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I was wondering if this is normal for the Raphael (I have a fuze) to charge VERY slowly..ive always charged via usb and read somewhere that usb does a trickle charge (i never knew this) so i tried an ac charger and still same thing..my kaiser (tilt) charged full in a few hours..this thing charges maybe half way in 2 or 3 hours...any ideas?
I have had my device plugged in (i.e. not USB) for a couple of hours now. The charge has gone up from about 30% to 88% and seems to have stopped there.
Usb charging takes much longer than charging via AC. My phone will go empty -> full battery in maybe 4 hours on AC power, and will not fully charge in 6 hours using usb.
Also, I have a setting where the screen doesnt turn off for 30 minutes when plugged in, plus much brighter. If this is the case and I am playing with the phone plugged in it takes even longer still (i.e. when I am charging at work).
dg252: It is possible that your battery may be charged, but the battery indicator is stuck. Let it charge till the LED stops pulsing, then soft reset.
I've found that the provided charger work very quickly, however standard mini-usb chargers or usb leads will take forever to fuly charge, if they do ever reach a full charge. I think I read somewhere that the provided charger works at a slightly higher ampage.
please help because my charger is rated @ 0.1A which means 100mA only? (wth) I googled and found out that 700mA is the oem batt charger for xperia x1 some use 1A others 1.5A please help thanks. Cause I'm buying a new charger rated at 1A so it would charge faster
Yes, the higher the mA the more juice can be drawn from it.
Many people think that it means it will only put out that current, but current is drawn not pushed, and an electrical device will draw as much as it needs.
With a NiMH type rechargable battery, there's a simple formula to work out the charging time.
C is the capacity of the battery.
1.4C/mA
So a 1000mAH NiMH battery charged at 1000mA would take 1.4 hours to charge.
However, Lithium batteries are not simple to charge without blowing them up, hence the need for a charging circuit.
The charging circuit should take only as much current as it needs to charge the battery safely, so a 2A charger would probably be overkill although it would most likely enable you to run TomTom, Opera, and watch a movie while charging in the quickest possible time
If you're charging while using the device heavily (GPS/Wifi/3G browsing) then 1A charger would be better, but if you normally just leave the phone charging without using it then 600mA normally does the job.
i think 2A charger would kill the battery. Can you suggest a 1A charger OEM htc for my xperia x1? thanks
henryfranz2005 said:
i think 2A charger would kill the battery. Can you suggest a 1A charger OEM htc for my xperia x1? thanks
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You've fallen for what I mentioned in my second sentance.
A 2A power supply does not only provide 2A, it provides anything up to 2A.
So if your phone only draws 1A, it will only provide 1A.
The phone is the charger, the thing we think of as the charger is actually just a power supply.
Unless someone has the spec sheets for the charging circuit in the phone, we don't know the maximum rate at which it will charge the battery.
One way to find out would be to discharge the battery to a level where the phone won't turn on, then without turning the phone on, set it charging.
Time how long it takes for the LED to turn green.
Divide 1230 by the time in hours that it took and you've got roughly the current drawn to charge it.
Say it takes 90 minutes with a 1A power supply, so that's a maximum charge rate of 800mA, so even if you connected it up to a 5A power supply, it will still only charge at 800mA.
So, you connect it up to your 1A power supply, that means with the phone on you've got a "spare" 200mA to play with.
If the phone isn't using more than 200mA to just "run" itself, then you'll charge a battery in the 90 minutes.
However, say you start your sat nav app, it draws 400mA (guess), the charging circuit drops to use only 600mA, taking longer to charge but allowing you to find where you're driving too.
While you're navigating to a restaurant, you want to phone ahead to confirm the reservation, so you open up Opera and search google with a 3G connection, that takes another 400mA (guess). The charging circuit now only has 200mA to use. Your battery isn't getting much charge.
Imagine using a 600mA power supply instead and you can see how you could get to the situation where despite being plugged in, your battery is running down.
I've used 400mA to demonstrate the impact, of course they real values are lower, otherwise you'd only get an hour's use out of having GPS and 3G enabled. Hmm, then again...
thanks for helping me here I decided that I would buy a new charger. (1A) because my charger is not drawing enough amperes (my charger is rated at 0.1A believe me. I thought I read the specs wrong. But it takes roughly 18 hrs to fully charge my battery.
