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[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RegentELite:
Resolved for now

Hi all, I've got the same problem - the phone charges normally from pc usb, but does not charge at all from stock AC adapter. I've also noticed one thing:

1) Phone is unplugged from charger

2) Go to settings and check USB debugging

3) Plug the AC charger

4) The phone begins charging (sometimes!) and then stops after few seconds

5) Unplug AC charger, then go back to settings and try to uncheck USB debugging - the system says "Disconnect USB first".

6) Wait 3-5 minutes, then go to settings again and try to uncheck USB debugging one more time - it's unchecked now.

It all happens just when plugging AC charger, but when you plug and unplug pc usb - everything works fine.

I opened KIES and clicked "Fix USB connection problems" (or something like this, I don't exactly know the caption of this button in English). KIES reinstalled drivers for the phone. Then I plugged my phone to pc usb, waited all drivers to be installed. Then I unplugged the phone, checked "USB debugging" and connected to PC again. Then waited until ADB Interface driver installed. Then unplugged the phone again and unchecked "USB debugging". Then I've blown strongly in phone's micro usb female and in AC charger's micro usb male and connected my phone to AC charger. After half a minute my phone began charging normally. After that I've tried to unplug the charger, then to plug again and again many times, tried to reboot the phone, tried to charge the phone when switched off - it all works fine.

FInally I don't exactly know what have helped - blowing into the connectors, or reinstalling drivers (maybe it helped to reset USB control software on the phone somehow)? What I exactly know is that it's not the AC charger issue - I have anothre one by LG, and currently it charges my phone fine, but it didn't charged as well when that bug was present.

Gonna subscribe to this thread as I think the charging may break again at any moment...
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] philipmoris:
have same problem, do not know why
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] oxidil:
For all those who have root access

Go in cwm> advanced > reset battery stat >go back> reboot

Try this may be this work for you

Good luck
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] anthony001:
Have you gone to samsung to complain the charging? Ive also got this issue lol and they said to just reset to factory settings as solution well it did work but i dont want to do it all the time i have that issue. Does the leak jellybean also has this problem?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] prabhjots:
I got the battery replaced, since many people here had said faulty battery. I also did a full wipe and the problem disappeared. Now on LI8 leak and no sign of the issue.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Savage24:
Have started getting same problems also, tried different cables, chargers etc but its all hit or miss if they work, PC won't detect it, not unless I put the s3 into download mode, and then only Odin detects it!

Also just before the charging problem, the phone would just switch driving mode on then off and it would also get USB device connected(or along those lines) in the notification bar, but that has stopped.

Have just tried installing the official stock jellybean(I9300XXDLIB 4.1.1 - Poland) but charging problem still there
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ssaqib4e:
The issue has nothing to do with the battery.. it is not a hardware fault... i m having the same fault... also LI8 dint have this issue..it was fine.. near perfect.

All of sudden such a major bug.. sammy shud do somthing immediately.. :(

Also i restarted my phone several time in the last 48 hours.. had luck just once.. since past so many hours.. kept trying

. :( it is definitely a software issue.. hoping for a fix soon :S
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tedulus:
i had a several issue, and mine was serious because i was away on a business trip and i did not have any laptop or usb device to charge, i tryed almost all chargers at a local store and..nothing, only at the pc usb port in the hotel reception worked. All off the suddent the last day of my trip the phone began charging....that's is very annoying. did not find out ehat is the problem. All went well for a week and last night the same prolem occured, but i managed to charge over car charger...
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lleddell:
Hi, just signed up to say I have this issue too. One thing I noticed but unsure if it is related is that this occurred once my SD card was full and then I kept getting notifications from Samsung to synchronise or login to my Samsung account?

Now cannot charge on mains, only charges for ~10secs and then stops. USB on a computer still works and I have checked the port is clean.

Going to be going to the carphonewarehouse later to have it checked but suspect it'll either be a new phone or phone reset job. Not very impressed at all as the phone is only three months old and despite synchronising my settings/apps to google and samsung it'll be a pain to re-setup again.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] koala8819:
USB Charge is not immediate

Hi, I've been having the same issue last time. Problem is the usb port of my S3 got wet, I had to wipe it and let it dry to make it charge. The problem was resolved, but sometimes it takes time for the icon to have a charging state when I plug it in my Laptop. But on the AC Charger its instant.

Right now, my phone cannot be mounted as media device anymore on my laptop and on another computer even with Keis installed including a driver reinstall. Is it related to the above?

To those whom their phones do not charge, is your phone still detected as a media device? Please help.

Thanks
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pellajl:
So where is the thread that has the solution?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gsm1999:
◄◄ GT-i9300 Charging Stops at 6 Seconds

NO, Its not the Cables

NO, Its not the Battery

It's the GT-i9300!

