Charging very slow good or bad for battery life - Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hi all, before too charge my galaxy note 2 takes just 2 and half hours, but yesterday I changed to new charger cable that is longer and maybe the material made its now good, the phone took 5 hour to charge, now I want to know charging phone very slow is good for the battery life?
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raidy said:
Hi all, before too charge my galaxy note 2 takes just 2 and half hours, but yesterday I changed to new charger cable that is longer and maybe the material made its now good, the phone took 5 hour to charge, now I want to know charging phone very slow is good for the battery life?
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I wouldn't think that charging slow or fast would affect the battery life at all. The only concern I see when charging the battery is that you don't overheat it, and neither of these options sound like they are going to do that.
I would say that the only way your method of charging could affect battery life is if you used one of those "rapid charge stations" in airports. I would imagine fully charging your battery in 15 minutes could not be good for it.

Thanks! I am afraid about that if could affect the battery life, because I still use the phone charger I just changed the usb cable to a longer one, maybe the cable electrical conductor is not good quality as the original one.
And this can take all night to charge the battery. Time it's not problem, I just care about battery life.
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raidy said:
Hi all, before too charge my galaxy note 2 takes just 2 and half hours, but yesterday I changed to new charger cable that is longer and maybe the material made its now good, the phone took 5 hour to charge, now I want to know charging phone very slow is good for the battery life?
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The material, length and quality of the USB cable has no significance what so ever for the charging times, trust me. If it's USB 3.0 or not may, though.

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Charging Time

How long does it take before your batteries are fully charged?
First, need to start by stating it seems the charger that came with my S3 may need replacing, as the phone doesnt charge when I connect it. I connected my Note's charger though and it started charging.
I let my battery drain to 1% and started charging, its been 2 and a half hours and its at 47%.
Does that sound normal? My Note gets fully charged in about 3 and a half hours.
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Have you tried the original charger & cable again after you got a little juice in the battery from Note's charger? Also to determine if its charging slowly, were you using the phone for various things while it was charging??? How long has your screen been on while charging, because that is the biggest battery sucker on a Samsung device.
Just tried using the original charger and no luck. Weird thing is the S3 seems to think it.is just connected via USB as the USB connection prompt appears whenever I try to use that charger, but still doesnt charge.
Im using the Note's charger now and it is charging again.
The entire time the phone was sleeping, screen was not on.
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Sounds like either a defective charger, or a defective battery/phone. If you have a warranty, I advise exchanging your device through that method.
Thanks went to Samsung and turns out the cable is defective.
How long does it take for your S3s to fully charge coming from little to no charge?
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I never leave mine till 1%. Usually at around 20% and it takes 4-5 hours. Is it better to leave till 1%?
Also how fast are you depleting a? Had a galaxy s and a iphone 4 before and the s3 seems too deplete a little faster.

[Q] Slow Battery Charging with OEM Wall Charger? (Sprint)

Loving my Galaxy SIII so far, but I have one 'gripe'. Is it just me, or does the GSIII take a long time to charge fully using the included charger/cable? I only have limited experience with this, but this morning I ran it down to about 2%, then powered down and put it on the charger and after a couple hours it was just at 69%, which really surprised me. I expected it to be (nearly) full after a couple hours.
I'm coming from an (original) Evo, which was rooted running CM7 and it always charged quickly on any wall charger. Not sure if that was a 'feature' of the ROM, or that's just how the battery was?
Anyway, what have you noticed about how long it takes to charge your phone? Long time? About right? Anything I can do to speed the charging?
Thanks!
polkadots said:
Loving my Galaxy SIII so far, but I have one 'gripe'. Is it just me, or does the GSIII take a long time to charge fully using the included charger/cable? I only have limited experience with this, but this morning I ran it down to about 2%, then powered down and put it on the charger and after a couple hours it was just at 69%, which really surprised me. I expected it to be (nearly) full after a couple hours.
I'm coming from an (original) Evo, which was rooted running CM7 and it always charged quickly on any wall charger. Not sure if that was a 'feature' of the ROM, or that's just how the battery was?
Anyway, what have you noticed about how long it takes to charge your phone? Long time? About right? Anything I can do to speed the charging?
Thanks!
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Consider this battery has 33% more juice so 2.5-3 sounds ok bur it could be better evo lte definitely charged faster for me, but is not too bad battery life is ok for me so far
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About how many cycles have you gone through so far? Also did you fully charge the battery before initial usage?
s3xda said:
About how many cycles have you gone through so far? Also did you fully charge the battery before initial usage?
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Yea, I fully charged it on Wednesday, and then powered on and activated it Thursday. That was the first time I fully discharged and charged. Could have something to do with it, you think?
I noticed that the OEM (charger it shipped with) also is a bit on the slow side, but sicne I typically am charging over night it doesn't bother me. I have many microUSB chargers but I haven't messed around with others yet.
Wow, I just used it for the first time last night and I thought it charged up pretty fast. And this was with me watching youtube videos and exploring the phone while it was on the charger.
Aren't slower chargers typically better for batteries?
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hathetran said:
Aren't slower chargers typically better for batteries?
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Define slow
Gadgetz said:
Define slow
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Chargers that ride the small bus to school.
The GS3 has a bigger battery than the og evo. I'm not sure how big it is but it is definitely smaller than the GS3. So maybe you're just used to the evo battery charge time.
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tjpallares said:
The GS3 has a bigger battery than the og evo. I'm not sure how big it is but it is definitely smaller than the GS3. So maybe you're just used to the evo battery charge time.
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That could be the case? I ran it down to 15% yesterday, turned it off, and let it charge for an hour a day it crept up to 58%. Disappointing, but it sounds like this is normal? At least it doesn't guzzle battery!
polkadots said:
That could be the case? I ran it down to 15% yesterday, turned it off, and let it charge for an hour a day it crept up to 58%. Disappointing, but it sounds like this is normal? At least it doesn't guzzle battery!
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100% normal
2-2.5 hours to get a full charge
Coming from a galaxy tab 10.1 with a 5.5 hours full charge, I find the S3 charging really fast lol

