T-Mobile Note 8 Latest Security Update - Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers

Has anyone else noticed any differences in charging via USB after the latest security update. Prior to the update if my phone was at 30% and I plugged into usb, not fast charge, it said 3 hours and 42 minutes until charged. This morning I was at 35% and wanted to transfer some files and it said 1 hour and 10 minutes until charged. Not complaining, just wondering.
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Software version BQLA.

Which update are you referring to? It's always helpful to mention the firmware version number when talking about an update. Do you mean BQLA?

Thought it was my imagination , it does seem to charge faster I think.
I only ever usb charge my phone and all fast charge settings are off also.
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Anyone know how to fix the "recharge battery" issue when updating firmware?

I left my phone literally on charger for 2 days straight -- 48 hours
I tried to update my kies to the new firm ware
and it says it's not charged and to recharge it.
Anyone know how to fix this ????
Windows 7 x64 bit
Funkadelick said:
I left my phone literally on charger for 2 days straight -- 48 hours
I tried to update my kies to the new firm ware
and it says it's not charged and to recharge it.
Anyone know how to fix this ????
Windows 7 x64 bit
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Maybe its time you update KIES? Otherwise do a search for HTC DESIRE CHARGE FIX or something like that. basicly you charge up to full when powered off, take out then charge full again (2 mins) then boot up, Charge to full while in android, shut down, Charge up full , boot up andrioid then charge full again. Should work. Takes about 20mins of your life
ickyboo said:
Maybe its time you update KIES? Otherwise do a search for HTC DESIRE CHARGE FIX or something like that. basicly you charge up to full when powered off, take out then charge full again (2 mins) then boot up, Charge to full while in android, shut down, Charge up full , boot up andrioid then charge full again. Should work. Takes about 20mins of your life
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this didn't work ... at all

phone charges painfully slow

I was under the impression the charging capabilities of this phone were insane? My note 4 is charging very slow even with the phone off. Ive toggled the Fast Charge on and off (battery page in settings) and regardless of what i chose its very slow. I think my Note 3 charged faster than this. Is something wrong with my charger or my phone? Should i echange it for another?
Exchange it. With the included charger mine charges in about an hour.
Hgaara said:
I was under the impression the charging capabilities of this phone were insane? My note 4 is charging very slow even with the phone off. Ive toggled the Fast Charge on and off (battery page in settings) and regardless of what i chose its very slow. I think my Note 3 charged faster than this. Is something wrong with my charger or my phone? Should i echange it for another?
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The way fast charge works is with wall adapter and cable that came with phone and screen off. Another way is phone off. Takes a bit over an hour when phone dead
NOTE 4
Looks like I'll exhange it then, cause with the phone off, it took about an hour to go from 25% to 38%. Its strange cause my note 3 was usable while using GPS, and phone connected to car charger, not even a 2.1amp one and it would charge quickly. Note 4, actually went from 38% to 52% in about 3 and a half hours the same way
Mine is the opposite, charges fast and and drains fast. When I unplug it will go from 100% to 95% in 5 minutes with no use and screen off. I tried several battery app with no success to fix the problem.
Hgaara said:
Looks like I'll exhange it then, cause with the phone off, it took about an hour to go from 25% to 38%. Its strange cause my note 3 was usable while using GPS, and phone connected to car charger, not even a 2.1amp one and it would charge quickly. Note 4, actually went from 38% to 52% in about 3 and a half hours the same way
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Fast charge will only work screen off. If u using GPS then phone is awake and u get slow charge
Also make sure fast charge is clicked on.
NOTE 4
Did you take off the plastic stickers from the charger? Mine started fast charging after I did that. I think it was covering part of the connection somewhere.
I hope u connected to ac and not USB check battery in settings make sure it says charging ad and not charging usb
Yes mine says it is charging via AC. I havent removed the plastic from the charger, ill try it. The weird part is, last night i had 5 percent battery. At around 2:30 i turned off the phone and connected to the charger. I wake up around 9:30, a whole 7 hours later, and the phone only charged up to 89%. It takes 7 hours to not even charge full percent? Is that normal? Granted, if i turned off the phone or even had it on, my Note 3 charged within 2 hours or less even from dead. So i should just exhange the phone right?
Hgaara said:
Yes mine says it is charging via AC. I havent removed the plastic from the charger, ill try it. The weird part is, last night i had 5 percent battery. At around 2:30 i turned off the phone and connected to the charger. I wake up around 9:30, a whole 7 hours later, and the phone only charged up to 89%. It takes 7 hours to not even charge full percent? Is that normal? Granted, if i turned off the phone or even had it on, my Note 3 charged within 2 hours or less even from dead. So i should just exhange the phone right?
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Bad phone
NOTE 4