The International Version with the problem!

Charging stops after 6 to 10 Seconds...

No solutions, Just repeating the same questions with NO SOLUTION ANSWERS!@#@!
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Teflon_:
Me too. J have a problem with the chatge. Sometimes not always, my phone doesn't charge all during the night. After 6 or 7 hours of charging it says 75% or less of charge. I noticed that a lot of people have this kind of problem. I have replaced the batery with an pther stock battery and i had this problem one time 2 weeks ago. I jad deleted the battery stats and still now i haven't noticed the problem yet.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zero|fade:
Nope, not international only. I found this thread after my phone died out of nowhere (SGH-I747M). It couldn't have had less than a 75% charge the last time I looked at it. I picked it up an hour later and it was off. I plugged it in for a few minutes and powered up and it said battery at 0%. Two hours later and I've managed 6% It only seems to charge when off.

A side note: Last week, Thursday night my phone turned off at 2:38am (I have a web based tracking app, the last time it responded was then). As I use it as my alarm I overslept. The phone was plugged into the wall with the Samsung cable and charger the whole night. It has charged fine with both since then, until today. Nearly six days later.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chaturmunda:
Persistant

Ive been breaking my head on this one.

My s3 does not charge on a power source nor on a USB mode. Ive tried to reach samsung care, but no one seems to have an answer to this (although they do acknowledge that this is a persistent issue)

Will be much obliged if anyone can figure out a reason ... I wouldnt want to exchange my 'awesomely' customized phone just because of a software glitch. :angel:
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chaturmunda:
Corrected

Guys... Just came back from the service center.

I s**t you not, but my phone charges like a gem all over again.

I got a chance to speak to the technician and he confirmed that the i9300 has an issue with losing connectivity with the charger ever if there is a very small amount of dust in the socket.

When I got back to work, one of my peers also confirmed that his i9300 was solved using the same 'blow in the hole' technique .... weird as it may sound... it just worked for me.

Thought of sharing. :o :silly:

Thanks
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RegentELite:
as I mentioned in my previous post, "blow in the hole" worked for me too :laugh:
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Baryo:
I actually registered only so I can post A HUGE THANK YOU!

I've been struggling with this problem for a month, and after reading all the 170 comments - it was the 'blow in the hole' solution that did the trick!

I gotta say - never thought it'll be something like that!!!

so, where can I get micro-usb protective cap? ;)

again, thanks! :)
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stevieme:
Lurker here.

I was about to send my phone to the service centre but this just worked for me, thanks a lot!! The phone is charging now, I'll update if it stops working again.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chaturmunda:
I must say, samsung customer service center has recruited a bunch of noobs. I have been chasing them for a proper answer for the last three days on 'why the hell did this happen?' ... i've evolved from the very first samsung galaxy S, and never face something so silly.... just sent a "mail to the CEO" ... hope he's not on a fishing trip.

I will update here once I get a formal response from their team.

Glad things worked out ! :good:
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] himanshudarfade:
samsung galaxy sIII charging and USB detection related problem

i bought galaxy sIII on 4th of oct from flipkart.com . When i plug in the USB cable to my laptop it is not detecting the device also the its not charging. I tried the same after installing kies software, available for free in samsung's website but no relief. its neither detecting nor charging. i tried using wall mount charger too. still its not charging.

ANYONE WITH SAME PROBLEM???

PLEASE HELP... i dont know what to do..
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chaitanyakhaitan:
blow the hole worksss...... :) :) :)

Thank YOu very much for the solution... i rebooted by device several times with no effect.. till i came across blow the hole... and its done the trick for now.... I wonder if my pockets are really so dusty.. ;)

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If no charging at all ... get it replaced... might be a faulty device from flipkart... call them up and Samsung and get it replaced at the earliest. Hope you get a replacement and not let it rot in the service centre for days...

:)
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cmatej000:
I have the same problem. If I have charging voltage around ~3600 it is not charging, so thats why I use a different charger. I switched the socket charger with a different one that gave me charging voltege to ~3800mV (from HTC), and with a different one even to 4000~mV (from Nikon).

I use taskers battery info to monitor the charging voltage...
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MyS3NotChargin:
same here

I am having the same problem. This just started happening exactly after 3 months of purchasing this phone and I have recently updated to 4.04 update and it started happening... so I was thinking this could be very likely software issue but maybe not judging by many people that have posted here... I tried "blow in the hole" and it doesn't do anything. I have already customized this phone so much and I don't want to send it in for a new one if it is a simple software issue. I have SGH-T999V version of S3 by the way. It would not charge anymore using the wall socket but it would charge if it is connected to my computer via USB cable and it still charges very slow(at about 1% per 9 minutes) and it would take almost 16 hours to get to 100% but sometimes it won't go all the way up to 100% and just stops at about 85%. It would not charge at all when connected to the stock wall socket. It actually discharges while it is connected to it while the screen says it is charging lol.. I don't know what is going on... probably bringing it back to my service provider (Wind). I'm from Canada by the way. And no it is not only that international version some poster said.... it is happening to all models it looks like including my SGH-T999V model. Weird sometimes it would charge to 100% by wall socket if the phone is turned off but never charges while the phone is still on. It charges to full maybe about 1 out of 15 times I try.

