How to Stop phone turning on while charging?

Ficheall

When my phone's battery runs down, it powers off, and I plug it in to charge it back up again. Fine.

However, when I plug it in to start charging, the phone tries to start up. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to have the power to run the pointless little animation with the logo and the charging battery, so the battery goes too low, and it powers off again... but then when it has a little charge, it tries to turn on again, but it doesn't have the power to... and so on and so forth...


Heretofore, I've been holding in the power button for about ten seconds so the display stayed on the logo, instead of the fatal charging animation, but that seems to have become less successful of late, requiring multiple tries.



I've not rooted the phone, or tried to do anything fancy with it, as I use it almost solely for whatsapp and tethering, but I'm willing to trick around with it if I can avoid this problem.



The phone is a cheap Huawei Y560, if that makes any difference..


Advice very welcome

advertsfox

Are you using the stock charger that came with the phone? Usually by default, a phone won't turn on when AC charging until it has enough power in the battery to stay on (whilst charging or not) so in your case, the battery should not run down faster than the charger is actually charging the phone.

Ficheall

The stock charger has long since bit the dust. This isn't a cheap charging cable though, and I'm pretty sure the cable isn't the issue. This issue of the phone trying and failing to charge has been a problem since I got it - I'd just been trying to keep the phone from ever hitting zero/threshold (obviously), and when I failed at that and had to charge from off, I've just held the power button down for 10ish seconds before the "charging" animation popped up, and turning on the phone, so that it could actually charge.
Today, however, I had to do this multiple times before I could get far enough to turn the phone on and then immediately turn it off, so that it wouldn't enter the charging loop.

advertsfox wrote: »

Usually by default, a phone won't turn on when AC charging until it has enough power in the battery to stay on (whilst charging or not) so in your case, the battery should not run down faster than the charger is actually charging the phone.

And yes, I understand this should definitely be the case, but it sadly is not. It might not be trying to turn on, to be fair - it might just be trying to tell me it's charging? The result is the same though.

advertsfox

Did you have the same issue with the stock charger plug? What plug are you using now to charge it?

The high horse brigade

Get the Ampere app to see exactly what current that charger is giving. Chances are it's a poor one.

ED E

This happens with VOOC (Oppo, OP). The charger "pulses" to test regularly causing the phone to reboot. If you use a dumb charger it will come up from zero steadily. If you use the VOOC charger it will boot loop for 30 mins.