Official Chit-Chat Thread

[OakleyFrankFMJ]

It's the amperage - all of them charge at 5V but higher amps charge faster. The "wall wart" with the S5 pushes at 2A (older phone wall warts were usually 1A). The USB port on the PC puts out 0.5A; your car charger is likely the same.

There's no reason the S5 cable (USB 3.0) would charge faster than a standard USB 2.0 cable with the same wall wart - none of the additional pins in 3.0 are for power. Unless samsung is retasking some of the 3.0 pins as a secondary power channel when used with their wallwart, but from the receiving end in the phone, seems like that would conflict with the USB 3.0 data functionality, IDK.

Just took 3 full hours to charge my 6+ from dead to 100%.
It will surely be dead by 8 or 9 am tomorrow at the latest I believe.

 

[kronin323]

Just took 3 full hours to charge my 6+ from dead to 100%.
It will surely be dead by 8 or 9 am tomorrow at the latest I believe.

That does seem like a long time.

 

[QLR1]

After getting peeved by the Eyeshade being marked down by HALF, not even after 30 days of my purchase, I HAD to call CS to get some sort of concession. Called them up, they verified the prices, and boom, $92 going back to my card. Yay!

 

[OakleyFrankFMJ]

After getting peeved by the Eyeshade being marked down by HALF, not even after 30 days of my purchase, I HAD to call CS to get some sort of concession. Called them up, they verified the prices, and boom, $92 going back to my card. Yay!

See? And you freaked out first.

 

[QLR1]

See? And you freaked out first.

I wouldn't even care most of the time, but $85 is not a trivial amount of money... At least I didn't freak out on the CSR.

when the deal was posted in the forum, I couldn't believe it.

 

[Litos]

so, i was in a small earthquake today...

that makes 2 for this Texan

5.3 magnitude earthquake near Piedecuesta, Santander, Colombia and Cúcuta, Norte de Santander, Colombia : November 25, 2014 20:20

5.3 magnitude earthquake 22 km from Piedecuesta, Santander, Colombia
about 2 hours ago
UTC time: Tuesday, November 25, 2014 20:20 PM
Your time:Tuesday, November 25 2014 3:20 PM
No tsunami statement issued
Magnitude Type: mb
USGS page:M 5.3 - 8km WNW of San Andres, Colombia
USGS status: Reviewed by a seismologist
Reports from the public: 80 people

 

[kronin323]

so, i was in a small earthquake today...

that makes 2 for this Texan

5.3 magnitude earthquake near Piedecuesta, Santander, Colombia and Cúcuta, Norte de Santander, Colombia : November 25, 2014 20:20

5.3 magnitude earthquake 22 km from Piedecuesta, Santander, Colombia
about 2 hours ago
UTC time: Tuesday, November 25, 2014 20:20 PM
Your time:Tuesday, November 25 2014 3:20 PM
No tsunami statement issued
Magnitude Type: mb
USGS page:M 5.3 - 8km WNW of San Andres, Colombia
USGS status: Reviewed by a seismologist
Reports from the public: 80 people

How are your pants?

 

[OakleyFrankFMJ]

That does seem like a long time.

7 hours later now after pulling this off the charger at 1pm and it's now gonna be 8 pm and at 50%.

 

[kronin323]

7 hours later now after pulling this off the charger at 1pm and it's now gonna be 8 pm and at 50%.

Sounds like you either have a battery problem or some service(s) running that's taking a lot of juice. I don't really know how to troubleshoot iOS.

 

[OakleyFrankFMJ]

Sounds like you either have a battery problem or some service(s) running that's taking a lot of juice. I don't really know how to troubleshoot iOS.

I just use my phone caaaaraaaaazy a lot.