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[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] munchmunch:
I started getting charger issues after the Jellybean update using Kies. That means the phone was 100% stock. My issue is less severe than most peoples on this thread but it does break a feature on my phone that is important to me.

What happens is I charge my phone every night at my bedside. During the night at least once it will lose charger connection and start again randomly. That causes a sound that often wakes me. The feature it breaks is an application I use called charger alarm. An alarm goes off when the phone is unplugged or the power goes off. This wakes me to remove my CPAP mask in the event of a power failure. However the problem above causes allot of false alarms and interrupted sleep. Now I am forced to not use that app and put the phone on silent.

I am using Samsung S3 wall charger and cable. I have tried a factory reset. I have also now flashed the latest stock firmware using Odin. In 1 case after unplugging the charger the charging icon would not disappear for a few minutes despite not begin plugged in. Could the new battery charging application since Jellybean be unstable? I recall having a similar problem with my S1 after flashing a custom firmware which resolved itself somehow. I probably just flashed another firmware but cannot remember exactly what I had done but I did not have the problem for long.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] deom2i:
Mate if you have flashed new stock firmware and still have the problem, try use blackberry charger and see if it resolve your issue.

If it does use the battery untill phone shuts down then charge it full while phone off and turn it one while charging untill Full again. Do this twice to attain 100% battery capacity.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nerevarine0201:
I have the same problem too with stock charger. And i tried using my blackberry wall charger to charge my S3. It charge OK now. Wish Samsung could resolve the problem from the new update.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MyS3NotChargin:
still working flawlessly with another usb cable

All the charging issues are gone ever since I started using usb cables other than Samsung's. 0-100% in less than two hours.

The travel adapter has no issues I think it's just the usb cable. Try it out!
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bsamardzhiev:
I chanhed stock charger with the one that came with S2 i9100, and the problem was resolved. Now it charges about 2 hours always. Is someone had technical explanation of thr problem?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Shawhan:
Its the Brick?

I am having a similar charging issue. Last night it charged just fine. I got home to let it charge some before bed and I couldn't get the stock brick and cord to charge. I used my wife's and it worked just fine. I used her brick and my cord and it worked just fine. I used an Apple generic brick and my cord and it worked just fine. I used her brick and cord and it charged the kindle fire just fine. My cord and her brick worked fine on the kindle fire. My brick and any cord on any device wouldn't charge.

The brick is my issue.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cococchio:
Samsung common problem?

Samsung S1 has a similar problem. See this thread for a possible solution.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1865921&page=2

Hope this helps
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sretlow:
I also have this problem. Charging very slow. The same charger as I used for my ICS. here no problem. Now JB and charging issues. Especially in the car while navigating it is very bad. I can't navigate without losing battery percentage while power connected. Seems that lots of people have the same issue but I've read nothing from Samsung jet. No official statement. I am very curious how this going to be solved.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Chrtn:
Lights on but not working

I also have a problem, I have been searching for a solution but cant seem to find one.

This morning my phone was was in the charger and the indicator was red as it was charging but the battery was only on 18%

brought it to work and plugged it in the charger but no reaction, tried with different usb chargers aswell on different computer, but still nothing.

When i plug it in the light on the phone indicates that its charging, the battery icon also gets the lightning indicating that its charging, but the battery is draining anyways.

I also tried to connect it to kies, but that wont work either, windoes don`t get the normal usb connect beep either, and it wont show up in windows...

appreciate all help i can get
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xtrevelade:
Is there any app that checks and shows how the rate of charging goes?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Simspacchius:
solution?

Hi all,

i have this problem too.

The Samsung Customer Support says that the problem is that we haven't a clean copy of JB installed but an update from ICS.

I have a link for this but i can't post it because i am new!

I try to write it with some space:

http :// code.google.com /p/ android/ issues/ detail?id=39196

So to solve the problem we need to install a clean copy of JB.

I found a guide to do this on Nexus.

I have a link again!

http :// android.stackexchange.com /questions/ 26612/doing-a-clean-install-of-android-on-nexus-s-galaxy-nexus-or-nexus-7

But i don't know how to do this on I9300.

Needs fastboot mode: I9300 has a fastboot mode?

How we can do this on I9300?

Guru, I wait for you for an answer :)
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] t.saddington:
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[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vivekpaib:
Had the same issue. Plugged in my old Nokia N8 usb cable into the Samsung Adapter, the phone now charges like it's never faced a problem. Try a different usb cable guys, seems to be working for a lot of us. Cheers!! :)
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Simspacchius:
For now I m charging with S2 battery charge with siyah kernel battery config set on 0.8A. it charge 1% every 1 min and half!!
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] krivinash:
I charge my s3 with my old galaxy mini charger.

