What type of charger to use for Sailfish X devices (5V3A / PD / QC...)

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Hi Sailors.
So i wanted to ask your feedbacks about Wall chargers on Sailfishos devices.

For exemple for me on Xperia X or XA2, only old 5V3A charger work properly.
Even if actually 3A is an overkill, seems that on my devices the Amperes rarely go above 1.6A while charging (according to
AIDA64).

PD charger (5v2a or 9v2a or 12v 1.5a) is making my phones complain (constanty disconnecting from the charge).

QC 3 charger had same issues as PD for me, as well as Huawei’s proprietary chargers.
Maybe it even overheats the phone, my XA2 gets up to 40 degrees celcius while trying to charge on QC3 (according to AIDA64).

So but thats for old devices (X and XA2), so i’m also curious about feedbacks on newer Sailfish X devices.

What about your experiences?
What type of chargers were the best or worst for you, what were the most fast/efficient?

Thanks for feedbacks!

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2A should be enough, surely 3A is better. Most important thing you need is a strong, thick and not too long cable to minimize cable loss. Sony phones are a little bit sensible for low voltage. But don’t worry, in worst case it’ll need a little more time to charge full.

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Which phone in particular are you interested in? I can report that the 10iii charges normally with a 2A charger and rapidly with one of those fast chargers that you would use for a laptop.

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I don’t know how much is it but i still use the original wall charger bundled with the xa2, the cable it’s an original ucb30, one that theoretically should provide faster data transfer but much less charging speed than the ucb20 included. Unfortunately infos were false and it charges super fast (super fast as in ten years ago standards) but it’s not overheating the phone at all

Frome some months now i also started to use battery protection from settings (limited at 90%) and limiting the charge rate with battery buddy to the slowest rate available (500hz ca) and i’m not complaining, phone runs great excluding the usual battery wear over time…

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I guess i am interested to gather all feedbacks, on each model of phone.
Did you check, fore exemple with AIDA64 how much the fast charger makes technically difference?

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Yes right, cable also matter.
Did you actually anytime reach 3A charging on your device? I never saw more than about 1.8A on my side going throw…

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I use mostly any charger I come along with my Xperia 10 III and it works just fine as long as the contacts are clean, which they aren’t at all times.

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No, I have no idea what AIDA64 is :slight_smile: I typically can tell if the phone is charging “quickly” or “slowly”, I’m certainly not benchmarking this.

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AIDA64 is an app in Jolla store.
It can show you details about battery while charging, such as the Voltage (V)and the Amperes (mA). It helps to understand what actually is happening during the charging process. It monitors temperature as well.

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