Hi! New to the forum. I'm sure it's been posted somewhere and I may have just missed the posts but I'm hoping someone can help here. After a couple months of getting my S4 when it first came out at Verizon, it started to show me the, "To charge faster, use original charger" notification and would sometimes give me the red blinking LED and flashing battery icon in the notification bar to show it wasn't charging. I have been using the original white charger that came in the box since getting it and it worked just fine and super fast before I started to get that message; now it is charging so ridiculously slow. Same thing sort of happened with the car charger I got from Verizon as well--was working well and fast but now, once I plug it into my phone, it doesn't recognize the charger and I usually have to reset the phone for the car charger to be recognized. Once it is recognized, it does charge at the same original speed but I just don't know why it doesn't initially read the phone when I plug it in.
It only seems to be with this car charger and original USB cable, though, because I started to use 2 other cables (a long one I use in place of the original and much shorter one I carry with me) my dad had lying around (not sure the exact specs of these chargers) and they charge my phone just as fast as the original. Now, I'm back to the original cable because the longer one I was using in place of it got messed up. I've seen some posts about making sure there's not debris in the charge ports or anything but I clean out and maintain my phone pretty well. Someone please help...I don't get it and it is quite annoying!
It only seems to be with this car charger and original USB cable, though, because I started to use 2 other cables (a long one I use in place of the original and much shorter one I carry with me) my dad had lying around (not sure the exact specs of these chargers) and they charge my phone just as fast as the original. Now, I'm back to the original cable because the longer one I was using in place of it got messed up. I've seen some posts about making sure there's not debris in the charge ports or anything but I clean out and maintain my phone pretty well. Someone please help...I don't get it and it is quite annoying!