When I put my phone on the charging orb, sometimes the screen comes on and I get the notification sound to indicate it's charging, sometimes I don't. Either way it charges. What gives?
ahandlen003 said:
Try it with ringer on vs silent. Your welcome.
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No, that's not it at all. My ringer is always on, yet I get the notification about 20% of the time and no notification about 80% of the time.
If I had to guess, it has something to do with charge level and time since last on charger. If the charge level is below a certain amount (60% or so, don't know the exact #) AND it's been awhile since the phone was on the charger, I get the notification almost evry time. If the charge is high OR the phone was recently on the charger, I get no notification (but it still charges fine).
Google probably did this so that it doesn't disturb you when you put it on the charger for a touch up during the day. I just want to know what the exact parameters are and if there's a way to modify them.
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More importantly are you on a custom rom or stock?
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Completely stock.
I saw another site that said the notification plays anytime the battery is under 90%.
But that can't be right either. Yesterday I got the notification when I put it on and it had 91% at the time, later in the day I put it on the charger at 59% and no notification.
It seems random.
Mine does it too and when the sound comes on it only plays a millisecond of it sometimes and plays the full charging noise sometimes ... I'm rooted on project E.L.E with faux kernel so I figured it had something to do with that so didn't think too much about it
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Does everybody's vibrant heat up like crazy when they are charging their vibrant?
yes I have two of them and they get pretty hot ( you can feel it in the back side underneath speaker)
Mine as well gets hot but it doesnt happen all the time. It's charging right now and it isnt doing it. Weird...
it usually won't get hot unless you're USING it while it's charging.
Mine used to go up to 116 degrees while charging, but them I swapped it out and my new one barely goes past 95
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Blah man said:
Mine used to go up to 116 degrees while charging, but them I swapped it out and my new one barely goes past 95
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Yes mine gets very hot also. How do you know your phones temperature? Theres a temp guage built into the phone?
Play Sims while charging. That's how I'm planning on keeping warm this winter. Oh wait, Sims keeps crashing now...
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Try disabling the Wi-Fi and GPS while charging it....Seems to stay cool when I do this on mine.
When using up a lot of energy and charging at the same time it causes the heat...this is one of the problem with the current battery tech :/..
from experience with other phones..wifi + charging = hot as hell..if you really must use wifi while charging for say tethering then I suggest putting it on a metal surface(which will act as a heatsink in a way) and it won't get hot.
I'm from down south.. And mine sits at 110... seen it at 115 before... Ive never had another phone get as hot..
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I noticed this as well too. Seems that it is more noticable if you put in on charging soon after using wifi/gps intensive apps. Maybe they stay on longer when it sees it is on ac power? I even had one point where after over an hour charging there was no noticable gain in battery charge. I imagine it was using so much power that little was left to actually charge the battery. In all cases, a reboot fixed the issue and it charged quickly with little increase in temp.
Kinda remides me of my previous windows mobile phones. Sometimes an app would "hang" even though there was no error message and the app appeared to close down fine, I would notice my battery would be used quickly and the phone would be very warm. Usually it was an app that used wifi or gps that caused the issue. Maybe the app crashed before giving a "release command" or similar to the hardware and it kept on running at full power?
It happened to me twice. My phone went past all of yours. It got to temp of 143F. It was really hot all over the phone. I had to turn it off and take out the battery for it to cool down. It wouldn't even let me charge it cus it was too hot when the phone was off. I woke up to 18% battery charge after 7 hours of charging. It said that the display was using most of the batteries. I believe when you plug in your phone, i noticed a change in the brightness setting and i dont have automatic brightness enable. Now i make sure i fc everything before i charge and the brightness is at 0.
SamsungGalaxySVibrant said:
Yes mine gets very hot also. How do you know your phones temperature? Theres a temp guage built into the phone?
