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I've had my vibrant since August and lately I've noticed the charger is extremely loose. It wiggles left and right a lot and falls off very easily, has anyone else noticed this or is it just me??
I also have it with the charger that comes with the phone, good thing is i have another OEM charger.
I had this happen to my motorola cliq. hopefully its the charger cord and not the charge port on your phone...that would suck. Try a diff cord to see if that helps you out. Not to be a downer, but it was the port on my cliq...
A very small port (like our microUSB port) with a not so small cable lends itself to experiencing excess strain if you're not careful. This is the nature of small ports and the laws of physics.
I bought my Vibrant on craigslist so I can't vouch for the OEM cable, only have blackberry branded micro USB cables, and they work fine, very snug. So try a different cable, if its still just as bad it may be your port.
I just had to buy a new charger cause I had the same issue
I had this issue after about a month I went to a local discount electronic store and got a micro usb cord for 5 bucks works great
Op, exact same thing as of 3 days ago.
It's the cable. My nexus one charger fits the Vibrant perfect, no wiggle.
s15274n said:
Op, exact same thing as of 3 days ago.
It's the cable. My nexus one charger fits the Vibrant perfect, no wiggle.
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To be honest, tonight I woke up, my phone was lighting up telling me less than 15% left and I noticed the charger tilted downwards and didn't charge... Hmmmmm
You could go on amazon and find an external oem charger,it comes with an extra oem battery and i think it was like 30 bucks.
I never charge by phone anymore
$3 if you have the wall plug:
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I have an old nokia micro usb charger that my brother jacked to use in his car hopefully it's not loose otherwise I'm gonna get a warranty replacement =/
wiggles left and right? Yes falls off very easily? NO
Ebay after market charger they work fine for me and very cheap
i really thought it was me i . i also notice that its not charging my phone as fast as it used to im talking about 30 min and only brings it up to 20%. and its charging while off!!
i find myself taking my moms charger a lot now a days lol
I too have had this issue. At first it was just the cable, as other MicroUSB cables had a more solid connection, but now it doesn't matter which cable I use, indicating the port in in the phone is at fault. I'm going to be asking T-Mo for a RMA because of it.
Ok so i have had my transformer since it was released, haven't had many charger problems till recently, last year i was able to fix the charger by bending the pins on the adapter so the cable had a tighter fit.
about a month ago the problem came back, i was able to fix it again, then the next day that wouldn't work, i gave up on it for a while and figured i would save to get a new charger, since i wasn't really bothered going through asus for a new one.
I got the charger to work yesterday some how, don't ask me how, now its not working again.
Now, i am finding it near impossible to find a replacement adapter, asus don't ship to ireland and other places are trying to charge up to €40 for delivery from the uk! my head is starting to melt all i want to do is be able to use the stupid thing without having to worry about it charging!!!!
does anyone have a good place to buy the adapter, alot of places are also out of stock, last resort would be to go to ebay and buy a after market chinese knock-off one.
My charger quit working after a few months, I had to bend the gold pins inside the USB socket on the wall part of the charger.
Enercell AC adapter cat no. 273-358 with the USB connector piece. from radio shack I got it out the door for about 20 bucks. Sometimes they have deals where you get the connector piece for free.
The bonus is that this effectively extends the overall length of your charging cord by an additional 2 meters. I bought one of these as a backup several months ago... Its all I use now, my Asus charger has become my backup.
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Hey guys,
I was charging my note 4 with the adaptive fast charging today, and when I reached about 73% it stopped charging. The brick (plug) was bricked. Did not show any charging, thought it was my cable so i changed the cable around, but no success so I used a different charger (non adaptive fast charger) to charge it, which did work.
Upon discovering this I contacted Samsung and was told that non of my retail stores had any replacements in stock. Now i must wait for them to get a shipment of the order.
