I have the white portable charger that came as a gift with my purchase of Note 3 (it's an original Samsung accessory). It used to work just fine, charging quite quickly. However, now, it charges extremely slowly. If I use my phone while charging, it either won't charge or will drain slowly.
I'm not sure if it's a hardware issue (my phone, the battery) or software (ROM/kernel). IIRC, when it worked, I was on Omega ROM. Now I'm on CM11.
Also, I lent my friends the charger and it worked just fine on their smaller phones.
It happened to me too a few times. The phone would charge very slow when plugged into the wall charger.
Then just yesterday i found out that obviously sometimes when i plugged in the wall charger, the phone would recognize it as a usb connection. So therefore it was charging slower. I then had to reconnect the charger and all was fine.
I now installed Battery Widget from the Play Store which shows to what you are connected when charging, AC or USB. And it has a nice charging animation too.
Just sayin', as this might not help you.
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Hm, it's only 1.8Ampere.... That's a little weak.
Did you check for any running apps draining the battery whilst using it?
I charge my Note 3 with my aSolar Xstorm 15600mah every night(2.1Ampere). The only times it charged slowly was when I had left an app running (usually 9gag) and/or suffered a wakelock.
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Have you tried this?
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.abmantis.galaxychargingcurrent
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celderic said:
Have you tried this?
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.abmantis.galaxychargingcurrent
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I will, looks great, thanks!
Out of curiosity, how did you know about this? There seems to be so many useful utilities out there, how do I explore them all?
Update: Ah.. the battery pack was giving me only 300mA. No wonder.
fterh said:
I will, looks great, thanks!
Out of curiosity, how did you know about this? There seems to be so many useful utilities out there, how do I explore them all?
Update: Ah.. the battery pack was giving me only 300mA. No wonder.
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Change the charging cable.. This probably the real reason why you got only 300mA charging current..
If you are using the charger that came with the phone, I wouldn't be surprised, they are crap. I have seen this problem with my note 3 and two other galaxy s3 in my family. I think that's Samsung wanting to make extra money selling additional chargers.
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Hi everyone,
I searched the forum for a satisfactory answer yet I don't seem to find one so I'm going to ask here...
I have the habit of plugging my Nexus 4 as soon as I get home, keep it plugged overnight, and unplug it the next day when going to work. About two weeks ago I noticed that occasionally the phone indicates that the phone is fully charged yet, some minutes afterwards it indicates that the battery is at 98-99% and is charging again. I was quite intrigued so I started using some battery applications (e.g. Battery Widget Reborn) and I now notice that the "problem" is quite frequent and happens every single time the phone is plugged (I tried withe the original USB cable that came with the phone as well as with other cables). Attached is an image showing the weird pattern that I'm having...
Does any one have the same problem ? Anyone cares to explain to me why this is happening ???
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Isn't that done on purpose? You don't want to keep charging at 100% so the phone discharges after reaching 100% for a while.
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rasengan82 said:
Isn't that done on purpose? You don't want to keep charging at 100% so the phone discharges after reaching 100% for a while.
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When 100% is reached, the battery, for the best of my knowledge, is not used... Therefore, I find that it discharges very very quickly for an unused battery !
Mine does that as well. I thought that was normal?
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It's Normal as phone batteries reach 100, discharge a bit and stays there. Btw ROM + Kernel?
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It's Normal as phone batteries reach 100, discharge a bit and stays there. Btw ROM + Kernel?
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Just stock Android 4.2.2
How quickly it uses that small amount of battery that kicks it back into charge mode is going to depend on what you have running and syncing in the background.
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Nexus 10 is a great tab but some people tell it take long time to charging
How much time to charge With Magnetic pogo charge and usb
Some people tell me 0 _ 100 7 to 8 hours full charge
It is true or not
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with a slow USB charger 6hrs + is quite possible but get the Pogo connector on the original charger and it can be pretty quick considering the size of the battery. the graph is on charge with the Pogo, I rarely charge on USB since getting that.
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I can't comment on the exact time it takes to charge with the stock charger, however when I plug mine in at night it is always 100% in the morning. I don't have a pogo charger. I've never not been able to make it through a day on a single charge.
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I can't comment on the exact time it takes to charge with the stock charger, however when I plug mine in at night it is always 100% in the morning. I don't have a pogo charger. I've never not been able to make it through a day on a single charge.
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Here are my results. On the stock charger for every 10% of discharge it takes 39 minutes. So if you were to start charging from 10% at 39 minutes per 10% it would take you 351 minutes or 5.85 hours. And that is leaving screen to auto brightness. If brightness is at any different setting it will, and I mean it will take much longer. Even when its in sleep.
I love the tablet. Have had many brands. And have had a lot of Samsung devices also. But seems to me the bigger Samsung makes there products. The worse the battery life gets. That includes SGS3 and 4. "Google. Glad to see you open up to other manufacturers. Samsung just can't cut it anymore".
