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Charging time for my battery is pretty slow. I takes more than 3 hours from 10% to full! It doesn't matter if it is chraging with the carger or via USB. Is this normal with the Nexus? I had Htc Inspire 4G, and the charging took 2 hours top!
*if i use the phone while charging e.g. play some game, the battery is still draining instead of charging.
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You should get better results with an A/C charger but I've seen some wall adapters still read as if its plugged in via USB. You can check by going to settings >> battery while it's plugged in and it should read A/C charging.
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Charging time for my battery is pretty slow. I takes more than 3 hours from 10% to full! It doesn't matter if it is chraging with the carger or via USB. Is this normal with the Nexus? I had Htc Inspire 4G, and the charging took 2 hours top!
*if i use the phone while charging e.g. play some game, the battery is still draining instead of charging.
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What is the max current (mA) the charger you use can provide? Divide the capacity of your battery (in mAh) by the charge current. That is your approximate charge time in hours. I believe most AC chargers can charge with 1A, so a stock GSM battery of 1750 mAh should take less than 2 hours from being discharged to fully charged. Mine does.
The behavior that the GNEX will discharge even while being charged with a non AC charger (including car chargers) when gaming/navigating is not uncommon.
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You should get better results with an A/C charger but I've seen some wall adapters still read as if its plugged in via USB. You can check by going to settings >> battery while it's plugged in and it should read A/C charging.
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Yes, it's reading A/C charging, but the charger is from alcatel with 400mAh output.
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What is the max current (mA) the charger you use can provide? Divide the capacity of your battery (in mAh) by the charge current. That is your approximate charge time in hours. I believe most AC chargers can charge with 1A, so a stock GSM battery of 1750 mAh should take less than 2 hours from being discharged to fully charged. Mine does.
The behavior that the GNEX will discharge even while being charged with a non AC charger (including car chargers) when gaming/navigating is not uncommon.
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I've been charging it with Alcatel charger with 400mAh output. I'll try with Samsung charger with 5.0V output which says it's equal to 0.7A because I don't have the original (I think i have used it before, but i dont recall that it was any faster).
Could be kernel related issue, since there is an option to "Fast charge" via USB and it's enabled?
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I've been charging it with Alcatel charger with 400mAh output. I'll try with Samsung charger with 5.0V output which says it's equal to 0.7A because I don't have the original (I think i have used it before, but i dont recall that it was any faster).
Could be kernel related issue, since there is an option to "Fast charge" via USB and it's enabled?
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its not likely a kernel issue unless you are on some experimental one, but you would be able to easily find out by looking at the forum cause others would have the issue. And if you didn't know the Fast Charge option is to make your phone think its hooked up to a wall port if you are charging from your laptop or if your car charger is only being used a usb port thing.
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its not likely a kernel issue unless you are on some experimental one, but you would be able to easily find out by looking at the forum cause others would have the issue. And if you didn't know the Fast Charge option is to make your phone think its hooked up to a wall port if you are charging from your laptop or if your car charger is only being used a usb port thing.
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It's franco kernel, nightly 251, pretty stable from what i've read in the thread. Also, I know what does Fast Charge option do, but I thought that somehow it messed something up. While I was googling for answers, I found some forum, where was mentioned the battery chip that is regulating the power it's using to charge the battery could somehow get messed up. Maybe I have bad batt.
mine battery too takes 3 hours to full charge using stock samsung wall charger. I'm using stock rom and kernel.
Mines takes 1 hr 30 minutes tops with fast charge
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You are using a 400mA charger, the gnex comes with a 1A one. Go figure.
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Petrovski80 said:
What is the max current (mA) the charger you use can provide? Divide the capacity of your battery (in mAh) by the charge current. That is your approximate charge time in hours. I believe most AC chargers can charge with 1A, so a stock GSM battery of 1750 mAh should take less than 2 hours from being discharged to fully charged. Mine does.
The behavior that the GNEX will discharge even while being charged with a non AC charger (including car chargers) when gaming/navigating is not uncommon.
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That is because the car charger most likely did not short both the data pins out, therefore you notice the discharging phenomenon because the phone will only take in 500mA without the data pins shorted or with kernel fast charge enabled. How is 500mA going to keep up with navigation, GPS and all other tasks?
