I've received two refurbished Note 5 phones from t-mobile. Both units have had the same issue. The phone will charge intermittently when hooked up to a usb cable. Some times the phone will give off audio / visual cues as though a usb cable is being plugged in when it's not. Also, the phone will randomly launch gear vr mode. Is this a common issue for this model? Are these phones just that susceptible to break down that I should avoid using non samsung cables and wall chargers?
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I've purchased this wireless induction charger on Amazon and I'm quite pleased with it. It's one of the only few cheap ones that can be used as display station.
I'm quite disappointed in one aspect though...
The point of getting and induction charger was of course to prevent damaging the usb port from plugging and unplugging repeatedly.
The second interest I had was that I tought this would consequently leave the USB port for other use, like plugging a mouse, flash drive (using Stickmount), basically any USB device connected via OTG cable.
Unfortunately, it appears that when you plug someting while the phone is resting on the station, it "disables" the induction charging...
I wonder if it's a software or hardware issue. Any workaround?
Just for the record, I'm running L 5.0.1 on Nexus 5
Most likely done to prevent one from attempting to charge with both the USB port and Qi at the same time, to prevent overheating.
Sounds legit...
I have an S7 and the Samsung Fast Charge Wireless pad.
It has been working for a couple of months, and now suddenly it will not charge.
When I put my S7 on the pad it initially starts to charge, and then I get a message saying "Wireless Charging Paused" with a blue flashing LED.
I have googled around and for the S6 people mentioned that putting the phone in "daydream mode" fixes this problem, but I dont have this option on the S7.
Has anyone encountered/solved this issue?
For anyone else having this issue...
I googled around and tried 10 different suggestions, none of which worked. A lot of people seem to be having this type of issue.
Then, I unplugged the USB cable from my wireless pad, waited a few seconds and plugged in again. VOILA. That worked.
Sometimes the answers are so simple....
I also have a Samsung Fast Charge Wireless stand with the Samsung fast charge wall charger and cable that it came with, and a Galaxy S7 Edge. I have never had this issue before, but since upgrading to Nougat a couple of weeks ago this seems to be happening frequently (wireless charging paused). I tried removing the slim case (which I never had to before), rebooting the phone, vertical or horizontal, and it had no impact. I also found that unplugging the wireless dock and then back in again fixed the issue. I don't have this issue with the older non-fast Samsung wireless charging pad (small square one). I am guessing there is some new battery/charging protection in Nougat that is a bit buggy and causing the stand to wig out until unplugged.
This happens to me and is why Smasung makes the worse wireless chargers ever. Won't ever go near a Samsung charger again. I bought a new and cheaper third party wireless fast charger and it charges every time with no charging paused issue, so there's obviously quality control issues with Samsung chargers and they never seem to fix the issue. People need to save their money and buy anything but a Samsung charger
Wireless Charging of Samsung 6 edge+
I got a Samsung wireless charger a year or so ago and at first it worked fine. After a while I got tired of walking across my office every time the phone rang. I moved the wireless charger from the Samsung wall charger to a USB port sharing device on the computer. Admittedly I never looked at the notification on the phone when it chimed, I assumed it was charging whenever it chimed. It took a while (I must be slow) but I started noticing that the phone was not always (or perhaps ever) charging. However, It also didn't seem like it was chiming each time I put the phone on the wireless charger, like I wasn't putting the phone exactly where it needed to be. When I moved the USB plug around in the socket,the power chime was going off and on. Even when it gave the chime indication that it was properly receiving power, I (finally) noticed the phone showed "Charging Paused". I assumed it was due to a plug problem on the adapter. To solve that problem I moved the USB cord to a direct port on the computer but kept getting the "charging paused" message. Out of frustration, I moved the wireless charger back to the Samsung wall charger. Immediately the phone chimed and indicated that it was charging normally. So perhaps the power from the USB port is not high enough to consistently charge the phone through the wireless charger?
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I had this same issue with my Samsung wireless charger.
