New Chargers to Accommodate the New Mobile Devices: Perhaps your family has a mix of new devices that have QC 3.0 and Type-C charging. Or they advise that you can search for cables that Google Engineer Benson Leung has submitted positive reviews for on Amazon. Although not every reliable manufacturer goes down this route. The USB-IF is a non-profit organization that tests products to ensure compliance with the standards. They advise that you shouldįind the official product page from the manufacturer and look for mention of USB-IF Certification and markings on the cable or packaging. You need to buy a properly configured cable otherwise you run the risk of your new 3A device trying to pull too much current from your older 1A charger and destroying the charger or port.
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However, Android Authority warns that you need be aware of cheap USB Type-C cables. My chargers will still charge the new USB Type-C devices at a slower rate but I would need to buy the proper USB Type-C to USB A cables (or adapters) to utilize them. What does that mean? Well, the QC 2.0 chargers that I have will not provide the fastest charging rates for those phones because they do not provide up to 3A current. New Mobile Devices with New Charging Technology: Thus, you can see that with new phones such as the Nexus 6P and 5X, even though they have Qualcomm Snapdragon chipsets that are able to support QC tech, the phones are actually using USB Type-C fast charging tech and not QC tech. if you have QC 3.0 phone but have only a QC 2.0 charger you will be charging at QC 2.0 rates). Your charging rate is limited by the slowest device in the chain (e.g. To take advantage of QC tech, you need to have two things: appropriate Qualcomm Snapdragon mobile devices and Qualcomm Quick Charge certified chargers to deliver the fastest charging. Before the advent of these proprietary charging standards, conventional chargers charged devices at 5V/1A until Qualcomm came out with QC 1.0 which allowed devices to charge at 5V/2A. Thus, we have quick charging solutions from Qualcomm (Quick Charge) and Oppo. Qualcomm Quick Charge): Adopting the latest industry USB charging standard in mobile devices has been very slow so in the meantime, “Both manufacturers and chipset makers were not content with this and developed their own standards” according to GSMArena. One other clarification worth mentioning is that the new USB Type-C fast charging tech has Type-C connections on both the charger and the device whereas most of the current charging tech have USB A connections on the charger and USB micro-B connections on the device.
So essentially, USB Type C refers to the… connection type while the version numbers refer the data transfer speeds and other specs that a port or cable supports” – Android Authority. You can have a Type-C port that only supports USB 2.0 data transfer speeds and on the flip side have a USB Type-A port that supports 3.1 data transfer speeds. It is important to note that USB Type-C is not synonymous with the USB 3.0 or 3.1 standards according to Android Authority. USB Type-C looks like the new industry standard to provide more power (5V/3A) to charge the new mobile devices that incorporate it. Essentially what they state is that USB 2.0 is an industry standard for power (and data transfer speed, but I wish to focus only on power) and that USB 3.0, which provides more power, failed to establish itself on mobile devices. USB Charging: I found a great crash course on fast charging on GSMArena.