Has anyone tried to get wireless charging working on the Moto G6? You can buy charging coils that plug into the USB port and stick onto the back of the phone. I have tried several of these with different charging pads, but none of them will charge the phone.
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So this is my first motorola and I had heard of the issues they have with non motorola chargers. Now I am experiencing it first hand. With the same ac charger I have charged many phones with and is capable of 1 amp output (D4 charger is only rated at 850 mA) my D4 struggles. With the device off it charged painfully slowly. While on it cannot even charge. It discharges while plugged in despite the charging indicator and reporting "charging (AC)" in status.
How does it know it is not a moto charger? Is it just about the resistance between the data pins? For most other phones shorting the data pins on the charger indicates to the phone that it is a high current charger and not a computer USB port. Is there a similar trick for motorola phones? I would rather not have to purchase an overpriced moto oem car charger. I have a perfectly fine 1.2 amp car charger soldered directly into my car's 12v system behind the dash. Can I make it work?
Thanks!
On a regular basis I successfully charge my D4 using both a charger from a Samsung Reality feature phone and from a B&N Nook Simple Touch, in addition to the one that came with it. I've also used a variety of car chargers.
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Actually, so far I have only one charger that had any trouble charging the phone (it was a $3 charger with 2 USB ports), but the $3 charger with ONE USB port works fine, as does the Nook Color charger, Blackberry charger, and Samsung charger I have tried it with, as well as both my old car charger and Lenovo's always-on charging port on their laptops.
JKingDev said:
So this is my first motorola and I had heard of the issues they have with non motorola chargers. Now I am experiencing it first hand. With the same ac charger I have charged many phones with and is capable of 1 amp output (D4 charger is only rated at 850 mA) my D4 struggles. With the device off it charged painfully slowly. While on it cannot even charge. It discharges while plugged in despite the charging indicator and reporting "charging (AC)" in status.
How does it know it is not a moto charger? Is it just about the resistance between the data pins? For most other phones shorting the data pins on the charger indicates to the phone that it is a high current charger and not a computer USB port. Is there a similar trick for motorola phones? I would rather not have to purchase an overpriced moto oem car charger. I have a perfectly fine 1.2 amp car charger soldered directly into my car's 12v system behind the dash. Can I make it work?
Thanks!
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Not sure how it knows one way or the other. I've successfully used a few LG chargers to charge my D4. The only really hickup I've ran into is the usb cables from those lg chargers won't sync data to the phones when plugged into a computer, they'll still charge off the usb port but won't read as a usb connection to the computer.
Heh, captcha is trynply.
Every charger I've used, including an old charger for an EN-V, kindle, supplied, and various other phone chargers works just fine with this phone. Probably have a bad charger, guy.
Thanks for the replies. I guess I was wrong. My modded car charger works just fine. I guess its just time to retire the old charger that I have been using. I think it might be my old nexus one charger.
A more important question would be does the thing charge over computer-bound USB ports?
When you're without a charger, but there's a USB cable that fits your phone, sometimes a regular USB data port is the only that is around... even though it might take a really long time.
Try a computer bound USB port, then try your actual charger, again. Or do the hard reset (vol down plus power, hold until it actually does it), which is just like pulling the battery.
See how that goes.
Chris
RueTheDayTrebek said:
A more important question would be does the thing charge over computer-bound USB ports?
When you're without a charger, but there's a USB cable that fits your phone, sometimes a regular USB data port is the only that is around... even though it might take a really long time.
Try a computer bound USB port, then try your actual charger, again. Or do the hard reset (vol down plus power, hold until it actually does it), which is just like pulling the battery.
See how that goes.
Chris
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It does in fact charge via USB port. In fact, it has a 'charge only' mode. Depending on how much juice your port puts out, and what you are doing with the phone, it will charge slowly/not at all, though.
from my experiences, the droid 4 will not accept lg microusb cables, the charging bricks work tho. i use a blackberry microusb on mine along with a Logitech and the stock moto ones. 1.2 amps is a bit high but not crazy sounding. personally, I charge at 1 amp.
I bought a used nexus 6. It's in good shape. I immediately installed twrp and flashed cataclysm (my fav). This was all done on day one. I began using the device as normal. Upon plugging the device in to the charger (moto quick charger) I noticed it was charging VERY slowly. I checked the battery usage menu in settings and noticed that it said "charging over USB.". I was plugged into the wall. So, I thought, alright the guy sold it to me with a borked charger. I tried my old note 5 quick charger and it seems to work fine. Then, just for additional trouble shooting, I tried using the moto charger on my wife's lg g3. It worked fine. Seems the issue only happens on the nexus 6 with the moto quick charger. I searched with Google and found:
https://m.reddit.com/r/nexus6/comme...is_charging_slowly_says_it_is/?ref=readnext_3
Anyone know anything about this, or knows of a fix? I can use my note 5 charger, but my obsessive and anal tech ways keep me from just letting it go.
