I own a Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra, and for the most part the ownership experience has been great. I also own a Galaxy Watch Active 2, and paired with that phone, the combination is awesome.
However, when it comes to wireless charges — and, in particular, car wireless chargers — I've been having some recurrent problems.
Now, I'm not posting this here on MacRumors out of any expectation of technical support, but rather some feedback. Also, as some of you might remember, I had briefly owned an iPhone 11 some time prior to buying the S20 Ultra, and I'd had some disappointments at that time which may or may not any longer be truly relevant to me. So, I'm also looking for feedback which is holistic enough to include thoughts about the iPhone platform.
When I charge my phone using a wireless car charger (and I've now owned a few) in some cases it will not charge the phone, but in other cases — which are the ones in interested in for this post — they'll work properly for about 1-4 weeks, and then they start acting up in some manner, and basically I can no longer charge my phone using that unit. As I don't own any other wirelessly chargeable phones, I cannot check to see if the unit is damaged (i.e. it no longer properly charges anything) so I'm not in a position to troubleshoot the hardware further.
Some time ago, I happened to talk to one of the people who did service work on smart phones in one of these businesses you see in a Walmart or in it's own unit in an office plaza, and what he said at that time is Samsung has had an issue with the batteries and power systems in some of their phones, and the S20 series is one of them. I can't recall if he had included the S20 Ultra by name or not.
Now, I own a number of desktop wireless charges, some of which are Samsung units and some of which are not. All of them are several years old except for the Samsung trio charger I bought a few months ago. And none of them, whether they can charge my phone at the full rate it's capable of or not, have ever once developed a problem charging my phone.
So, my questions are:
Does anyone else here have a Samsung S20 Ultra? And if you do, have you ever encountered these or any other bizarre charging-related problems?
Did anyone else here who owns some other model of Samsung Fallacy phone had wireless charging issues?
Does anyone here who has a relatively recent model of iPhone (let's say, from the X up thrive the 12 series) had these problems?
At the time I'd bought the 11, the current major release of iOS had not yet come out. I've since had a chance to play with it and it seems nice. Also, in that same intervening period of time, I've bought an M1 MacBook Air.
What's the community's thoughts here on me switching to an iPhone with an Apple Watch? I own a smart watch for health monitoring as well as all the other fun and mundane reasons one might use it.
However, when it comes to wireless charges — and, in particular, car wireless chargers — I've been having some recurrent problems.
Now, I'm not posting this here on MacRumors out of any expectation of technical support, but rather some feedback. Also, as some of you might remember, I had briefly owned an iPhone 11 some time prior to buying the S20 Ultra, and I'd had some disappointments at that time which may or may not any longer be truly relevant to me. So, I'm also looking for feedback which is holistic enough to include thoughts about the iPhone platform.
When I charge my phone using a wireless car charger (and I've now owned a few) in some cases it will not charge the phone, but in other cases — which are the ones in interested in for this post — they'll work properly for about 1-4 weeks, and then they start acting up in some manner, and basically I can no longer charge my phone using that unit. As I don't own any other wirelessly chargeable phones, I cannot check to see if the unit is damaged (i.e. it no longer properly charges anything) so I'm not in a position to troubleshoot the hardware further.
Some time ago, I happened to talk to one of the people who did service work on smart phones in one of these businesses you see in a Walmart or in it's own unit in an office plaza, and what he said at that time is Samsung has had an issue with the batteries and power systems in some of their phones, and the S20 series is one of them. I can't recall if he had included the S20 Ultra by name or not.
Now, I own a number of desktop wireless charges, some of which are Samsung units and some of which are not. All of them are several years old except for the Samsung trio charger I bought a few months ago. And none of them, whether they can charge my phone at the full rate it's capable of or not, have ever once developed a problem charging my phone.
So, my questions are:
Does anyone else here have a Samsung S20 Ultra? And if you do, have you ever encountered these or any other bizarre charging-related problems?
Did anyone else here who owns some other model of Samsung Fallacy phone had wireless charging issues?
Does anyone here who has a relatively recent model of iPhone (let's say, from the X up thrive the 12 series) had these problems?
At the time I'd bought the 11, the current major release of iOS had not yet come out. I've since had a chance to play with it and it seems nice. Also, in that same intervening period of time, I've bought an M1 MacBook Air.
What's the community's thoughts here on me switching to an iPhone with an Apple Watch? I own a smart watch for health monitoring as well as all the other fun and mundane reasons one might use it.