the phone, disconnect the charger and take the current voltage as measured by Android System Info as the low voltage in Battery Monitor by Simmo. But I guess there will not be much difference. You can always fine-tune the voltage settings as you go. Plus there is the suspicion that the voltage sensor may keep deteriorating.

By the way, the difference between our voltage observations is an indication that this is not a software error, because then the deviation would probably have to be the same.

The detailed instructions have been updated accordingly.
[Legend General] terminator1983:
I am having the same problem with my motorila atrix it drops the charge very quickly from 100 to 5% on stock rom, 1% on custom Roms and after reaching 5% it gives a battery life of more time than the time it to took discharge from 100 to 5%.

If its software issue and someone has found a solution plz let me know i am stuck with this problem and have not found any solutions yet.

Thanks
[Legend General] hgmichna:
You mean the solution did not work for you? What happened when you tried?

The solution has been tested on the HTC Legend, but it may well work on other types of phones just as well.
[Legend General] terminator1983:
No i have not tried the solution given in the above posts but i have tried various other method given on the atrix forum but nothing worked for me so what is the main reason of this issue is it hardware or software.

From where i can download the Battery moniter by simmo bcoz can't find it on the market can u send me a link of the app.
[Legend General] jon_kennedy:
battery monitor by simmo

hello,

I had the same problem couldn't find battery monitor by simmo. Turns out the latest version only works on more recent Android 4.0 systems. If you google for "google play" on your phone and pick to open with browser rather than play and search for "sim2k" simmo's new name you can find the app. In the description there is a link to DropBox for an earlier verison of the application. It says Android 2.3 but I've used on 2.2 and it works fine. You have to go into your settings and allow installing applications from non market sources.

jon
[Legend General] hgmichna:
Thanks for this very useful info! I have merged it into http://winhlp.com/node/876 as well, to have all needed info in one place.
[Legend General] jon_kennedy:
Cheers! Yes I was going to add a comment to that page to explain what I did, but had to wait for my account to be authorised. Cheers man!
[Legend General] Pomis:
Hello everyone :)

I have some strange problem: can't remove battery from device. It was easy to remove it month ago, but now it don't want to slide away.

Then, it very slowly charges from network. ~50%/night, but if reboot, it will say that 100%.

Loses energy very fast (3-4 hours)then, turns off when ~30%

Calibration not helped :(

Wiping battery stats not helped too :(

what to do?
[Legend General] hgmichna:
Be careful. If the charging electronics failed and are now overcharging the battery, it is possible that the battery is bulging from internal gas production. In the very worst case it could explode. This has happened before. (Hello, Apple.)

Which type of phone do you have? Please write that into your user profile here, so you don't have to explain it every time.
[Legend General] Pomis:
explode O_O and what should i do? is it on warranty after rooting?

(HTC Legend, Fuse2)
[Legend General] Asovse1:
Warranty void. But if for whatever reason you need to claim it, unroot again and go back to stock!

As for removing a battery, try using the red battery removal mechanism. You never mentioned it, so I'm suggesting it. :)
[Legend General] Pomis:
what's this? please, tell more, google search gives no info
[Legend General] hgmichna:
It is possible that a pure hardware failure is still covered by the warranty, regardless of whether the phone is rooted or not.

But in the worst case you could unroot it and put an older stock Android on it again, one of the RUU packages. The procedure is similar to the rooting process.
[Legend General] Asovse1:
See the faint red thing on the left side of the battery tray? On the biggest of batteries, that lever can pull out the battery if you pull on the lever.

Pull carefully though. I tried a different kind of pull and it didn't work. It's also kind of hard to explain which kind of pull it is. Experiment! But be careful. If I break it, I'm screwed when switching between my two batteries.

