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Not sure if anybody has seen this problem when I plug in my phone to charge it doesn't always (once every 2 or 3 days) recognize that I'm charging it. When I shut the phone down it does recognize the charge and can then reboot and it'll continue charging. However if I reboot without plugging the phone into the wall briefly, then it'll continue not realizing that I'm trying to charge it.
This has been going on for about two weeks now (I've had the phone for about a month and a half). The phone is rooted, but otherwise it is stock. I do two small but noticeable scratches in the plastic, so I don't know if verizon will let me get an exchange.
Anyway my question is has anybody seen this before? I found a couple threads on the reverse condition (phone thinks its charging when its not), but nothing on this condition.
What cord are you using to charge it and what is the amps on the little power unit? I was having some trouble on the plug that negri gave me and I use my old HTC 1 amp plug with my new Sammy cord.
A. Try a difft power unit
B. Try a difft cord
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It's probably the charger. One of my car chargers will do that. Also, this doesn't sound like the case, but be aware that your phone won't charge if it's extremely hot.
Probably the faulty usb port issue. It is no way to fix it without changing the port.
Happened to me once. What fixed it was taking out the battery for 5 min, then replace it, and power up. Someone else was having the problem and another person suggested the long battery pull. Worked for both of us.
I'll try the long pull and report back.
I use three different chargers. The factory samsung charger, a Seido Docking Station (powered by a generic USB charger), and a generic USB cable for charging from my computer. Condition has been present on all three.
Is it recognized by your computer? If not, the USB port is probably the issue. If it is, then the battery pull may fix it. If that doesn't, make a Nandroid and do a full system wipe and see if that helps. Have you installed any apps around the time you noticed the issue? If so, uninstall that app, reboot and see if that solves the issue.
Example, I had TweetDeck kill my GPS once. Literally, I used navigation, got where I was going, remembered I hadn't installed TweetDeck, installed it, tried using navigation and it was busted, uninstalled TweetDeck and Navigation worked fine. I rebooted, reinstalled TweetDeck and all was good. Quirky things happen sometime.
any news on this? my usb port has recently stopped working but it still charges
Matt
Hey all
Wonder if anyone can shed any light on what I think is a unique problem - in that I can't find anyone with the exact same issue.
Last weekend I took the SIM card from my GN to place in another phone I was trying out. The GN was powered back on and being used on WIFI as I was doing comparisons, shooting some video of the new phone with it etc.
Popped the GN in a drawer without thinking and left if powered on
(see if you can guess where this is going)
Messed around with the other phone for about 4 days, got my GN out of the drawer and went to put the SIM back in my GN.
1. GN would not turn on initially at all. No recovery, nothing. (solved)
Read some posts on XDA and elsewhere, people with similar issues mentioning a long (5min+) battery pull would wake her up. Dutifully I obliged and the phone did indeed wake up. However, battery was totally dead and phone shut back down.
2. GN will not accept charge from a wall charger when phone is on.
Whilst the phone seems to take a 'trickle' charge whilst powered off (battery charge animation is on), this is exceptionally slow. Took all night to get to about 50% charged to allow me to boot up and have a look around. Whilst the phone is powered on, it will not recharge. tried all sorts of official and other USB and mains cables.
3. When connected to a PC via USB, will accept charge, but error message notes that USB Device not reconised, troubleshoot? etc...
Phone won't mount. Status says it is charging over AC.
So what's up? I assume the battery died big time over the 4 days i left it. A have a new official battery in the post to resolve but... didn't anticipate the issues with USB connection etc. Worried the phone might be partially bricked/borked/knackered.
Phone is GSM 16Gb currently on 4.0.2 and totally stock. So no tinkering to date has caused this. Only event that proceeded the issue was the full battery drain.
Any hints / tips / info / moral support gladly accepted.
Really sounds like you're phone was already borked, just waiting for the right time to tell you. You might've hurt it's feelings.
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Sounds like it's emotionally scarred from being abandoned for another phone and left in a cold dark danky drawer for half a week.
Have you tried reinstalling the USB drivers?
Also could try factory reset as well as try unlocking it and relocking. Worst case, send it in repair, just tell them it's heartbroken.
