Please help: from battery issues to no operator found?

[Guest kleinebre]

Recently I spent a night in the hospital and had my Blade (an Orange San Fransisco bought pre-rooted and pre-debranded) charging on someone elses charger. Ever since, charging the battery has been whacko and it never showed a charge over 75% again, despite the phone working fine. I bought a replacement battery, and strange enough it too only showed a maximum charge of 75%. This seems very suspicious to me.

I've only ever downloaded software from the official Google marketplace (now Play). At one point I've also booted to "bootloader" but without having the phone hooked up to a PC with SDK installed, that did nothing so I powered off the phone by removing the battery (it just got stuck on the ZTE logo doing nothing).

Reading the forums, I read that re-calibrating the battery might work, so I charged the battery overnight, booted into Recovery and reset the battery statistics.

Now I'm noticing that I've got no network coverage. I can still use wireless (LAN) network but the phone seems pretty much useless as phone right now.

I'm running Android 2.3.5, kernel 2.6.32.9-perf and cyanogenmod 7-08212011-NIGHTLY-Blade.

Good, question time.

- Anything in the story above that is evidence of me doing anything with the phone that I really shouldn't have done?

- Is there malware/virus at work that's "reserving" 25% of my battery capacity? Scanning with Symantec doesn't find anything.

- My Network provider is not listed, but Orange, Vodafone and O2 are - obviously I can't access them with my 3 sim. Is this all simply a coincidence?

- Most importantly, where do I start to fix this?

Edited May 29, 2012 by kleinebre

[Guest redhawkuk]

Perhaps your problems are related to the ROM so it would be interesting to find whether reverting back to Orange stock ROM works.

Try *#*#4636#*#* via the dialler and go to "Phone Information" perhaps you may find something useful inside there.

Is your IMEI correct? is the SIM card recognised and accessible?

Richard S.

Edited May 29, 2012 by redhawkuk

[Guest kleinebre]

It looks like the signal issue was simply an actual network outage and have used the phone to phone, text and browse since. Currently waiting for the battery to die for another battery calibration.