My questions are:
1. What could have caused this? My charger is only less than 2 months old.
2. Would using alternative chargers harm the battery or the phone?
Thanks in advance
junstar said:
Hey guys,
I was charging my note 4 with the adaptive fast charging today, and when I reached about 73% it stopped charging. The brick (plug) was bricked. Did not show any charging, thought it was my cable so i changed the cable around, but no success so I used a different charger (non adaptive fast charger) to charge it, which did work.
Upon discovering this I contacted Samsung and was told that non of my retail stores had any replacements in stock. Now i must wait for them to get a shipment of the order.
My questions are:
1. What could have caused this? My charger is only less than 2 months old.
2. Would using alternative chargers harm the battery or the phone?
Thanks in advance
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Firstly, this should have been posted in the Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting forum.
Answers to your question:
1. Could be anything, from faulty charger out of the box but was working for a bit, to bad power socket, to lightning strike.
2. Using alternative charger won't harm your phone or battery. Maybe just untick Fast Charging when using other chargers.
Same issue
junstar said:
Hey guys,
I was charging my note 4 with the adaptive fast charging today, and when I reached about 73% it stopped charging. The brick (plug) was bricked. Did not show any charging, thought it was my cable so i changed the cable around, but no success so I used a different charger (non adaptive fast charger) to charge it, which did work.
Upon discovering this I contacted Samsung and was told that non of my retail stores had any replacements in stock. Now i must wait for them to get a shipment of the order.
My questions are:
1. What could have caused this? My charger is only less than 2 months old.
2. Would using alternative chargers harm the battery or the phone?
Thanks in advance
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I had the same issue..the fast charger just wont charge my Note 4. Got the adapter and cable replaced. They didnt hve it in stock, had to wait a week. ..used the normal charger till them. Normal charger did its job, but took bit longer compared to the fast charger.
burning car charger, Note 4
I just purchased my Note 4, swapped out my sim and then connected it to my Belkin cigarette lighter/USB car charger.
5 minutes later travelling down a freeway ,when smoke started to pour out. I yanked out the chord and
still managed to burn myself with it. 2 weeks later I really needed to charge my phone while camping
thinking/hoping it was my old chargers fault. I also turned off fast charge and it blew my car's fuses and it got
super hot again within seconds. Is this normal. Do I need to know which USB's I can use and where?
Or is my phone busted?
just use a wireless qi charger. it avoids all these issues and no wires to worry about.
fast charging is bad for your phone and battery anyway.
So I cant charge my phone while I drive?
just get a wireless qi car charger cradle.
Has anybody used one of these?
Before I buy one I was wandering if anyone has used one and if its any good?
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First thread.. not here to start any issues..
Well quick question, how many chargers do you guys use/own? Since it's Dash charge and we are unable to use any other bricks due to the Dash Charging capabilities how many should a OP user have to be fully effecient.
For me.. i will have three when my new shipment comes in from OP. Used the 5$ they gave me for the delay and took off shipping (paid 29$) for an extra charger. I also bought a 3t charger on Offer Up for 5$ lol. and the stock charger.
I just dont want to be left with a dead phone when i can easily find a socket and plug it in for 15 min for a nice boost.. :good::good:
I bought an additional one to make the total of 2. One will permanently be in my bedroom where I plug it in overnight, and the other will be downstairs in my den/office where I spend most my time whenever I'm at home, during the day.
I'll also just be using that second charger as a to-go charger if I ever need to take it with me, so 2 total chargers seem like the perfect amount! I don't want to spend any more money on a third charger anyway lol
I'm in the same boat. Just couldn't believe someone was selling their dash charger for 5$ on offer up.. had to pick it up. Messed up part about it, the night before I spent 30 on a new charger.
I've bought some micro usb to usb C adaptors so I can still utilise all my old cables. I don't always need to dash charge.
