Nexus 5 wired or wireless charging?

[Anim@l]

I use both.
The wireless charger is on my office desk 24/7.
I only use cable charging at home on a weekend.

 

[anon(301129)]

I have two PowerBot wireless pucks and love them. No issues at all.

 

[vividrich]

I used to be one of those who couldn't understand why wireless charging was that much more convenient than wired.....and then I got a wireless charger. Boy was I wrong! The reason it makes a difference to me: I'm one of those who has my phone in action constantly, so I wind up needing to charge it a couple times a day. I'm also one of those who, if I'm sleepy at night, might forget to plug in my charger and wake up the next day with a phone ready to die.

With wireless charging, I don't ever have to debate with myself if I want to find the cable, then find the right port on my phone, then try to plug it in only to find out I've tried plugging it in upside down before finally getting it right. Instead, wireless charging is literally as easy as just SETTING MY PHONE DOWN ON MY DESK. Now there's no need to have a set charging time that I might forget--because when it's not in use, it's always automatically charging, because I just set it down where I set everything anyway--right beside me on the desk.

To me, wireless charging is second only to early Android updates as to why I love my Nexus 5 so much.

Yeah I do find it handy....I never would've gotten one were it not for that AT&T sale. $5 and free shipping for a name brand (not some off off off brand crap)...there's really no downside there.

 

[Robbie317]

I will now eat my socks. The screen *DOES* turn on when the charge is lower than 90-something %. I just didn't notice because I charge it so often above that threshold. Sorry about that, I will zap the previous posting too.

Anyway, not sure why it matters... the screen will just turn off in 20 or 30 seconds or whatever.

Yeah it's just one of those nit picky things.... My wireless charger has a light and it turns green when it has a good charging connection and will actually flash RED if it's not lined up properly... the screen popping on is just one of those weird things that even though it turns off on it's own after a set period of time I am anal enough that I wait for it to beep and turn on and then manually turn it off by hand...

 

[anon(166548)]

I tried the Nokia charger a while ago (long before the $5 deal people are talking about). I returned it the next day. My Nexus 4 would continually cycle through "I'm charging" (beep) -> "I'm not charging" (beep). Lather/rinse/repeat. It drove me nuts.

I couldn't see any connection between the current (hah!) state of charge of the phone and this obnoxious behavior.

But maybe I'll try one of the others people have linked to here.

Mike

 

[JRDroid]

I tried the Nokia charger a while ago (long before the $5 deal people are talking about). I returned it the next day. My Nexus 4 would continually cycle through "I'm charging" (beep) -> "I'm not charging" (beep). Lather/rinse/repeat. It drove me nuts.

I couldn't see any connection between the current (hah!) state of charge of the phone and this obnoxious behavior.

But maybe I'll try one of the others people have linked to here.

Mike

I haven't had that issue with my Nokia chargers with my Nexus 5 or 7.

I am legitimately pissed I missed this sale. I would have bought 4 as well... Damn it.

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I wanted to get more, but my wife thought I was crazy.

 

[Fred98TJ]

One bad thing about wireless charging is the heat that it generates.
About the worse thing that one can do, concerning the life of a lithium battery, is charge it while it's hot.
Lithium's hate heat and it's a killer for them, capacity life wise.


Fred

 

[crxssi]

One bad thing about wireless charging is the heat that it generates.
About the worse thing that one can do, concerning the life of a lithium battery, is charge it while it's hot.
Lithium's hate heat and it's a killer for them, capacity life wise.

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It does create some additional heat, although we don't know if that affects battery life anymore than the [lesser] heat from wired charging

Per Wikipedia:

Higher temperatures during charging may lead to battery degradation while charging at temperatures above 45 °C [113F] will degrade battery performance

I don't think mine gets anywhere near that hot (113F)... plus, again, there is no mention of how MUCH possible degradation might happen, if any, when above that temp nor for how long. Everything is relative.

I guess my point is... probably just don't worry about it.

 

[Wiley_11]

I don't think mine gets anywhere near that hot (113F)... plus, again, there is no mention of how MUCH possible degradation might happen, if any, when above that temp nor for how long. Everything is relative.


I guess my point is... probably just don't worry about it.

I've never seen mine on the Nexus wireless charger go over 100º F, about the same as plugging it in.

 

[NexusNick123]

I use both and with wireless I take me N5 and N7 off and back on haven't had a problem with the battery

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[DroidDavi]

This might seem like the most 1st world thing ever but once your used to just placing your phone down and it charging you can't go back .

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[parker5011]

Go with wireless man. Well worth the money


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