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Phone gets hot and discharges battery power when plugged to USB

I've had my Sensation 4G for a while. Recently, I've encountered an occasional, and somewhat alarming, problem when my phone is plugged into the USB port of my laptop. It begins to discharge power very quickly and become very hot (~118+ Fahrenheit). When this problem occurs, the phone becomes so hot that the safety feature of the phone kicks in and stops the flow of power from the computer. I would then have to use the AC adapter to charge my phone. This issue has occurred about 3 times already, so I know it wasn't a fluke occurrence.
Could the current be too unstable for my phone to be plugged into my computer? I have my laptop connected to a power strip that is also shared with my 40-watt sound system and 70-watt fluorescent lamp, though they aren't necessarily used all at once. Or could this be a battery issue? Does anyone know what's going on? Thanks.

Hello,
I've heard of this problem before, not only phones connected to USB but also to the regular charger. Some phones seem to get to a temperature where the housing and/or the sim gets soft. I work at a store of one of the bigger providers in The Netherlands, and if we get a customer with this problem we have to send it back for repairs! Currently we're not aware of the source of this problem, if anyone knows, please share!!
For now my advise is, return the phone

Do you use any taskmanager??? if so DONT!!!
and lose alle batery savers apps to.
if you have root acces boot to recovery and wipe batt states when batt is at 100%

chacha charging problems

hello all.been some time since i visited the forum,but lately i am having a problem with my phone.doubt i know the technical words for what i will explain,but i will try my best. lately my phone doesn't charge anymore.when plugged in the charger,it shows the orange light that it is charging,then disconnects and while plugged in discharges the battery rather than charging it.took it to a shop,and the guy said he changed the charging "plug" which i was told comes with the keyboard board(one piece).paid him 40$ and it never was fixed.also when i plug it to my laptop it doesn't ask if i want mass storage or charging,anymore
anyone got any idea what the problem might be and its solution?

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[Q] charging problem

I have a Samsung i727R. I’ve had the phone for about a month. Have not used it a lot, no rooting, just ‘normal’ usage. I have not downloaded anything interesting at all.
The problem started a couple weeks ago. It started when I plugged the phone in to charge and nothing happened. I could still turn the phone on and everything worked fine, but it just would not charge. This makes me believe it is not the battery.
So I bought a new OEM cable. It still would not charge (not into the wall or computer. BTW my computer has never recognized that my phone was plugged into it since I’ve had, which I assume is an unrelated issue). But I decided to leave it plugged in longer, and after about an hour, it started doing a short vibration every few seconds, and every few minutes it would just turn on and stay on until I turned it off. Still does not charge. This makes me believe it is not the cable.
I have read about the sticky power button. The power button seems to be working fine (it feels fine / not sticky), and I can turn it on and off without a problem, and operates normally. It just starts on its own as well when plugged in.
Could it be the charging port? I’m unsure because the vibration only happens when I plug it in, so the phone is recognizing that it is plugged in; it’s just not charging.
If not the charging port, what else could it be?

any takers? if you know the answer is posted elsewhere, please direct me where to go. I don't think its the sticky button problem, so not sure what next.

ok, I've had no responses from other members, so I dismantled and checked out the power button, as my problem has some symptoms of the power button problem. but after cleaning, pushing, reassembling, there is no change from the situation I described above.
there is one bit of new info: I left the phone plugged in (it turned on after about 4 vibrations, as usual), but while it is on and plugged in, every minute or so the message indicates it is charging! this lasts for about 5 seconds, and then it proceeds to tell me to plug it in again.
really sounds like it would be a poor connection (replace the charging port?), but seems odd that the pattern of events would be so consistent. if the phone had a poor connection, I would think it would work well for a bit, and then not work at all for a bit, etc.
please help!

frankenish said:
ok, I've had no responses from other members, so I dismantled and checked out the power button, as my problem has some symptoms of the power button problem. but after cleaning, pushing, reassembling, there is no change from the situation I described above.
there is one bit of new info: I left the phone plugged in (it turned on after about 4 vibrations, as usual), but while it is on and plugged in, every minute or so the message indicates it is charging! this lasts for about 5 seconds, and then it proceeds to tell me to plug it in again.
really sounds like it would be a poor connection (replace the charging port?), but seems odd that the pattern of events would be so consistent. if the phone had a poor connection, I would think it would work well for a bit, and then not work at all for a bit, etc.
please help!
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u answered ur own question, bad connection, its either the cord or charging port or batterycontacts or even a bad battery but more likely a connection prob

S2 SKyrocket wont start up!
k, so here is the scenario. I have rooted and have jelly bean running since the official update came out from at&T. It has been working fine. No issues just some bug with the camera and the pictures that I managed to deal with. 2 Days ago my phone after battery reached 1% went dead. It has happened before, I just plug it in and charge, everything works smooth. Until, the phone never charged and when I attempted to turn on it just vibrates once , Samsung logo quickly comes up and disappears.
I know its not a sticky Power button issue as the phone does not start up when I insert the battery. I attempted to go into recovery mode but nothing happens.
Don't think the phone is bricked since it shows some kind of life. Not sure if I should buy another battery or charge the battery on another device...While I try to troubleshoot this. Does anyone have any suggestions, and IF i have missed a sticky please direct me to it, since their is so much content here.
Thank you in advance!

