Temporally fix for slow charging

[Panamanian507]

Good day people.

I too have the forever charging issue in my S3.

Please stop buying new batteries, or chargers or opening your S3 or cleaning the usb ports or switching cables, etc.
It MUST be an update who is causing all this, because several people who I know has the same problem from may or june to nowaday.

Let's wait or hope for a Samsung announcement about this or a software fix, for this. I repeat and insist, this must be a software issue not a hardware problem.
Now my temporally fix is to take out the battery for 3 to 5 minutes, leave the phone off, and plug it, It will then start charging, let me know if it helps you.

cheers.

 

[Golfdriver97]

Good day people.

I too have the forever charging issue in my S3.

Please stop buying new batteries, or chargers or opening your S3 or cleaning the usb ports or switching cables, etc.
It MUST be an update who is causing all this, because several people who I know has the same problem from may or june to nowaday.

Let's wait or hope for a Samsung announcement about this or a software fix, for this. I repeat and insist, this must be a software issue not a hardware problem.
Now my temporally fix is to take out the battery for 3 to 5 minutes, leave the phone off, and plug it, It will then start charging, let me know if it helps you.

cheers.

Have you tried clearing the phone's cache in recovery?

 

[GSDer]

It MUST be an update who is causing all this, because several people who I know has the same problem from may or june to nowaday.

If we were to assume that you are correct, the simple way to verify that this is indeed the case would be to have all of the people who are experiencing this issue to simply flash the last firmware prior to the May/June updates.

Since this is model/carrier dependent I can't tell everyone which firmware to use, but since you're on Verizon I can tell you that you just need to revert to the MB1 firmware. You should be able to find that easily - please let us know if it fixes your charging problem.

Sent from my rooted, debloated, deodexed Sinclair ZX-80 running CM -0.001 using Tapatalk 4

 

[meyerweb#CB]

Please stop buying new batteries, or chargers or opening your S3 or cleaning the usb ports or switching cables, etc.
It MUST be an update who is causing all this, because several people who I know has the same problem from may or june to nowaday.

So you simply choose to ignore the fact that all the fixes you dismiss have solved the problem for many people, and that millions of people have received the update without any charging issues at all.

Great job of analysis there.

 

[wpn00b]

So you simply choose to ignore the fact that all the fixes you dismiss have solved the problem for many people, and that millions of people have received the update without any charging issues at all.

Great job of analysis there.

I'd like to say that OP still has a point. While millions of people had no issue with extremely slow data speeds from the prior software update on Verizon, plenty of others did. That was the main purpose of the last update that Verizon released actually. So a software update can affect some phones but not all.

I have to agree with the suggestion to not spend any further money to fix a problem that the manufacturer should be addressing. If it is hardware related, then their cables or phones or batteries are failing and they should foot the bill. Not the consumer. I've seen plenty of people say that charging the device while powered off results in a fast charge as compared to being powered on...even when power-hungry apps are not running, so that's free and people should try that first after contacting Samsung and their provider for assistance. Factory Data Resets are an option as well. For some they will fix the issue, for others they won't.

OP probably shouldn't have suggested to not try cleaning a port or switching out a cable. I do agree with your stance there.

I just hate to see people getting fleeced over an issue that the manufacture should be owning up to.