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Guys my SGS2 is taking around 4+ hrs to charge from around 5% left. Is this normal.?
Yep takes 4 hours here too
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What's the rated output on the wall charger?
I think this is by design as the phone already gets extremely hot when pushing the CPU (gaming etc).
I believe this can eventually be changed with custom rom/kernel.
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What's the rated output on the wall charger?
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5v @ 0.7A, by the looks of it this is normal.
thanks for responce peps. Never had a phone that took so long to charge.! Normally about an hour which is why i thought i may have had a problem with the handset.!
S2 stock Optus KE2 with it remained turned on with wifi, email checking etc using Energizer XP8000 battery as power source for charge went from 24% reminaing to 100% charged in ~2hrs. S2 internally seems to limit it to <700mah charge rate.
Find a Iphone4 charger or something similar it will give you 5v @ 1.0A, charges quite a bit faster, I use that at work then the slow .7 at home.
my XP8000 charges at 1000mah but S2 will limit it to 700mah
I think you could charge the battery alone in a dock. There it should load with the full 5V and 1ah..
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Ah forgot about that. But it's kind of pain removing that battery cover.
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my XP8000 charges at 1000mah but S2 will limit it to 700mah
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Anywhere you can back this up? I seem to have faster results using a 1.0 vs .7, showing that it is getting more power.
It's been mentioned a few times across various forums. But i'm just going by my experience.
It also takes me around 4 hours to fully charge from below 5% battery. However, if I turn the phone off whilst it charges, goes slightly quicker. Obviously.
Hi,
I think the recharging time is quiet normal for such a phone (and battery).
I had to charge the battery of a friend's phone these days with my notebook.
And it took some hours from 30%. (HTC DHD)
About the same for my SGSII.
I think thats normal.
what would we do without electricity?
Dead phone that is fully discharged battery phone off stock charger to 100%
sub 3 hours .
jje
Changed handset yesterday. today charged new phone from 5% and it took 3hrs 4mins. So it looks like i may have had either a dodgy charger or batt.
I am charging with supplied charger(5V / 0.7A) ...
During the charging I turn off my phone but the charging time is still 3-4h -.-
http://www.amazon.com/Anker-x1900mA...J5Q4/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&qid=1320242216&sr=8-6
I just got these from Amazon and the charger that it came with is JUNK!
It has sliding pins and no instructions on how to charge the batteries.
I used the samsung battery charger to charge it, when the charger saids its charged, I put in the 1st battery and saw that it was only 89% on the phone. I hope this means that the samsung battery charger will only charge up to 1650mAh and there is extra juice on these Ankers.
I will continue to test it out and will update.
I bought these too. To use the charger, slide the pins to the right so that they line up with the copper contacts labeled + and -. I think when you have the contacts on the top right, it is the right most, and then second from the left. Slide the bottom of the charter down and stick the battery in with the pine touching those 2 contacts.
Now, that being said, the light indicated on my charger stopped working after 2 days, so I just leave them in overnight. Also, you can't charge them in the att phone or you get a boot loop. But the batteries themselves seem to last.
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How is these batteries working out for you?
It seems WAY too complicated to use the charger which came with it. Does it matter if the left pin is connected to + or - as I can easily flip the battery around.
I am now charging it with the charger which I got with the GTMax batteries, its slow (Output 4.2V 350mA), but it seems to be charging it to 100% instead of the battery charger from Samsung. (Output: 4.2V 400mA 600mA) (89% for some reason, I have not tried again)
I am getting decent battery life out of it as of now, but have not try it enough for a good review. The product does say that the battery will perform better after 4 charges. Since I have 2 of these, they are lasting around 30 hours each,. its taking me time to cycle through it. Is it reallt 1900mA which should last around 15% better than the OEMs.
I will post my findings when I have tested this enough.
I dont know the rest of you, but I like not charging with the phone charger at all. Its takes seconds to pop in a new battery and I am good for another 20-30hours depeding of the battery. No time off for my phone Also, I dont want to change the backing for extending battery which diminished the thin aspects of this phone. (I just carry a spare and it will for SURE last at least 24 with heavy use; greater than 6 hours of screen time if not more)
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they are lasting around 30 hours each
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30 HOURS!!!! Wow. I am lucky if I get 8 out of these or the stock battery. Are you using bluetooth?