I dont want to take a risk.

I think that orig.charger makes a lot of problems to our devices.

So many sad stories of sudent death.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] corrsea:
Try battery monitor widget by 3c

ROM Sotmax Ultimate V12

Kernel Yank555.lu-V2.8e
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mrm43:
Try also this : Current widget from playstore. It will show you how much ampere is going in.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zafiroboss:
solved

It is proven that the devices from May, June and July in Europe (at least) have defective motherboards, mine was an example of bad solder usb connector, recently failed connector micro SD card. unfortunately had an accident and I sent it for repair. I hope that fix everything or give me a new one. They also say that the galaxy 3 chargers are related to the problem. some devices sudenly dead! or fail like mine doing a bad connection in usb conector or other part of the motherboard. its true, search the web.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Simspacchius:
so it's an hardware issue? is not true that is jelly bean the problem?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jujuburi:
You can see in this path, with any good file manager,

sys/class/power_supply/battery/current_avg

I just found this thread, and I can confirm this problem is not limited to S3 only. I am using my Note 2 for 3 months now, and for first two weeks it worked ok, then suddenly a day it was charging slowly, took around 5 hours to charge, and I started to monitor the next charges from then. Well, went to SC, changed my device 3 times (yeah, you heard it right), all new phones with all new chargers, each of them worked good for first 4-5 charges, then SAME. Instead of charging at 1.5 or 1.6 A the phone charges at 0.9 A, which is pathetic!

Only solutions I have found so far:

1- Keep unplugging and plugging the charger, on the phone's end, until you see voltage at 1.2 or above. (as S3 has a different battery, 2500 mAh afaik, so default charging value will be less than Note 2, see your stock charger for a reference. Note 2 charger says 2A)

2- Buy and use a good charger, like iPad 3 or Belkin or HP Touchpad chargers.

3- Throw your phone to bin.

I mean seriously, I know this place this mostly driven by Fandroid fanboys, but just think this is a 600-700$ device we are talking about.

I hate iOS and all those stuffs, but I never ditched an iPhone for my primary purpose. Quality control, I don't think Samsung knows what that IS!!
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Guru1000:
Have mine since the day of release in the Netherlands 29th of may 2012 and never had problems. It started approximately a month or so ago, it occured once or twice and now it is continuosly slowly charging. It takes 10 hours for a fully charged battery. And after thinking about it, it seems that it occured since I updated the phone to Jelly Bean. It is a completely stock phone unrooted and stock software/firmware.

What have I tried:

1) Using charger of my galaxy tab2 (2.0 Ampere) with same cable ----> No difference

2) Used another S3 charger with an unknown cable (rabbit eat original cable) ----> Charged fast as normal

3) Blown in the connector and used a brush ----> No difference

I installed Current widget, which I was familiar with of my HTC HD2, and found out that although the stock charger and cable charge very slowly (10 hours) current widget shows that the phone receives 999 mA.

My initial thought was that is had to do with the Jelly Bean update, but after trying option two (2) I believed I had a faulty charger and/or cable. Every day I take my charger to work in my bag, so it would be plausible, but still crappy quality if it is faulty. Now after using current widget it pointed straight back to Jelly Bean, but it might be just a coincidence.

As I have a phone of the first batch, which are always known for having child deseases, I believe it can be related to a real hardware problem as well, like GSM1999 and Zafiroboss told. Nevertheless this does not explain why many people have good results using different cables than original. Would Samsung be really that mental that they use specific micro usb cable? Funny thing is that I remember reading never use another charger than original, it was mentioned explicitly. Going back to my knowledge I would say that it is just a generic charger and cable, however they are mental enough to place the NFC antenna in the battery pack as well. I will perform some test with a multimeter on the wires of the cable and charger.

Unfortunately I have only one micro usb cable, believe it or not :P I will arrange another cable and perform some additional test. A friend bought a new S3 on my advise :eek: (shame). Will test his charger too.

For now it all seems unlogical as all the solutions, attempts and evidence is speaking against each other for the things I have tried.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zafiroboss:
many issues probably could fixed by soft but extreme problems like mine are fisical problems and have to be covered by samsung (replacing the motherboard). in my case they said were water mark. ****ing false!! but its very complicate to proof because everybody are independent and only they (samsung) count and know the model, date and the problem (bad motherboard) of those packs of bad devices. just run to much to complete the orders and lose quality. now dont show the face on! i worked on industries and the quiality department check some parts each quantitie. for example eac 10,000 models the chek it it just good or bad lucky. they dont chek every part of the phone. thats the true.