Problems with wireless charger

Hi, i keep getting continual issues with my wireless charger.
there are 2 main issues i keep getting:
when i put my phone on the wireless charger quite often i will have to place it on the charger twice for some strange reason, this has happened for a long time now, if i place it on once, often nothing happens, so i then have to take the phone off the charger then place it back on and it will then realise its on and start charging.
The second issue i keep getting a lot is, sometimes when i place the phone on the charger it may start charging and then instantly say charing has been paused, then instantly start charging again, then instantly pause again and so on.....
Often i have to restart my phone to get it to charge properly, sometimes even after a restart it still does the same thing and i end up giving up and just plugging the cable directly in.
Does anyone else have the above issues or know how to solve them?
Is it a dodgy charger?
Thanks
James

james_lpool said:
Hi, i keep getting continual issues with my wireless charger.
there are 2 main issues i keep getting:
when i put my phone on the wireless charger quite often i will have to place it on the charger twice for some strange reason, this has happened for a long time now, if i place it on once, often nothing happens, so i then have to take the phone off the charger then place it back on and it will then realise its on and start charging.
The second issue i keep getting a lot is, sometimes when i place the phone on the charger it may start charging and then instantly say charing has been paused, then instantly start charging again, then instantly pause again and so on.....
Often i have to restart my phone to get it to charge properly, sometimes even after a restart it still does the same thing and i end up giving up and just plugging the cable directly in.
Does anyone else have the above issues or know how to solve them?
Is it a dodgy charger?
Thanks
James
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I had the same issue with my previous s6 edge and found that setting on the screensaver in display allowed the wireless charging to function proprerly even tho doing this turned my phone into a hot one.
Then I discovered that (I don't know which kind of wireless charger you own, I have a samsung one (ep-pg9201) with a green/violet ring on the base with green in idle state and violet when charging) when the charging state is turned off and the screen displays "charging has been turned paused", moving a bit the phone or rotate it until the ring turn violet resumes the charging process.I just didn't need screensaver anymore.
I've replace my s6 edge by a s6 edge + and I'm still in the process of calibrating the battery but I found that usb charging is damned too slow, taking ages (4, 5 hours to gain 20% of battery) so I've not try yet wireless charging but only fast charging. I just hope the guy who sold it to me didn't screw up the battery and it's lifespan.
Anyway, on my S6 edge I've managed to reach 4 days on a battery charge, I' not sure I'll reach this with the edge + as this phone has real issues in that department.

Fast charge not working in s6 after marshmallow (6.0.1) update

I updated my (factory unlocked) S6 to Marshmallow 6.0.1 and for two days it worked just fine. Then suddenly the fast charge stopped working. when i open notifications it says: cable charge, 5 hours until full charge. I tried everything, i have 2 original adaptive fc samsung chargers and none of them works. plus an aukey fast charging external battery, but when i connect my phone it keep saying cable charge. i pushed the usb into the charger, i turned on the fast charging option in settings, tried different cables. then i tried to connect it to my pc, but it doesnt recognizes my phone, and neither does the Mini MicroSD Card Reader that worked just fine before the update. I did a hard reset, but it wont work. im thinking maybe something (hardware) broke in the second day after the update, idk. i remember conecting the phone at night before going to sleep to an iphone cube with the battery at 90%, but that wont explain why my pc doesnt recognise it. I NEED HELP, PLZ

Just a thought: did you enable fast charging option from the battery menu ?

Please read again
it clearly says i turned on the fast charge option in settings

"5 hours until full charge"
something else is wrong here

markoxda said:
"5 hours until full charge"
something else is wrong here
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Why? How do you know? What do you think its the problem?
the weird thing is that when I connect the s6 to the wall charger it pops up the "connected as a media device" that should appear when connecting to a computer. AND when I connect it to the computer it doesnt appear, so I cant move files, etc.

I have the same issue! I know for a fact that it started right after I charged my phone a little on my friend's car charger. I have charged my phones on his charger in the past and have never had issues. It's almost like the phone got scared and locked itself down (stopped transmitting and recieving USB data, therefore not recognizing fast charger or mtp). I have been searching this issue for a while, but have not been able to find a solution. There are lots of people out there that have this problem! I have called Samsung, but they barely even wanted to talk to be because it is the unlocked variant (sm-g920i). Honestly at this point I would be willing to pay them maybe $50 to fix it. It's ridiculous! And I suspect that it is just their dumbass firmware that screwed me over!

I also suspect that is the firmware, but i have searched everywhere and the only ones that could fix it did it by changing the usb port (therefore it was a hardware problem). The ****ty thing is that this phone is too difficult to open, and too dangerous, i dont dare to do it myself, but i neither trust anyone who isnt samsung... so.. i think im just going to sell it and buy anotherone, or idk.. if you can solve the problem please let me know. I'll really appreciate it. (Sorry for bad english)

you might want to try clear both daavik cache and cache.
. I had a similiar problem, that seemed to clear it up.

to clear the dalvik cache i have to root it, and i dont want to in case i have to take it to samsung because maybe if i root it i will loose the warranty. and i already cleared all the other caches like 5 times, i dont know what to do anymore. thank you for the reply, if you know of anything else I can try...

I can confirm that it is not hardware related. I have replaced the board containing the USB port, but am still having the same issue!

And have you found a firmware/software solution to the problem? what's exactly your issue? the same as mine? no fast charge and not connecting to pc?

I also have the same problem, since wiped the device with paper and sometimes back fast loading, however the transfer via USB does not work. I believe it is software problem.

Yesterday I noticed that my data cable connects via download mode by odin, or as may be hardware if odin recognize?

guys,i got a galaxy s6 edge and i had a fast charging issue and i've checked all common solution like changing cables,chargers,even changed the socket but same issue exits my mobile charging in 6 hours and when i go to fast charge option in menu it turned on and at the moment of connecting the cable to automaticly turn off with no choise to turn it on again,any one please knows how so solve??