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[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rohan999:
Guys i have a problem, i bought galaxy s3 a few days ago. Everything was fine but one day as i plugged my charger (original one) to my phone it did not charge. I have always been using genuine accessories and have not even once plugged in a non-genuine charger, cable or anything else.

The charger is fine as it worked on my other phones and also when i connect the phone via data cable to a pc it works fine.

Any ideas.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Freeme3:
I had about 5hr screen on time with a 6hr charging purely on my PC from 12-100%
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jediknight111:
Glad to know I'm not the only one with this problem
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] azimuddeen:
Yeah it also happens to my phone. Any errors on the phone ?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rohan999:
Nobody knows it????

Well im trying not to create a separate thread for it.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Droosh:
How about the 2A Touchpad charger?

Are you sure. My Touchpad came the stock charger (round one) it is rated at 2A. I'd also like to know if this is safe to use with my GS3 and G-Nex.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] speaker5:
The Galaxy s3 is programmed to drop to 99% after charging is done to prevent overcharging and increase battery lifetime. All galaxy s3's should be showing 99%.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] -=SagaR=-:
yes its takes too much time to charge(in my case 2 and half hour) ..but it drain slowly so probs :)
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dakaringer:
It's just a safety mechanism to prevent overcharging. No sweat.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] PugLord:
What charge times are you lot getting via usb? For me 0-100% is 3days 19hrs but on ac it's 4hrs.

Is that normal for usb as my HTC hd2 running ics was about 5hrs on usb.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] PugLord:
Come on, surely someone has tried to charge their phone via usb.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dakaringer:
I always charge by usb overnight from around like 10-20%. Fully charged by morning.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] PugLord:
Thanks for the reply......i have contacted Samsung as i don't know why my phone is taking days to charge via usb?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Souti77:
Hi guys, I'm hoping this is the best place to ask this question. I'm having a weird issue with my SIII. when I try and charge it with the original charger, It doesnt want to charge, phone doesnt even register that its plugged in to the charger. I have tried this with the original one, and another charger from my old S8300 and samsung car charger. However if I plug it into my PC, it charges, and then if I stop unplug it from my pc and back into the normal charger, it charges no problem, and in a reasonable amount of time.

any idea's from you guys?

thanks in advanced.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AW079:
True. I second that.

Only the very old nickel–cadmium battery (Ni–Cd) batteries were like that.

Agree.

Some batteries are designed for trickle charging and others rapid charging.

Its all to do with the chemical reactions and the rate which they take place inside a battery.

I would only use the standard voltage with charger supplied.

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What? 3 days 19 hrs....no way man!...I have not tried usb only charge, but that is way too long to be practical.

With lit-ion batteries its best to keep topping up rather than let discharge.

Given this, if one were to always top up their battery, then you'll hardly ever have to do a full charge therefore resulting in shorter [top up only] charging time.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tanwt:
hi bro

i tried to measure current too but didn't get any reading. what is did was

1) cut off the black wire

2) connect 1 part of the wire to the black probe of a multimeter

3) connect the 2nd part of the wire to the red probe of the multimeter

4) charger my phone with micro usb

i don't get any reading on the current measurement nor my phone is charging

but when i reconnect the 2 wire together again, the phone is chargin

can you advice what i did wrong?

tx
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stu5797:
You dont have to worry about all this stuff if you can pick up a touchstone cheap and mod the back cover a little...

Modded S3

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQ-KUgDNrwM

Whole phone

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMWgaSfwSrI
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] batman372:
Mine charges from less 10% to full 100% in abt 2.5 hours, using the 1 amp. charger provided in the box.

Also noticed that after disconnect charger battery level drop to 99%.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] speaker5:
The latest firmwire update for the Galaxy S3 addresses the issue of the 99% maximum battery charge capacity. If anyone else has noticted the difference, please confirm this.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stunno:
I was on a sponsored walk yesterday and had the phone monitoring the route and running Endomondo when the battery gave out after 17 miles. So I plugged in my trusty Energizer XP1000 pack which I have used on my last 2 phones and the GS3 didn't recognise it!