I input my battery specs here http://www.csgnetwork.com/batterychgcalc.html
and yeah I think the computation is correct. Thanks SIR XACCERS
xaccers said:
You've fallen for what I mentioned in my second sentance.
A 2A power supply does not only provide 2A, it provides anything up to 2A.
So if your phone only draws 1A, it will only provide 1A.
The phone is the charger, the thing we think of as the charger is actually just a power supply.
Unless someone has the spec sheets for the charging circuit in the phone, we don't know the maximum rate at which it will charge the battery.
One way to find out would be to discharge the battery to a level where the phone won't turn on, then without turning the phone on, set it charging.
Time how long it takes for the LED to turn green.
Divide 1230 by the time in hours that it took and you've got roughly the current drawn to charge it.
Say it takes 90 minutes with a 1A power supply, so that's a maximum charge rate of 800mA, so even if you connected it up to a 5A power supply, it will still only charge at 800mA.
So, you connect it up to your 1A power supply, that means with the phone on you've got a "spare" 200mA to play with.
If the phone isn't using more than 200mA to just "run" itself, then you'll charge a battery in the 90 minutes.
However, say you start your sat nav app, it draws 400mA (guess), the charging circuit drops to use only 600mA, taking longer to charge but allowing you to find where you're driving too.
While you're navigating to a restaurant, you want to phone ahead to confirm the reservation, so you open up Opera and search google with a 3G connection, that takes another 400mA (guess). The charging circuit now only has 200mA to use. Your battery isn't getting much charge.
Imagine using a 600mA power supply instead and you can see how you could get to the situation where despite being plugged in, your battery is running down.
I've used 400mA to demonstrate the impact, of course they real values are lower, otherwise you'd only get an hour's use out of having GPS and 3G enabled. Hmm, then again...
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you're correct sir. It would take 90MINUTES to charge my phone using 1A
you're so cool sir
henryfranz2005 said:
you're correct sir. It would take 90MINUTES to charge my phone using 1A
you're so cool sir
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Happy to have enlightened
Just wish I could have been more helpful in suggesting which to buy.
Just be careful in using a charger with high Amp rating. I have 2 chargers- 1 charges my phone in more or less an hour, the other in almost half a day (so I don't use it).
One time, my battery got drained, so no problem, I plugged it in to charge. To my horror, it wasn't charging (no blinking light). sometimes I get a blinking red light, and the power button emits a red light. So I wasn't all that bothered, I thought it might need some more time to charge, so I left it alone. But the day was fast ending, without anything happening, and I needed my phone the next day for work. So I went to have it checked, the tech said it was a battery problem, so I just bought a replacement battery.
After 2 days, the same thing happened. Not charging, Red light blinking and annoying me to death. I went and had the battery replaced again.
A few days passed, so far so good, nothing happened. I just made sure that I don't let my battery drain and charge it as soon as it falls below half.
One night, I attended a party and wasn't paying too much attention to my phone. You can guess what happened, the battery went dead. I couldn't find my (fast-charging) charger, so I used the other one while I looked for it- still wasn't charging.
I couldn't find it, so I got ready to go have the battery replaced again. But then it blinked. I thought my mind might be playing tricks with me. It blinked again. (actually it wasn't blinking, it was kind of like that slow color-changing when you open the phone). I pressed the power button. It's alive!
This happened several times already, so to make the long story short. It's the charger's fault. Now, its the charger with the low amphere rating that I bring with me, even if it does charge slowly. I only use the other one, when I'm pressed for time.
Sorry for the long post. Just wanted to share my story.
Sounds like it's the fault of the battery monitor in the phone letting the voltage of the battery drop too low damaging the cell.
A low current charge can often bring such a damaged cell back to life, where as a full current charge is likely to expose the damage and kill off the battery.
There are several things which damage lithium cells.
Heat is one of them, which is why if you're using a laptop that allows it, it's better to run off the mains where possible with the battery out. Of course this isn't always practical and if someone knocks the power lead off goes your laptop. With our phone's it's not an option. Charging also produces heat, the higher the current the hotter it gets, so short top-up charges are better than long charges.
