Has anyone seen a disassembled S7 Edge and can report the exact target point for wireless charging. With my case, getting wireless charging to activate is a little hit or miss. I'm putting together a car cradle with wireless charging, and knowing the ideal spot to center the charging coil would be helpful.
This could possibly help
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I set mine down with the charging puck (round) dead center in the back. Works fine for me.
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I've been using wireless charging at home and work for over a month and love it. But it stopped working a few days ago, and the device no longer detected when placed on a wireless charger. Then it worked sporadically for a day, and now it's dead again. Any suggestions or diagnostics I can run to figure out if it is a hardware or software issue? TIA
Sorry to ask ... but it could be the charger itself ?
I have a cheapo charger and it can act up sometimes. Luckily, it has a LED ... if the light stays on after I remove the phone then I
will need to reset the charger (or it won't charge the phone next time).
I don't think it is the chargers, since the phone started failing on both at the same time and the Nexus 7 still charges fine on the one I have at home. I wonder if there is a software setting to turn wireless charging on/off or something?
I think that the problem may have been static for some reason. I have found that rubbing the back of the phone with a cloth (my shirt) before putting it on the wireless charger gets it to work. This holds true with or without bumper case on the phone, and works for my home and office chargers. Strange.
I bought a QI wireless charging adapter from Ebay and installed it in my s4. I used Nokia QI wireless charging pad. However, I found my the charging was intermittent after like 5min of continuous charging and that was when the Nokia pad & my s4 both got very warm.. The phenomenon was: the screen kept coming on every 5seconds like the phone was disconnected from the power source and reconncted.
I found that, when I put s4 off from the charging pad, let phone cool down, put it back, it would work flawlessly for 5min, again charging intermittently. This bothers me, as apparently the physical charging worked for my s4. Might be the wirless charging issue related to s4 firmware?
Any inputs are welcomed.
Ok so I bought official charging backplate for my Note 4 and my wife's S5 along with two separate Samsung mini charging plates. Last night we installed the cases and place our phones on their own pad. Mine was in the living room and hers in the bedroom. My phone was at about 50% before I popped it on the charging pad. When I placed it on there I got the charging beep on the phone, green light on the pad and a little message that the phone was charging wirelessly. Same with my wife's phone. Woke up this morning and the battery percentage didn't move on either of our phones. My phone is still at 50%ish and she reported her phone didn't charge as well.
What gives? Any suggestions? Both our phone show charging when on the pads and the green light turns on which means it is charging correctly as per the instruction booklet.
Check the specs on that pad and see how much it outputs. I suspect it is not enough for these larger phones. It may just be enough that they don't lose charge. I use the TYLT Vu Wireless Charging pad and it charges up over night on my Note 4 very reliably.
you need a high power usb connection for charging pads and a good pad.
i have a choetech, itian and a few others which work well IF they are connected to a high power usb port otherwise they dont work. some of them will flash leds or the phone will say connect/disconnect continuously. they need to be connected to a usb wall wart or computer socket or car cig lighter port directly. a usb hub or old usb 1.0 port will not do. a low power charger will also not do but that is less likely. chances are youre not supplying it with enough power and/or not aligning correctly.
So last night I made sure that all apps were closed and that the phone was exactly centered on the pad. This morning it was at 100%. It's a 2a charger that came with the pad and since there is about 50% loss with these charger I'm assuming it charges around 1a once it hits the battery. Seems to work now. Thanks!
phone shouldnt be centered on the pad. the coils are offset by around 3/4-1 inch from the center so the phone will be a bit high (or low depending on how you place it). obviously if you have the 3 coil qi charging mat/rectangular plate instead of the 1 coil disks/plates then you can just throw it on in anywhere and it will charge.
OK, so I know this is a bit of a Hail Mary, but...
I have been unable to get it to work. I've tried every position possible, even face down...
Does anyone have a Chevy with wireless charging working? Is there a setting in Chevy's software, or a switch somewhere?
Have you tried another phone on it and seen it work? If not doing that would eliminate the vehicle being the problem. Just a thought
I haven't tried any other phones, but my phone wirelessly charges fine on the Samsung Fast Charge puck and an Anker pad.
