In Car Charger. - Galaxy S II General

Just a word of warning against buying an in car charger of eBay. I got one free with a phone holder, From here.
I used if for a few days no problem. I did notice that it did get a bit hot but thought that was because of the phone being so powerful.
Driving along the motorway at full speed and bang. The charger exploded. Loads of smoke.
I quickly unplugged what was left of the charger.
After I stopped I plugged in my other charger. But it would not charge. When I got home I plugged it in to the mains and fully charged it. When I got the battery full message I unplugged it but still got the battery full message. Even a hour after.
I use battery life from curvefish. Normally it says good. But then it said over volt. I turned off the phone. Then I got a loop of the following screens.
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this is after a hour of the battery being out. put it in. before i can turn it on it does the above.
I have had the phone for 34 days at this point. So I phoned phones4u who said yes I had it for 34 days but I was still able to exchange and not a repair. So I am lucky to get a new phone. But now am worried about using in car chargers.
not anything of use. just some info.
think i will look for a official samsung in car charger.
oh, and the phone holder was crap too.

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xda charging in car problem

hi all
i'd like to ask your opinion on what this fault
i purchased a xda2 which i use in my car with a gps reciever & satnav software. the cable i use is in the pic below. it connects to the ciggy lighter and then powers the gps box and powers/charges the phone at the same time.
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the problem is that if the battery is below about 35% and i plug it into the car charger and turn on the gps stuff the battery doesn't charge eg. battery showing 18%. i plugged it into car charger and turned on gps stuff. drove 20 mins home and battery was showing 8 % by the time i got home even though the battery status thing shows as charging.
BUT
if the battery is at about 70 % and i use it in my car with all the gps stuff it charges fine.
does this point to a faulty battery or something more serious
thanks for any input.
It is all about the mA. check out the mA specifications on the cable. 500 mA output is too low. 1000mA is ok.

Even crazier battery usage graphs

I'm on the pre-rooted EH06 leak still, and I bought a wall battery charger and 3 cheap aftermarket batteries, a small part came off the bottom on the stock battery so I have been on nothing but the cheap batteries and since this has started recently I've only noticed it happening with 2 of the 3 batteries. But it's every time with the 2 that do this, every day I have one of those in it does it. What I'm wondering is should I just buy a few samsung brand stock batteries or just odin EH17? (or in other words, is it cheap chinese battery related or rom related?)
This one is what it's been doing lately, sometimes it's at 60% (approx) and when I boot it back up it still says 60%, but then a couple minutes later it beeps low battery then gives me the shutdown sounds at which point my blood pressure skyrockets.
Today:
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08/11/2011:
08/08/2011:
08/07/2011:
And this is the part that came off my stock battery, I had stopped using it out of paranoia but as a test I've started using it again to see if it does it with the stocker:
Yup, I've seen the same on many iterations for the various GB rom's. Pretty annoying. Went back to EC05 last night because of it.
never had the problem on any build... i always use the stock battery that came with my phone.

What am I doing wrong?

Hey guys, I posted here yesterday because my nexus 4 is stuck charging in USB mode which is really really slow, but I finally got it fully charged overnight. Since I have no way to quickly charge it I decided to see how much I could squeeze out of a charge. This is only the second time that the battery has been fully charged and I did everything I could think of to conserve battery: mobile data off, 2g network only, wifi off, sync off, lowest screen brightness, all GPS and location settings off, Google+ disabled, and using the phone very minimally. Other than sending less than 100 texts the phone was just hanging out in my pocket and this is how long the battery lasted.
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Pretty atrocious. Anybody have any tips? I am thinking that since the phone is stuck in USB charging that could have something to do with it and maybe I just have a faulty device. I already contacted Google about an rma for the USB issue and I have a new phone on its way, but god knows when it will arrive. Thanks for any help!
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Sounds like getting a new one was a good idea. In the meantime it will make a great paperweight.

[Q] Fast battery drain, and % jumping around.

I have a LG G2 which I'm working on for a friend. For what ever reason, the phone just started to rapidly drain, and will shut off anywhere from 50% to 20%. When the phone shuts off, it will only show the LG logo when trying to turn on. I then have to connect it to a charger, and when I turn it on with it plugged in, it will be around 65%-75%.
I've attempted to reset battery stats while at 100%, but with no success. I'm in process of wiping and restoring against my will. Anyone have a solution? I'm thinking it may just be a toast battery.
Here is a picture of the battery stats.
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You should try replacing the battery, sounds like it's defective anyway. However, you may want to see what happens when you disconnect the battery, then connect it again.
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Ace42 said:
You should try replacing the battery, sounds like it's defective anyway. However, you may want to see what happens when you disconnect the battery, then connect it again.
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I just disconnected the battery after a 100% charge. When I turned it on, it was at 95%, and has dropped to 90% in about 2 minutes. I've ordered a battery, so unless there is something else to try, I feel that's the only option at this point.

Slow charging on Tab A SM-T580

I received a faulty Tab A (soft brick) which I was able to fix, however it seems to charge very slow. I used 3 different chargers for a Samsung and Xiaomi mobiles and Asus tablet, all around 2-4a, but they all charged at the same rate. It took 5hrs to reach 94%. I left it on flight mode for the last 24hrs and it's only dropped 1% (which is amazing) so I'm sure it's not the battery at fault. If multiple chargers/cables are charging at the same rate and the battery loss is solid I'm guessing it could be the USB port. If not, what else could it be? I don't know the history of this tablet as they just dumped it on me.
Very shallow curve, it should be a lot steeper:
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Hello, I own a T585 and I can tell you that this is very picky with loading ports.
I have a multi loader (Easyacc) and the Tab is only with 2.1 Ampere fast charging.
Not with 1.0 not with 2.4 not with more.
Reccomend you to use a similar charger or a original.
I didn't quite understand what you mean. So I have to use a 2.1a charger or original Tab A charger only? I found them in 5v and 12v, both for Tab A, which one is correct?

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