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[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mesud Peco:
S3 charging problem

I have exactly the same problerm. Phone is Galaxy S3, jelly bean is original update for VIP-Croatia,not rooted phone, and now charge at the rate of 2% hourly. I am sure this is a probloem with jelly bean ,not hardware problem. Samsung must solve this very soon, otherwise it will loose at least one consumer, me !

M..Peco

Croatia
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] noodles222:
Hello all,

Same problem, I am from Slovakia, first charge after update took about 10 hours, now after 3rd charge it takes about 4-5 hours with original charger and cable.. I will try another charger. However, my battery is draining much much slower than before. hmm..
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Preetx:
CHarge problem

Hey Guys,

I updated my S3 to Jelly bean after a full charge i realised that my battery drains faster. My phone doesnt charge so good anymore.

Charging the phone for at least 8hours and my phone is on 67%. when i plugged in it was 43%. so in 8 hours only 24 charged.

I tried a factory reset, after that i drained the battery and left my phone off and charged it 100%.

Still the same problem. What do we need to do now?

The phone is useless now!

i am planning to sell this phone now. cant take pictures or make videos when i am on the road, cause i am scared that the battery will drain and charging takes 1 whole day before its 100%. If it reach 100% after 5 minutes i saw it jumped to 95% : wifi off, powersaving mode on, and brightness to the lowest. no app running on the background.....

if this not gonna solve, iphone 5 will beat the S3 soon.... So let it be solved Samsung :)

Cause i am still a fan of the Galaxy phones.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] noodles222:
I am surprised that this problem has not been already presented on some web pages regarding smartphones.

Everywhere I read how great JB is and how smooth its running..

PS: Question: Is everybody who upgraded to JB suffering this or is it just some people?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Preetx:
Not Sure man. My brother his S3 is still on ics, so i give him my battery and he charge the battery in his phone for me , lol.

But to be honest, JB is smoother, and i like some of the new features.

only this charging problem needs to be solved.

;)
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lichking616:
charging problem

when i upgraded it, the charging became apparent. I wonder if there is someone who could provide a temporary solution to the problem
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] noodles222:
Some people are saying, that if you do upgrade and you are not 100 % chargen, this will happen.

For example - you do OTA update at 60% so JB thinks that this is the 100% charge.. I dont quite belive this but...

Also, problem might be, that chargers out of box with USB cable are causing the problem, because JB is thinking, that phone is charging via USB. After replacing chrager for a one with direct cable (even with smaller amperage), charging is OK. I will try this tomorrow.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] robogo1982:
If that does happen, I'll happily buy the phone off of you.

In the meantime, go back to ICS if you're not happy. I am on JB since the Polish update, no problems with charging at all.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vtopor:
Please help (I have read the whole forum but nowhere found the same problem)

Current widget or other similar apk does not show the charging current (Current widget shows or 999mA when is charging or always 0mA then is in discharging mode).

I have started games and movies, and then watched the logs, all zeros.

I think the sensor which is responsible for current is not working.

This happens no matter on what firmware (and the official and Omega v31, Android 4.0.4 and 4.1.1, stock kernel or Syah)
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kyrunter3:
@everyone that has the slow charging issue :

1: If you are using usb extension cable with your charger,remove it . it will certainly let the phone charge faster.

2: EACH TIME the phone boots you have to kill media service because it uses a lot of cpu for no reason after the 1rst minute of the device boot and it is draining the battery most of the time.

Settings/Battery/Media "Force stop"
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sasa66:
Found a Solution (I thinK)

I Had the same problem with my s3 at first i found that the device was charging very slow when connected to computer via original cable then after the update it started to occur with the original wall charger as well one time all night charging gave 15% battery thougt it charged well in my car by an orginal samsung charger then i started to use the charger of my daughters mobile(Ace plus) that come in one piece not a plug and a cable and it did well and as i have three chargers of this type i found them all to work fine except the one that come wity separate USb cable
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] S_Yaxda:
I found this solution with Google search. Use your S3 until the battery out and off by itself. charge the battery While the phone is off to 100%.

After I did the above, my S3 now can charge like before upgrade to JB.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] manmeet201:
found a solution working for me

This is my first post like many others...please dnt mind if i do something wrong...

Yes, coming to the point my problem got solved after once i charged(not even 10 secs) with the HTC's One S charger as its specification n gs3's charger specifications are same. It was just like a push start engine that is working fine for me now..thnx to all the fellows out there who help others without being selfish :)

Im on 4.1.2 sotmax with siyah kernel :)

Hope this works for u guyz also :)
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lichking616:
YO! found a solution for the sammy bug on 4.1.1 JB!

1. when charging your phone, plug the AC charger unto the wall socket but without attaching the USB cable.

