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Anyone else having a problem with the dock not charging? I have to jiggle it to get the charge light on and then it goes off a few hours later.
I have the similar problem now where it won't charge my Nexus One anymore... Do you send it for warranty claim?
Call HTC on 888-216-4736, they will tell you to purchase a replacement unit and give you an RMA on the old one.
Im having this same issue as well. For something that cost this much....
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Im having this same issue as well. For something that cost this much....
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I had this issue, only once. I first noticed it shortly after my phone took a (not even that far of one) fall to a hard floor. Immediately after that I had all I could do to get it to charge on the dock. Couple hours later I was looking at the back of my phone and noticed the lower dark piece (that says HTC, directly below the lighter colored band where you could have it engraved) had popped out ever so slightly (right where the 2 different colored pieces come together). I put a little pressure on it and it literally snapped back into place (it was BARELY even visible but was clearly the cause of my issue). Soon as I did that my dock was charging my phone flawlessly again (in fact, I was TRYING to get it in the dock and not charge and failed over and over.). YMMV.
I know this was originally an older post, but if this helps you or anyone else then all the better!
Along the same lines gIMpSTa ... I did not get my N1 factory engraved. Instead I printed my own label and stuck it on the engraving panel. This label (.25" x 2") was as thin as a piece of paper. It was enough tilt the N1 forward ever so slightly, messing up proper seating in the cradle and prevent charging. So a trap for young players.
This is a combo heads up and question to those using the same setup if you've experienced the same thing...
Picked up a couple of the Energizer Qi single position inductive chargers off Amazon, and started using them about 2 weeks ago. I can verify that between the surface of the pad, the fact that there's a natural incline to the pad, and the Nexus 4 being slick as snot - you really need to prop something under the front edge of the pad if not using some kind of non skid tape or TPU case.
Not really a big deal, couple small strips of foam later and problem solved. In case it makes a difference, we tend to charge overnight, and are not using cases or bumpers of any kind. Nor are the aforementioned foam strips interfering with the airflow to the heatsink visible on the backside of the pad.
We have noticed some peculiar behavior. One morning my wife goes to grab her phone off her charging pad and notices the blue indicator light is blinking at a fairly fast rate. The phone seemed to be properly aligned, so we picked it up and noticed no noticeable charge from the night before. Thinking maybe it was an alignment issue, we didn't think much of it. Couple days later, it happened again, this time to my Nexus 4 / charger combo. Since then, I have tried interchanging every combination of power supply, charging pad and Nexus 4, and we've still gotten it a few times.
Researched that particular symptom and the few posts I could find that had any info mentioned it seemed to be an overheat/overcurrent situation. I will note that in none of the cases did either Nexus or pad seem to be abnormally warm. All I could find on Energizer site was someone posting in the FAQs and getting the reply to call their 800 number. I did so, and the really nice agent I talked to is sending me shipping labels and boxes to send both units in.
So, anybody else experiencing the same?
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In short yes. But it hasn't interfered with charging to 100%. I notice it when I wake up before the sun does (weekdays) and the light flickers on and off. I think it's trying to keep charge. I don't see anything necessarily wrong or not working.
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In short yes. But it hasn't interfered with charging to 100%. I notice it when I wake up before the sun does (weekdays) and the light flickers on and off. I think it's trying to keep charge. I don't see anything necessarily wrong or not working.
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Thanks for your reply! We get that too and I agree that particular case it does seem to be topping up the battery. But what we have seen on these several occasions doesn't seem to be that. Topping up looks to be light on for a few seconds, then off for a few seconds. The fast blink is just blinkety blinkety blinkety once triggered, with no end in sight.
I was tempted to put on some dubstep and start whirling a glowstick. I don't think the wife would find that as amusing as I would :laugh:
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Thanks for your reply! We get that too and I agree that particular case it does seem to be topping up the battery. But what we have seen on these several occasions doesn't seem to be that. Topping up looks to be light on for a few seconds, then off for a few seconds. The fast blink is just blinkety blinkety blinkety once triggered, with no end in sight.
I was tempted to put on some dubstep and start whirling a glowstick. I don't think the wife would find that as amusing as I would :laugh:
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*oommff**oommff**oommff**oommff**oommff**oommff**oommff**oommff*
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Ah..I see said the blind man to the deaf dog....
Same issue
I purchased 4 of the energizer's from Amazon, 2 for me, 2 for the wife. within 2 weeks 2 of the chargers started frequently blinking very fast, and when this occurred the phone wouldn't charge. We each woke up at least once with the charger blinking very fast and a dead phone. Only way to fix was to unplug the charger. We returned all 4 to amazon for a full refund.
