My S3 has developed a problem with the battery charge draining. When i am charging my phone, either by USB or wall charger, the battery will charge extremely slowly or go down. This is while nothing running and left overnight to charge.
Has anyone else come across this problem? My phone has become unusable because of this and must be constantly plugged in. However, even when plugged in it will turn off sometimes due to running out of juice.
I'm leaning towards thinking that the battery is the problem not the charging circuits of the phone.
Try charging it with the phone off and if that doesn't work do a hard reset. Some of the custom roms allow you to adjust the charge rate as well, have you installed any custom roms or modified any of those settings?
If none of the above work then it is most likely a hardware fault possibly battery.
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I find the SGS3 to charge MUCH faster than my SGS2 ever did.
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I find the SGS3 to charge MUCH faster than my SGS2 ever did.
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I agree, I was charging SGS2 in my car and it would go maybe 1% in 30 minutes while BT audio streaming/GPS navi was on. Where as using the same charger for my SGS3, BT/GPS on doing the same thing, in 30 minutes it went from 87%->92%
I have flashed a new rom (CM9 nightly) and removed the kernel i had on in case it was that. Tried to charge it overnight and this was the result:
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I bought another S3 for my friend at the same time and he has observed similar problems. It seems to charge partially when in the wall socket but into a PC is useless even with everything off.
I might have to get a new battery and try it out.
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hi,
i have an MDA Compact II of T-Mobile..
Previously it had German Windows Mobile 5 ROM, and I wanted to install an Spanish ROM..
Turned to be that the spanish one installed allright, but when i tourned the phone on it didn't... So i plugged it in and came to life but the battery was in 0%...
I let it plugged for half an hour but the charge didn't went up...
So i tried to install a new German Rom again but it doesn't allow me to do it because the battery is less than 50%...
I tried with several charmers but no one turned to solve my problem...
There is anything else that I can do??
Do you need mor information?? Tell me how to obtain it.. I'm preety new in this things...
Thanks
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There is a way,its a little bit extreme and i dont recommend it in any case but here it is if u like risking ur phones life: like battery flashing u need to connect ur phone directly to the cut off usb cable without battery,+to+,-to- all 4 wires, and the phone thinks that its backup power that ignores battery% but its still USB connected..I discovered that when i bought 3.6v instead 3.7v battery and it didnt want to start charging or start the phone if battery % below 6,so i did already explained and in the meantime little experimented. Its very low voltage on usb cables so it cant burn phone but u never know..
Like on picture connect usb wires to pins on phone those contacts go to..
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Again,it worked for me but it doesnt mean that it will for you so..
Hope this helps..
Cheers
Hello guys, I'm trying to figure our how much my battery can last on one charge, but I'm having a problem in the
Settings> battery,
Where it is supposed to show the usage.
Every time I charge the phone and plug it out, the graph doesn't reset back to 0 hours and just keeps on adding on the total time the phone is on. You can see in the graph the battery percentage keeps going up and down, I can't get it to reset on every time I unplug it from the charger, even by pressing refresh.
Is this a bug for me or is there a proper way to do it?
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I have Canadian version of S3 and battery drain is very high, phone is so warm not easy to carry around comfortably, anyone had same issue?
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I have Canadian version of S3 and battery drain is very high, phone is so warm not easy to carry around comfortably, anyone had same issue?
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Hard to evaluate first part because only you know how intensive you use it. However, the bolded part concerns me. Could be a dud? Mine definitely gets warm especially here (check my location) but not hot by any means. Btw, do you have Infrared Thermometer by any chance?
Battery report only resets when your battery reach 90%+ and you unplug it
I had been searching the web for the answer to, "My RAZR will only charge to xx%!" Mine was doing the same thing. So, I did all the basic things as prescribed by the various forum posters: hard reset, factory reset, battery relearn, cache clearing...to no avail. The factory reset actually got it to fully charge...once. Regardless, the display always indicated that the phone was charging. It just stayed stuck at 40%, or whatever it was at. It appeared to display the correct percentage of charge.
I took the phone apart and tested the battery charge with a voltmeter. The voltage was consistent with the percentage of charge. While plugged in to the charger, however, there was no increase in voltage, i.e.: it wasn't really charging, despite what was indicated.
I had a known-good motherboard lying around, so I tested again using the spare motherboard. Still, no voltage increase = no charge. The only other option was a bad battery or battery circuit board. Since the two are assembled as a unit, I ordered a new battery. After installed, it corrected the charging problem 100%.
Now it was time to determine why the battery failed. It was only 3-months old. I took apart the battery board, and much to my surprise, I found several areas of corrosion on the chips, and board itself:
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I'm not sure why this created a seemingly intermittent condition, but it did. This board is designed to control the amount of charge getting to the battery, and open the charging circuit to the battery when it is full.
Hopefully this helps somebody with the same issue.
Humidity? Weren't these phones almost waterproof?
Hello there, I'm new to the Galaxy S2 forums, I before had an Xperia Arc.
I have a problem that happened just last night. Last night I turned off my phone and left it, didn't touch it. That was about.. around 1 am, right now, 10am I woke up and turned it on. Samsung logo, ROM boots etc, I check the battery and I have 8% left. What??
I took these screenshots, Wakelock Detector screenshots would be useless as it only shows stats from when I turned it on, and everything's normal.
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As you see it lost that huge amount of battery while turned off for no actual reason.
I'm not sure it's an "overnight" issue, I've noticed a random and huge battery drain on power off/on (even on reboots) on 3 different Samsung devices, using different kernels and roms.
[EDIT] Sometimes the battery even slowly recharges by itself with time, so maybe it's a battery stats-related issue [/EDIT]
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I'm not sure it's an "overnight" issue, I've noticed a random and huge battery drain on power off/on (even on reboots) on several Samsung devices, using different kernels and roms.
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Well yes you're right too, any idea of why this on/off huge battery drain?
Use battery stats plus..
And check what is causing battery tp drain
Difference in battery level after reboot is quiet normal thanks to the fuel gauze chip we have
Do I have to use a branded Asus charger to get the fast charge? I'm using an old Huawei one and I don't seem to get the faster charging as I did on my P30 Pro.
Looking to purchase a 2nd, smaller charger if there is a compatible one?
I guess any QC3 or PD charger should work.
Will this give me the fast charge I'm after?
PD3.0 PPS or QC 4.0 will according to Specification.
A friend of mine with ZF9 tells me that even with original Asus charger and cable it appears the "Hypercharge" text on the phone, but the real charging speed is slow; anyone else with the same issue? Thanks!
most battery management will only charge fast when the battery is almost fully drained, generally following this curve. You'll see like 5W or something when closer to 90% battery, even on silly charging protocols like SuperVOOC. https://www.androidauthority.com/fast-charging-explained-2-889780/
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most battery management will only charge fast when the battery is almost fully drained, generally following this curve. You'll see like 5W or something when closer to 90% battery, even on silly charging protocols like SuperVOOC. https://www.androidauthority.com/fast-charging-explained-2-889780/
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I know this, is not the first phone with fast charge that I see, and my friend too is not so noob.
So, the problem appears on his phone even with battery on very low percentage.