Problem charging my s3 - Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hi all,
I have no idea when it happen but nowadays when i plug my phone to charge, it will not charge and will discharge instead.
I tried to power it off and on again and it went back to normal.
I also tried to plug in the charging plug in and out a few times to get it to charge!!
Can anyone advise me what is happening and how can i correct this?
Thanks!!
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Same happened to me after a month of jb update what I found is the only thing that I'll bring back charging to normal is ics if the problem is really annoying then install ics Rom that I'll solve your problem
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So you have change back to ics?
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Try a different cable, same thing was happening to me a couple of months back. Turned out to be the cable.

mrlow81 said:
So you have change back to ics?
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Yea that's the only thing that solved my charging woes...before that I had tried all the tricks ie removing battery for 10 sec.., rebooting , changing Rom ,kernels after super wipe but nothing worked but for ics.
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scarecrow2012 said:
Try a different cable, same thing was happening to me a couple of months back. Turned out to be the cable.
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Hmmmmm... will try that...
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tommy2601 said:
Yea that's the only thing that solved my charging woes...before that I had tried all the tricks ie removing battery for 10 sec.., rebooting , changing Rom ,kernels after super wipe but nothing worked but for ics.
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But i am in love with jb.. lets see if the change of charging cables help..
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mrlow81 said:
But i am in love with jb.. lets see if the change of charging cables help..
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Even I changed the cable and chargers everything would solve the problem for couple of days then again back to square one...one peculiar thing was there was no knowing when it used to charge and when it used to stop there was no pattern to it...
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scarecrow2012 said:
Try a different cable, same thing was happening to me a couple of months back. Turned out to be the cable.
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I have change another cable and is charging better now.. Thanks!!
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Dude, i have the same problem as you. When my phone is plugged in, it takes forever to charge it and if i am using it when charging it will quickly discharge. Really annoying.

Slow charging
I think i have the same problem.
when i charge my phone over night, the battery is in the morning only 40-50%
I tried my old htc desire charger and the normal s3 charger, but it does not make any difference.
What can be the problem? my charger, battery or my phone itself?

FYI, I did a Kies update and that fixed my battery problem. Try it. It may work for you to.

it happened to me too
what I did was u changed my USB cable
it solved my problem
try this
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a different good quality cable will solve the problem. I had a slow charging issue .changed to a Nokia sync cable .nd voila charges in the required speed
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yes.. i guess whoever is encountering problem should try using the original cable and see if solve the problem.. mine does.. no choice..
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Use Original Samsung cable or Nokia cable - that fixes most charging problems.
3rd party cables give a lot of problems...

Galaxy S3 Charging problem-disappointing and annoying
Dear All......HELP !!!
I bought a new S3 and i loved it.....everything was perfect...it was on ICS>
Now i have this problem since few weeks back....suddenly my S3 will not charge....sometimes only 3 to 4 % up whole night....very very slow.
Even the LED light is dim when charging.....
ALSO ...sometimes it is not charging then i unplug the cable from cell phone put it back.....its charges but after a few seconds it stops charging....worse when i connec to PC.
I tried twisting the cable....first i tought some problem in the connection point of cable to my phone....i changed cable nothing.....
is it hardware issue of my phone where it connects to charging cable or is it Jelly bean????
im really disappointed that how come a new phone (only 1.5 months old) can have this problem.....
PLEASE HELP ME.....I CANNOT CHARGE MY MOBILE.......from wall or USB....im starting to hate samsung ...although i used Galaxy S Plus...and loved it.....
Also my screen is less bright and yellowish than my wifes S3. i mean the white is not white is yellowish white (off white color)
Thanks please help

Most likely the Samsung charger, many faults reported.
S1/S2/ BlackBerry and many others work on the S3

