Ever since the Gingerbread update, my phone has had issues with charging. Under Froyo, this was not a problem.
Here's the deal...
I plug in the device to charge up, it seems to get to 100% and then starts to drain power while plugged in. It will still display as 100% while plugged in, but once I unplug it well after it hits the 100% point, it then shows what the battery actually is at (ex. 67%). You might ask why I don't unplug it when it hits 100%, but some of those times are when I'm sleeping. When I wake up, it says 100%, but when I disconnect it from the charger, it'll really be like 80% and will display that immediately.
One day I had it plugged via USB to my work computer, it showed 100% the entire time. I was listening to streaming radio all day and because I wanted to be sure it would be fully charged at the end of my day, I kept it plugged in. When I unplugged, the battery was really only at 6% and gave me an immediate warning about my critical battery level. Again, this never was a problem before GIngerbread.
I did a battery pull to see if that would right the ship and I initially thought that it had for a day or two, but I just noticed that the issue returned this morning after taking it off the overnight charge and only showed up at 80% upon disconnect. The only thing I can think of that could have thrown it off is that I restarted my phone yesterday -- maybe that brought the problem back?
This isn't really a battery life issue as I've read in other posts. I'm not noticing any problems with how long the charge last. The only problem I'm having is getting it charged to 100% and keeping it that way until I unplug it.
Sorry for the length, but I wanted to be descriptive of the issue. Anyone else have this problem since Gingerbread? Any solutions?
Is there any word on a fix for this ??
Thanks
Is there any word yet
Thanks
Is there a Fix yet
Any news it has been a month
wardcst24 wrote:
Any news it has been a month
I tweeted the issue to the Verizon Support account, and the response I got was "Well, send us your phone, and we will look it over to see if we see an issue, and if so, we will fix it and get it back to you"...
Yea, right......
How stupid of them to want you to send you phone in to them to verify a problem that is on every phone
EH03 Breaks Trickle Charge on all Phones
Latest Tweet from Verizon:
@DroidUsr This issue is still being investigated by our product team. We do not have a date on a resolution at this time. ^MSF
Any word yet
It is going on two months since you said that this issue was sent to be fixed has there been any word when there will be a fix
or should we start looking for a Different Carrier
Please get the charging issue fixed it has been two months since Verizon & Samsung Broke charge on our phones
This is Wrong
Bump
Feel like we have been kicked under the bus
They broke trickle charge with eh03
Whats up I have left alot of messages asking if there is any word
It was Dec 19th when you posted It is now Feb 29 and no word
Thanks for all the support NOT
It is going on 3 months and No one has even had the curtsy to reply back
But have plenty of time to reply to someone getting a new phone
Is Samsung going to fix the trickle charge
bet I would get a answer if I was talking about upgrading to a new phone
Which I will most likely do with a different carrier
Just google ed05 full xda
The top post is where you want to read
Aside from the huge charging defect mentioned here I am getting the impression that the phone is managing the battery life a bit better than before. Prior to gingerbread, my phone drained alarmingly fast. Now I'm seeing major improvement in how long it stays in the 30 - 60 % range.
I realize many things affect this - running apps, cell strength, etc. But it seems better.
Hate the charging thing. Like the power management....
The trickle charge issue is apparently one of the first reported bugs with some devices. It is in the software and not a battery issue. There are fixes but those type of tweaks are not permitted to be discussed on these boards. As posted above, Google is your friend.
@SFObrien Is there an actual tweak for this issue specifically or does the fix require a full install of GB? Not looking for specifics, but just a general sense if the issue itself has been isolated. I know what fixing it will likely require, but just wondering if it's a targeted fix or elaborate fix that will do many things.
KISSman wrote:@SFObrien Is there an actual tweak for this issue specifically or does the fix require a full install of GB? Not looking for specifics, but just a general sense if the issue itself has been isolated. I know what fixing it will likely require, but just wondering if it's a targeted fix or elaborate fix that will do many things.
The fix is actually part of another process. Sent you a PM with a little more information.
@KISSman,
I'm sorry to hear you are having charging issue with your Fascinate after the SW update. You may have to perform a hard reset on your phone. Sometimes a hard reset is needed after a software update. This should help with the charging issue you are experiencing.
If after the hard reset you are still having the same charges issues, please post back and I will be more than happy to further assist you.
JohnB_VZW wrote:@KISSman,
I'm sorry to hear you are having charging issue with your Fascinate after the SW update. You may have to perform a hard reset on your phone. Sometimes a hard reset is needed after a software update. This should help with the charging issue you are experiencing.
If after the hard reset you are still having the same charges issues, please post back and I will be more than happy to further assist you.
I Have 3 Fascinates 2 are active one is not
They all do it on the one that is not active I did a factory hard reset and it is still doing it even though there have been 0 apps installed
My point is it is the problem is in the firmware eh03
The problem did not exist in the ed05 firmware
It is a firmware not hardware problem and my battery's are fine
PLEASE GET SAMSUNG TO FIX PLEASE
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