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I turned my XT860 off while it was charging today because I thought it would charger faster. Instead, it fully discharged. I had to disconnect it and reconnect in order for it to start charging again.
Here's what I observed:
1. Battery was dead. Plugged it in to charge (into my laptop)
2. After some time, the device turned on.
3. I turned it off, because I thought that it would charger faster that way.
4. I checked it hours later and found that it wouldn't turn on, not even to show a low battery alert. It's still plugged in. So I unplugged and plugged it back in, and now the white charging light is on.
Anyway seen this behaviour before?
Some laptops use a low power usb connection. A lot of the time this is true when the laptop is running on battery power. I know that charging mode actually requires an os running (which is why everyone always recommends keeping your phone charged before doing an SBF recovery), so I can easily see how if your laptop was sending the minimum power for data connectivity, and your phone was running in "charge mode" how it could drain.
That being said, I usually carry a upgraded my battery to the verizon extended, and also carry around a fully charged original battery, as well as an energi2go XP2000.
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danifunker said:
Some laptops use a low power usb connection. A lot of the time this is true when the laptop is running on battery power. I know that charging mode actually requires an os running (which is why everyone always recommends keeping your phone charged before doing an SBF recovery), so I can easily see how if your laptop was sending the minimum power for data connectivity, and your phone was running in "charge mode" how it could drain.
That being said, I usually carry a upgraded my battery to the verizon extended, and also carry around a fully charged original battery, as well as an energi2go XP2000.
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Actually, people recommend that you have your phone charged before doing an SBF is because the phone will not allow any programming to take place unless it has more than 50% battery. I discovered this the hard way when I bricked my phone with a low battery and was unable to charge it because it had was unable to boot. I wound up having to "hotwire" a charger directly to the battery terminals.
Hi everybody...
I have an issue for you...
Yesterday I was using my phone and battery was aboout 40%.
I then took out it from my pocket to switch on the screed and it didn't switch on...it seems the screen was on but black...
- I tried to press the switch button, but nothing...I connected it to my portable battery and nothing too...
- I tried to switch on by press all three phisical buttons and I had a short vibration and nothing else, just another vibration after about 20sec...
That makes me feel that situation was possible to fix...
Of course the battery couldn't be removed and put on again...
Finally I arrived home and I connect to electricity and nothing, I connected to my PC and I reboot the phone by the utility: it works!!
I was worried and I would like to know what happened and if that's possible to repeat again...
Thanks!
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This phone doesn't play nice with a lot of portable battery chargers. Try it with the charger that came with it?
A short while after you plug the charger in, it should appear to boot and display only a charging screen. Once it gets to 10% or 15% you can pull the charge cable out, power it on normally and then plug the charge cable back in.
Oddly, Nokia micro USB chargers seem to work well with this phone, if you have one of those spare.
Hi!
thanks for the answer, but you maybe misunderstood, I know about difference between charging from portable charger and normal...it happened with my backflip when it was completely empty...
Maybe I didn't explain well...the phone went "off" alone, but I was sure battery was about 30%...and it didn't work, just the screen on and black...
In my case even normal charger didn't work to reboot phone...
My solution was just to connect to computer and reboot with the tool...
but I don't know what happened, till now it didn't happen again...
p.s. I have a portable charger bought on groupon, that it works, but it's extremely slow...
bye!!
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Hey guys,
I have the ZNEX Powerpack:
Capacity: [email protected],7V
Output: 5V 1A
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Unfortunately its not possible for me to charge my s3 mini with this external battery.
The cable and the battery is okay, tested that with other devices.
Anyone can solve this problem or has it too?
Thanks
Turn off phone turn on charger plug in to phone then turn phone on it should charge and you can use it at same time
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serophia said:
Turn off phone turn on charger plug in to phone then turn phone on it should charge and you can use it at same time
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Thanks for the quick answer but that doesnt work
also when the device is off and i turn on the external battery the device turns on and gets into a load mode or something (it doesnt even load at this Point, seems so that it just init the "turned off charging" dont know how i should call that )
same Thing when i restart the phone with external battery plugged on, there just happens nothing, normal boot process without any hint of charging^^
Ahh really? I had same issue and my method seemed to work are you trying with ur usb cable that came with the phone or the one that cane with the battery power. Try both out
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serophia said:
Ahh really? I had same issue and my method seemed to work are you trying with ur usb cable that came with the phone or the one that cane with the battery power. Try both out
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What do you mean with "the one that cane with the battery power"?