2. attach the USB cable to your phone.

3. attach the USB cable (which is attached to the phone) to the AC charger (which is plugged into the wall socket).

VOILA! faster charging! tell me if it works for you!

:good::cool::D:cyclops:
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ra1n3R:
ROFL! :D
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BraydenH:
This is for the people that have experienced slow or negative charging when using the phone (ie talking on it), even when plugged in to AC after updating to Jelly Bean:

I've worked the issue out..

My friend had exactly the same issues as the original poster until I asked him if he had USB debugging on, which is necessary to flash the firmware - he did. I got him to turn it off and his phone now charges perfectly. (I had the issue too and turned it off at the time, but did not make the connection to the issues until now.) - when I turned USB debugging back on, mine was charging funny too until I turned it off again.

Hope this helps.

Brayden
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] danmanbad:
ive been reading the thread and im sure no one has said this

my girlfriend and i had the same problem with jelly bean she has s3 i have s3 4g lte

if you look in the end of the cable you plug in to your phone you should find 5 pins not 4 if you find 4 pins in the end of the cable you plug in to your phone not the end you plug into your charger or usb port (not to say anyone is stupid im just making sure im clear thats all :) )

if you find you have the problem you can just call samsung the number to call is on there website and they will just replace it the options for the s3 are early on it even says if your calling about the s3

they sent her a complet charger and cable her replacement was fine but my cable had the same fault i rang them back and the appologised and they are sending me another replacement and i asked them to make sure it had 5 pins they put a note on what was said and i hope the person that finds it in the warehouse looks :)

now her phone chages perfectly fine and so dose my phone when i use her charger

i even called a service center and spoke to a engernear just to make sure before i called samsung

i just hope this helps people

if anyone has any questions just ask if i can answer them i will
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jaggythistle:
His was easier to understand and straight to the point, if it was an actual fix to the problem i would understand! :silly:
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] danmanbad:
ive been reading the thread and im sure no one has said this

my girlfriend and i had the same problem with jelly bean she has s3 i have s3 4g lte

if you look in the end of the cable you plug in to your phone you should find 5 pins not 4 if you find 4 pins in the end of the cable you plug in to your phone not the end you plug into your charger or usb port (not to say anyone is stupid im just making sure im clear thats all )

if you find you have the problem you can just call samsung the number to call is on there website and they will just replace it the options for the s3 are early on it even says if your calling about the s3

they sent her a complet charger and cable her replacement was fine but my cable had the same fault i rang them back and the appologised and they are sending me another replacement and i asked them to make sure it had 5 pins they put a note on what was said and i hope the person that finds it in the warehouse looks

now her phone chages perfectly fine and so dose my phone when i use her charger

i even called a service center and spoke to a engernear just to make sure before i called samsung

i just hope this helps people

if anyone has any questions just ask if i can answer them i will

sorry for double post just making sure people see :angel:
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Dibazzol:
Guys, i think i might have stumbled on a solution or smth.. I have been suffering from the same annoying extremely slow S3 battery charging.

What I did:

1.	switched the phone off (bat. charge -> 30%)

2.	took out the battery and unplugged it

3.	I took some time to carefully examine the battery, so the handset stayed without a battery for some time, say a minute or so, unplugged.

4.	I plugged in the phone, still with no battery inside to see what was going to happen (nothing btw)

5.	Then, while the charger plugged it, I pushed the battery in and switched the phone on.

What happened:

1.	The phone loaded with 37%! (30% when being switched off)

2.	It began charging and curiously enough – it charged normally.

To conclude, I have been suffering from this since the 4.1.1. upd. And nothing helped. So to my mind, there might be some issue about how the battery level is displayed, not the charging process itself..

Anyways, please try and I encourage you to report whether it works for you or not.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] keepitrealdude:
Update

Hi. I have now tried nearly everything all of you huys suggest (haven't factory reset though, as that is just too big a hassle for me, without iCloud). But non of that really helped. The phone is charging at a rate of about 18-19% per hour..

Wish Samsung/Android were a bit better at customer support and fixing the problems.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vtopor:
To my question I cannot find any answer a long time.

Why battery monitor widget or current widget does not show the current consumption? always 0mA.

I tried several devices and all show a zero.

But I saw screenshots from other users that have logs with power consumption in battery monitor widget.

P.S. on charge it shows 999mA, but is discharging mode always shows 0mA
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] danmanbad:
sorry to hear that

are you in the UK? if you are ring this number 01932 454358 its a land line number there scotish i think very helpful if not then i dont know but if its not working its still well with in warenty so ring and get them to sort it out

there is always dropbox you should have got 50Gb for free with your phone

i hope that helps
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] reverend remiel:
Took my phone 32(!) hours to charge from 8% to 100% after getting the JB update... Has gotten better since then, but still needs a good 6-7 hours to go from 30-ish % to full. Not terribly impressed.

