Quick Charging First Impression

[mstrblueskys]

Holy buckets. I don't know what to say. It went from 32% to 100% in exactly 1 hour while downloading apps, system updates, and syncing contacts. I'm blown away.

 

[B. Diddy]

Nice. Does it get warm during charging?

 

[mstrblueskys]

Nice. Does it get warm during charging?

You bet! It was nice and toasty. But I'm reserving judgement on that first charge. I installed 2 system updates, updated a bunch of apps, was syncing my contacts and emails, and installing the missing apps. That will heat up any phone I've used.

 

[Fred Wilson2]

Please update with next charge or when you can regarding heat.
Nothing kills a lithium battery faster than charging while hot.

Fred

 

[GrooveRite]

I believe its a 2.0A charger so it def should be fast! My only concern is if this quick charging harms and/or deteriorates the battery faster than normal?!?

 

[planoman]

I used my turbo charger for my nexus 6 and it works to quick charge did not notice any more heat than my nexus 6 or s6 when quick charging. I will pay more attention on the next few rounds of charging.

Posted via my ZenFone 2!

 

[jpr]

Very quick charge. It did not get as hot as my Note 3, which only supports Quick charge 1.0, not 2.0, and charges slower.

 

[B. Diddy]

I just got mine today, and it just gets a little warm (as long as I'm not using it intensely while charging as well).

 

[Josh Exmoor]

My first impression was that it doesn't work! Then I reseated both the cable ends and it worked amazingly well. I won't use it every day, but the AC charger will live in my work bag and I have a car charger in the mail. It will be really nice to have the option to quick charge.

 

[mstrblueskys]

I can see this being a thing that's way more handy during drives!

 

[Almeuit]

This thing does charge SUPER fast. Last night I went from 2% to 100% in about 40 minutes. That was with no usage while charging.. Just normal emails that it received and such.

 

[Almeuit]

Forgot to mention that charge is with the 18W charger.

 

[skatergirl]

Do you get a notification on the phone when the quick charger has been plugged in, like with the Note 4 and Droid Turbo?

 

[jpr]

Do you get a notification on the phone when the quick charger has been plugged in, like with the Note 4 and Droid Turbo?

No. I've only been using the quick charger so far and haven't seen any notification. And it's definitely utilizing the quick charge function.

 

[Blaize19]

There's a little sign in the battery icon when it's quick charging...

Posted via the Android Central App on my Asus ZenFone 2

 

[jpr]

There's a little sign in the battery icon when it's quick charging...

Posted via the Android Central App on my Asus ZenFone 2

Ah, good catch. I had not noticed since I hadn't used any other charger. I thought that was just what the charging symbol on Asus looked like.

 

[TheJastrom]

Last night for the first time I noticed on the phone's Lockscreen (once the phone is plugged in) that it actually tells you how long it will take to fully charge the phone. How did I not notice this before? Very cool.

I've plugged it in today and it did not tell me how long it would take to charge, I wonder how this is triggered?

 

[Josh Exmoor]

How long did you leave it plugged in for? I've noticed it seems to take a little bit to decide. It also takes a few seconds to go from "USB charging" to "AC Charging" to "Fast Charging". (Those terms may not be correct, I'm going off memory)

 

[jpr]

Last night for the first time I noticed on the phone's Lockscreen (once the phone is plugged in) that it actually tells you how long it will take to fully charge the phone. How did I not notice this before? Very cool.

I've plugged it in today and it did not tell me how long it would take to charge, I wonder how this is triggered?

It only shows the remaining time after quick charging is done.

 

[Almeuit]

Do you get a notification on the phone when the quick charger has been plugged in, like with the Note 4 and Droid Turbo?

Nope it just starts charging. It will say "Quick Charging" on the lock screen though. I am still blown away on how fast it goes.