Choetech mini wireless charging pad – Review

Qi wireless charging has become more of a convenience for us as a higher volume of smartphones support it. The reason for their convenience is because you don’t have to stumble around at night or even during the day trying to find a cable and making sure that it is inserted the right way. With wireless charging it is effortless as you just place your device on the QI enabled pad and it begins charging.

In the box:
Wireless charging pad
3ft USB to micro-USB cable
quick start guide

Specs:
Input: 5V/2V (MAX)
Output: 5V/1V (MAX)
Charging distance: 0-5mm
Dimensions: 3.3 x 3.3 x 0.7 inches
Weight: 64g

After testing and using this Qi wireless charger as my ‘daily driver charging unit,’ I have to say that I was pleased with the results. Before I got this wireless charger I previously owned the official wireless charger by Google for the nexus 5. It was pretty cool at the time but now that I have upgraded to the nexus 6, it has a bigger batter which supports turbo charging and the official wireless charger doesn’t cut it anymore. As I am used to the quick charge of the nexus 6 I knew that having a wireless charger would be slower.

But I was surprised at the speed at which this wireless charger charged my phone. Of course it wasn’t as fast as Qualcomm’s Quick Charge 2.0 but from my experience it was faster than my old wireless charger. As I only have one device as my daily driver at the moment, it is convenient for me to place my wireless charger on my bed side table.

The build quality it is rather nice compared to my other wireless charger that i had, as my first initial impressions of the wireless charger was that it has very beautiful build quality as the bottom half of the Qi enabled charger is made from aluminum. It has a rubber ring around the bottom to stop it from moving around too much when placed on surface. The top half of the wireless charger is made from plastic and also has a rubber ring on top which doubles as a cup holder as well, and it helps to make sure that the device does not slip.

On the surface of the wireless charger there is a small ambient light sensor, and also a ‘skyline’ notification LED which turns on when you place your device on it so that you know your device is charging. This is a nice feature as my old wireless charger did not have an LED indicator to let me know when my device was charging. Also as the wireless charger has an ambient light sensor, it would turn off after 30 seconds or so if it was in a dark room. This is handy when sleeping as you are not distracted by a light when sleeping.

One thing that I didn’t like about this product is that it was a single coil, this means that you have to make sure that you place the phone in the correct position to that the coil on the phone and the wireless charger are aligned. It would have been nice to have three coils instead of one. However I have to say when I did place my nexus 6 on the charger, 70% of the time it started charging the first time I placed it onto the charging pad. Other than that the product works great and I would recommend you checking this product out.

At this time of this post it only costs .99. Purchase link

charging current app

hi,

does anyone knows an app that works on op2 and shows the charging current? I want't to compare the oem cable with some aftermarket

tnx

Always "Charging from AC" even when at 100% battery

Hello,

I would like to know if it's normal that my phone constantly shows "Charging from AC" when the battery is full at 100% and that it has been plugged in for hours. Shouldn't it show "Plugged in AC" ? I had a LG phone that showed "Plugged in AC" when the battery reached 100% (indicating the battery was full and not being charged anymore)

Does it mean that my Moto G battery is constantly being charged even when at 100% or does it mean they forgot to add another status (like "plugged in AC") for this 100% state ?

CyanogenMod 11.0 No on or off charging and buttons dont work

hello,

i tried installing cyanogen 12.0 and then tried 11.0 and it installed. The problem is now the on cynogen 11.0 the charging while the phone is on or off doesnt work and now phone gone flat.

How can i fix this charging issue?

Also the buttons to left and right side of the home button doesnt work either how can this be fix to?

thank you

Charging port replacement card

Hello,
I looked on eBay for the LG G2 (d802) charging port replacement (it comes with more stuff on it - the 3.5mm jack and some more.
I saw that the Chinese cards are sold for about 9$, and when I added the word "genuine" I saw that for example some UK sellers are selling it for around 70$!

If I replace mine with the cheap card? am I supposed to feel any different?

links from eBay:

Chinese: http://www.ebay.com/itm/USB-Charging...item3ce569542a
UK: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Genuine-LG-D...item4d1f8ec232

Zenfone 2 (ZE551ML) Charging Analysis

HI Guys

Today we will do a charging analysis for Zenfone 2, Model: ZE551ML.