I saw the video on how fast it charged with the dash car charger where it was pitted up against the S8 with both running Google Maps. OP5 went from 2% to 43% in 30 min and S8 went from 2% to 12%in the same time. When I saw that I changed my from an extra brick to the car charger (which came with a cable of it's own). This way in the car for 20-30 min will be fine when I'm out and about. If I'm not going to be with my car I'll just grab the brick.
With that said, I'm getting like up to 9.5 hours on a charge (averaging 8.5 hours SOT) so once its charged, is there really a need most days to worry about charging it mid day?
lopmig1 said:
we are unable to use any other bricks
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Says who?
You can recharge the OP5 using any 5V charger. The limitation is that it will take longer to recharge the battery. But that shouldn't be an issue if you recharge overnight.
Also because the battery lasts so long on a charge you don't need to do a full recharge in order to get a day's worth of charge. Indeed slower recharging and less than full recharging should also help to extend the useful life of the battery.
So for all of these reasons I intend to use only the single Dash charger that came with my OP5 plus all the other "regular" chargers I've accumulated over the years. I've already bought USB and microUSB to USB-C adapters to use with my charger collection.
P.S. The OP5 indicates what type of charger it detects:
5V 0.5A as found on PC USB ports shows "Charging slowly."
5V 1.8A as found on a typical smartphone charger shows, "Charging."
Dash charger shows, "Dash Charging."
I've bought 4 dash chargers. 1 at my desk in my house, 1 at my bed, 1 in my office at my work and one in my travel bag. An there is also always a fully charged 10.000mah powerbank in there... I did the same with my handicapped Galaxy S6 haha. But Now I figure out my OnePlus 5 goes on and on and on... without breaking a sweat hahahaha.
I've got 3 of them... One at home, one at work, one in my bag.
Stupid question, cuz I haven't tried yet and I'm wondering... if you can use the charger to charge other devices? I know, it won't charge them faster or blah blah but do you think I can use it to charge my MP3 player or some other phone? Or is it purely proprietary and has something more than the other chargers?
Unfortunately the QC 2.0 and 3.0 blocks I have, like 11 of them are super slow, as noted previously. I only have the one that came with the phone for my house and I got a car charger discounted with the phone. I might end up getting a third for work, not sure. Is there ANY knockoff 3rd party charger than can charge similar to dash charge?
I have one dash charger, the one that came with the phone. I have a bunch of non-dash charger/cable because the previous phone supported QC 3.0. I know this phone does not support QC, but it charges up the phone pretty quick. Not as quick as the dash but quick enough for me. Unless if you are on the phone every minute like playing games or watching a movie, you should be able to get a full day's worth on a single charge.
I have one dash charger which came with phone plus car dash charger. If you are not in hurry and charging it overnight why would it matter dash or regular charger to use?
Phone has so good battery life you don't need to put extra chargers anywhere you go...
But it's personal decision.
PS: usually, if you are charging lipo battery slowly, it goes easy on it and may prolong life of the battery.
As far as dash chargers, I only have the one that came with the phone, which I barely use. I mostly charge my phone directly from a usb C port on my computer when I'm working from home. At night I use an iOrange-E cable that I connect directly to my usb-A/usb-C wall outlet to top it off and unplug it right before going to sleep. Since I'm not a heavy user, a single charge pretty much does it for me and I haven't had the need to use Dash charging to top off my phone.
I don't understand having a bunch of these chargers. Unless you work or live tin can, you should not struggle to get a days worth of battery.
The only extra charger someone should need would be the car. Plug your dash charger in your living room / den, plug a standard usb c charger in your bedroom, and a dash charger in your car.
I can't imagine this setup not working for 90% or more of users.
It's weird, I have 3, I keep one in my laptop bag, I have the dash car charger, and another wall plug I keep in my room. I have maybe used the one I keep in my laptop bag twice. I mostly use the one in my car at the start or end of the day as I commute about 45 minutes to work everyday. Battery on this phone has been better than my oneplus 3 by a noticeable margin.
I only have one dash charger. Just a regular USB-C for typical charging - why would you need it for overnight charges?