Thanks in advance!
I'm having a similar issue with two different chargers:
The Included Charger (the one that comes with the phone)
and
Aukey 12W / 2.4A Home Travel USB Wall Charger Adapter
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00Q873I3K?psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=oh_aui_detailpage_o02_s01
+
Monoprice 6-Feet USB 2.0 A Male to Micro 5pin Male
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003L18S0E?psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=oh_aui_detailpage_o02_s00
In my case, what happens is that the phone intermittently start and stops charging while plugged in. Not sure if it actually slows down the charge process though...
I have a Moto Z Play (Dual Sim Version ~ Germany) and a Incipio Battery Mod. The Mod charges fine when i use the bundled Turbo Charger (Charging is split between Phone and the Mod).
When i use the charger bought on Google Play store, the phone gets charged first to 100% and then the Mod charges.
However when i use a standard charger (the one that was bundled with my Moto X 2013 and a USB 3.0 to USB-C Cable) or a USB port, phone gets charged and it shows "Moto Mod" waiting to be charged for the Mod and it does on charge.
Is this a bug or do i have a faulty Mod? It is a bit annoying as i cannot carry the Turbo charger with me always
I read similar issues were happening with different chargers. Moto charging on a samsung etc Not anything faulty, away they got you to invest on charging cords. and something to do with Quick charge/Turbo charge
I have Samsung fast wireless charger(flat).....it has micro usb port and whenever i try to charge my note 8 it says "wirelessly charging" but instead of charging.. my device loose its charging percentage...even if its power off....i have tried plugging in wireless charger with samsung fast charging adapter with micro usb cable...but still same issue...says "wirelessly charging" then after sometime losses some juice
Have you tried using the same charging pad with other devices that support wireless charging? If the same thing happens with those then your charger is faulty and needs replace. If it doesn't then the wireless charging coil on your Note 8 is faulty and needs repaired. I would suggest taking it to a Samsung Service Center and let them take a look at it.
Have you tried to use an other cable? Often it's a broken or bad quality cable that causes problems.
Just got my new 4a5G mostly set up last night and plugged it into my multi-port charger for the night, and found that it won't charge at all. Tried another high-power charging brick from an old samsung tablet of mine and the same issue. My 3XL used to have issues sometimes charging too slowly on these bricks, but at least it charged. I was expecting the newer phone to fix this issue, not make it worse by not charging at all. The included charging brick works, as does the charger from my Samsung chromebook.
Why not use the included charger? Well I have 3 devices that I like to charge next to my bed at night (phone, chromebook, smartwatch) and only two free outlets. Chromebook, needs its own dedicated charger to fully charge overnight, so I typically have the phone and smartwatch plugged into a 4-port charging brick. This thing supports QuickCharge 2.0 on one port and the other ports cap out at 2.0 A, so it should easily be able to deliver a full charge overnight, but the 4a5G refuses to recognize it at all. Doesn't matter if I plug it into the QC port or one of the other ports. What the hell is up with Pixel phones being so picky about what you charge them with?
Update:
So it wasn't the charging bricks, it was the cable. Tried two of the same brand of cable, and they didn't work at all. Tried another USB A to C cable I was using for a different device, and it works! These cables work just fine for every other USB-C device I own. No flaky connections where you have to wiggle the plug in the port to get it to connect. They connect and stay firmly connected consistently on every other device, but the 4a5G just refuses to recognize them at all. So its picky about cables, not charging bricks. That's not nearly as bad, but still annoying.
Indeed! Also to note that I also learned that this phone needs a charger that has Power Delivery technology. I tried using the adapter from my previous phone that had quick charge 3.0 technology but it was not charging rapidly.
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So it wasn't the charging bricks, it was the cable. Tried two of the same brand of cable, and they didn't work at all. Tried another USB A to C cable I was using for a different device, and it works! These cables work just fine for every other USB-C device I own. No flaky connections where you have to wiggle the plug in the port to get it to connect. They connect and stay firmly connected consistently on every other device, but the 4a5G just refuses to recognize them at all. So its picky about cables, not charging bricks. That's not nearly as bad, but still annoying.
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I have Pixel 2XL and the 4a 5G too, and both have the same problems with cables one work other doesn't...