Hello, I'm thinking about getting a Qi wireless charger for my N5, but I have a few questions..
1) Does the new official wireless charger in the Playstore charge faster than cable?
2) Are there 'better' alternatives to that $50 Qi wireless charger? (ie a more powerful/faster one)
3) IS there such a thing as a Qi wireless charger that charges faster or as fast as just using a cable? As some energy is lost during the xferring
Since I already tried 4 USB car chargers (Osungo Carjuice 2.1A, Belkin 2.1A, Ewent 2.1A, Belkin 1A) with several USB cables (my intention is to use this cable I got from dx.com), but none of the combinations succeeded in charging my N5 while using navigation on the road.
In the settings menu -> battery all of them display Charging (AC) when plugged in my car.
During night time they keep the battery around the same level and during day time the battery percentage even slowly drops.
I'm going to perform some measurements later today with Battery Monitor Widget and/or Currentwidget to get some numbers.
The stores close-by only sell this stuff for ridiculous prices, so I spent enough money on gas already. I haven't ordered anything online yet since it seems nothing is guaranteed to work and therefore I don't want to deal with the hassle of return processes plus shipping costs.
The only car charger that does work is the charger that came with my Galaxy Nexus car holder, but I never liked that charger since it doesn't have a coiled cable so the cable is all over the place across your dash and it has no universal USB connection to charge all kind of devices in your car.
Also I'm looking for a solution which doesn't require soldering of some sort.
Does the USB car charger + coiled USB cable which I'm looking for even exist and why is it so hard to just get a working car charger for your N5?
Today I did some measurements with Currentwidget and the problem lies in the cable which I got from Dealextreme.
When I tested with the USB cable which came with the N5 all chargers work fine.
Now I hope I can find a coiled USB cable which works just like the original N5 cable for a decent price.
Found one from Mediabridge, but it seems this cable isn't available in the Netherlands and on Ebay shipping costs are insane.
Does the 1A charger still charge the phone while navigating? Or is a 2.1A charger needed?
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Does the 1A charger still charge the phone while navigating? Or is a 2.1A charger needed?
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Both can charge the phone while navigating, as long as you use the right cable.
Very annoying since there is no way to tell which cable is good and which cable is not good.
This was also noticed in the following threads:
[Q] Terrible charge rate?
Need good car charger recommendations please
Discharging while using Navigation
Tried the cable which came with the HTC OEM Car Charger CC C200, together with a 2.1mAh car charger and it barely charged the N5 while navigating. The charging level went up 1% in about 25 minutes time, in comparison if you use the cable which came with the N5 the level will have gone up around 15-20%.
The Mediabridge cables (such as this one) should suffice (available on Amazon and Ebay).
Since those are not available in Europe and shipping costs are way too high, I now found an alternative from Speedlink. Hopefully this one will work just as good as the original N5 USB cable.
I am using PowerGen 2.1A car charger with 3' Samsung OEM usb cable and able to charge the phone while using Navigation, brightness at full, and streaming tune-in on LTE. Very happy with the setup.
I had a monoprice 10' usb cable, the thick version with cap on ends, the 3' samsung oeum usb cable works much better. Testing on my old phone Optimus G Pro, there are about +200mA improvement using the 3' samsung oem usb cable over the monoprice 10' usb cable. so make sure to use the shortest usb cable possible.
are there any good wireless chargers that are completely portable (no cord into wall)?
You could probably get a portable battery pack (I have this: http://smile.amazon.com/PowerGen-PG...CMFQ/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&qid=1429189373&sr=8-6) and then just plug it into the USB input of any standard wireless charger.
Go to Aliexpress and search for QI powerbank, there are tons.
I have an s7 and I was curious if anyone knew whether you could use a qi wireless charger and wired charger on a s7 either with some sort of application or otherwise to effectively charge it from both sources simultaneously to boost charge speed and if anyone knew of a battery case that can be charged by qi wireless charging and can use qi wireless charging to charge the cellphone once it was disconnecTed from the wireless charger so that I don't have to plug my battery case into my s7 and can just keep the usb port free.
Just tried it. The phone uses whatever charging method was connected first. If it's on the wireless charger and you plug in a cord, it ignores the cord. If it's charging wired, and you set it on a charging pad, it ignores the pad.
Samsung makes a battery back that will charge the phone wirelessly. I haven't seen anything that indicates whether the back can be charged wirelessly or not. Reviews seem a bit mixed:
http://www.walmart.com/ip/Hero-Wire...0&wl4=&wl5=pla&wl6=193560939410&veh=sem#about
Hello,
I am new to this forum but after searching on the net i want to ask people that know more about the stuff then i do.
In the past i modded my Paperwhite 2 Reader with a internal wireless charging receiver and it works fine.
Now i upgraded my wireless charger (because of my Samsung S8) to a Nillkin PowerFlash charger powerd by a Blitzwolf BW-PL3 Qi charger.
Charging my Paperwhite (5V) and fastcharge my S8 (9V 1,3A) are working fine. Now i search for a option to wireless charge my Samsung Tab A 10.5.
But every receiver i can find deliveres only 5V ~1A (in real they deliver only 700-900mA).
Are there Type C receivers out there that are able to use the fastcharge protocol to get the 9V 1-1,7A charging?