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Does it matter if the left pin is connected to + or - as I can easily flip the battery around.
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It does matter. The right hand pin (when you are looking at the front of the charger) is +.
When you hold the Anker battery face forwards and upright, you can see the +- markings on the battery. This is the direction to use in the charger. I have not yet bought (or seen) the adapter from Seidio which is supposed to their charger work for this sized battery.
I was originally getting 12 hours until 0% battery left. After I shut down all the background syncs, wirless, gps, bluetooth..etc, and installed juiceDefender, I was able to get to about 20 hours with the OEMs. That means, 20hrs with minimal use and it would be dead/unusable at that point.
Then I follow the rooting and de-bloating the i777 and it gets my phone up to 30 hours until dead with normal use. This is around 3 hours of screen time. It would be great if I can ge to about 40 hours..
After a week of use, these batteries seems to last. I think they are as good as the OEMs or maybe 5-10% better. I have also notice that the weight on these ankers are a bit heavier too. Not sure if that means it contains more juice or not.
I have JUNKed the charger that came with it, as its just not user friendly. I been using the GTMax wall charger and its been fine. It take like 6-8 hours to completely charge. (I have not tried again with the Samsung wall charger as the 1st time only charges it up to 89%)
If you are like me, who don't like to chain the phone to the wall and prefer to swap out batteries, then these are good. I hope it there are a lot of cycles life with them.
I travel a lot and with every swap, I get abother 30 hours of moderate use (3 hours of screen time). Under heavy use, I get about 20 hours (4+ hours on wifi)
Just wanted to see everyones charging times, this is from about empty to 100% or when the led turns green. Just choose the closest one that suits you.
Mine gets it done in 2 1/2 hrs.
Didn't mean to thank you.
It takes like 2.5 hours also thru wall charger.
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Used to take many (5-6) hours when doing it via USB, but the fastcharge patch in some of the kernels has changed that to almost wall-speed (2-3 hours) charging.
depending on what I have running, I have charged from dead in just over an hour. If you need a quick juice-up turn turn off Data/Wifi/BT/GPS and you can get a good 60-70 in just over half an hour. You won't miss much world action in that time......heck, it's barely 2 rounds of COD.
2 1/2 hours with wall charger.
same here 2 1/2 hours with wall charger
A lot less with an HTC Charger
As discussed in the downgrade from 1.5 hboot thread, the "official" HTC chargers output more power than a lot of the generic chargers so if you use the wall charger that came with the device it should charge quicker
1 1/2 hrs - 2 usually
but the rom im using only gives 5 hours of heavy use :\
I joke I joke, 5hrs of 4g connection is not bad, not great but not bad.
currently using Romeos3d Iceslated II with stock kernel I believe. the ported Ics has some battery drain issues when your actually using the device
Like 6 hours, I use the battery wall charger and pop a new battery in. So no downtime and always have my phone with me.
I have no idea. I plug it in when I go to sleep and it is charged when I wake up.
mine took 4 horus to fully charge.. any 3rd party battery that you can recommend?
It takes me 2.75 hours to charge from 1%. The HTC wall charger works best since it puts out 1A at 5V. You can buy this OEM HTC charger w/cable really cheap on Amazon. I got the one with the OEM HTC cable. I have one in my computer room, living room, and travel bag. It takes me 4-5 hours using my Sprint car charger. I need to look for an 1A+ car charger.
it usually takes 3 hours if I activate the mobile data connection with auto-sync enabled, if I don't, it only needs 2,5 hours to get fully charged, but I usually prefer the first one.
Well I bought the Galaxy S3 on the first day of the UK launch and depleted the battery to 0% then charged with the original 1 Amp charger from 0%. I had noticed that this takes a very very long time, around 8 hours. The battery life after charging however is substantial and very adequate.
