Help Spurious Battery Temperature Warning

[HeebieGeebie]

As FuzzyBear9 did, I joined to give my solution to this problem. I experienced the exact same issues as FuzzyBear9 but it was fixed in a different way.

I experienced the following symptoms:

1) Battery status showed 100% charged prematurely.
2) On restart, the battery symbol appears with an exclamation mark and temp gauge.
3) MTP connected and media scanning/completed intermittent.
4) Connecting an unconnected cable to the usb port causes the MTP message on phone.
5) When connecting the phone to a PC, only charging, no USB or Kies sync.
6) Removing the battery, sim, SD card, and cleaning usb port did not resolve the problem.

I spoke to Samsung and they were aware of the problem, it apparently was a known fault with the specific version of Gingerbread '2.3.4'. I needed to update to a newer version of android, but i couldn't since the USB connection was not working. They told me to take it to my local samsung repair shop and they will update android to the latest version. This fixed the problem. It was free of charge covered by my warranty. I now have Ice Cream Sandwich 4.0.3.

They put the wrong one on though because I have the I9100P and they put ICS firmware for the I9100 on mine. So I have lost my NFC functionality. This doesn't matter though because I plan to root and change the firmware anyway.

Thanks,

Adam

 

[ivyleaguer]

Joined this forum to post the following solution that worked for me.

I experienced the following symptoms:

1) Battery status showed 100% charged prematurely.
2) On restart, the battery symbol appears with an exclamation mark and temp gauge. (Goto step 2-5, then start at step 1 if you are stuck in a loop and cannot get past this message)
3) MTP connected and media scanning/completed intermittent.
4) Connecting an unconnected cable to the usb port causes the MTP message on phone.
5) When connecting the phone to a PC, only charging, no USB or Kies sync.
6) Removing the battery, sim, SD card, and cleaning usb port did not resolve the problem (although there was a lot of crap wedged in there!)

Solution:

1) Go to Settings > Applications > Manage Applications and uninstall any QR/Barcode scanner.
2) Switch off your phone.
3) Hold Power, Menu, Volume Up keys together.
4) Clear/Format cache partition.
5) Select reboot option.

That's it! Phone should resume normal behaviour.

Cheers,
Fuzzy

The only thing this did was get rid of my barcode scanner app. the problem still remains and I am out of the country on vacation for 3 months. My warranty won't help me if I bring my phone in where I am.

 

[lainga9]

i am suffering from the spurious temperature warning, fast battery drain and consistent 100% charge icon as well. unfortunately i have just changed the usb charging port and the problems still remain! i have removed all QR scanners so that can't be the problem. does anyone have any ideas of what i could try?

 

[peak2peak]

andycorps's solution (at top of page) worked for me too. Had problems with USB port always being connected. High battery discharge. Phone never turning off properly (it thought it was charging when it wasnt!).

Problem gone now that I have cleaned all the grit and dirt off the usb connector!

I am going to invest in a case that covers the USB port when phone in my pocket.

 

[Northern2010]

Thanks for the post Slug..... I have read the post and its seems i am suffering the issues as Heebie Geebie on the spurious battery temperature warning post.

I have tried re installing an earlier edition firmware (as my phone worked fine prior to the update) but Kies Air claims i have latest version and doesnt give me an alternative option.

My current Android version 4.0.4

Kernal 3.0.15-1187368 dpi@DELL228#3 SMP PREEMPT

Firmware PDA:LPJ/PHONE:LPE/CSC:LPJ (ORA)

Anyone any ideas please

As always i thank you in advance

Northern

 

[ironass]

I have tried re installing an earlier edition firmware (as my phone worked fine prior to the update) but Kies Air claims i have latest version and doesnt give me an alternative option.

My current Android version 4.0.4

Kernal 3.0.15-1187368 dpi@DELL228#3 SMP PREEMPT

Firmware PDA:LPJ/PHONE:LPE/CSC:LPJ (ORA)

LPJ is currently the latest release for ORA, Orange. Hence your Kies notification.

You can re-install your firmware or flash an older firmware by using Odin and the instructions in #1.7, here.

 

[Northern2010]

Ironass, Thanks for the swift reply.

I will try this over the next few days, i may come back to you if i experience any issues which you can hopefully help with......

Northern

 

[Northern2010]

Just a quick update regarding this overheating issue....

In essence i am still suffering, my phone will charge for short time then stall claiming device is too hot and stops charging. When my phone is linked up to my laptop via usb the phone seems to connect, disconnect etc....?????

I tried flashing the latest firmware for my phone and carrier, however i am still experience the same annoying problems.....

I have tried alternative battery, chargers even when i have a fully charged battery this lasts around an hour if im lucky...

I tried the above method as posted by Ironass (very clear and concise post may i add) and easy to follow but this has not gleaned any results, this problem only reared its head when i updated my phone via Kies a couple of months ago.

Any thoughts please

Northern

 

[ironass]

See post #217 of the Jelly Bean update - Dummies Guide.

 

[theloser]

Thanks for people's great advice to clean and maybe replace the USB port. My experience with other electronic gadgets supports this vulnerability to the slightest crap on the circuits.

Don't forget the plug on the USB cable.

