I just got a G 5 from my work. Aside from all the AT&T bloatware it works decently except for one thing. I bought the Samsung Qi charger cover for it and have been using wireless charging, but when it is finished charging at 3 or 4 in the morning it starts making the charging noise.
From my searches I think it is caused by the lack of qi trickle charging on the phone. I can't root the phone to fix the problem (because its a company phone and I will lose VPN access if root is on the phone), which is what most people have done. Is there any way to disable this or a Qi charger that can get the trickle charging to work so it doesn't make the noise and turn on the phone screen?
A much smaller problem is getting rid of the AT&T bloatware, if there is a simple solution that doesn't require root I would a appreciate it.
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I've been using wireless charging at home and work for over a month and love it. But it stopped working a few days ago, and the device no longer detected when placed on a wireless charger. Then it worked sporadically for a day, and now it's dead again. Any suggestions or diagnostics I can run to figure out if it is a hardware or software issue? TIA
Sorry to ask ... but it could be the charger itself ?
I have a cheapo charger and it can act up sometimes. Luckily, it has a LED ... if the light stays on after I remove the phone then I
will need to reset the charger (or it won't charge the phone next time).
I don't think it is the chargers, since the phone started failing on both at the same time and the Nexus 7 still charges fine on the one I have at home. I wonder if there is a software setting to turn wireless charging on/off or something?
I think that the problem may have been static for some reason. I have found that rubbing the back of the phone with a cloth (my shirt) before putting it on the wireless charger gets it to work. This holds true with or without bumper case on the phone, and works for my home and office chargers. Strange.
I just purchased a generic Qi wireless charger receiver card and transmitter for the S5. I can't post the link because of new member rules.
The charger works well but when the battery reaches 100% full the phone stops charging. According to the Qi standard there is no provision or method for a 'trickle charge' used by all the traditional wall chargers (I can't post the link to this either because of new member rules). What Qi does instead is turn the charger on and off periodically to keep the battery at 100% - this process is supposed to be managed in the background operations of the phone.
With the S5 ever few seconds the screen turns on, a charger connected sound is played, and then the charger turns off and the screen turns off THIS REPEATS FOREVER. The phone gets quite hot and it's terribly annoying. This happens even if the phone is turned off. I'm not sure it even has anything to do with the trickle charge process - seems like its stuck in a loop. Qi transmitter detects a Qi enabled device and begins pumping power. Qi device produces 5.3v (or something similar), phone sees input voltage and turns on to notify user of charging, and charging stops almost immediately because the battery is full (repeat, repeat, repeat...).
Is there anything in the settings or using apps that would fix this problem? Does anyone know if the samsung brand S cover (charging cover) has some extra provision that prevents this annoying problem?
farmersride said:
I just purchased a generic Qi wireless charger receiver card and transmitter for the S5. I can't post the link because of new member rules.
The charger works well but when the battery reaches 100% full the phone stops charging. According to the Qi standard there is no provision or method for a 'trickle charge' used by all the traditional wall chargers (I can't post the link to this either because of new member rules). What Qi does instead is turn the charger on and off periodically to keep the battery at 100% - this process is supposed to be managed in the background operations of the phone.
With the S5 ever few seconds the screen turns on, a charger connected sound is played, and then the charger turns off and the screen turns off THIS REPEATS FOREVER. The phone gets quite hot and it's terribly annoying. This happens even if the phone is turned off. I'm not sure it even has anything to do with the trickle charge process - seems like its stuck in a loop. Qi transmitter detects a Qi enabled device and begins pumping power. Qi device produces 5.3v (or something similar), phone sees input voltage and turns on to notify user of charging, and charging stops almost immediately because the battery is full (repeat, repeat, repeat...).
Is there anything in the settings or using apps that would fix this problem? Does anyone know if the samsung brand S cover (charging cover) has some extra provision that prevents this annoying problem?
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The real question is, why are you keeping it on the charger once it's 100% charged? At that point just remove it and continue about with your day
I bought a QI wireless charging adapter from Ebay and installed it in my s4. I used Nokia QI wireless charging pad. However, I found my the charging was intermittent after like 5min of continuous charging and that was when the Nokia pad & my s4 both got very warm.. The phenomenon was: the screen kept coming on every 5seconds like the phone was disconnected from the power source and reconncted.