On the second charge after depletion once again, I decided to use a Griffin 2.1 Amp charger which I had used to charge the hefty Galaxy note with. The Galaxy S3 charges at a much rapid rate and takes around 2-3 hours to reach 100% from 0%. However I have noticed that the battery life depletes a bit faster, Is this due to my imagination or is a 2.1 Amp charger not suitable for this phone as it was with the tablet-like Galaxy note.
Also note that I tried to charge my HTC one X with the 2.1 Amp charger and it charge very slowly, while the original HTC charger has a much lower ampage than 1 Amp
Hmm I have been using my galaxy s charger 0.5amp and it has been charging pretty slowly but seems to deplete faster.
I have been actively using for 50min on wifi now and 85% left. Which seems a bit quick for me. I will try charging with the standard 1amp tonight and see.
Now fast are you depleting at?
I measure my battery life by checking the screen on time just before the death of the charge which was 5 hours on the original charger, with the quick charger its 4 hours. My Galaxy note has no change in battery life weather you any ampere chargers. Also the general battery percentage seems to run low faster anyway on the galaxy s3 using the fast charger.
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I shall try the standard 1 amp charger the next time my phone depletes
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Just wondering, since the S2 had a limit of 650mA for charging, does this apply to the S3? You guys make it sound like it charges slow as well...
Galaxy s2 does charge very slow for me aswell. Compared to htc phones the Galaxy s 2 charges painfully slowly. Now I regularly use the 2 amp charger on my galaxy s3 and have seen a huge improvement in charging speeds. It charges at around 2% per minute and still lasts around 4 hours of screen time for a full charge.
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I noticed that I can only charge fast using original charger. While charger with shorted usb data + & - (ie. htc 1A charger) will not activate fast charging.
You can verify by going into *#*#4636#*#*, Battery, using ori charger will show AC while HTC charger will show USB
I think samsung made some changes to the microUSB pinout
xifer said:
You can verify by going into *#*#4636#*#*, Battery, using ori charger will show AC while HTC charger will show USB
I think samsung made some changes to the microUSB pinout
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Thanx for the "shortcode". Where does one find those?
Also from reading about the MHL to HDMI cable from older devices not wotking, it does in fact seem that Samsung have changed the microUSB pinouts (although my Nokia 1.2A charger shows AC in that battery "menu").
Mine charges from about 10% to full in about two and a half hours, using the charger provided in the box.
My s2 came with a 0.7amp charger and took about 2.5 hours. My s3 came with a 1amp charger and takes about the same. Charges to 80% in no time and then slows down for the later part of the charge
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A battery isn't like a fuel tank which you simply fill up through the hose until it's full.
Due to physical and chemical reasons, a nearly-full battery takes a lot longer to fill by a certain percent since it simply can't store the energy quickly enough.
Additionally, deep-discharged batteries often start with a slower charging speed (and then cranked up) to keep the battery from dying too soon and/or not being able to reach full capacity.
is the Nokia 1.2A charger ok to use with the samsung G3 as i got one of these spare and would prefer use it if so as the usb is way to short to reach from my desk up and around the back.
but the Nokia 1.2A charger lead is more than long enough
Just to check with all of you, i've been told that it is best not to charge your phone or any other handheld device IF the battery is not at a really low rate, at least not till your device actually prompts you to charge. They were saying that this would cause the battery life to be shortened. But at times, I need to make sure that i have enough battery to last me for a few more hours before i knock off from work, i would just charge the phone (battery at 25-30%) even before it prompts me to. Is it alright to do that often?
2ndly, at times when i stream videos on my phone for many hours, the battery would definitely drain fast and i would need to charge my phone at least 2-3 times a day. Is it alright for me to do that or am i "abusing" it? =X
Appreciate all your advises...Thanks in advance~
so any update on if using the nokia charger is ok with it being 200mah more than the standard 1A charger since it has longer lead.
or there is the 700mah samsung charger from my old S2
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Well I bought the Galaxy S3 on the first day of the UK launch and depleted the battery to 0% then charged with the original 1 Amp charger from 0%. I had noticed that this takes a very very long time, around 8 hours. The battery life after charging however is substantial and very adequate.
