Hi,
Sorry not sure if I've put this in the right place or not - phone not computer...but wasn't sure where to put it.

Is anybody having issues charging a Samsung Galaxy S3? I've had a look around online but not found many comments/issues yet, presumably because its new.

I'm not sure if its just because its new but the charging is not at all consistent. The battery life seems ok but both last night and this morning I couldn't even get it to raise its charge at all, just stuck at 4% (wasn't intentional to let it drop this low). I tried a different charger, same thing but then suddenly a couple of hours later it decided it would work and is now charging fine I've switched it off again to give it a steady full charge but not looking forward to testing it when out and about in case I get the same issue.

Has anybody else had a similar issue?
dta

Yes here too.. not sure what the issue is... with the travel charger plugged in the phone charges for a few moments then stops and starts again over and over.. took 9 hours to get 40% charge.. when i plugged into laptop it seemed to charge ok.. Maybe just a bad batch pf travel chargers?

Either way samsung want to have the phone sent back for 3 weeks to test and fix the problem.. three weeks! as always samsung great customer service right

I am too having a similar problem. Bought S3 a week back and charging at times does not happens properly. It stays at same charging percentage for hours.

I have tried official charger, different charger, charging from USB.

It sometimes works, sometime not. It is very strange.

Frankie Fazer said:

Yes here too.. not sure what the issue is... with the travel charger plugged in the phone charges for a few moments then stops and starts again over and over.. took 9 hours to get 40% charge.. when i plugged into laptop it seemed to charge ok.. Maybe just a bad batch pf travel chargers?

Either way samsung want to have the phone sent back for 3 weeks to test and fix the problem.. three weeks! as always samsung great customer service right

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Glad it's not just me but three weeks?! not a plan I'm up for trying since I was waiting 4 weeks for the phone...

I've noticed it sometimes kick starts charging by turning the phone off for a bit first then it'll keep going, but takes quite a long time...not really practical.

I'll keep looking around online, sure more will be posted as it's used more but not found anything helpful yet


p.s. on a happier note...I am actually loving the phone itself though apart from the issue...