So Yesterday I put my phone on the charger and noticed after 2 hours it stayed at 5%. And though just to restart the device, however that didn't work. So at 3 am in the morning I turned it off and threw it on the charger over night woke up to find its at 1% as I type this now.
Is it my battery that's done for or my Note 3 HW?
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So Yesterday I put my phone on the charger and noticed after 2 hours it stayed at 5%. And though just to restart the device, however that didn't work. So at 3 am in the morning I turned it off and threw it on the charger over night woke up to find its at 1% as I type this now.
Is it my battery that's done for or my Note 3 HW?
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try new cable and charger base. If neither work, call for replacement.
Or get a new battery save yourself the time you'll have to wait to get another.
It's probably the usb cable, mine went out a month ago, same thing happened to me it wouldn't charge tried another cable battery charged without any issues. So more than likely the cable is bad.
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Well I ordered two new anker batteries along with the external charger, and that but that's my problem nothing wrong with a charger or USB cable. My battery just simply would not charge it could not hold one anymore, I literally put it on the charger the entire night and the phone stayed at 5 percent and then as soon as I started do anything on my phone it literally shut my phone off while on the charger during a text message.
I guess it just died.
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This same thing pretty much happened to me. Actually exactly the same thing... including the extra Anker batteries and charger as well as testing different cords. I ended up ordering a wireless charging kit, and now all is well. I've been using it with one of the Anker batteries. I ordered the Koolpad charger and the white slim wireless chip off of Amazon. It charges through my Seidio case, and I put velcro onto the charger and the back of the case so that I could easily use it while charging. The wireless charging kit cost about $40 on Amazon (I imagine pretty close to what a new official Sammy charger and cable would cost) and the Koolpad charger came with a black and a white micro USB (not USB 3 but still...) port cover, which I thought was a nice touch.
No guarantee that this would work for you, of course, but it did for me fortunately. If it didn't I would have taken it back to the store (after re-flashing the stock ROM, which may have solved the problem on it's own). Oh yeah, not really sure if this is actually related / possible but I did theorize that the problem may have been kernel related. I had actually been following the wireless charging thread anyways, but if I wasn't already considering spending money on that, the first thing I would have tried would have been a clean install of everything. I was testing out different kernels with Tweaked ROM and the problem started around a new kernel flash, but really can't say if that's related because I was unimpressed with that kernel overall and flashed one that ran better on my phone around the time that the wireless charger showed up (got one day shipping w/ Amazon Prime because shutting down my phone to rotate batteries got old quick, as I'm sure you'll agree). Anyways, good luck. There's lots of good info in that wireless charging thread, if you decide to go that route.
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so today i noticed my evo was running out of battery and i plugged it in my laptop with my usb cord and in charge only method about an hour later i checked my current widget and noticed it said that it wasnt charging and battery was almost dead but the orange charging led was on..
how can i fix this??..
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so today i noticed my evo was running out of battery and i plugged it in my laptop with my usb cord and in charge only method about an hour later i checked my current widget and noticed it said that it wasnt charging and battery was almost dead but the orange charging led was on..
how can i fix this??..
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Does it charge on the wall okay? I would try a different kernel out, see if that remedies it. If not, I would be suspicious of a damaged/faulty USB cable(they do/can go bad), or a faulty battery. Have you tried clearing your battery stats yet? I would do that, as well.
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I'm guessing battery too, sprint should have a machine to check it by the way...
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It's happened to me a few times. Sometimes the cable wiggles or something I guess.
I just unplug and replug and its fine.
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noticed it said that it wasnt charging and battery was almost dead but the orange charging led was on..
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I've had this happen consistently over the past few weeks, only with my car dock though. It charges fine both in my dock at work and on the standard charger at home. I'm using a Seidio dock, and I've done multiple things to find the issue. Both my wife and I have EVO 4g's with Seidio car docks. I swapped my dock for hers, no change. I swapped out the charging cable, no change. I used a different charger, no change. I tried my normal setup on my wife's phone, no change.
