hi, doesn't anyone have any issues with the device making a sound when beginning a wireless charge?
probably half the time, mine won't sound. sometimes the sound is very delayed. the volume is always on.
any thoughts?
thanks!
I've been getting the impression with mine that it only makes the sound if the battery starts off below a certain % charged (like maybe 80%), if it is nearly fully charged, putting it on the charger doesn't make any sound (at least maybe that's the correlation).
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I already posted this in another thread by Trbobuick, but I thought an new thread with a correct title would be of better use...
I just recieved the powerpack, and its not very beautiful, IMHO. The cut out spaces for the power button and the volume rockers makes it look a bit odd.
The material (and texture) used for the powerpack sadly doesn't look like anything on the S2. It stains easier than the phone itself, as it seems.
During charging with the S2 in the powerpack, the phone beeped every few minutes that is was fully charged. (Another user reported it did it only every hour). While you may sleep through only one beep, this powerpack will keep you awake all night. (I am on a stock rom)
And then, if the powerpack (disconnected from mains charger) has charged the phone, the phone has the "remove charger" notification, and this (until now) stays and seems to prevent further charging the phone by the powerpack. (Unless you remove and reconnect the powerpack).
Until now this Samsung Powerpack seems a badly (I am mild) designed thing, unless I don't understand the operation of the powerpack.
Its just an external battery, and more or less behaves as such. That there is a phone fitting inside this external battery seems more like a coincidence as intentional.
Not Happy.
See other threads about this powerpack:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1110441
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1167652
I'm not entirely sure how the pack works.... you charge the pack and then the pack charges the phone? So essentially it's a portable charger that draws its power from its own battery?
Yes.
Its just an external battery with a USB pass-through (not all functions of the normal USB plug are passed through, such as HDMI) and this external battery charges your phone.
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It seems as the powerpack still charges, even if the normal charging icon is not shown.
When I check battery status it (allways) says 4 seconds on battery.....
Gede said:
Yes.
Its just an external battery with a USB pass-through (not all functions of the normal USB plug are passed through, such as HDMI) and this external battery charges your phone.
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It seems as the powerpack still charges, even if the normal charging icon is not shown.
When I check battery status it (allways) says 4 seconds on battery.....
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Yeah it charges, I got 6 hours of medium use before the pack stops charging the SGS2 and it begins using the internal battery.
Battery meter is useless to measure this tho, it thinks it's still on the charger.
Aaaaaand, I gave up trying to charge the pack while the SGS2 was in it because:
1) It charges so very bloody slowly
2) The wake me up thing I get every hour or so
I charge the case on it's own now, thankfully I have a whole bunch of microUSB chargers. But really Samsung? It's not that you haven't had time to improve on the design, considering the SGS had a battery case too.
Mine arrived yesterday, wasnt exactly what I was expecting in terms of size.
As it adds as an external power source, battery stats are useless.
Ran it from 5pm yesterday and my SGII switched over to internal battery at around 5am.
Now charging as standalone to stop the beeping !!
My Dinc is having an issue. It had been charging, although though i think it had stopped for some reason. I was looking at it, making sure I wasn't running a ton of radios/apps and whatnot,when suddenly it just shut down, and now it won't come back on. The amber light is slowly blinking steadily. This has never happened before, and I'm not entirely certain what to do...it won't even let me HBOOT. Someone help plz?!
What kind of charger are you using? The blinking amber light usually just means its charging up from being dead, so you can't turn it on yet. I've had my Incredible use more power than the charger and actually discharge when plugged in. Rare, but can happen. It's not giving you 5 vibrations or anything right?
pull the battery out for a few seconds and it should turn back on
Sounds like your charger is too weak. After doing a modification job on a charger of mine I discovered that the charger was so weak that the phone was actually backfeeding and discharging at a extremely high rate. I recommend a charger of at least 750 mah's. The ones that ship with the phone are 1 amp and work like a charm. Older chargers for lots of other devices are as low as 300 mah's (which will work if the phone is off, but if you're actually doing anything, it's too weak).
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Sounds like your charger is too weak. After doing a modification job on a charger of mine I discovered that the charger was so weak that the phone was actually backfeeding and discharging at a extremely high rate. I recommend a charger of at least 750 mah's. The ones that ship with the phone are 1 amp and work like a charm. Older chargers for lots of other devices are as low as 300 mah's (which will work if the phone is off, but if you're actually doing anything, it's too weak).
