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It will charge through my ps4 when its on but not through a wall charger.
It will but if your charger produces to much power it won’t work use something that charges ur phone very slowly and use that on ur ps4 controller
The PS3 controller won’t charge through a wall charger. However, you should be able to charge using a standard iPhone or Android charger for a PS4 controller. Have you tried different cables, and chargers? You should see a slow pulsating yellow light with a wall charger.
I don’t know because mine works with a wall charger. So maybe its just a bad cord or a bad outlet but its works for mine perfectly and its great!… my ps4 is really far from where is sit to play but I’m right next to an outlet and it helps alot!
I have the same problem! I just bought this controller 2 days ago, it charges when plugged into my PS4, but won’t charge with an outlet, and I’m using the same exact cord. Use it on wall, doesn’t work, plug it directly into the the PS4, it’s charging. With that said, it’s not my outlet, or box. Because my phone and tablet charge great with the outlet box, and cord I have..?
Could be the charger. Without much information, did you try another charger? A different USB cable? My controllers charges fine on my Nintendo Switch port and my phone charger. I’m thinking your controller is fine simply because it is charging with the PS4… Update (01/13/2020) So I ran a couple of tests with two of my older Samsung charger bricks (one from my old S4 and the other from my Note 10.1 (2012 version). Input is .34A and output is 2A on both. Both chargers charged both of my controllers with no issue. I also ran my rapids charger from my S7 (.5A input and 1.67/2A output) and it charged them fine. Now I also put them on my portable battery packs of 1000mA. No issue. Take it as you will, but I had little issue charging my controllers.
Everybody that sees this get a controller charging station it fixes the problems.
Mine wont charge anywhere and I’ve had this issue with 8 controllers! Ive changed the outlet the cable the length of cable. Now I have a 400 dollar brick that I cant play because my controllers wont charge. Doesn’t matter if the controller is new and old. Thought it was my ps4 so I got the ps4pro same problem.
Just got a ps4 and controller brand new. Could get the controller to charge anywhere either. Plugged into the console or wall was a no go. Oddly what ended up working and is still the only way it will charge is when I plug it into my xbox one.
You have to use a power brick that outputs 0.7 A or 700 mA. Note: a standard brick like one for iPhone will output 1 A and hence will not work
Mine doesn’t charge when I plug it into the wall and when i plug it into my ps4 it goes between charging and not charging constantly - even if i angle the cord and leave it there. But if i plug it into my bfs ps4 it charges no problem. This makes me think it’s my literal ps4 but idk if I should buy a replacement charger port or a new controller. I don’t want to waste money so I haven’t done anything yet. If it is my ps4 I just want to wait for the ps5 and get that
Make sure you are using a 1 amp charger. I tried charging my controller with both a 2.4 amp as well as a 1 amp charging brick, and it only charged with the 1a option. I hope this solves your problem.
I have buy PS4 controller today for playing on iPad. I have must search old USB charger bricks and tested it. Original iPad 2.4A, iPhone 1A, electronic cigar 0,3A bricks not worked. Xperia P 1,5A and HTC Diamond 2 1A bricks worked fine.
So I had the same problem and I got it solved. I used charger with output 5v , 1a(1000 ma) and the controller didn’t charge. But I tried with a 5v, 800 ma charger and it works. Please try to see the infos of your new charger in the surface of it and determine if it is compatible.
I had the same problem and some dude on here said that if too much power is going out then it will not charge, so I got a few different adapters and choose the one with the least output 5v=750mA and it worked! I’ve been struggling for a while now and it was just that simple.
I just found out that the controller can only handle 8W so any charger above that will not charge the controller, so I went and a naught a standard android 8W cable and it worked perfectly fine on my wall outlet… Hope this was helpful
Press the PS button to be sure it’s not charging but the orange light isn’t flashing. I thought I had the same problem but it turned out the controller was charging, but not flashing like it did when I docked it to the system.
The PS4 controller takes in 5V 0.8A. The USB port on the PS4 is 5V 0.9A which is ok for the controller. I use a 5V 0.55A charger (for an old folding cellphone) and it charges correctly the controller. I tried twice to charge the PS4 controller with an iPhone white block wall to USB charger, which is 5V 1A, and both times I had troubles. I read here and there that the controller of some people are fine with 5V 1A and even 5V 2.4A chargers, lucky them. It happens that my controller does not seem to like higher amp than 0.9A. So, for my controller it seems that a 5V charger between 0.55A and 0.9A is what it likes. If your controller is as capricious, then you should go for a charger between 0.55A and 0.9A and the iPhone 5V 1A charger will not work. I hope this helps. In the end, I am still very intrigued by the fact that some people are fine with >0.9A while mine is not fine with >0.9A. In any case, this is very confusing.
if you have a old wall outlet it will not charg
If you have a laptop it should work
So, I used two of my apple wall adapters and they didn’t work maybe because of the output amps. Once I used my Samsung 2A charger, it worked! Hopefully this helps
Dunno if anybody has gotten a definitive answer here, but I feel my two sense will put some perspective on this. Someone mentioned the Amps that their power bricks put out and I would believe that would be the crux of the issue. I would definitely do a quick chord swap just to double check, but my Netgear multi-usb charger is rated for 2.4a output on both ports and that doesn’t work. I plugged in my old amazon basic charger that is rated at 1a of output and there is no issues at all. A quick way to test if your cord is bunk is by trying it on your PC’s / PS4 usb ports first and seeing if that works. If it does than I would guess it’d be the box that is the issue. Try just using a lower amperage box in general and that might just do the trick because it did for me.
In my case, there was no light on dual shock. It was dead. So I unscrew the back 4 little screws and found the issue… the reset button is a little plastic piece that hits the board of the control. It was tilted down so everytime, it was touching the board so it was like in reset mode all time. This made it not to charge and appeart to be dead. I just tilted it upward carefully and the control started acting normal. I gues someone just hitted really bad on the reset hole that it bended the button down permanently. This is how I fixed mine and I hope it helps you if nothing else have worked so far.
It works
the charger for a normal USB has less wires a PS4. you can play a and charge at the same time