The rated output of the pack is 5V @ 500mA

To say I was p***** off would be an understatement
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dr/owned:
Just to bump with my own findings...I connected my S3 up to a 5V power supply that can handle 36 A via a microUSB cable. I had to use the 10A setting on my multimeter, so accuracy probably wasn't all that great, but I measured the S3 using 730 mA and reporting "AC Connected". Shorting the data pins of the USB plug together led to bad behavior. Shorting either data pin to ground made no difference.

Stock wall charger - 360 mA. Interestingly the Kill-a-Watt shows it drawing 6W from the wall in order to supply around 2W DC. So they used a cheap linear volt regulator.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ElBeaner:
I thought the S3 charger was a 5v 1500 mAh charger? I'll have to look at it again(small writing, harder to see)

I bought a spare charger (samsung cube - like the one that comes with the S2 Skyrocket - rated at 5v 1000mAh) and it charges my phone pretty fast.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aspot72:
Hmm... I am using old HTC charger (1000 mAh which came with HTC Touch Pro ages ago) as I like the gloving blue HTC logo on it :)

Anyhow, both my Sammys are charged with it and full charge takes about 3 hours.

I never go below 5% and even when screen shows 100% (after cca 2.5 hrs) I keep it on charger for another 30 min.

The S III has much better battery back up compare to S II.

But now both phones are on 4.0.4 will do some observation to see if any improvement ( on S II)...
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] noobody1:
noob here, have pity on me and bear with my ignorance

Hi folks,

my i9300 is stock, updated OTA to 4.1.1. No root. It takes ages to charge. I'm using the charger and cable that came with the phone.

Battery Monitor Widget app is telling me it's charging 19.47%/h, AC plugged.

Is this normal? I've read this thread from beginning to end and I've seen people telling it should charge in less than 3 hours. I started at 40% of battery charge left, and it was around 9h. Now, it is 11:24 and I'm still trying to get it charged. I'm daring to post and disturb you all with my ignorance, because I understood all these posts were before jelly bean update. Mine is on Jelly Bean 4.1.1 (OTA update). I don't know how it behaved with ICS, because I've updated very soon after buying it (second day, or something).

It isn't the first time I noticed it and I've been reading everywhere to try to find a solution. I've called Samsung and they told me to take it back to where I bought it. I'm devastated! I need my phone. I love it. If you guys know of a fix, I'd rather do anything than return my brand new i9300. I've bought it this month.

Thank you for any help at all.

Hah! Now, the widget says it is discharging at a rate of about 45%/h!!! I didn't unplug it from the wall! What is going on????

edit: out of desperation, unplugged it from wall and plugged it on my computer. I think it is a usb3 port, but I'm not sure (remember, I'm just a noob woman). An app called "battery" says it'll be charged in 2h27min!!! On the wall it was telling me more than 3h to be charged fully. Now, the battery monitor widget app says: usb plugged and about 20%/h, estimating it'll be full in 1h34m.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cuksi:
I also have problem with charging my s3. I took it to service and they changed my usb connection pin on phone and problem is still here.

From 17% to 50 % in 6 hours. But interesting sometimes he charges normal and sometimes it needs over 9 hours to be fully charged.

I always have turned on wifi, mobile data, s beam, also got inside memory card. With all of this turned on he sometimes charges normal in 3 hours and sometimes he needs over 9 hours, no any rule or law on charging.

But I noticed that if my s3 do some kind of app update or i receive e-mails while charging or i use it to see something (use any kind of app, or make calls, message ) he usually, not always, do slow motion charging for over 9 hours.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bsamardzhiev:
Use S2 charger. Two weeks everyday charging, no problem. 7-100% for 2hours.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cuksi:
When i get any notification on my s3 it start slow charging, before that he charge normal. Anyone had similar problem maybe ?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] abmantis:
For those who are experiencing slow charging, please check this thread: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2076078
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tanpantsman:
Battery app not working

The gcc battery app gives only a value of 0 when charging and -1 on battery for current_avg. The other two fields are blank. Charging seems normal on my phone.