For some people who's problem wasn't fixed by cleaning or replacing the USB port ... are you connecting a grotty old USB plug to your phone? You'll literally be connecting USB problems to your painstakingly cleaned phone.

And don't use compressed air to blow any circuitry dry. That usually works well, but you might possibly be blowing some water further into cracks and crevices and maybe even into previously dry crevices. I reckon it's safer to use alcohol (often sold with a fancy name) to try to transport the water out.

 

[angelito7007]

I have two batteries for my SGS2. One is the original battery and the other an after market one I bought on eBay. I have been using both for a few weeks without any problems until today.

When I swapped out my after market battery for my Samsung one, I get what appears to be a battery temperature warning. Before the phone was switched on, the display alternates between the large battery icon in the centre of the screen with 5 white dots below it and a battery icon with a yellow triangle with an exclamation mark inside it with a thermometer icon overlaid.

I have never seen this before but it appears to be a battery temperature warning. The battery was stone cold (or at least room temperature) and the phone was at normal operating temperature, which, in my case, is again barely above room temperature. Neither is even warm let alone hot.

Turning on the phone with this flashing is difficult and the only reliable way I can do it is to boot into CWM and reboot.

Has anyone else seen this? Does anyone have any idea what's wrong with it?

BTW My after market battery continues to behave perfectly normally as it always has.

hi there i just have this problem now whit a walaxy s4 ( from a client ) i fix the problem replacing the charging port.. and now WORK whit no problem at all..

 

[angelito7007]

Hi,

I have this phone myself, bought it back in May.

Yesterday, I was unlucky enough to drop my phone on the floor in a small puddle of water, which got into the USB port. I quickly picked it up, turned the phone off, opened the back cover, took out the battery and wiped everything off, then I used pressurized air to further blow any water inside out of it. Then I did something I perhaps should not: I put the battery in short after to try and start it, and then I got the same warning display as you describe here with the temperature icon next to it. I have a stock phone, not rooted or anything.

It did not want to start on battery power alone, it was just stuck at displaying the battery with the yellow warning icon and temperature icon, alternating. Tried a soft-reset and a hard-reset without any luck.

I then tried to plug a charger in to start it, it did actually start, but the first thing it did was to start the MTP sync application stating it was connected. It did this every time I started the phone using charger (both wall and PC USB cable). I plugged the charger out, the MTP application remained on screen saying it was connected. Also noticing the battery icon showing it was still charging, after I unplugged it. It took 15-20 seconds before the battery icon updated and showing it was not charging, but the MTP application remained on screen saying it was connected. I hit the home button to close it, tried to enable Mass Storage Device mode but it said the phone was connected (even through it obviously wasn't), and that I had to unplug it to continue.

Plugging the USB cable from the PC to the device did not work either. Well, I got the USB connected sound from Windows, but nothing happened (it did not show up as a device). I use KIES for updating firmware, it also did not detect it. It did detect it when I connected it later, but it just hung at "Connecting" with the spinning icon next to it.

After trying different methods to make it work, even doing factory reset, I attempted to restore my latest backup done through Kies (which worked the one single time it did connect after all this happened). I got an error message, after seeing everything got a nice green V, saying an error occurred. Checking my phone, everything was actually restored. But my battery indicator app did not wanna play ball with the battery, it wasn't measuring battery usage and the on-battery-timer wasn't ticking.

I took out the battery and left my phone opened with the battery next to it over night, next day same thing happened.

Since I work in a big-brand electronics store, I took a brand new battery from an exhibition model in our store, which I know was working, and the same thing happened. I also tried the charger from the exhibition model, it always started the same way and ran MTP upon boot.

This means it was not the battery. For double-checking, I tried a brand new battery right out of an unopened box, this also did not work - I also tried the charger from this, no difference in result. The problem was with the phone. Yes, it was dipped in water, and yes, I should've left it drying over night even though I managed to force every drop of water out of it.

I also saw that when I managed to start the phone after the incident while it was connected to a charger, my battery indicator app showed that the battery was giving overvoltage (3.91-4.13 volts). Temperature was perfectly fine however.

I can't say for sure if the contact with the water caused this, even though it most likely is, but this is the exact same problem as the rest are stating to have here.

End of the line, I just had to send it in for a check and possible repairs.

Hope any of this may help or give some clue to the others.

hi there i just have this problem now whit a galaxy s4 ( from a client ) i fix the problem replacing the charging port..
and now WORK whit no problem at all.. try replacing the port and let us know if it works for you 2 cheers

 

[angelito7007]

hi there i just have this problem now whit a galaxy s4 ( from a client ) i fix the problem replacing the charging port..
and now WORK whit no problem at all.. try replacing the port and let us know if it works for you 2 cheers

 

[olivier577]

hi, I had those problems on my s2 (i9100) :
-battery temperature warning when I try to switch off
-the phone switch on when I insert the battery
-no USB data connection ( the PC show the device is not recognized or something like that)
-after full charge, when the phone is disconnected, the charging icon stays and later goes away, come back, with the annoying sound many times, sometimes for 30 mn ( until the charge is not full anymore )

I solved it after I replaced the small board with the micro USB port , I found it on internet for 7 €, and followed the video tutorials.

cheers

 

[olivier577]