Mod charging - but not connected to charger

[Hooked]

Vapor Storm starts charging as soon as I insert a battery - but it's not connected to a charger!
I tried another battery, but the same thing happens, so problem is with the mod, not the battery.

I've always wanted a self-charging mod, but this is really weird.

How on earth can this be happening? I'm too scared to use the mod, as clearly something is not quite right.

 

[Christos]

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Vapor Storm starts charging as soon as I insert a battery - but it's not connected to a charger!
I tried another battery, but the same thing happens, so problem is with the mod, not the battery.

I've always wanted a self-charging mod, but this is really weird.

How on earth can this be happening? I'm too scared to use the mod, as clearly something is not quite right.

Please present this to the top scientific minds of our country. You just solved the load shedding problem!

 

[incredible_hullk]

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Vapor Storm starts charging as soon as I insert a battery - but it's not connected to a charger!
I tried another battery, but the same thing happens, so problem is with the mod, not the battery.

I've always wanted a self-charging mod, but this is really weird.

How on earth can this be happening? I'm too scared to use the mod, as clearly something is not quite right.

Skynet has become self aware

 

[Grand Guru]

Check if there is a factory reset option and see what happens

 

[Alex]

Try shutting down the mod, and the starting it again.

 

[DavyH]

Try shutting down the mod, and the starting it again.

Or, to paraphrase -

 

[incredible_hullk]

Or, to paraphrase -

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“Hello IT”

 

[Alex]

Or, to paraphrase -

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that's exactly what I was thinking of.

 

[Silver]

@Hooked maybe it’s a new wireless charging technology

or there could be static electricity on a nearby blanket or the carpet

 

[Hooked]

Try shutting down the mod, and the starting it again.

@Alex I did - and the same thing happened.

EDIT: Even when the mod is OFF it still charges the battery!!!

 

[Hooked]

@Hooked maybe it’s a new wireless charging technology

or there could be static electricity on a nearby blanket or the carpet

@Silver Took it outside on the deck (wooden) and the same thing happens.

 

[M.Adhir]

Nothing stuck in the charging port possibly shorting it?

 

[Grand Guru]

@Alex I did - and the same thing happened.

EDIT: Even when the mod is OFF it still charges the battery!!!

Mods never really go off... they just go into sleep mode. That is why it’s advisable to remove the batteries from mods that aren’t in use.

 

[blujeenz]

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Vapor Storm starts charging as soon as I insert a battery - but it's not connected to a charger!
I tried another battery, but the same thing happens, so problem is with the mod, not the battery.

I've always wanted a self-charging mod, but this is really weird.

How on earth can this be happening? I'm too scared to use the mod, as clearly something is not quite right.

@Silver Took it outside on the deck (wooden) and the same thing happens.

Have you tried reflashing the firmware?
Failing that, you have a fancy 510 stand to build your RTA's on.

 

[zadiac]

Sounds to me like the chip is a dud. Is it a new mod or old?

 

[DavyH]

Sounds to me like the chip is a dud. Is it a new mod or old?

Chips? Shouldn’t this be in the Vape King thread?

 

[zadiac]

Chips? Shouldn’t this be in the Vape King thread?

That thread is so far off the rails, I don't even go there.

 

[Hooked]

Sounds to me like the chip is a dud. Is it a new mod or old?

Old - been using it for over a year already.

 

[Hooked]

Mods never really go off... they just go into sleep mode. That is why it’s advisable to remove the batteries from mods that aren’t in use.

So are you saying that when one switches the mod off (i.e. the usual 5 clicks) it's not off??? Find that difficult to believe.

 

[Hooked]

Nothing stuck in the charging port possibly shorting it?

@M.Adhir Not that I can see

 

[blujeenz]

So are you saying that when one switches the mod off (i.e. the usual 5 clicks) it's not off??? Find that difficult to believe.

In his defense, he's quite right.
If you press your light switch in the house 5x during an Eskom blackout, do the lights come back on?
There must be a small "keep alive" current to the IC thats looking for the 5 clicks on the fire button.

Any luck with reflash of the firmware?

 

[M.Adhir]

@M.Adhir Not that I can see

Have you tried klapping it a few times?
Works with computers sometimes lol

 

[Raindance]

Just a long shot but is the battery being put in the right way round?

Regards

 

[blujeenz]

Just a long shot but is the battery being put in the right way round?

Regards

Consider yourself "King of the Long Shot".

 

[Marnu]

I had exactly the same thing happen with a previous mod of mine, a Desire Rage. It wasn't actually charging - like leaving the batteries in and then putting them in another mod would show them drained or the same.
In that case it was a problem in some inner component of the circuitry, a bunch of juice had gunked it up. Opening it all up and cleaning it helped, but mod was dead soon thereafter.