On the second charge after depletion once again, I decided to use a Griffin 2.1 Amp charger which I had used to charge the hefty Galaxy note with.
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Just to check with all of you, i've been told that it is best not to charge your phone or any other handheld device IF the battery is not at a really low rate, at least not till your device actually prompts you to charge. They were saying that this would cause the battery life to be shortened. But at times, I need to make sure that i have enough battery to last me for a few more hours before i knock off from work, i would just charge the phone (battery at 25-30%) even before it prompts me to. Is it alright to do that often?
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I don't know why this misconception still lives on; lithium ion batteries require no priming on first use. The WORST thing you can do with a li-ion battery is to fully deplete it before recharging. It is much better to top it off whenever possible; having said that leaving it turned on, on the charger once it is full is also not the best thing (though nowhere near as bad as depleting it fully).
I believe since this phone has a removable battery with external charger the best thing you can do is always charge your battery in the external charger and just switch out the battery when it gets to around 10%.
Nek0onna you should charge your phone whenever it's not full and you have a handy charger.
http://batteryuniversity.com/learn/article/how_to_charge_when_to_charge_table
what about using different chargers though as i have said yet not answered yet,
i got a samsung s2 700mah charger and a nokia 1200mah charger which will work the best for the battery etc
the 1A included one the usb lead is to short for use behind a desk
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what about using different chargers though as i have said yet not answered yet,
i got a samsung s2 700mah charger and a nokia 1200mah charger which will work the best for the battery etc
the 1A included one the usb lead is to short for use behind a desk
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Yeah its fine, you can use it.
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Can anybody check what the max charge rate is on this device with a battery monitor app? I have handfuls of 1A and a couple 2.1A chargers. I'd really like to charge at twice the rate if possible but not all devices support such rapid charging (kernel limits and such). Just curious before I buy one Thanks!
Even if Samsung slipped up and allowed a 2A charge i'd never want to try it, because tablet and laptop batteries are rated and manufactured for a higher current charge/discharge and most phone batteries would heat and swell up and possibly explode.
my HP touchpad charges with a 1A charger and it would be nice to use that with my sgs3.
Can anybody please check what the max charge rate is on this device
Hello,
How can I tell if my HTC One Max is actually charging at 1.5 A? I've had the phone for about 4 days now, and it charges soooooo slowly. One night/morning it took almost 6 hours to fully charge from around 15%. This can't be right. There are times I've just sat in bed (Thanksgiving Day, for example) doing some light texting and light web browsing...all with the official 1.5 A charger connected, and at times the battery level DECREASED, even while connected to the charger. I have the brightness set to auto, and the screen timeout set to auto. This can't be right...
I downloaded a couple of apps from the play store that try to estimate the charging speed. Battery Indicator estimates that my phone is charging at a rate of about 14.3% per hour. It's also telling me my phone will take 47 minutes to get from 88% to 100%. WHAT!? Another app, just called "Battery" says my phone was charging at 684400 mA...then it changed to 219900 mA. (Of course, neither of these numbers make sense, either. That would be 684 amps or 219 amps...enough to blow something up.)
Again, I'm using the official charger that came with the HTC One Max saying it supports 5 V, 1.5A. I have other chargers lying around different rooms of the house...there's a chance that I'm not using the actual USB cable part that came in the box (it could be mixed up with an older one I had lying around), but would that affect charging speed?
Thanks for any help you can give me. I'm about to call HTC now.
you should really try it first with the OEM cable and charger, but it should not take 6 hours..if it does with the HTC cable/charger, take it back, its defective
assuming you are on stock, and not rooted/tweaked
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Hello,
How can I tell if my HTC One Max is actually charging at 1.5 A? I've had the phone for about 4 days now, and it charges soooooo slowly. One night/morning it took almost 6 hours to fully charge from around 15%. This can't be right. There are times I've just sat in bed (Thanksgiving Day, for example) doing some light texting and light web browsing...all with the official 1.5 A charger connected, and at times the battery level DECREASED, even while connected to the charger. I have the brightness set to auto, and the screen timeout set to auto. This can't be right...