Anyone figured out what might cause this yet? I just bought a N4 from a guy on craigslist and he threw in one of these chargers for free. It's been working most of the time, just worries me a little if there's some sort of damage that could be done to the battery or phone...
Just received my inexpensive amazon wireless charger today (March 8th), shipped on the 27th, so shipping was pretty quick. Cost $29.98 after shipping.
Like the amazon reviews mention, it does beep, but only when the phone is placed on it and not when it is taken off, it also isn't very loud or annoying either.
It looks great and feels solid, it senses the phone right away even with my case, and seems to charge quite quickly.
Overall it seems to be a great alternative to the official orb, especially for Canadians who can't get it yet.
http://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B00B7TBX36/ref=oh_details_o00_s00_i00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
EDIT: Ended up opening it up and disconnecting the speaker, it really wasn't that annoying but I noticed the tone it made was "inconsistent", turns out the ground wire for the speaker was barely hanging on, so i just ripped the speaker off and now it's all good
PROS:
-From about 60% to fully charged took about an hour and 15 min, so it seems to be on par with other wireless chargers (2-3 hrs full charge)
-Doesn't seem to stop charging once it hits 100%, judging by the battery profile it looks like it falls down to 95% then starts charging again over and over
-LED turns red so you know it's done charging
CONS:
-Poor soldering on speaker, but i imagine most people would remove it anyway
-Charging LED is a soft blue kinda like the nexus notification light, but it is somewhat bright at night, but again a modification could fix that too.
Go for it if you don't mind opening it up to fix those 2 issues.
Hm, that's good that the charger senses the phone right away. Keep us updated on how this charger is working out, I'm planning to order one this weekend. Hopefully all is good. I will probably end up opening up the charger and removing/desoldering the speaker.
Did the seller just increase the price due high demand?
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Did the seller just increase the price due high demand?
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Here is a U.S. Amazon link. $29.95.
His was a Canadian link. *#^$ exchange rates!
Edit: I'm illiterate...yes it is $5 higher. #@$^ profit! @#%* words!
Thank you for providing the pictures of the internals. I am currently expecting one of these (probably next week) and was a little worried about the noise.
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Did the seller just increase the price due high demand?
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Ya they must've, that's really odd
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Thank you for providing the pictures of the internals. I am currently expecting one of these (probably next week) and was a little worried about the noise.
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No problem, also there's 4 screws to open it under the little foam pad "feet" on the bottom of it.
Weak that there's no Prime option.
Does this continue to work after a few days? I picked the small, flat charger from Fasttech, and it does not work very well. It will charge the phone fine initially, but refuses to charge the next time I place the phone on the charger until I power cycle it. Kind of defeats the purpose of not messing with wires if I have to unplug/plug in the charger every time I want to use it.
The board looks similar on this charger, although it is different enough that I don't think they are using the same components. Just wanted to see if you've had any issues with it.
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Does this continue to work after a few days? I picked the small, flat charger from Fasttech, and it does not work very well. It will charge the phone fine initially, but refuses to charge the next time I place the phone on the charger until I power cycle it. Kind of defeats the purpose of not messing with wires if I have to unplug/plug in the charger every time I want to use it.
The board looks similar on this charger, although it is different enough that I don't think they are using the same components. Just wanted to see if you've had any issues with it.
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I just got it yesterday so I guess we'll see, I've set the phone down on it many times since it arrived and haven't had an issue yet.
do NOT buy this piece of crap.
I bought one about 1 month ago, so many things are wrong with it.
for most it stopped working after a week.
the surface isnt completely flat and has a very slight arc to it. so the N4 will easily slide off on its own.
you will have to hit a "sweetspot" for it to sense your phone. it's very frustrating to have to look for it.
Annoying sound and more annoying lights, especially at night. they are INCREDIBLY bright.
do yourself a favor and buy google's original.
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Yeap it was only $29.98 a few days ago on Amazon.CA
Must've had something to do with my RFD post.
tt6368 said:
do NOT buy this piece of crap.
I bought one about 1 month ago, so many things are wrong with it.
for most it stopped working after a week.
the surface isnt completely flat and has a very slight arc to it. so the N4 will easily slide off on its own.
you will have to hit a "sweetspot" for it to sense your phone. it's very frustrating to have to look for it.
Annoying sound and more annoying lights, especially at night. they are INCREDIBLY bright.
do yourself a favor and buy google's original.
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I don't know what arc you're talking about, the sides curves down slightly around the perimeter about 1 cm in, but the surface is totally flat. I don't see how it could possibly slide off, unless the surface your's sits on isn't level.