Galaxy slll 4.1.1 i535 stock root
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JaceHagg:
charger

I bought the Belkin 2.1A charger and a pretty thick micro-usb cable and it is charging faster than ever. I noticed whenever i used a flimsy, long and thin cable that my phone would actually continue to discharge while it was plugged up if i was on it! also i noticed that if you plug in while the phones off and try to charge it, it will boot up and charge as USB (which is slower) but if you unplug and plug it back it will charge as AC giving you a much quicker charge.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DaveQB1:
I just want to add to this. The cable makes a big difference.

My experience, using a portable battery (6600mAh 5v 1a) and it was charging slower than I was using the battery and I ended up running out. I thought the charger was a dud, but tried a different USB cable and probablem solved!
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] coeniel:
I only have charging problems with siyah kernel
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] domibud:
100% Charged - Status still charging

Hi folks,

I have read from page 1... most of the issues here is either the GS3 not charging, or charging very slowly.

The issue I am facing is the other way around.

Normally, I am charging the phone over-night (knowing that once 100% charged, the phone will disconnect automatically).

However, lately it seems that my GS3 does not auto-disconnect when reached 100%.

That is my assumption by reading the battery status.

Before, when the battery 100% charged, the battery status read "Fully Charged".

However, nowadays, the status still read "Charging".

This is happens after some OTA updates from Samsung (The updates is set automatically).

My phone is stock GT-I9300 (international version), running Android 4.1.2 with kernel 3.0.31-1287119.

The build number is JZO54K.I9300XXEMF6.

Thank you for the help.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aspot72:
try charge it in Airplane Mode.

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Strange, have the same issue with my Motorola. It charges ok via PC/USB but doen't take "notice" about wall charger. Tried 4 different chargers no joy...
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] maaw:
Hi guys, i know this is an oldish post, but, is it safe to use a charger rated higher than stock? Im using a Nokia n8 wall charger rated at 1.25ah and the phone charges like heaven, neither the adapter nor the charger get hot even on intensive usage, but i get the feeling that battery lasts a little less than what it lasts if i charge it via USB. Gcc app shows 1000 when charging and 800 when about 97%, which i think is the expected. Would using a smaller charger (700mah for example) gave me a better battery life and decrease its wear? Or is this just reverse placebo effect?

Thanks!
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xezi:
I've just read all the posts in this thread, and would like to tell you this:

S III has internal circuitry to prevent overcharging (input of a current that would

violate the battery charging curve). So, at first look, you could not damage it.

But,

The device cannot protect itself from any kind of input current.

Today's consumer chargers use switching power supplies,

which are lighter, smaller and cheaper than linear ones. If

someone bought some cheapo charger, with filthy electronics, nobody knows

what could come out of that junk: transients, spurious high-energy spikes,

irregular voltages and so on. And you really could damage your device with

that kind of garbage.

Cheers,

Xezi
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] maaw:
Yeah, that's more or less what I thought, "There should be no problem, buuuuuut use it at your own risk'"

Thanks a lot for your answer. I'll keep the stock one.

Cheers!
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] whatsgood:
If you find that your s3 is charging too slowly, you can check the input current used to charge it with an app on the play store called galaxy charging current. If your charger is serving you well then you should see a current of 1000mA in the app whilst charging. If your current gets to low level like 400mA or 200mA you know that your charger is dodgy. Why it does this is because your phone detects that its being charged by an unstable source (dodgy cable). If it thinks that the charger is putting your phone at risk of some danger it will lower the input current. This is a safety mechanism and this problem normally occurs with stock chargers. I'm using the Boeffla kernel and there is an option to ignore unstable power, which means that the current won't drop below what it is set at (1A). This will give you an even current and normal charging rates.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] andres1112:
Charging problem

my s3 doesn't want to charge properly. sometimes it charges sometimes does not, and if i let my battery drained then i have to take the battery out and wait around twelve hours so my phone can charge again the battery

does anyone know how to fix this? i haven't restored my phone because i don't think that is a software problem.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] beachbumdeac:
So due to various circumstances, I have in my possession a DInc that can't be activated on cellular networks.

first of all, when I start up the phone I get "Problem with activation" screen

"Unable to activate your phone. You may need to find an area with better coverage (near a window, or outside). et.c etc. etc."