On ICS, it went from zero to hero in 2-3 hours.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sathyah:
Galaxy s3 charging too slow

Hello,

I too had the same problem with my s3. Here are my observations.

I have two s3. One bought on June month. Another on November month. I updated both the device to jelly bean (310 mb ota update).

After that I faced charging problem on one of my device, which was bought on November month. The other device is charging fine without any issues. The difference I noticed is the device purchased before November month is showing AC while charging and the one which is giving problem is showing as USB when connected to wall charger. It might be due to hardware revision change.

I say this because there are two versions of jelly bean available for India. INU and INS. INU is working fine. INS is having charging issue.

I flashed to ics and now it's working fine. However, Any idea about this issue reported to Samsung or Still no one is aware of this issue?

How to report this issue to Samsung. I feel really bad for releasing a buggy version.

Thanks

Sathya
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] friendsforkiran:
Same problem with Jelly Bean I9300XXDLK1 INU Firmware

HI,

I am also facing the same issue after updating jellybean 4.1.1 earlier with ICS there where no any issue, It charges perfectly in jelly bean but only issue with the charging LED some time it shines perfectly and most of the time goes dark. I am using original Samsung charger and tried one more new Samsung charger the issue is the same.

I have re flashed the old ICS firmware and there is no any issue related LED shine in ICS. I think this is the Jelly bean bug.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Painman1963:
Same Problem

I am having exactly the same problem since upgrading to JB. I am using an unlocked, sim free international S3 bought in the UK. I am using the stock 4.1.1 rom but I am rooted using Chainfire's CF Auto Root method.

I have the same dimming LED Light. My charge rate overnight via AC was 3% per hour. I switched it off and had a 5% per hour charge rate. This has happened numerous times since the update last month but it is interspersed by days of no problems whatsoever.

I was about to visit Carphone Warehouse to report this when I came across this thread. I have switched off the USB Debugging option which appears to have left me with a bright shining LED but no increase in battery for the last 30 minutes.

I work nights and will sleep for 3 or 4 hours now so I shall see what it says when I get up. It's not the end of the world as long as I don't get a negative charge when using the in-car charger as I use my phone for tethering for most of the night.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] denenatse:
Canada

Jelly Bean is the problem for me. When i first plugged in my phone with the official charger and cable, it has a new feature that recognizes your "Home Charger"and asks if you want to enable the smart feature where it will silence your phone and other sleep type features. Plus, my phone charges just perfect with Samsung cable and charger, but not at all with my BB or knockoff chargers, but they still fluctuate my charging.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Painman1963:
After removing the tick from USB Debugging all seems well so far but it was always an intermittent issue. I will post again if the problem returns.

I'm just updating my Tab 2 as we speak. Hopefully it won't suffer the same problem
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ksordo:
I've also been having problems charging my S3 for a couple of months now. There have been days where I've put it to charge when going to bed, to wake up to a phone still lacking 100% charge (and this is with at least a 6-7 hr. charge). I've tried rebooting the phone, which sometimes helps. I've tried taking out the charger cable and inserting it back in, which sometimes helps. I've tried other chargers and, although I haven't used them often enough to compare, they seem to charge well with them (so, perhaps my charging cable has a faulty wiring connection). But, today, the oddest thing happened. I was using my phone while it was still charging (and had a 100% charge)...I used it for a while, with the charge remaining at 100%, and after having had removed the charging cable, the battery level suddenly dropped to 58%. When I put it back to charge, it remained at 59% with no change after a while. As I write this, I'm using another charger I bought off eBay, and the phone is charging normally.

I've read many people have had issues charging the S3, but I haven't seen an official solution. Could anyone clue me in as to what could be the problem?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] danmanbad:
read this http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1727540&page=19
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bildircin:
It's been 2 months and the problem still not solved

The problem occurs only with the original charger

china-made cheap charger charges in 2-2.5 hours whereas the original charger charges in 4.5-5 hours

This is ridiculous considering S3 is the flagship of samsung.

edit: yesterday night I left the phone for charge with the original charger and after 6 hours, the charge went from 7% to 40%. I hope 4.1.2 fixes this issue...
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zharif91:
after jelly bean update (4.1.1).. i need to charge about 8 hours to get from 0% to 100%.. but sometimes, it stuck at certain percentage seems like it does not charge at all.. i try to flash another kernel Siyah, Yanks.. but no improvement.. i think the software itself has problem..
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Painman1963:
I think it's a 4.1.1 problem. Since flashing 4.1.2 I have not had a repeat of the problem and the software is much smoother too
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] simonlesorcier:
I have the exact same problem, it is driving me crazy!

