Was curious if anyone knows what might have happened the other day with my new Moto Z Play and Incipio Offgrid battery (with wireless charging) -- can't quite figure it out:
Set phone + offgrid attached to it on the wireless charger. Phone battery at approximately 90%, Incipio at 0%. Went to sleep, woke up next morning, found Incipio battery still at 0%, phone battery at 85%, and both phone and Incipio VERY hot.
I removed the Incipio battery and charged the phone the rest of the way with the OEM charger. I then set the Incipio battery on the wireless charger (by itself). Came back a few hours and found the Incipio battery fully charged, and not hot.
Am I missing something, as to why it didn't charge when it was attached to the phone? And more importantly, why it was so hot? Are there best practices for charging using wireless that I'm unaware of?
Thanks!
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I went to sleep last night leaving the phone to charge with the wall charger. This morning the phone only had a 71% charge and was ultra-hot. These lithium batteries don't like high temperatures.
Anyone else had these high charge temperatures?
It seems faulty ...
I did couple of times charging overnight, and so far so good ... always came back with 100% and cold.
i noticed that if i leave the phone to charge battery down on my leather couch it heats up but on my glass table it is fine think it to do with heat distrabution.
so to save any problems i bought a desk dock charger and never heated up since
Do you have a link to the desk dock you bought?
I was quite disappointed that the Desire couldn't use the Nexus One's stand so I'm interested in the alternatives.
Mine gets very hot when charging from the USB on my computer (and it charges veeeeeery slowly), but using the wall charger it charges fast and stays cool to the touch...
I an charging with the wall charger as we speak with phone on and from 6% and though the phone is very slighty warm it's definately not hot.
Maybe you didn't put the usb in properly and had a bad connection?
Was wifi on?? That affects heat. Any running apps??
Charging with the wall charger normally charges my phone from 10% to 100% in little over an hour while staying cool. I never do anything special to stop apps, last night nothing special was running (no movies or music or heavy cpu stuff).
The heat was located at the lower side of the phone. Under the battery lies the cpu (and gpu) and they were radiating the heat in my opinion, not the battery itself.
I would just like to share some of my experiences with a cheap 3$ eBay battery (like this one), as well as ultra-cheap 2$ USB chargers.
I bought this battery early January to supplement my GS3's main battery. At first I used it as a backup battery, keeping it in my bag in case my main battery dies. This worked great for a couple of weeks until I could no longer be bothered to swap out the battery every time I needed to charge the other one. So I ended up leaving the eBay battery in full time. At this point I have grown to trust it, seeing as I hadn't had any issues.
Months went by like this, but by the end of March, I was scratching my head as to why my phone wasn't lasting as long as it used to. I guess this change was so gradual that I didn't notice it for long. Now this past week, the battery has had even more trouble holding a charge. It took hours to recharge, and barely lasted with me listening to music, chatting on fb and checking reddit several times a day. It got to a point where one night, it only charged to 90%, and then the next night it charged up to 45%. It also would only charge a few percent at a time when daydream was on.
Now yesterday, by the time I got home ~16:00, the battery died. I plugged it in, but it wouldn't charge - a battery with a warning symbol icon lit up when plugging it in. After a few minutes of fiddling, I managed to get my phone to turn on, but then it almost immediately turned off. A few minutes more, I managed to turn it on and finally charge using the original charger. After an hour, it didn't even reach 20%. This enraged me, causing me to finally hot swap the battery to the original one. Surprisingly, it charged up to 70% in less than 1 hour. Quite a nice change.
Since this morning I've been using it more than normally (large FTP download, streaming youtube), and I still have 60%
I suspect that the low quality anode within the battery corroded very quickly due to the high stresses involved with powering the phone, and charging rapidly. The thing that I often see online, is people being afraid of batteries blowing up or damaging their phones, but this is highly unlikely. The phone has the battery charging circuit built into it, and it will regulate the CV and CC charging cycles itself. It shuts off the phone when the voltage drops too low, and it wouldn't go over 4.2v because the phone wouldn't charge above that. The only damage that a cheap battery can do is to leak or vent inside a phone - hence the need for proper circuitry in the phone.
I also have experiences using absolutely the cheapest batteries in some of my other gadgets. Both of my cameras use the cheapest batteries I could find on eBay - without any problems. Ironically, for my point and shoot, the eBay batteries last longer and display an accurate time estimate. With my DSLR, the 2 batteries that I bought (originally to make a cheap power supply for long timelapses), they work identically, charge identically and fit perfectly. I also bought some protected 18650 batteries for various LED projects I was working on, as well as for my flashlight, but about half of them are now dead - I suspect due to the protection circuit. So yeah, those are my experiences with ultra cheap batteries.
Now, as per the chargers, I mostly use only el cheapo dealextreme or eBay ones. I've had no issues with charging my old iPhone, my SGS3, tablet, and my el cheapo 20$ Huawei phone. However, they don't work well with my Raspberry Pi, iPad and my mom's Android tablet (the touchscreen glitches big time).
So yeah. I don't know what the purpose of this is. Just had to speak out .
In the box:
The box is a very simple cardboard box with EasyAcc on it and a product overview on the bottom. Along with the battery, you get two micro USB cables of different lengths and a user manual.
First Impressions:
The battery feels very nice. It has some weight to it and the chrome trim goes well with the matte black. This battery feels very expensive.
Review:
This battery is probably the best accessory I own. The battery does what it's suppose to do and more. I was able to charge my IPod Touch and my Moto G at the same time and still had 4 lights lit up on the battery. With this battery, you can easily charge your phone fully at least 5 times as promised. The battery feels solid in your hand and it's not slippery at all to handle. It's also easy to carry around too. I was able to put the battery in my pants pocket while it charged my phone and the battery didn't feel like it was weighting me down. It was like having regular phone in my pocket. One thing about this battery is it does take a long time to fully charge since it's 18000mAh. It took me about 10-12 hours to charge this battery and I used a rapid wall charger. Make sure you charge this battery during the night while you're sleep, if you'll need it for the next day. The flashlight that's on the battery is bright and a very useful feature to have. The price is very reasonable also. I would recommend this product to anyone looking for a good quality external battery
hi all, done a bit of searching but can't seem to find a battery case that will fast charge my phone - most say over 2 hours to recharge the s8+. Is there anything out there that, when turning on the battery case, will charge the fast charge the phone?
thanks.
I'm looking for the same thing
turning on the battery case? what?
any thin case such as spigen will fast charge
I have two of the 2X capacity batteries from Perfine with included case. They're a bargain at < $25US, but the challenge is finding an external charger that will charge the batteries when they are outside the phone. Most chargers are either those "slot" chargers that only fit the standard size battery. Some others inexplicably put the contacts on the opposite side of where the V20 puts it. You have to put the battery in upside down to fit., so the extended battery is too thick to reach the contacts. The standard battery fits fine, even thought it needs to go in upside down.
I did find one generic charger on Amazon that almost works. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01JZLHTHG/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o02_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
The drawbacks to this charger are that it charges extremely slow, and it does not completely charge the battery to 100%. It finishes charging at about 95%, regardless of how long I leave it on the charger. I could probably deal with the slow charging, since it's for an extended battery that lasts upwards of 48 hours, but would love to find one that finishes strong with a 100% charge. It's the only one that will actually charge an extended battery, so I still find it useful, but I was wondering if anyone has found one that will at least charge an extended battery to 100% charge.
Anybody find a good candidate?
Thanks