Well I'll leave the question (striked) below, but my phone decided to make me look crazy. Been testing on and off for 5 hours today after noticing it yesterday. Minutes after posting this question it is no longer doing it . . .
Hopefully it is nothing major, and it was just something that is supposed to happen under certain circumstances.
Thanks
On the lock screen it says charging slowly whenever it is connected to the charger now. I thought it might be the new battery optimisation as I dont remember it doing that before, so turned it off and still says the the same thing and seems to be fairly slow at charging. While the phone itself is turned off it seems a bit faster but I cant be certain.
Can anyone else confirm if their lock screen says charging slowly while connected to a (stock) charger, with the new battery optimisation turned off?
Or if not does anybody know what the problem might be?
Thanks
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Hi,
I have recently moved to Gingerbread 2.3.5 (JVS) on Galaxy S. I am now facing a strange battery issue: Whenever I put the phone on AC power it charges to 100% but then stops charging and never restarts it unless I manually unplug and replug the cable.
If I unplug it 1 hour after I hear the full-charge beep it will show 98%. Not much of a problem.
But last night I used WLAN hotspot, which drains a lot of battery. I plugged the phone to provide enough power. At one point I heard the full-charge beep. 2 hours later when I unplugged it it showed 27%! Why didn't it restart charging if the battery was nearly flat?
I never had this issue with Froyo.
What could be the problem here?
aczelkri said:
Hi,
I have recently moved to Gingerbread 2.3.5 (JVS) on Galaxy S. I am now facing a strange battery issue: Whenever I put the phone on AC power it charges to 100% but then stops charging and never restarts it unless I manually unplug and replug the cable.
If I unplug it 1 hour after I hear the full-charge beep it will show 98%. Not much of a problem.
But last night I used WLAN hotspot, which drains a lot of battery. I plugged the phone to provide enough power. At one point I heard the full-charge beep. 2 hours later when I unplugged it it showed 27%! Why didn't it restart charging if the battery was nearly flat?
I never had this issue with Froyo.
What could be the problem here?
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You not searching a bit before posting is the problem
Don't mean to be rude or anything but there is a huge thread going on and several others were also made talking about this. Long story short:
- any gingerbread samsung rom (and all based on) in SGS has this major bug you've just experienced since day one.
- Samsung doesn't care to correct it even if they have released lots of updates that don't actually fix anything major like this. And they even have the gal to tell people they won't bother with ICS on our phone when they never got around fixing bugs this serious on their current release.
- there's no fix i'm aware of, don't bother changing kernels or anything else. Some people say changing your USB settings to MTU (kies compatible) work. I've personally tested it doesn't.
- Workarounds: either you charge your phone while it's off or you change your phone's rom to one that's not samsung related like cyanogen, miui or ICS.
Yeah!!! I have the same Problem too bro !!! But not just 27% ,I was watch video on YouTube until midnight and than unplug it.Suddenly My phone turned off by it's self. (Sorry for my bad English)
Crixitron
So my HTC One does something really weird sometimes and im afraid if this keeps going on something bad will happen to it.
since i got 5 months ago this has happened like 4-5 times. and i charge it every night. so, sometimes when I charge it and go to bed I wake up and check the phone and even though it was charging when I left it it has only charged for like 20% and even though its connnected to the charger the charging icon wont show. plus the phone is too hot. and i dont mean warm or hot on the back. I mean too hot to touch everywhere, not only the back. Everywhere it has aluminium its too hot. this has only happened 4-5 times and I immediately take it off the charger wait a bit to cool off and then start charging it again and everything is fine. While its hot no warnings pop up and the phone works just fine, but its extremely hot and even though its connected to the charger it doesnt charge. why is that?
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Hey,
This might be a problem with the charger.
Try using the original charging set provided with the phone.
Is there anything you do with the phone that may be considered out of the normal when you charge it?
Worst-case scenario, this might be a hardware fault. In that case you should be able to claim it under warranty.
Good Luck
Something similar happens to me on occasion. It'll be plugged in but when viewing in/out mah, it actually shows it's draining. Less than when it was unplugged, but still draining although it says ac plugged in. (using battery monitor to view btw). When it does that, and it's left plugged in (like overnight), it's abnormally hot when I check it. I have to unplug it and then plug it back in (sometimes a few times) before charging levels go back to norm.
Sent from my HTC One
It happened on me for 1 or 2 times as well, the only different is mine is not really hot. After i flashed custom rom, it seems everything is fine. I guess maybe there are some bugs in the original rom. Now i am using the rom based on google edition. Good luck
I am using the original charger and it does this but it also have done this with a samsung charger i have used some times. something else that I noticed is that when I'm charging and using the phone sometimes the battery percentage drops.
Morning,
since a few months i occasionally have this problem. My phone is charging slooooooooow and i get a message somewhat like: your phone is using too much energy to charge, try closing apps blabla.. (freely translated from Dutch, sorry). Sometimes this happens when im going to sleep. I dont notice its not charging normally, i go to sleep but when i wake up the phone is turned off and charging while turned off. This way, the alarm won't go off either and this may lead to some problems sometime in the future I didn't happen yet when i had an appointment or something fortunately.
First i thought it was a rom problem but whatever rom i'm on, the problem keeps occuring every now and then. Just last night my phone was at 2% and it said that it needed 1 day and 13 hours more to charge This morning i just let the phone die and now it's charging while its turned off. It seems to charge somewhat faster now.
I read different topics on this subject but there wasnt really an answer to this problem, most of them just updated or changed rom and the problem was fixed. I'm wondering, is this a battery problem maybe? Or maybe my charger is malfunctioning? I hope someone experienced this before and found a solution.
Thanks in advance!
