Phone (2a) - Fast Charging

MohanPrasath_bQVADZxOrU · 2024-03-15T18:29:48+00:00

Hi guys, I bought my Nothing phone (2a) one day ago. Had ordered the Nothing 65 watts charger with the phone. Since then i have been noticing this constant...

siddu2724

JeffiEdward no my mothing 2a is up-to-date but charging is very slow with cmf charger

JeffiEdward

siddu2724 but today I charged after latest sw update, and my phone got charger exactly in 1 hr from 10%-100%. But am not sure if the issue is fully resolved or inconsistent. Will update further. Mine is official nothing 45w charger.

Piyushraj_mxFeJT0hKw

Something is very wrong cmf 65W GaN charger is taking very long time to charge the phone 2a.

Totally unacceptable, fix needed ASAP.

ghumnewala

16% to 98% in nearly an hour.

I am using a samsung 25 w charger . shows rapidly charging and I think is fast enough. was also working before 2.5.4.a too.

DoingNothing

I am following this thread since the day I bought my Nothing Phone 2a and also struggling to find a suitable charger. So here is my experience with different chargers which I tried, hope some of you would find it helpful. I have used Ampere app to measure current flow to the phone.

One Plus Charger 80W SuperVooc - since it runs on a different technology as required by nothing phones, charging speed was way slow. The phone was drawing around 500-600mA of current.
Vivo Flashcharge 44W - better than others, charging time was around 2-2.5hours for 10-90%. Phone was drawing around 1.8-1.9A of current.
10W original iPhone charger - around 500mA of current
An old Vivo charger (one which used to come during type B USB ports) - around 800-900mA
Amazon Basics 45W charger - the best I have found, draws around 5.8-5.9A and charges the phone from 7% - 100% in around 70-75 minutes.

So the best I have found till now is Amazon basics 45W charger. People can try that and confirm if it’s working for them also.

mohammadfarooque

Hi,

I purchased Nothing Phone 2A, official charger is Out of Stock. I tried below adapters as of now:

1: OnePlus Original 65W charger -> 1 % in 2 minutes. (Charges my 9RT phone 0-100 in 25 minutes)

2: OnePlus Original Dash charger -> 1 % in 2 minutes. (Charges my 6T phone 0-100 in 50 minutes)

3: Samsung Original Charger -> 1 % in 3 minutes. (Charges my Samsung A32 phone 0-100 in 90 minutes)

4: RealMe Original Wasp Charger -> 1 % in 2 minutes. (Charges my RealMe phone 0-100 in 45 minutes)

It only works with my Nothing Original Adapter which I use for my Nothing Phone 2.

Seems all original brand adapters are useless. If it has to be Nothing Charger only then it should be in the box. Very very disappointed with this.

Can anyone suggest why these superfast chargers not able to provide fast charging to Phone 2A????

ReddyAnna

mohammadfarooque That’s because all those charges (I’m not sure about Samsung A32) are incompatible with the charging protocols supported by nothing 2a. In theory, any compatible (PD, PPS fast charger) third party charger should work with the 2a. The ones you listed aren’t compatible.

Appu_HRMxwUuBda

JeffiEdward just check with multiple occasions . Sometimes it’s behaving inconsistent in charging time

mohammadfarooque

ReddyAnna Can you advise any adapters? If possible with purchase links please.

ReddyAnna

mohammadfarooque that depends on your geographic region. Samsung 25W fast charger is a safe bet. The charger is reliable and gets the job done. For full rating you’ve got original Nothing 45W charger, CMF 65W GaN adapter, Anker 45W PD, Anker 65W GaN, etc. Lot depends on your geographic region and budget.

baymax

Appu_HRMxwUuBda yeah, even in my case it’s inconsistent

Raviii

MohanPrasath_bQVADZxOrU same issue here, I’m using CFM 65W charger, Nothing C to C cable, when charging it shows charging rapidly, but actually it took more than 1 and half hour for full charge, also sometimes it didn’t sense the fast charging.

MandarVedak

I have original nothing charger adaptor, when I charging my battery stuck at 76% it’s happening when I installed last update check my screenshots

KarloPasaoa

georgios1 Bro mine is inconsistent even though I use the official charger. Need to plug and unplug and sometimes the fast charging just suddenly stops and slows the charge.

georgios1

KarloPasaoa

I think that we need to provide more details and better feedback to the community and the Nothing team if we wish to help them getting any issues resolved.

It would be great if we could try to debug the issues we might face by testing different workflows.

For example, do you have “Sleep standby optimization”, “Battery health” and “Battery saver” all disabled/off or not? I have all three off and I have never had any charging issues since I bought the official Nothing charger.

YashwanthRaj

Don’t know what’s wrong with the (2a) phone or the adaptor NOTHING 45W i need to unplug the cable from the adaptor and the phone repeatedly to get the accuracy of the charging status NOTHING needs to fix this issue ASAP!

MrDeja

After rigorous testing the charging speed …i reached in a conclusion that nothing 2a has support upto 25 watt pd charging..its promoting 45 watt but they limited this speed to 25 watt pd charging thats why we are getting good charging speed with samsung charger and cmf charger also i tested the charging speed its highest charging speed is 25 watt for nothing 2a but when u will charge phone 2, it will atleast touch 40 + watt and for phone 1 , atleast reaching 30+ watt

Considered equipments in this test
Samsung 25 watt pd charger as well as 65 watt pd charger ,cmf gan charger ,amazon basic 100 watt gan charger , ambrane 100watt gan charger ,samsung cable,nothing cable ,urban 100 watt pd charger cable ,verilux type c cable(chargeing speed indicator) ,wayona powelink cable (chargeing speed indicator)

By using above equipments i hv also tested samsung devices which are consistently giving me charging speed from 22 watt to 25 watt with 25 watt pd charger and 40 to 45 watt respectively..

Its evident that either Nothing has limited it to 25 watt or 45 watt is only marketing gimmick..

You guys can refer few YouTube videos for nothing 2a charging speed test ..they are also getting charging time from 80 to 90 mins…I am feeling betrayed by nothing…

This could be my last phone purchase from nothing…if this issue is not getting addressed At the earliest..

ROHITDHOPTE

MrDeja I have bought samsung 45 watt travel adapter, at first it used to charge rapidly, but after 10 days the mobile shows rapidly changing but actually it’s taking very long to charge, literally 5 mins for every 1%. This is so not acceptable.

KishansinhZala

MohanPrasath_bQVADZxOrU you can use Samsung 25 watt charger which give you fast charger I am using the same.

Pawe_Mikulski

JeffiEdward workiing for me, just check app ampere, good charhge is 5500 mA

I’m already furious when I have to disconnect the charger several times and check via the Ampere application whether the 45W is charging correctly. The problem still persists in version a

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