{"id":284594,"date":"2026-07-01T15:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T19:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/01\/i-found-out-my-android-was-throttling-my-fast-charger-until-i-flipped-one-setting\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T15:50:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T19:50:08","slug":"i-found-out-my-android-was-throttling-my-fast-charger-until-i-flipped-one-setting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/01\/i-found-out-my-android-was-throttling-my-fast-charger-until-i-flipped-one-setting\/","title":{"rendered":"I found out my Android was throttling my fast charger until I flipped one setting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.makeuseof.com\/found-out-android-throttling-fast-charger-until-flipped-one-setting\/\">I found out my Android was throttling my fast charger until I flipped one setting<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.makeuseof.com\/found-out-android-throttling-fast-charger-until-flipped-one-setting\/\">https:\/\/www.makeuseof.com\/found-out-android-throttling-fast-charger-until-flipped-one-setting\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-07-01 15:30:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.makeuseof.com\">www.makeuseof.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A faster charger should mean faster charging. But my Galaxy S25 Ultra charged at the same pace whether I used a standard adapter or one rated for three times the wattage. For weeks, I assumed I had a bad cable or a defective brick. The phone was pulling the same low wattage no matter what I plugged in. Turns out, one setting in the battery menu controls how much power the phone will accept.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"the-charger-wasn-39-t-the-problem\">\n                        The charger wasn&#8217;t the problem<br \/>\n               <\/h2>\n<h3 id=\"your-phone-decides-how-fast-it-charges\">\n            Your phone decides how fast it charges<br \/>\n    <\/h3>\n<p>        Digvijay Kumar \/ MakeUseOf<\/p>\n<p> When a faster adapter makes zero difference to your charging time, something else is deciding how much power your phone takes in. The same thing happened with my S25 Ultra. A 25W adapter that came with my older Samsung and a 45W charger I later upgraded to gave me nearly identical results \u2014 close to three hours for a full charge on both. I swapped cables, cleaned the port, and even tested with a different adapter. Same result every time.<\/p>\n<p>  &#8230;<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.makeuseof.com\/found-out-android-throttling-fast-charger-until-flipped-one-setting\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I found out my Android was throttling my fast charger until I flipped one setting&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":284595,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/static0.makeuseofimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/wm\/2026\/05\/a-phone-fast-charging-2.jpg?w=1600&h=900&fit=crop","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[86],"class_list":["post-284594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-android","tag-samsung"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284594"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=284594"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":284596,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284594\/revisions\/284596"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/284595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}