Hello everyone,
Since a few days, my FP3 is almost not charging (+10% only in 8 hours).
It doesn’t announce “slow charge” and the indicator lamp lights up normally, but in “battery”, nothing says that it charges.
I recently switched from eOS 1.2 to 1.3; it seems to me that the problem has happened since then.
I tried to turn off the power, remove the battery for a few moments, then start again: same result.
I tried another cable/charger that works on another phone: same result.
When I turn it off and plug in the charger, the FP3 shows “Fairphone”, then black screen, then “beep”, then shows “Fairphone” again, then black screen… A cycle lasts about 15 sec.
Updated to 1.3 (1.3-20220905216076) recently, I think since then:
Battery seems to drain a lot faster (phone died a couple of times overnight, which very rarely happened before)
Charging is sometimes very slowly
Chargers+cables that used to charge fine before don´t anymore.
Also, depending on the rotation of the USB-C connection it either:
Orientation 1: Sees the charger, but doesn´t show text it is charging (either “Charging slowly” or “Charging”). The LED lights up as it used to do to indicate a charger/USB connection is made.
Orientation 2: Starts charging. Sometimes slowly and sometimes normally. What causes slowly or normally to happen I haven´t been able to define yet. Unplugging and plugging in again can make a difference. Rotating the cable a couple of times too.
The text is correct: when it states “Charging slowly” it does so slowly and when it is states “Charging” it goes really fast.
The rotation is consistent: with 2 different cables I have to insert them in a certain rotation (shown by a logo on the cable) to be able to charge (slowly). When I put the cable in the other rotation by rotating 180 degrees it never charges.
Same behaviour. After a while, unplugging the charger helps to get to the e/os loading screen and it starts ok, but with a near empty battery.
Also, both Windows 10 and Linux (Pop_OS! 22.04 LTS) don’t recognize the phone anymore.
The phone also does not give me an option to switch USB-mode from charging to file access/tethering/…
Some extra information:
I had 2 SIM cards and an SD card in use.
After removal of the SD card, the battery drain has dropped significantly. From 50% in a night (even in airplane mode) to 10-15% like before.
Charging hasn’t changed though. I just know now that I have to try a few times before ‘proper’ fast charging is activated. Still no idea what causes it though.
Can’t confirm, my Fairphone 3 charged without a problem with 1.11 and charges without a problem with 1.12.
Are you sure the issue started exactly with the update to 1.11, or could it be coincidence and some careful (!) cleaning of debris from the port and/or trying a different cable or charger could perhaps help?
Sorry, poor wording. I didn’t mean that the problem started because of the update to 1.11. It started for no apparent reason a few weeks after the update. I have used multiple cables and chargers, same problem. I have also just cleaned the port, but no luck. Thanks for the tips though!
It seems like a software issue to me because the battery settings indicate “Charging slowly”, but I may be wrong.
I am not sure if I should butt in here or not. My Fairphone 3 goes into slow charge about once a month. If it is at night I just ignore it. If I power down and restart it will charge normally…(with in 90 minutes or so).
Is this slow charge something that is planned for battery life or a glitch??
I have had this phone for almost 3 years and it has done this from the begining.
If you know your setup can charge quickly or at least normally, you can try to simply disconnect and reconnect until it does so.
At least that helps me when the phone’s and charger’s negotiation over the cable results in them deciding to charge slowly. I reliably get them to decide otherwise just by trying long enough.
(I’m using magnetic adapters, so some degree of additional complication with charging is to be expected. But in return I don’t get dirt in the port and the port doesn’t get strained and perhaps broken by plugging and unplugging all the time.)
Furthermore I experience that charging slowly can mean anything from “almost not charging at all” to “almost charging normally, but not quite” … which of course doesn’t help me at the start of the charge deciding to just accept it or not, because I can’t know what it will be this time.
I agree with @AnotherElk .
When I see “slow charging” on the display of my FP3, then I know that there is poor contact during charging. In my case the USB connection with the charger.
Brisk movement back and forth (a form of cleaning?) solves the loading problem.
Huib
Thanks. My Lenovo Tab 8 showed that it went into slow charging tonight also, different cable and charger. Could it be that Android randonly goes into slow charge mode? We all know that how the battery is charged affects it life span and slow charging does not the have determential effects on life span like fast charging…
Hello Paul,
Perhaps you will find some answers on the following website:
I think that e-os have something like adaptive-battery. But not as descriped in the article.
The purpose of adaptive-battery is to to manage apps, not regulate charging. Some phones do have an adaptive (or smart) charging feature, separate from Adaptive Battery, which can slow charging to prevent battery aging.
Huib