i think about the problem. if the motherboard bad assembled/weld have bad contacts. so the low power chargers dont have the power to charge it. and then with the high power they work but those bad contacts make high temp and its killing the motherboard. like happend. some devices suddenly dead. if someone can think/speak aout this thats good to help. samsung have to resolve it. but i said its very omplicate to know exactly wich devices have a bad moderboard. i recomend to everybody aving problems charging check the sd-card slot (mine finally dont recognice the card, so another proof of bad motherboard assembled) and go directly to samsung not through your companie because they ave their own reairing service. im so sorry for my bad english. just trying to help. and throw some light.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gboydroid:
Mine charging fast using cm10.1
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Simspacchius:
Ok tnx Guru1000 and Zafiroboss.

gboydroid, are u using original cm10.1 or a rom based on it?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Guru1000:
A small update:

Used my charger original charger with another original new GS3 cable and charged fast.

Used my charger original charger with a Western Digital cable and as well charges fast.

I was unable to measure the wires with a multimeter, as it is to small :(
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Simspacchius:
Guys after a lot of tests i decided to send my i9300 to the support.

I want to see if it's really a motherboard problem..anyway i m starting to think that is so...it's not a software problem.

http://forum.gsmhosting.com/vbb/f258/i9300-charging-problem-solution-1508691/
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vasilisf7:
Hi!!!

i have a problem that i have not seen in the thread

i cant charge my sgs3 when power is off my menu and return buttons flash for a second when powering on or off,

alsow if i put on the charger and then power it off it reboots

.

my actions i did all the swiping charger cables ext but nothing the only way it will charge powerd off is from my pc

i alsow flashd stock rom did the formats and wipes but stil nothing.

is there any soloutios pls help me!!!

ps: sory for my bad english
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JCM800:
Is anyone having charging issues on an ics rom??

Have read that the issue is down to jellybean, some kind of issue with it?

I'm currently on jellybean criskelo v20 and am having no end of charging frustrations. I'm sure I was ok when on older ics roms..
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Simspacchius:
When I bought phone there was ics and i had no charging problem. Just after I flashed jb custom rom started the problem; then i tried a lot of jb custom rom, ics custom rom and again original ics and jb rom: I tried all, with no success,
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JCM800:
Thanks for replying. It's bizarre. Toady my phone is charging reasonably ok but I'm noticing that the red led is real bright, as opposed to a dim red I usually see when on charge. No idea what's going on.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cleverdicky:
How much do you charge for this repair if I post you the board?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] newexpectation:
Battery problem after installing a new rom and kernel

My phone doesn't charge at all when it's on, charges realy slowly when switched off (5% in an hour).

It all started after I installed sotmax v14 rom and yank's kernel.

It's not the charger because i tried another charger

it's not the battery because i tried another batter

it's not the rom i tried another rom

i even tried installing different kernel other than yank's

so does anyone know what the problem is? any ideas or help will be greatly appreciated

thanks in advance
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JCM800:
I'm having all these charging issues as well, but, not sure if you guy's use a case with your phone? I do, i use a soft gel case. Anyway, i took it off, and then plugged in my charger, and for the last two days, its actually been charging up faster lol, i can only think the gel case perhaps stops my charger from going in all the way? It's more likely a coincidence, but for now i'm removing my case and charging, it's better than it usually is..

..which is just as well, beacuse the last few months i've been loving my phone but hating it too, and thinking of going back to apple, which i'd rather not do, but these battery issues have been really annoying me.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Guru1000:
Yesterday I went to the phone store and swapped the data cable under warranty. I know received part number ecb-du5abe, which is an original Samsung cable. The previous cable had no text on it at all, this one has some wire type coding, maybe it has changed. We will see what happens, because I haven't charge it yet.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] collidewiththenight:
I'm from Canada, I have the while LTE version.

I have noticed that the Samsung cable it came with is detected and says its charging, but it's actually discharging. I found another random cable that charged it fine for about two days, then it isn't detected anymore at all.

The only cables that have worked are the wall charger and the USB cord for my Kobo Vox, and Blackberry cords.

Very weird.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bepolite:
remember to remove the triangle if required
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Robbycop:
my phone is charging only when shut down, what the hell ?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Guru1000:
UPDATE:

We are one week further an although I received a new cable and it is charging faster it is still not as it should be. It is charging from 1% to 100% in 7 hours, but it should be able to do this in 2,5 hours. Tonight I am going back to the phonestore for a new wall adapter.