Zenfone 2 has a 3000 mAh Li-Polymer battery and support boostmaster technology, which is compatible with quick charge 2.0. and Qualcomm also list Zenfone 2 as supported device in their official site.
The model we test is ZE551ML, 4G/32G, We are surprising to see ASUS don’t include the fast charger in this model, just regular charger, here is the photo:




The standard charger just can offer 5.2V/ 1.35A. and ASUS includes a short usb cable ( about 0.9cm length) , see here:



and we test the no-load volt for the stock charger, see here:




Now we begin to test the total charging time with stock 5.2V/1.35A power adapter and usb cable. We have made our Zenfone 2 battery to 0% and here is the test result:

Time Battery level Volt Current
PM 1:34:00 0 4.9V 1.13A
PM 1:44:00 Battery is low, can’t power on to show the battery level
PM 1:54:00
PM 2:04:00
PM 2:14:00 23% 4.9V 1.13A
PM 2:24:00 29% 4.92V 1.12A
PM 2:34:00 36% 4.92V 1.12A
PM 2:44:00 43% 4.92V 1.1A
PM 2:54:00 49% 4.92V 1.1A
PM 3:04:00 55% 4.92V 1.1A
PM 3:14:00 61% 4.92V 1.1A
PM 3:24:00 68% 4.92V 1.1A
PM 3:34:00 74% 4.92V 1.1A
PM 3:44:00 80% 4.93V 1.03A
PM 3:54:00 86% 4.97V 0.8A
PM 4:04:00 90% 4.97V 0.75A-0.55A
PM 4:14:00 94% 5.02V 0.38A
PM 4:24:00 97% 5.02V 0.32A
PM 4:34:00 99% 5.04V 0.2A
PM 4:41:00 100% 5.08V 0.16A


The total charging time is 3 hours 7 mins with regular charger, and you just can get 20% battery in 30 mins (PS: we found an interested thing, the zenfone 2 can’t be powered on if the battery is lower than 20%, i am not sure if it is my phone problem or you guys also have this problem?). After charging for 1 hour, we just get 36% battery, charging 2 hours, we get 68% battery, charging 3 hours, the battery is almost full. The Charging current will become smaller as the battery growing. but max, you just get 1.13A. Here is a photo we take when we test:


Frankly speaking, If we don’t test with quick charge 2.0 chargers, we might think the charging speed is OK, Most people might think they just leave the phone to charge overnight, and if it can charge full during the sleep, then it is ok. :) However, if you tried with quick charge 2.0 chargers, i thought you should change your mind.



Now we begin to test with our chargers and cable:

Test with Tronsmart WC1Q wall charger (Qualcomm Certified, support quick charge 2.0), and Tronsmart USB cable (20AWG support high current):



Time Battery level Volt Current
AM 8:45:00 0% 9.15V 1.65A-1.56A
AM 8:55:00 Battery is low, can’t power on to show the battery level
AM 9:05:00 27% 9.15V 1.5A
AM 9:15:00 43% 9.15V 1.5A
AM 9:25:00 54% 9.16V 1.32A
AM 9:35:00 68% 9.19V 1A
AM 9:45:00 77% 9.19V 0.87A
AM 9:55:00 84% 9.2V 0.62A
AM 10:05:00 88% 9.22V 0.39A
AM 10:15:00 92% 9.23V 0.28A
AM 10:25:00 95% 9.23V 0.17A
AM 10:35:00 98% 9.23V 0.16A
AM 10:45:00 100% 9.23V 0.14A


With our chargers and cable, we get zenfone 2 from 0% to 100% in 2 hours, When it detects Zenfone 2 support quick charge 2.0, our charger just give 9V volt instead of 5V. and you get 54% battery in the first 40 mins, and in 1 hour, you get 77% battery. (while with stock standard charger, in the same time, you just get half battery). Our chargers can give 15W power to zenfone 2 at first, while the regular charger just can give 5W. That’s a big difference. We also can see in the above table, while use our charger,in the whole charging progress, Zenfone 2 always get 9V high volt , but the charging current is becoming smaller as the battery growing.

We take a photo after charging a while with our charger to show the quick charge:


So from the above testing, we can see, use our quick charge 2.0 charger, you can save 36% total charging time , it can offer double battery level at the first 1 hour compare with regular charger. Like Qualcomm said, Less time charging, More time doing. And not just our wall charger, our quick charge 2.0 car charger also support Zenfone 2, you can get similar charging time when you use our quick charge 2.0 chargers.

In the end, Here is our suggestion to charge your Zenfone 2 faster:

1 If your zenfone 2 don’t equipped with a fast charger, just get one asap :)

2 Pick up some high quality usb cables, it do effect the charging, i take a photo to compare our usb cable and asus one:


Source: http://www.tronsmart.com/?p=4211

Charging Failure

Hello all. It's been a long time since I've been to this section of XDA, glad to see it's still got some life left.

