Hey, i've recently started to have issues with my S.
It sometimes de charges at quite a fast rate while on charge (this is while the screen is off also).
It doesn't show the red light while on and charging (when it does charge) and sometimes doesn't turn on while on charge while off for at least an hour.
It appears to happen when the battery is already fairly low, between 1-10% charge, the battery life is as decent as it gets with an S.
I have a feeling this probably might be the charger at fault, i've not tried any other chargers with it and i am using the charger and cable that
came with the phone.
This is not an issue of it not charging due to the cable, it charges no matter what placement.
Edit: It's now showing the red light while charging like it normally would and has fully charged again, i am going to fully charge and wipe battery stats and see what happens, i have a feeling it's because i've let the phone run down to low.
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I have noticed that whenever I charge my DHD through my laptop USB port, It discharges faster than on a full charge through the charger.
Am I imagining things?
I don't know about fast discharging, but mine takes forever to charge while connected through a USB :/ however, there are ROMS that have included fast USB charging either through the ROM itself or a kernel
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Also just because the indicator light is green and battery reads 100% it doesn't mean the battery is at 100%. There is an amount of time that varies depending whether you charge via mains or USB after the light goes green/100% that the battery is actually fully charged.
I remember reading somewhere that in the case of USB charging it can actually take up to an hour after to the light turning green that the battery is at 100%. Something to bear in mind.
After the light has turned green and the battery shows 100%, power off the phone and charge for an additional hour or two. This should help.
Also use battery monitor app to watch the charging current--the battery is fully charged only when the monitor shows 0mA. Usually after the light has turned green and the battery showed 100%, the battery charging current is still 40-50mA.
On previous ROMs/kernels, orange light meant charging, green light meant charged, bliking light meant error (overheat). When the state changed from charging to charged, then it overheated (like in car) and started charging again, it would show orange light and actually charge.
On 2.05 kernels (all ROMs - MIUI, AOSP, AOKP, Charmeleon Sense...) it turns green at 90% charge, but when it charges and is under load it stops charging - I have a green light and a dropping charge in car (and it is NOT drawing more than 1A from charger, and yes I am on AC charge charger). It will even keep showing green when the charge drops to 80%.
Anybody else notices this? It looks like they "prevented" overheating problems by not actually charging but still showing the happy green light. This is bull*t if you ask me - one moment you have a happy green light, and after few hours of driving it just turns off? (haven't tested this, but what else is going to happen?).
I was hoping for a real fix - like switching from battery to AC for power when charged, the phone should run from the charger and not from the (overheating) battery when under load.
90% green means you're good to go. u can continue charging up to 100%
90% ac mode with car charger because car charges tend to be unstable. ac at 100% might fry your board
the 90% green feature is also available in cm9/aokp roms. even miui
There's nothing wrong with charging up to 100%. And there's nothing wrong with output from most car chargers (and in modern cars even crappy chargers work good as the voltage is well stabilized).
I think it only depends on kernel, not ROM.
And the issue I wanted to raise is that it discharges without reason from green to "orange", without showing orange, and it's not because of overheating (when it overheats it still flashes orange/green, but it happens less often because it will not actually charge most of the time).
I currently have the CM10.1-M3 build from 4/17/13 installed.
For a long while, I have been having major issues charging my Captivate Glide.
My original battery died. It was bloated. I called AT+T and they sent me a replacement. I also bought two high capacity batteries.
If I leave the phone charging about half the time little or no progress is made charging. Lat night I charged the phone for over 8 hours and the charge went from 10% to 14%.
Other times I will wake up after charging it all night and it will say fully charged, but then the instant it is unplugged from the charger, it will drop down from 100% to 20% or less.
Then once every 3 or 4 days it will actually fully charge. But even in that case the charging is slow at best.
I did a full wipe and re-flashed last night and nothing changed. I have tried charging in airplane mode, but that seems to make it worse. I have had a little tiny bit of success turning mobile data off, but otherwise I have tried everything I could think of with no luck.
Has anyone else experienced similar issues, or have any suggestions? Is this a case where I might need to replace the phone entirely?
jacobym1 said:
I currently have the CM10.1-M3 build from 4/17/13 installed.
Has anyone else experienced similar issues, or have any suggestions? Is this a case where I might need to replace the phone entirely?
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I did notice a lot longer charge time when hooked up to USB on computer, on my car charger and hooked up to AC I seem to get a lot quicker charge...
What charger are you using?
yohan4ws said:
I did notice a lot longer charge time when hooked up to USB on computer, on my car charger and hooked up to AC I seem to get a lot quicker charge...
What charger are you using?
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I have tried a few different chargers. I mostly use a 2.1amp wall charger. I also have a 1 amp wall charger, and a 1 amp car charger. I have tried about 3 different car chargers.
I am really suspicious that the micro-usb port on the phone went bad and that I will need to get the phone replaced.