Discharging them too low damages them. The phone should prevent this by stopping you being able to power on the phone if the voltage is too low, however it could be misreading the voltage. Sometimes they can be revived if the voltage hasn't dropped too far below the minimum, with a low current charge, but the damage would have been done so the battery wouldn't last as long as an undamaged one treated the same way and of the same age.
Time. It's a killer. From the moment of manufacture the battery's internal contacts start losing efficiency, giving the result of lower capacity over time. Heat increases this. There's nothing you can really do about it, just remember there's no point buying a spare battery to use in the future when your original one finally stops holding enough charge, by then the spare would have degraded too, so buy replacement batteries when you need them, not before.
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You've fallen for what I mentioned in my second sentance.
A 2A power supply does not only provide 2A, it provides anything up to 2A.
So if your phone only draws 1A, it will only provide 1A.
The phone is the charger, the thing we think of as the charger is actually just a power supply.
Unless someone has the spec sheets for the charging circuit in the phone, we don't know the maximum rate at which it will charge the battery.
One way to find out would be to discharge the battery to a level where the phone won't turn on, then without turning the phone on, set it charging.
Time how long it takes for the LED to turn green.
Divide 1230 by the time in hours that it took and you've got roughly the current drawn to charge it.
Say it takes 90 minutes with a 1A power supply, so that's a maximum charge rate of 800mA, so even if you connected it up to a 5A power supply, it will still only charge at 800mA.
So, you connect it up to your 1A power supply, that means with the phone on you've got a "spare" 200mA to play with.
If the phone isn't using more than 200mA to just "run" itself, then you'll charge a battery in the 90 minutes.
However, say you start your sat nav app, it draws 400mA (guess), the charging circuit drops to use only 600mA, taking longer to charge but allowing you to find where you're driving too.
While you're navigating to a restaurant, you want to phone ahead to confirm the reservation, so you open up Opera and search google with a 3G connection, that takes another 400mA (guess). The charging circuit now only has 200mA to use. Your battery isn't getting much charge.
Imagine using a 600mA power supply instead and you can see how you could get to the situation where despite being plugged in, your battery is running down.
I've used 400mA to demonstrate the impact, of course they real values are lower, otherwise you'd only get an hour's use out of having GPS and 3G enabled. Hmm, then again...
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Spot on! you really hit it...look at it againas in this analogy, you have a 2mm diameter water pipe and being fed from a 10mm diameter pipe, you cant get into the 2mm more than it could take. and reversing the scenerio, inference could be drawn!
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Hello,
I have had this tabled for a while and it was always charging extremely slowly but I never took it out of the house so it wasn't a bid deal for me. However I have given it to my mother and she uses it in other ways. Anyways, the note 10.1 is the slowest charging device I have ever seen. It takes probably 48h-72h to charge it completely. I am using the original cable and power brick, I have tried ALL the outlets in my house, I have tried using the computer, I have tried using another cable (probably like 5 different ones) and other bricks (from iPads, my note 5, etc) and nothing is working. I have seen other posts regarding slow charging but none of them solve my problem.
Thank you
Thats is not normal .
I would factory reset and flash a stock rom .
Swap battery or take to a service centre .
aleks945 said:
It takes probably 48h-72h ...
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"probably"?
You can't troubleshoot perceptions and guesses. How long does it actually take--repeatably--to charge from what percentage to what percentage? (i.e. "Went to bed, battery was at 40%, charged overnight for 7 hours and battery was at 60%.")
There are apps to check charging current (Ampere being one of them).
The fastest charge you can get is with the OEM charger in an outlet, not a PC.
Understand that this is a 7,000mAh battery without any quick charging applied to it.
Additionally, if you are using the device whilst charging it, you aren't really charging it since the drain is about the same as the charge; you'll effectively neither charge nor discharge.
Finally, check for battery-draining apps; you might not have a charging problem but an app-drain problem.
Rolo42 said:
"probably"?
You can't troubleshoot perceptions and guesses. How long does it actually take--repeatably--to charge from what percentage to what percentage? (i.e. "Went to bed, battery was at 40%, charged overnight for 7 hours and battery was at 60%.")
