LG G3 charging so slowly
I've had my G3 for about a year and a half and it's great. I don't have problems with fast drainage or battery life...but lately am having huge problems with my charger.
The original charger broke randomly a few months ago. at first it worked at angles but now it gives no charge. I shared with my boyfriend's phone charger (he has an old Xperia Z from 2013) and that to this day charges my phone very fast. After some fiddling with the cable I realised it was the usb cable that was damaged, so I figured I should look into replacing the cable.
I could not find my official white charger from LG online anywhere so I bought first of all a Raspberry Pi charger since its stats implied it should charge my phone just as fast or faster than my official charger (a tech guy also told me the same but I don't know who was wrong here..) It charged slower than plugging a usb cable to laptop. I returned it and tried again.
Next I bought some regular old usb-micro usb cables from ebay, a pack of 5. They were cheap but fine. They work, but...they barely charge my phone at all. I have to leave it overnight for any significant increase, and if I use the phone while it's charging it STILL GOES DOWN. For example today at work I plugged my phone in at about 54% (11am-ish) and used my phone on and off for 4 hours and it was nearly dead by 3pm. I bought a new cable since (same price on a single cable) and same problem. I tried using a couple of different random different bases and cables all to no avail. It takes at least 6 hours to get to full charge. I'm going nuts.
I can't test my theory since my boyfriend moved out so I can't use his phone cables easily (gotta charge his own phone ya feel) but I remember using his usb cable in my LG charger base and it worked fine. So I don't understand.
Someone please tell me what to do as this is driving me nuts!!!
I've had my G3 for about a year and a half and it's great. I don't have problems with fast drainage or battery life...but lately am having huge problems with my charger.
The original charger broke randomly a few months ago. at first it worked at angles but now it gives no charge. I shared with my boyfriend's phone charger (he has an old Xperia Z from 2013) and that to this day charges my phone very fast. After some fiddling with the cable I realised it was the usb cable that was damaged, so I figured I should look into replacing the cable.
I could not find my official white charger from LG online anywhere so I bought first of all a Raspberry Pi charger since its stats implied it should charge my phone just as fast or faster than my official charger (a tech guy also told me the same but I don't know who was wrong here..) It charged slower than plugging a usb cable to laptop. I returned it and tried again.
Next I bought some regular old usb-micro usb cables from ebay, a pack of 5. They were cheap but fine. They work, but...they barely charge my phone at all. I have to leave it overnight for any significant increase, and if I use the phone while it's charging it STILL GOES DOWN. For example today at work I plugged my phone in at about 54% (11am-ish) and used my phone on and off for 4 hours and it was nearly dead by 3pm. I bought a new cable since (same price on a single cable) and same problem. I tried using a couple of different random different bases and cables all to no avail. It takes at least 6 hours to get to full charge. I'm going nuts.
I can't test my theory since my boyfriend moved out so I can't use his phone cables easily (gotta charge his own phone ya feel) but I remember using his usb cable in my LG charger base and it worked fine. So I don't understand.
Someone please tell me what to do as this is driving me nuts!!!
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