Charging with AC is gonna be alot faster then with DC. But as far as it being the rom I don't see tthat.. sounds like possibly a loose wire or bad connection when u lay ur phone down
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phatryan has a point, do a nandroid backup, flash to stock and see if the charging makes a difference..
Charging
Hello,
When I charge my Captivate Glide with phone powered up plugged in to the wall, using the supplied wall charger, I've noticed that the battery seems to drain quicker. This is with the original battery, I will be getting an extended battery for my phone. If I power the phone down then charge it in to the wall it charges quickly and seems to take longer draining. This does not happen when charging with the PC.
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jacobym1 said:
I currently have the CM10.1-M3 build from 4/17/13 installed.
For a long while, I have been having major issues charging my Captivate Glide.
My original battery died. It was bloated. I called AT+T and they sent me a replacement. I also bought two high capacity batteries.
If I leave the phone charging about half the time little or no progress is made charging. Lat night I charged the phone for over 8 hours and the charge went from 10% to 14%.
Other times I will wake up after charging it all night and it will say fully charged, but then the instant it is unplugged from the charger, it will drop down from 100% to 20% or less.
Then once every 3 or 4 days it will actually fully charge. But even in that case the charging is slow at best.
I did a full wipe and re-flashed last night and nothing changed. I have tried charging in airplane mode, but that seems to make it worse. I have had a little tiny bit of success turning mobile data off, but otherwise I have tried everything I could think of with no luck.
Has anyone else experienced similar issues, or have any suggestions? Is this a case where I might need to replace the phone entirely?
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Bloated battery could just be bad - but it could also be due to overcharging. That's not going to happen unless there is a serious problem with your phone, or possibly a problem with the contacts leading to an incorrect voltage reading. This also may explain your problems charging and sudden jumps in charge %.
Clean your contacts well on the battery side and phone side with a pencil eraser, rubbing alcohol, etc.
I notice a big difference with whatever kernel is shipping with the current M3 cm10.1 build between a 500ma charger and 2amp charger, so I imagine the kernel is set for a 750ma or 1amp charge.
When I go to sleep at night, I usually leave my phone plugged in until I wake up. I need my phone to have a full battery when I awake, and this is the only option that I know of. I was wondering if there is a way to force the phone to charge a little more slowly so that it isn't sitting plugged in on the charger with a full battery for a few hours until I wake up, as I understand this can damage your battery and reduce longevity. Anyone have any suggestions?
Maybe you could use a low amperage charger?
With original charger (1.2A if I'm not wrong), it took nearly 6h for my phone to fully charge (while it was new and on factory software). Even the charger is declared as 1.2A, charging current never went over 700mA so you can safely leave it on charger, with no worries... Devices do have a overcharge protection, and simply will stop charging second battery sensor gives "Full" state (you can test that with Ampere - you'll get the charging current and see that even after 100% is reached, battery continues to charge for a while, until "Full" state is set by the sensor). Battery quality will deteriorate no matter what you do - they are made to survive some number of recharging cycles and that's it - mine suddenly started loosing capacity fast, after 2.5 years (or around 1000 cycles), out of blue, and you can just replace it. Same story with other phones I have/had: simply, after 2.5-3y their batteries start loosing capacity rapidly.
I would not recommend weaker charger (under 700mA) because our device has 250-400mA drain during idle, and if you want your phone to be full same moment you're awake, you may get a nasty surprise of "Charging" status Anything around 1A is more than enough.
Thanks so much! That answers my question.
Hi. I had noticed that my batts keeps draining even if it being charged while using it. I use my phone for navigation. Before, it never had this issue where the charge keeps the battery at 100% even if the screen and navigation is alway on. Recently, I noticed that even if the phone is being charged while being used the battery charge keeps going down. I had tried a few backup batteries but all has the same result. I thought that it was all bad batteries so today, I purchased a battery from Battery Plus but this has the same result, it discharges while being charged when the phone is being used.
It charges the battery to 100% when screen is off or not being used.
I tried to factory reset even Odin flashed the phone that I think could fix it but still has this issue.
I might soon conclude that it could be my phone that has a bad charging unit.
But, it charges the battery.
Anybody had this issue?
I would appreciate your feedback.
Thank you.
more likely its your charger, your cable, or the port on your phone that are limiting the current that your phone is getting.
what type of charger are you using?
also i have had this issue before but my usb port on the phone is starting to go. a switch to a quickcharge charger and a high quality cable fixed it for me.
Yes, thats because low quality or degraded usb cable or problem on usb port on the phone.
Low power charge mode, caused by any of the above, cant handle use and charge at the same time.
you are both right. my home chargers (AC) can charge the phone with lcd turned on all the way to 100%. only on my car that has this issue. so, i purchased a new car charger and it fixed the issue.
I appreciate the replies.
Thank you.