Hi, I was hoping you guys could shed some light on my charging issue.
I am having the following issue, either it takes forever to charge like 1% an hour or when the phone actaully does reach 100% and I unplug it, it then drops to 80% right away.
I have tried different chargers, outlets and batteries as well as a factory reset. Nothing works. I tried charging my battery in another GS2 and it charges fine. I have no idea what could be wrong.
Try Wiping your battery stats.
How. I am not rooted.
Also, by doing a factory reset, didnt that wipe the battery stats?
mikea3000 said:
Hi, I was hoping you guys could shed some light on my charging issue.
I am having the following issue, either it takes forever to charge like 1% an hour or when the phone actaully does reach 100% and I unplug it, it then drops to 80% right away.
I have tried different chargers, outlets and batteries as well as a factory reset. Nothing works. I tried charging my battery in another GS2 and it charges fine. I have no idea what could be wrong.
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Are you using the stock charger? Do you have and radio or antennas on, sync on....
Only thing I can think of is a battery drain problem such as an app on auto sync like Facebook. Turn off all app sync, phone sync, and radios. If that doesn't fix it.....then it's a defective device.....but I suspect a app draining the battery. btw...how long does your battery last?
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Are you using the stock charger?
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No, I cant find the original one, but I am using a samsung charger with the same 700 ma out. Sometimes I use an htc charger with 1 amp out
Is this ok?
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No, I cant find the original one, but I am using a samsung charger with the same 700 ma out. Sometimes I use an htc charger with 1 amp out
Is this ok?
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What about possible apps draining it with heavy syncing?
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What about possible apps draining it with heavy syncing?
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I am only syncing one gmail account, gps bluetooth off and no widgets running. No matter which charger I use or outlet I use, it takes forever to charger. The other weird thing is that it says I am charging via usb when I am really using AC.
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That does nothing, charging to 100percent wipes battery stats all by them self. And it has nothing to do with calibrating.
Is there a reason u haven't rooted? Try stock charger and cable. If not, u got a warranty...
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That does nothing, charging to 100percent wipes battery stats all by them self. And it has nothing to do with calibrating.
Is there a reason u haven't rooted? Try stock charger and cable. If not, u got a warranty...
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I have not rooted because as a casual user, it really serves no purpose for me. I might have to use the warranty, but I was hoping to fix it before going that route.
Have u tried the other s2 battery in yours?
Yes I have. My phone poorly charges the other battery as well
I used to have this issue with cyanogenmod. Even on this phone. Turn your phone off. Fully charge it. Odin back to full stock. Somethings not playing well with your phone. Like I said this used to happen to me ONLY on cyanogenmod ( epic 4g and nexus s ) but never touchwiz.
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Samsung stock charger is 1A.. 700ma is definitely not enough. the htc charger should have been fine. but our phone doesn't play nice with chargers..it might also be the wire...
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According to an article or thread I read here on XDA ( I can't remember I'll try and find it ) our phone recognize the chargers you plug into it. It recognizes Samsung chargers and charges optimally but use any other charger and it will only charge at 500mah even if the charger is rated at 700mah or even 1a. Makes sense because I have 3 chargers. 2 Samsung wall chargers rated at 700mah and an HTC charger rated @1a and the Sammy chargers work much faster. I'll test how long it takes to get from 0% to 100% charge with the Sammy charger then use the HTC one on the next cycle.
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RushAOZ said:
According to an article or thread I read here on XDA ( I can't remember I'll try and find it ) our phone recognize the chargers you plug into it. It recognizes Samsung chargers and charges optimally but use any other charger and it will only charge at 500mah even if the charger is rated at 700mah or even 1a. Makes sense because I have 3 chargers. 2 Samsung wall chargers rated at 700mah and an HTC charger rated @1a and the Sammy chargers work much faster. I'll test how long it takes to get from 0% to 100% charge with the Sammy charger then use the HTC one on the next cycle.
