New "green battery" Note7 version, extremely slow charging!

[canonuevo]

have a replacement att and no update. battery icon still white. imei checks out though

 

[justin1578]

Oh brother. I want my iPhone back.

Scratch that lol.

 

[Cotano]

What I was thinking was if you had fast charging on and your normal charger was the one that came with the device. If that were true the wired charge should be noticeable faster than the wireless charger.

 

[souffoue]

Hello,
I just picked up my third Note7, yesterday 9/20. Long story with the first two, but in short, I was sold the 1st and then the 2nd, both under the recall.

So, I get this phone, and upon opening the box, the battery icon is the normal white color. The sales guy says "let's run this update", which then tells you that if your phone is a bad one, the update will warn you, but if it is a good phone, the update will turn the battery icon green. In fact, my battery icon IS now green.

So, I threw my new "fixed" Note 7 on the charger before bed last night (about 9pm) with about 35% factory charge on it. This morning at 5am, the battery was at 91% charge. As I type this, it is now down to 85% charge, as of 5:17am. Not sure whats going on with the extremely slow charge and fast discharge. Anyone else notice this on their new "green battery" version?

Exact same issue here. Very slow charging and mine got hotter than my original note 7 ever did. The battery is also draining super fast and faster than my original 7.

 

[Kxronos]

Mine is charging erratically too. Just got a green device this morning. Took it home and plugged it in with the default charger on fast charge. It downloaded about 15 gigs of stuff and got really hot but didn't charge. I thought maybe they put a safe check in to not charge when the cpu is hot to act as a safe guard.

Now I've had it sitting on my fast wireless charger at work and again, while downloading music and a few more apps, the thing wouldn't charge, but it wasn't hot either. Now that I'm done downloading, it seems to be charge again. It's really frustrating.

 

[felloffthetruck]

The fast charging is slower but I'm having exceptional battery life with my first day of use.

 

[keepnitreel]

Mine is charging erratically too. Just got a green device this morning. Took it home and plugged it in with the default charger on fast charge. It downloaded about 15 gigs of stuff and got really hot but didn't charge. I thought maybe they put a safe check in to not charge when the cpu is hot to act as a safe guard.

Now I've had it sitting on my fast wireless charger at work and again, while downloading music and a few more apps, the thing wouldn't charge, but it wasn't hot either. Now that I'm done downloading, it seems to be charge again. It's really frustrating.

The downloads were eating up the charge at the same rate the charger was putting in. At least that's what it sounds like to me..

 

[Kxronos]

Yeah, which i've never experienced while on a fast charger with any Samsung device including my first Note 7. I just downloaded something big to test and on the wireless fast charger, the battery actually dropped 2% while downloading and installing this.

 

[djarchow]

With my two new phones, I had no issues with fast charging (Note charger and Note USB-C cable) or regular wireless charging.

Given all the issues with fast charging and usb-c cables; I only use my Note chargers with the Note USB-C cable when fast charging. I have a couple other Belkin and Anker usb-c cables I use to connect to my PC or an Anker charger (not fast charge capable) for normal charging and data transfer.

 

[smooth4lyfe]

Yes, the fast charging is not as fast as it was before with the white battery icon.
Same on the explosive and non explosive models after the green battery icon update.

That could be because its a different battery? I doubt the actual update had something to do with it
Mine still charges pretty fast though, I don't see a difference personally

 

[jsk0703]

The fast charging is slower but I'm having exceptional battery life with my first day of use.

This has been my experience so far as well. I had about an hour of Spotify with occasional email, Metal (FB/Twitter) and internet during my work day. Still had 83% when I got home. My original N7 would have been 10% lower.

 

[felloffthetruck]

Second time fast charging seems much faster.
Best battery life yet on a Note 7.

 

[justin1578]

Mine got super warm while downloading all the crap at start up. Could be the Pelican case trapping heat in, but I do not recall such heat before. Was charging almost even with my usage, turned it off and it charged really fast.

We'll see.

 

[dsignori]

The fast charging is slower but I'm having exceptional battery life with my first day of use.

That is my experience so far as well (not a full one day yet). Verizon, green battery?

 

[juliobx2012]

So I think I figured out the issue. Last night I was using my Nexus 6P USB-C charger. It was charging fine and according to the phones battery usage graph had charged to 100% when this update installed on its own around 3am. I woke up at 5:30 am to find my phone at 79% and not charging while still connected to the charger. I unboxed my Note 7 charger and plugged it in and it seemed to charge fine. Was up to 100% before I got ready for leave for work.

As I'm typing this I connected my Note 7 to an HTC 10 charger I have at the office and it is charging fine. So now I'm completely confused all over again. Not going to worry about it though as long as it is charging properly. Apparently for some reason after the update my Note just doesn't like the 6P charger.

I had the same issue but I think it's because the 6P doesn't do Qualcomm Quick Charge like the Note 7 and the HTC 10 do. Think the cable is different. I believe it was an issue with the HTC 10 first came out and they were getting extremely hot when using Nexus USB-C cable.

 

[WingLT]

Same issues here. When I got the phone on Monday night I did the restore from my Samsung account. It took over an hour. The battery was at 50% and it got very hot. Same thing happened with the first Note 7. I use my Captain America Standard Wireless charging pad with the mini usb cable and wall charger from my Galaxy Tab A 9.7 tablet. Which you use with the wireless charging pad since it doesn't come with any cables or chargers. It's compatible with everything and is the original Samsung one. Not those fake bootlegs that are floating around. Anyways after that and charging for the first time the second time it wasn't as hot. Just warm.

 

[eho7tk]

Wow Im not worried about charging speed , but holy~ the green icon is so ugly on both notification bar and aod

 

[2911]

I went from 12% to 15% in 2 hours? WTH??

 

[bertsirkin]

I went from 12% to 15% in 2 hours? WTH??

Try a different cable.

 

[Se Pe Carola]

Got my Note 7 replacement today. It had 33% charge out of the box. When I left the store only activating the device with my gmail account, I got a t-mobile message that there was a software update available to download. Once it downloaded it I could not install because my battery was below 30%. By the time I got back to office the battery was down to 12%.

I connected the phone to the computer and restore the phone from my pc backup (Galaxy S7 Edge loaner) via smart switch. Smart switch also gave me the notice of new software. Once I restored the phone I did the software update via smart switch. After the software upgrade I got my green battery message.

The phone has bee plugged to the wall since 1 pm and almost 11 hours later it only has 66% charge. This sucks.

I restarted the phone several times but see no difference. Phone runs a little hot compare to my original Note 7. Hopefully someone figures out the slow charging problem. I tough it could have been because I update the phone via smart switch and not via the T-Mobile utility.