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[Q] Battery charge went from 20% to 55% after 7 hours - really?

Charged it all night.
Is this a problem, or normal?
Am I doing something wrong?
Thanks!

Could your cable possibly have come loose? I haven't seen anybody with this problem.
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How are you charging your infuse?
With the stock cable and wall charger, stock cable and computer, or some other way?
If you are using the stock wall charger maybe the charger is going out. First try charging it another way and that should tell you if it is the wall charger, USB port on the computer, the phone, or even the battery on the phone that might be going out.
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even i see that charging on infuse is very very slow... but not as slow as u have reported.. for me it takes like 6-7 hours for full recharge... that i feel is too slow compared to other phones i had... maybe bcos of larger battery... but even then it'll be a pain during travel..

benyben123 said:
Charged it all night.
Is this a problem, or normal?
Am I doing something wrong?
Thanks!
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sasa111 said:
even i see that charging on infuse is very very slow... but not as slow as u have reported.. for me it takes like 6-7 hours for full recharge... that i feel is too slow compared to other phones i had... maybe bcos of larger battery... but even then it'll be a pain during travel..
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From what I have read the phone charges at 600ma an hour so it should charge in around 3 hours. Maybe you have stuff running in the backgound. Try charging with the phone powered off just as a test and see what happens. I go from zero to 100% in under 4hrs with phone on and under 3hrs with it off. It also depends on HOW you charge it (wall charger, car charger, computer).
As for traveling, you can buy cheap batteries on eBay for $5 or 3 for $10 and some that even come with a free-standing charger. They are so small and light you could almost carry a weeks supply.

Wall charger with phone at idle and stock charge current limit should be 3-4 hours from dead at most.
A phone in operation will take MUCH longer to charge.

So, i am charging it with this very cheap-bought-on-ebay-from-China kinda cable, and attached to it is an adapter of sorts.
see pic.

Thats your problem cheap equipment leads to poor performance
infused infuse helping other infused infuses?

THANKS!
Sorry to ask (and annoy), but any chance you can link me to a GOOD charger for this phone?

Go to samsungs website and get the one that came with infuse or do a little searching on eBay. Look for OEM replacement
infused infuse helping other infused infuses?

tyshemi said:
Go to samsungs website and get the one that came with infuse or do a little searching on eBay. Look for OEM replacement
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OEM! got it! Thank you

Yea buddy
infused infuse helping other infused infuses?

benyben123 said:
So, i am charging it with this very cheap-bought-on-ebay-from-China kinda cable, and attached to it is an adapter of sorts.
see pic.
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It probably isn't capable of delivering the proper current. I've seen chargers marked as 1A capable that were really only capable of 300-400 mA.
benyben123 said:
THANKS!
Sorry to ask (and annoy), but any chance you can link me to a GOOD charger for this phone?
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Official HTC chargers seem to work well - they're rated 1A instead of 0.7. The official Samsung charger also seems to be underrated as far as current, I pull 0.8 amps out of it on a regular basis with no problems.

http://cgi.ebay.com/OEM-USB-Data-Charger-Micro-USB-Cable-HTC-Sensation-4G-/170670339203?pt=PDA_Accessories&hash=item27bcbeb483#ht_3410wt_1324
Will this work?

benyben123 said:
http://cgi.ebay.com/OEM-USB-Data-Charger-Micro-USB-Cable-HTC-Sensation-4G-/170670339203?pt=PDA_Accessories&hash=item27bcbeb483#ht_3410wt_1324
Will this work?
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That cable should work - it's more about the charger you plug it into that matters. Anything name-brand rated above 1A that is compliant with the USB Battery Charging specification should work. (Read: iPad/iPhone chargers need modifications or the phone will treat them as USB and limit charge current to 475 mA - but still that should be better than your current situation.)
For cables, I'm 100% happy with Monoprice cables. I have a pile of these in various lengths and they work great:
http://www.monoprice.com/products/subdepartment.asp?c_id=102&cp_id=10303#1030307
For charging, get the 28/24 cables with ferrite cores - These have heavy-gauge power wires.

My note 5 fast charger isn't fast charging?

Seems like it's charging super slow for some reason. I'd do some troubleshooting maybe it's the power source or something if anyone having the same issue please let me know how you guys fix it.

Nvm. The Cable wasn't fully in lol

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TheUndertaker21 said:
Nvm. The Cable wasn't fully in lol
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Dooooh

Lol, well my S6 Edge charger seems to only do normal charging when connected to my Note 5. Not sure why but its exactly the same as the Note 5 charger.