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I use battery life from the market, also the phone had a temp gauge but to access it I use the "my device" app from tmobile > storage and battery > battery level
My phone only gets seriously hot, 122 degrees, while using the gps on full brightness
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Normal. Remember different phone and different processor .... winter they should be cooler even while charging.
I've only had my Xoom for a day, havent had a chance to use it much. So far there are a few minor problems, but one is really bugging me. The battery level is constantly changing from 100% to what I can only guess is the actual level. Most of the time it reads 100%, but for whatever reason sometimes it will briefly show the actual level for awhile, then back to 100%.
I did some searching and couldn't find anyone talking about this problem, any idea what it is or how to remedy it?
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I've only had my Xoom for a day, havent had a chance to use it much. So far there are a few minor problems, but one is really bugging me. The battery level is constantly changing from 100% to what I can only guess is the actual level. Most of the time it reads 100%, but for whatever reason sometimes it will briefly show the actual level for awhile, then back to 100%.
I did some searching and couldn't find anyone talking about this problem, any idea what it is or how to remedy it?
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That is odd. Unplugged, it switches to a lower number then back up to 100% again? Did you install any battery apps or monitoring tools?
keitht said:
That is odd. Unplugged, it switches to a lower number then back up to 100% again? Did you install any battery apps or monitoring tools?
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Not at first. I watched it happen for awhile then I installed a gauge to see what it would do, and it matches the stock battery meter perfectly.
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Looks like your Xoom actually came with a magical unicorn inside that chargers it with magic dust...lol, j/k. But I wish mine had a unicorn.
I say drain the battery, recharge and see if that does anything..or just exchange it.
Been sitting here using it for awhile, and it seems to be time based. I would say 5ish minutes at 100%, then it changes to the actual % (which has been going down) then back to 100% in about 1 or 2 minutes.
I'm going to kill it, then charge it while its off and see what happens. I guess we have no way yet to delete the battery stats?
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Killed the battery last night, charged it fully while it was off. Same problem. I guess the next step is a factory reset, then if that doesn't work its going back.
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Factory reset didn't help either. I also noticed that the charge light isn't showing the right colors while charging, it just stays white. Guess I'm going to return this thing for another one.
The manual is incorrect re: charging colors. It is just white and only when off. It will turn green if off and fully charged, but there is no red and none of the percentage variations.
Where are you looking at the battery level? Are you keeping the little window in the lower left hand corner open?
Xatt said:
The manual is incorrect re: charging colors. It is just white and only when off. It will turn green if off and fully charged, but there is no red and none of the percentage variations.
Where are you looking at the battery level? Are you keeping the little window in the lower left hand corner open?
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Actually just returned it, the new one is charging now, haven't turned it on.
It didn't matter where you looked at the battery level. I looked at the notification area, and the setting/status area. Every couple of minutes it would switch between 100% and actual %. Also, when it was plugged in, when it switched to 100%, it would say charged, and wouldn't charge.
Hi guys...Every once in a while my phone seems to get stuck on 88% when charging,like i say usually it charges right up to 100%(i know that it drops to 99% as soon as the charger is unplugged)i usually charge my phone whilst its on so the last few times I've charged it whilst off and its always charged fully.But today my phone needed charging so i switched it of and started charging it. now it usually seems to take about 3 1/2 hours approx to charge,so after about 4 hours i pressed the power button quickly to see weather the 100% symbol was showing but it was still charging,after 6 hours the symbol suddenly came on and it read 100%. I switched on my tab and went to check the battery expecting to see 99%...But yeah you guessed it it was showing 88%. So this problem occurs weather the phones charged whilst on or off. Like i say this only seems to happen sporadically,the next time i charge it it will most probably charge up to 100% (99%)...Any thoughts anyone,its not a major problem but i'd be intrigued if anybody else has this issue.