The dash charger definitely came in handy today though, since I visited a theme park all day (but came prepared of course).
Battery on this phone has been great. I also went to a water park yesterday, phone was on 15% when I got home.. plugged it in to the dash charger and 40 min later I was in the 90s. Don't know what they did for it to charge that fast, but I'm one happy OP customer.
Hi guys, greetings!
I'm a new member here
Apparently, I had issue with fast charging problem. Basically what I did was changing cable and charger over and over again. I had to change my cable to which can hold up to 2.1A and a charger that has same output with stock charger which is 5V at 2A and 9V at 1.67A. I even bought enough cables just to see whether it is working or not, yet it doesn't fix my problem. I haven't changed my battery since this issue, I assume that this issue don't came in the battery rather it is from cable or charger. So I changed my flexy charge, but still can't do such a thing.
I had to reset my phone and factory settings, and yet it doesn't fix my problem
For some reason I'm frustrated with normal charge because I had to wait my phone fully charge like around 6 hours. And it drain also around 6 hours on use continuosly.
But it's crazy that this phone can hold it reliable for 6 years without any issue. It still in better shape. My only issue that came up was camera focus, can't read my sim card, and fast charging issue. And a missing S Pen lol. The camera focus and sim card aren't a big issue, since I can use alternative phone. And I can wait longer for my camera to focus to one object.
My questions are :
1) Does the battery affect fast charging too? I have my stock battery here which is 3220 mAh. If it's true, then maybe I'm going to change my battery with a newer one.
2) Is it possible that the processor in it some tiny part (which it controls the fast charging) is broken and that's why fast charging is stopped working?
3) I need to upgrade my phone to a same note series, but it's hard to pick. I kinda like galaxy note 9 than a newer one. But I want you guys to give me opinion. I need a longer battery life and it said note 9 is a beast battery. And a compatible software updates in future.
4) Does the battery that comes up with custom battery capacity is safe? Like does it fast charging? (like a ZeroLemon 11000 mAh and some chinese product that doubles the capacity stock battery)
5) Does the OS affects too? (This is the reason I did factory settings so I can see if it's work or not)
Thank you guys!
I'm using my N910C
fahadnajed said:
Hi guys, greetings!
I'm a new member here
Apparently, I had issue with fast charging problem. Basically what I did was changing cable and charger over and over again. I had to change my cable to which can hold up to 2.1A and a charger that has same output with stock charger which is 5V at 2A and 9V at 1.67A. I even bought enough cables just to see whether it is working or not, yet it doesn't fix my problem. I haven't changed my battery since this issue, I assume that this issue don't came in the battery rather it is from cable or charger. So I changed my flexy charge, but still can't do such a thing.
I had to reset my phone and factory settings, and yet it doesn't fix my problem
For some reason I'm frustrated with normal charge because I had to wait my phone fully charge like around 6 hours. And it drain also around 6 hours on use continuosly.
But it's crazy that this phone can hold it reliable for 6 years without any issue. It still in better shape. My only issue that came up was camera focus, can't read my sim card, and fast charging issue. And a missing S Pen lol. The camera focus and sim card aren't a big issue, since I can use alternative phone. And I can wait longer for my camera to focus to one object.
My questions are :
1) Does the battery affect fast charging too? I have my stock battery here which is 3220 mAh. If it's true, then maybe I'm going to change my battery with a newer one.
2) Is it possible that the processor in it some tiny part (which it controls the fast charging) is broken and that's why fast charging is stopped working?
3) I need to upgrade my phone to a same note series, but it's hard to pick. I kinda like galaxy note 9 than a newer one. But I want you guys to give me opinion. I need a longer battery life and it said note 9 is a beast battery. And a compatible software updates in future.
4) Does the battery that comes up with custom battery capacity is safe? Like does it fast charging? (like a ZeroLemon 11000 mAh and some chinese product that doubles the capacity stock battery)
5) Does the OS affects too? (This is the reason I did factory settings so I can see if it's work or not)
Thank you guys!