And expecting any inductive charger to work without lining up the coils is kind of unrealistic. You can't just causally throw your phone onto the pad and expect a solid connection, it's physics.
Placing the phone somewhat centered on the pad (as I expect most people would) works out fine.
As for the sound and lights...well I already covered that, its an easy fix.
wtf ,it does NOT work with the TCP gel case on, i had to take it off? anyone get it to work with a backing/case on?
before it works, the nex4 screen has to be ON for it to work right? that kind of sucks, no wonder this thing is cheap! 30+ tx bucks from amazon.ca
another thing is its gotta be put on the pad 'centered' you can't just be off center
giving this a 3/10 , don't recammend it, man the beeps are loud!
holy cow, this thing really HEATS up while charging, doesn't HEAT kill your battery? it was 40c the battery temp, in 2hours my charge only went up 30% from around 40% to 70%, im not using this charger, i think it will kill your battery faster with all that heat
I purchased the same charger, but contrary to your post mine will charge to 100% then the led turns red and won't charge again until picked up and put back on the charger. I'm curious if a different kernel or rom can affect this behavior. I'm on cm10.1 latest nightly. I'm in the process of returning it, but like everything else besides not maintaining a charge.
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wtf ,it does NOT work with the TCP gel case on, i had to take it off? anyone get it to work with a backing/case on?
before it works, the nex4 screen has to be ON for it to work right? that kind of sucks, no wonder this thing is cheap! 30+ tx bucks from amazon.ca
another thing is its gotta be put on the pad 'centered' you can't just be off center
giving this a 3/10 , don't recammend it, man the beeps are loud!
holy cow, this thing really HEATS up while charging, doesn't HEAT kill your battery? it was 40c the battery temp, in 2hours my charge only went up 30% from around 40% to 70%, im not using this charger, i think it will kill your battery faster with all that heat
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Im currently using the ringke fusion case which is probably the thickest there is, i've also switched to my mercury TPU case and they both work, I also don't need to have the screen on for it to start charging either, maybe the manufacturer made a revised version or something.
On the idea of a revised version. Here is a picture of my charger including the model number. It is T-100. I'm very curious if your charger has a different model number.
I am also thinking about ordering this as it seems very cheap for the price. My one concern is does it keep the phone topped up you said it does but there seem to be conflicting reports on amazon as well.
Led/speaker are no issue as they can be easily fixed however waking up with less than a full charge would be annoying.
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On the idea of a revised version. Here is a picture of my charger including the model number. It is T-100. I'm very curious if your charger has a different model number.
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Ya mine is also the same T-100 model
maybe i got a defective one
when the screen is OFF, and you place it on the charger pad, the screen turns on automatically right? is that normal for every android phone?
also the blue led light is very dim, and its 'behind' the white plastic casing inside, i can't hardly see it, its all blurred/low lighting, mine is the same pic as above t-100 model
Hey guys,
I want to know if anybody tried to get a warranty repair on his TF700 with cracked glass.
I can't claim i NEVER dropped my Transformer, it has a small scratch on the side from about 8 months ago. About a month ago I noticed my screen cracked on edge after I woke up and tablet was laying in his case right where i put him. A week or so later I noticed that I can't lock it in the dock, the left hinge just wouldn't fit, however the dock still worked. After about two weeks I was on a yacht, the dock was stored in my cabin all the time, but one day I wanted to charge battery from it I noticed it's dead and not charging. After plugging it to charger in marina the light was not lit and when I connected dock to tablet it didnt recognise it. And then 2 days later I took Transformer out of my backpack at the airport and I saw another crack on the screen. Again it wasn't dropped, hit with a club, tossed, just put gently in the backpack.
The weird thing is I got 3 diffrent problems, all happening within a month and none of it was directly preceeded with any kind of misuse. I wonder if people at ASUS support are going to believe that I didn't abuse my Transformer in any way.
Anybody had simmilar problems and what was the result of RMA procedure?
Where are these cracks? I would assume along the bottom where it would fit in the dock but are they where the connection dongle is, on the side, ever notice it getting unusually hot when charging or smell anything? If I follow correctly then neither the tablet nor dock is charging regardless if they are connected or as individual peices.
I've had the dongle portion on my tablet go bad. I heard a pop after plugging it in, a faint smell of burnt something, and it didn't respond anymore to the usb cable. Connectiong it to the computer also resulted with nothing happening. They repaired it with no problem. Perhaps your port went bad and in the process caused the screen to crack. If the cracks are around the port area of course. How it ties into the dock not working now could also be related. Maybe it was the dock that went bad first but the signs showed on the tablet since it is easier to see.