I found that, when I put s4 off from the charging pad, let phone cool down, put it back, it would work flawlessly for 5min, again charging intermittently. This bothers me, as apparently the physical charging worked for my s4. Might be the wirless charging issue related to s4 firmware?
Any inputs are welcomed.
I have a curious bug and I was wondering if anyone else has the same thing...
I have an after market charging pad and receiver. They've worked well for months.
I had to replace my Note 3 last week, so I have a "new" one. Stock 5.0 ROM.
It charges just fine, but when I take it off the wireless charger the LED is still red and the phone indicates it's still charging (even though it's not). Only a reboot will clear the charging indicator. If I plug in a USB cord, it tells me it's switching to the plug then when I unplug it, it tells me it's switching back to wireless (even though it's not on the mat).
Plenty online about the indicator NOT coming on, and wireless charging not working but I couldn't see any reference to this particular problem. Thanks for you input!
Lately I've been having issues with my phone and charging. It started with the stock OEM charger getting steadily harder and harder to use.. so I bought an Aukey charger to replace it with and it completely refuses to work on my phone, so I tried another phone and tablet and it works great. I tried my super old Galaxy note 2 charger with a motorola usb cable from my maxx and it works fine... I then tried that usb cable on the aukey QC 2.0 charger and it won't work... tried the same cable again on my phone with the sammy charger and it worked... tried a QC 3.0 aukey wall charger and it won't work... yet I have a QC 2.0 incipio car charger. it was working with the USB moto cable I've had in my car since I got my Bionic... then it just stopped charging my phone, got a new USB and it works great now except the moto usb will work for friends, just not my phone.
I have absolutely no idea what's causing this... I thought maybe there was lint in the charging port so I took a tootpick and cleaned it out, got a small piece of lint, same thing with all the chargers. I can't find anything online, and being a tinkerer I've tried everything I can think of before asking. I'm starting to think the phone itself is having problems and the port is actually bad or there's something wrong in the software causing it to have problems with turbo or QC chargers.
any ideas?
There is a general inconsistency with this device and Quick Chargers... if you look in the Accessories area there are several threads discussing it.
Personally, I use the Aukey QC 2.0 charger for travel with an Eversame premium braided cable and it works fine, yet others use the same combination and it won't Turbo charge or in some cases charge at all.
I also face the same issue. Some USB cables work with my Moto X Style and some doesn't .
i am having an even worse issue and i am sure its a software problem, recently my moto x stopped charging using the moto charger so in the last two months i have 4 different chargers who worked for some time each now it just doesnt work at all, i have cleaned the port numerous times then it just stopped working so when the phone finally died all of a sudden it started charging but as soon as it switched to turbo mode the charge would stop and start over again. i have deduced its a software problem as once the phone tries to go to turbo charging mode it cant sustain the charge and cancels it. amphere even shows its discharging while on the charger , however if it starts charging while the phone is off with a low voltage adapter and turn on the phone once you dont remove the cable it will charge (extremely slowly but it will charge).
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i am having an even worse issue and i am sure its a software problem, recently my moto x stopped charging using the moto charger so in the last two months i have 4 different chargers who worked for some time each now it just doesnt work at all, i have cleaned the port numerous times then it just stopped working so when the phone finally died all of a sudden it started charging but as soon as it switched to turbo mode the charge would stop and start over again. i have deduced its a software problem as once the phone tries to go to turbo charging mode it cant sustain the charge and cancels it. amphere even shows its discharging while on the charger , however if it starts charging while the phone is off with a low voltage adapter and turn on the phone once you dont remove the cable it will charge (extremely slowly but it will charge).
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FYI... There is no software problem with charging, if there was it would affecting hundreds of thousands of people. And I doubt you have 2 software problems, a bad kernel and a bad bootloader/recovery image, because 2 different things control charging when powered on and powered off.
Issue here is you likely have a high resistance connection somewhere between the USB port and the battery itself, or a bad charging circuit... It's hardware.
while i can understand where you are coming from when the phone is in factory mode (motorola customer care told me to try) its charging fine also turbo charging is working now just it doesnt recognize the sim card. it was a suggestion from Motorola customer service desk, as i live outside of the us they gave me some options to try. they said it was a software glitch where the phone may have gotten an overload from a bad connection and caused the phone to not recognize the charger. however while the phone is off this check is not performed which is why i was getting a lower amp charger to work as the phone did not have to enable the protocol that allows for quick charge/turbo charge voltages.