I don't know what else to do to figure the issue out. I have ordered a new charger that supplies 2.1A, as I've read that a low charger output could be the issue.
I am confused, as this combination has worked fine for about 8 months now. Why all of a sudden is it no longer charging properly? The battery could be the issue, as I know that the chemistry changes over time, but I'd like to know for certain before swapping out the battery.
I'd love to hear from others who are having the same issue.
Seidio Dock issue?
I've seen a few other posts with the same problem. Particularly this one: Post #1175
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=16499063&postcount=1175
The one thing that is similar is that he is using the same car dock as I am, the Seidio dock.
I've been playing with this a bit, and have managed to isolate it to the Kernel. I flashed back to MikFroyo and the problem disappeared. It charged perfectly fine.
In Gingerbread (MikG 2.42), with both the stock Kernel and the Freedom Kernel, the phone won't charge properly in the dock. I've been keeping an eye on it with Battery Monitor Widget. Here are the results:
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While I am driving, the kernel is showing a 100% full battery, however, it is discharging instead of going into the float mode. As soon as the phone is removed from the dock, it goes from 100% down to 80%. When I put it onto a desk charger, it charges fine with a normal float charge. If I remove the cord from the Seidio dock and plug it into the phone (with a mini -> micro USB adapter), it will charge normally and go into float mode.
Something was changed in the GB Kernel update that affected this behavior. Unfortunately, I'm not a programmer to get that deep to find out where the problem is.
Is there any help possible from anyone???
This always happens to me on AOSP roms. If you happen to be on an AOSP rom, just plug the charger back in then take it out.
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This always happens to me on AOSP roms. If you happen to be on an AOSP rom, just plug the charger back in then take it out.
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I've tried that previously with no luck. I'm using a Sense ROM, currently MikG 2.42, but I had the same issue with the stock GB ROM.
Thanks for the suggestion.
Hey
I really want this phone but the fact it has no removable battery is a massive minus.
Has anyone discovered a work around for this? I mean like a small emergency charger that will boost the phone for 1-2 hours?
When i go to football i always tweet/FB heavily. And i find by 4-5 pm (5 hours unplugged) i need to think about putting my spare battery in. It isnt the best spare battery but will give the phone an extra 1-2 hours which is enough time for me.
Thanks
Why not a quick google search for mobile power storage? or mobile power?
http://www.duracellpower.com/cell-phone-chargers/default.aspx
Order one of these: http://s.dealextreme.com/search/battery+pack+phone
That's what I did.
I use this...
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http://www.zagg.com/accessories/zaggsparq.php
Are the Duracell ones any good for phones this high spec?
Are the others small enough to carry in your pocket?
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Brand/price of the charger doesn't matter. I use 10 euro worth small charger that has connector built in, it doesnt use cable. I just plug it into my phone and it will charge it. I always have it in my bag, fully charged. Use it rarely, but knowing I have it there helps. It's also light enough.
a bigger version of this:
I have one of those 5000mah packs from asolar (theres alot of them on amazon) and it works great! Although it's way too large to fit into your pocket, i usually bring it when I'm traveling. It can fully charge a phone like the one X - Twice!
About the size:
Its about the same size as an SGS, but twice as thick.
Are the duracells any good? Would the one x get a fee hours of charge?
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Brand/price of the charger doesn't matter.
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True, but the specs do. How fast the battery pack outputs power makes a big difference in how long it takes to charge the phone. Also some of the higher-end solutions can hold up to four full charges. Here's a chart...
Yes but I wanted cheap solution that works. So it charges pretty quickly as it gets really worm while charging my phone. It's not going to make my phone last a day, the purpose is to give me a boost when needed, nothing more, and for that its perfectly spent tenner.
I do have another charger that holds way more power and is able to charge my laptop, comes with multiple plugs as well as USB port, but I wouldn't carry that with me everyday like I can with the small cheap one.
I got a 7000mah one from Amazon for 20 quid, it's a cheaper less rip off copy of the 'new trent' chargers can't remember the brand though. Works a treat, charges with 1amp just as quick as a mains charger!