Heartbroken, I like it... Worse still I was testing out a Windows Phone. What a phone philanderer I am.
The drawer was nice and dry though I assure you.
How would I install USB drivers?
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Heartbroken, I like it... Worse still I was testing out a Windows Phone. What a phone philanderer I am.
The drawer was nice and dry though I assure you.
How would I install USB drivers?
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Assuming you're on a windows since you called it a PC..
Try and see if windows can install it for you.
Go to Start > Run > Enter "device installation" in the search > select "Change device installation settings" > Select "Install driver software from windows update if it's not found on my device"
Many have seen this type of problems, see http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1427539
It's a hardware issue, but is fixable if you want to change the USB port yourself
Thanks.
Then post you link to seems to be about 'phantom' charging when no cable is connected. This is the opposite in a way - it won't charge when turned on at all.
New battery arrived today. No change. Device still trickle charges when powered off, but doesn't charge on mains power, and still will not recognise when plugged into an XP or Linux machine.
Gonna try a factory reset and will update.
Let me know of any ideas and or people with the same issue. I'm still of the opinion I haven't seen a thread with this same issue. Would be happy to be corrected.
Cheers
Well, a factory reset did nothing...
Stuck...
If you read the thread, many have had this exact problem, including myself. For me the phantom charging happened a while after it refused to charge.
What the actual ****...
I just tried what can only be described as the 'toothpick trick' : pushing down the connector nub inside the USB port on the phone et voila, now acting as normal.
I can only describe that as a really ****ty example of workmanship from Samsung.
And it would be after I reset the device as well.
Do you think this one's a definite hardware issue / defect? Seems a crazy thing to happen.
I had the same problem and search as I might, I could find no solution and had to send it in for repairs. The good news is, if you send it directly to Samsung (and dont go through your carrier), they were really fast about it and I had my phone back within a week
Lol, I was the one figuring out the toothpick trick I ordered the phone from clove.co.uk the first week it was released, and had this issue haunt me after a few weeks. As I'm in norway, I was not looking forward to sending it in, so tried to fix it myself. I tried "everything", including short circiut some pins in the plug on purpose, but what finally fixed it for me was to buy a OEM USB Charging board on ebay and replace it myself.
I know, really ****ty QA at Samsung.
Not looking forward to sitting and waiting to see if this is a recurring issue.
How much of a job is replacing the board on the phone?
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Not that hard. The phone is easy to pick apart, and you can just "plug" in the new card with two simple connectors.
Turns out it is a recurring issue.
Is this the sort of thing that would be classed as due a replacement phone?
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I had the same problem and search as I might, I could find no solution and had to send it in for repairs. The good news is, if you send it directly to Samsung (and dont go through your carrier), they were really fast about it and I had my phone back within a week
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I am having a very similar issue that I believe is hardware. Sometimes charges, sometimes won't. BUT it will not be recognized through USB on my PC so I can not flash stock images unroot and lock the bootloader back up. Where you completely stock and unrooted before you sent it in to samsung? I have to find some way to get it back to stock so I can get get this fixed...
chuckdz3 said:
I am having a very similar issue that I believe is hardware. Sometimes charges, sometimes won't. BUT it will not be recognized through USB on my PC so I can not flash stock images unroot and lock the bootloader back up. Where you completely stock and unrooted before you sent it in to samsung? I have to find some way to get it back to stock so I can get get this fixed...
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Yes, I know there are many topics on this, but mine is a little different, and this appears to be the most current thread.
I have a galaxy nexus that I got from Google IO last summer. It has worked great until last week. It stopped taking a charge. When I would plug it in with the same plug I have used for months, it would show the lightning bolt, but not charge. I tried the toothpick thing but no luck and ended up breaking the usb port. So, I bought a replacment usb board off ebay and installed that. Now, when I plug the phone in, still no charge, but my computer does recognize the phone.
Then after the 4.2.2 update, I no longer see the lighting bolt, but it still does not charge. I have been charging the battery at night. I cut off the end of a usb cable and use electrical tape to tape the two stripped wires to the battery. But that only provides an 80% charge and doesnt last the whole day.
1) Not a usb port issue, but might be a motherboard issue?