Updated charging strategy

Hi,
I wondered if anybody had noticed any recent changes in the way that their Note 4 charges. I have a QI wireless charging back, and I've noticed over the last couple of days that overnight my phone charges to 100%, and then stops charging. This means that when I wake up, the phone is a few % off fully charged.
I'm sure that the phone used to charge to 100%, and then effectively stay there until I removed it from the charging pad.
The only thing, other than a change of behaviour associated with a ROM version, that I could put this down to is that I have changed the USB cable I've been using with the charging pad, but I'm not sure how that could have this effect?
Has anybody else noticed any changes with the latest ROM release(s)? I'm using an N910F with the 8933508 changelist.
Cheers,
Steve.
Hi Steve,
Not sure if this is of help, I'm on an N910C with 6.0.1 firmware DPE6, Kernel 3.10.9-7633655. I'm sitting here with my Note 4 on my Choetech 3-coil wireless charger, having just charged it from 83% - 100%. The phone is staying at 100% - in fact I've had the screen on for the past 10 minutes or more, using the phone for various tasks, with WiFi and Bluetooth on, and it's still at 100%. I recently (about 2 months ago) got a new battery direct from Samsung, so that may be a factor. Perhaps your battery is getting past its best?
Kinsman-UK said:
Hi Steve,
Not sure if this is of help, I'm on an N910C with 6.0.1 firmware DPE6, Kernel 3.10.9-7633655. I'm sitting here with my Note 4 on my Choetech 3-coil wireless charger, having just charged it from 83% - 100%. The phone is staying at 100% - in fact I've had the screen on for the past 10 minutes or more, using the phone for various tasks, with WiFi and Bluetooth on, and it's still at 100%. I recently (about 2 months ago) got a new battery direct from Samsung, so that may be a factor. Perhaps your battery is getting past its best?
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My battery is a relatively new Anker, and isn't exhibiting any issues (it lasts all day, no problem).
Cheers,
Steve

Slow Charging - Max Charging Amps?

So I recently picked up a T813 to replaced my Nexus 7 (2013), I've had a few weeks now, and as with all my devices I slow charge it. This tablet generally took ~30 hours or so to charge at 0.35-0.45 amps, but I didn't think anything of it. This week I went on a trip and plugged it into a charger that can output anywhere from 0.8 to 1.8 amps depending on the port you are using (all the current ratings I'm listing are what I've measured, not what the devices are rated). My tablet said "Charging" at first, but then once it hit 75% all it would say is "Charging Slowly" no matter what. Now that's all it will say. Sometimes after a restart it will say "Charging" briefly, but then it goes back to "Charging slowly". The charger I was trying to use was an Anker product, so not a complete "no-name" charger.
I did some more checking and it appears my tablet has an upper charge limit of 1.5 amps using even the factory charger which is rated 2.0 amps. That same factory charger plugged into my Nexus 5X outputs 1.88 amps. Anything less than 1.5 amps, my tablet behaves as the rest of the devices. If I plug the tablet into a power source that current is limited to 0.5 amp, using the same cable, using an Honor 5X, and the Tab S2, both draw the ~0.5 amp.
Now the "Charging" and "Charging Slowly" messages were on Lineage, however since I have returned home, I and done all the subsequent testing, I have used Odin to return completely back to the factory Samsung software. Right now I have some videos playing to run the battery down, and am planning to trying to charge the battery all the way up using the factory charger to see how long it takes. If it also takes 30 hours, I'm going to assume it has to be a hardware problem?
Anyone else have any ideas?
My T813 arrived with Nougat on it. The only Odin firmware I could find that would successfully flash was a Marshmallow so I let videos play overnight (which did actually play overnight surprisingly!) to fully drain the battery. This morning I started charging the battery with the OEM charger, and from fully dead to 100% it took roughly 4.5 hours. So I would say this is normal from what I've read. I would say this rules out any hardware issue.
My next test will be to find a flashable Nougat OEM image as it doesn't want to update itself. Then see how it performs then. I'm starting to wonder if Samsung changed something in the firmware to make it charge slower on purpose just to prevent any "Note" like issues from happening? Finally then I'll have to also go back to Lineage, as I don't plan on using it at all with the stock software, as it's quite unbearable. There's a reason I only buy devices that Lineage is available for.
So after updating to Nougat, and letting it update, then fully draining the battery again, which again took overnight, it seems to charge even faster. This time from 0-100% taking just under 4 hours using the OEM charger, at roughly 3 hours 45 minutes.
I'll put Lineage back on it tonight, however this definitely calms my concern that I had a hardware issue. It's definitely fine. I'll see what kind of charge time I get with Lineage.
It charges with ~1600mah
I've had slow charging issue twice. I sent it in the first time and Samsung sent me a slow charger (not fast charger) to use. Worked fine for about 10 months. Once I update to Nougat, my charging became slow again.
Seems like many people have slow charging issues with this tablet. I have the Verizon tab s2 9.7
Extreemator said:
It charges with ~1600mah
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Yeah this is what I've noticed. This seems to be about the upper boundary. Despite being shipped with a 2 amp charger. I did reinstall Linage, and it charges fine with the OEM charger, so it's not a bug on their end, or a hardware problem for me. With LOS and the OEM charge it's still ~4 hours to charge with is what I would expect roughly based on my other tests, even though LOS still reports charging slowly.
I think my problem early with the 30+ hours of charge time was related to the hub I was charging with. I have been having issues where I would wake up and my phone wouldn't be charged at all. Most nights it would though, so I figured my cable was starting to go bad. Swapped the cable and same issue. Measured the current on the ports, and it was far below what it should be on a USB port, the charge ports were getting 0.18-0.2 amps, the regular ports were 0.2-0.3 amps (not sure why the regular ports were getting more). Then I noticed the power adapter was not plugged in all the way into the wall. After plugging it in all the way the current on those ports returned to normal. This honestly doesn't make any sense to me, so it maybe time to replace that hub. Either way, I know the problem is not the tablet, which calms my fears about it, since it was the new piece of hardware.

