I don’t know if this is exclusively an iPhone thing or not, but every smart phone I’ve had takes a ridiculous amount of time to charge to the point of powering up after it dies. Anyone know why?
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Well for one, lithium batteries can’t charge as fast when they are super low. It’s just a quirk of the battery chemistry. Below 10% and above 90% (ish) they need to charge slower.
The other part is that your phone will wait till you get at least a couple percent so that it doesn’t just die halfway through, or immediately after booting up.
Even when it’s plugged in to an adapter if the adapter is, say, just plugged into an old 100mA USB port it’s entirety possible that your phone is using more power than the charger can supply and is still draining battery.
Most phones will also save a bit of reserve below 0% where it has enough power to safety show you a quick low battery image before blinking off several times. Then below that it will just not respond to the power button press, but this can make people think the phone is bricked when they might just have a bad charger.
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