TheUndertaker21 said:
Seems like it's charging super slow for some reason. I'd do some troubleshooting maybe it's the power source or something if anyone having the same issue please let me know how you guys fix it.
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Ok, so oddly enough, I noticed the exact same issue last night. I did a few searches online, and found something interesting. According to one of the sites I visited, the fast-charging only kicks in when the battery is below a certain level, 15% I believe. Then, as it's charging and the percentage rises, the charging slows down. Long story short: the lower your battery is, the faster it'll charge. I guess Sammy didn't want to burn out your Note 5 battery by fast-charging all the time. I'll try to find that article and post it here for you!
Note: I let my phone drop into the low teens last night, and sure enough, it began fast-charging as soon as I plugged it in. Maybe it's just coincidence though...who knows.
Edit: Here's the article: http://www.gottabemobile.com/2015/08/20/5-quick-chargers-for-the-galaxy-note-5-s6-edge-plus/

That's false, actually it will fast charge on any percentage level.
Right now I'm at 10% and it says cable charging, sometimes I'll be at 90% and it will say fast charging. No fix yet? I do know if you unplug and plug back in several times it will say fast charging. Sometimes one time, sometimes 4-6 times...

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That's false, actually it will fast charge on any percentage level.
Right now I'm at 10% and it says cable charging, sometimes I'll be at 90% and it will say fast charging. No fix yet? I do know if you unplug and plug back in several times it will say fast charging. Sometimes one time, sometimes 4-6 times...
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I have the same issue. Tried different kernels. Haven't tried switching roms though. I'm on breakdown v3. Rom isn't the issue though. No idea what is going on

Maybe it's the cable? I had to get a new one. Like I burned the old one up.

My cousins note 5 wouldn't fast charge, and I told him to swap out the cable, and boom it worked again.

So, seemingly, we have a sudden burst of people with this issue. I guess the OEM cable has a couple month life expectancy lol

Yup, cable

I've noticed this issue too. I just keep plugging it in until it fast charges (usually 5 or 6 times). Not a great workaround, but it works.

Mine has thus problem too , but if I use the same USB cable and the charger that came with my Note 3 it at least charges at regular speed, but with the fast charger and same cable I get less than that .

My indian note 5 has the same problem. Sometimes it fast chargesvand sometimes not. I went to Samsung service center and got the charger replaced. Now it is workinf fine.

I tried using the cable that came with my Note 4, and now it works fine. It's a longer cable, maybe that has something to do with it.

It's clearly not dependent on being at a certain percentage considering mine is fast charging right now and it's at 57 and will continue to fast charge until full or at least display a notification that it's fast charging until it's full.
In all my testing it's the cables. I have 4 power adaptive blocks that came with various models including N4, S6E, S6E+, and N5. All the blocks work with my N5 as long as I use the USB cable from my Note 4. If I use a cable from the S6E, S6E+, or the N5 it doesn't fast charge. The N4 cable is much beefier then the newer cables. Maybe they are just making cheaper cables nowadays. The N3 charger was beefier then the N4 charger although that's kind of expected being usb 3.0.
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Is it the cable or the adapter that determines the fast charging??? For instance can I use my longer thicker note 4 cord with the new note 5 base and get fast charging?

I think the USB cable that comes with the Samsung fast chargers is faulty. I have 2 fast chargers, 1 from the S6 edge and 1 from the Note 5 and neither one of them will fast charge with the supplied usb cable. I can use any other usb cable and fast charging will work, it just won't work with the Samsung cables.
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fast charging

This phone never consistently charges at fast charging speeds with the screen off. It always charges at normal speed and fast charges on occasion. I've tried blowing on all of the ports. I'm using the factory cable and such as well

derrick_12341 said:
This phone never consistently charges at fast charging speeds with the screen off. It always charges at normal speed and fast charges on occasion. I've tried blowing on all of the ports. I'm using the factory cable and such as well
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I don't know why, but since the update to emui 5. The fast charge doesn't work like before

grilla99 said:
I don't know why, but since the update to emui 5. The fast charge doesn't work like before
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Good to know it's not just me. I think this may be my last Huawei phone

Install Ampere so you can look at the rates.

