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My phone has 50% battery left. I plug the cable into my laptop to charge over USB. Then I play some games at the same time. The battery level comes up slowly.
So is it good to do that? Or we should do one at a time: charge or use phone.
I have always done it that way and ive had android ever since it first came out. Nothing should go wrong, at least not for me.
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No problems with that.
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Yeah this is a good question I have always wondered about it... Won't it affect the battery like long term?
Wont harm anything
it doesn't matter if affects to the battery or not, you will trade your phone for another new one before the battery gets damaged
The only issue is that the phone will heat up like crazy so...
If you're overclocked or it's a very hot day, please avoid doing this, otherwise you may damage your phone.
Charging in power off stage
Does anyone feel charging in power off stage is quicker than normal stage?
illusiongod said:
Does anyone feel charging in power off stage is quicker than normal stage?
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Charging when the phone is turned off is quicker for me
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illusiongod said:
Does anyone feel charging in power off stage is quicker than normal stage?
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Of course it is. One is "In & Out" while another is "Only In" >>> The battery is filled faster
@Everyone: I wonder if it will affect the battery life. For example, its capacity is reduced faster
//Pls excuse me for my poor English
ntduyphuong said:
Of course it is. One is "In & Out" while another is "Only In" >>> The battery is filled faster
@Everyone: I wonder if it will affect the battery life. For example, its capacity is reduced faster
//Pls excuse me for my poor English
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It shouldn't.
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Using while charging overheats the battery and the mobile itself.
Heat is the biggest enemy of batteries (wrt. longetivity), so yes it does reduce battery life. Having said that, most of us upgrade phones in less than 2 years, so it wouldn't be as much of a problem.
But overheating is not good for rest of the phone hardware.
sumeshpremraj said:
Using while charging overheats the battery and the mobile itself.
Heat is the biggest enemy of batteries (wrt. longetivity), so yes it does reduce battery life. Having said that, most of us upgrade phones in less than 2 years, so it wouldn't be as much of a problem.
But overheating is not good for rest of the phone hardware.
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I really doubt that. If the phone or battery were overheating, you wouldn't be able to touch it.
Maybe it reduces battery life, but that can't be much, since the battery gets hot whether it's being charged or not.
I kill two battery on my x10 !!with heavy use it when it charge.
kaosdroid said:
I kill two battery on my x10 !!with heavy use it when it charge.
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If you left it in all the time, yeah, that would.
Using it while charging is fine. Mine charges at about 30-35*C, gaming on top its up to max 41/42. Thats well within limits and its going to have negligible effects on the battery pack.
What charger? Sure it was an dealextreme charger.
Logic.
Killing 2 batterys? Dafuq
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Hello,
I'm curious. I am not sure this was how it was before but I notice that when using the phone while charging (with the AC charger), I would still drain battery. Is this normal?
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No, it is not.
While on charger you should gain on battery, not discharge.
At least if you use phone in a normal way.
With BT and GPS navigation on (and some data traffic) my phone gains charge...
cool1007 said:
Hello,
I'm curious. I am not sure this was how it was before but I notice that when using the phone while charging (with the AC charger), I would still drain battery. Is this normal?
Thanks
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Yes, it may happen. It depends on the mAh of the power source.
Usually the USB port delivers less mAh then the AC power source.
In that case, if you are running a demanding application (games especially) the power consumption could exceed the charging rate.
It's possible, yes.
Depends on what the phone is doing at the moment, i.e. when it's on 100% CPU load for example.
Happens everytime I encrypt my S2 a rather full internal and external SDs storages, because the phone is "doing a lot of work".
If you then maybe add enabled WiFi, BT, GPS.... yeah, the power gets sucked out of the battery faster then the AC can pour new one in.
Only thing I'm doing is using tweetcaster while opening the ocasional web page with Dolphin browser, nothing intensive. I'm using the standard AC charger that came with the phone.
This morning after unplugging it, I noticed that in a couple hours time lapse, the phone was hot all the time and lost about 30% battery while on standby. So, I rebooted it and it stopped feeling hot on touch. Battery drain is still somewhat fast but not as fast as this morning.
I'm attaching a Battery Stats screenshot in case it helps.
Thanks
P. S. I'm using Hydra h2o rom
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tweetcaster
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And there is the root of all evil.
And the phone getting hot also hints at high CPU load.
I am using TweetCaster myself a lot, and sometimes the app goes crazy and uses 100% of the CPU -> high load -> hot phone and empty battery.
I can reproduce it by deleting the temp folder of TweetCaster on the int. storage and either waiting some time or rebooting, the app will go wild at 100% CPU load for sure.
Ah ok then. Lol. Now I know what to do! Unless, do you recommend me another twitter app that is more battery friendly
Thanks sir.
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Ah ok then. Lol. Now I know what to do! Unless, do you recommend me another twitter app that is more battery friendly
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Well, it's a good app, I don't wan't to bad-talk it.
Sometimes you just need to keep an eye on it, esp. in situations where the int. storage is not available for apps (like when connected via USB mass storage to the PC).
Usually killing it off from taskmanager is enough, on some not-so-often occasions I needed to "kill -9" the process from a shell (Termnial Emulator app or via adb).
I also got a neat little thing called "CPUNotify" (on Google Play) running on my phone, it adds a little icon to the notification bar that always shows you the current CPU load - that way you can literally "see" spikes in load once they happen.
Some time ago I had the same problem.
The problem was on the original Samsung charger. It has shown that it loads, but it lost battery.