Either way your tablet is useless if it doesn't charge. All you can do really is send it in for RMA and hope they don't claim it is customer induced damage. Try doing a Google search for the model you have and screen cracks. Might find something there following other people with cracked screens.
Good Luck
Every time when I charging use cable, I can feel the small vibration on side of phone when touch it.. especially on top of phone .. Does everyone got this issue
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I'm not seeing this on my N20 Ultra.
What happens if you use another charging cable and power brick and or wireless charging.
Is it a vibration or electric current?
Probably a coil in the phone's power converter.
Switching transformer or such.
It happened sometimes for me too with almost any phone, and it was more likely to happen with metal ones. Usually it goes away after a bit.
The same with laptop that got a metal casing too.
Wouldn't have thought you could feel 11v max
Sorry guys but you wouldn't feel that low voltage even if it was 20V
You wouldn't feel it
Maybe your fingers/palm vibrate when you slide along the metallic bits of the phone making it feel like voltage
Umm... people have been severely shocked by car batteries.
One kid decades ago it was reported killed himself with a 9V battery.
It all depends on the resistance in the circuit. Most times 14 volts won't be felt but when it is it's a shock.
Don't handle battery terminals with wet hands including sweat.
In this case I think it's a physical vibration.
Some people have much more sensitive levels of physical perception. Tesla was said to have extremely acute senses... and he was not stranger to shocks.
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Umm... people have been severely shocked by car batteries.
One kid decades ago it was reported killed himself with a 9V battery.
It all depends on the resistance in the circuit. Most times 14 volts won't be felt but when it is it's a shock.
Don't handle battery terminals with wet hands including sweat.
In this case I think it's a physical vibration.
Some people have much more sensitive levels of physical perception. Tesla was said to have extremely acute senses... and he was not stranger to shocks.
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The 9v battery thing was 'apparently' if true, because he pierced his skin with the probes allowing the blood to become the conductor passing through his heart (Although I find the story a bit far fetched, the theory is true, not sure about the story), a finger covered in skin touching the edge of a phone is not going to be felt / give a shock coming from a phone charger, stick it on your tongue maybe but not your skin, not enough voltage to make it through your skin in a phone charger
Car battery won't shock you either, touched both terminals many times using jump leads, HT leads / spark-plugs on the other hand give quite a nasty shock if you are also touching the chassis, in the rain
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Wouldn't have thought you could feel 11v max
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The 9v battery thing was 'apparently' if true, because he pierced his skin with the probes allowing the blood to become the conductor passing through his heart (Although I find the story a bit far fetched, the theory is true, not sure about the story), a finger covered in skin touching the edge of a phone is not going to be felt / give a shock coming from a phone charger, stick it on your tongue maybe but not your skin, not enough voltage to make it through your skin in a phone charger
Car battery won't shock you either, touched both terminals many times using jump leads, HT leads / spark-plugs on the other hand give quite a nasty shock if you are also touching the chassis, in the rain
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I first read the 9V battery story 40, 50 years ago in print. It's certainly possible... but last time I tried tracking it down found nothing conclusive. However massive as the internet db is, much info is missing.
As for car batteries I can verify from first hand experience they can give you a shock:silly:
Don't ground yourself out...
My 12KV 30 ma neon sign transformer though can give a nasty shock if your careless enough to touch one terminal.
Even along a plastic screwdriver handle if any sweat is on it. It will ground you out through the air or a hardwood floor... fun times
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I first read the 9V battery story 40, 50 years ago in print. It's certainly possible... but last time I tried tracking it down found nothing conclusive. However massive as the internet db is, much info is missing.
As for car batteries I can verify from first hand experience they can give you a shock:silly:
Don't ground yourself out...
My 12KV 30 ma neon sign transformer though can give a nasty shock if your careless enough to touch one terminal.
Even along a plastic screwdriver handle if any sweat is on it. It will ground you out through the air or a hardwood floor... fun times
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Had many nasty shocks, the power circuit board from an original Playstation, touched the back of the board where the capacitor pins were, that really hurt badly, and strangely I managed to do the exact same thing again about 5 minutes later lol
Also learned that turning off a lightswitch does not cut power to the light fitting the hard way too
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Had many nasty shocks, the power circuit board from an original Playstation, touched the back of the board where the capacitor pins were, that really hurt badly, and strangely I managed to do the exact same thing again about 5 minutes later lol
Also learned that turning off a lightswitch does not cut power to the light fitting the hard way too
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It's always quite a surprise...
One of the scariest shocks I got was from a 30" CRT I was replacing.
Basically a giant HV vacuum capacitor.