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wildcat777 said:
Hi guys...Every once in a while my phone seems to get stuck on 88% when charging,like i say usually it charges right up to 100%(i know that it drops to 99% as soon as the charger is unplugged)i usually charge my phone whilst its on so the last few times I've charged it whilst off and its always charged fully.But today my phone needed charging so i switched it of and started charging it. now it usually seems to take about 3 1/2 hours approx to charge,so after about 4 hours i pressed the power button quickly to see weather the 100% symbol was showing but it was still charging,after 6 hours the symbol suddenly came on and it read 100%. I switched on my tab and went to check the battery expecting to see 99%...But yeah you guessed it it was showing 88%. So this problem occurs weather the phones charged whilst on or off. Like i say this only seems to happen sporadically,the next time i charge it it will most probably charge up to 100% (99%)...Any thoughts anyone,its not a major problem but i'd be intrigued if anybody else has this issue.
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You are now experiencing what alot of us galaxy tab owners have. It is a flaw with the galaxy tab's version of android. My tab sometimes does this. You need to play with pulling out the power cord, turning off the tab, pulling the power cord with it off, etc. and not necessarily in that order to get the battery meter back to 100 percent. My tab also goes to zero percent sometimes and the battery meter says it is not charging until I do the above steps.
Thanks for the response m8,so it just looks like we're stuck with the problem then taking into account Samsungs record with software updates.
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Thanks for the response m8,so it just looks like we're stuck with the problem then taking into account Samsungs record with software updates.
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yeah seems so, were the hell is that 2.2.1 update, mines almost the same i need to reboot alot of times for charging and correct batt to show..:-[
Charged it again today,after about 6 hours it beeped and the screen reported it fully charged 100%(by the way this is with phone on)anyway i pulled out the charger and it immediately showed just 89% charged. So i waited for the screen to timeout and go black and immediately pushed back in the charger,after about 10 minutes there was another beep i checked the screen and just like before it read 100% so i removed the charger and this time it read 99% charged. So it seems its just that final 10 or 11% that's left uncharged,im currently typing this message out on my tab and im on 96%.
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Has anybody tried this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwrZu0DKp2c&feature=player_embedded#at=230
Tinderbox (UK) said:
Has anybody tried this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwrZu0DKp2c&feature=player_embedded#at=230
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I tried it, didn't help my tab.
texasreb said:
I tried it, didn't help my tab.
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How about this? http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=986067&page=4
I understood this issue/problem about the battery and I think it won't hurt giving it a try.
Hey guys,I have seen some things with my GS2's battery that aren't exactly what you'd call normal.Let me explain:
Today,I plugged my phone it at about 45% battery for some minutes(I was gonna be away from home for a long time,so I wanted some extra unneeded juice) and unplugged it just before I left the house at 58%.I was en route to the bus station when I checked the time(I was late as always! ) to see I had 59% battery.After some twenty minutes,when I reached my destination,I took my phone out of my pocket to make a call just to see that my battery was at 61%! After that all was normal.
This was the third time I experienced something like that.First time was more impressive.I went to the cinema with 38% battery and left with 50%!All without plugging the phone anywhere!
Now,I know I shouldn't be complaining about something like that,but something must be wrong here.If everything wrong was like that I'd be a happier man,but just sayin'.
Any ideas?Or is my phone unique in that aspect?
Sounds like bad calibration to me. Let the battery drain till the phone turns itself off, then charge it (while off) till full.
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Me wants . With that said its probably bad calibration
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Definitely calibration problems here. The screenshot below explains what happened with my SGS2. This was the first charge out of the box. Plugged it in and at first, the charge went up steadily. Then, BOOM, 100%. Disconnected charger, and after some time noticed phone was off - battery was at 0% in under 2 minutes.
It's OK now. I'm getting 2+ days of use on a single charge.
same here. my battery-percentage also raised once while using the unplugged phone. then I turned it off and charged it. since then everything is fine.
Too bad.I thought I was like the guy from Infamous or something!
Thanks for your replies guys.Will callibrate and report.Although the Android OS drainage persists still...
