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Battery charging extremely slow?

Hey guys I just got my nexus s and im wondering why my battery is charging so slowly. I started charging it while it was completely dead and it took almost 6 hours too completely finish charging. Is there something wrong?
Btw I just got the phone yesterday and this is my second charge.
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Which charger are you using?
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Im using a wall charger given in the nexus s box
Right now I was using the USB cable Brut with an iPod USB to wall adapter. If that matters
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isinisterx said:
Hey guys I just got my nexus s and im wondering why my battery is charging so slowly. I started charging it while it was completely dead and it took almost 6 hours too completely finish charging. Is there something wrong?
Btw I just got the phone yesterday and this is my second charge.
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Are you using the factory wall charger or? Are you charging with a wall charger or USB hooked to computer/car? I honestly do not notice this problem with the NS.
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I was using an iPod wall adapter right now because i forgot mine at home..
Also I know this is offtopic but can someone tell me how to optimize the battery life on this phone? Idle why but I feel like the battery isn't that great on this phone
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Mine took like 3hour 20min-ish for the first charge. 3hour-ish for the second and third.

isinisterx said:
I was using an iPod wall adapter right now because i forgot mine at home..
Also I know this is offtopic but can someone tell me how to optimize the battery life on this phone? Idle why but I feel like the battery isn't that great on this phone
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If you have the Super Amoled version, then you can use an all black desktop screen saver, switch your email/Facebook/weather syncs to a later time (2-6 hours instead of every 30 minutes), put the phone in 2g only mode when your not browsing the web or downloading apps, etc.
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OuncE718 said:
If you have the Super Amoled version, then you can use an all black desktop screen saver, switch your email/Facebook/weather syncs to a later time (2-6 hours instead of every 30 minutes), put the phone in 2g only mode when your not browsing the web or downloading apps, etc.
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What the hell does this got to do with a 6 hour charge time ? As if the display is on all the time... or as if the syncing uses 10%+ off battery. It has nothing to do with this stuff, you're just not on the same page as the problem.
Try again with the original charger plugged into the wall socket, not into USB.

lambda30 said:
What the hell does this got to do with a 6 hour charge time ? As if the display is on all the time... or as if the syncing uses 10%+ off battery. It has nothing to do with this stuff, you're just not on the same page as the problem.
Try again with the original charger plugged into the wall socket, not into USB.
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Why don't you read before you post tough guy? You sound real stupid. The OP asked an off topic question about how he can gain better battery life. "Hooked on Phonics" anyone?
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Oh, I get it. Sorry, my bad.

I realised my Nexus S does take some time to charge up fully as compared to my Incredible S though.
Charger's rating is diff though after observing. 1A against 0.7mA

lambda30 said:
Oh, I get it. Sorry, my bad.
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Thanks for admitting your wrong. I'm also sorry for the rude comments I made.
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Mine takes about 3hr 20mins(+ or - 10 mins) usually. I guess that's pretty normal?

OuncE718 said:
Thanks for admitting your wrong. I'm also sorry for the rude comments I made.
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XDA love

Vandam500 said:
XDA love
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Lol. Glad the argument was kept at a minimum.
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Battery stats

I've been charging my phone on a regular basis. Daily in fact. But the stats tell a different story. Anyone else with the same problem? Anyone knows how to fix this?
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.cruiser said:
I've been charging my phone on a regular basis. Daily in fact. But the stats tell a different story. Anyone else with the same problem? Anyone knows how to fix this?
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further explain what the hell do you mean? you need to give us a bit more detail on what exactly are you encountering or specifically ask why is this happening.

I included the screen grab didn't I? It says 6 days plus on battery. When the phone lasts only a day. See the screen grab.
And this is after the JB OTA update.
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.cruiser said:
I included the screen grab didn't I? It says 6 days plus on battery. When the phone lasts only a day. See the screen grab.
And this is after the JB OTA update.
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Your being to broad that doesn't mean anything to me all I see is 6days and your charging it every so often what's wrong? Your phone is lasting a day? Explain what exactly your doing you need to specify and further explain what your doing.
For example
In screenie I have 4 days on one charge.
I watched some netflix and barely any usage it was very minimal. And about every other 6 to 12 hours I turn off data and switch on airplane mode as you can see.
Another thing leaving your phone on for that much time just IMO makes the battery life die faster rather than fully charging do your usual stuff till the day ends and once done at night just shut it off charge turn back on in the morn.
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Isn't this a bug? It's only supposed to tell me the time the phone's been running on battery since the last charge. See screenshot from my Photon 4G for example.
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.cruiser said:
Isn't this a bug? It's only supposed to tell me the time the phone's been running on battery since the last charge. See screenshot from my Photon 4G for example.
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there is no bug at all. it tells you the time since the phone has been on no from the last charge.
Lets say i use my phone and im around 30% and its been 8 Hours since i turned on my phone from 100%. once i plug it in it will keep track of the time my phones been on (Up time) not from last charge.
there is an app called Better Battery Stats but it causes wakelocks but it will show you those type of stats and more