Galaxy S8+ 'Slow Charging'

Evening All
So the last few weeks my S8 has been charging really slow.. it doesn't actually say 'Slow Charging', it still pops up with Fast Charging when plugged in (original charger with no damage).
It used to charge from pretty much dead to full in about an hour or so but now it's completely different. When I plug it in from about 20% it says around 2 hours to fully charged with fast charge.
Anyone else had this issue? My charger seems fine, always treated it well etc. My carrier (EE) has told me to contact Samsung but I just thought this would be worth a shot first.
Thanks
Steve

stephendowset said:
Evening All
So the last few weeks my S8 has been charging really slow.. it doesn't actually say 'Slow Charging', it still pops up with Fast Charging when plugged in (original charger with no damage).
It used to charge from pretty much dead to full in about an hour or so but now it's completely different. When I plug it in from about 20% it says around 2 hours to fully charged with fast charge.
Anyone else had this issue? My charger seems fine, always treated it well etc. My carrier (EE) has told me to contact Samsung but I just thought this would be worth a shot first.
Thanks
Steve
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Experienced once and changed USB port everything is fine now

Geoz said:
Experienced once and changed USB port everything is fine now
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Changed USB port? I'm using the UK spec Samsung wall charger?

stephendowset said:
Changed USB port? I'm using the UK spec Samsung wall charger?
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My bad cable not port

Geoz said:
My bad cable not port
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Even original cable charger works both ways, one side its slow charger and other side is fast. Try to change charger sides in the phone.

stephendowset said:
Evening All
So the last few weeks my S8 has been charging really slow.. it doesn't actually say 'Slow Charging', it still pops up with Fast Charging when plugged in (original charger with no damage).
It used to charge from pretty much dead to full in about an hour or so but now it's completely different. When I plug it in from about 20% it says around 2 hours to fully charged with fast charge.
Anyone else had this issue? My charger seems fine, always treated it well etc. My carrier (EE) has told me to contact Samsung but I just thought this would be worth a shot first.
Thanks
Steve
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I am experiencing the exact same problem with my s8 plus. Its just been the past few weeks. I've tried switching out the cable and the AC adapter and nothing. I think I read somewhere that a recent update killed fast charging on some s8 plus models so I'm hoping that If it is a software issue it will be fixed when they roll out the next update. Otherwise I don't know what to do.
Chris

rajkabul said:
Even original cable charger works both ways, one side its slow charger and other side is fast. Try to change charger sides in the phone.
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My guess is your comment is an attempt at humour, alternatively you are misinformed.
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Stopped charging at 120w with official charger and cable

As the title says. The phone shows mi turbo charging and not the yellow/gold 120 while charging.
Any ideas?

Using a 120v outlet?
Edit: yep you live in the US. 120v outlets with this charger can only provide 96w and won't even get that high actually. They use 96va but the actual power being used is only ~55w if you use a kill-a-watt. Your phone never charged at 120w unfortunately. If it said it was, the software was lying.

AerationCheese said:
Using a 120v outlet?
Edit: yep you live in the US. 120v outlets with this charger can only provide 96w and won't even get that high actually. They use 96va but the actual power being used is only ~55w if you use a kill-a-watt. Your phone never charged at 120w unfortunately. If it said it was, the software was lying.
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Actually I am using 220v and it was charging at 120w speed 2 days ago. The difference is staggering between the 120w and the mi turbo charging.
I just did a factory reset and it didn't help. I'm starting to think the cable or the charger malfunctioned but they are a week old both.

Sounds like the brick - change the cable and see if it works. I don't think there are any 3rd (or official) 120W chargers. Maybe time for RMA, they may even send you one without a return

Hi, same issue phone not charging with 120 'Turb max' only says "quick charging" i keep try to enable/disable like 20-30 times to get it 120w charge....
not sure if cable wire broken or charger f** up...

help
Anyone had same problem? any solution!
Where i can buy only charger or cable?!
for me, i try like 30-50 times to get Turbo Charge!
When I plug it "quick charge" but not charging at all.

brainohyeah said:
Hi, same issue phone not charging with 120 'Turb max' only says "quick charging" i keep try to enable/disable like 20-30 times to get it 120w charge....
not sure if cable wire broken or charger f** up...
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How do you enable or disable turbo max? I have the same problem, since last updates the 5-100 charge takes more than an hour. That's a shame for the "super fast" charge. I'm really regretting of getting a Xiaomi phone. I have been an always iphone user and this is my first experience with an Android and for now it's very dissapointing.