There are apps to check charging current (Ampere being one of them).
The fastest charge you can get is with the OEM charger in an outlet, not a PC.
Understand that this is a 7,000mAh battery without any quick charging applied to it.
Additionally, if you are using the device whilst charging it, you aren't really charging it since the drain is about the same as the charge; you'll effectively neither charge nor discharge.
Finally, check for battery-draining apps; you might not have a charging problem but an app-drain problem.
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The time varies, but it is between 2 and 3 days to charge from 0, never less.
I do use the OEM charger and cable and an outlet.
I do understand that but 2 days seems a bit of a stretch, don't you think?
I am definitely not using it while charging, because it's impossible. It just doesn't charge fast enough to be able to use it. It drains quicker than it charges.
I highly doubt that, I only have YouTube and Chrome installed on it.
Above 6 hours with stock rom and charger is abnormal .
Usual replies .
One cable
Two charger
Three battery or connections .
Four USB port
Five motherboard .
aleks945 said:
I do understand that but 2 days seems a bit of a stretch, don't you think?
I am definitely not using it while charging, because it's impossible. It just doesn't charge fast enough to be able to use it. It drains quicker than it charges.
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Yeah, 2 days isn't right. It also shouldn't be discharging faster than charging, especially with the OEM charger.
I leave mine plugged into my PC (only 500mA max current) with the screen on (about medium brightness, mostly black screen, which is most power-friendly for OLED) using LectureNotes all day and it will neither charge nor discharge (technically, it's charging at the same rate it is discharging); the percentage doesn't move.
What does Ampere report?
Do you have another charger you could try? any 5V and at least 2A would work.
Also, ensure your cable isn't intermittently open (a break in the cable, temporarily disconnecting the charger).
If the cable and charger are good, then the battery would be the next likely culprit, followed by the charging circuit.
Finally, ensure heat isn't an issue (is it in a case? remove it).
Mine was messed up but I concluded it was the port and cable. I got a new cable and then replaced the charging port and viola. Charge time went from 8 hours back to the usual 3-4
Hello,
I am getting the super fast charging only while the screen is locked. If I am using the device while it's charging, charging is not so fast.
It says super fast charging but it doesn't charge so fast.
Is it just my device or others facing the same issue?
enjoylife1788 said:
Hello,
I am getting the super fast charging only while the screen is locked. If I am using the device while it's charging, charging is not so fast.
It says super fast charging but it doesn't charge so fast.
Is it just my device or others facing the same issue?
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I have turned it on. But what I am talking is that it works when the phone is not in use.
Same charger while phone is in use the charging is slow.
Same charger while the phone is sleep mode, the charging is super fast.
This is normal to avoid over heating of battery while in use.
You can't have the screen on for fast charging, you can listen to music with bt though while fast charging.
Having the screen on disrupts the charge curve (it defaults to slow charging) and it's best practice not to do this.
•Start charge at 30-40% then let charge to 60-80%
To get a 20% charge in that range only takes about 10 minutes! Li's love to be used like this; short charge/use cycles do not degrade them like NiCads.
There is a known slight memory effect with Li's so periodically cycle them through a wider charge range.
•Never charge cell below freezing, best if cell temp is 80 F to 95 F. At 80 F or below plating can occur which would permanently degrade the cell.
Charging above 70% degrades the battery faster, above 90% the charging slows and the higher cell voltage degrades it even faster.
•Avoid charging to 100% except if you need to or to periodically do a full charge cycle.
Heat and high cell voltage are the killers of Li cells. By avoiding charging beyond 80% and high temperatures you can increase the battery lifespan by hundreds even thousands of full charge cycles.
A 20% is not a full charge cycle; 6%-100% is.
Five 20% charges would be roughly the equivalent of a full charge cycle in power but far less is cell degradation.
•Avoid discharging below 20%, 30% is better.
After 20% there's much less usable energy; the phone uses a constant 5 volts. The phone's voltage converters trade off milliamps for voltage and use more milliamps for converting lower cell voltage.
Volts x Amps = watts.
The phone's voltage and wattage requirements are constants. So at lower cell voltage the phone draws more milliamps to supply these; the battery provides less watt hours than at higher battery voltage levels.
