DanCal1989
Lurker
Hi everyone.
Just bought a S3 mini off ebay yesterday and was very pleased with my purchase until it suddenly stopped charging at about 70%. I unplugged the mini USB and tried several others with no success.
I turned the phone off and it started charging. Once it was fully charged I unplugged the charger but the phone still thought it was charging even though it was losing power. I've used the factory reset function and it seemed to help for a while but now it's back to only charging when the phone is switched off.
Because it will charge fully, but only when the phone is off, I think this is a software problem rather than a hardware problem. Does anyone have any ideas how I can fix this? I'd rather not return it if possible as my last phone (HTC wildfire) is a major downgrade compared to this and I really like the S3 mini.
Thanks.
Just bought a S3 mini off ebay yesterday and was very pleased with my purchase until it suddenly stopped charging at about 70%. I unplugged the mini USB and tried several others with no success.
I turned the phone off and it started charging. Once it was fully charged I unplugged the charger but the phone still thought it was charging even though it was losing power. I've used the factory reset function and it seemed to help for a while but now it's back to only charging when the phone is switched off.
Because it will charge fully, but only when the phone is off, I think this is a software problem rather than a hardware problem. Does anyone have any ideas how I can fix this? I'd rather not return it if possible as my last phone (HTC wildfire) is a major downgrade compared to this and I really like the S3 mini.
Thanks.