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The charge level on my SGS2 is going up as I am typing this. It is not connected to anything.
TWiTCommander said:
The charge level on my SGS2 is going up as I am typing this. It is not connected to anything.
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Then I am not alone...
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stange... :/
Loving it! Kinda took me by surprise even though i knew i had it. Waited until my battery got to 1% then plugged this baby in, went to do something whick took 2-3 minutes. Now im already at 10% wow! I could see this as being super useful in rushed situations.
It came in handy this morning. Apparently I was so tired last night that I set my phone down on the wireless charging station (forgetting that I didn't have the wireless charging cover) and forgot to plug in it. At some point in the night my phone died, meaning my alarm didn't go off. Luckily my wife's goes off about 10 minutes after mine normally would. So, I plugged it up & was able to have a 50% charge before walking out the door to go to work this morning. That was a very pleasant experience with the quick charge feature.
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It came in handy this morning. Apparently I was so tired last night that I set my phone down on the wireless charging station (forgetting that I didn't have the wireless charging cover) and forgot to plug in it. At some point in the night my phone died, meaning my alarm didn't go off. Luckily my wife's goes off about 10 minutes after mine normally would. So, I plugged it up & was able to have a 50% charge before walking out the door to go to work this morning. That was a very pleasant experience with the quick charge feature.
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Note 4 being clutch! Haha
I don't know. I set my phone down to charge and within 3 minutes I was at 100%. Then again, the battery was at 98% and my N4 doesn't support it.
P.S this is meant as a joke not a troll
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Project:Frankenphone said:
I don't know. I set my phone down to charge and within 3 minutes I was at 100%. Then again, the battery was at 98% and my N4 doesn't support it.
P.S this is meant as a joke not a troll
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Haha:silly:
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Project:Frankenphone said:
I don't know. I set my phone down to charge and within 3 minutes I was at 100%. Then again, the battery was at 98% and my N4 doesn't support it.
P.S this is meant as a joke not a troll
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P.S. Are you sure about that? LOL
why is this a thread? like anyone would complain about faster charging
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P.S. Are you sure about that? LOL
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Kawaisa said:
why is this a thread? like anyone would complain about faster charging
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P.P.S Defintitely not sure about it but you can be.
Greenpeace would complain because more power is used to charge quicker and for more power used, there is more power needed but for the extra power needed, coal power stations need more coal and to get the coal you dig it out of the ground. So in other words, the dinosaurs may be dead but they are dead pissed.
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why is this a thread? like anyone would complain about faster charging
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Some people on other forums said it would ruin their battery quicker. So not everyone is typically fond of the idea.
Does it have wireless charging out of the box?
I'm thinking of making the jump from my Note 2 to Note 4. I still don't know if it's worth the price.....
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premiatul said:
Does it have wireless charging out of the box?
I'm thinking of making the jump from my Note 2 to Note 4. I still don't know if it's worth the price.....
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It doesn't come with it out the box, but you can always buy the back cover from Samsung.
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It doesn't come with it out the box, but you can always buy the back cover from Samsung.
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Or this if you do not want a thicker back cover. I hear that the back cover is slightly thicker and may not fit some cases.
http://www.amazon.com/N4-PWRcard-Wi...+Receiver+Card+Coil+for+Samsung+Galaxy+Note+4
The biggest I see with this "Faster Charging" is that, this is the first phone I have ever owned that doesnt die on the charger.
What I mean by that is that, when I using the HotSpot Tether and playing games and multitasking all at the same time, my previous phones would either over heat and force the phone to cut off to cool down "LG G3" or the battery percent would get lower and lower while on the charger.
This has been my problem on every phone from the HTC M8 to S5 to M7 to Note 3 to Nexus 4/5 everyphone.
With this faster charging it charge fast and is able to keep up with my multi tasking demands while using the phone.
This may be a feature of the Snapdragon 805 being able to handle the work load better.