I'm using my N910C
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Check your microUSB port and make sure the little flap in the port isn't bent and if it's dirty carefully clean the port. If you still have the original battery that came with your phone it will definitely need replaced with a new one. Lithium-ion battery degrade over time and have limited life span.
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Check your microUSB port and make sure the little flap in the port isn't bent and if it's dirty carefully clean the port. If you still have the original battery that came with your phone it will definitely need replaced with a new one. Lithium-ion battery degrade over time and have limited life span.
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Yes! I did that before I changed my flexy charger. It didn't fix my problem. It seems like there's some tiny part in processor is broken for some reason (like I told in this thread) or maybe some part an IC in the motherboard who controls it also damaged. I really don't understand how fast charging works.
I came up with a solution that I bought two new stock batteries and a desktop charger. So if my phone's battery is run out, I could change with my alternative battery. But I'm still frustrated for how it can't fast charging again.
1- Try cleaning the charging port with izoprophilic alcohol and some small brush (let dray the port 1-2 hours after, DON'T START the phone)
2- Make sure you have a quality charging cable (the 5$ from gas station or chinese cheap crap there are no good)
3-Same thing like at point 2 but with charger
I have like 3-4 charging flex with ports for note 4 and all are faulty so maybe this if you buy from china or ebay and its not from broken phones original.
If you have all good quality charger and cable and good charging port maybe IC power managament on motherboard is faulty, not CPU.
You can fix it but depends where you live will be more expensive than buying a second hand motherboard from aliexpress, its like 30$ I buy recently for a N910C
Me I don't use fast charging becouse its get too hot and is a secondary device
I want to buy and me a bigger battery I found on batteryUpgrade a 6900mAh but I don't know the quality and its almost 50$
Marian94 said:
1- Try cleaning the charging port with izoprophilic alcohol and some small brush (let dray the port 1-2 hours after, DON'T START the phone)
2- Make sure you have a quality charging cable (the 5$ from gas station or chinese cheap crap there are no good)
3-Same thing like at point 2 but with charger
I have like 3-4 charging flex with ports for note 4 and all are faulty so maybe this if you buy from china or ebay and its not from broken phones original.
If you have all good quality charger and cable and good charging port maybe IC power managament on motherboard is faulty, not CPU.
You can fix it but depends where you live will be more expensive than buying a second hand motherboard from aliexpress, its like 30$ I buy recently for a N910C
Me I don't use fast charging becouse its get too hot and is a secondary device
I want to buy and me a bigger battery I found on batteryUpgrade a 6900mAh but I don't know the quality and its almost 50$
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Yes, I also did that way before I change my flexy charger. I brushed it with izoprophilic alcohol on charging port.
I'm pretty sure all I have is a high quality charger and cable. I still have my stock charger. I think there's no issue with charger, I couldn't really tell, since I tried all possible different charger. But with the cable, yes, I tested it one by one, because the issue might come from cable.
I think after all I did what's possible, there's something wrong with my IC charging or processor. I couldn't understand it but, does it guarantee if I changed like I pull the broken IC and put it back a new one, will do the fast charging?
But really though, how does fast charging works? Is it include in processor by some tiny part transistor? or is it an independent IC in the motherboard?
100% is another chip on motherboard that do the charging
I have a similar problem with a samsung tab s t800 that charging very slow becouse of faulty IC power manageament
I'm opened my note 4 for many times until now and repairing it
I've been watching many board repairs I have some skills but no tools to repairs bords for now
Its not the CPU
I watch a similar board fix on note 9 and was a diferent chip on board that manage the charging
Go to a service if you want to repair, don't try to do something at home becouse you have hight chances to destroy much more the phone
Repairing you phone at a repair shop will be more than 30$ so better buy a "new" motherboard from aliexpress