Is the wireless charger working for anyone?

Works for me. Did you enable wireless charging on your Samsung? Some of them have it turned off by default.

 

Stupid question, but did you push the button to turn it on? It took me an embarrassing amount of time to realize there's a button on the forward side to turn it on and off.

It does make my phone hot, I wouldn't recommend it for longer than an hour or so. I did leave it in for four hours on one drive and the phone got so hot it slowed and eventually stopped working. I wouldn't say it charged during that time, but the charge also didn't go down despite using navigation and music on it.

 

It works but not always and often takes fidgeting. I believe they might have been better off making it a flat pad that the phone lays on like most car manufactures do.

 

Yeah, I would seriously advise against using that charging system while using your phone to navigate or stream music. It's gonna be REALLY rough on the battery. Heat kills.

 

With me, it's hit and miss in getting the phone (an iPhone 14 Pro in a clear (Magsafe compatible) case) to work. I often need to try several times before the charging light becomes steady. I haven't had any super long charging sessions, but I did notice that the phone was not overly warm after about 20 minutes of charging.

Fortunately, there are several alternatives to wireless charging:

• If the trip is short, don't even bother. In fact, leave the phone in your pocket so you won't forget to take it with you.
• Put the phone and run a cable to a charging port in console box. You'll still be using Bluetooth for the CarPlay or Android Auto connections.
• Plug the phone into the media port under the instrument panel and either leave the phone in the tray or the slot. This gives you a wired connection for media while also charging the phone
• If the phone is depleted, plug a 3rd party charger in with the phone in the slot or tray.

Note that the compartment under the tray is a useful place to store cables. Unfortunately 3rd party chargers are a bit too tall to fit.

 

It's just a personal choice, but I've set my Samsung to never super fast charge. I think I've got it set to regular wireless charge and fast plug-in charge(the majority of my charging is overnight wireless). It just puts less strain on the battery. Barring clumsiness(goodbye sweet Pixel 4a that I only owned for a few months), I try to get as many years out of my phones as possible. Gentle charging helps prolong the life of the battery as much as possible.

It's really no different than our main hybrid batteries. Nothing kills the battery faster than overheating. The early gen3 got a reputation as a battery killer because of the placement of the battery cooling intake and the lack of a filter on it. Owners covered the vent up with a blanket, pet hair clogged the fan, or toddlers shoved objects down the vent that jammed the fan. In any case, the cooling system failed, the batteries overheated, and it caused those batteries to start failing way earlier than they should have.

So I try to slow charge my phone's battery whenever possible, use fast charge only if I have to, and use super fast charge only if I'm desperate. Not trying to convince anyone to change their habits, just explaining mine.

 

I have an iPhone XS with a silicone case. Wireless charger works for me.

 

Mine works perfectly fine. I just never use it anymore. I have the power switch off. After using it a few times. I realized it heats up the phone more than I’m comfortable with. I don’t want to kill my battery with that much heat. It’s okay for me though. I don’t go on very long trips that requires me to charge up and if I need to charge I will hook up the USB cable instead.

 

TBH, using Qi charging in a vehicle focused on efficiency would feel kinda odd

 

It works on my 2021 Prius Prime Limited with my Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra.

 

This is a modification to my earlier post:

I have gotten the phone my iPhone 14 Pro (in a clear Apple case) to consistently charge using the built-in QI charger. The trick is to feel for the charger in the slot and then drop the phone into the slot with the center of the phone's charging area over that area. Just dropping the phone in and then sliding it around to find the sweet spot almost never worked.

 

LOL It is never an issue with the lay-on-flat design in Gen 4. Moreover, I don't like it that you can't see your phone while you are charging it—really silly design in Gen 5.

 

It was definitely an issue with Gen 4 and my iPhone 14 Pro. Apple enlarged the camera area on this phone and moved the sweet spot for charging a bit. Unfortunately, there was no way the phone could lay flat on the charging pad and hit the charger properly. There's enough slack in the slot that I can match sweet spots.

 

My s10e Samsung charges fine in my 2023 prime, but only in one orientation in the slot.

 

I have a 13 Pro max w a mous case. Charging will NOT work unless I remove the case. Bad design IMO.