2) Not a toothpick fix
3) Maybe a software issue?
4) Maybe time to buy the Nexus 4?
I have a strange issue that my Samsung Focus used to get when it was first released. The Focus was later fixed with a Firmware update.
When I plug in my power cord, SOMETIMES, the screen becomes unresponsive, or glitchy. Also, instead of charging my phone, it starts to drain the battery. I can watch the Diagnosis app (##634#), and it is pulling charge, instead of pushing it. If I unplug and restart my phone, then plug it back in, it starts charging it normally.
Also, when I power off my phone while it's plugged into power, it goes into a reboot loop showing battery empty, even though the battery is fully charged (or, sometimes, it locks up and I have to unplug to restart). I have to unplug the cord and restart, or it never powers back on.
I've already tried multiple Hard Resets, and still happening. I'll keep an eye on this, and see if anyone else is having the same problem. If not, I might exchange it. If others are, then I will expect Nokia to fix it shortly and I won't stress about it yet.
PS: Lumia 900 Black
I had this happen once
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Which charger/cable are you using? I found that I had this problem with my e900 using a cheap third party charger. I'm having the same issue with my Lumia now, but on a different charger (that was working fine on the e900). Going to the first party charger or playing around with another one I had at home seemed to solve the issue.
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Which charger/cable are you using? I found that I had this problem with my e900 using a cheap third party charger. I'm having the same issue with my Lumia now, but on a different charger (that was working fine on the e900). Going to the first party charger or playing around with another one I had at home seemed to solve the issue.
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Yes, I did notice it's mostly a third party charger. But it also does it on the PC USB port. Likely due to low amperage too. I understand the lumia has a large power requirement, but the PC USB port should not cause it. Its not like they will never be used on PC USB power.
Like I said above, my Focus had the same issue, and they fixed it with a firmware update. I'm sure Nokia will do the same.
Good luck. Keep us updated.
I had an issue just now while charging my Lumia 900. The battery was around 15% so I plugged it in for a charge. I went to look at something on the phone a few times while plugged in and the first few it was fine. Then on the third time I couldn't get any response at all from the phone. I unplugged it and had to hold the power button for a long time to get it to come back on. This is the first "issue" that I've experienced with this phone since getting it on Friday. I haven't had any data issues or anything else that some others are seeing. Not sure why it happened but I'm concerned it might not be an isolated incident.
At this point this has only happened once and while charging. Not sure if its related to being plugged in or if it could happen while under normal use yet.
my battery was critically low and the screen became unresponsive..it just froze on whatever I was doing and it wasn't responding to any of the commands..so I had to hold the power button for a long time and restart it..but upon restart it did it again..then I plugged in my charger and it was fine after that...does the lumia charge while off? or is the phone supposed to be on whilst charging?
Those are the exact symptoms my Samsung Focus had until they fixed it via Firmware.
Windows phones only charge while on. If the battery is exceptionally low, it will charge just enough to be able to power itself on, then it will finish charging while on. It's designed that way. I'm looking forward to firmware and software updates, which will only make this phone better. Or, if we get to upgrade to Apollo, woohoo!
Still love this phone though, even w the charging glitches.
Read on... before you just see the post and start flaming.
Been having a helluva trouble with my Galaxy Note II since a month now.
It all started a day in April when I was on a weekend break and my charger just stopped working. Not the charger, but the charger port. I even tried a few other chargers and none of them worked, whereas my charger worked on other phones.
So after the weekend without a phone I come back home and read some posts on XDA about moisture in the USB port. I blow dry the port with the hair dryer and things start working again. After a couple of days of flawless working, again the problem comes up. But it is nothing that a few 'frustrating' 20 minutes of fidgeting will not solve and so goes life.
There have been a few days where it has gotten so annoying that the phone simply wont charge no matter what I do and which angle I place the phone (yoga for phones, anyone?). The phone has even switched off completely at times. Yesterday was one of those days when it simply wouldn't charge.
So again I spend a lot of time on XDA and Google and what makes consensus is that there is moisture in the USB port, or there is something wrong (loose connection) with the USB port and it needs repair.
Few facts before we get to that, and my point about this being a software problem.
