How do you charge your smartphone ?

Cisco001

Neil_Jones wrote: »

If it needs charging I plug it in and I go to bed. I'm not getting up at 4am just to check on how charged a device is. If its fully charged by 7am its fully charged and if it isn't, it isn't.

Please don't.
You never knew the quality of your charger and battery.

Swipe

One plus dash charge. Plug it in for 20 mins each day while having breakfast. Takes it to about 80% which is more than enough for 2 days use if required.

Chino

Cisco001 wrote: »

Please don't.

Please don't what? Charge your phone?

shaun_from_Africa

Cisco001 wrote: »

Please don't.
You never knew the quality of your charger and battery.

Chino wrote: »

Please don't what? Charge your phone?

Cisco isn't saying "don't charge your phone", just "don't put it on charge, go to bed and leave it charging all night"

https://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/mobile-phone-charger-night-fire-579145

https://www.nwales-fireservice.org.uk/news/2017/9/electrical-safety-warning-following-two-phone-charger-fires-in-flintshire/
Rare but it can still happen so why risk it?

Robisere

Missus and I have a Wileyfox each, with the recommended WF charger. I also have a Lenovo Tab-3 8" charger, which has its own supplied charger. We both find that each phone charges quicker and retains charge longer using the Lenovo charger, why should that be? Been doing this for months now, no detriment to either phone.

d123

shaun_from_Africa wrote: »

Cisco isn't saying "don't charge your phone", just "don't put it on charge, go to bed and leave it charging all night"

https://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/mobile-phone-charger-night-fire-579145

https://www.nwales-fireservice.org.uk/news/2017/9/electrical-safety-warning-following-two-phone-charger-fires-in-flintshire/
Rare but it can still happen so why risk it?

Both your links go to the same page, I’d hazard a guess that incidents like this are likely caused by a cheap knockoff charger bought from a market stall or similar.

victor2

d123 wrote: »

Both your links go to the same page, I’d hazard a guess that incidents like this are likely caused by a cheap knockoff charger bought from a market stall or similar.

Or fake goods obtained from supposedly trusted sources.

With USB charging being pretty much universal these days, and smartphones moving towards non user-replaceable batteries, it is commonplace and generally fine to just leave the charger permanently plugged in and connect the phone as needed - often overnight. Anyone who uses mobile technology will have more chargers than they need. Modern lithium batteries have a circuit that stops charging when full. When the battery reaches the end of its useful life, the phone is probably considered obsolete and fit only for recycling anyway.
Just another sign of our disposable world.

d123

victor2 wrote: »

Or fake goods obtained from supposedly trusted sources.

With USB charging being pretty much universal these days, and smartphones moving towards non user-replaceable batteries, it is commonplace and generally fine to just leave the charger permanently plugged in and connect the phone as needed - often overnight. Anyone who uses mobile technology will have more chargers than they need. Modern lithium batteries have a circuit that stops charging when full. When the battery reaches the end of its useful life, the phone is probably considered obsolete and fit only for recycling anyway.
Just another sign of our disposable world.

Fakes are a big problem, this article says they estimate 1.8 million counterfeit Apple chargers were sold annually in the UK, there’s huge numbers of counterfeits of other brands (like Samsung) around as well.

Fake Apple chargers may seem like a cheaper option than shelling out for official cables at the Apple Store, but they could end up killing you.

Electrical Safety First put 50 lookalike Apple chargers to the test only to find that 49 of them, or 98 percent, failed UK electrical safety tests.

The majority of the chargers the organisation tested were found to be so shoddily build or contained sub-standard components that they had the potential to deliver a severe or even lethal electric shock.

https://www.trustedreviews.com/news/fake-apple-iphone-chargers-3352296

DigForVictory

Me, I plug it into the mains overnight (and I will have to change my evil ways.)

M'mother-in-law very sensibly hands it to her grandson & carries on conversation...

simax

martinthebandit wrote: »

I usually charge mine with electricity

There’s always one