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I bought a portable solar portable charger 16000mah from espow.com
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I went for:
Veho Pebble 5000mA Portable Battery Charger
This is the cheapest price spotted for external battery pack for $13.99. Anyone find anything cheaper? I'm trying to find something cheap and quick to use.
Can this also charge nexus 5 without problem? It charge at 2A
http://www.amazon.com/WARRANTY-External-Star-America-THINNEST/dp/B00EZ71LMA/
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Just ordered one, it'll be here Friday and I'll let you know
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Typical 9999 day warranty. I'd stay away. We all know these cheap Chinese electronics go bad on day 10,000.
instead of going for the cheapest go for the most vfm.anker external batteries.check em out on amazon.they tout the maximum capacity for a given price range.astro series;10000mah pack i am using currently.it comes with 18 months warranty.you may opt for the smaller ones too.
I have bad experiencing with those cheap battery packs. Usually they have a high capacity, but they still lose charge very quickly.
I had a 5500mAh battery pack for my Galaxy Nexus, which should be enough for charging it 3 times. The first 3 times it worked alright, but afterwards I was lucky to get one charge out of it. Still, one charge is of course always useful.
Can't be any more disappointing then my fluxmob bolt. Spend $60 and it'll charge about 30% of the battery.
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I have bad experiencing with those cheap battery packs. Usually they have a high capacity, but they still lose charge very quickly.
I had a 5500mAh battery pack for my Galaxy Nexus, which should be enough for charging it 3 times. The first 3 times it worked alright, but afterwards I was lucky to get one charge out of it. Still, one charge is of course always useful.
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What do you mean by lucky to get one charge out of it?
Edit. Oh, external battery. I get it.
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Alright, gonna make this review based off one charge.
It arrived yesterday afternoon and I put it on the charger for 8 hours. It has three LEDs on the side that show how much remaining charge the unit has. I discharged my phone to 13% and rebooted then plugged this thing in. The phone thinks it's charging ac so the phone charged to 100% in about an hour and a half. The unit is blinking the final led now. So one full charge is expected.
I'm satisfied and if anyone has any questions let me know.
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Alright, gonna make this review based off one charge.
It arrived yesterday afternoon and I put it on the charger for 8 hours. It has three LEDs on the side that show how much remaining charge the unit has. I discharged my phone to 13% and rebooted then plugged this thing in. The phone thinks it's charging ac so the phone charged to 100% in about an hour and a half. The unit is blinking the final led now. So one full charge is expected.
I'm satisfied and if anyone has any questions let me know.
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Nice review. Gonna pickup one myself now
Got pretty decent results with this. Getting around 100 charge. Also goes on AC mode which is good in getting the charge up quick
Yeah that's what I'm seeing. It's nice because normally about 6 hours into my shift I get down to around 14% then I plug into this bad boy and charge it back up before I head home and start the rest of my day.
Just leave the battery on the charger in my car then take it back into work the next day and start the whole thing over again
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Hello,
I discovered a weird issue with my phone this morning. I woke up and the battery was sitting at 64% after charging overnight. That seemed a little weird so I tried doing several different things (battery pull, clear the cache, etc...) to see if it would correct the issue. It did not. I just got done draining the phone completely and then plugged it in. In about an hour's time, it charged 2%.
The only thing that I have not tried at this point is a full system restore :crying:
Has anyone else experienced this issue? Do you have any ideas of things for me to try? I am willing to try anything before using a full restore as a last resort.
Thanks,
LBS
EDIT: Well, I dug out an old blackberry wall charger and cable and it immediately fixed the issue. I think its a bad LG charger and USB cable. I guess ill toss them.
I've experienced this. Does your battery stats page look a bit like this?
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What charger AND USB cable are you using to charge the device? While I was using the bundled LG charger at the time, I was using an old HTC MicroUSB cable I had from a previous device when I encountered this problem. When I used the bundled LG MicroUSB cable instead, the device charged normally.
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I've experienced this. Does your battery stats page look a bit like this?