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thanks for the info..
Thanks guys, it seems to be fine now. I'm not sure the issue, but when looking at the battery stat graph, it should what can only be described as a "plateau-like" droppoff. It wasn't gradual. I flashed the OTA 2.3.4 via Stang's post, said "ehh I forgot I didn't like Sense" and reverted to my nand b/u of CM7.1 RC1. I decided to retain the radio. Now a few hours later, it did that. The only thing I can think of was perhaps the battery stats? Perhaps I didn't have as much charge as I thought? I have since wiped everything, stats included. Seems fine, will update you if anything else happens. And I am on the factory charger(s).
Yeah, sounds possible that your battery stats were all garfed up and your phone thought it was at a much higher level than it actually was. Mine did that after my accidental backfeeding charger. It'd say it was at 87% and then about 20 minutes after being on the charger die, though the % never dropped. After charging it enough to boot it'd say 0%. So yeah, I think it's pretty easy to confuse the battery stats.
this ebay bought magnetic chord i have lights blue led when its plugged in, and goes red when charging. however, now whenever its charging on my new z3c, it randomly fluctutates between red-blue red-blue although phone screen still shows its charging. any idea whats wrong? also, my phone is losing charge quicker since i charged with this chord (been only twice uptil now.) any suggestions? is it the phone or the chord only?
also, can generic chords actually spoil or harm the phones battery life? the first time i charged my z3c, it was with the inbox USB sony charger, and it lasted me a 10 hour night without a single % drop in battery on standby (though wifi and mobile data were both off, and i had no pending notifications in the am). Whereas, since charging with the generic magnetic chord, the battery's been dropping on standby at about 2% an hour. during intermittent screen checking, and dropped 3% last night (again wifi and data were off and no new notifications came in.)?? :-/ please help. thanks
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this ebay bought magnetic chord i have lights blue led when its plugged in, and goes red when charging. however, now whenever its charging on my new z3c, it randomly fluctutates between red-blue red-blue although phone screen still shows its charging. any idea whats wrong? also, my phone is losing charge quicker since i charged with this chord (been only twice uptil now.) any suggestions? is it the phone or the chord only?
also, can generic chords actually spoil or harm the phones battery life? the first time i charged my z3c, it was with the inbox USB sony charger, and it lasted me a 10 hour night without a single % drop in battery on standby (though wifi and mobile data were both off, and i had no pending notifications in the am). Whereas, since charging with the generic magnetic chord, the battery's been dropping on standby at about 2% an hour. during intermittent screen checking, and dropped 3% last night (again wifi and data were off and no new notifications came in.)?? :-/ please help. thanks
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i am having a similar experience using what i think is the same cord...i bought mine on ebay as well and it has the same blue/red led light...for me the color flickering seems to start at 90%+ when charging
i have also experienced worse battery drain when idle...i had a small suspicion that it was related to the charger but i also have different magnetic one and it seems to offer similar battery results...so its might just be magnetic charging altogether...i also read that some people believe it is the firmware update that caused the battery to drain faster...so im not exactly sure i can blame it on the charger
i have not done charge cycle from low battery to full with the oem charger in quite some time...maybe i will do that and see if the battery drains just as fast...maybe you could give it a try as well and see if it makes a difference (hopefully the magnetic charging hasn't already caused "permanent" damage)
yup, same flickering LED light here, mainly after about 90% charge. I've not noticed a difference in battery life betwen USB and mg or between different mag cables (I use two ebay mag cables and one Magnector x2). I do notice that one of the ebay cables charges a lot slower than the others, however.
Call me crazy, but I think that the flickering is normal. The flickering happens while the LED is trying to transition from Red to Blue, it should display a colour in between those two, but since there are only 2 LEDS (or 1 led with only two colors) aka two available colors, it will flicker because it's trying to do something that's impossible (trying to display a color beside red/blue). Mine does the same, but it doesn't bother me since it's supposed to do that. I don't have any battery issues.