So after 2 hours of charging it was on 47%. I thought lets try to connect it to my computer: suddenly its on 69% Then i got a message to connect to original charger cause this will take longer to charge etc.. so i plugged it back in the wallcharger and its on 67%.. Wtf is happening
edit: Its charging to 66% now LOL
Ok, so I have had no issues at all since buying this phone at launch, and this randomly happened yesterday.
I was on my phone and checked the battery info as I do a few times a day, just to see what's using my battery the most, SoT, etc. I was at 87%, which was about right as it has been off the charger a few hours with some light use. A few hours later I noticed my actual battery icon was exactly the same, no drainage at all. I viewed my battery info, and the line was flat for a few hours and still said 87%, which is very inaccurate as I've been using it during those few hours. If I had to guess, I was realistically around 60-70%. Then, while looking at my battery info, it said 'battery critically low' and shut off. I plugged in the charger and the animation when the phone is off said 0%. I left it plugged in for like an hour, and turned it on and it still said 0%. I unplugged the charger and it immediately died. I was on pop rocks ROM when this happened. I then plugged it back in, because the phone would function as normal as long as the charger was plugged in. I booted into recovery and restored an old stock backup, even after that I'm having the same issue. I downloaded a stock ROM from here, wiped everything like normal, same issue. Here's the frustrating part -- I chalked it up to this battery being bad. But I have two batteries, and the other one I hardly ever use, but I've used it before and it was fine and normal. I put that battery in, I'm having the same stupid issue! I don't understand, no matter what ROM or batter I use, this is happening. This is so frustrating, I don't know what to do or why this is happening. The phone will not charge at all. Please, anyone I would greatly appreciate help. I searched for issues like this on Google and here but it's usually chalked up to a bad battery, but I know that's not the case here. I couldn't find the option in TWRP, so I downloaded 'battery calibrator' app and wiped my battery stats, still didn't help. Below is a link to picture of what it looks like when I charge it, it just stays like this. I've done it with fast charging on, off, and with the phone completely off, same result.
http://imgur.com/6375t5i [1]
Edit- One thing that was weird that also happened, was after I restored stock and then rebooted, I unplugged the charger and during the whole 'android is upgrading' thing where it shows the number of apps and such, the charger was unplugged and the phone stayed on for that entire duration. Then once it finished the upgrading thing, it immediately died. That is incredibly strange. Also someone mentioned maybe it's the charger plug in area not working properly, but that doesn't explain a battery going from ~70% to 0 instantly, and the phone not recognizing a charged battery and showing 0% even unplugged.
Also, in addition to everything above, even though I'm certain it's not a battery issue, I bought another official Samsung battery just because I really don't want an 800 dollar paper weight, and I know the battery was somewhat charged when I got it, and I put it in and have the exact same issue. I also just flashed stock firmware via Odin, same issue. I was able to do all of that with my USB plugged in -- but as soon as I unplugged it the phone turned off. This is so frustrating, I can't explain how much I would appreciate help, and maybe even send some money via Paypal for an answer to a fix.
Does anyone have any idea? Please, any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. I have heard maybe it's the charging port on another site, but that would only explain it not charging, not the sudden and instant drainage of two batteries that were both over 60%. I would really appreciate any suggestions.
It could just be something wrong with the phone itself. Bring it to a tmobile store.
Anyone else facing issues with wireless charging? Since the A16 update my device has issues, wireless charging stopped working.
Strangely when the device is turned off it still works. Also after a reboot it works but just stops after a period of time. Only way to get it working again is a reboot.
Never happened before on previous firmwares so must be related
I think it's due to the sleeping time in the wireless charger settings (in battery settings/more).
Try to disable it.
deraiz12 said:
I think it's due to the sleeping time in the wireless charger settings (in battery settings/more).
Try to disable it.
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Thanks for your reply, much appreciated. However I already disabled that and issue remains. Only way to get it charging again is a reboot.
Funny fact, I "duck taped" the led on the charger so it didn't annoy me while charging during the night so I didn't notice the issues at first. Just wondered why my device needed a refill so soon during the day.
Now I removed the tape so I can see the led and when it doesn't light up I know it's time to reboot my device.
I really think it's because of the .16 firmware hoping next update will solve the issue
patensas said:
Anyone else facing issues with wireless charging? Since the A16 update my device has issues, wireless charging stopped working.
Strangely when the device is turned off it still works. Also after a reboot it works but just stops after a period of time. Only way to get it working again is a reboot.
Never happened before on previous firmwares so must be related
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Just placed my phone on the wireless charger (official one from Oppo) and it loads. Got A16 today.
@patensas same issue here with version A16. I mean i unpacked my wireless charger and wanted to use it for the first time...did not charge at all - reboot helped. I will monitor this
@patensas same issue here with version A16. I mean i unpacked my wireless charger and wanted to use it for the first time...did not charge at all - reboot helped. I will monitor this
That's odd. I've never encountered this problem before :O
Mine does charge wirelessly, but it seems like there is no more difference between quiet charging (lower power) and 'loud' charging.
Regards quiet Vs loud charging, I have found no difference either. And I am on A15 still. I had hoped to be able to leave my phone on charge overnight in the bedroom but the fan kicks in immediately and sounds like someone is doing the hoovering! And the fan stays on permanently until you lift the phone off the charger. I.e. useless.
It seems mine is locked in quiet charging, the toggle doesn't do anything anymore. Seems like a proper bug.
Time for little update from me here:
- no issue with wireless charging, always works (except my first time with this charger)
- on normal and quiet mode the fan is super silent, no strange annoying noise whatsoever
- on normal mode charging from 15% to 100% takes ~75-78min
- on quiet mode charging from 14% to 100% takes ~125-135min