Do I have Wireless charging??

[Blue Buckaroo]

I guess I have a one off charger. My iPhone SE 3rd generation charges just fine and doesn’t get hot. I put it on the wireless charger with 59%. I ran a couple errands in town that took about 45 minutes. I pulled it off the charger and the phone was at 96% and wasn’t hot. Maybe the newer larger iphones react differently. I’m happy with mine.

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[CMillBronco]

UPDATE - I ordered the Broaddict charger for $80 and installed it today and there wasn't a charger in there. Took like 30 minutes and the blue lights can be seen through the factory charge pad. I'll test it out the next few days and see how it does.

 

[Brian_B]

Mine didn't come with a factory Qi charger, but I added one via a center console organizer thing. My thought was I could stick the phone in there, out of sight, and I wouldn't be messing with it while driving. There is a 12V outlet in the center console, so that worked out well for the install - nice and clean

In practice:
While on this particular charger, phone will basically maintain a charge, it doesn't gain any battery level, but it doesn't really lose any either.

That, and there's enough stuff that Carplay restricts while the vehicle is in motion that I was constantly opening up the center console to dig out the phone anyway...

So I stopped using it. Actually, I stopped using Wireless Carplay all together and now plug in directly to the USB under the HVAC for CarPlay --- that does keep the battery charged up, the music sounds way better, and I don't have the annoying CarPlay hiccups every time I drive past a strong radio antenna on Hwy 99 or right next to my office.

If the slow to non-existent charging on the Qi pad was all that I had to deal with, I'd probably keep using it, even though it doesn't top off the battery on the phone. I don't really need it to charge the phone, just keep the phone from dying while I'm on long road trips, and it did that. Yeah, it's kind of a pain to plug in my phone every time - but that ended up being less of a pain than all the issues I was having, primarily with Wireless Carplay.

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