TheSonic8 said:
How do you enable or disable turbo max? I have the same problem, since last updates the 5-100 charge takes more than an hour. That's a shame for the "super fast" charge. I'm really regretting of getting a Xiaomi phone. I have been an always iphone user and this is my first experience with an Android and for now it's very dissapointing.
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I am not enabling or disabling anything, yes sir we have the same problem... not sure if the problem is hardware or software.... really sad

I have a 240v circuit in my garage breaker but I never found the outlet for it. Our dryer also has a 240v outlet but it's not a standard plug. I was curious to experiment with proper 120w charging so I bought a step up transformer on Amazon, 300w 120v to 240v or vice versa.
For what it's worth I've had to plug and unplug the cable from the charger occasionally or it won't charge properly. I'm guessing dust gets in just the wrong place or something, or some other weird little quirk. The other day it was doing really slow charging on my 55w wireless charger, I had to unplug the cable from the brick and charger, and unplug the brick from the wall, but it all worked fine again after that.

Same for me. Living in Denmark. We have 220V. Using the original 120w charger and cable. When charging the message is "quick charge" . Not max 120 Wat. Charging is slow. When I get to the batery status. It shows for example 30 min left to charge from 70% to 100%.
The 120w charging was the whole reason I got this phone. What is going on?

That's a bad reason to buy a phone

siemano said:
Same for me. Living in Denmark. We have 220V. Using the original 120w charger and cable. When charging the message is "quick charge" . Not max 120 Wat. ?
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Is that like this right out of the box?

siemano said:
Same for me. Living in Denmark. We have 220V. Using the original 120w charger and cable. When charging the message is "quick charge" . Not max 120 Wat. Charging is slow. When I get to the batery status. It shows for example 30 min left to charge from 70% to 100%.
The 120w charging was the whole reason I got this phone. What is going on?
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yes, I feel sad the phone is a monster but now takes 1hr to full charge... not sure if that is after updates (software ) or just damaged hardware (charger)....

brainohyeah said:
yes, I feel sad the phone is a monster but now takes 1hr to full charge... not sure if that is after updates (software ) or just damaged hardware (charger)....
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Yes. It was never charging 120W max. Just quick charge.
Super fast charging is (was) a really nice feature of this phone.
I will try to ask Giztop (the webshop where I bought it) to help me. Maybe RMA of the charging brick.
I am still on the Chineese ROM. I am waiting for Mi unlock until friday.
Is there anyone from EU (220V) using a plug adapter and is getting 120W max charging?

I am in Moscow. Just got mine today. Working fine. Getting 120W charging. I have no idea if yours in hardware or software. I am on latest A11 weekly

sunilstark 1 said:
I am in Moscow. Just got mine today. Working fine. Getting 120W charging. I have no idea if yours in hardware or software. I am on latest A11 weekly
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Thank you brother for leting me know. You got 220V/230V like me in the power outlet - I was worried that it might be the reason.
I wonder if the "converter plug" might be an issue. I used 2 different ones.
Maybe sofware. I will flash it soon (still waiting for unlock) and we will see.
Got to stay positive

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I wonder if the "converter plug" might be an issue. I used 2 different ones.
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I have a very loose converter. It barely holds the brick. But the charging is still working at 120

siemano said:
Yes. It was never charging 120W max. Just quick charge.
Super fast charging is (was) a really nice feature of this phone.
I will try to ask Giztop (the webshop where I bought it) to help me. Maybe RMA of the charging brick.
I am still on the Chineese ROM. I am waiting for Mi unlock until friday.
Is there anyone from EU (220V) using a plug adapter and is getting 120W max charging?
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I am using a transformer in the US that gets about 240v and I have no issues with 120w. That said it's only slightly faster than on 120v (which is supposedly 96w) anyway, not much of a difference.

Beep boop

siemano said:
I will try to ask Giztop (the webshop where I bought it) to help me. Maybe RMA of the charging brick.
I am still on the Chineese ROM. I am waiting for Mi unlock until friday.
Is there anyone from EU (220V) using a plug adapter and is getting 120W max charging?
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I am from EU (220V) using a plug adapter and getting 120W max charging.
My friend, I have a feeling there is no issue with software. You won't solve this issue flashing another rom. I think it is better to return this unit to the seller invoking warranty conditions.
The unit is not performing as it is expected.
If you unlock bootloader, then you will probably void your warranty.
Do not waste your time, get in touch with seller.
Best regards,
Andrei