HP Touchpad Dead Battery

HP Touchpad Dead Battery

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Well after taking advice from this forum I was able to revive my TP after the wife let it drain to 0% while still in CM9. Though I'm not exactly sure what fixed it. I tried various cables, touchstone, adapters, USB to PC for awhile. I even "taped" down the buttons thinking this would completely drain the battery and allow it to go back to the bootloader screen and thus exit CM9. Again, I was swinging for the fences here, don't know if this did any good. I tired

I had finally decided I would do the LiPo charger trick and when I got the HP completely disassembled, I thought I would try one more idea. I had remembered reading that some "circuitry or program error" was not allowing the TP to charge from a zero state while it was still in Android. So while it was all disassembled I plugged the microUSB into the port on the

system board, connected the two system boards that needed to be to allow the battery like Hp HSTNN-OB80 battery, Hp Mini 1100 battery, Hp HSTNN-IB99 battery, Hp 538334-001 battery, Hp Envy 13 battery, Hp Compaq Presario B1200 battery, Hp HSTNN-DB53 battery, Hp 447649-321 battery, Hp HSTNN-DB63 battery, HP KU528AA Battery, HP Mini 2140 Battery, HP HSTNN-CB087 Battery to charge. My theory was while absolutely everything else was unhooked, maybe the battery would charge. I have no idea where in the components the "circuitry or program error" lies, I was hoping it was still in the case and not on either of these two system boards (I don't know which chip is the memory or whatever). Anyways after 30 mins of "charging", I reassembled

the TP and it immediately showed the CM9 unlock screen, and 1% on the battery, my hopes was to be able to reboot into WebOS so I could do a proper charge (as I had read) but it died almost instantly. I then plugged in the Cylinder charger and got the "Battery warning/Lighting bolt icon", which I had never got in this issue, so I considered that to be some progress.

The user posted the photo above to a forum on Baidu (China's home-grown answer to Google), claiming that the device began smoking while plugged in and charging on its original factory charger. In the process, the guts of the tablet seem to have been totally torched.

To me -- and likely anyone else who has had the experience of ruining an electrically powered product thanks to the wildly unpredictable and sometimes surging electrical grids of other countries -- this sounds like an infrastructure fail. However, we have seen enough reports of malfunctioning, overheating, and even smoking device batteries to make this story plausible.

And if this anonymous user's story is to believed (let's be very clear -- there's no way to confirm it), Asus seems to think it's a plausible enough story. So much so it has reportedly offered to not only replace the Nexus 7, but also hook the user up with a free set of Google Glass.

This part of the story seems a little hard to swallow to me, but if it's true, I imagine Google doesn't want word to get out, lest we all start torching our Nexus tablets in the hope of scoring our own pair of Google specs.