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Samsung Galaxy A36 5G Charging Test: Disappointing 45W Fast Charging
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May 11, 2025
Samsung advertises the Galaxy A36 5G as having 45W fast charging - the first time that standard is coming to A-series devices. But my charging tests produced disappointing results. #samsunga36 #samsunggalaxya36 #samsunggalaxya365g #45w #fastcharging #chargingtest
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[Music]
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hello this is Mr Mobility I have the
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Samsung Galaxy A365G here This is a
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budget Android smartphone that Samsung
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lists with 5,000 mAh battery and 45 watt
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fast charging This is the first time
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that Samsung is bringing 45 watt
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charging to the Galaxy A series 45 watt
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charging was formerly the preserve of
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the S series As a matter of fact the
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Galaxy S25 which is a premium flagship
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has 25 watt charging I don't know
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exactly what game Samsung is playing
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with charging but that just doesn't make
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sense The A36 and the A56 both have 45
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watt charging Now Samsung does not ship
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a charger with these things
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anymore So you have to get a charger
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that is compatible to get the fastest
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charging speeds out of these things Now
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what I did to solve the problem I went
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to a Samsung
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store and purchased for myself the
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highest specified fast charger from
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Samsung This is the
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T4510 EP
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T4510 45 watt power
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delivery adapter The cable is a 5 ampere
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cable You need a 5 ampere cable to get
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the fastest charging speeds out of this
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phone So I made sure that I got the
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specified charger the specified cable so
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that I
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could max this out and see what came out
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of it I had had not so spectacular
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experiences with the Samsung Galaxy A06
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and with the Galaxy A65G and I wanted to
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see how this would play out with the
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Galaxy
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A36 Here is the
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charger official Samsung 45 watt charger
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This is the 5 ampere cable It's a 1.8 m
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cable It's a very long cable I love long
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cables because sometimes you're not
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sitting that close to the socket or to
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the power
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source So
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compatible adapter compatible
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cable 45
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watt So says Samsung How did it go i
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drained the battery up to 9%
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I didn't want to empty It's not healthy
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to empty the battery of your phone
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completely So I drained the battery down
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to just 9% And I started charging it
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When I started charging it the phone
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indicated to me that I had 1 hour 2
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minutes to full charge If my experience
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with other Samsung phones was anything
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to go about I knew that it would not
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keep to that time it will go beyond that
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time because with the Galaxy A6 with the
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Galaxy A16 5G it went beyond the time it
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originally gave me Anyway 1 hour 2
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minutes later and the Galaxy A36 was at
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90% Take note I didn't even start from
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zero I started from 9% 1 hour 2 minutes
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later when it was supposed to have a
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full battery it was at 90% It took a
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whole 1 hour 29 minutes for this to get
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to
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100 It took 1 hour 29 minutes to get to
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100 from 9% So I can imagine that from
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zero it would do a little bit more than
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that Let's say 1 hour 40 minutes Is that
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really 45 45 watts charging i have
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another phone here from another
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manufacturer that has 45 watt
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charging and I get a full battery in
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about 1 hour 5 1 hour 10 minutes So
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Samsung is still lagging behind when it
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comes to fast charging technology Even
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when they
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specify a a standard and a time it
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doesn't match up with what the
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competition out there is doing I I don't
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understand why Samsung seems unable to
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get fast charging right They offer some
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of the slowest fast charging speeds in
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the industry I mean you have brands like
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OnePlus Xiaomi who are offering up to
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120 watt fast charging already The
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highest rated or highest specified
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Samsung fast charging phone has only 45
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watts But that 45 watts doesn't even
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seem to live up to what 45 watt does on
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other devices from the competition
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So that's the situation we have here
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with Samsung Have you tried out fast
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charging on
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this again as you have seen I used an
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official Samsung charger So I had used
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third party chargers rated 45 watts and
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didn't get you know the specified
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results And now I have used the official
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Samsung charger and
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cable I got the cable right I got the
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adapter right and still did not get the
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speed that I am getting from a device
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from one of Samsung's
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competitors What's going on Samsung this
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This is not nice It's interesting that
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Apple Samsung and Google are three of
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the big guys who offer experiences like
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this They are stuck with Yes because
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they using power delivery
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and probably for optimization
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purposes The they seem stuck on slower
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standards 25 watts
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20 45 and that that 45 is only just a
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recent thing But even at that we're
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still not getting the the proper speeds
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that we should be getting Everybody else
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has moved ahead with fast charging And
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don't let me don't get me started
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talking about Google Pixel I really do
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not understand what Google is doing with
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Pixel phones Uh you plug it into charge
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it starts overheating you start
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recording videos taking a lot of
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pictures the phone overheats and then
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puts a notice you know on the screen
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saying that it's going to disable
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certain features or switch off uh
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because of the temperature
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So these three guys Apple Samsung and
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Google what are you guys doing anyway
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this is the result of the Samsung
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A365G charging test 45 W fast charging
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but it still just drops the ball Samsung
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just manages to drop the ball once again
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But I take fast charging over no fast
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charging I just do not like what almost
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seems like what almost appears to be
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deceptive marketing
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Perhaps Samsung should just have said
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this guy has 25 watt
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charging And perhaps if they had said
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that it wouldn't have charged at 25 watt
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speed either because the Samsung Galaxy
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A165G is specified with 25 watts It
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doesn't charge at 25 watt speed The AO6
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is specified with 25 watts It doesn't
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charge at 25 watt speed What are we
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going to do about this
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anyway those are the results I got
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