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Also realize that your previous phones battery probably had a lower capacity than the gnex therefore coming from 2 hours, 3 hours isn't that bad for charging a bigger battery
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ordevski said:
Charging time for my battery is pretty slow. I takes more than 3 hours from 10% to full! It doesn't matter if it is chraging with the carger or via USB. Is this normal with the Nexus? I had Htc Inspire 4G, and the charging took 2 hours top!
*if i use the phone while charging e.g. play some game, the battery is still draining instead of charging.
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I don't recommend using another charger I used a galaxy infuse 4g charger and in a week my battery got so hot it didnt even charge anymore
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As has been stated get a GOOD quality charger. I might be weird but both my car charger and spare outlet charger came from Verizon. At least when i have had something not work they have been more than happy to open another and fully test in store for however long it takes. Sadly, my last car charger broke and I am too lazy to get another, my solution was to use a car inverter since I charge my other devices regularly on long trips. Plugging in a regular wall outlet from, oddly enough Motorola, does the job just fine. Alas, the majority of chargers my coworkers leave out are for lesser phones and will not even register on my beastly Nexus.
However i think i damaged my charger (original 1Ampere samsung wall charger) when i've been in Malta (i'm from Italy) last August. Before the holyday my nexus charged in 2 hours or less. During the holyday the charger heated a lot more than when using at home and now the charging process lasts about 3 hours. Also, when i connect the charger to the wall (even if the phone is unplugged) i hear a low almost-ultrasonic whistle.
I hope the damage isn't the battery.
Il_Tene said:
However i think i damaged my charger (original 1Ampere samsung wall charger) when i've been in Malta (i'm from Italy) last August. Before the holyday my nexus charged in 2 hours or less. During the holyday the charger heated a lot more than when using at home and now the charging process lasts about 3 hours. Also, when i connect the charger to the wall (even if the phone is unplugged) i hear a low almost-ultrasonic whistle.
I hope the damage isn't the battery.
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I have the same problems too. I tried to use other charger, but the problem still remain. My charging process lasts about 2.30 h to charge from 55% to 100%. I really hate this because I need to charghe my phone faster. Please help us. (I'm italian too).
Ginuzzo50 said:
I have the same problems too. I tried to use other charger, but the problem still remain. My charging process lasts about 2.30 h to charge from 55% to 100%. I really hate this because I need to charghe my phone faster. Please help us. (I'm italian too).
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Same problem here with another charger, and also via USB with Fast Charge enabled!
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Same problem here with another charger, and also via USB with Fast Charge enabled!
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Where did you find the settings to set the Fast Charge?
Ginuzzo50 said:
Where did you find the settings to set the Fast Charge?
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With a custom kernel.
Ginuzzo50 said:
Where did you find the settings to set the Fast Charge?
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I'm using CodenameAndroid ROM, which has kernel that allows you to enable Fast Charge. It's located in Settings --> Performance --> Kernel controls --> USB fast charge
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ordevski said:
I'm using CodenameAndroid ROM, which has kernel that allows you to enable Fast Charge. It's located in Settings --> Performance --> Kernel controls --> USB fast charge
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Thank you very much. And the effective result is really a faster charging? Does it works good or not?
I went to sleep last night with the battery at 15%, slept for ~5 hours, woke up, and the battery was only at 50%. Is this normal? Does it take this long to charge for anyone else?
For reference I'm using an HTC charger from a previous Android phone, would using the Samsung charger make a difference?
Yes it seems like too long for too little of a charge. Give the Samsung one a shot.
Your using a charger that at very best pumps out 1amp
The default note 2 charger pumps out 2amps
In other words your charger will take twice as long as it should to charge your phone
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If you use note 2 charger,than it can charge to full within 2 1/2 hours.
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I agree, the Samsung charger with its 2A is necessary for this large battery if you want it to charge fast.
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It's there any harm done to the battery if you use an old charger from a previous Android?
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It's there any harm done to the battery if you use an old charger from a previous Android?
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I haven't seen any ill effects on any of my phones from using different chargers, only different charging rates.
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Refer here..maybe can use as a reference since similar slow charging problem..
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1977095
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were you charging from mains or pc ? from pc it takes .... ages to charge ( like 1% in 15~30 mins) but from mains it takes more or less 2-2.5 hours to hit 100%.