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Turns off while charging

Hi all,
I've searched for an answer and couldn't find one.
My Galaxy turns itself off while charging and most of the time, I have to take the battery out to turn it on again.
Anyone else have this problem?
Thanks
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First, caused by AC charger or USB PC or both ?
Your firmware version and rooted, mods etc ?
Have you tried a factory reset ?
Different chargers and cables etc ?
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Only by AC charger I think. I've only got the one which came in the box.
It's a standard phone, not rooted or anything.
I haven't tried a factory reset, will try that tomorrow if it does it again tonight
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yep the exact thing has been happening to me. mine also turns off when not charging aswell
Xplorah said:
yep the exact thing has been happening to me. mine also turns off when not charging aswell
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op says his turns off WHILE charging, so yours and his isn't doing the same thing.
Actually, mine is doing that too!
This morning, it turned itself off while charging, then when I turned it back on it froze, and then when I rebooted, it turned off again with the blue light flashing.
I'm also finding that the screen when waking up is very temperamental to unlock.
I'm getting fed up now!
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Hardware failure maybe? (I think the main reason is the AC adaptor was broken or something).
Have you try with another USB AC adapter?
radeonxt said:
op says his turns off WHILE charging, so yours and his isn't doing the same thing.
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Her
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radeonxt said:
op says his turns off WHILE charging, so yours and his isn't doing the same thing.
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Her
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I think it might be something to do with wireless being on. Sounds stupid, but when I have wireless on, I get the screen freeze and the turn off while charging.
Going to try the rest of the evening with no wireless and see what happens
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Well, I tried the wireless off and charged and it was fine. No screen freeze or turn off during charging.
As soon as I turned it on this morning, screen froze when it went into sleep.
Luckily I I have unlimited data!
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Have you bothered to Factory Reset ?
Sounds like WiFi drivers though.
Flash another kernel would must likely fix it.
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Did anyone get to the bottom of this? I just received my replacement phone and sure enough, phone switches itself off when wifi enabled.
Then I saw the *#0011# trick to turn off wifi power save mode.
Hi,
No, I haven't got this sorted yet. Still does it with me and now my wifi and data keeps dropping out!
Going to send it back to 3 and let them fix it. My friend as one and his is fine
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GreenSaints said:
Hi,
No, I haven't got this sorted yet. Still does it with me and now my wifi and data keeps dropping out!
Going to send it back to 3 and let them fix it. My friend as one and his is fine
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The thing i mentioned above your post works but not sure if that's the answer.
Hi again,
Well I rooting and putting a new ROM on and, though it didn't switch off while charging, it does still freeze when coming out of sleep.
So I'm getting there!
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Try to check the temp when charging, I read somewhere that if the phone overheats it will shutdown automatically. About the freezing issue, try to do a factory reset first, maybe some apps that you installed are causing that.
If still the same, maybe its a hardware issue.
Hi again,
Sorry to keep going on about this, but the problem has been solved!
Basically, the new firmware update has sorted the problem. No turning off while charging, no freezing when coming out of sleep - its perfect!
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Charging issues.

I seem to be having some weird charging issues.
On the official samsung charger which came with the phone it won't charge at all. Plug it in and does nothing.
If I use the galaxy S III charger it charges very very slowly.
With the HTC charger it seems to charge like normal.
It's very weird and don't know how to troubleshoot this. There's no overvoltage errors with the battery and it works fine plugged into the computer. So I don't think the usb flex is faulty. I switched batteries with another SII and it's the same thing.
Then obviously get a new S2 charger.
Didn't you read. I've tried 3 different chargers
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imlgl said:
Didn't you read. I've tried 3 different chargers
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Yes I did read, but you obviously didnt!
I said get a new "S2" charger. Using other non-official chargers will result in varying results.
TheATHEiST said:
Yes I did read, but you obviously didnt!
I said get a new "S2" charger. Using other non-official chargers will result in varying results.
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The S2 charger works fine with the other S2 though. It's just with my phone
well in that case maybe theres a problem in ur usb charging flex cable but that occurs wen u have a flashing battery icon on top righ cornoer battery status shows over voltage at charging and ur phn restarts wen u power it off.. if u dnt find these things it might be something else then
I don't have any of those issues. I had that before so I replaced the usb flex. This one is about 4 months old which is currently in my phone
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imlgl said:
The S2 charger works fine with the other S2 though. It's just with my phone
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And have you tried the charger on yours from this other S2?
Yes I've tried from both, and an s3 its only mine which doesn't work. I'm using the HTC charger atm and that seems to charge it fine. I'm really stumped to what wrong with it
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Battery is not charging correctly

