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Don't Let your battery drop to 0%!

The_Chief

The_Chief

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After the Note 7 fiasco, the last thing Samsung (and any of us) needed was a Note 8 with problems.

The Note 8 has problems.

Since release, there have been reports of freezing and random reboots... now, more and more Note 8 owners are reporting that their phones will not charge if the battery drops to 0%. If the battery is completely dead, there's a good chance that it will not charge again. Ever.

https://phandroid.com/2017/12/27/samsung-galaxy-note-8-not-charging/

Maybe we'll get a discount on the Note 9?

:p
 
Anyway to know ahead of incident if one's phone has this not able to charge issue when fully drained?
When getting replace phone, does one have to reload all one's apps as well as re-adjust settings (if so, a bit pain)?
 
It's supposed to correctly shut down and turn itself off when the battery shows 0%, but the battery itself isn't completely discharged though, and so shouldn't harm it. And when it's recharged it's supposed to come back on of course. Which is not what's happening with some Note 8s apparently, that's the problem. I think this is something they(Samsung) could possibly fix with an OTA firmware update, for phones that are already out there.

I've let phones discharge to showing 0% and they've turned themselves off, but they've always come back on when plugged into a charger.
 
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I'm not sure what the benefits of rooting a Note 8 are anymore. Yes, back in the days of the OG Droid, Galaxy Nexus, Note 3 & 4, there were plenty of advantages to rooting. Now, so much is lost when rooting (like Android and Samsung Pay, many financial apps) and so much effort put into root cloaking, that I have to wonder why some people are insistent on it. Virtually every aspect of the stock phone is customizable (themes, fonts, sounds, etc). My 2¢
 
The_Chief said:
I'm not sure what the benefits of rooting a Note 8 are anymore. Yes, back in the days of the OG Droid, Galaxy Nexus, Note 3 & 4, there were plenty of advantages to rooting. Now, so much is lost when rooting (like Android and Samsung Pay, many financial apps) and so much effort put into root cloaking, that I have to wonder why some people are insistent on it. Virtually every aspect of the stock phone is customizable (themes, fonts, sounds, etc). My 2¢
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Yeah the benefits of rooting are definitely getting fewer. The only reason I rooted my S8 was so I could disable doze mode. If in the future you can turn this feature on and off on stock I'm not sure I'd bother any more.
 
I haven't rooted since my Note 2, but it isn't because I saw no benefits.

Root benefits:
• Delete unwanted apps instead of just disabling them.
• Full backups.
• Full access to the Unix command line.
• Replace system files.
• Replace system apps.
 
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I agree on the backups (Titanium is better than any of the non-root solutions), and I do like busybox. I'm less convinced of the rest. There's no practical difference between disabling and deleting system apps (unless you are planning to move so much stuff into /system that you need the extra space there!). And increasingly these days modifying /system at all (removals or additions) will prevent you from updating. Of course accepting an OTA on a rooted device was always a risk anyway, so this isn't such a loss IMO, but the whole business has become more complicated, and at the same time many of the former reasons for doing it no longer apply. So I don't rule it out in future, but right now, for the first time in 7 years, my primary phone is unmodified stock, just to see how that goes: and at the moment I'm not feeling very constrained by it.
 
I had this problem a month ago, the phone was dead and would not charge. I went to T-Mobile and they could not charge it. I had to leave the next day for a month so they told me to bring it in when I got back. I put the phone in a drawer for a month. When I went back to T-Mobile, they put it on a charger and it charged. I had tried several chargers including the one that came with the phone with no luck. I charged it to 100 % and let it discharge to 0 again and guess what happened? It bricked again! I let it sit for two days and it would charge again. I charged it again and went back to T-Mobile and they ordered me a new one because I told them I could trust this phone anymore. I think this must prove some Note 8 phones have a defective battery
 
dalegg said:
I had this problem a month ago, the phone was dead and would not charge. I went to T-Mobile and they could not charge it. I had to leave the next day for a month so they told me to bring it in when I got back. I put the phone in a drawer for a month. When I went back to T-Mobile, they put it on a charger and it charged. I had tried several chargers including the one that came with the phone with no luck. I charged it to 100 % and let it discharge to 0 again and guess what happened? It bricked again! I let it sit for two days and it would charge again. I charged it again and went back to T-Mobile and they ordered me a new one because I told them I could trust this phone anymore. I think this must prove some Note 8 phones have a defective battery
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Moral of the story just turn your phone off at 5% if you're not within 10 of a charger. Number one rule since my palm centro
 
kennethalee88 said:
Moral of the story just turn your phone off at 5% if you're not within 10 of a charger. Number one rule since my palm centro
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Rule number 3 keep an auxiliary battery available at all times.
 

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I have had my note to go 0% and still work! ( As I was plugging it in.) Come to think of it, I don't recall if I've ever used it till it died. The battery life on this is amazing so it was a rare occurrence that it got down past 15%
 
I thought that I had posted this here, but it was accidently put in the "news forum". Here it is again:

"I guess my 8 is NOT one of those that won't come on after dropping to 0%. I was doing some work for the past 6 hours in another part of the house when I thought I'd check my phone. I thought I had something around 70% when I put it down. When I looked at the phone, it was off. I didn't recall turning it off, so I hit the power button. The phone would not start. I hit the power button again and my heart stopped when I saw a very quick flash of 0% and the phone immediately shut down and would not power up anymore. I tried not to panic, but I plugged her in and she immediately started up! WHEW!!! I still don't recommend trying this but I feel pretty lucky after my accident drain.

No idea why I had such a fast power drain other than a new app I just put on. For those of you with a home camera system (child monitor), is it possible that the monitoring app could have caused this faster than normal drain?"
 
Mine has hit 0% and shut itself down on me a few times. Plug it in and it fires right back up. I try to avoid this because this (and a couple of others) have me paranoid, but, to date, no issues.

BigRedGonzo
 
dalegg said:
I had this problem a month ago, the phone was dead and would not charge. I went to T-Mobile and they could not charge it. I had to leave the next day for a month so they told me to bring it in when I got back. I put the phone in a drawer for a month. When I went back to T-Mobile, they put it on a charger and it charged. I had tried several chargers including the one that came with the phone with no luck. I charged it too 100 % and let it discharge to 0 again and guess what happened? It bricked again! I let it sit for two days and it would charge again. I charged it again and went back to T-Mobile and they ordered me a new one because I told them I could trust this phone anymore. I think this must prove some Note 8 phones have a defective battery[/QUOTE
I got a replacement phone and the same thing happened again.
I let it sit for two days and charged it to win 100% again. I am now on my 3rd Note 8 but I'm careful not to let it get to zero again.
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DavidShah said:
Despite of a very minimal usage my Note 8 runs for only about 4 hours : /
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It sounds like you have some very hungry apps. You may want to close the apps that you are not using very often, and look at your screen time out settings to make sure that it is not on for long after you stop using your phone. Every now and then I go in and delete apps that I no longer use. That may help as well.

When you charge your phone, do you leave it charged all the time (even after full)? Do you charge it often even when it is at a higher level (lets say above 60%)?
 
You clearly have some programs /apps running amok in the background.

Check your wakelocks, background processes.

Its widely known this phone lasts much longer than 4 hours.

Without knowing how you use your phone (you say minimal but minimal is relative) its difficult to say unless you do some sluething of your own and determine what’s causing you to run out of power in 4 hours.
 
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