My phone's battery died through the day, so I plugged it to my car charger on the way home. I noticed the bottom was hot and it only charged to 2%. I plugged it up at home, and it would not charge. I plugged it to my PC and gave me "hub" issues. I went back to my car and plugged it on the car charger, it started to briefly charge but noticed the bottom where it was plugged up was getting warm, so I unplugged it. The metal from the phone charger was very hot.
I ended up plugging my charge cord into a bluetooth device and it would not charge, but it started to get hot real quick. I unplugged it from the phone and within a few seconds the metal part of that cord was extremely hot as well.
Any thoughts as to what's wrong with my phone and how to get it back to charging?
If you plugged the charger into a Bluetooth device and the bluetooth device also didn't charge and got hot, then its probably your charger.
Agreed. Were you using the same cord with each attempt?
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I am charging via usb through my usb 2.0 port, and it's been about 3 hours since I've plugged it in and it is still not fully charged yet.
It was at 10% when I plugged it in.
Is that a normal time?
I have the same thing. your phone draws much less power charging through usb than through an actual outlet.
I've had my phone charge from dead to full in just under an hour when plugged into a wall charger.
Sent from my T-Mobile G2 running Cyanogenmod.
So i'm sitting here at work with a new Battery Monitor Widget. I downloaded it because my EVO has had the tendency lately to discharge even while plugged into a wall outlet. I generally use it for streaming radio and originally used USB to keep it plugged in at my desk, but then decided that may be why it's not charging. It doesn't always do it, sometimes it charges correctly. Right now, for instance, it shows Charging (green) AC Plugged (green) and Current 46ma(Red). It's been plugged in since 7 am and there's only 7% battery left. I'm not streaming, 4g is off, wifi is off, I used task mgr to close all open apps and it's still in the red. Any ideas? I'm rooted with the Elite I rom. Thx!
Does it charge if you actually turn the phone off and leave it plugged into the wall? If not, then it might be either the battery or the USB port. Another thing to consider is the USB cable, are you using the same one to plug into the wall as the one you used when you were charging via PC? If so, try a different cable.
Just in case it is the USB Port, you could try cleaning it out with some 70% or 90% isopropyl and some sort of tiny rag or something (creativity may be required.) Obviously you'd want to make sure the phone is turned off at the time.
Is anyone else having issues with power while using navigation in the car dock? Twice this week I've dropped my phone into the dock while fully charged, and taken a 4 hour trip using just navigation and pandora. By the time I reached my destination I had under 15% battery both times. The dock is plugged into an adapter that puts out 2.1A, and the battery on the phone indicates that it is taking a charge the entire time.
me too
I have noticed, that if I have BT, Pandora, and nav running at the same time, the draw is more than the charge, i.e. the battery runs down.
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I have the att car charger, with the curly micro usb and an extra port, and a light to show plugged in. I plug the dock cable into the extra slot, and charge my plantronics using the curly cord. i tend to only pull the charger half way out when getting out of the car. I have put my phone in the dock, without plugging in the charger, and the light illuminates, pulling power from the phone. I drive on thinking the phone is charging, while using bt, pandora and nav, pulling on battery the whole time, and then wonder why my batery is so low when I get to the office.
Recently I've noticed that my Gnex battery will LOOSE charge when plugged into any power source that isn't the Samsung charger. Weird right? If i plug it into my laptop, car charger, an LG wall charger the battery will drain. It has happened multiple times where i've hit 15% battery life and plugged it into my laptop or car charger and it will loose a 1% about every 2-3 minutes.
I've switched roms with no luck. What is going on?
Its not uncommon for this to happen from a laptop port - especially if the phone is being used while plugged in. The USB output on laptops is likely not very high.
Check the amperage of the alternative chargers you are using. If its too low, they won't be able to keep up. Make sure its the same as what the stock Samsung one puts out. Can't recall its exact specs off the top of my head...
Laptop and car charger are 500mah or less. Your phone is using battery faster that it's recharging. Nothing odd about that.
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I'm charging on my laptop with a cable of blackberry and no loss there. Charging with at the wall I'm using only samsung utilities so I can't help you out there..
Despite that I don't understand what that has anything to do with rom's?
Hi, Last night I was playing with my new charging dock that I 3D printed and all of a sudden my SW3 stopped charging. The LED on the charging brick blinked a couple of times and that's all she wrote. I tried different cables, different charging bricks and nothing seems to work. I had about 20% of battery power left so I just turned of my SW3 to conserve it a bit. Any ideas?
Would love to see what your charging dock looks like! anyway, have you tried charging from a computer's USB port or directly from a wall outlet with a phone charger? Hope it isn't a hardware problem...
You can also charge when it is off.
I tried all these options, I think that my charger fried the watch charging circuitry. I bought a second one off craigslist yesterday and charged it in the car on my way home. Once I got home I plugged it into the same charger and now I can't charge the new watch either. I'm going to be forced to file a equipment warranty claim from the charging station manufacturer and hope for the best. By the way here is the charger in question. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B009DCNP9O?redirect=true&ref_=cfb_at_prodpg