How long should it take to charge?

[bIOforger]

With a wall A/C charger you should be able to go from nothing to a full charge in no more than 2 - 2 1/2 hours tops with the supplied USB 3 charger.

I have battery doctor i think this skews the time as it tries to manage the charging cycle with a fast charge then trickle then fast etc, so might take a bit longer? I will try it at the wall without batt doc running to see if what you say is true.

 

[PsychDoc]

I have battery doctor i think this skews the time as it tries to manage the charging cycle with a fast charge then trickle then fast etc, so might take a bit longer? I will try it at the wall without batt doc running to see if what you say is true.

Yeah, batter doctor does have that fancy charging circuit. I don't really think that's even necessary as the built-in power management will drop the charge to trickle when a full charge is reached.

 

[bIOforger]

Yeah, batter doctor does have that fancy charging circuit. I don't really think that's even necessary as the built-in power management will drop the charge to trickle when a full charge is reached.

yea agree, shame i rather it charged in 2hrs than 3-3.5hrs! i don't think you can turn that batt doctor management off without turning off/disabling the app, bit of a pain.

 

[PsychDoc]

yea agree, shame i rather it charged in 2hrs than 3-3.5hrs! i don't think you can turn that batt doctor management off without turning off/disabling the app, bit of a pain.

A bit OT but have you tried Green Power? I went back and forth between battery doctor, juice defender and green power and ultimately found green power to be the easiest and most effective. You may want to give it a try and see what you think.

 

[bIOforger]

A bit OT but have you tried Green Power? I went back and forth between battery doctor, juice defender and green power and ultimately found green power to be the easiest and most effective. You may want to give it a try and see what you think.

I haven't no, will dload and try, thanks. To be honest i only use batt doctor over juice defender coz i like the widgets and the notification bar.

 

[Almeuit]

will try...on USB right now started at 65% now at 70% - only 5% in 50mins

will plug into wall and see if there is a difference

***UPDATE***
wall charging was fast as one would expect 25% in about 30 mins. What does this mean for USB charging then???

USB charging from a PC is always slower. The PC will not give the phone as much power as the wall charger.

Sent from my T-Mobile Note 3 using AC Forums.

 

[bIOforger]

With Battery Doctor disabled it took 1.5hrs to charge from 30% instead of 3.5hrs from the wall charger and i thought it was a decent app!

It's now deleted and green power installed instead, thanks psycho. A batt app shouldn't slow down the charging time that much no matter what its best intentions are.

 

[DumDee2]

using watt meter with samsung 2.0 charger the s5 was pulling 1.77amps with usb 3.0 cable and 1.76amps with a usb2.0 so barely any difference.

So theoretically it should take 95 mins to charge s5 from 0 -100%. But we all know the phone starts to slow down charging after 75-80% reducing amps.

other results:
using samsung 1.0 charger both usb3.0 and 2.0 pulled 1.03 amps
anker qc 2.0 battery pack amps kept bouncing between 1.62-1.72 amps