Blade overheats and dies - hardware issue?

[Guest lemmyc]

I bought a new phone some time ago and gave my San Francisco to my wife. After some weeks, it started to go wrong. It takes an age to charge, runs very hot, and then the battery gives out *very* quickly. So much so that she is having to plug it in to AC to be able to send messages, etc.

It was on Ginger Stir Fry (old version, beta 12), so I thought, OK, maybe that's a bit outdated. Some app. is running full blast and using up all the CPU. So I wiped and formatted everything using Clockwork and flashed the EcoBlade ROM. The ROM looks great and seems to be working fine, but first look suggests that the problem is still the same.

If the problem is not a rogue app, does anyone have any ideas what's going on, and if it's fixable? By the way, I have two batteries, and the problem seems to be the same with both.

Another thing, I lost the stock charger and got a replacement from ebay, but I was using the new one myself for some months without problems before giving her the phone.

[Guest jhoyne]

Maybe it's the battery itself. Try a different battery and see if that cures it.

[Guest Davidoff59]

Excessive charging? Does she charge every night even if its not needed and then leave in charging all night? My blade was fine until the above scenario came into force when I got a new phone

[Guest lemmyc]

@Davidoff59 - could be something like that. I installed betterbatterystats and the phone is going into deep sleep ok. So the issue seems to be with the battery and/or charging electronics. Did your phone ever recover? I may try getting an original zte charger and yet another battery before giving up on it. The previous charger has just gone pop and started smoking so I suspect it wasn't the best :-P I've been using the charger from my new phone - Galaxy Note - instead. I don't know if that's recommended. It seems to have the right specs.