---------- Post added at 04:56 AM ---------- Previous post was at 04:41 AM ----------

I have an S3 purchased in Hong Kong, using stock JB, my phone also takes ages to charge to 69% sometimes 89% . I have also tried several differents chargers, cables , OEM and not, still presenting the same behaviour. Will keep on reading, I hope somebody has found a solution!

---------- Post added at 05:21 AM ---------- Previous post was at 04:56 AM ----------

I have an original 5 pin USB cable, I am still getting this charging issues. Do you mean I should just ask Samsung to replace it too?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] psybient:
Charging Problem

my s3 buy after JB update Released and right after power it on i started to download updates an install it, so i don't have any knowledge about how much it would takes to charge before update, i have to charge my phone every day but the problem is charging time :

When my phone is charging via the original charger come with phone and cable with AC power i have noted that in settings > about Device > Battery status, status is : Charging (USB) :eek: and charging takes about 6 hours even more.

Any Idea how can i fix this ?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] denostar:
Same problem here. I used my wife's Galaxy fit cable and it works just fine. Total charging time 1,5-2 hours. Don't use S3's original 2 piece charger until this problem is fixed with software.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ZeCoder:
Did the latest Stock Rom for UK fix the problem ?

Because it has a new Changelog number.

Any Solution found?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kanban:
do this,,it works on me!
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] iksdehXD:
Guess it also works for me
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shiggins9:
My solution: generic (fake) HTC charger with Samsung USB cable

Seems to finally be charging to 100% again
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mostafaz:
hi

i think u must use PARAM.bin file.

see this link

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=41593409#post41593409
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Damijan81:
My Solution to problem

Hi All

Just thought i would give my experiance.

I was on stock 4.1.2 and had no problems with charging or the battery, I installed Delta Rom 4.2.2 exactly to the instructions and everything went fine. Almost straight away i had a Issue with the battery and charging times. I am at my desk most times and when my battery gets low i plug it into a wall charger and it fills it up quick enough that i dont even think about it. Once I updated to Delta 4.2.2 I plugged in the phone and it wouldn't charge past 49% and that took about 5 or 6 hours to get there. I installed Galaxy Charging Current app and that charger charges at around 440 to 450 on average. I tried different Charges and got different results including the speed it would charge and voltages. In the end i got sick of swapping charges around and re-flashed a fresh full wipe Delta 4.1.2 with Siyah Kernal option ticked, since then i have no problems with charging or battery issues everything is back to how it was. Also to note that the voltages from all the different charges are still the same and that original charger i used at my desk now works fine like it did before.

Leads me to think that it is a Rom issue not the cable as every time i flashed a 4.2.2 i had some issue or the other and when i went back to a 4.1.2 based rom all the Issues left.

Is it possible also that those that are on completely Stock and non rooted phones have automatic software enabled and an update has come in over night which then brings with it this issue on stock untouched phones. Just a thought?

Anyway since going back to 4.1.2 Delta i've had no issues anymore.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Painman1963:
I've always believed it was a ROM issue but my problem was on stock 4.1.1 I'm on 4.1.2 now and the problem has simply disappeared. Let's just Hope that it doesn't return when we see the official 4.2.2 released
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jforme:
My i9300 has the same problem with stock 4.1.2, but when I followed the methods specified in some of the posts in this thread, the phone is fully charged and fast too.
[General Topics] SoldierBelow:
I was recently watching a speed test on YouTube and according to its results, the brand new iPhone was almost double the speeds of the galaxy s 3 in certain areas. (will post the links momentarily).

So what do you guys think? To me personally, I am one to believe that quad scores don't really matter, But there are a few things that convince me that the iPhone 5 can seriously take on newer android phones now. If it came down to choosing a phone, I would probably just pick the one that's the cheapest for my plan lol.

Looking forward to your input.
[General Topics] louis.b:
What's with the obsession of comparing and trashing the iPhone? HOnestly iPhone5 and SGS3 or any of the current flagship Android phones are for very different audiences and preferences and as much as I hate Samsung you're not gonna be disadvantaged in anyway choosing it. The same applied for the iPhone5. Im pretty sure there will be a plethora of responses claiming the iPhone5 is worse than the SGS3 based on observations but not first hand experience so what's the point of asking people's opinions? This is an ANDROID forum and a lot of people here are not known for being neutral and reasonable and hate things (eg Apple) just for the sake of being hateful. They will not give you a rational response if you're looking for one, assuming you are.
[General Topics] SoldierBelow:
I guess you're right, I was having this same discussion with my friend in school and it really just came down to preferences.
[General Topics] iKoolkid:
Bro honestly just hardware wise, gs3 only beats the i5 by a small amount.
[General Topics] Clark Joseph Kent:
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