For a while my phone is taking a lot much time to charge than it usually take earlier.
So today i installed this app:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.abmantis.galaxychargingcurrent.free
And after i connect my mobile to charger this app usually shows that my phone is having max current:400/500 which shud be 999 instead. (Read app description)
After i disconnect charger and connect it back 3-4 times i get a rating of 700 or sometimes even 900(max) but after letting the mobile charge for a while this automatically decreases to 300-400.
And also from the time i bought the phone(4 months back) charger usually gets somewhat hot(not warm) but i ignored that issue.
So what do u think the fault is in-charger/phone?
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Do not use such an application, let the phone discharge to zero to turn off and recharge to full.
mostly help.Please use the phone menu
charging problems are mainly related to cable!
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The app has 10000+ downloads and my friend suggested so i thought of giving it a try
After the battery fully discharges and phone turn off shud i turn on the phone after connecting to charger or shud i let be off till it charges completely?
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sriram231092 said:
charging problems are mainly related to cable!
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Yea my friend had the same problem and he installed this app as well and was getting 400 too
But then he changed his cable with blackberry cable and now he's getting 900 rating
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No need to use this.
just delete the cache occasionally a classic way to charge your phone battery runs down.
It does not have to be zero!!
yeah me too using BB cable. better than many original samsung cables.
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https://play.google.com/store/apps/...xLDEsImNvbS5uZW1hLmJhdHRlcnljYWxpYnJhdGlvbiJd
misacek said:
No need to use this.
just delete the cache occasionally a classic way to charge your phone battery runs down.
It does not have to be zero!!
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Sorry for being noobish but how to delete cache?
By going to application manager> running>show cached processes and then deleting of every program one by one?
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https://play.google.com/store/apps/...251bGwsMSwxLDEsIm1vYmkuaW5mb2xpZmUuY2FjaGUiXQ..
It does not help torch, but a system that does not take much energy
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It does not help torch, but a system that does not take much energy
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Didnt got u ?
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If you do calibrate batteries and erase cache, the system will be as before.
Have tried both i.e. cleared cache and charged completely frm 2%
But it almost took 6-7 hours
So is the problem in cable?
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Cable
Charger
Usb Port
Battery are all possible causes of very slow charge .
jje
yes it's the cable. many samsung customers including me faced the same problem. just change the cable.
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But what about the charger getting hot too.. shud i check it out with service center as i have 1-2 months of warranty left on accessories?
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yeah that is a good idea.
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Charging faulty?

I've been trying to charge my phone lately my nexus s charger no longer charges as quick as it used to and my tab2 plug and s3 wire doesn't seem to be charging as fast. Could this be a USB fault or ROM as I came from paranoid ROM tried to go stock got a error and used the kies emergency recovery
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tonyt3rry said:
I've been trying to charge my phone lately my nexus s charger no longer charges as quick as it used to and my tab2 plug and s3 wire doesn't seem to be charging as fast. Could this be a USB fault or ROM as I came from paranoid ROM tried to go stock got a error and used the kies emergency recovery
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many S3 stock chargers are faulty. just change the cable. i'm using blackberry cable for a long time! :good:
I tried a BlackBerry charger in my friends last week his took forever to charge I'll give it a few more days to see how it goes
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tonyt3rry said:
I tried a BlackBerry charger in my friends last week his took forever to charge I'll give it a few more days to see how it goes
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not the whole charger. samsung adapter with BB cable.
sriram231092 said:
many S3 stock chargers are faulty. just change the cable. i'm using blackberry cable for a long time! :good:
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This. I've been using my blackberry cable for a while now to since the stock chargers are really crappy. Besides, it disconnects with the slightest touch. I first blamed my USB ports for it, but when I changed the cable everything's fine
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not the whole charger. samsung adapter with BB cable.
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my girlfriends old bb bold has a complete charger, I used a different plug last night left it on all night and woke up to 60% ive rooted it and wiped cache, dalvik and something else gonna reflash rom to see if that fixes it if not its a trip to carphone warehouse
just gave it a flash of the same stock emc2 rom I was on, didnt know it didnt wipe the phone when you flash the same rom, its reaching 70% on charge, will see how far it gets before i go to work

Bad batterry life

I cant use my phone and charge at the same time it discharges and my battery life is not too good.
Is this because my battery is more than a year old ? If it is I would like to know so I can buy a new battery
If it isnt then I wouldnt like to waste money on buying a new battery
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Try another battery .
BATTERY LIFE.
BETTER BATTERY STATS
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2539568
Have you tried Greenify?
Yes I am currently using both but I still cant charge my phone and use it at the same time without the battery percentage dropping
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Also I use a iPhone wall adapter with a blackberry usb cable I lost my charger maybe thats the reason it doesn't charge properly
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if the battery drain is alright when the phone is not charging, you should maybe first try to use another charging method! I had exactly the same problem even with original samsung usb cable. I changed it to an older samsung charging cable (galaxy ace) and everything worked perfect again.
Good luck!
Ok thanks ill grab another charger and see if it makes a difference
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My original Samsung galaxy s3 charger discharges my phone when plugged in and being used. Using an old galaxy s wall plug charger and have no problem
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ykdr-scott said:
My original Samsung galaxy s3 charger discharges my phone when plugged in and being used. Using an old galaxy s wall plug charger and have no problem
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i couldnt get a new charger right now since i have exams but lately im having problem charging my phone to 100% luckily my brother is coming tomorrow and ill see if his charger has any effect
Ahad Ejaz said:
i couldnt get a new charger right now since i have exams but lately im having problem charging my phone to 100% luckily my brother is coming tomorrow and ill see if his charger has any effect
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New charger definitely! Watch out for the output of the charger, should be in the same range as your original!
Okay its confirmed my charger was too weak im currently charging using a blackberry charger for q5 and its fast as lighting no problem with using the phone and the battery draining when plugged in
So if anyone has the same problem its due to the charger
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