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were you charging from mains or pc ? from pc it takes .... ages to charge ( like 1% in 15~30 mins) but from mains it takes more or less 2-2.5 hours to hit 100%.
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It's from a HTC wall charger. I changed it to the Samsung charger that came with the phone. Will let you guys know how it goes when I go to sleep tonight.
Will the USB cable make a difference? I have a super long USB cable that I like to use instead of the short default cable that came with the phone.
I know about the 1 Amp / 2 Amp charger ratings, but unlike the original post:
I have my Motorola Xoom 10.1 plugged into the wall, and i use a USB OTG cable from the Xoom to charge my Note 2 overnight (so to only use 1 plug socket).
So i assume this is providing 1 Amp or even less to my Note 2.
I often have it charge my Note 2 from 5% or less all the way to 100% in under the 6/7 hours sleep i get.
Somehow the original posters 35% charge in 5 Hours seems very slow.
with my Samsung box set usb cable, it still takes 8 hrs to charge 100%. sometimes the red led is on but without a single percent charge. I am talking about charging with the usb connected to the laptop. if plugged in power, it takes less that 3 hrs for a full charge.
I remember my previous win7 was perfect, may be the new win8 is having some problem or not, I don't know?
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with my Samsung box set usb cable, it still takes 8 hrs to charge 100%. sometimes the red led is on but without a single percent charge. I am talking about charging with the usb connected to the laptop. if plugged in power, it takes less that 3 hrs for a full charge.
I remember my previous win7 was perfect, may be the new win8 is having some problem or not, I don't know?
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My Xoom must give out some good Amperage if i can get a 100% charge in 6/7 hours then.
The "only" thing that matters is the voltage.
The included charger puts out 5V(+-5%) and 2A.
Too little voltage, and it won't charge.
Too much voltage and you will burn a fuse or the charging circuits in either the phone or the charger.
The phone chargers (no matter what brand it is) are within the limits, so don't worry.
The current (Ampere) shows how much power your charger can deliver at a given time, but the phone itself decides how much current it can take.
A standard USB-port (1.1) gives out 5V and 500mA.
I've built LED cables based on this.
USB 2.0 and higher are supposed to be able to give up to 1500mA under certain circumstances.
My motherboard has a pair of special USB-ports which can recognize cameras, phones, etc. and charge with a higher current and even without having the computer turned on.
While charging through USB-ports a full charge takes ages for me, 6 hours while sleeping will never even charge close to 100%.
On the other hand, charging though the adaptor that came with it or any other adaptor that can pump some juice is blazing fast... 3-4 hours and it's back to a 100%.
Okay, this will sound too silly but this worked for me! Encountered and suffered from the same problem..
It used to take 8 hours to get fully charged...but in time i noticed this silly and weird thing...should work though..
Before putting the phonw on charging, kill all running apps...then when you plug the charger-DO NOT TURN THE SCREEN OFF BY YOURSELF...let it sleep automatically. And it'd get charged lighting fast...it worked for me!
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I went to sleep last night with the battery at 15%, slept for ~5 hours, woke up, and the battery was only at 50%. Is this normal? Does it take this long to charge for anyone else?
For reference I'm using an HTC charger from a previous Android phone, would using the Samsung charger make a difference?
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If i put my Note 2 on charge where its at 25% battery, in 30 mins my battery gets charged to $85%! And you should ALWAYS use the charger that comes with your phone instead of a charger made for another phone. The HTC charger is designed to charge that HTC Phones battery. Each charger is different in the sense it provides different amounts of power. The Note 2 battery is huge so the Note 2 charger is designed to push a specific amount of power to it to charge it in a reasonable time.
For e.g. If you use the iPhone 4 charger to charge an iPad, in 5 hours it will charge the iPad to approx 50%, and if you use the original charger to charge the iPad the iPad will be more than fully charged. Thats because the iPad charger is designed to accommodate the huge battery inside the iPad.
Also i read an article not too long ago that said that alot of science goes behind these smartphone / tablet chargers and how its dangerous for the charger and device / battery if you start mixing and matching chargers.
My $.02 cents!
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If i put my Note 2 on charge where its at 25% battery, in 30 mins my battery gets charged to $85%!
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You should go to SC.
60% in 30 mins! Jeez!
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from 0% do 100% 2hours 30min. its very fast for 3100mah baterry.