I downloaded a couple of apps from the play store that try to estimate the charging speed. Battery Indicator estimates that my phone is charging at a rate of about 14.3% per hour. It's also telling me my phone will take 47 minutes to get from 88% to 100%. WHAT!? Another app, just called "Battery" says my phone was charging at 684400 mA...then it changed to 219900 mA. (Of course, neither of these numbers make sense, either. That would be 684 amps or 219 amps...enough to blow something up.)
Again, I'm using the official charger that came with the HTC One Max saying it supports 5 V, 1.5A. I have other chargers lying around different rooms of the house...there's a chance that I'm not using the actual USB cable part that came in the box (it could be mixed up with an older one I had lying around), but would that affect charging speed?
Thanks for any help you can give me. I'm about to call HTC now.
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1.5A charger charge 1500 mAh per hour so it should charge in about 2 hours and a half..
You have one problem of two ether your charge isn't good or your
battery.. if your phone run out of battery very fast then it's your battery else it'sthe charger
helpwithmy8525 said:
Hello,
How can I tell if my HTC One Max is actually charging at 1.5 A? I've had the phone for about 4 days now, and it charges soooooo slowly. One night/morning it took almost 6 hours to fully charge from around 15%. This can't be right. There are times I've just sat in bed (Thanksgiving Day, for example) doing some light texting and light web browsing...all with the official 1.5 A charger connected, and at times the battery level DECREASED, even while connected to the charger. I have the brightness set to auto, and the screen timeout set to auto. This can't be right...
I downloaded a couple of apps from the play store that try to estimate the charging speed. Battery Indicator estimates that my phone is charging at a rate of about 14.3% per hour. It's also telling me my phone will take 47 minutes to get from 88% to 100%. WHAT!? Another app, just called "Battery" says my phone was charging at 684400 mA...then it changed to 219900 mA. (Of course, neither of these numbers make sense, either. That would be 684 amps or 219 amps...enough to blow something up.)
Again, I'm using the official charger that came with the HTC One Max saying it supports 5 V, 1.5A. I have other chargers lying around different rooms of the house...there's a chance that I'm not using the actual USB cable part that came in the box (it could be mixed up with an older one I had lying around), but would that affect charging speed?
Thanks for any help you can give me. I'm about to call HTC now.
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I had a friend of mine get a new HTC One and it tooks hours to charge.. it was the charger which was at fault. as said in the previous post. if it also discharges fast then the battery is at fault, if it only takes time for charging it is definitely the charger. i am guessing you have found the solution already lol
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I had a friend of mine get a new HTC One and it tooks hours to charge.. it was the charger which was at fault. as said in the previous post. if it also discharges fast then the battery is at fault, if it only takes time for charging it is definitely the charger. i am guessing you have found the solution already lol
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I think I figured out the solution: In any scenario, I was using the charging adapter that came in the box. The variable that changed was the USB cable...since I have several lying around in about every room of my house. It seems only that the USB cable that came in the box will charge the phone quickly...around 3 hours and 20 minutes from completely dead to 100%. Any other USB cables seem to charge at about half that speed. (And of course, charge time suffers when the screen is on and you're using the device.)
But I still find this really odd. I assumed all micro USB cables were created equal. Perhaps not. Am I missing something here?
That's odd. This phone has the quick charge component/feature from Qualcomm, but that should not make any difference based on the cable.
well may be the other cable were not plugged in properly and did not reach the charging pins in the correct place? Do you notice a difference in attaching and detaching the cables?
for whatever reason, factory cables ALWAYS work best with the device they came with..
sometimes aftermarket cables are ok, but you can never be sure...
If you can, use the cable and charger that your device came with; that will always be best.
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for whatever reason, factory cables ALWAYS work best with (*for*) the device they came with...
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I had the same issue. I was going to use my old S4 cable cause it is longer. It gave me a notification telling me to only use the charger that came with it. Was the cables fault. My guess is it is using an extra pin to tell the phone it is the correct cable sort of like how OTG cables work.