Can see the title - I can charge my phone from 4% to full in rougly 90-100 mins using stock charger. This seems significantly faster than reported by other review sites, does this mean my battery is not fully utilizing all its cells?
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Can see the title - I can charge my phone from 4% to full in rougly 90-100 mins using stock charger. This seems significantly faster than reported by other review sites, does this mean my battery is not fully utilizing all its cells?
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Mine did the same thing....
Mine charges super fast too, but I still get great life out of it. 5-6 hour screen time, all day and into the next.
This phone gets better battery life than any other I have ever owned. The fast charging is a great bonus.
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Can see the title - I can charge my phone from 4% to full in rougly 90-100 mins using stock charger. This seems significantly faster than reported by other review sites, does this mean my battery is not fully utilizing all its cells?
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http://www.qualcomm.com/media/blog/...-charge-10-less-time-charging-more-time-doing
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It could also have something to do the the 1150mA charger. That's more current than most phone chargers.
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It could also have something to do the the 1150mA charger. That's more current than most phone chargers.
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Could be a mixture of the this plus the chip.
Is this a complaint thread because the phone charges too fast?!
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Is this a complaint thread because the phone charges too fast?!
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On a related note, this thing either charges faster on a car charger or is just much more efficient than the Galaxy Nexus. My Galaxy Nexus's battery would actually drain when using GPS in the car while plugged into my Kinivo BTC450, especially while also playing music. My Moto X actually charges reasonably quickly while using GPS and playing music. There's definitely no need for some high voltage car charger.
So I'm running Danvdh's GPE ROM on my S4 on 4.4.2 and in the last few days my charging has become really slow. I'm using Samsung's charger that came with the S4 but the charge seems to be trickling in and the S4's battery isn't doing so well either, 7 hours with 3 hours screen on time.
In the kernel app it shows that the charging current is 1A, which is lower than the 2.1 the Samsung charger usually outputs, you can change the charging current in this kernel app however I haven't done so, I've even reset the settings to default but still the issue persists
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The battery could be going up. Sometimes when they fail they fail in a hurry. Like they go from working fine to bad overnight.
Other times they gradually decline in quality over many months.
If you have access to another battery that's always a good thing to try first.
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So I'm running Danvdh's GPE ROM on my S4 on 4.4.2 and in the last few days my charging has become really slow. I'm using Samsung's charger that came with the S4 but the charge seems to be trickling in and the S4's battery isn't doing so well either, 7 hours with 3 hours screen on time.
In the kernel app it shows that the charging current is 1A, which is lower than the 2.1 the Samsung charger usually outputs, you can change the charging current in this kernel app however I haven't done so, I've even reset the settings to default but still the issue persists
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sometime the battery bugged..try this
pulled out the battery for 30 minutes and get it back in and charge normally.
Why is there the assumption that 3 hours screen on time is not good? It's perfectly normal.
It can be 2 things.
Your charger, so try a different charger of the rom/kernel you are using.
I bought this phone used but it looks like new (no scratches, scuffs or anything really). After using it for 2 days I plugged it a micro usb 2 (I don't have the usb 3 coord) to charge the device.
I was using a 2A charger (the one from LG G2) and I noticed it took almost 3 hours to charge from 40% to 100%, isn't that too long?
I also have problems connecting it to my PC since it is always connecting and disconnecting (my Galaxy Nexus also does that but has no problems while charging and it's not too agressive in the pc part so I am not sure if it is from the phone or from the pc).
I've tested with various usb cords... same result
Here's a picture of the port, is everything alright here?
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looks everything all right. Have you tried using other cables or even another charger, i mean, just for tests purposes?
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looks everything all right. Have you tried using other cables or even another charger, i mean, just for tests purposes?
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yes, I've mentioned that in the main post. Does your phone take 4 hours to charge from 0-100?
Need to use usb3 cable. There is difference in charging time. I used to try using note 1 cable but with note 3 charger, charging took about 5hrs+.
Typically my phone took 2.5hrs to complete charge from 0. Even i'm now using my wife's S6 charger(i swap with hers because i read bad review of fast charging with S6) but with my note 3 cable, it took about the same amount of time.
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Honestly speaking I am not too sure whether the left side of the port is all right!
Anyway, a good think cable should give you needed results. And no, no need for the USB 3.0 cable of Note 3 only, I am using a rather cheap cable and it outputs same rate as the Note 3's stock cable. Make sure the charging adapter is okay though, probably trt a different adapter if different cables aren't working?
Charging time for Note 3 is, 0 to 90 is about 100-105 minutes, and 90-100 takes quite a long, haven't measured but its around 20-25 minutes I think. Total charging process should not exceed 2-2½ hours anyway.
Hi i had same problem.. Use galaxy charge app in play store.. It should be show between 1200 to 1800 value.. If not its a problem.. I change my usb 3.0 cable now its k.. Hope this will help