Battery always in charge ?? (even when not !)

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Really strange problem guys...
My phone is always "on charge" , the icon in the notification bar is the charging one, even widgets are displaying the "on charge"...
the fact is that it's unplugged !!

i've tried removing the battery and the phone didn't turn on, so i put it on charge and it finally did turn on...

After unplugging it again it still shows "on charge". So i turned it off again and this time it showed the battery loading screen, but I can turn it on this time....

Suggestions ?
the phone is working fine now but i smell a major hardware fault....

Sounds like what I had recently.

It started by simply smoking out the USB connector when I plugged the phone in to charge, then it displayed similar symptoms: did not accept charge from the wall wart, the USB-cable worked, but no data transfer was possible. It did show as charging, but the charge animation continued even when I unplugged the phone from the USB, so I assumed it was bogus.
When turned off, it reacted to the AC charger similarly: battery displayed, then the displayed stayed on when I unplugged it.

The repair shop accepted it under warranty, and fixed it, but the repair slip was left unfilled, so I'll never know what they actually did and what the diagnosis was. All I know is that the motherboard was not swapped out, as I retained all my data.

check with Samsung, if you're still under warranty!

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Clean the usb port with a dry tooth brush and some compressed air mine does this from time to time as well as others. Also I believe ics has a small charge animation bug or something like that

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I've done some cleaning (man, the USB was dirty as hell !), now everything is working fine again except for one thing

when i turn off the phone, it shows the "in charge" icon for about 10 seconds, then it disappears...

could it be an ICS bug ? i'll be relieved if it's just a software bug...

Originally Posted by il_pasqui

I've done some cleaning (man, the USB was dirty as hell !), now everything is working fine again except for one thing

when i turn off the phone, it shows the "in charge" icon for about 10 seconds, then it disappears...

could it be an ICS bug ? i'll be relieved if it's just a software bug...

Mine does that from time to time still too, others have reported the same I think maybe they lowered voltage to it or something and now its more finicky I dunno it still charges and mounts so I'm rolling with it

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Originally Posted by b1337

Mine does that from time to time still too, others have reported the same I think maybe they lowered voltage to it or something and now its more finicky I dunno it still charges and mounts so I'm rolling with it

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oh well, if i'm not alone then it's fine !

thanks !

Cheers mate. This helped me.

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Bad News,
i'm back at square one....
The phone is still showing "on charge" even when unplugged...
And now when i plug the charger in , the phone charghes to 100% in about 5 minutes....

Obviously it goes from 100% to a normal level in a matter of minutes...

I hope it's a battery issue and not a USB fault... gonna try a new battery in the next few days...