So take a 10 minute break every 2 hours or so and let it fast charge during the break.
So I got an adapter to use a wired headset with my phone, it's one of those that allows for both headphone use and charging, though you need to plug in both, but I notice after I tested them out, my estimated battery drain declined all the way down to 9 hours remaining from a charge of 89 percent.
It used to be anywhere from 23 hours to a whole day, did I just break my battery? I'm not in a position where i can replace it if it goes wrong, especially since I just got this a month ago.
Checked it and it doesn't show any apps sucking power, I also disabled various bloatwares to make sure it would run smoothly.
I only had this phone since December and I made sure to charge it when needed, keeping it at around 40-80% charge as much as I could.
Phone is a OnePlus 8 5G, battery drain before was about a whole day before I needed to charge unless I were watching videos, and even with that it still lasted a good while.
It's not a good idea to use and charge the phone as it disrupts the charging curve*. If the screen is off and the device power usage is minimal like listening to music on bt does not interfere with normal charging, at least on my 10+.
Give the phone it's quiet time to charge.
Limit charges to 80% preferable 70% and discharges to 30% preferably 40% to maximize battery life.
Avoid going under 20% or full charges to 100% as it needlessly stresses the battery.
Li's love short, frequent midrange usage like from 40-65%
Li's hate high heat (>100°F) and high cell voltages ie >90% charge.
Avoid charging below 72°F as it can cause Li plating which will permanently degrade it.
Never attempt to charge if below 32°F.
*if you're drawing power whilst charging the device you can not gauge its actual battery capacity. It will charge much slower or maybe not at all.
Stop that you!
Take a 10 or 15 minute break and let get it take a charge.
blackhawk said:
It's not a good idea to use and charge the phone as it disrupts the charging curve. If the screen is off and the device power usage is minimal like listening to music on bt does not interfere with normal charging, at least on my 10+.
Give the phone it's quiet time to charge.
Limit charges to 80% preferable 70% and discharges to 30% preferably 40% to maximize battery life.
Avoid going under 20% or full charges to 100% as it needlessly stresses the battery.
Li's love short, frequent midrange usage like from 40-65%
Li's hate high heat (>100°F) and high cell voltages ie >90% charge.
Avoid charging below 72°F as it can cause Li plating which will permanently degrade it.
Never attempt to charge if below 32°F.
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I don't use it when it's charging, it's a OnePlus with warp charging so I let it sit until it's either full or usually at around the 80 range.
It seemed fine until I tried using this headset adapter, I don't know if these can break the battery in any way so i don't know if just using this messed something up.
MarkiMarko2221 said:
I don't use it when it's charging, it's a OnePlus with warp charging so I let it sit until it's either full or usually at around the 80 range.
It seemed fine until I tried using this headset adapter, I don't know if these can break the battery in any way so i don't know if just using this messed something up.
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If you have fast charging just use the standard fast charging cable to charge it not the daul use one.
The latter may not be recognized by the phone for fast charging, if so it will default to slow charging.
blackhawk said:
If you have fast charging just use the standard fast charging cable to charge it not the daul use one.
The latter may not be recognized by the phone for fast charging, if so it will default to slow charging.
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Warp Charging works yeah, I'm returning the headset cable and replacing it, since i don't know if it messed my system up, and aside from that it's clunky to use.
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It was this thing.
do you think my battery is just messed up at this point or is it fine? Battery estimates used to show 23 hours to a whole day, but now it's down to 9 hours so I don't know if that messed up my battery somehow.
I doubt it messed up the battery especially if it's been only a week or whatever.
More than likely it's a misbehaving apk(s) causing the drain.
If your battery's rated capacity is 1000 mAh and you're only getting 400 mAh out of it, then you have a battery issue. How long it can run doesn't reflect battery condition unless the load is the same as before. So you need to scrutinize it further before making the assumption the battery has deteriorated.
I use two overlay apks (Accubattery is one) that let me see total current draw in near real time. I'm running Pie and doubt these will run in Q.
At idle my draw is an average of 150 ma or so with lows going down to 79 ma. If I see it averaging 300 ma with spikes going to 800 ma at idle I go looking for the cause.