Do You Fast Charge Your Smartphone? Fast Charging Explained!

     How many times have you cursed your phone because it doesn’t charge quickly? Fast charging can help you with that at all time and save your precious time and battery for you to play PUBG on your phone! But, do you even know what fast charging is? Fast Charging is a technology used to charge a device typically smartphones faster by allowing more power to be delivered through USB. It usually also requires USB-C, Which you can learn more about here. But, How do you Quick Charge your phone? Till the end of this article you should have your answer.

     Fast Charging is adopted by many different Companies in their way with many names such as Qualcomm Quick Charge, Turbo Charge, Adaptive Charge, Dash Charge, Super Charge, Super Vooc etc. What all of these technologies do is increasing the amount of juice(Power) being supplied to your phone. But, Just supplying more power can be harmful for your device and can cause blasts! The standard ratings of a charger are 5 V (Volts) and 1 Amp (Ampere), Where as a Fast charging device supports ratings such as 9 V, 2 Amp and 12 V, 2 Amp. Many of these technologies use these rating with a couple of tweaks. But, Just using a Fast Charger to Charge your phone doesn’t do the trick. Your phone needs to support Fast Charging too.

     If your Smartphone supports Fast Charging it will be mentioned on the specs page or on the box or you can find out by the rating or your charger. These rating specifically 9 V, 2 Amp and others have been tested on your phone and if it supports them they are enabled with Fast Charge. To fast charge a phone a Fast charging capable USB port and a Cable is also necessary. Meanwhile, It is necessary to remember that Fast Charge is not intended to charge your phone from 1% to 100% in 10 minutes. As the level of battery or charge increases Fast Charge starts to slow-down and most chargers take half hour to charge the phone from 1% to 80% and then take another half or one hour to charge from 80% to 100%. This is for increasing battery life and to prevent any accidental overcharges and defects to the battery.

     The best way to check if your phone supports Quick Charge is to head on to the Quick Charge page here. And if it supports anything other than Qualcomm Quick Charge it will be advertised somewhere or other. The best Fast Charging Technology to this date is Dash Charge by OnePlus. It charges their OnePlus phones from 2% to 100% in just 1 Hour 15 Minutes, While maintaining comfortable temperatures. Qualcomm 4.0 is the fastest but only enable in the Razer phone and claims to charge your phone in just 15 minutes. The most commonly used Fast Charging Technology is Quick Charging in its various versions such as QC 1.0, QC 2.0, QC 3.0, QC 4.0 and QC 4.0 +. Here is a list of Voltage, Current and Maximum power in each of the ones mentioned above as example.

Fast Charge Tech	Voltage	Current	Max Power
Quick Charge 2.0	5V / 9V / 12V	1.6A / 2 A	10 W
Adaptive Charge	5V / 9V	2A	18W
Turbo Charge/ Power	5V	5.7A	28.5W
Dash Charge	5V	4A	20W
Oppo Vooc	5V	5A	25W
Super Charge	4.5V / 5V	4.5A / 5A	25W

     

     Those are the thing you should know about Fast Charging in all of its glory. We hope you like this article and got to know more about how to Fast Charge a phone and what Fast Charge actually does. We do not suggest you to charge your phone with a Fast charger if your phone does not support it as it may cause some problems that we will not be responsible for. But, If your phone supports Fast Charging, Charge It with a charge which has correct output. That was our take on Fast Charging and to read more of such awesome articles and Tech news come here more often at Rohan Wayangankar’s Blog.

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