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Root [Verizon] Phone charging extremely slow, even when off

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rsarno

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I am rooted, running CleanRom, and I have an extended Hyperion battery. But everything has been fine for months.

I recently noticed (thought) the battery wasnt taking a charge, so I ordered a new battery. That didnt fix the problem, so i got a new wall plug.. Still not fixed.

Even turned off, the phone took 10 hours to go from 20% - 100%

Not sure what else I can try. Id hate to have to get VZW involved :(

Any ideas?
 
I think the cable has some issue. I have the same problem, although using the charger of another phone does the job very quick.
 
The s3 has a built in system whereby it reduces the amount of draw from the charger if it "thinks" the connection is unstable or damaged. It seems quite common with the stock cable. Use another as already mentioned by sherlock
 
For me, using the stock cable has no problem but changing the charger indeed made a difference. Im still using my original stock charger though from time to time. I try to monitor the charging current make sure i have at least 500-600current(max i could get on samsung stock charger is 600 while using the ipad charger gives me 800-900). Rooting and putting a custom Rom and kernel really helped a lot on charging too. You can always try to unplug and re-plug the cable and check how much current it gives you in that way you would know if your charging is slow or normal. I still really dont get why i had this problem only after upgrading to JB while reverting back to ICS gets everything back to normal(charging). Although I think this does not apply to all but i knew some of my friends are having the same issue. This is one of the reason I wanted to root :D
 
I have had similar charging problems with Galaxy S3 and with various Samsung chargers. At least with one model unplugging and replugging the charger to the mains helped. Viewing the Battery Discharging graph History details the impact was obvious. Based on the graph gradient the charging seems 10 times faster after the unplugging/replugging.
 
S3 has like a safety thing that really decreases the current draw when it thinks a charger could be damaged. You can over-ride that feature with some custom kernels but ive never dared lol.
Theres playstore apps that can tell you what charging current youre gettin. A stock s3 should draw 1000mA :thumbup:

EDIT lol mega-ninja'd by SU months ago sorry :D
 
i have stock s3 chrger and it chrge my phone very slow even changing with nokia usb cable and still slow as s***! is there any orginal samsung charger with 1amp output direct wired chrger not with that f usb cable thing
 
I think you should change the usb cable. It could be damaged.

Another thing that you can try is to flash a custom kernel and see if it could charge faster.
 
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