Motorola V710
Unable to charge...HELP do i have a defective phone?
My battery was pretty much dead as far as I know...the icon only had one red line. I went to plug the charger into the phone when it was shut off and the phone turned itself on and gave me a "unable to charge" message. What does it mean? I unplugged it and plugged it in a few times and it finally worked but it scared me a bit. Do you think its a glitch on my phone? thank you for your help
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No, it's not a defective phone. It's how they are designed. With Lithium Ion batteries, you are not supposed to let them get too low and then charge them up. There is talk about they can explode (sometimes violently). So they put in some code so that if the battery is SO low it won't charge, for safety reasons.
My phone did this too. After my first charge my phone lasted 5 hours or so. So I read that for the first few cycles, the battery life might be poorer than normal. So I let mine run down till the phone died on it's own. I got that unable to charge condition for a couple times too.
One of my co-workers used to work for the moto testing center her in NJ (and worked on this phone when it was still in it's infancy) and he sai...
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My phone did this too. After my first charge my phone lasted 5 hours or so. So I read that for the first few cycles, the battery life might be poorer than normal. So I let mine run down till the phone died on it's own. I got that unable to charge condition for a couple times too.
One of my co-workers used to work for the moto testing center her in NJ (and worked on this phone when it was still in it's infancy) and he sai...
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