I have 2019 Tahoe Premier and the wireless charging is perfecto. I always charge my Note 8 on it. If you connect your phone through bluetooth to chevy Mylink, You can even see in the dashboard the charging status and the %age charge.
Just check that you keep you phone well seated in the space with screen facing up and there is no thick back cover on your phone.
Hope this helps. Let us know either way...
Wireless charging is a cool way for charge, which is more convenient and help you get rid of the bothering cables. But the charging speed is slower than original cable charging.
So how often do you charge you S8+ wirelessly?
Never
Seldom
Sometimes
Often
More often than cable charge
Mostly
I usually use it multiple times a day. It's on my desk at the office so I just drop my phone there.
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I usually use it multiple times a day. It's on my desk at the office so I just drop my phone there.
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Yeah,very convenient to charge in separated time.
I always use my wireless charger when I'm at home. When I'm on the road or staying at a hotel I use cable [emoji5]
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anyone know any good 3rd party wireless chargers? for UK all the amazon ones seem to have issues with the s8+ and are not even designed for the s8+ even though they advertise that it works for the s8+ it's misleading.
I use it everyday!
I've never used the cable to charge it.
I'm about to get the official samsung wireless charger convertible 2017 edition. How long are the charge times compared to the fast charger oem?
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99% of the time while i sleep from around 12am to 5am
usually when i charge i'm at 20%
i rarely use the usb charger. only if i need to quickly get to 100% maybe once a month
Daily using my car charger.
I use it everyday
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Often while in the office.
Mostly wireless charging.
I use it at home but if I'm at work I bring my regular charger.
Only tune I use the cable is in the car. Otherwise, I have a far wireless charger on my nightstand, on my end table in the living room, and on my desk in my office. If I really need a fast charge and don't have time wait, or I want to use my phone while it charges, I'll use my charger from my Pixel XL. I haven't even taken the Samsung charger or cable or of the box. Nor have I removed the ear buds.
Always.
I only need to charge it once a day which is before I go to bed and I just plop it right on my wireless charger. I turned off the fast wireless charging since I don't need it to fast charge overnight (less heat). I gave in and bought the new convertible charger (it finally went on sale for $75 CAD from $130) and it works far better than the older Samsung wireless chargers. The older chargers just didn't seem to work well with the S8 for some reason. I had the charging pad for overnight charging and I'd wake up with a warm phone in the morning. The charging stand I had on my desk and it rarely detected the phone when I placed it on there.
Only once I used and it's slow so cable charging is better for me
cable charging for home. wireless charging for office
We (both my wife and I have S8+ now) both use wireless charging at work and at home, and she has it in her car.
At work I have a Yeesite 3 coil charger that doesn't do fast charging, but sits right next to my desktop pc so is very convenient. I'm not always charging on it but it's super convenient and doesn't interfere with either bluetooth or wifi-hotspot should I be using those.
At home I have an old Choetech wireless charge pad on my nightstand from back when I added a Qi pad to my GS5, doesn't do fast charging but works fine for the overnight recharge. It's a little small at this point and I sometimes don't get the coils lined up, so I may be replacing it with something more appropriate.
I put a Dodocool wireless charger / holder in my wife's car for her, and it supports fast charging (phone declares it's fast charging), and holds the phone just fine. Haven't benchmarked recharge times yet but my wife seems pleased with the setup.
I don't have one of the Dodocool in my car because with the hard wire I get Android Auto integration, with the phone out of the way in a nice little cubby. I have a magnetic cable adapter that has proven reliable, full USB speed, and full charging speed both using a wall-wart and in my car hooked up with the cubby holder I use for my phone that keeps it all safe and secure in the car (even when having a little fun on a back road).
warning, commerical links follow:
Dodocool car mount / wireless charger
https://smile.amazon.com/dodocool-W...Edge+/Note+5/+Nexus+7(2nd+Gen)/5/6+and+Others
WSKEN magnetic cable adapter (sticks out a bit but if you have any kind of case on the phone pretty much matches up nicely)
https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B073SQLWGB/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o08_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1