So what is the BEST car charger for the note 3?
I got a "samsung" car charger on ebay...dunno if its any good.
I plug the phone in at least say 40% and on the way home (30 min ride) seems like with real light use...the battery stays the same unless I am on calls then it actually goes down some.
So it seems like it doesnt quite charge the phone but it keeps it from draining.
any suggestions on a charger???
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We have many m5000 / Universals and they are so slow to charge and the battery life is terrible.
so this is not a one off. It takes hours...
The device takes forever to charge regardless of using charger, usb2pc charger or even car charger and if you make a phone whilst on charge- for instance on the car charger... if I make a call even whilst its on charge or use my tomtomsat nav - theres a high chance it will run out of power before the journey ends.
Anyone else had this issue.
USB is a slow charge. Don't know about the car. Mains charger does not seem much longer than most modern devices. Battery life will suffer if you don't close PIE after use.
Any of you guys ever use the Google Navigation w/ N1, while plugged in to the car charger and find that it's still discharging even if it has the charging icon? Like the charging rate is less than the discharge rate.
I've used it in the car for hours, must be plugged in for me, otherwise it would be dead very soon. Mine gets hot as hell with the gps on while plugged in and driving looking at the screen.
I bet it's possible to achieve a negative rate of charge with enough stuff going on inside the phone.
I like it better than the tom tom though.
I have experienced this. I got to work and, despite having been on charge all the way there, my battery had depleted. 100% to around 85% on a 40 minute journey.
However my car cigarette lighter socket is extremely temperamental, and so it frequently looses connection. In the case of my N1 I was hoping this was the problem, rather than the phone. I can have the car repaired!
I have had phones in the past when it was possible to achieve a negative rate of charge (Samsung Omnia using internal GPS and HTC Wizard using bluethooth GPS). Particularly fun was the fact that the Wizard won't charge from a car charger when it gets too low. This left me STRANDED in the middle of the US.
Navigate uses alot of juice because of the GPS.
The phone can only charge so fast. If the usage is faster than the charging rate then obviously you'll get a slower charge or a depletion.
It's most likely your car charger. It is probably only pulling a small amount of power. There are some 1000ma car chargers you can buy that should work better.
I also believe the official car dock from Google will keep it charged too.
It definitely depends on the car charger and your settings.
My first car charger supplied 500mA (I had it lying around from some other piece of equipment I had bought). I did an experiment with the screen at 100%, navigating, and streaming Pandora. I lost something like 15% of the charge in 45 minutes or so.
I now have a 1000mA charger (just a couple of bucks at monoprice.com). What that same configuration, the battery goes down very, very slowly. If I don't run the screen at 100%, or if I turn off the screen during long stretches between turns on the highway, the Nexus One gains charge instead of losing it.
This may be of use: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=669643
go plug your nexus into the car charger and go to settings, about, and see if it shows usb or ac and you will figure out the problem. it prob will say usb which means its only pulling 500 ma rather than the full 1000 ma that it should be. my car charger pulls the full amount and it can actually charge the device during navigation.
Hi everyone!
I'm the happy possessor of a three-week-old Nexus 4. I'm writing because I think I might have some problems with the charger. If I connect the AC plug to the wall (without connecting it to the phone) and then I unplug it after two seconds and I bring the adapter to my ear, I can distinctly hear a buzzing noise.
As long as the charger is working fine, I said to myself, I'm not taking it as an issue. Well, I think that now something is maybe going wrong: charge times are unacceptable: yesterday when the phone was at 1% of battery left I switched it off and plugged it to the wall. I let it charge for three and a half whole hours before it finally finished charging. Charge times are almost similar when the phone is on, but I don't have to touch it, otherwise it's going to take ages before it fully charges.
Before trying to charge the Nexus 4 with HTC Desire's charger (I haven't done so already as it's written all over the place to always charge phones with the chargers provided), I wanted to know your experience: does your charger buzz as well if you plug it to the wall and you bring it to your ear?
How long does a full charge generally take to you?
That buzzing noise is pretty normal for such AC power supplys. I think most of them do the buzzing thing.
My experience with charge times are similar to yours. From 0% to 100% is about 3 hours with stock charger. 3 hours isn't exactly great, but considering the rather high battery capacity, it isn't bad either. But you are right - If you have a charger with a higher charging current, you can try if it will charge faster.
No matter what amperage charger you use, your phone will only draw a set amount of amps
Thank you all, guys! I can stop worrying now
So I bought the official qi wireless charging back plate for the S 4. When I charge it up wirelessly to 100% the little green light comes on with the message saying to remove it from the charger. When I do the light does not turn and the message does not go away. I either have to plug it into a wired charger or restart the phone to get it to stop.
I thought at first that it would go away after a little while once the battery drained down. I have played games on the phone for 15 minutes which should drain the battery a good bit and it will stay at 100% according to the battery stats. After a reboot it will show 90% and I know a reboot does not drain that much battery.
I have tried different charging pads with the same results. Anyone else have this problem?
Yes I get that also. I have Yinjeng receiver and one white ebay charger pad and one LG charger pad. With LG pad it's charging till 100%, with the ebay pad it goes to 100% and after I lift the phone I still have a green battery in the left side of Notification bar. And indeed I can use the phone and it stays at 100%. Only a reboot solve the problem.
So the LG charging pad doesn't cause it to get stuck like that?
Just noticed that when it is stuck like that and I plug it in to a wired charger it says 'Switching to wired charging' or something like that. I wonder what controls that and it is something I can reset.
Hello
Yotaphone 2 arrived 2-3 days ago and I it doesn't turn on. I can't even charge it. I left it charging for hours but nothing.
I thought charger was not working but it does charge other smartphones I have...Yotaphone text on the charger lights when its charging other phones,
but when I plug it in Yotaphone 2, it doesnt and I when I put ear close to charger I can hear low buzzing noise but cant hear the noise when charging other phones.
Is the battery really dead or what? I asked for a refund of seller.
Package took 25 days to reach my location so I thought battery drained of course but I cannot charge it.
One interesting thing is when I plug it on PC it does recognize the USB Device.
Please, any help!
You can try a different cable, a qi-charger or charge it with the pc.
This is not normal, ask for refund
Ask for a new one or for your money .
After few weeks, I bought tools for disassembling smartphones.
I plugged Yotaphone 2 in the charger, disconnected battery from the phone, heated the battery with fan for 10min, I connected the battery and it immediately turned on and it was flashing android logo.
I left it charging for 10-15 min and the phone works fine.
I've seen some people recording videos about the same issue I had so this helped me to get phone back alive.
Probably the phone stayed for a long time in the warehouse and battery fully drained. Heating the battery with fan (on max temperature) for 5-10 min will make it hot and it will work, make sure it's disconnected from the phone first while the phone is charging. cause it will restart the battery.