They can hold a charge a very long time, even can collect a charge sitting there from static electricity and they have "memory"; simply discharging it once isn't enough as they will build back a charge. Even though I had shorted it out for over a minute, when working to put it in, I knocked the lead off. In less then a minute it built up enough voltage to tag me... and of course it did.
The shock wasn't that bad, the real danger was dropping the CRT and it imploding. There's no protection on the back to keep the glass shards from flying out at high velocities. Techs have been killed like this.
I kept my grip... and successfully repaired it.
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It's always quite a surprise...
One of the scariest shocks I got was from a 30" CRT I was replacing.
Basically a giant HV vacuum capacitor.
They can hold a charge a very long time, even can collect a charge sitting there from static electricity and they have "memory"; simply discharging it once isn't enough as they will build back a charge. Even though I had shorted it out for over a minute, when working to put it in, I knocked the lead off. In less then a minute it built up enough voltage to tag me... and of course it did.
The shock wasn't that bad, the real danger was dropping the CRT and it imploding. There's no protection on the back to keep the glass shards from flying out at high velocities. Techs have been killed like this.
I kept my grip... and successfully repaired it.
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haha yea, I was very inquisitive as a kid about all things electrical, my bedroom floor was covered in PCBs and chips and wires, (surprised I'm still here to tell the tale tbh) but CRT TVs were the one thing I didn't play around with too much, they just looked like certain death to me, those thick high voltage cables and suckers were far too intimidating at that age (says the guy who did the 9v battery on the tongue trick with a mains cable plugged into a 240v socket and switched on, luckily the reason whatever device wasn't working was because the live wire had come loose from the back of the socket... can't even imagine what my mouth would have looked like if it had not...)
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Had many nasty shocks, the power circuit board from an original Playstation, touched the back of the board where the capacitor pins were, that really hurt badly, and strangely I managed to do the exact same thing again about 5 minutes later lol
Also learned that turning off a lightswitch does not cut power to the light fitting the hard way too
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haha yea, I was very inquisitive as a kid about all things electrical, my bedroom floor was covered in PCBs and chips and wires, (surprised I'm still here to tell the tale tbh) but CRT TVs were the one thing I didn't play around with too much, they just looked like certain death to me, those thick high voltage cables and suckers were far too intimidating at that age (says the guy who did the 9v battery on the tongue trick with a mains cable plugged into a 240v socket and switched on, luckily the reason whatever device wasn't working was because the live wire had come loose from the back of the socket... can't even imagine what my mouth would have looked like if it had not...)
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Bah-ha-ha-ha when I was around 10 yo I stuck my index finger across the 120VAC plug prongs while they were making contact to see what it felt like... once.
The old huge plugin disposable magnesium wire flash bulbs.. once set one off in my hand with a battery. Surprise, they really get bright and... hot.
Mild first degree burns, nothing much but for the first few seconds were priceless.
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Every time when I charging use cable, I can feel the small vibration on side of phone when touch it.. especially on top of phone .. Does everyone got this issue
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I saw people mention this for other phones and for wireless charging. To some extent I think your right about "leaking electricity" but in a different way. I think the high power thats going into your phone is causing some electronics to jump to your speakers. I could be wrong, especially if the internal speakers dont use copper coils. But if they do, its very possible.
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I saw people mention this for other phones and for wireless charging. To some extent I think your right about "leaking electricity" but in a different way. I think the high power thats going into your phone is causing some electronics to jump to your speakers. I could be wrong, especially if the internal speakers dont use copper coils. But if they do, its very possible.
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Pretty sure all the internal speakers are piezo.
It's quite possible though with wireless charging they are feeling the internal pickup coil vibrating or with wired, the power converter's choke coil(s) vibrating.
Coursing with raw power...
People really scrutinize their devices far too closely... have pity on their better halves
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It's always quite a surprise...
One of the scariest shocks I got was from a 30" CRT I was replacing.
Basically a giant HV vacuum capacitor.
They can hold a charge a very long time, even can collect a charge sitting there from static electricity and they have "memory"; simply discharging it once isn't enough as they will build back a charge. Even though I had shorted it out for over a minute, when working to put it in, I knocked the lead off. In less then a minute it built up enough voltage to tag me... and of course it did.
The shock wasn't that bad, the real danger was dropping the CRT and it imploding. There's no protection on the back to keep the glass shards from flying out at high velocities. Techs have been killed like this.
I kept my grip... and successfully repaired it.
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Been there, done that... worked in Diagnostic Imaging Field Service for 30+ years - hang on to that baby, the charge will dissipate!!! The alternative, like you said, could be a "glassy" death!