I think you are mistaken friend. The discharge graph shows the time since the last recharge. See http://support.google.com/android/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=2677609&topic=2677645&ctx=topic (last para) for details.
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.cruiser said:
I think you are mistaken friend. The discharge graph shows the time since the last recharge. See http://support.google.com/android/?hl=en#/answer/2677609 (last para) for details.
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well on my Epic it will say whatever time its been on since turned regardless of being charged or not, ive tested it out on several devices i think your losing your mind haha what does it matter anyways?
Its simply telling you how long you have been using the battery not when it was off the last charge.

.cruiser said:
I've been charging my phone on a regular basis. Daily in fact. But the stats tell a different story. Anyone else with the same problem? Anyone knows how to fix this?
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For me it happens when the recharge doesn't make the battery goes above 90%. The graph will "reset" when the battery is charged above 90%.

Charging time

I wanted to get an idea of how long it takes people to charge up their phones? I have noticed that my phone takes a long time. 4 hours our more usually. I'm using the stock charger with stock battery. Any body else having this problem?
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aamir123 said:
I wanted to get an idea of how long it takes people to charge up their phones? I have noticed that my phone takes a long time. 4 hours our more usually. I'm using the stock charger with stock battery. Any body else having this problem?
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I use anker extended battery and it takes me 3 hours or so to charge but i remember stock was taking hell of a while..
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around 3-4 hours, using Anker battery with the phone on. phone off, a little under 2 hours

Even with USB charger it does not take more than 3 hrs . Direct plugin to wall socket and its done under 1.5 hrs.
May be try using DX battery . Might help .
Sorry can't post apk using mobile app .
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i want to thank everyone for the replies, assist4tech idk how you are charging so fast? also what did apk were you trying to post?

aamir123 said:
i want to thank everyone for the replies, assist4tech idk how you are charging so fast? also what did apk were you trying to post?
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Try restarting the phone. For me after this is done, charging time improves significantly. Don't know why but it works.

My phone charges in about 4 hours or so. However, my car charger does it in half the time. It may be the lame charger that comes with the phone that is the problem.
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My s3 was on fire!!!!

I went to bed normal. Plugged in my s3 into the charger . My battery was like at 4%. I leave the phone on because I use it as an alarm clock. I woke up at 6am and NY phone is really really hot I have no idea why? Why would this be? So I turn it off and let it cool down. Mean the screen was off and everything. Could my charger be bad or? It was so hot you couldn't touch the screen for long.
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well do you have a custom rom on it does it have fast charge is it on? kernel? oc? voltage tweak?

clean rom 3.0, no overclock of any kind, no fastcharge

thrgk said:
I went to bed normal. Plugged in my s3 into the charger . My battery was like at 4%. I leave the phone on because I use it as an alarm clock. I woke up at 6am and NY phone is really really hot I have no idea why? Why would this be? So I turn it off and let it cool down. Mean the screen was off and everything. Could my charger be bad or? It was so hot you couldn't touch the screen for long.
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thrgk said:
clean rom 3.0, no overclock of any kind, no fastcharge
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We're going to need more info then that I am afraid to figure out what happened (if we can at all )
You flashed Clean Rom... did you
Use a custom kernel?
Flash the new firmware for the new update?
Flash the new radio for the update?
Any other things you flashed with the rom?
Any apps that have root permission?
I don't think it could be a bad charger .... key words don't think...
If it's not software related and it happens again it could be a bad cell in the battery perhaps and it's still trying to charge to capacity .... the more info you give us the more we can try and trouble shoot it.
Thank You for messaging XDA Anonamooose Tech support .....LOL
Anyone else have some insight?