Ive tried a lot of different usb cables they work all with the original charging-adapter but None with the external battery
tried it with the Amazon Basics usb cable, original Samsung data cable and the cable from the old Motorola xt 720 ^^
But thank you for the answer
strange.. when device is off can it charge or it doesnt charge at all with the samsung data cable. If it does charge while off, when its charging turn on the phone and it should charge as well.
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serophia said:
strange.. when device is off can it charge or it doesnt charge at all with the samsung data cable. If it does charge while off, when its charging turn on the phone and it should charge as well.
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Sadly that doesn´t work too. The device is doing absolutely nothing when i restart it from the turned off charging. Its like it wouldn´t know that theres a cable that wants to Charge it.
firefish18 said:
Sadly that doesn´t work too. The device is doing absolutely nothing when i restart it from the turned off charging. Its like it wouldn´t know that theres a cable that wants to Charge it.
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Dang idk then maybe the voltage is too low to be recognized. Mines a 5v 5000 mah battery supply and it works fine
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serophia said:
Dang idk then maybe the voltage is too low to be recognized. Mines a 5v 5000 mah battery supply and it works fine
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My external battery has also 5v.. and 1A should reach to Charge
Same problem here. No matter what external battery pack, this S3 mini is not detecting the battery pack as a charger. All of these packs work just fine with any other phone: tried with 2 SII, i8910, different Nokia phones, Blackberrry's etc.
I suspect that somewhere in the kernel there's no "3rd" unknown source or it has odd values, or it's somewhere else, but definitely soft problem as phone usb port works fine and recharges just fine from PC or laptop with any and every usb cable. Same goes for wall chargers. I haven't tried with car chargers just yet, but might do so. Just the phone is not mine, it's my wife's phone so I can't just take it with me.
Any suggestions?
Just a quicky: Is your phone trying or connecting to a PC in MTP mode?
XXAMA2 rom here and it always has only MTP or Picture mode, maybe this triggers something if on external power pack?
Edit: BTW, even when phone is turned off it won't charge the battery from the 3rd party external battery packs... weird.
Edit2: It started to charge out of 2.1A port on external pack after 5 minutes... then continued to charge once the phone is turned on. Later I unplugged it and plugged in again and it won't charge if the phone is on. Oh well, at least it can charge if first turned off. At least that when on the road and without wall plug...
Even more strange is what I'm getting now when plugging to Duracel external pack - phone starts the music player on it's own and starts to play... I think it's defo something related to MTP or such...
Strange. My power bank works just fine. The charging indicator shows when I plug my S3Mini with my power bank. (Cheap chinese brand. 5200mAh, 1.0 A)
Usually when the USB indicator showed up when you plug your external power source, the cable is the one with 4 lines (two for transferring data, and the other two for receiving electricity needed for charging, or +/- ).
Try using the USB cable with two lines only (electricity lines only, without data transferring lines)
kuroiraida said:
Strange. My power bank works just fine. The charging indicator shows when I plug my S3Mini with my power bank. (Cheap chinese brand. 5200mAh, 1.0 A)
Usually when the USB indicator showed up when you plug your external power source, the cable is the one with 4 lines (two for transferring data, and the other two for receiving electricity needed for charging, or +/- ).
Try using the USB cable with two lines only (electricity lines only, without data transferring lines)
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Well, after trying all USb cables I have in my house I found one that is CHARGING IT!!! I dunno what wires it has or not and I don't care ATM. Point is there's nothing (EDIT) wrong with battery packs nor the phone. It all still indicates damn MTP kicking in where it shouldn't IMO. Dang Samsung for screwing it all up yet another time.
Still, I'm happy it CAN work all right, so no more depleted battery when on the road / trip
Thanks for a great suggestion there!
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Fevves said:
Well, after trying all USb cables I have in my house I found one that is CHARGING IT!!! I dunno what wires it has or not and I don't care ATM. Point is there's nothing working with battery packs nor the phone. It all still indicates damn MTP kicking in where it shouldn't IMO. Dang Samsung for screwing it all up yet another time.