I use my iPad3 charger to charge my N2. It juiced up faster and my N2 does not heat up when it is fully charged.
I use my iPad3 3.1amp in car charger as well when I drives around
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Does charging my phone directly with the usb port charge the battery better than when a battery is charged on a wall charger? I've been having bad battery problems with all. 5 of my batteries (including a 3500 mah one) and I'm starting to think that when I charge my phone whatever battery is in it last longer than if it was charged on the wall charger. Can anyone confirm that this may be true?
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Does charging my phone directly with the usb port charge the battery better than when a battery is charged on a wall charger? I've been having bad battery problems with all. 5 of my batteries (including a 3500 mah one) and I'm starting to think that when I charge my phone whatever battery is in it last longer than if it was charged on the wall charger. Can anyone confirm that this may be true?
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I recall reading somewhere that charging through USB has a chance of overcharging the battery because the wall charger has an auto cutoff when the battery reaches 100% and the USB does not. This may have something to do with possible better battery life when charging through USB. Have you tried draining the phone all the way down to 1% or until it shuts off then charging it to 100% a couple times?
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I recall reading somewhere that charging through USB has a chance of overcharging the battery because the wall charger has an auto cutoff when the battery reaches 100% and the USB does not. This may have something to do with possible better battery life when charging through USB. Have you tried draining the phone all the way down to 1% or until it shuts off then charging it to 100% a couple times?
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I pretty much do that because I keep the battery in until my phone dies then just switch batteries. Whatever battery ends up in my phone by the end of the day gets charged by usb in my phone and any other batteries that died during the day get charged on the wall charger. But what your saying may be true because on the wall charger usually I find the batteries only 96~98% never actually 100%. Ill test it out and see what happens. Anyone know of a wall charger that works really well?
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It would be nice if I could find the articles I read on the matter for some weight, rather than just my comment. But anyways....
The battery is never at 100%; that is for safety reasons. Whether USB or wall charged, it won't hit 100.
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Can anyone tell me why it takes so long to recharge my phone ?
I use a charger cable from my computer (usb) to phone while at work --- then I also use it at home too.
Is it only the wall charger that does it fast ? not USB/laptop/computer ?
Last night it took me 10 hours (phone was on but I didn't touch it for 10 hours - internet/wifi/3g was OFF)
why does it take 10 hours ?
Is something wrong with the phone? battery? or is it the charger ?
USB only has a small amount of current that goes through it. Enough to power small USB devices and no more. I believe it's around 500mAH. But your phone is always drawing power, so the excess is what actually charges your battery. Your wall charger is 1000mAH which means there is plenty of current to charge your battery even with heavy usage.
Tl;dr: USB is weak and 10hrs is normal. Wall charger is much more powerful and faster.
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damn thanks for the great reply.
Further more, I was at my friends house once, and he has a black berry (same charger as my SGS3) and he passed me this cord to charge and it honestly charged the entire phone from 5% to 90% in like less than an hour...
not sure wtf this was but is it possible ? is it bad for the phone ? for the battery ?
10 hours is not normal. And the average wall charger that comes with your phone is 750mAH, not 1000. The 1000mAH chargers are quick charge ones.
The fact that the blackberry charger worked well on your S3 tells me that you should get a new charger.
where does one find one of the quick chargers to buy ? (1000mAH)
you can find all sorts of chargers on amazon. you can find inexpensive ones at walmart too. i would recommend buying a samsung charger for your samsung phone. hold onto the one that came with your S3, even if it takes forever to charge. just use it to connect to your pc for file transferring, odin, etc.
Even though charging quickly seems good but if you can afford the time then use the one you already have z charging too quickly affects your battery health negatively , a slow charger will make sure your battery stays healthy for a long time , mind it by slow I mean a 750 mAH one not a faulty one in case yours is faulty .
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10 hours is not normal. And the average wall charger that comes with your phone is 750mAH, not 1000. The 1000mAH chargers are quick charge ones.
The fact that the blackberry charger worked well on your S3 tells me that you should get a new charger.
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The S3 charger is 1000mAH. I have two of them that came with my phones. And anytime I connect my phone to my computer I can leave it connected for hours and only charge a few percent. This phone just draws a lot of power.
