So I've been using the wireless fast charger from Samsung and have noticed that my phone gets much hotter than it does with the wall fast adaptive charger plugged in normally. What's worst is that when the phone reaches 100%, it still stays hot. I'm talking hotter than the phone gets if playing a game full brightness for a while. Anyone else have this going on? Is this normal? And if it isn't, would I benefit from a reset or is this a hardware issue and I need to get the phone replaced?
I think that's normal,whenever I used a wireless charger my phone got really hot. Even at 100% ,if its sitting on the wireless charger it will still try and charge it and keep it at 100%(not overcharge) just as if you left it on the cord charger it keeps it at a 100% if you know what I mean
During charge, it's warm to the touch. But, not at 100%.
Make sure you have the the authentic Samsung wireless charger. There are lots of counterfeit out there, that will continue trying to push charges to the phone even at 100%.
I do have an authentic one, from best buy. So it's the wireless charger at fault, not my phone?
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I have a dock at work that I place my phone onto every day as soon as I arrive. I noticed at about 11 AM today that my phone was showing 72% battery, even though it should have been fully charged when I left this morning at 9 and had been sitting on the charger since 9:30. More annoyingly, it seems to be staying at about that level--it's not moving up at all. If anything, it's continuing to lose charge even as the icon shows it's charging!
I took it to a Sprint store, where they unhelpfully suggested that I have too many apps installed that are draining the battery in the background. I manually stopped most of them, uninstalled some that I don't really use, and put it back on the charger. It's still not going anywhere. I turned the phone completely off for an hour and charged the thing, and it had gained about ten percent (that seems pitiful, but at least it's charging?). It's back on the charger, still not really moving anywhere.
So what are my options at this point? I've never calibrated the battery, so maybe I need to do that. Other than that all I can think is that either the battery is going bad (but I have a feeling Sprint is going to insist "It's still charging" if I take it back to them and refuse to give me another battery), or perhaps the dock is not supplying the right voltage and hence it's not charging fast enough to overtake the power consumption.
What's bugging me is that I haven't installed anything in the past week that should be affecting my power consumption like this. Last week I had plenty of apps installed with GPS and bluetooth always on, and as long as the phone was docked it would eventually reach 100%. Now I have pretty much everything off, several apps I usually have running turned off, and several more uninstalled (including Lookout Security), and the battery is barely making any headway. I keep the screen on to a desk clock (because that's the whole point of a freaking dock), but that alone shouldn't be draining it faster than it can charge.
Any suggestions?
Sounds to me like its not getting enough voltage. When you charge it at home does it charge reasonably fast?
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I never really monitor it, but I would say so, yeah. All I really check is that it's fully charged in the morning before I walk out the door.
The culprit might be my dock. It says it's designed specifically for the GSII but the cable itself looks to just be your standard USB-to-microUSB dock, other than a little bump at the bottom so that it's clearly aimed for bottom-charger phones like an iphone or SGSII. I suspect it might be supplying less voltage than the charger that came with the phone.
Is there anything I can look at (app or internal setting) that can tell me what kind of voltage the phone is receiving?
EDIT: Should also note that it's sitting on the dock now and it is at least making positive gains on the battery, albeit at maybe 1% every fifteen minutes. I really don't remember it being this slow before. Perhaps the dock's cable is cheap and is just crapping out over time.
USB charging is about half the speed of regular, wall socket charging. Invest in an OEM charger or one that has similar specs to an OEM one.
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do you have the dock connected to a USB port on a computer/laptop or wall outlet?
USB charges at 150mah while most ac adapters charge at between 750-1000mah.
Well, when I used the my generic LG USB cable it took about 5 hours to reach from 0% to about 40% while shut. So, I changed the cable and viola, charging to full in less than 3 hours while working on it.
So, it seems that the charger is bad quality. Try using the original cable (if possible) or may be the original charger plug.
I guess that's the only solution, because there is no way that the phone is discharging at a faster rate than charging, except when it is connected to an external display. This is the only thing that I encounter where the phone goes dead after a while despite it is connected to the charger...
Yeah, that dock is a POS. I'm not surprised it charges slow as balls too.
Amusingly, my phone has been running on the battery since leaving work for about four hours with the screen off, and it's only at 92%! I must have uninstalled whatever was draining it so quickly.
Thanks, guys.
If you think it's an application draining it, try better battery stats in the market. Might not be the problem but it does help.
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Well, when I used the my generic LG USB cable it took about 5 hours to reach from 0% to about 40% while shut. So, I changed the cable and viola, charging to full in less than 3 hours while working on it.
So, it seems that the charger is bad quality. Try using the original cable (if possible) or may be the original charger plug.
I guess that's the only solution, because there is no way that the phone is discharging at a faster rate than charging, except when it is connected to an external display. This is the only thing that I encounter where the phone goes dead after a while despite it is connected to the charger...
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That's right. Use Original cable came with your phone.
I've experienced same thing when I tried to charge my D710 over LG micro usb charger thru AC outlet. The charging indicator was showing flash but actually it was not charging or charging speed was not enough to follow the battery usage.
