My daughters SIII mini has *possibly* been slow charging for a while but not sure. So disregard this remark unless it makes sense to you.
Today it wouldn't turn ON, so I let her charge it. There is NO indication on the phone that it charges, but my ampere-meter (random link to similar 'amperemeter') showed 0.25A chargingcurrent. Once this dropped to 0.00A I tried turning it on, but there is NO reaction. No vibration, no sound, no backgroundlight or any other life in the display. I tried recovery mode (volume-up+power+home buttons), but no reaction.
I tried the S3mini battery in my S4 and it starts my S4 just fine, showing full charge. I even put it on the charger, but 100% is 100% so I saw no sense in leaving it there for more than a few minutes.
Putting it back in the S3 didn't work, removing the SD and SIM card didn't work, leaving the battery out for an hour didn't work.
Should I go open it up? It's probably not the ON button as that plays (imho) no role in showing charging-level while off (charging is something it does seem to do, but does not show on the display).
I once read that charging is governed by the software in Android, is there some truth to this? And if so can you draw conclusions that there is still something working/running inside?
The reason for putting my question on here is that I read about 50 threads on the subject and 45 of them claim it "won't start" or "does nothing" but then turn out to do a lot more than ours.
Today it wouldn't turn ON, so I let her charge it. There is NO indication on the phone that it charges, but my ampere-meter (random link to similar 'amperemeter') showed 0.25A chargingcurrent. Once this dropped to 0.00A I tried turning it on, but there is NO reaction. No vibration, no sound, no backgroundlight or any other life in the display. I tried recovery mode (volume-up+power+home buttons), but no reaction.
I tried the S3mini battery in my S4 and it starts my S4 just fine, showing full charge. I even put it on the charger, but 100% is 100% so I saw no sense in leaving it there for more than a few minutes.
Putting it back in the S3 didn't work, removing the SD and SIM card didn't work, leaving the battery out for an hour didn't work.
Should I go open it up? It's probably not the ON button as that plays (imho) no role in showing charging-level while off (charging is something it does seem to do, but does not show on the display).
I once read that charging is governed by the software in Android, is there some truth to this? And if so can you draw conclusions that there is still something working/running inside?
The reason for putting my question on here is that I read about 50 threads on the subject and 45 of them claim it "won't start" or "does nothing" but then turn out to do a lot more than ours.
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