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The S3 charger is 1000mAH. I have two of them that came with my phones. And anytime I connect my phone to my computer I can leave it connected for hours and only charge a few percent. This phone just draws a lot of power.
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thats interesting because i have 4 samsung chargers. 2 came with my old S2's and 2 came with my 2 S3's. the output on all 4 is 700mAH. i got robbed. of course, connected to a PC the output is max 500. even at that, i still get a better charge than a few percent when connected to a PC for hours.
I just got a t-mobile version of the S4 and I'm loving it, but I noticed it is very very slow to charge.
Aside from light to medium usage i didn't touch it much between last night and today. I had it plugged in and charging via USB, but it maybe charged about 40-45% in 6+ hours. My old phone (LG G2X) never took this long to charge.
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This was using the Stock T-mobile Rom
I have since rooted and installed CM10 nightly on the phone, It appears to suffer the same issue
Between 9:27 to 10:00 it went from 67% to %74, My LG went from %39 -%56 in about 20 minutes. By those quick number it will take 7 hours to charge the S4 while only 3 to fully charge the g2x
Is this normal? is there anything i can do to fix/test or alleviate this?
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I had it plugged in and charging via USB,
Is this normal? is there anything i can do to fix/test or alleviate this?
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The question for you is the source? If you plugged it into your compy, it will take forever as standard compy USB ports (USB 2.0) provide only about 500 mA. The stock S4 charger is 2 Amps.
The fix, plug the phone into the wall using your stock charger. If it is still slow, it is probably your battery. Good luck.
Make sure to use the charger that it came with. Ever since I started using the stock charger my battery charges fast. Also it could be your plug so test it with another just in case.
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Yup it was the charger, I have chargers pretty much where ever i go so i just used those. With the stock one it works great but i ran into another issue. I plugged it in and it was taking a really long time to charge with the stock charger, something like 3% in 30 minutes. I had to unplug and plug in the cable again and it charged normally.
Is this something I should worry about?
It could be possible that the cable was not properly seated in the phone, or the charger end was not properly seated in the wall cube. I wouldn't lose sleep over it unless it happens often. Could be a phone problem, but sounds like a one off to me.
Yea my lady like to use my charger with her HTC phone because it "charges faster". The S4 stock charger has the highest amp rating and provides juice at the highest rate to any device. :good:
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I just got a t-mobile version of the S4 and I'm loving it, but I noticed it is very very slow to charge.
Aside from light to medium usage i didn't touch it much between last night and today. I had it plugged in and charging via USB, but it maybe charged about 40-45% in 6+ hours. My old phone (LG G2X) never took this long to charge.
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This was using the Stock T-mobile Rom
I have since rooted and installed CM10 nightly on the phone, It appears to suffer the same issue
Between 9:27 to 10:00 it went from 67% to %74, My LG went from %39 -%56 in about 20 minutes. By those quick number it will take 7 hours to charge the S4 while only 3 to fully charge the g2x
Is this normal? is there anything i can do to fix/test or alleviate this?
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There are a few factors here.....
1. The charger itself. The original Samsung is a 2A charger. If you use a different one (most are only 1A) it will take twice as long to charge.
2. The USB Cable. Believe it or not, not all cables are the same. With the standard charger and cable you will be able to charge @ 1900mA. Less then 2 hours to fully charge a completely dead battery. But.... plugging some USB cables into the standard charger will limit the charge down to just 600mA.... taking 3x_ longer to charge.
3. The other is the kernel. If you're using a newer custom kernel Samsung has limited to a max of 1200mA with the screen on & full 1900mA with the screen off.
Lastly, you can download an app on the playstore called Galaxy Charging Current. This will show you the charging rate should you want to test your setup.
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There are a few factors here.....
2. The USB Cable. Believe it or not, not all cables are the same. With the standard charger and cable you will be able to charge @ 1900mA. Less then 2 hours to fully charge a completely dead battery. But.... plugging some USB cables into the standard charger will limit the charge down to just 600mA.... taking 3x_ longer to charge..
Lastly, you can download an app on the playstore called Galaxy Charging Current. This will show you the charging rate should you want to test your setup.
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This man speaks the truth. I use CurrentWidget and set to manual update. Whenever I'm testing cables/chargers, I plug in a known good cable (charges at 1900) to see what the charger is putting out. I do the same with a known good charger (2A - iPad and S4) and test the cables