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Here you go:
http://www.androidauthority.com/how-to-fast-charge-samsung-galaxy-phone-using-any-usb-charger-66256/
Basically using a Sammy charger charges at whatever the adapter us rated for but use ANY other charger and the phone defaults to charging at only 350mah. OUCH.
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ok so my wife had a sprint incognito (sp?)
anyway.. since she now has an iphone... i took her car charger... while my at&t car dock is on its way...
well i ran TeleNav and Winamp on the way to work.. that was it...
and i started off with a full battery and ended up at 89% at work.... 1hr drive.. 60 miles...
so while that would yield almost 10hrs of gps/music.... phone must be charging.. (you can see the battery charge icon fill)...
so this isnt running much on this phone.. shouldnt a car charger keep up or is it that this one was meant for her phone with less power requirements so it didnt charge as fast???
Your phone is consuming more power than the charger is pushing, its a common thing under heavy use, especially if your using nav and other apps running.
thanks.. yeah i figured it was consuming more than it can charge.. so i wasnt sure if maybe the recharge rate for the older phones dont charge as much... or if no... all chargers are created equally but phone use is the difference...
All chargers are not equal most are 5volts 1amp some are alot more some alot less and some put the phone in USB mode that limits the charge
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All chargers are not equal most are 5volts 1amp some are alot more some alot less and some put the phone in USB mode that limits the charge
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hmm i will go check to see if it shows how much on it...
thanks!
I upgraded to Jelly Bean the day before yesterday. But upgrading I've found that my charging time gone up quiet a bit. Its taking almost 30-40% more time to charge than it used to do earlier on ICS (stock). I'm running stock Jelly Bean on my Gnex. Is someone else also having this issue?
For me, approximatively 2-3 hours for full charging.
I think its more faster than ICS
I think I'll try different chargers to check the issue..
My GN is full in just 1 hour.
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My GN is full in just 1 hour.
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That is what I also used to get before moving to 4.1.1
Earlier my phone used to get warmer while charging and now is completely cold.
Is there any solution or reason for the slow charging?
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For me, approximatively 2-3 hours for full charging.
I think its more faster than ICS
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I am in this time frame
Hm... I'm no expert at this, but maybe JB slowed down the charging amount so GNex doesn't get hot when charging. I found my GNex to charge a bit longer after the update too. But now when I'm using my GNex, it doesn't get as hot as 4.0.x
Takes a couple hours. But completely dependent on the charger and cable. Long cables have more line-loss, and chargers vary from 500mA to 2.1A in output.
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Takes a couple hours. But completely dependent on the charger and cable. Long cables have more line-loss, and chargers vary from 500mA to 2.1A in output.
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I use the stock Samsung charger so
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3 hours using fast charge and 4 hours without fast charge.
kyokeun1234 said:
I use the stock Samsung charger so
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Stock charger runs at 1 amp. If you are using a custom kernel it may or may not support the full charging current that the phone supports.
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Takes a couple hours. But completely dependent on the charger and cable. Long cables have more line-loss, and chargers vary from 500mA to 2.1A in output.
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LOL what? Longer cables in NO WAY effect charging time.
LOL... that's a good one. Also, the Galaxy Nexus charger is rated at 1 amp. You should not use a charger OVER 1 amp or you will damage the phone's charging circuit.
And I used to thought the higher Amperage doesn't affect the battery at all. Even if the 'amp' is high,the device will pull only that much of 'amp' that it needs. Rather we should ensure that voltage should not be higher than the rated one for the device.
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Hm... I'm no expert at this, but maybe JB slowed down the charging amount so GNex doesn't get hot when charging. I found my GNex to charge a bit longer after the update too. But now when I'm using my GNex, it doesn't get as hot as 4.0.x
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That is quiet possible.
Mine takes like 1hour and a half from nothing to a 100%
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LOL what? Longer cables in NO WAY effect charging time.
