Do I need to by a new battery for my SGS?

AlexTrickle · 16 Apr 2011 at 20:46

I got an unusual message today from my Galaxy S:

It was charging in my car and came up with the message:

"Charging has stopped because the battery is either too hot or too cold"

(might not be word for word but were words to that effect)

I held the phone and it did feel rather toasty on the back, like same kind of hotness you have with a laptop on your lap...

Should I replace the battery?

mame · 16 Apr 2011 at 21:54

Is it an official car-charger or a market-stall/ebay £1.99 car charger?

AlexTrickle · 17 Apr 2011 at 10:26

mame said:
Is it an official car-charger or a market-stall/ebay £1.99 car charger?

Well I have a transformer (was about ~£50) that provides a mains socket and rated to ~250W I think. Then have the standard official Samsung mains charger plugged into that. The transformer has seemed to get rather loud recently - so could well be that.

I should add I've had the transformer about a year and has worked flawlessly (until potentially now) charging my SGS, laptop and other things.

GeX · 17 Apr 2011 at 14:18

I wouldn't run a mains charger off an invertor. An invertor doesn't put out the same kind of signal (it outputs a modified sine wave) as mains voltage, and this can upset chargers (friend of mines charger caught fire when run like that).

What was the phone doing when the battery overheated? I used to use my Hero as a wireless access point for prolonged periods, and with it on charge and in use it got very hot. It would cause the power light to flash at me, and it wouldn't charge.

I wouldn't say you need a new battery, but i'd invest a proper car charger for it.

Jimbeam3678 · 17 Apr 2011 at 15:10

I've had that message when streaming Iplayer and charging at the same time for a while. just means the battery is getting hot so its cut off to protect it

Hen_Dawg · 17 Apr 2011 at 15:34

I got a second offical SGS battery for £2.99 so no harm in just getting a second one anyway.

AlexTrickle · 17 Apr 2011 at 16:40

GeX said:
I wouldn't run a mains charger off an invertor. An invertor doesn't put out the same kind of signal (it outputs a modified sine wave) as mains voltage, and this can upset chargers (friend of mines charger caught fire when run like that).

What was the phone doing when the battery overheated? I used to use my Hero as a wireless access point for prolonged periods, and with it on charge and in use it got very hot. It would cause the power light to flash at me, and it wouldn't charge.

I wouldn't say you need a new battery, but i'd invest a proper car charger for it.

It was doing a fair bit to be fair - running the music player connected to aux socket of my car and running google navigation for my sat nav.

Also if only £2.99 might get a second battery anyway and I'll look at an official car charger.