Charging does not work properly

Help Fairphone 1
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Sorry, didn’t see your reply before. I have no Ultrabook and used a USB hub with dedicated power supply.

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In my case, after rebooting the phone, it jumps up! Yesterday it took a long time (about 45 min) to get from 2% to 11%. I turned the phone off during night. Today, I plugged it in without booting it. The loading-screen showed 11%. After booting, it went up to 50%!
I don’t know if there’s a relation to the fact, that the phone discharges in flightmode about 6% per hour since a few weeks… Some issue in the charge/discharge module?

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This is so weird! I hope we will have different experiences with the next software update (1.8)… In the meanwhile check out this post. @therob also reported differences between loading screen and notification bar. Your issue also seems to be related to software.

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I have the same issue:

  • Charging (sometimes) works and sometimes doesn’t.
  • This happens with the same cable
  • This happens with wall charger or charging from computer usb port
  • Rebooting (usually) seems to fix it.

It happened v occasionally before 1.6 upgrade and much more since - now, possibly, about 20% of the time. Seems to be worse when I travel, so it could be something about going in/out of coverage and/or aeroplane mode.

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Hello together

I’ve the same problem since the last update!

  • Sometime it’s charing my fairphone, sometimes not.
  • Sometimes it’s working when I reconnect the usb-cable. But only sometimes. The cable still working. I tried it with my harddisk!
  • Very often falling the charging % completely down in a min or sec.

Please fixing this problem. With that is my fair phone not really usable…

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I’ll also refer you to the following topic, to have some more information about the problem:

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Hello everyone,

I face the same problem as described above and identified the reason without having a real solution.

At the beginning, I had an old 2GB SD Card and all was right. This card died and I purchased a new one : a 32GB SDHC one.

Since this change, I face the problem described in this thread. By charging on a 220V plug, no problem. While charging on a USB port (on my laptop or in my car), sometimes charging doesn’t succeed.

When is happens, the solution consist in :

  • stop the phone
  • remove the sdcard and reinsert it.
  • restart the phone

It happens sometimes without any identified reason. When I face this problem, the other symptom is that I can’t mount my sdcard on a computer to read or write data. The computer tries to mount it without success.

If someone has a real solution to this problem, I would be glad to read it

Cyrille

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I am checkling out this thread, as this morning, despite being on charge overnight, the phone had only reached 60%, and dropped quickly. I have just tried rebooting the phone, so let’s see. It seems to have gained 1%, but this seems quite a large problem so early into owning this phone…

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My phone is now charging, but someone on Twitter indicated that if having to reboot the phone for such things, the Firmware needs looking at…

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Did you charge it in a USB port or with a one-piece USB charger (similar to this)?

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USB Port not an all in one. Rebooted the phone and seems to be working better… Thx

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To everyone: Could you please tell us, which SD card you are using? @Cyrille_Vivion suggests that the charging issues could be related to her 32GB SDHC card. See here.

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It’s an Micro SDHC one 32GB Class 10 UHS 1 without any trademark. I bought it in a Boulanger shop in France, this card is referenced here: http://www.boulanger.fr/memoire_essentielb_sdhc_32go_classe_10_u/p_16482_641700.htm.

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I use none. But apart from that one problem after plugging the phone into my USB hub, I haven’t had the problem since, not that I’m aware of.

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I also have this issue. Phone won’t charge even though it’s plugged into charger. Restart works. I also have an SD card in the phone.

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@aaronb Which type of SD card (is it SDHC, SDXD, etc?) / how many GB can you store on it?

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Sandisc 16gb SDHC. I’ll see if the issue occurs without the card.

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So, to sum up… there is no hardware or software solution to this problem?

My cable did not change, it’s quite new; I don’t use a SD card; all of a sudden it stops charging; it charges very slowly after reading all the forums and restarting only, luckily, but must we accept this inconvenient truth?

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Consider writing to Support. Your issue might be a hardware failure. In this case the community can’t help you any further.

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Hallo.
My girlfriend has the charging Problem, too.
The Fairphone shows the charging Symbol, but the FP1 didn’t charge.
Software version is 1.8
In the Phone is a “SanDisk Ultra Class 10 Micro SDXC 64GB” Card

Tuffi