LOL... that's a good one. Also, the Galaxy Nexus charger is rated at 1 amp. You should not use a charger OVER 1 amp or you will damage the phone's charging circuit.
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A longer and/or thinner cable does have more resistance and so loses a bit of its power (V*A) over the run as waste heat. If it is already at capacity, that loss would slow charging a little bit compared to a shorter cable. If not, then its just wasted energy for heating the cable.
To your second point, any 5volt charger capable of delivering over 1 amp at 5V ( clean DC ) will safely charge a GNexus. Any unnecessary amperage capacity will just not be used. Charger will run cooler.
You could use a 6V auto battery charger with LOTS of amp capacity if it were 5V instead of 6V, and if it were clean DC, but it is not.
This isn't my app, but I wanted to give fellow T989 users a heads-up on it:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1801608
Apparently, our phones don't get along well with certain 3rd party chargers, and if you use one, it'll wakelock your phone until you reboot. For those of you who don't know what a wakelock is, the short version is it prevents your phone from deep sleeping, screwing your battery life.
I'd been using an old Blackberry charger with my phone, and using the linked app, tested it and discovered it was causing this problem. After switching to a different charger, I get much better battery life now.
I highly recommend anyone not using the original charger to test their charger and make sure it's not ruining your battery life.
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This isn't my app, but I wanted to give fellow T989 users a heads-up on it:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1801608
Apparently, our phones don't get along well with certain 3rd party chargers, and if you use one, it'll wakelock your phone until you reboot. For those of you who don't know what a wakelock is, the short version is it prevents your phone from deep sleeping, screwing your battery life.
I'd been using an old Blackberry charger with my phone, and using the linked app, tested it and discovered it was causing this problem. After switching to a different charger, I get much better battery life now.
I highly recommend anyone not using the original charger to test their charger and make sure it's not ruining your battery life.
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Thanks for the heads up. This makes perfect sense.
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manekineko said:
This isn't my app, but I wanted to give fellow T989 users a heads-up on it:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1801608
Apparently, our phones don't get along well with certain 3rd party chargers, and if you use one, it'll wakelock your phone until you reboot. For those of you who don't know what a wakelock is, the short version is it prevents your phone from deep sleeping, screwing your battery life.
I'd been using an old Blackberry charger with my phone, and using the linked app, tested it and discovered it was causing this problem. After switching to a different charger, I get much better battery life now.
I highly recommend anyone not using the original charger to test their charger and make sure it's not ruining your battery life.
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The phone can detect when you're using ANY charger but the original Sammy charger. There are 2 switched pins on the charger that detect this. When the phone detects an incompatible charger it only chargers at 350mah. When using the normal charger it charges at a full 700mah or whatever the charger pushes to the phone.
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The phone can detect when you're using ANY charger but the original Sammy charger. There are 2 switched pins on the charger that detect this. When the phone detects an incompatible charger it only chargers at 350mah. When using the normal charger it charges at a full 700mah or whatever the charger pushes to the phone.
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If i was to replace just the USB cord that came with the phone with a generic one, would this cause the charger to only charge at 350mah?
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The phone can detect when you're using ANY charger but the original Sammy charger. There are 2 switched pins on the charger that detect this. When the phone detects an incompatible charger it only chargers at 350mah. When using the normal charger it charges at a full 700mah or whatever the charger pushes to the phone.
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When I plugged it in to the Sammy charger it said fast charge, at 905mah
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If i was to replace just the USB cord that came with the phone with a generic one, would this cause the charger to only charge at 350mah?
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Nah the cable doesn't matter. Just the charger. And loopdogg I bet! My phone goes from dead to a full charge while on in about 3 hours. Love it!
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Nah the cable doesn't matter. Just the charger. And loopdogg I bet! My phone goes from dead to a full charge while on in about 3 hours. Love it!
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Makes sense. Thanks for the update.
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The phone can detect when you're using ANY charger but the original Sammy charger. There are 2 switched pins on the charger that detect this. When the phone detects an incompatible charger it only chargers at 350mah. When using the normal charger it charges at a full 700mah or whatever the charger pushes to the phone.