EDIT: I found a video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZcbzOwczdM
[Legend General] diabolique1984:
Motherboard changed by HTC. All is OK now. I confirm that this is an hardware problem
[Legend General] make79:
Hi, I have the same problem with the battery - I read everything in this thread and only kovto is understood that the phone should give ortoriziran service of HTC. For sazhalemie in Bulgaria there is no such service yet: (. I spoke with someone who deals with the repair of telephones and he said the most likely answer is "faulty sensor battery voltage" - is located only in the specialized services or for easily replace the entire motherboard. Unfortunately there is no way to fix this problem softoerno: (

Sorry for my english
[Legend General] vriz27:
i can confirm that the only way to fix this is by sending the device to the repair centre. problem solved by replacing motherboard, and now my legend charges up to 100%, led light turns to green upon full charge and the most important thing is that the battery lasts 1.5/2 days with same use. unfortuntelly there is no other way to bypass this...:(
[Legend General] hgmichna:
Do not state things you cannot possibly know, like "there is no other way", particularly not if another way has been described here.

HTC Legend battery indicator underreads
[Legend General] vriz27:
my good friend i already tried the "simmo" way ,but it's not solving the problem. i don't think that it's only a matter of voltage misreading,because apart from the quick discharge there is a problem with the battery-life itself. so if you want to completely remove the problem i still insist that the only way is by changing the motherboard or whatever they do at the repair centre... by the way that this is the first thing that the guide you provide suggests,provided that you are under warranty.....>

""There are two solutions.

If the phone is still under warranty, send it in and have it repaired or replaced. Insist that this is not a battery problem and that your battery is just fine, otherwise they may keep telling you to buy a new battery."""
[Legend General] ariadownload:
tell us how it works out
[Legend General] hgmichna:
The fix has its limits. I have updated it already to reflect this.

The remaining problem is this. If the voltage sensor in the phone underreads, not only does it not get to 100%, but it also does its 15% warning and the ultimate low-voltage shutdown too early, before the battery is actually empty.

If the voltage sensor underreads by less than 0.2 V, this does not matter all that much. You can use the Battery Monitor by Simmo fix and still have most of your battery capacity at your disposal.

If, however, the voltage sensor is farther off the mark, then the fix works well in the sense that you see the FULL indicator when the battery is full, but the phone makes its emergency shutdown so early that you lose a significant portion of your battery capacity. In that case I cannot recommend the fix.
[Legend General] icanttinkofaname:
What happens if you're fone isn't under warranty anymore?

Sent from my Sensational pokeball that caught Charmeleon 5.1.0!
[Legend General] hgmichna:
Then your only recourse is the Battery Monitor by Simmo fix.

It works if your battery sensor underreads by up to 0.2 V. If it underreads by more than that, you should give up the broken phone and buy a new one.

Please read first before asking more questions that have already been answered.
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] imotionsrt4:
I have gone through the procedures to install cm7 and gapps. I get a successfull response saying cm7 was installed. I get a successful response saying gapps was installed. After that it's time to reboot my nook. I remove the sd card and reboot. Then I get an error: "install failed...please power off and back on to try again"

So I can boot up cm7 but there are no google apps. Nothing...not even a marketplace icon. I've reinstalled the sd items about 7 times with the same results. I have even reflashed my SD card with the both zip files and i get the same result.

Any help will be appreciated.
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AidenM:
which gapps are you using? Some gapps aren't made for the Nook Color. I suggest using this link:

http://goo-inside.me/gapps/gapps-gb-20110613-signed.zip
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DrSarcasmo:
I successfully set up 2 Nook Color devices to run CM7 using this link:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1000957

It includes instructions for GAPS installation. Just make sure you do the steps in order and it should work fine...
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] actorman46:
Don't do the wipe factory reset after installing. Your wiping what you just installed. Just reboot after. And gaps should only take a few seconds to install.
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 05GT:
I was having the same issue as you this morning. I reflashed using this ROM: http://download.cyanogenmod.com/get/update-cm-7.0.2-encore-signed.zip

