Smartphone Quick Charge Technology: A Smart Move Or More Charging Problems?

About 4 years ago, the smartphone technology world started witnessing a new piece of charging technology simply known as quick/fast charge that enables smartphones charge up faster than usual. With the advent of quick charge technology, smartphones of the past that would normally take about 2 to 3 hours to get fully charged from a completely drained out battery now takes less than an hour to achieve same full battery charge under same condition.

It is important to note here that smartphones with inbuilt quick-charge technology also come with their specific rated power chargers, and for you to put the quick charge functionality into play, you have to be charging the phone with their specified chargers, which normally come with higher current ratings than those made for devices without quick charge. Charging without specified chargers automatically entails slower charging.

Although this piece of quick charge technology can easily be seen as a welcome development as smartphone owners across the world with devices with quick charge technology no longer have to wait for ages to get their battery drained smartphones charge up to 100% battery level.

But as the saying goes that with some new inventions come additional headache and the case of quick charge technology can easily be classified as a typical example of such technology and the reason why we asked; if quick charge technology is really a welcome smart move or it comes with more charging problems than anticipated.

We have come to observe that there is higher tendency for smartphones with quick charge technology to develop different charging problems than those devices without quick charge technology.

Many people with smartphones with quick charge technology have highly witnessed and reported various charging problems that are not common with devices without quick charge. 

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The problems reported are not only limited to their quick charge devices being highly selective to third party chargers with the same ratings as that of the OEMs, charging becoming extremely slow with time even with OEM chargers, device getting very hot during charging as result of increased energy intake, and in some cases devices completely failing to charge.

Even the original Google Pixel devices are currently and widely being reported with quick charge problems after recent upgrades to Android 9 Pie, which have prompted Google to quickly commence a software fix to tackle the issue.

Are you also having issue with your devices with quick charge technology or do you have any experience to share pertaining the topic, you can do so in the comment section.