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SGP 5.0 Eternity to charge battery

The Galaxy Player 5 has a larger battery than the average smartphone does (2500 mah), only outdone by the Razr Maxx i believe. So it is only logical that a larger capacity battery should take a little bit longer to charge.
Now my own 5.0 immediately drops down from 100% to 80% as soon as i unplug it from the charger. i kid you not. It doesn't really worry me too much though, because it hangs on 80% for a pretty long time, as if waiting for the actual battery to catch up with the indicator widget i have. i still routinely get around 12-ish hours of use before seeing the 15% warning.
 
En4cer2k11 said:
The Galaxy Player 5 has a larger battery than the average smartphone does (2500 mah), only outdone by the Razr Maxx i believe. So it is only logical that a larger capacity battery should take a little bit longer to charge.
Now my own 5.0 immediately drops down from 100% to 80% as soon as i unplug it from the charger. i kid you not. It doesn't really worry me too much though, because it hangs on 80% for a pretty long time, as if waiting for the actual battery to catch up with the indicator widget i have. i still routinely get around 12-ish hours of use before seeing the 15% warning.
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Mine pretty much does the same once I take it off the charger. Percentage is 100-90-80 in under a min.

Wifi is normally kept on 24/7 cause I'm always on it. The rare time I did have wifi off I thought something was wrong when I couldn't view a webpage.

Thinking about it, BT is on all day/night. I'm realizing as I post this that I really can leave BT off and just turn it on when needed.

I'll try to remember to charge with the player off. Normally I just plug it in and go about my business. :)
 
ScandaLeX said:
Mine pretty much does the same once I take it off the charger. Percentage is 100-90-80 in under a min.

Wifi is normally kept on 24/7 cause I'm always on it. The rare time I did have wifi off I thought something was wrong when I couldn't view a webpage.

Thinking about it, BT is on all day/night. I'm realizing as I post this that I really can leave BT off and just turn it on when needed.

I'll try to remember to charge with the player off. Normally I just plug it in and go about my business. :)
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bluetooth is irrelevant. i can literally stream music through my bluetooth Jambox all day long. its wifi that hits the battery the hardest.
which is kinda odd, considering how wifi usually conserves my phone battery in comparison with using the data network (t-mobile hspa+).
 
En4cer2k11 said:
bluetooth is irrelevant. i can literally stream music through my bluetooth Jambox all day long. its wifi that hits the battery the hardest.
which is kinda odd, considering how wifi usually conserves my phone battery in comparison with using the data network (t-mobile hspa+).
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I got a new player the other day. Decided to keep it stock for a while. The 1st one I rooted & rom as soon as I got home with it. This one I've only had to charge it twice. Seems as though the battery is not taking too long to charge and it's also lasting longer on a charge.

Wifi/BT on the entire time. Been watching Netflix around the clock and it's been almost 11 hrs since off the charger. On this particulaar player, my battery hasnt taken a hit due to wifi.
 
The good news is 2500mah is a huge battery!
Bad news is it will not charge as fast as a dinky batt.
If your battery is old or been dropped once too many times then there might be a prob.
However I have been reading, there are apps that will recalibrate the battery charger.
You are not the 1st to complain about the stock SGP battery charger.
Mine is used and the last 10% seem to take longer. It says 100% if it is on all night, but falls off to 90-something right away. Display uses well over 90% of the "juice" that's ever used so I set the display time-out so that it almost makes me mad, (30 sec) haha.
 
elsnod said:
The good news is 2500mah is a huge battery!
Bad news is it will not charge as fast as a dinky batt.
If your battery is old or been dropped once too many times then there might be a prob.
However I have been reading, there are apps that will recalibrate the battery charger.
You are not the 1st to complain about the stock SGP battery charger.
Mine is used and the last 10% seem to take longer. It says 100% if it is on all night, but falls off to 90-something right away. Display uses well over 90% of the "juice" that's ever used so I set the display time-out so that it almost makes me mad, (30 sec) haha.
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Mine wasn't old or dropped. It was a brand new player. Some one had advised to power it off and let it charge that way. That still didn't change the fact when removing it at 100% charge and without doing anything the percentage would just drop like a rock.

I ended up getting a new one (another story) then ended up returning it when I heard about the Note 2 possibly coming to all carriers.
 
Mine acts like that too: the last 10%-to- charge slow, 1st 10% to discharge fast. Had a '62 Impala w/ a gas gauge like that haha.
 
elsnod said:
Mine acts like that too: the last 10%-to- charge slow, 1st 10% to discharge fast. Had a '62 Impala w/ a gas gauge like that haha.
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Which makes absolutely no sense to me. Initially I thought something was wrong with mine. There replacement doing the same clearly showed me battery management was screwed up from the start. Not sure what Samsung was thinking.
 
OK my SGP5 was on all night & some. It was at 100% w/ Gmail, yahoo, both phone apps running, & went to 80% when unplugged from USB.
 
elsnod said:
might wanna try this "battery calibration" app.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1971454
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Did nothing for me back when I used it.
elsnod said:
OK my SGP5 was on all night & some. It was at 100% w/ Gmail, yahoo, both phone apps running, & went to 80% when unplugged from USB.
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The point exactly. This is what the fuss is about. Awesome player but battery never made any sense. Mine would drop to 95% after taking it off the charger which was showing 100%. Then while I'm sitting here wondering WTH just happened it would drop to 90%.

Also let me add, I liked the player for media but for games it brought it to a crawl.
 
ScandaLeX said:
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At night when I go to bed and place it on the charger, when I wake you'd think it'd be at 100%, I'm lucky if it reached 80.

On the rare occasion it reached 100% it immediately drops to 95% the second I unplug it. Not even 5 min later it'll be at 90%. I haven't read this happening to anyone else in all the forums I read so I stumped by this.
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Per instructions/manual: Screen must be off to charge properly.
Guages are approximate!
 
Well here I am a year later after purchasing my sgp 5 in january of 2012 and still no satisfactory replacement for it, and the batt aint what it used to be. I am getting bored of the same old player also. Hope something else comes out. 4.2 is too small, and for me 7" tab is too big too be "truely" portable. We'll have to just wait and see I guess.
 
brosko said:
Well here I am a year later after purchasing my sgp 5 in january of 2012 and still no satisfactory replacement for it, and the batt aint what it used to be. I am getting bored of the same old player also. Hope something else comes out. 4.2 is too small, and for me 7" tab is too big too be "truely" portable. We'll have to just wait and see I guess.
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I lost interest in mine the min I knew of the Note 2. Bigger, faster making the SGP 5 something I'd pick up less and less.
 
I can understand that, but I have tried 3 smartphones and they have horrible reception. I am on at t. I was missing half my calls! My phone is for my business so that was no good. I stuck with my old nokia bar phone (does not even have a camera) which gets great reception and puchase the sgp to have an android and have been happy ever since.
 
13 months on, battery still lasts 9 hours playing video. Battery still charges in 3 1/4 hours to 100%.

never had any of the issues that have been reported here.

I still believe conditioning the battery is the key, as proven by my test results.

marcel
 
I did everything that was suggested and nothing helped. In the end, it was still a pretty decent device I wouldn't have any problem recommending to others.
Using the Note 2 with 3 spare batteries I don't miss my player at all.
 
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