Average charging time for 5c? Is mine too fast?

This should be a good thing but.. its kinda weird and i think that is the reason why my battery depletes fast. I dont even have data plan so its turneed off i only use wifi. So my battery should last a long time. But anyway, about the chargine, it gets up to 10% in about 15-30 minutes (not sure about how many minutes i will time it next time for accurate numbers)


And battery depletes 10% on few minutes of use.


Whats your average charging time?

Posted on Mar 13, 2015 7:31 AM

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Mar 13, 2015 7:38 AM in response to sanic420

The battery cannot be charged "too fast". The speed depends on whether or not you are charging by USB cable or via the adaptor and the speed of your USB cable. The speed at which your battery charges has no effect on how fast it is used.


Battery percentage can go down quickly depending on what you are doing on the device at any give time. Games use up a lot of battery power. So does taking videos. You can check your battery usage by going to Settings>Usage>Battery Usage. That will show you what is using your battery, what your Usage and Standby times are.


Cheers,


GB

Mar 13, 2015 8:03 AM in response to gail from maine

the speed of your USB cable.

The speed of the USB cable has no bearing on the charge rate. The charge rate is dependent on the power source. Sources that provide more current (they all provide 5 volts) will allow the device to charge faster. The amount of current the device will use to charge is limited by the device. If the device will take 2 amperes and the charger provides 4 amperes, the device will still only use a maximum of 2 amperes. If the charger provides 1 ampere the device will use only one ampere to charge and will thus take twice as long to charge as the charger that provided 4 amperes.


USB ports have a maximum current of 0.5 amperes. A wall charger, such as used for an iPad will provide 2.1 amperes, an iPhone charger will provide just 1 ampere, third party chargers may provide more current. You should be able to charger an iPhone using an iPad charger at almost twice the rate of using the iPhone charger depending on the current limits within the phone.


However, the speed of the cable is irrelevant. When you provide power (voltage and current) there is no such thing as speed as there is no data involved.

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