The story continues. :(

---------- Post added at 07:40 PM ---------- Previous post was at 07:15 PM ----------

BTW check chapter 8 of the service manual.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1682038

It describes the hardware problem of the I9300.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] amirpp2001:
Hi

I updated my GS3 from ICS to JB 4.1.2 about 1 week ago then i noticed this issue so i changed my usb cable (not the charger) with my old nokia N85 cable and problem solved immediately!

i looked at small sides of the cable and i noticed that it has 5 pins on the nokia cable while my stock GS3 one has only 4 pins!

if thats the cause of the issue why the stock cable charges the phone well with ICS rom?!
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bxtrm:
the brightnes of the led depends of the conditions ogf light in the room . if it is enough light you will see the red led bright. if not it will be dimmed
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JCM800:
Sorry but I disagree with that. The light fluctuates between dim and very bright in same lighting conditions.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] adnanasim80:
I have samsung S3 LTE GT-I9305 uk version. Its been only 4 month I have this phone. First on ICS my phones was charging fine. Then I updated my phone on 4.1.2 jelly beans and my phones stop charging from pc usb and taking 7 to 10 hours to fully charged using wall charger.

Now week ago receives another 4.1.2 update and now phone stop charging using wall charger and charges 5% in one hour using pc usb.

My work collegue has kindle and now I use his cable to charge my phone and it take exacly 2 hours and 20 min to fully charge from 10% to 100%. The difference is 5 pin cable.

i have asked samsung and they are going to send me another battery and 5 pin usb cable. still waiting for delivery.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JCM800:
Good luck with that. I also had good benefits with a five pin cable at first. Then the issue returned before long.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Turbokat:
I had charging problem

Use your warranty. I had some charging problem few days after I bought the phone, submitted the charger at the service centre and they replaced it.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] StrekoZ:
Had quite same issue with charging at stock firmware and CM 10.1.

Fixed it by flashing siyah kernel, now charges with all cables (using it 2nd day).
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] elyong34:
S3 Charging Problem

Guys just want to share!! it seems i found the charging problem... it took me days until i realize that something to do with the proximity sensor (light sensor).. when you charge in the dark the led indicator dim, try to charge in direct sunlight or near the light valve the led indicator will be bright! it works for me, i know it a hassle but can charge like we use to ICS...
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] FinGerS o FuDgE:
Damn. Mine isn't charging now.

It's @ 30% at the moment but not doing anything when connecting the charger either through the mains or through the pc. Had the S3 since July and rooted it right at the beginning and been using Omega or Paranoid roms with Siyah kernel and not had a single problem until now?

What are my options......??

Forgot to add - When connected with phone turned off I get a empty battery icon, but it doesn't fill up.

I'm doing a full backup to ext SD card just incase it needs to go away somewhere....... :( :(
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] corrsea:
Try charging while phone is switched off.

But it's most likely to be that the charger and cable need to be replaced. I would advise using non Samsung products and keeping your Samsung cable for data transfer only.

ROM Sotmax Ultimate V15

Kernel Yank555.lu-V3.2
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] FinGerS o FuDgE:
I've got 2 official Samsung chargers and both are working as they are charging my wifes S2, but neither of them are charging my S3.. :(

Thanks
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] corrsea:
Yes that sounds about right. The Samsung charger will continue to work with other devices but will either slow charge or not charge at all for the s3. I use mine to charge my e-cigarettes.:)

If you have access to another charger and cable try that.

But if the phone does charge while switched off then you can probably exclude the charger as being the issue

ROM Sotmax Ultimate V15

Kernel Yank555.lu-V3.2
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] FinGerS o FuDgE:
Managed to get it charging again, for the moment anyways. Just rammed the lead into the phone at a few different angles and it's kicked in again, don't know how long that will last.

What lead is recommended to use then? Any micro USB lead? And can you still plug it into the Official Samsung plug or is it advisable to get a new plug and cable? Any recommendations?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] corrsea:
If you can borrow someone's charger and cable that would be the best thing.

Personally I have used an iphone charger and the cable from my wife's Kindle for the last 5 months without issue. Prior to that I had 2 Samsung charger / cable combinations both crap out on me.

If it turns out that it is not the charger it's probably best to go back to Samsung for a warranty claim.

ROM Sotmax Ultimate V15

Kernel Yank555.lu-V3.2
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] osamy:
My original usb + charger takes 5 to 8 hours and it has 5 pins !!!!

also I tried another 5 pins usb with the same original charger and it takes around 2:30 to 3:30 hours

So I need to buy a 5 pin usb one but how to guarantee it will work ????
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mustang2012:
This is weird problem.... I would take it back for repair or replacement.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Poropopou:
It's a pity that this kind of things happens to a top class device as is supposed to be the SGS3. Does any kernel solve this problem?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JCM800:
I never solved my battery issue. Drove me crazy. So much so I parted with it and got an iPhone 5. Which incidentally charges unbelievably fast.

I'm rely keen to see the s4 but am scared it'll have similar battery issue as my old s3