Hello everybody
Phone: Motorola Moto 4g Athene. Bought in 2016 in the USA in BestBuy. There is no warranty now.
Firmware: I have used LineageOS. At the moment, the bootloader is locked and the firmware is official (see below)
Problem:
The battery indicator shows 0%. The application "Battery callibration" shows 0mV. I culdn't turn it on directly: after "hello moto!" it is turned off. I managed to enter the system only through the recovery. If you disconnect the charging from the phone, it immediately turns off, because it thinks that the battery is critically low. At the same time in the recovery it works as long and stable as need even without charger. The voltage at the ends of the wires of battery measured by the multimeter was 3.9. After the body stood on the charge it became 4.2. Looks like the battery is charging in normal mode. All other functions of the phone seems to work properly. It seems that the phone is OK, but for some reason "does not know" how many volts there are on the clamps of its battery...
Background:
The body is Motorola Moto 4g Athene. It heated a lot all the time after purchase. As a result, the official battery have dead after one year. I bought a new one from the internet. (I am not in the US now. Motorola do not certified here. So there is no official parts, stores and service centers). The new one also died in a couple of months. During the replacement of the third battery, the plug on the board broke off. The wires from the new battery had to soldered directly to the board ... The third battery also died in a couple of months, and I have bought a fourth. Soldered. Here this funny Bug appeared.
Attempts to resolve:
Initially, it was LineageOS 14.1 installed. I did a Wipe of everything except internal data. Nothing changed. Then I rolled back to native firmware with locked recovery. Nothing. I made a Factory reset. Nothing. I have resoldered contacts from the battery wires to the board 5-6 times. Nothing has changed.
There is an idea that I overheated something on the board. Charge controller or something else. Nevertheless I can’t understand why the body works normally, except that it does not understand how many volts there are in the battery?
As a temporary solution, I consider the installation of some kind of software, which would not allow the android to turn off when the battery is low. In this case, I will charge the phone every 15-16 hours and everything will be OK. Do you have any idea about such kind of software?
Any other ideas are welcome.
Phone: Motorola Moto 4g Athene. Bought in 2016 in the USA in BestBuy. There is no warranty now.
Firmware: I have used LineageOS. At the moment, the bootloader is locked and the firmware is official (see below)
Problem:
The battery indicator shows 0%. The application "Battery callibration" shows 0mV. I culdn't turn it on directly: after "hello moto!" it is turned off. I managed to enter the system only through the recovery. If you disconnect the charging from the phone, it immediately turns off, because it thinks that the battery is critically low. At the same time in the recovery it works as long and stable as need even without charger. The voltage at the ends of the wires of battery measured by the multimeter was 3.9. After the body stood on the charge it became 4.2. Looks like the battery is charging in normal mode. All other functions of the phone seems to work properly. It seems that the phone is OK, but for some reason "does not know" how many volts there are on the clamps of its battery...
Background:
The body is Motorola Moto 4g Athene. It heated a lot all the time after purchase. As a result, the official battery have dead after one year. I bought a new one from the internet. (I am not in the US now. Motorola do not certified here. So there is no official parts, stores and service centers). The new one also died in a couple of months. During the replacement of the third battery, the plug on the board broke off. The wires from the new battery had to soldered directly to the board ... The third battery also died in a couple of months, and I have bought a fourth. Soldered. Here this funny Bug appeared.
Attempts to resolve:
Initially, it was LineageOS 14.1 installed. I did a Wipe of everything except internal data. Nothing changed. Then I rolled back to native firmware with locked recovery. Nothing. I made a Factory reset. Nothing. I have resoldered contacts from the battery wires to the board 5-6 times. Nothing has changed.
There is an idea that I overheated something on the board. Charge controller or something else. Nevertheless I can’t understand why the body works normally, except that it does not understand how many volts there are in the battery?
As a temporary solution, I consider the installation of some kind of software, which would not allow the android to turn off when the battery is low. In this case, I will charge the phone every 15-16 hours and everything will be OK. Do you have any idea about such kind of software?
Any other ideas are welcome.
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