Is there any way to get past this screen so I can connect it to my computer and root it?

And once I do have it rooted, is there any good media-only ROM for the Incredible?

Thanks!
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cmlusco:
Try pressing on the activation screen the top left corner, top right corner, bottom right corner, and then botton left corner. On some roms this will bypass the screen. Also if you keep trying repeatedly to activate and fail it will usually bypass the screen after 4 or 5 times.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] beachbumdeac:
Tried both of those and still not working. I have hit "Try Again" probably 200+ times. So irritating
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cmlusco:
Why cant you activate, are you not with verizion anymore?
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] beachbumdeac:
I am, with a different phone. I think it is a hardware problem with the cellular antenna, because I took it to the Verizon store yesterday and they couldn't get it to work even after activating my phone number on it

I would really hate to send it to be repaired for a function I wouldn't use it for, just because the software won't let me do anything
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cmlusco:
Go to verizion.com go to your account and reactivate the incredible, then do the activation on the phone. Once done reactivate your new phone on the site again.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sparkplugDev:
Could have a bad ESN
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] beachbumdeac:
That's what we tried in the store, but it couldn't dial * 228 even after being activated on my account
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] marios199546:
I had a MiniCM7 ROM without a unlockable bootloader and custom kernel. I wanted to go back to an official ROM and i flashed the 2.1.1.A.0.6 ftf file with flashtool. When i try to turn it on, the screen turns on for a few seconds without showing the 'Sony Ericsson' and the phone reboot doing the same thing continously until the battery drains. Can someone help please ?
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] SmG67:
You should probably have done a factory-reset/wipe-cache/wipe dalvik-cache in recovery before you flashed.

Try the repair option in SEUS or PC Companion
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] marios199546:
But in the flashtool it has checked the wipe cache and data option
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] SmG67:
That may be, but somehow it failed, so do a repair with SEUS or PC Companion.
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] UchihaDareNial:
Are you sure you have flashed stock firmware and stock KERNEL back?:confused:
[Xperia Arc Android Development] Barleyman:
I made a simple script for my own use that does pretty much the same job as Knight47's auto bloatware remover.

The main difference is that mine reads the list of removed apps from a separate text-file that can be adjusted to taste.

Root required!

How to use:

1. Backup your phone with nandroid!

2. Unzip zip-file to some folder

3. Connect USB cable to phone and make sure USB debugging is turned on

4. Run debloat.cmd

5. Reboot

6. Enjoy fat-free phone

It MIGHT be necessary to clean Dalvik-cache afterwards if the phone does not rebuild dalvik cache automagically ("updating android"-message during reboot)

I wrote this for Xperia Pro Mk16i ICS, which had some differences from the main APP-list:

SEMCFacebookProxy.apk --- appears to be more facebook stuff

livewaremanager.apk -- all in lower-case now

letsgolf_i.apk -- filename has changed

Also some files listed in the app collection did not exist here. ALL files from main Xperia arc app list are included anyways.

I'm removing:

Browser.apk

facebook.apk

Gmail.apk

GMS_Maps.apk

Maps.apk

Street.apk

YouTube.apk

These apps take double space after you install updates for them so it makes sense to remove them from system. If you already have updated them, there's no need to do anything, otherwise download them from play store.

With regards to stock browser, if you don't have chrome or similar, just comment it out.

..