Actually this happened before on my gnex . Thought the battery was bad but it can't be this battery also. What's weird was it charged it to 15% instead of 100% its like all the power after 15% was just heating it up instead of charging? Or could the battery be bad because I. Plugged it in again and it charged 33% in like 55minutes a 4400mah anker battery
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Airplane mode was also on
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thrgk said:
Actually this happened before on my gnex . Thought the battery was bad but it can't be this battery also. What's weird was it charged it to 15% instead of 100% its like all the power after 15% was just heating it up instead of charging? Or could the battery be bad because I. Plugged it in again and it charged 33% in like 55minutes a 4400mah anker battery
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its probably because your using a third party battery

Should I use siedio?
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So it really wasnt on fire, it was just really hot.
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thrgk said:
Should I use siedio?
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i would just use the stock battery, its pretty darn good.

I almost always get 24 hours on stock battery. You people are crazy for needin to switch batteries
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You may have also had hot spotting on, this has happened to me bfor, leaving hot spotting on for any long period of time can have the same effect.
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Happened to me. It was under my pillow. Had to put in freezer for 4 minutes
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ihavenewnike said:
Happened to me. It was under my pillow. Had to put in freezer for 4 minutes
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Taking a hot expanded object and exposing it to quick contraction is how you pop solders and crack circuit boards.Exposing to sudden heat is not as bad as sudden cold. Plastic shrinks at a different rate then metal, and so on.
You got lucky.

I have the chinese variant of the standard battery and it's not nearly as good.

agolfingcigar said:
I have the chinese variant of the standard battery and it's not nearly as good.
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Because its a chinese knock off...

Disappointed to come in here and seeing your phone was just hot and no actual pictures of it being on fire
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PaulG1488 said:
Disappointed to come in here and seeing your phone was just hot and no actual pictures of it being on fire
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Me too! Ir took it literally. Good way to get your thread some attention though....
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leyvatron said:
So it really wasnt on fire, it was just really hot.
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LOL, my thoughts exactly......ppl exaggerating again

Yeah I left mine under my pillow while charging. Thought I was gonna burn my hand xD don't worry though because the gs3 can take a LOT of heat to the point of being too hot to toutch.
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S2 i727 won't sleep

Howdy,
I have a s2 running 4.2.2 slimmed down CM. I have a wake clock app running and it doesn't pick up anything odd. The CPU clock says it never slept though.
Thus is a new phone to me. Thanks for your input.
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Use betterybatterystats to find out what the wake lock is.
Then read this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=31974989

young440 said:
Howdy,
I have a s2 running 4.2.2 slimmed down CM. I have a wake clock app running and it doesn't pick up anything odd. The CPU clock says it never slept though.
Thus is a new phone to me. Thanks for your input.
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May seem silly, but did you have it plugged in while receiving the wake lock?
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Nope, its been unplugged all day since 6 eastern time. Now its down to 19% with little use. It has never entered deep sleep today
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young440 said:
Nope, its been unplugged all day since 6 eastern time. Now its down to 19% with little use. It has never entered deep sleep today
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Then you definitely have some WakeLock issues. I'd follow JD's advice and run Better Battery Stats and refer to the WakeLock thread by Bender for how to resolve them.

Make sure your Bluetooth and Wi-Fi are off if you're not using them.
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hotbyz168 said:
Make sure your Bluetooth and Wi-Fi are off if you're not using them.
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It should sleep like a baby if you're set up right, even with wifi and bt on.

The problem was that the charging wake clock kept it awake the whole day. I'm not sure what the deal was but I restarted the phone and it went away. I'm also having charging issues so it could be hardware. I ordered a new charging port/daughter board for it and I'm going to put it in this week. I'll let you know how it turns out
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young440 said:
The problem was that the charging wake clock kept it awake the whole day. I'm not sure what the deal was but I restarted the phone and it went away. I'm also having charging issues so it could be hardware. I ordered a new charging port/daughter board for it and I'm going to put it in this week. I'll let you know how it turns out
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Curious to see how it turns out. I get the vbus wake lock often too, even with the Samsung charger. I'm thinking my usb port is having issues.

Restart your phone after every charge. Yes, the media scanner will run briefly but it's better than your phone not sleeping for hours before you notice the wake lock.
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xcrazydx said:
Restart your phone after every charge. Yes, the media scanner will run briefly but it's better than your phone not sleeping for hours before you notice the wake lock.
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Yep, that's what I've been doing.

Ditto
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Well I installed the other charging port daughter board and the mic stopped working. So I never got to test to see if the charging wake clock was a hardware problem. Sorry. On a side note I have a charging port daughter board for a i727 that is basically brand new and only installed once for sale
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