Recharge times?

[johnner1999]

Did Samsung finally find a way to allow Thier phones to charge quickly like an iPhone?

 

[taylorz_412]

Did Samsung finally find a way to allow Thier phones to charge quickly like an iPhone?

They charge fast but not as fast as iphones my 4s would charge from 20-100 in less than an hour

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[Skunkape60]

Did Samsung finally find a way to allow Thier phones to charge quickly like an iPhone?

The GS3 definitely charges faster than my epic or nexus did. I don't know if something was done to the phone or is the charger output just more.

 

[ducatti20]

Did Samsung finally find a way to allow Thier phones to charge quickly like an iPhone?

It's all about mah... iphone 4s is a 1420 mah battery, Sg3 battery is 2200 mah. It's gonna take longer simply due to sheer size. The iphone charges quickly thanks to a puny battery and a high mah charger... my gs3 charges within 1 1/2 hours from dead to fully charged on the Samsung charger... it's a 1000 mah charger.

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[taylorz_412]

It's all about mah... iphone 4s is a 1420 mah battery, Sg3 battery is 2200 mah. It's gonna take longer simply due to sheer size. The iphone charges quickly thanks to a puny battery and a high mah charger... my gs3 charges within 1 1/2 hours from dead to fully charged on the Samsung charger... it's a 1000 mah charger.

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Sg3 has 2100 mah battery not 2200 and the charger is not 1000mah

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[Tkbredx]

I always thought mine charged slow. Then I realized. This phone charges just as fast as an iPhone except it isn't as strong. Here's what I mean by that

When you have your phone plugged in and you try to use it. It charges slow as crap. Barely at all. Where as on an iPhone if you use it while it's on the charger it still charges at a decent speed.
And okay the s3 is capable of charging at 1000 amps? But the charger isn't 1000? And by charger do you mean the wire or the usb wall plug or both? Will that black berry premium charger in the AC store increase the charging speed? I know it's supposed to but I also heard that phones have a maximum charging speed so it might not even change anything

 

[trunkmonkey1972]

Again, this is due to battery size and charger output. S3 wall charger is 1000 mA, battery 2100 mA. Not sure what iPhone charger is, but probably close to that. Think of charger rating as flowrate of a garden hose, and battery rating as size of kids pool. Smaller pool fills faster with a given flowrate. Then what you're doing with your phone while it's charging, mAh draw, is how much water you're scooping out with a bucket while it's hose is filling. Lots of variables there so it's hard to compare the two without controlled tests.

 

[eyecon82]

Did Samsung finally find a way to allow Thier phones to charge quickly like an iPhone?

no....mine still takes a solid 5 hours from about 5% battery

iPhone takes about 1.5 hours from 5% battery...

 

[trunkmonkey1972]

Wow. That almost twice as my average charge times from 5%. My average estimate for 0 - 100% charging is 2:51. Your phone must be busy doing stuff while charging.

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[oskar1995]

Trunkmonkey, what app are you using there? I use GSam Battery monitor that provides a lot of information but I'd be curious to give a different app a try.

 

[trunkmonkey1972]

Trunkmonkey, what app are you using there? I use GSam Battery monitor that provides a lot of information but I'd be curious to give a different app a try.

Battery Monitor Pro

It's in the Google play app store. It's not the most flashy or easy to use but is extremely detailed. And it uses the least system resources of all battery apps, which is important to me.

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[CMNDR]

Honestly, I think your best bet to make sure your phone charges the fastest it can is to use the included AC adapter. It's a 1.0A charger and that's the biggest one I've seen that sports a USB port as its interface. Most other AC to USB adapters only put out about .5 - .7A .

You're spot on about the charge time being around 2-3.5 hours for a full recharge. Let's not forget as well that the percentages you're seeing from the phone are a calculated value that is unique to every battery, because every battery is not made equal. There's a lot of calculations that go into telling you that you have 57% left. Basically your 5% left and my 5% left can be close but there's no guarantee to that.

If you want to do some more reading about what that chemical pack you put energy into is look here.