For some reason there is an issue with 7.0.3 and android market.
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chad11:
I am having the same problems, so should I install 7.1.0 rc and then try gapps? I have 7.0.3 installed now
[GT540 Optimus General] thugimmortal:
I saw on mocado forum

a thread that said it was possible to flash a custom rom without the kdz updater using yaffsexpert.

im on the balic 2.1 rom and want to flash cryogen recovery so I can then get android 2.3.

please can someone help as I have no pc access and am dieing to get 2.3
[GT540 Optimus General] thugimmortal:
yeah i have both

ive flashed the cryogen recovery img but when i try to enter recovery mode by pressing home and power the phone just starts up in safemode
[GT540 Optimus General] maneshvinod:
In my brothers phone i tried to flash the recovery img with yaffs expert apk the same result.but then i updated the phone through kdz updater but the rom is 2.1with fastboot rom.in fastboot rom yaffs expert apk works perfectly.

I think it cant flash the original lg rom.if u want to install clockwork recovery pls first install 2.1 rom with fastboot.
[GT540 Optimus General] thugimmortal:
is there a way to flash the img file using the terminal
[GT540 Optimus General] franekmat:
Yeah, paste recovery.img to /sdcard and write in Terminal Emulator:

su //enter ;)

flash_image recovery /sdcard/recovery.img //enter

Wystukane z mojego Swifta przy użyciu Tapatalk.
[GT540 Optimus General] maneshvinod:
Im serched for that but i cant get any answer.keep searching .sry for my bad english.i m not a developer.but in this forum you can get a positive answer
[GT540 Optimus General] thugimmortal:
ive tried putting that command into the terminal and it says not found?

thanks for any help
[GT540 Optimus General] thugimmortal:
can anyone help lol
[GT540 Optimus General] maneshvinod:
Try to flash 2.1 rom with fastboot.its simple.download lg usb driver kdz updater and a fastboot enabled rom.when u updated to a fastboot rom the yffsexpert will work correctly.first updating process needs a pc.
[GT540 Optimus General] 56k_Rockstar:
Thanks for the explanation. Good to know
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sleepypheonix18:
I deleted the framework applications and by accident replaced them with ones that could not be opened by the phone. All my applications failed and were forced close. I tried to reboot the phone, but it's almost like the phone is bricked. I cannot get it into download or recovery mode. I have tried everything to use odin, but nothing is working. Does anyone have suggestions.

Thank you in advance.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] prbassplayer:
Have you tried a Jig?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] studacris:
Jig To force download mode, odin to fix it.

Then make sure you know what you're doing before you mod your phone.
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cargo54:
So from what I gather the bricking problem has affected a lot of different devices. If mine hasn't bricked yet after 2 months of flashing(about ten or flashes) will I be pretty safe to flash to MR2 and Gingerbread?
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mean Bro Greene:
Here's my personal experience. I have flashed nearly every available GB ROM/radio combination multiple times with no issues whatsoever. Now, I could very well just be extremely lucky and my device could brick tomorrow. Nobody can really say for sure. Nothing is really a sure bet when it comes to stuff like this, no two devices are exactly alike and can and most likely will react to the same setup in completely different ways. I personally(as well as others) believe that the bricks come from subpar quality hardware used in some devices. However, as far as I know, the cause of the bricking has not been 100% established and possibly never will be. There are always going to be certain risks associated with flashing ROMS and kernels, it just comes with the territory. Hope this helps you.
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ILMF:
Consensus is bricks are caused by hardware failure or stupidity. The latter can be prevented. Flash away.

Courtesy of my rooted Bolt
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cargo54:
sweet I've been wanting to update to GB so badly.
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dragonsamus:
I've been wanting to update to GB but haven't because I'm afraid of the brick issue. So far so good with the MR2 leak. Just waiting for the official GB release and I'll update.
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] edpham:
Its just like this :(, i did re-do several times but nothing change

Can u please help me guys ??

it stucks or just error code : 80004002
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] frankie51:
I have radio 2.15.00.05.02 and I need to downgrade it to run the unrevoked forever s-on tool. I tried to downgrade it and it wouldn't work, any help?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] atapia984:
No need for two threads:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1151307

Have you tried this?