What charger AND USB cable are you using to charge the device? While I was using the bundled LG charger at the time, I was using an old HTC MicroUSB cable I had from a previous device when I encountered this problem. When I used the bundled LG MicroUSB cable instead, the device charged normally.
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I've been using a 3rd party 6 foot long USB cable with a third party rapid charger. Last night my wife needed to borrow a USB charger, so I gave her mine and used the LG provided charger and cable for the first time last night. I hadn't really thought about it. Maybe its a bad charger?
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I've been using a 3rd party 6 foot long USB cable with a third party rapid charger. Last night my wife needed to borrow a USB charger, so I gave her mine and used the LG provided charger and cable for the first time last night. I hadn't really thought about it. Maybe its a bad charger?
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Could possibly be that. I think the G3 might be a little picky with chargers and such you use with it, I'm not too sure as I've pretty much used the G3 wireless charging dock to charge my G3 (and that is very picky with what you use with it, if it's not at least 1.8A then say hello to constant beeps and errors, my old 2.1A Nexus 7 charger seems to power the dock fine.)
Changd the usb cable
I just got the LG G3 a few days ago and its charging at a rate of over 18+ amps! (Over 18000+ mA). My phone was on 35% about 10 min ago. Now it is at 63%. This is the first time i checked the charge current for this phone. My previous phone was a galaxy s3 and it averaged a charge current of 0.8-1.1 amps. I am not sure if this is a good or bad thing. My phones temp doesnt seem hot, also its charging incredibly fast. If anyone has had this happen please reply. I know this is not normal. I took a screenshot of the charge monitor. The app i used. To test the currents was "Battery Monitor Widget". In the picture you will see a red circle with a arrow pointed to it. That is the time when i took the charger off and replaced it with my other adapter but kept using the same cable.
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I just got the LG G3 a few days ago and its charging at a rate of over 18+ amps! (Over 18000+ mA). My phone was on 35% about 10 min ago. Now it is at 63%. This is the first time i checked the charge current for this phone. My previous phone was a galaxy s3 and it averaged a charge current of 0.8-1.1 amps. I am not sure if this is a good or bad thing. My phones temp doesnt seem hot, also its charging incredibly fast. If anyone has had this happen please reply. I know this is not normal. I took a screenshot of the charge monitor. The app i used. To test the currents was "Battery Monitor Widget". In the picture you will see a red circle with a arrow pointed to it. That is the time when i took the charger off and replaced it with my other adapter but kept using the same cable.
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That is wicked, though it had me scared! I tested wireless charging (I bought an insert for the back from AliExpress.com to make it Qi compatible) and also tested from the power adapter given to me with the phone. Below the yellow line is wireless charging and above is with the stock power cable. Notice that they are 0.5mAh different, but the mV is the same, so they charge about the same. Interesting! I'll have to test this further.
Cheers for posting this!
This could be why I burnt through a series of chargers a few weeks ago.....
Ok so I am now using the standard charger that i get up to 1800mA with. I gotta say though my charger that i modified charged my phone lightning fast with no heating issues as well or damaging of the battery. Unfortunately the modified charger can only be used with the newer phones. I had it tested with the galaxy s4, galaxy s5, and the htc one m8. But the only newer phone that didnt work with was the one plus one. The LG G3 definitely had the highest amp charge out of all of the phones. I will be doing more tests soon. But just to be safe i will be using my normal charger while i am away from the phone or when im sleeping. Here is the screenshot of the current charge with the stock charger.
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Here is the testing results with the htc one m8.
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Highly doubt that app is reporting accurately.
Omg can believe you guys are missing the mA flow ... +5197mA (+199.88%) per hour
These aren't output from your power adapter, it's a tally of how many mA have been recorded. Also from looking at your notification bar you have two blue tooth devices one of which isn't fully charged. There's a good chance this app doesn't account for that.
If you are using the standard charger, you can get 9 watts from it. No more. Given the voltage of the battery of 4v, there's little reason to think you could really be charging more than about 2200mA actual current into device, probably less due losses. For the the a 3000mAh battery, this means about 75 minutes to charge. I think the app is reporting something else or we are miss interpreting the data.
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