Anyways this is very annoying! I loved everything about this phone until this started happening a week ago. Arggghh
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kofiaa:
So my phone doesn't charge when i use my Samsung charger and Samsung cable. But it charges when I use a different cable with the Samsung charger, or a different charger with the Samsung cable. Anyone experienced or solved this issue?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] corrsea:
That is the solution. It seems to be a combination of both charge and cable that causes the issue.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chermax14:
I just removed my battery and placed it back again. I don't know if the 'blow in the hole' technique will work in the future for me.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sinisin:
It's not isolated to International version. Im on the US Sprint version. Wall charger works fine. USB stopped working yesterday. My coworkers Droid charges fine on the USB charging set up I have in our truck. So its not the cable or the charging unit. Its my S3. Power off. Battery pull. Blow in the hole. None of it works. This is frustrating.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dlads:
Clean the contacts with a toothbrush, it's worked for me, be quite touch with it, they get dirty depending on where you keep your phone, also take a look at the battery settings when your phone is actually charging, does it say USB charging, eve though it's AC?

If so then it is probably the contacts.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wernus24:
hi,

in my case, lifting all pins with small needle in micro usb plug cured all my charging issues.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nickmatine:
you have some corosion (oxydation) on yours, must open, take some alchool and a brush and clean it, let it dry after for some hours. and check also the pins. For data (media) you have a different pin then charging pin. (see on wikipedia usb connector pins)

---------- Post added at 01:06 PM ---------- Previous post was at 12:36 PM ----------

why people don't try to charge with the phone turned off. Like this you will eleiminate the software issue, like notghing running. I have five S3 and have charging issue with one unit. Changed cable, charger, turn off but still no charhing
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gsm1999:
International i9300 Stops charging

Here guys if this will helps..

http://www.techstarelectronic.us

http://www.techstarelectronic.com

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[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] anthony001:
Sorry couldnt understand the pic. Can you explain more for normal people to understand??
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] oddbot91:
Unless your problem is with some electrical component on your motherboard you wont need to worry about it.

Many non brand micro USB cables are oddly miss shaped which leads to problems. Some one suggested lifting pins in the connector which sounds like a solid and simple solution if you are a little careful.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] anthony001:
@oddbot91

Thanks

@wernus,

would you be willing to share a pic or vid on how you did it?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Emmanuel Spadafora:
My solution

I tried everthing, blowing the hole,changing cables etc,

THIS worked for me hold the cable like this pretty hard, putting pressure side and down.

THis is working 100% now for me.

I bought it on ebay so i had to find a solution! ;)

any question write me at my email :good:
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] arnabasu:
charging issues

Scenario - s3 chargin very slowly

Issue - my s3, unrooted, everything is the way it was packaged has issues in charging properli (meaning takes a very long time to charge)

Background - Using the data cable that came with my samsung galaxy ace plus,i charge via the usb port of my laptop.

Observations

I have never used the samsung wall charger piece, i use the samsung cable as mentioned above or my nokia x1 cable, and have tried both the power USB port, and the regular usb port.Power usb port charges quicker (or so it seems)

I tried switching off my data services,let the phone get discharged to about 12% and waited about 4 hours to get fully charged (sent a few msgs and attended calls approx 40 min) after unplugging the charger, i let the data services stay off for 5 more hours, and then enabled it, been around 9 hours and its down to 50%, in the meanwhile constant whatsapp, FB, calls and txts. I am going to try this process a few times until i see a pattern.

Hope this helps !!
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cinder19:
Show a pic please.

Thanks
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Wankface:
found fix for me

Had same problem not charging then charging very slow managed to charge enough to get into recovery then wiped battery stats, factory reset, wipe cache and dalvik cache. Now charges perfect everytime. Strange thing tho now on the stock accurate weather widget it displays lots of letters and numbers like my PUK code I think but all charging good weird
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] elgranpiripi:
Hey. I-9300 here not charging with low battery.

I tryed:

a: sg2 wallcharger.... not responding unless you reboot, and it's not always working

b: galaxy mini wall charger... same that a

c: usb cheap cable to PC.... nothing at all... not reconicing it

d: sg3+samsung cable.... same than a

c: changed battery (new gold one) same all... a,b,c,and d

No warranty because rooted one...

I have observed that if you let the phone conected to the charger, when its battery runs out... then... it begin chargin in powered of mode... strange thing....