Slow Charging

Since a few days my phone doesn't charge good.
When I charge my phone over night, it get's to 50% but not any higher.
The phone charges really slow.
I've tried my old htd desire charger end the normal samsung charger, but it make no difference.
What can be the problem?
The charger, battery or the phone itself?
It`s most likely the battery, make sure the terminals on the battery and in the phone are clean.
An Anker battery is around $10-15 , but NFC is reported not to work with it, or an original Samsung battery is around $25
John.
coeniel said:
Since a few days my phone doesn't charge good.
When I charge my phone over night, it get's to 50% but not any higher.
The phone charges really slow.
I've tried my old htd desire charger end the normal samsung charger, but it make no difference.
What can be the problem?
The charger, battery or the phone itself?
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Problem is the bug in jb Rom....only sure shot solution is downgrading to ics.
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Is your phone slow charging, OR normal charging but fast discharging?? Think about it.. go to battery section in the settings, and post a screenshot
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Time the Note II takes to recharge

How long should our Note II take to recharge from 0% to 100%? Problem with practically all Android phones is that it just takes way too long to recharge. Last night I plugged my Note at about 1AM, depleted all the way down. When I woke up at 7AM, it was still at 70%. Does that sound about right for everyone? I understand that we have a huge battery capacity but the limitation with the microUSB port is definitely there.
no something is not right...my device recharges in 2.5hrs from below 10% to 100%
You using an outlet or CPU?
if CPU, are you directly connecting to a USB port or a hub?
My cpu charges so slowly compared to an outlet.
I'm plugged into the wall using the provided OEM charger.
pcpark87 said:
I'm plugged into the wall using the provided OEM charger.
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You tried different outlets?
I would turn the phone off, try dif outlet, try charging it, see if it is any better.
If no, probably something hardware related.
if yes, probably something you have installed then i would just restart from stock.
It takes me about 2-3 hours with the oem charger.
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I've been having this problem too, and I can't really pin it down. I'm using the charger that comes with the S3,which is only rated at 1amp so I know that's the biggest factor. However, sometimes it charges to full in a few hours, other times after a night on the charger it will have only made it to 60% or so. The real stumper is that it only tends to drain about 1-2% an hour in deep sleep, so it's not like it's draining faster than the charger can keep up. It seems completely random. I'm ordering a 2amp charger to see if it helps, im sure it will, but I'm just confused by the random nature of this.
Yea something is definitely wrong. Mine charges in about 2.5 hours from near 0%. Try a different outlet
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I use the cable the phone came with and I can go from 2% battery life to 100% in about 3 hours. Hella fast, luv it.
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Yeah about 2-3 hours is my usual charge time from 20% to 0% range respectively.
I still can't help but feel that that is somehow slow though. Can't tell, it's been so long since I had a small battery I don't know what a fast charge is nowadays.
Going from zero is way different than going from 1% the battery tries to protect itself so it trickle charges for a while. Honestly going from 10-100 should not take more than three hours probably closer to two
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Mine seems like it takes about 2 hours maybe even less from 15%
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Going from zero is way different than going from 1% the battery tries to protect itself so it trickle charges for a while. Honestly going from 10-100 should not take more than three hours probably closer to two
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True that, the that.
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not sure if this helps, but do you have light manager installed? I had an issue when I first downloaded it and set it up, that night when I went to charge it it would charge VERY SLOW...I finally isolated the issue to light manager....I uninstalled it and reinstalled and it has been fine ever since. The Note 2 for me now charges faster than any device I have ever had.
pcpark87 said:
How long should our Note II take to recharge from 0% to 100%? Problem with practically all Android phones is that it just takes way too long to recharge. Last night I plugged my Note at about 1AM, depleted all the way down. When I woke up at 7AM, it was still at 70%. Does that sound about right for everyone? I understand that we have a huge battery capacity but the limitation with the microUSB port is definitely there.
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Hi,
This is what I have found. Sometimes when the microusb end is plugged into the phone that the phone charges at usb rate instead of ac which is wall outlet. I only have this problem with a standard usb cable in the car. Will change it soon but. What you can do after you plug in the microusb into the phone goto settings then battery and see how the phone sees the charging its getting. It will say either usb or ac. Ac is full charge rate usb is much slower since usb like off a pc or laptop has a lower output to your phone.
If you see it takes more than 3 hours to charge your phone and it says ac in settings then you definitely have a problem with either the charger, usb cable or phone.
Thanks,
Bryan
If you're using the cable and charger that came with the phone, you have a problem. Based on what you reported, I'd say you're using a 1A or less charger.

Battery slow

the battery is charging very slowly
hi all is there any way to charge the battery faster, as it takes about 5 hours to charge from 0% to 100%
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klos619 said:
the battery is charging very slowly
hi all is there any way to charge the battery faster, as it takes about 5 hours to charge from 0% to 100%
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I use a battery charger with a spare battery. You can buy them on eBay for 8 or 9 U$D. This way you never have to wait until the phone is charged as you always have a charged battery. Moreover, I friend of mine had an issue with the miniUSB port long time ago as there seems to be a defect on the phone if you charge it using the charger that comes with the phone. It overheats the connector and finally the phone becomes unusable. At least that is what Samsung told my friend. Since then I have been using a spare battery with a wall charger.
Hope that helps!

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