I charged the phone all the night but in the morning it was empty!
Charging through the original Samsung micro usb cable, it never failed. But charging thru LG micro usb failed couple of times.
You can easily check a couple of things -
try to connect micro usb cable to your PC and set the USB mass storage mode.
If we use LG micro usb over samsung phone, it's not perfectly fit and data communication frequently fails. More importantly, Don't even try to odin your phone using LG micro usb.
It's not the issue of charger. It's the cable issue.
Do not use LG Micro USB cable for data communication, but if you want to use for charging, be sure that you hear the connection sound from the phone. If there's no connection sound, the battery won't last long even battery charging status shows the flash.
Hope this help.
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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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..
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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.
i purchased the square choetech qi charger, the t511, off of amazon for $25-ish, and overall it seems pretty nice and works well, no overheating or anything. HOWEVER, i couldnt help but notice in the instructions it says specifically for our phone that this charger WILL NOT STOP CHARGING when the phone reaches 100%. it says that instead of yoyo charging like ordinary chargers, it will continue to charge at a lower amperage, which is supposedly safe according to the instructions. however, i did notice with current widget that when the phone is at 100% on the charger, it is still receiving more current than the phone is using, meaning that the battery is still charging/overcharging after it has reached maximum. this does not seem safe. i do not know if this is a problem with the charger or with the phone or what, but i cannot recommend this charger to anyone currently.
if i am wrong, please feel free to correct me. i am not trying to come off as menacing or like im spreading anything, this just doesnt seem right. clarity is appreciated
Don't worry about your phone.
All Li-ion/polymer batteries have a charge controller, which cuts the power to the batery when it's fully charged.
The stock travel charger that comes with the phone doesn't stop to deliver to the phone also.
Cheers.
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Don't worry about your phone.
All Li-ion/polymer batteries have a charge controller, which cuts the power to the batery when it's fully charged.
The stock travel charger that comes with the phone doesn't stop to deliver to the phone also.
Cheers.
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kk thanks. i must have misunderstood
Hey everybody. I have a Galaxy S III from Virgin Mobile and it's been great... so far. Question is... my phone, battery, and charger have been going a little crazy. Lately, the battery has been charging slow, wouldn't say extremely slow but when I first got the phone, it charge pretty quickly. Now, it takes (I'm guessing here) about three hours just to charge to about 40-50% on a dead battery versus when I first got it, it would charge to near 80% to full battery in that same amount of time (again, just guessing but trying to paint a picture of what I mean). In addition, when I go to plug the USB in like normal, sometimes the phone would make the charging beeping noises continuously until I unplug the charger. When I leave it overnight, for the most part now, it won't even charge to 100%. When it did charge to 100%, it quickly drained to 75% in only one minute! I'm hoping it's not the port because nothing really happened to it (no drops, etc). I thought it was the port so in order to test it out, I used my brother's micro-USB cable and charger and it worked without the continuous beeping but still charged slow, which led me to believing it might be a software thing and the Android OS for some reason crapping out and "misreading" the actual battery level.
In a semi-related thing, I thought it might be the charger dying so I went out to Target to buy a Belkin Home Charger and ChargeSync Cable. This cable supposedly supplies 2.1 amps of power to the device, however, it won't even charge my phone even though Belkin says it works with Galaxy S3s right on the box. Never had problem using other micro-USB cables until now. The Belkin charger is the 2nd one I've used and it hasn't charged. Maybe too much amperage is going into the device? The other charger was a Rocketfish charger with the same specs. I figured it might be the USB cable itself because I paired the OEM cable with the Belkin charger and it worked. But I find it strange that identical micro-USB cable can and cannot charge the S III because I've switched cables in the past and it worked.
Sorry for the tons of info. Just trying to be as informative as possible. :angel:
Battery could be the problem
Charge the phone as high as it will go, then let it discharge all the way until it powers off, then leave it off while charging it all the way it will go (hopefully 100%).
If you are rooted, download "Battery Calibration" and "Rebooter". Run the first, then the second (a normal reboot often undoes the first - it deletes a file that often has stale data, but it gets written back on a normal reboot).
You can order a new battery from Amazon. It cost me about $8. Good to have a spare and you'll know if your battery was the problem if the above doesn't fix it.
I'd just like to find out if anyone else has found that whilst charging that the watch can become a little hot?
Yes, it gets hot when charging, it's fine after a few minutes tho.
Should be fine
For me the issue was that it got hot and stopped charging. Some other people commented that it depend on power source, if charging of pixel power adaptor or charging from laptop. I didn't test with laptop yet, just limit to short charging so it doesn't get hot, because it will battery if it gets hot too often.
gets nice and warm for me, totally normal for wireless chargers, especially in devices this size. Never got so hot as to be uncomfortable to wear right after charging.
Yeah, charging with for example Samsung 25w charger, watch gets hot after 40% of charging and stopped at 90%, charged with laptop, no issues, not so hot. So it depends on charger.