Any idea????
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Emmanuel Spadafora:
I gave the answer already up there
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Borrisha:
Thanks wernus24 that was the simple solution to my new Samsung Galaxy S3 charging issues. The S3 nearly went out of the window!!!!
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Vortagh:
Ok, this is driving me nuts. Here's my story (note: Rooted stock 4.1.1 rom, but I flashed it myself when the first official one leaked. No other modifications).

I charge using one of four ways:

1. Official Samsung docking station, connected with S2 wall socket charger

2. Official Samsung USB cable on my PC (sometimes, but rarely, with that Samsung USB cable wall socket adaptor)

3. 3rd party USB cable

4. 3rd party USB cable wall socket adaptor

Also, please note that I have NEVER had problems with it not charging at all, when plugged in. Nor did I ever have problems with it charging and then not charging any more after a few seconds or minutes.

I got my S3 mid August, never had any problems with it before. Maybe two, three times, I noticed that it only charged to ~90% overnight. Never that big of an issue.

Now, last Thursday night, I charged it (USB) after coming back from work (it had charged fine overnight) as I had to leave for a dinner date and it wouldn't go past 84%. So when I came back and went to bed it was at about 3-5%. Plugged it in, started charging, went to sleep. Woke up 7 hours later: 30%. WTF?

I read up on this and found someone saying charge to 100% and then clear batterystats, using an app. Finally managed to let it charge to 100%, using the official USB cable on my laptop, with the phone turned off. Took *9 HOURS*. Then cleared stats, which seemed to help.

That was friday. Last night I was at a party, was there early to help put up **** and set up the sound system and was there till the very end at 5am, so obviously my phone was pretty empty at one point around midnight. I plugged it in (using Samsung USB wallcharger) again and it wouldn't go past 70%. Went home (it was actually completely at 0% right when I laid down to sleep), plugged it in (Samsung Dockingstation)....got up one hour ago, after 7 hours of sleep - 70%.

Also, it went down 6% within about 10 minutes of browsing, facebook, etc. (standard use, no videos, games, etc)

I plugged it in (Samsung USB cable on my laptop) when I started reading this entire thread and while typing this reply, and atm it's at 79% and charging.

This is MORE than bizarre. I have no idea anymore what could cause this:

- With all the cables, docking- and charging stations I've used, I seriously doubt it has anything to do with wether it's a Samsung cable or not, or wall charger or not.

- While I carry the phone in my pocket at work, I also doubt that blowing into the usb port will help. But I just did that and we'll see how it goes.

- I've even used two batteries from a friend, but I think his unofficial charger station doesn't completly charge the batteries, as I have never gotten one from him that is past 89%. So I just ordered a second one myself. Need one anyways. I will keep you up2date about how that one works as well.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] abbaskip:
So I got this issue for the first time last night. I was using my phone whilst it was plugged in to a wall charger, and it was still slowly discharging.

I sent to sleep, turning the screen off/locking the device, and I woke up with the battery at 21%. The battery started at about 11%, so I got about 1% per charging hour.

The lightning icon was displayed the whole time, so the phone believed it was charging.

I turned off the phone and plugged it in, and got about 2% charge in fifteen minutes, so that seemed to be working better.

EDIT: I'm on complete stock, unrooted.

EDIT2: I've gone and plugged the phone into my PC USB (now that I'm out of bed!) and it seems to be charging from there - albeit slowly.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] corrsea:
Have you checked to see if anything is draining battery?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] abbaskip:
Battery stats shows just normal drain. Screen 50%, system ~20%. So it's a not charging issue, rather than a draining issue.

EDIT: I've gone and plugged the phone into my PC USB (now that I'm out of bed!) and it seems to be charging from there - albeit slowly.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] airbusecam:
had the same prob with the wifes s3, wasnt rooted, so we took it back to sammy and they just changed it, no if or but just changed it, the werent surprised either.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] abbaskip:
Seems like this is a common problem with the SGS3. Mine is an i9305t too, so it's not something they've found and corrected it seems.

Might take it to my telephone provider to change (i'm on a contract).
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] taco7712:
This is happening exactly to me as well. I have a Galaxy S3 T99 Model, so a Google search brought me here.

There are days where it acts normal & charges normally. Then there are days when it's literally discharging while it's being charged or it just gets stuck at 16% & doesn't move.

On average, how long does it take to charge from 5% to 100%??
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pellajl:
Charging my S3 was a hit and miss affair exhibiting many of the issues outlined in this thread.

The other morning I work to a dead S3 - completely dead!

Made a warranty claim, motherboard was replaced and 5 days later charging issues have disappeared. The phone even charges a lot quicker!

It smells like a power supply issue in some handsets.

I wonder if Samsung has released a later version of the motherboard.....