One of the reasons while people opt-in for fast chargers is simply to have their smartphone battery charged full within a short space due to the fact that this country Nigeria, electricity power supply (NEPA) isn’t stable or guaranteed, some areas don’t even enjoy light upto 2 hours daily, so if your phone charges slow after you’ve exhausted available fast chargers in town, it is a thing of concern that requires urgency. Here on this post we’ll first look at possible reasons why fast charger, charges your device slow before providing solutions.
Why is my phone slow charging with a fast charger?
The issue of slow charging when using sophisticated chargers is common, this fault can affect both iPhones and Android devices even down to smaller Chinese phones, while many people panic here are possible causes:
- Dirty: As little as dirty on the surface or mouth of your charging port can prevent your phone from charging quick. Basically, charging pins are designed in such a way that it must be connected properly, transmitting current at least 5.0 volt. So what dirt does, is to reduce the inflow of volts to either 4volts or 3volts.
- Water and spite: Smartphones are mobile which could be taken along to anywhere especially at night when you took it alongside with you to the bathroom to use the flashlight, a little splash of water may enter through the charging port which can hinders it from charging fast. Infact, some users are the major cause because they use their mouth to test chargers first to see if there’s inflow of current before plugging which absorbs spite and saliva.
- Charging port or cab: Most Smartphones are now built with a small panel located at the bottom which carries the charging items as such ICs, charge-port, mouthpiece, earphone etcetera. So when this cab goes weak even when the charging port is replaced, charging still becomes extremely slow with fast chargers.
- Cable or USB: The challenge here may likely be from the USB cable no longer supporting your device or has worn out from excessive sharing charger with your friends and family. Additionally, there’s every tendencies your charger head is slightly too old or has gone bad as well, this could cause your charging become slow.
- Charging IC weak: In rare cases charging Integrated Circuits ICs must’ve gone weak because of low or high volt transmission from the power source not the chargers. These ICs are there for resistance purposes preventing your device from burnt and as well responsible for increment in your battery percentage as you charge.
What are the possible solutions to this fault?
First, keep calm because this fault is fixable. Although, it is frustrating to plug your phone with a fast charger expecting to see fully charged, only to find out the phone haven’t crossed 20% for hours. So here are those things you can do:
- Get a toothbrush or pick from the ones you’ve abandoned and deep it inside petrol fuel and attempt brushing the charging mouth to take out every possible dirts then plug in your charger again and see if the fault is gone.
- Change your USB cable or even test another fast charger. You could borrow first from a friend so as to detect which has developed fault before heading out to purchase yours if it’s either the charger head or the USB cable or even the entire charger needs replacement.
- Charging port or cab needs replacement: In this case you simply need to see a phone repairer to help you replace them as sometimes even after replacement of charging port/cab will still end up not charging as expected. Now it is the job of the phone repairer to check the Integrated Circuits (ICs) if it’s bad as well.
- Swollen or less battery health life can contribute towards your phone charging extremely slow, but this happens in rare cases so check if your battery is intact and in perfect condition, for iPhone users you can check from the settings battery life, while android users should observe if battery if swollen by touching the back-case.
Final thoughts
Phone charging slow with a fast charger is a norms that could be fixed by you the user or take to see a repairer. Basically, this repairs cost less and definitely will not affect or stop other things from working after fix.
FAQs
Why is my phone charging slowly even with the right charger?
Right charger most times does not equate fast charging, especially when something is wrong with the device or the charger itself. So if your phone charges really slowly, check (The charger output volts, USB, charging port for dirt).
Why is my phone charging so slow and dying fast?
This happens when certain apps are running in background thus draining the battery quick and of course make the charging to become slow because they’re consuming excess power. Also, the charger you use can contribute towards your phone charging slow and draining fast especially when it gives less voltage output.