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Help! My phone's not charging properly.
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Bit expensive for a probable Chinese knock off though.0
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My Moto G4 Play had a 7.1.1 official Android update around August last year that completely trashed the charging of it.0
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greyteam1959 wrote: »My Moto G4 Play had a 7.1.1 official Android update around August last year that completely trashed the charging of it.
Charging a phone is putting electricity from the mains into the battery to charge up, there is no way a software update can change that. There may be other issues such as battery status being falsely reported or something like that but the OS update didn't break your charging.Sam Vimes' Boots Theory of Socioeconomic Unfairness:
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Charging a phone is putting electricity from the mains into the battery to charge up, there is no way a software update can change that. There may be other issues such as battery status being falsely reported or something like that but the OS update didn't break your charging.
You'd be surprised. On laptops many batteries have circuitry in them to control charging and a firmware update can break that. Most modern phones now have the charging rate controlled by hardware which in turn means software is involved in order to prolong battery lifespan.This is a system account and does not represent a real person. To contact the Forum Team email forumteam@moneysavingexpert.com0 -
Charging a phone is putting electricity from the mains into the battery to charge up, there is no way a software update can change that. There may be other issues such as battery status being falsely reported or something like that but the OS update didn't break your charging.
Oh yes it did.......
Try searching on Google & you will see that it is a recognised problem with NO fix.0 -
Charging a phone is putting electricity from the mains into the battery to charge up, there is no way a software update can change that.
Yes it most certainly can. Been there before with an android phone myself. After an awful lot of work I managed to revert back to a previous operating system to resolve the issue.0 -
parking_question_chap wrote: »Yes it most certainly can. Been there before with an android phone myself. After an awful lot of work I managed to revert back to a previous operating system to resolve the issue.
I attempted to do that but it got a bit complicated for me bootloaders & all that.
Had to buy a new phone in the end.0 -
greyteam1959 wrote: »I attempted to do that but it got a bit complicated for me bootloaders & all that.
Had to buy a new phone in the end.
Yes it felt like I needed a doctorate in IT just to follow the instructions. If it happens again I will be buying a new phone, not worth the hassle again.0
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