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Actually, I have a number of chargers that work to fast charge and work properly. Tested them with the app I linked and they come out without issue.
These include the charger that came with my Pantech Element tablet, charger from a Palm Pre, and charger from my old HTC Touch Pro 2.
They all charge at 900ma+ and don't cause wakelocks.
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Actually, I have a number of chargers that work to fast charge and work properly. Tested them with the app I linked and they come out without issue.
These include the charger that came with my Pantech Element tablet, charger from a Palm Pre, and charger from my old HTC Touch Pro 2.
They all charge at 900ma+ and don't cause wakelocks.
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Sorry, but that's a flat out fib. This subject has already been fully established and spoken about. Look it up. Even TheDerekJay himself has spoken and elaborated on this with his development findings on this phone.
I also have numerous chargers. 2 700mah Sammy chargers, an HTC my touch 4g charger, iPhone 1000mah charger, and Evo 3d charger.. safe to say none of them charge nearly as fast as the Sammy chargers. Approximately 3 hours from 0% to a full charge. Around 5-6 hours with the others.
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I was testing with differents chargers and cables and there is a lot of changes about both. The cable make a big job. Using the same charger and two diferent cables with one i get wakelocks 301mA and with the other one I get fast charging at 895 mA.
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I'm using the Samsung charger that came with and the app says charger wake lock charging at 506 ma
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Seems like all of a sudden my battery charges abnormally slow. I turned my phone completely off and only increased 5% in 30 minutes. The battery actually drains even when plugged up when I'm using it. This never happened before. Recently, before these charging problems arose, my battery died while talking on the phone. So i switched my battery with a another battery in a verizon galaxy s3 (my mom's). And i put the dead battery in her phone. I was going out and didn't have time to charge my battery. The next day i switched the batteries back. Would this have anything to do with the charging probelms?
I have the exact same problem. Take forever to charge and drain when using it while charging. I order a new oem battery from ebay and will see how it goes.
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Tried factory reset...didn't work. Couldn't try battery calibration yet since my battery has to be at 100%. I tried switching the cord, outlet and adapter and now its charging 5% in 10 minutes. Hopefully the problem has to do with one of those!
Yea try changing your cord. That seemed to have fixed my problem!
Would using 3rd party charger slow down charge or effect the battery in any way?
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Cyberianrazr said:
Would using 3rd party charger slow down charge or effect the battery in any way?
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Using 3rd party charger shouldn't slow down your charge unless it doesn't give 1A
I switch back to oem charger and it charge faster than the 3rd party cable I been using for 1mnt. And it charge while I'm using it
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I have the same issue with some cables that I ordered from eBay. Apparently 6ft. cables don't charge the phone as well.
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Nice info.
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Had the same problem. Ordered a HTC Wildfire USB cable and works perfect now.
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For those that are experiencing slow charging, try this. Download Battery Monitor Widget from the playstore. In the settings go to calibration. There is an option for USB fast charge and it has worked on every rom I have tried.
The cable is usually the culprit, but I thought I would share this info also.
I've heard that fast charging diminishes your batteries life by half though.
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I've heard that fast charging diminishes your batteries life by half though.
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Would you provide the links please? Fast charging works. Where exactly did you hear that?
http://youtu.be/v-lnhaCtodE
I've also read it various times around the forums but I have no idea in which threads.
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How long is it taking fr you guys to get a full charge? I'm getting about 12% an hour....no idea why, this is my first tablet.
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People have said their charge times were around 8hrs so it sounds about right. I have always charged mine when I'm either sleeping or when I'm busy with something else but the only time I kinda paid attention to it, I think it charged from 10 - 100% in about 6hrs but I could be wrong.
Mine seemed to charge in about 4 or 5 hrs from 0% to 100%. I had the tablet turned off.