I'm trying to get my old i777 working so a friend of mine can borrow it. If I remember correctly, it was running an AOKP rom when I stored it well over a year ago, and it was fine. Today I went to turn it on, nothing. I started charging it, let it go for a few hours. It still won't turn on; instead it's acting a bit strange. Every few seconds the screen flashes either the gray battery charging logo, an instant dim flash of the entire screen (a slight gray, nothing bright), or the home/back/etc buttons flash for an instant. When the charge logo appears, the screen brightens just before it goes off. All buttons are unresponsive, my computer does not recognize it. I've been unsuccessful in finding any real help with Google and searching XDA. The only advice I found was to plug it in without the battery, then put the battery in. This did not help. Any feedback would be appreciated - this little phone has a lot of sentimental value to me. It's been through hell and back, it survived my ex (who managed to break a Nokia 3310 and Nokia 920). If I have to put it to rest, I guess it's earned it, but I'd like to keep it going for just a while longer.

Usb, charging and Ethernet at same time? YES

since i got tablets, i miss the possibility to charge and use usb at the same time. And so,i tried a lot of adapters. On my note 10.1 2014, i tried one, from samsung, that was specialised for the note pro 12.2, sorry,dont know the exact Type,but i bring it,promised.....
Also with my tab s2 9,7Lte (815),i try different ones,but no one work,till i try this one from samsung again......and.....it works perfectly. The TabS2 have a build in ethernet interface (settings, other connections, ethernet). I plug in a ethernet cable,work....... plug in charger.......work......then i connect my IRig UA,got power and it works.......charging not interupted, ethernet still working......and the adapter have two Usb 2.0 Ports and 1 Usb3.0 mini Port (like Note3) for charging, but also works with a micro usb 2.0.........
Thats fantastic......i be absolutely happy with the tab S2.....got root now, amazing power.....great device samsung......
The only prob is, some apps don't support ethernet for internet connections,like chrome and others. There is a tool for xposed, calles fake wifi connection, but Xposed don't work at the moment,about my Rom isn't deodexed......but soon, i think.
Or anyone got another solution for this?



Gesendet von meinem SM-T815 mit Tapatalk

Verizon GS5 Not Charging

Hello, recently I've had a problem where I can't charge my verizon galaxy s5. It's been rooted for a while now (about 7 months) and one day it just stopped charging. I assumed it might be the rom, so i switched to a different one. This didn't fix the problem so I decided to back to factory default. This didn't fix the problem either and I have no idea what the issue is. The battery works just fine because I can charge it on my friends gs5. Also around the same time as it stopped charging, the vibration mode on the phone no longer seems to work. This wasn't fixed by the switching of roms either. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

HTC One M8 Charging only in Fastboot AC

I have a problem with my HTC One M8. It's not charging. I've posted another question in relation with this which is

http://forum.xda-developers.com/htc-...cific-t3205460

But this time I found out something. My phone only charges fine in Fastboot AC mode. If I turn it off then plug it to a power outlet
it Batter Icon with Lightning will appear but it will disappear again then appear. More like a connect and disconnect behaviour.
If I let it charge like that way, my phone will get hot soon. I as I've seen this post

http://forum.xda-developers.com/htc-...f-usb-t3203388

I tried charging it in Fastboot AC which works I'm in 60% now which I cant get in a Turned off charging. Waiting for it to go 100%.
Some said it is a hardware problem. But for now I don't have time to go to a technician. So as much as possible I want to try to test things out. I bought it 2nd hand.

My pc can detect my phone and I can flash things. It's only problem is not charging. Here is my info:

C:\adb>fastboot getvar all
(bootloader) version: 0.5
(bootloader) version-bootloader: 3.19.0.0000
(bootloader) version-baseband: 1.21.21331147A1.19_2G
(bootloader) version-cpld: None
(bootloader) version-microp: None
(bootloader) version-main: 3.28.709.5
(bootloader) version-misc: PVT SHIP S-ON
(bootloader) serialno: HT44AWM10599
(bootloader) imei: 358716052376075
(bootloader) imei2: Not Support
(bootloader) meid: 00000000000000
(bootloader) product: m8_ul
(bootloader) platform: hTCBmsm8974
(bootloader) modelid: 0P6B11000
(bootloader) cidnum: HTC__621
(bootloader) battery-status: good
(bootloader) battery-voltage: 0mV
(bootloader) partition-layout: Generic
(bootloader) security: on
(bootloader) build-mode: SHIP
(bootloader) boot-mode: FASTBOOT
(bootloader) commitno-bootloader: df77f8b7
(bootloader) hbootpreupdate: 11
(bootloader) gencheckpt: 0
all: Done!
finished. total time: 0.008s

I'm currenly running the lastest Android Revolution HD Rom. I just flashed it.