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=14455287&postcount=20
[G2 and Desire Z Themes and Apps] nonione:
hey guys i just got this game last night cause it looks great

the problem is it doesnt seem to be able to run on my g2 it gets stuck on the main screen after it loads

anyone has it? is there anything i need to do so i can play it?
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] lousylogic:
I have added pic to several phone contacts on my android 2.2 device (defy) but I cannot find them in google.com/contacts. what I need to do?

(done searching on internet but always get info on sync from google to the phone but not the other way around). Thanks.
[HTC Sensation] m918v:
I just ordered the body glove case online but having second thoughts after seeing pictures of the case-mate tough case. I'm more worried about dropping my phone since I think the body glove would just dismantle and crack itself if I drop my phone. With the case-mate, it looks more protected since the rubber is enclosed with a harder external casing. Can you guys post pictures if you could of the two cases, and what your experience been like using each one of the cases if you bought one.

Thanks!

PS: the body glove case I'm talking about is the snap on with the rubber back and shiny front.
[HTC Sensation] m918v:
Crap just posted wrong section. Move on guys.

Sorry
[HTC Sensation] fallenangel408:
as for pics u can go to any seller online it shows the pics but i have the body glove one(i dont use the belt clip so it gives the option to insert plain back piece to make it smooth) heard through the grapevine though that these body glove ones were not being sold anymore due to not fitting right?! mine fits pretty snug but been using since day one had no probs and i did drop it on concrete from my lap while getting out of car didnt snap apart and didnt do any harm to phone.

*but i did order the case-mate tough case which i think is better, but i already had a drop with body glove with no probs either?!?!
[HTC Sensation] m918v:
ok thanks. if you haven't bought the case-mate, there's a -10 off code I saw at the accessories thread if you buy it from their retail online.
[Off-topic] nibras_reeza:
Hey,

I've been sending out mass invites for Google+ and sent some invites to friends personally as well.

A friend said she couldn't get the invite even after 5 minutes. I tried sending a shared item to a gmail address of my own but it didn't go through. On the other hand, invites I sent to 10minutemail address went through.

Anybody has an idea?
[Off-topic] mrmexican87:
Are invites still down? I have been trying to get one on twitter for the past couple of days with no luck. Thought that was maybe the case
[Off-topic] Superalpaca:
They're probably down. I had a friend personally invite me (watched him do it) and I didn't get anything.
[Off-topic] nibras_reeza:
I sent an invite to an alternative address of mine and checked. Only invites to @gmail.com addresses are having trouble. Others are going through. The @gmail.com did go through at last but it took almost 6-7 hours. :/
[Off-topic] Curb71:
I invited a gmail friend at around 10am. He received it around 8pm. The one I sent to his yahoo email showed up right away. But from either it still won't let him in.
[G2 and Desire Z General] bayecmd:
my build number is 1.22.531.8 android version 2.2
[G2 and Desire Z General] BlawkHawk:
I believe you can if you are at 1.22. Use the rooting method in the Vision Wiki. That's the best way to go about rooting.
[G2 and Desire Z General] darkdata:
you can use this guide http://xdaforums.com/wiki/index.php?title=HTC_Vision#Rooting_the_Vision_.28G2.2FDZ.29_and_DHD
[HTC Sensation] m918v:
I just ordered the body glove case online but having second thoughts after seeing pictures of the case-mate tough case. I'm more worried about dropping my phone since I think the body glove would just dismantle and crack itself if I drop my phone. With the case-mate, it looks more protected since the rubber is enclosed with a harder external casing. Can you guys post pictures if you could of the two cases, and what your experience been like using each one of the cases if you bought one.

Thanks!