2008 Prius with new 12 V battery won't shift; lots of warning lights

I'm new to this forum and I really hope someone can help me. I have been reading through tons of PriusChat conversations to try to figure out what is wrong with my daughter's 2008 Prius, and I can't figure it out. Quick background - we bought the car two and a half months ago and it had 101,000 miles. After about a week, my daughter left an overhead light on and we had to have it towed to the Toyota dealer, where we had the 12-volt battery replaced.
Fast forward 2 months later. While my daughter was driving the car yesterday, some warning lights came on, and she was able to drive it to our home and park it in the driveway. Now it seems to have all the symptoms that it had when that previous battery went dead.The car will not shift out of park or neutral. At my brother's advice, who also has a Prius, I bought a battery charger and have it hooked up right now. We got it up from 82% to 95% but the voltage still shows 12. After checking the diagnostic codes on the screen for only about 3 or 4 minutes, the battery percentage went from 95% down to 88%. We've had the car on the charger for several hours and the voltage has never changed. It just stays at 12. However, the car's diagnostic screen has shown changes in the battery voltage, from as low as 12.3 to as high as 12.8. After checking the voltage for a couple of minutes the number went down slightly.
I uploaded a picture of the diagnostic codes. I couldn't find them anywhere on this chat or on Google. If anyone knows what they mean, please share!
Has anyone else bought a new 12-volt battery and had this happen? We paid a fortune for it at the Toyota dealer and I didn't expect it to fail. I don't know very much about cars and I hope there is some fix for this. If it's simply a defective battery, great; hopefully it's under warranty. But somehow I doubt that is the true problem. By the way, the warning lights I saw were the red triangle, the brake light, the check engine light, and the electronic stability control light. I think that's it. Thanks in advance to anyone who might have some insight.

 

Thank you for replying. It's so scary when you buy a used car and I just have this sense of dread that there's something weird wrong with it that will always keep causing the battery to fail. Is there any information I left out that I should add to help anyone figure out what might be wrong? It just seems so odd that a brand new battery would not work after only two months.

 

We bought the car in Georgia from an individual. I thought the voltage should be over 13...my daughter did not leave the light on this time. That was the first thing we checked. I think she learned a hard lesson the first time. I SAY a hard lesson, but we were the ones who had to buy the new battery. Toyota charged us over $300. It does seem like something could be draining it, though.

 

I just checked with my daughter and she said that she hooks up her phone to the car when she is driving it and plays music. She also charges that phone while she's driving the car. She doesn't try to charge it or play musicwhile she's not driving the car, though. And she doesn't have any other electronics hooked up to it

 

I have an update. The battery charger finally got the battery up to 100%. I checked the diagnostics, and it said the voltage was hovering between 12.4 and 12.5. Unfortunately, the car will still not start and all the warning codes are still lit up. So I still don't really know why the car won't start, since it should have at that voltage, but I guess this battery is not very good and I will be taking it to the Toyota dealer in the morning. Thank you so much to my new community for answering me so quickly. I really appreciate the warm welcome and look forward to posting under happier circumstances.

 

Thank you for your replies. I think I'll ask the dealer to read my codes for free, since they gave the car a clean bill of health in June after selling me that battery. I hope nothing is wrong with the hybrid battery. I don't know of anything. My daughter usually drives to school and back, about a 12-mile trip one way. But she also drives to church twice a week, only a 2-mile trip. I'm interested to find out what those codes are. I'll post again when we find out. Thanks again!

 

Jim, did the dealer replace the battery? And did you have more problems? I don't expect an answer tonight of course.

 

We had the car towed to Bill Penney Toyota today. Since we didn't have an appointment, they never were able to work it in to check the battery. They didn't have two minutes to spare. Anyway tomorrow they will check it. I don't know if they checked it for codes in the past but they should have because they gave the car a clean bill of health when we took it in to have the battery replaced 2 months ago. The battery registered at 12.3 this morning and it still would not shift into gear. The dealer told me that it's a small battery and it was supposed to be about 12 volts when it isn't running.. He said if the car is running its supposed to register about 13 or 14. Since they are going to be able to work on it tomorrow, I'll find out more than and post the results. I hope they are better than Liberty!

 

Reporting the latest with a heavy heart. Bill Penney Toyota, which gave our (new to us) used car a clean bill of health after changing the battery two months ago, is now telling us that it needs something called a trans actuator, which will cost $4,800. Why would something this drastic even be possible? We paid $6,500 for the car. I felt safe buying a used Prius for my daughter because we have always relied on Consumer Reports, and it reports this was about the most reliable car there is. It had only 105K miles, the Carfax report showed the oil had been changed every 5,000 miles all its life, the OBD2 (on board diagnostics) test showed absolutely no problem codes, and it drove beautifully.

I can't put $4,800 into a used car that cost $6,500. I don't even have a clue what to do now. if anyone has heard of this or knows anything or has any ideas, I would really like to hear from you. Thank you, Suzy