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ditto
I was surprised too with the slow charging
as the new phones like my LG G2 is extremely fast
I just put up with it.......
definitely be staying with tablets
I would like a SD800 chip in a 8" with spen.....
I found mine got to 70 percent in a couple hours, make sure you use supplied charger lead
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I think the charger that Samsung includes with the note is underpowered. I was quite surprised to see it is exactly the same as the one for my Galaxy S4.
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With screen off and stock charger, my charging rate is 24%/hour for the first 85%. After that the charging rate is drop down 12% or low.
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I think the charger that Samsung includes with the note is underpowered. I was quite surprised to see it is exactly the same as the one for my Galaxy S4.
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the 10.1-2014 is little more powerful than the s4 charger. i believe it's 2A 5.3V where the s4 is just 5V.
Ok cool no complaints because the battery LIFE is great. Just wanted to be sure of the norm. I'm sure if I power down I'd charge much quicker. Also, I am using the provided Samsung charger just btw. Thanks!
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This is the only thing I don't like about this tablet. Luckily it lasts me 4 days before I have to charge it.
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Like others I charge mine when I sleep. I need to see how long it takes to charge though. I just don't want to be without my tablet when I need it so I take precautions
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the 10.1-2014 is little more powerful than the s4 charger. i believe it's 2A 5.3V where the s4 is just 5V.
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I just took another look, just to be sure. BOTH chargers are 5.3V, 2A.
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I just took another look, just to be sure. BOTH chargers are 5.3V, 2A.
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well ain't that something. mine is just 5V. i've got a verizon version bought on the day it came out. maybe they're swapping them out to 5.3V now.
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well ain't that something. mine is just 5V. i've got a verizon version bought on the day it came out. maybe they're swapping them out to 5.3V now.
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I'm not sure 0.3v is going to make much difference.
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If I were to buy a charger with more Volt output (if they exist), would it speed up charging? Or would the tablet cap the power it receives so that the charger basically acts no differently from the stock one?
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I'm not sure 0.3v is going to make much difference.
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on my s4 charger i get about 20-21% per hour. the gn10.1 (5.3v) charger i get about 24-25% per hour using the same cable - i tested that a while back.
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spexwood said:
If I were to buy a charger with more Volt output (if they exist), would it speed up charging? Or would the tablet cap the power it receives so that the charger basically acts no differently from the stock one?
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be careful about getting one who's voltage is too high. you can burn up your electronics easily.
This is the only tablet that while playing an high intensive game like Modern Combat 4 where it did not lose charge. It actually was still charging and gaining steadily. This means that I am able to play for as long as I choose without worry of not having enough juice. I have owned many tablet over the years the latest one before the Note was the Nexus 10 and that drained battery while charging while in use. Very happy.
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on my s4 charger i get about 20-21% per hour. the gn10.1 (5.3v) charger i get about 24-25% per hour using the same cable - i tested that a while back.
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be careful about getting one who's voltage is too high. you can burn up your electronics easily.
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In that case I'm not even going to try a charge worth more voltage (can't find any above 5V anyways)
Thanks
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Cable impedance can make quite a difference. So use short, thick usb cables. In a test from german mag c't an S4 charged fastest with a certain Huawei ps. If the S4 is also charging at 2A, this power supply could also be used here. Sadly, that issue of the mag went to the bin.
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Cable impedance can make quite a difference. So use short, thick usb cables. In a test from german mag c't an S4 charged fastest with a certain Huawei ps. If the S4 is also charging at 2A, this power supply could also be used here. Sadly, that issue of the mag went to the bin.
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Yup this is true. Some cables restrict the current so even if you use a 2.0amp adapter it will still charge slow because of the cable. The micro USB cable that comes with the s4, s3, and some Motorola are the good ones. Generally they're thicker than most. Ive bought extra from Amazon. You can use an app called "galaxy charging current" to check charging in mah. There may be other apps out there. But it's good for knowing your tablet is charging at its optimum or if you're using a good cable.
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