Still, I'm happy it CAN work all right, so no more depleted battery when on the road / trip
Thanks for a great suggestion there!
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Yes. The only way to figure it out is to peel it off, which is not a sensible thing to do anyway.
Glad to be a help.
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Same trouble here
So i'm having the same trouble with my powerbank, tested with 3 different S3 minis, and all have the same result, also tested my powerbank and cables with another 2 different cellphones (Sony and LG) and worked fine...
Also tried using stock ROM, same result...
When i try to charge with the phone on doesn't work, but if i turn the phone off it works, i made a video showing:
watch?v=99-SdtlV3Fk
(i cannot post youtube videos yet)
Any suggestions?
I'm running maclaw's CyanogenMod 11.0 20140610, there is any LOG to see what happens? where can i access it?
We live in the country and use the Bionic for data. The setup is the Bionic, Mobil Hotshot, Plugged into charger.
The Device will charge to 100% and then stop charging, the charger is still connected. We continue to download data and the battery charge keeps dropping but the charger will not turn back on. At some point if I don't catch it, the device will totally discharge and shut down. I can unplug the charger and plug it back in to get the charging to restart but once it reaches 100% it will turn off again. We have been using this setup for almost 2 years and this issue began after the JB OTA.
Anybody have a fix? Have the same problem?
Thanks for the help ahead of time.
Steve
What charger and cable are you using. I keep my bionic in an ihome dock at night and do pretty much the same thing, streaming XM most of the night and it doesn't do that. I don't use moto chargers or cables as they seem to have some funky behaviors programmed into them
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I am using a Novatel Wireless charger. I think it was sent to me by Verizon as an replacement charger.
i have problem on my captivate:
my phone become lag and can not control when i plug charge until i remove battery and reboot
if i use 2.3.5 KI2 then problem is solve
any tip for me?
noone.dk01 said:
i have problem on my captivate:
my phone become lag and can not control when i plug charge until i remove battery and reboot
if i use 2.3.5 KI2 then problem is solve
any tip for me?
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I had some similar issues with another Android phone. The problem was in the charger, too much noise was bugging the phone. If you have Fast Charge option enabled in 4.2.2, the load on charger increases along with the noise in charging line. Not sure if it's your case, just sharing some experience.
Are you using a laptop to charge? I know sometimes when you charge through the laptop, media sync can chew quite a bit of cpu cycles.
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Are you using a laptop to charge? I know sometimes when you charge through the laptop, media sync can chew quite a bit of cpu cycles.
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True, but only if you have USB data transfer enabled. Otherwise no data connection between the two and no media sync either.
no bro, i use default.
i have test with too much rom, after flash new rom i plug charge soon and ... lag
noone.dk01 said:
no bro, i use default.
i have test with too much rom, after flash new rom i plug charge soon and ... lag
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Bro, the problem is in one of the following:
1. charger (try different charger of plug the phone to your computer's USB - same result?)
2. phone's charging circuit (not easy to fix)
3. battery's charging circuit (try different battery, each one has own charge control logic - same result?)
Val D. said:
Bro, the problem is in one of the following:
1. charger (try different charger of plug the phone to your computer's USB - same result?)
2. phone's charging circuit (not easy to fix)
3. battery's charging circuit (try different battery, each one has own charge control logic - same result?)
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i think that is not my problem because on stock rom 2.3.5 and on Doc's master 4.04, my phone work normally
i think problem is on code of rom
what is your opinion?
noone.dk01 said:
i think that is not my problem because on stock rom 2.3.5 and on Doc's master 4.04, my phone work normally
i think problem is on code of rom
what is your opinion?
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If same thing happens with different ROMs, then most likely it's not a software related issue.
If you feel it is software/rom related try "timelines usage" app (available on playstore)
That can tell you what task is occupying your cpu.
I think the issue is battery/hardware related which is aggravated by most roms..except the one. Timelines usage might help to narrow down ...
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Re: charger lag
Another reason (not as likely) could be that the ROMs you installed had the Battery Bar option and Charging Animation enabled. I use the battery bar at the top of the status bar instead of using a battery icon or text, and the animations while charging slow my device a bit. I can't recall if the charging animation is enabled by default. If it is hardware-related, it is interesting that you are not seeing this issue while on GB or ICS.