Battery/Charging issue

Hey everyone, how y'all doing?
I've got this problem for 2 months now where the charging has been super slow and no idea why. I am using the official charger and cable that came with the phone, I used my wife's s20's charger with same result and a third party charger with 3 different cables with similar results. Accubattery recorded that my phone's battery health is at 86% (3460mah) should I change it and lose my water/splash proof?
Oh yes I have flashed a few different ROMs (currently using Dr Ketan) with the same results except for evolution ROM, with the aosp ROM I was able to charge my phone from 14 percent to 100 in 90 minutes which is kinda weird...
Any advice would really help thank you
Supracer said:
Hey everyone, how y'all doing?
I've got this problem for 2 months now where the charging has been super slow and no idea why. I am using the official charger and cable that came with the phone, I used my wife's s20's charger with the same result and a third party charger with 3 different cables with similar results. Accubattery recorded that my phone's battery health is at 86% (3460mah) should I change it and lose my water/splash proof?
Oh yes I have flashed a few different ROMs (currently using Dr Ketan) with the same results except for evolution ROM, with the aosp ROM I was able to charge my phone from 14 percent to 100 in 90 minutes which is kinda weird...
Any advice would really help thank you
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Get yourself one of those 2$ USB doctors. It will tell you how much power the phone is taking in. i.e. Fast charge should be 9 volts at about .8 amps and slow charge 5 volts at 1.5+ Amps.
Make sure your port is clean and moisture levels are low i.e should be below 80%.
I had this problem once when moisture was over 80%. It then went away. But at that time the phone will warn you about the extra moisture. It will say Moisture detected in USB port Fast Charging disabled.
The second time this happened was after the update to android 10. Had slow charging and overheating and audio acting up but that went away after re-setting the phone a few times and clearing cache.
The latest update to Android 10 seems to be causing a lot of issues with Display, Audio and overheating / slow charging. My audio chip finally stopped working. And the phone is now with Samsung.
My 2 cents if you see overheating and slow charging. Stop using the phone while its still working and take it to Samsung. Because if you continue to use it something will fail. And Samsung will want to give you a big fat bill to change it.
RonChinoy said:
Get yourself one of those 2$ USB doctors. It will tell you how much power the phone is taking in. i.e. Fast charge should be 9 volts at about .8 amps and slow charge 5 volts at 1.5+ Amps.
Make sure your port is clean and moisture levels are low i.e should be below 80%.
I had this problem once when moisture was over 80%. It then went away. But at that time the phone will warn you about the extra moisture. It will say Moisture detected in USB port Fast Charging disabled.
The second time this happened was after the update to android 10. Had slow charging and overheating and audio acting up but that went away after re-setting the phone a few times and clearing cache.
The latest update to Android 10 seems to be causing a lot of issues with Display, Audio and overheating / slow charging. My audio chip finally stopped working. And the phone is now with Samsung.
My 2 cents if you see overheating and slow charging. Stop using the phone while its still working and take it to Samsung. Because if you continue to use it something will fail. And Samsung will want to give you a big fat bill to change it.
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Thanks for the advice and I'll see to it. It's just yeah it seems like after android 10 things have been degraded
So apparently turning off fast charging in options gives me a faster charge time. With fast charge on it takes from 7% to 100% in 3 and a half hours and with fast charge off it takes 2 hours only.... Maybe my fast charging "chip" / "module" is broke?
Supracer said:
So apparently turning off fast charging in options gives me a faster charge time. With fast charge on it takes from 7% to 100% in 3 and a half hours and with fast charge off it takes 2 hours only.... Maybe my fast charging "chip" / "module" is broke?
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Have you tried installing the stock OS back onto your device?
iceepyon said:
Have you tried installing the stock OS back onto your device?
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Yes I have tried, the June update one and got the same results. I even formatted everything and went bone stock with the same results. I'm thinking of using some contact cleaner on the usb port but hesitant to do that...
Supracer said:
Yes I have tried, the June update one and got the same results. I even formatted everything and went bone stock with the same results. I'm thinking of using some contact cleaner on the usb port but hesitant to do that...
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Unless you see something in there I do not advise poking around inside.
I suspect your problem is that the Samsung USB cable packed up. And your trying with all kinds of cables and chargers. Go to a Samsung Store and ask them to check with a Samsung Cable and Charger.
I went thru this circus a few months back.
The only solution is to get a Samsung Charger with a Samsung Cable.
Then make sure fast charge is on. For wireless and wired charging. Wipe your cache and you should be ok.
I have seen way too many damaged USB ports from people trying to clean it. When there was nothing in there to start with. Use compressed air. If you see something in there.

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