Slow Charging on Lollipop

Hi guys
So yesterday I flashed the lollipop Russian firmware
And I've noticed that the phone is taking almost double the time to charge than it was on kitkat

I already tried a factory reset and wiping cache partition but it doesn't make a difference

Is anyone else facing this and please give me possible solutions?

S6 Edge fast charging

Hello xda ! I bought this device and I'm interested in that fast charging is always ON ?? Or can i turn it off ? sorry for noob question :)

Charging time very high?

Rom: Clouds 3.5
Kernel: Gabriel
Mods: thermalmod60, aio Build.prop (BuLLet93)

Gsambattery is also installed to watch appsucker.

If I'm charging and using my LG at same time gsam shows at 14% battery that charging will be 8 hours.
Is that normal?

I'm using original LG chargingtool.

HTC One M8 weird charging

Hi I have my HTC One M8 which acts so weird, so what happen now when I plugged it a power outlet while the phone is turned on it doesn't charge, when I pull the micro usb cable and plug it again to the phone, the charging animation indicator works but only in 2 seconds then will stopped. So tried to turn off the phone then charge it, what happens is this picture



That battery icon with lightning, flashes, it appears then goes of then appears again I in a 1 second interval.
I let it charge like that for 10mins and when I turned on the phone, by battery has been charged. What do you think is happening?

The thing I did before this happen is,

before I have a 4.4.3 kitkat version, then I flashed a viper rom lollipop. I didn't install any firmware. just flashed it thru twrp.

Before I was able to fix the issue by doing the battery remove simulation (Power + Vol up for 10sec) then it will charge and the charging indicator works but my there's no audio in my phone. No sound. To fix the No sound issue, I will restart, there's sound again but my charging issue comes back and now even if I do the Remove battery simulation, it's not working anymore.

Touch problem while charging.

I am encountering a problem from a few days.
My touchscreen doesn't work while its charging.i think first found it while picking up a call when it was connected to the charger.

It doesn't work even after removing charger,i have to turn the screen off and then on,then touch works,but not fluently.
But it works fine after rebooting.


Anyone else having this problem?I am on stock 6.7.1.0 build(latest one).

Wireless charging?

I think the title says it all.

Anker powercore+ 10050 charging issue

So i bought this hoping it would be awesome like most Anker products but after 30 seconds of charging and showing the lightning ⚡ it stops charging. Itis the same issue aome people have been having with the Aukey version of qucikcharge 2.0 battery packs. Anyone have a positive experience with either yet? [emoji22] I called Anker the did not know of any issues and said to return or exchange it.

[Q]My S II Plus boot loop, no recovery , no charging just download mode

Like post said this happened after i put Lollipop (Ressurection Remix i think) and then i didn't had network..with few searches on web I find that EFS it's corrupt and downloaded EFSFix.zip from internet (idk right now the source) after I flashed it with Odin 3.07 this started...I TRIED following with no succes :
- flash with odin i9105pxx11 etc. stock firmware , no succes ;
- flash CWM , TWRP and all recovery files , no succes ;
- find something Syiah kernel fixing EFS and others no S II Plus kernel just S II .. ;
- battery out one night, charging one night ..still loops.

Please if somene can help me..I don't have so much battery so the thing is what I flash now it is the last.:)

Battery not fully charging, stops at 90%

This has just started to happen to me, past 4 days.
So I know people had issues saying phone takes ages to charge even on quick charge- this hasn't happened to me before... It might be the case now > hence why I'm asking.

My phone has always lasted me 2 days to 15%- then I always charge to full- but I've never overcharged it ever.
Like I said it's now charging to 90% only and it's saying fully charging,

Do you thing my battery lost some juice, had the phone brand new in UK, or do you lot know a solution.
Thanks

Android Auto and charging on OP2

I just got my OnePlus 2 and its great mostly. I use a Pioneer 4100NEX in my car for Android Auto and it is fast as hell with the OP2 compared to my old S6 Edge.

Major issue I noticed was that it does not charge while connected which is not viable for long trips with nav and streaming. Someone on reddit said maybe a kernel that supports fast charging would enable me to charge and use Auto at the same time. Any insight or advice?