Changes in v0.2:

Fixed script syntax

Delete .apk and .odex files

Added some files to kill-list:

weatherwidget

com.google.android.youtube-1

SemcCamera3D

SemcSnpVideoPlayer

Semcsdnla

Wait for keypress after finished + reboot into recovery to clean dalvik.

v0.21

Do not delete google maps and youtube app by default, change advisor text
[Xperia Arc Android Development] seljachina:
nothing happened. i have rooted phone and busybox

my bloat.txt is something like this(only apps, no cements)

EventStream.apk

EventStreamPluginCallLog.apk

EventStreamPluginFacebook.apk

EventStreamPluginTelephony.apk

EventStreamPluginTwitter.apk

usb conection mode is mass storagemode

ics 4.0.4
[Xperia Arc Android Development] Barleyman:
Are those files in /system/app ? You have ADB drivers installed?

What exactly happens when "nothing happens"? Can you start the script from cmd and tell me what it says?
[Xperia Arc Android Development] seljachina:
yes those are apps from /system/app

here is a screenshot of cmd(cmd window is auto closed 1-2 seconds after i run debload.cmd)

on phone is displayed "shell has been granted superuser permission"

can i edit bload.txt in notepad or another text editor?
[Xperia Arc Android Development] Barleyman:
That's the whole idea, you can edit it. Did you? It looks like the bloat.txt is not in the right place or perhaps has empty lines or something..

command prompt stays open if you run cmd.exe from start menu. Or ctrl-right click on a folder and "open command window here"
[Xperia Arc Android Development] seljachina:
yes i did :)

i notice the difference.. your adb.exe is about 2mb, my adb.exe is 150kb?! maybe that is problem, some drivers.. who knows. (when i try with my adb.exe, it just say "waiting for device").. i manually remove bloatware
[Xperia Arc Android Development] Barleyman:
I upgraded into omega rom recently that retains some of the cruft in stock rom. So I updated my debloater. Script has been revised to actually work , I must have attached a wrong version by mistake. It now also wipes out .odex files if present. Because of this, deleted filenames are without extension (.apk) in bloat.txt.

To make this really elegant, files should be actually un-installed as now there may be some libraries and data left behind. I'm not going to trace down package name for each and every sony bloatware today, though.

Finally, dalvik cache needs to be wiped to remove the orphaned odex cache files which take most of the space.

It is actually possible to reclaim a lot of space by using titanium backup to integrate some large apps into ROM. Preferably those which do not allow you to move them into sdcard and/or work badly if linked with link2sd. In my phone I have 130MB of free space in the system partition so Chrome alone gives a big chunk of free space for other apps.
[Xperia Arc Android Development] Barleyman:
After thinking this through, there is NO benefit into removing system apps if you're going to reinstall them from play store anyways. It's better to use titanium backup to integrate any updates into ROM which actually gives more room for apps. I removed google maps and youtube from being deleted by default. Some people may want to edit bloat.txt for facebook and gmail app as well.
[Xperia Arc Android Development] kintesh:
Bash script port for linux users

This might not be useful for many people, but I use Linux and I converted this script to work with bash.

Download and run the script as su or sudo.
[General Questions and Answers] mabouswid:
Noob....

I have an HTC wildfire s with a custom cm9 build (ics 4.04). i just flashed it today and my Play Store fc's on boot and if i try to open it. i have cleared cache and data/rebooted. no luck. I wasn't sure if there was a fix or not. Help is much appreciated :)
[General Questions and Answers] Sh4d0wDr4g0n2:
Try Reflashing GAPPS?

Also what alpha version are u running (Cuz Alpha 0 & 1 from Modpunk have an issue with memory management, you need to limit background process to 4 in the dev settings)
[General Questions and Answers] mabouswid:
ill have to check the alpha version.... but where do i get a fresh copy of gapps?
[General Questions and Answers] Eavesdrop:
you can get it here >>> http://wiki.cyanogenmod.com/wiki/Latest_Version/Google_Apps
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stolichnaya:
so does anyone know if there's a keyboard for the samsung galaxy s like the one on the samsung galaxy s3 or if someone's working on it?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hassanalip21:
I will give it a try
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Zephyroro:
I wanna try it too.