For anyone having the issue, here is the solution that worked for me.
shanebart.com/samsung-wireless-charging-paused/
I thought I would throw this out there and see if anyone else has seen the issue. I am on my second s8 plus that has lost the ability to charge wirelessly. I am only using Samsung based chargers and have seen the issue from the 1 st gen slow charger to the latest that was released with the S8. The device was charging fine at first and then after a few days it stopped all together. I have tried all the known fixes including trying a shorter USB3 cable from the power brick to a hard reset of the device itself. All options for fast charging have been disabled and tested with no change in the wireless charge state. I even went as far as swapping out the new Sammy wireless fast charger I picked up at best buy to make sure there was not an issue with that. When placing the phone on a wireless charger there is no prompt to show connection or even the issue where the wireless charging would connect and then disconnect. It just will not charge on any wireless charger. Charging via USB port is not an issue. I was wondering if the latest update that fixed the red tint was the culprit but I did not allow my replacement device to update at first to test. Sure enough it started doing the same thing after a few days.
Has anyone else seen this? I am due to swap over to a third device tomorrow afternoon. The sprint techs I have been working with have sent the first device to one of the Samsung engineers they have been working with.
Thanks.
Mine did this after a few days. My fix was just to restart the phone. It seems after a few wireless pauses a safety feature keeps it from charging again
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Hi all,
i want to ask if someone has already encountered with following behavior:
Suddenly, without any apparent reason, my Samsung galaxy S7 stopped charging via USB cable.
note on the side: I mostly charge through wireless.
I tried factory reset, i tried different wall charger, cables, cleaning of usb port.
What is strange is that when i connect phone to usb cable the screen lights up, but charging does not start. Data transfer to pc through usb works fine too.
Now i have discovered that when i put my phone on charging pad (wireless charger) and i connected a usb cable while charging , phone switched without any problems from wireless charge to usb cable charge and then continues charging.
wtf?
any thoughts what to do next?
Thank you!
I've never charged wirelessly before but that sounds like a hardware problem to me. You'll have to return it to your mobile carrier and get a replacement.
USB-C Port Issues - "Charging Connected Device via USB" is a Constant Notification
Back info: So I charged my Pixel 3 once via the USB-C cable that came with it about a month ago, and I also tried the USB-C headphones too (around the same time) and both of these work just fine. I've since been using wireless charging and Bluetooth headphones.
I just got the pixel stand and noticed about 2 days after using that I keep getting a notification that says "Charging Connected Device via USB" even though I'm not using the USB-C port. At first it went away, but now it is staying through reboots and even shows up in safe mode sometimes. So I tried connecting the USB-C cable to the phone to see if it goes away, and I notice the cable doesn't charge the phone. Now if I power down the phone and plug the USB-C cable in one of two things will happen, but it depends on what side of the (reversible) USB-C cable is facing up:
1. The phone will start to charge and continue to charge if I hold down the power button and turn the phone on.
2. The phone will turn one when the cable is connected, but not charge the phone.
I don't think this is a hardware problem because I can use a USB-A to USB-C cable from my computer and it will charge/transfer files no matter what side of the USB-C cable is up. I also don't think this is cable or charger issues because I've used two different USB-C to USB-C cables and chargers (the set that came with the Pixel 3 and the set that came with the Pixel Stand).
I have also tried the USB-C headphones again and those are not really working either. I got them to work once by activating the Google Assistant as I was plugging them in, and they would continue to work after that until I plugged the charging cable back in. I tried the headphones again after the power cable, and they stopped working again. I now notice that the "Charging Connected Device via USB" will show up when I plug the USB-C headphones in one direction and not show up if I flip the USB-C port over.
There are some people with the issue over on Reddit, but no one seems to have a fix. One person said that a factory reset fixed his issue, but I've so many 2-factor authentication apps, that it is a real hassle to do a factory reset.
Well, the overall description of your problem does seem to point at a HW problem, since USB-C cables should be fully reversible on a hardware level.
Looks like it was corrosion.... I took a small brush to the port and cleaned it out. I cleaned it over clean surface and no debris fell out, so it is kind of concerning that corrosion would build up after halving the phone for just under a month.