I bought another charger and now it charges
its possible. I see this situation everytime I travel. In car I use stock car charger and on phone ussually runs navigation, video recording software and plays music. And battery is drained!!! If additionaly I start My Track, then 7-8 hours and phone is dead. On hot days even had situation, when battery reached 65C temp and phone refused to charge it. So at this point SGSII is real crap
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Hi guys sorry if this question has been asked before but i cannot find the answer im looking for. I' have searched before you all say anything.
Anyways what i wanted to ask was is it advisable to charge my phone whilst playing games such as gta3 or max payne? When I do my phone gets hot around 42C and my battery actually decreases.
I use sixaxis controller app and controller, plugged in hdmi and ics .453 (xperia s)
It shouldn't damage the battery, but still not the best idea.
Watch out your phone will blow.
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Why would you play those games on a phone?
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Dandavadel said:
Why would you play those games on a phone?
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- Because they're available
- Because it's fun
- (My main reason to do so) Simply because we can!
I've got a battery monitor app and did some tests with Dead Trigger. The battery info shows it discharging rather charging.
2 possibilities
1. The phone is using more power than what is being supplied. (I'm using the EP850 quick charger)
2. Safety mechanism by Sony. I've (and many others) noticed that once the phone is fully charged at 100%, the battery is still DISCHARGING(with evidence from Battery Monitor Widget) even though the power is still on and battery flashes the lightning bolt. This is to protect the battery life according to Sony.
Maybe somehow they don't want the phone to charge(even though it is not at 100%) while intensive gaming is being done I'm not sure.
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I've got a battery monitor app and did some tests with Dead Trigger. The battery info shows it discharging rather charging.
2 possibilities
1. The phone is using more power than what is being supplied. (I'm using the EP850 quick charger)
2. Safety mechanism by Sony. I've (and many others) noticed that once the phone is fully charged at 100%, the battery is still DISCHARGING(with evidence from Battery Monitor Widget) even though the power is still on and battery flashes the lightning bolt. This is to protect the battery life according to Sony.
Maybe somehow they don't want the phone to charge(even though it is not at 100%) while intensive gaming is being done I'm not sure.
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Ive also found this with my ep850 and stock charger. Could be both of your theories together lol. Ah well looks like ill have to play for 2 hours, recharge then play again lol
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Don't charge your phone while playing games.It's the only reason for it.
Battery life
I've also found that after attempting (!!) to connect my phone using the horrible Sony PC Companion (PCC), and after PCC has told me for the billionth time that there is no phone connected, my battery is shown as discharging even though the PC is connected to my Xperia S with the standard USB cable and no other app running. I think it is yet another "unlisted feature", or "bug", as we real-worlders call it. Overall, I love the phone, hate the support and PC software.
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I've also found that after attempting (!!) to connect my phone using the horrible Sony PC Companion (PCC), and after PCC has told me for the billionth time that there is no phone connected, my battery is shown as discharging even though the PC is connected to my Xperia S with the standard USB cable and no other app running. I think it is yet another "unlisted feature", or "bug", as we real-worlders call it. Overall, I love the phone, hate the support and PC software.
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+1 however when I connect the phone it seems okay but truthfully ive only connected it for a couple of mins to transfer one or two things, or it was to update and root my phone. So I never noticed this. However I do remember it happening on the arc and arc s.
To be honest I mainly use myphone explorer when connecting my phone to transfer
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Hermantje said:
- Because they're available
- Because it's fun
- (My main reason to do so) Simply because we can!
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OK I know that. I asked because if you love games that much and need to charge your phone while playing, quit game from phone and go on your Xbox. As said before you will ruin your battery and phone. People blow PCs PSU's playing games let alone mobiles...
I'm not saying I don't play them on my phone and telling you not to, do as you will its just my opinion.
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I was simply askin cuz I wanted to know. And ive never been a fan of xbox but im not one of the fortubate ones who can go a pay for an xbox or ps3 or anything like that? I rarely play games anyway on my way phone
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Don't get me wrong I play a few games on my phone too but never while charging.
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The device can get quite hot but never had any issues with it.
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Don't get me wrong I play a few games on my phone too but never while charging.
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No hard feelings or anything mate, just saying I havent been.lucky to own a games console since the psone lol. But I mean sometimes its like your on a mission say in max payne and your battery gets low lol. Not good
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Hilarious to see people talking about things that they know nothing about it..
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And what do you mean by that?
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It seems that it takes forever to charge with any kernels (TW or AOSP) that have stweaks support. I ramped the values with very poor results. Does anybody have better settings or tweaks they can share?
Whats the amperage of your chaging cable? also kinda strange question, does the charging start immediately or is there lag before the phone starts to charge when plugged in?
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Whats the amperage of your chaging cable? also kinda strange question, does the charging start immediately or is there lag before the phone starts to charge when plugged in?
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He has already been troubleshooting in the Plasma thread with ffolkes, the Dev who builds Plasma, and has been spamming this question everywhere.
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i let my little brother to borrow my s3 to play GTA and he was playing while the phone is charging and after like 10-15 minutes, it freezes. and the phone really gets hot. i need to removed the battery in able to boot the phone.
i would like to ask if playing "high end games" in s3 while charging is not advisable / recommendable?.
BennyZars said:
i let my little brother to borrow my s3 to play GTA and he was playing while the phone is charging and after like 10-15 minutes, it freezes. and the phone really gets hot. i need to removed the battery in able to boot the phone.
i would like to ask if playing "high end games" in s3 while charging is not advisable / recommendable?.
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It is not recommended to even use the phone while charging as the charger will wear out faster and might electrocute u or ur brother. It is normal to heat up even when not charging as the cpu is working very hard.
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It is not recommended to even use the phone while charging as the charger will wear out faster and might electrocute u or ur brother. It is normal to heat up even when not charging as the cpu is working very hard.
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thanks.