1. The charger, when it works, works flawlessly irrespective of whether it is on the table or hanging by the charger from the power outlet. I expect that in case there is a loose connection, the position becomes very delicate.
2. The charger, when it works after moving the wire around for a while, keeps disconnecting occasionally even though it has been placed on a stable table surface and no one is disturbing the table. After some seconds, it connects back automatically and begins charging.
2. The phone works without any problem whatsoever when I plug it into the Samsung car charger - never once do I remember it not working
Now here are my findings from yesterday after I almost broke the phone in frustration.
1. On a whim, I decided to do a factory reset of my device. After fidgeting with the phone for 4-5 hours and it not charging, it magically started charging after the factory reset.
2. After the reset and a 1 hour charge, I updated all the default software on the phone - including 1 samsung update, 1 allshare update, and 1 push service update. Within a few minutes of this update, the charger started showing the 'loose connection' problems again. I also noticed that at times the phone screen would switch on for no reason - for only 2-3 seconds.
3. Again I reset the phone, and force stopped some samsung services and disabled as many samsung services as I could and I could notice consistent charging.
I subsequently installed some apps (not going full out as I want to observe the behaviour) and occasionally the charging stops. I then go into the application manager and shut down some samsung services and more often than not the charging starts working.
After all this circus, I believe there is something wrong with the Samsung services, the phone device drivers, or the MTP service. It does something when it detects a cable being inserted and causes a malfunction of the phone. This is what it looks like to me.
In fact the same problem happens when I plug in the phone to the PC too. The connection keeps breaking and the phone is just not usable from the PC. However the interesting thing is that when the USB / MTP breaks, the charge is still working and the orange light is glowing.
So, finally the XDA relevant question. Can you guys help me find out if it really is a software problem or just some strange co-incidence? Are there any traces that I can pull out to see which app/service is causing the problem? There are many apps/services that I would like to disable, but they are greyed out - is there anything that I can do about them?
Mind you that my phone is not rooted - so all the usually available apps might not work for me. I use the phone as a corporate device and I can't violate rules by rooting the phone.
Any tips, suggestions, ideas, flames?
Hi I'm having the exact same symptoms as you I wondering if you got to the bottom of the problem? Many thanks
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My wife has same problem with her note 2 since yesterday. I'll test and share the result.
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Are you sure it's not the cable? Because many stock cables tend to be crappy, just try another one if you haven't. It doesn't have to be just loose connection.
Works here fine without issues, so doubt it's software. I rooted mine almost immediately, so can't say much about that though.
Ive tried 3 different cables and every time I plug one in s voice launches lol
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Could be a problem with newer Samsung phones and their construction. I have a friend who has a Galaxy S3 (not Note 2) who's gone through FOUR phones so far -- all of them with the same problem of the charging port dying after a while. T-Mobile's insurance company is starting to give him dirty looks, poor guy ...
He gets intermittent charging before the phone stops charging completely. Now his phone is hooked up to the charger constantly while he's at home because of battery issues, so it's possible he's putting excessive strain on the charging port. My thinking is that it's a hardware issue rather than software, but who knows with these things.
mudge
my friend's note 2 having quite similar problem, every time plug in the cable, the phone start charging after some minutes. not the problem of cable, i tested the cable and charger with my phone. Plan to send it to service center.
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Exact same problem for N7100 (international version)
I have been facing the exact problem described above. The service center has blamed water logging to be the issue. But seriously doubt it since the port seems to be working fine when it really functions. Also i noticed that when i restart my phone few times it starts to work fine(without me touching the charger cable or the charger itself). I guess its a lot to do with the software than the hardware
note 2 Gt-n7105 bootloops, with charger doesnt boot loop
Hi,
My note 2 seems to work perfectly fine when i connect my charger. But when I disconnect the charger when its full charge it turns off.
When I turn the phone on without the charger it comes on the screen where it shows the "samsung galaxy note 2 gt-n7105" its begins to boot loop.
Can someone please give me some solutions.
Has anyone ever solve this? I have the same on my S4....
I too have the exact problem of phone getting connected and then disconnected automatically in few minutes.
I fixed mine with the same issue
Power usage
Hi,
I first saw this when I was using my sat nav app in the car, I turned off the Performance optimised when plugged in option in favour of a lower power option and the problem went away. As I get more applications on my phone I see this more and more.