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Dsteppa said:
Call me crazy, but I think that the flickering is normal. The flickering happens while the LED is trying to transition from Red to Blue, it should display a colour in between those two, but since there are only 2 LEDS (or 1 led with only two colors) aka two available colors, it will flicker because it's trying to do something that's impossible (trying to display a color beside red/blue). Mine does the same, but it doesn't bother me since it's supposed to do that. I don't have any battery issues.
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I think you're not far off. I have the same cable probably, and it starts flickering in the mid-90%s. It probably has to do with the device reducing the charge drawn from the wall plug as it gets close to full battery.
Could you guys provide link to those chords?
Since the 17th every night when I charge the phone it makes a very low humming noise and its at its louldest when the between is low. at 25% if become a little better and after 40-50% its not so noticable however I just wanted to check if this is normal as i am getting mixed views from Razer Support.
Is it normal for the charging block to make this humming noise?
I've got the same issue. I have posted all the details on my other post check it out. I think razer have flopped with these wall chargers and/or usb c cable. Its not quick charging although it states rapid charging and having gone through two wall chargers already, first one was quiet and this new one i have has that humming noise your on about.
I've got 2 phones, neither charger hums, 0-50% in about 30-40 mins, 50-90% in about 40 mins, 90-100% 30 mins. 0-100 takes about an hour and 50 mins. (well, it was at 4% to start)
That's fine I'm glad it wasn't just me being that fussy guy I've read online it's not much to worry about as I had a coiling graphics card which made the same sort of hum but eventually that went away or I got 1-2 months older and my hearing couldn't pick it up anymore.
Razer have now said they will send me a replacement charger out to test and will give me a self address package to return the charger - so let me keep the one that works better.
Shipping from HK they still want it back to make sure I'm not claiming a free charger from them.
I finally got the replacement charger from them which did fix the problem i was having with the noise coming from the charger block.
I also received the replacement charger, seems to fix the noise issue. However I am yet to understand the Quick Charge on this phone. It says charging rapidly but it definitely does not charge rapidly. Charging at 1900mA throughout is not quick charge technology.
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I also received the replacement charger, seems to fix the noise issue. However I am yet to understand the Quick Charge on this phone. It says charging rapidly but it definitely does not charge rapidly. Charging at 1900mA throughout is not quick charge technology.
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How long does it take to charge?
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How long does it take to charge?
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My original post has the details.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/razer-phone/help/phone-quick-charging-t3709607
Got some more info here:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/razer-phone/help/audio-volume-reduction-fix-usb-c-cable-t3721761
apart from the noise issue i had with the original charger the charging time itself im failry happy with along with the all day battery life even with a little gaming and netflix/youtube streaming.
Odd. I plugged my phone in at 15% when I got the warning, and I am looking at it now and its fully charged. I want to say it wasn't even a full hour but... I confess I didn't look at the clock.
Another "issue" I found on my S9 was this :
When charged with the factory charger (fast charging disabled), phone was at 3% and i was still fiddling with it and it started making a weird noise (the phone, not the charger !). The sound was of very low intensity, lasted only 2-3 minutes and dissapeared when the screen was off. I managed to record it with the phone, but the volume is way louder than it actually was. In complete silence you could barely hear it, but nonetheless, it concerned me. It only happened once. I heard that the output being 9V/1.67A, the sound could be made when converting from AC to DC. It's only happened once.
The sound did not appear with a Huawei 5V/1A charger which I think i'll be using from now on since I only charge my phone overnight.
https://linksharing.samsungcloud.com/1522781621333Cf3Stag
Heard the same thing. Was on 1% and the noise was there till I reached 4%.
Used different Cables, Charger... Always the same thing.
If you're letting the battery get that low on purpose, you should know that's about the second worst thing you can do to a lithium ion battery. They HATE being fully discharged, and doing so will shorten the lifespan of the battery significantly. (The absolute worst thing you can do is overcharge them, but the circuitry in modern phones prevents that, unless you foolishly use a high output Apple charger intended for Apple laptops.) Electric cars, for the most part, keep their batteries between 25% and 75% to maximize lifespan.
The days when you needed to fully discharge and recharge batteries to prevent the "memory effect" disappeared along with NiCAD batteries.
Go to settings>apps> click on the 3 dots at the top right corner> shows system apps> usbsettings>storage>clear data/clear cache> restart device