The adapter for the newer fast charging standard isn't ready yet. Qualcomm's in a rush to prove something, but there's this move isn't a healthy one.
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By no means affordable, at $150 stateside, the "intelligent" Razer Power Bank has Quick Charge 3.0 support going for it, and both USB-A and C ports.
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A number of Android device manufacturers these days, including OnePlus, Huawei and OPPO, seem to be building on Qualcomm’s basic Quick Charge strengths while always looking to take things to the next level with their own personal changes and implementations of fast-charging technology.
But once Snapdragon 835-powered flagship phones come to light sometime “in the first half of 2017”, Quick Charge 4 could be all you need to make sure “you don’t have to spend all day chained to your charging cable.”
Unlike the mostly mysterious SD835 SoC, we know quite a few things about the Qualcomm Quick Charge 4 standard, starting with its main claim to fame – five minutes of charging for extended “premium” smartphone use by five or “more hours.”
Also, “roughly 15 minutes or less” for up to a 50 percent battery charge. Then you have equally impressive generic figures like “up to 20 percent faster charging and up to 30 percent higher efficiency compared with Quick Charge 3.0.” Bottom line, this is blazing fast and ultra-efficient.
Perhaps more importantly though, it’s fully compatible with USB Type-C and USB-PD (Power Delivery) specifications, thus working on the “widest variety of cables and adapters” in the industry.
Last but certainly not least, Qualcomm fine-tuned the heck out of its in-house Quick Charge 4 safety, implementing protection at “multiple levels and throughout the entire charging process to more accurately measure voltage, current, and temperature while protecting the battery, system, cables and connectors.” All to reduce your explosion concerns.
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Google is “strongly recommending” to its manufacturer partners that they follow proper USB specifications for devices running on Android Nougat and even requiring compliance with specific specs.
The latest Android Compatibility Definition Document has expanded upon implementations for a USB port in both peripheral and host modes. There are specific recommendations and requirements now applied in support of the USB Battery Charging specifications, revision 1.2, including USB Power Delivery. Here
- It SHOULD implement support to draw 1.5 A current during HS chirp and traffic as specified in the USB Battery Charging specification, revision 1.2 . Existing and new Android devices are STRONGLY RECOMMENDED to meet these requirements so they will be able to upgrade to the future platform releases.
- Type-C devices MUST detect 1.5A and 3.0A chargers per the Type-C resistor standard and it must detect changes in the advertisement.
- Type-C devices also supporting USB host mode are STRONGLY RECOMMENDED to support Power Delivery for data and power role swapping.
- Type-C devices SHOULD support Power Delivery for high-voltage charging and support for Alternate Modes such as display out.
Google goes on to strongly recommend manufacturers to not support proprietary charging methods that stray from default voltage controls or switch sink/source roles as to render chargers not interoperable between devices. Yep, abandon ye Qualcomm Quick Charge if you want to hop on the Nougat train.
“While this is called out as ‘STRONGLY RECOMMENDED’, in future Android versions we might REQUIRE all type-C devices to support full interoperability with standard type-C chargers,” the listing goes on to read.
Charging over USB-C has been a little bit more of a trick to handle on Android. The Quick Charge 3.0-capable HTC 10 didn’t work friendly with the charger of the Pixel C. Google engineer Benson Leung also has been adamant about having USB-C peripherals following proper charging spec, be it so that a bad cable doesn’t get to fry a phone.
So, Google definitely wants to make sure that OEMs are headed in a safe direction. But will the company continue for a unified, un-fragmented direction, even with hardware spec? We don’t necessarily think so.
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Following up on Google’s Benson Leung‘s skepticism of the LG G5 and HTC 10 for likely being non-compliant with specifications for USB Type-C for charging, the engineer has become a little less wary of the G5.A GTrusted test of the device’s charging practices when connected to Google’s universal 60W ...
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It’s getting hot, hot, hot once again for HTC — and we don’t know where the fault lays. The problem comes down to charging the HTC 10 and, perhaps, the LG G5.Android Central’s Jerry Hildenbrand wrote up a post — which you can link to below — describing the blazing danger zone his HTC 10 got into while charging on a power brick that came with his Pixel C. The phone shut off after getting very hot, — Hildenbrand guessed that the phone never stopped charging even after 100 percent — ...
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The OnePlus 3 has received its China Compulsory Certificate and we’ve found out that it supports a 5V, 4A charging standard. It does come as an about face for OnePlus, a manufacturer that hasn’t embraced Qualcomm’s Quick Charging standard in its phones. But be prepared to not be surprised once the dots get connected.
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Smartphone users don’t tend to be the most patient bunch in the world: we want faster data, new phones sooner, and software update now, now, now. On the hardware front, that need for speed has extended to way we power our phones; the old days of waiting hours and hours for a smartphone to get a full charge are long over, replaced with modern fast-charging tech. When HTC launched its One A9 late last year, some shoppers may have raised an eyebrow at the phone’s petite 2150mAh battery, but at least ...
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While Samsung and Qualcomm are yet to publicly tackle the reasons for the absence of advanced Quick Charge 3.0 technology from Snapdragon 820-powered Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge configurations, a seemingly innocuous new post on the chip designer’s blog may have just dropped another bombshell.Check that, it absolutely dropped one, since there’s no way QCM made an innocent ...
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Update: We have edited our headline from “Quick Charge 3.0 won’t be on Galaxy S7, S7 edge because of Exynos support” to reflect that neither Qualcomm nor Samsung have stated why Quick Charge 2.0 is being used on Snapdragon 820-equipped Galaxy S7 and S7 edge phones. Pocketnow regrets the error.So, you have the new Galaxy S7 or Galaxy S7 edge and are excited about its larger, supposedly longer-lasting ...
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You’ll be hard-pressed to find someone who would turn down a phone with a bigger battery than a smaller one, all things being equal. Unfortunately, phones with bigger capacities generally mean thicker dimensions and heavier devices. Even a few dozen mAh can add significant costs to the bill of materials. The solutions to this conundrum come in four varieties: OS and SoC optimizations to reduce battery use, and wireless and quick charging schemes to help keep the battery full. Targeting the latter, and following up from a successful 2.0 release, Qualcomm’s solution is Quick ...
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The slow burn and churn at HTC has produced a series of rather disappointing results seemingly for both the consumer and, as the effect to the cause, the company itself. This so-called “Aero” project that CEO Cher Wang has been touting as the autumn “hero” (no, not that Hero) to save the Taiwanese OEM from ...
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Was the Snapdragon 810 chipset just a (flaming hot) fluke? Has Qualcomm restored its reputation of reliable performance in its high-tier silicon? Is all the bashing, the ridicule and the doubt over for the San Diego-based company? We will soon find out as the ...
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