Could this be the power usage of the phone? The charge will supply 500ma, if the phone is already using a good portion of that the battery will not charge, so the phone shows the charge intermittently as the phone uses slightly more and slightly less power when the cpu, etc wakes and sleeps. More apps running uses more time on the cpu so more power. And of course as the battery gets older this would display itself more.
Just an idea based on what I've seen...
My Note 5 just started doing this, and only on the car charger using the Adaptive Fast Charge port. Charges for 2 seconds, off for 2 seconds, charges for 2 seconds. Using the normal port it charges fine, just slower. I have the Adaptive Fast Charge adapter at home and in the car, it works fine at home.
usb A3 usb issues
for mine it is intermittently not being recognised in file manager and also charging and then not charging round and round making beeping noises. This started when I dropped it partially in a bowl of oxtail soup. At the time it wouldn't recognise any cable at all. After I cleaned it with a cotton wool bud it was working again for ages but every now and then it wouldn't be explorable in windows. Now its acting up again, very difficult to get it to detect in windows, it starts charging when I plug in the cable but not in file explorer.
It's a real pain because its a samsung a3 which is difficult to open. I think really I will have to get it repaired - opened up and cleaned inside properly or have the usb port replaced.
I've watched many videos about mtp drivers and cleaning and bending the usb port a bit etc etc for many of you I think cleaning the port and/or bending the usb tab a bit would help, good luck.
Stop posting your damn problems so some one can answer it. Jesus look at the posts and see if there is an answer.l cuz you asking makes no difference because u have to scroll to the bottom to see an answer any ways. So just w8. Also ya it's software thing.... Samsung kinda sucks but what the hay I love them anyway even tho thay, including the expencive ones, are crap
I seem to be having the same issue as found on this thread, can't find anything here though.
https://www.reddit.com/r/lgg7/comments/90zo7k/wireless_charging_stopped_working/
Anyone else have the same issue and found a fix? Guessing this might have to go back to lg.
Thanks!
steveoidm said:
I seem to be having the same issue as found on this thread, can't find anything here though.
https://www.reddit.com/r/lgg7/comments/90zo7k/wireless_charging_stopped_working/
Anyone else have the same issue and found a fix? Guessing this might have to go back to lg.
Thanks!
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I started getting this issue yesterday a day after I got a software monthly update for Nov. I normally shut the phone off to charge but sometimes leave it on. When plugged into something it doesnt seem to detect its plugged in. I even swapped cables to a slower charger and same thing. It doesnt see it.
When I fully charged it off, It beeps the battery and does a circle hue randomly by the home button but than detected the connection to pc. I ignored it and started up again but without the beeping, just wont charge when on. There is no dirt or anything in the unit,. I have not moved any-wires, they have been sitting in the same spot on the counter since day 1. I'm gonna try a factor reset if it keeps happening a day or 2 from now.
Same problem here, it was behaving strangely few days ago (charging problem right away but worked in the end so let it go) and now it charges only when off or if plugged within 30 seconds after turning on and only on normal charge speed (not quick charge). Tried to wipe apps and everything, did the facrory reset 2 times but still nothing.
I have similar issues with charging my g7, first give me notification of moisture detected on USB port, then can't charge normally need to plug a few times and sometimes get slow charging, i was thinking have faulty USB port, and have poor battery life.
Then I turn off and put the cable and charges normally and realized that it's software issue.
I flash the ULM10i firmware and now everything work flawless the USB port charges when it's turn on and have very good battery life now.
As an update, I called LG and they basically stated that it sounds like a software issue and to send the phone in. I declined hoping to get another update that would fix it.
I have yet to get one from T-mobile. Long story short, it corrected itself and now charges off or on and no longer does the beeping. Whatever it was, was a bug that temporary for me.
same problem here; no moisture errors, aleatory starts charging when it's on, poor battery life; mainly starts charging with the phone off
problem solved! I've forced LG BRIDGE to reflash the ROM and voilà, all working like a charm. Just download from lge.com, install LG BRIDGE, under "software update" ... "update error recovery" and it will download and reflash the working ROM.