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  • Odd Semi-Android Charging Glitch

    From BenignBodger@21:1/5 to All on Sun Oct 27 18:12:38 2024
    I've been using old-school Anker wireless stand chargers since my first
    phone capable of using the technology (~2020) and they've always worked perfectly. Last week I found that the charger on my nightstand was acting flaky. I'd put my new Pixel 9 Pro on it and after a few seconds the blue charging light on the charger would start to blink and charging would stop.
    The question came: phone failure or charger failure. I answered that by
    putting the phone on another on in my office and it worked perfectly so it
    had to be the charger so the next logical step was to swap the two. The
    'bad' charger worked fine in the office and the 'good' charger failed in
    the bedroom. Same problem.

    At that point I was thinking that there were only two possibilities: the
    USB wall changer feeding the wireless was going bad and that seemed the
    most likely culprit so I dragged the massive hand-crafted cherry bed away
    from the wall and crawled behind it as swapped the charger. Pushed the bed
    back (an error) and tested again and had the same problem. By then it
    seemed that the only culprit must be the cable between the charger and the stand - had it gotten pinched and damaged? So, drag the bed out and
    replaced the cable pushed the bed back, full of confidence. Same problem.

    By now I was thinking that maybe I was doomed to wired charging but then,
    quite by accident I rearranged the nightstand items and move the charger
    all of six inches diagonally. It worked. OK, serious spooky things here.

    I finally came to the only possible conclusion -- it was a feng shui
    problem. Then, after a bit of cogitation I came to the conclusion that
    placing that combination of phone and charging stand too close to the New Amazon Echo which had replaced an old Dot on the 18"-square nightstand top could induce insanity into either the phone or charging stand or perhaps
    just interrupted their handshakes. I've come to think that maybe the Zigbee
    hub in the new Echo is the culprit. Maybe I'll never know.

    And to think that I used to be considered an expert troubleshooter...

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  • From Carlos E.R.@21:1/5 to BenignBodger on Mon Oct 28 15:31:37 2024
    On 2024-10-27 23:12, BenignBodger wrote:
    I've been using old-school Anker wireless stand chargers since my first
    phone capable of using the technology (~2020) and they've always worked perfectly. Last week I found that the charger on my nightstand was
    acting flaky. I'd put my new Pixel 9 Pro on it and after a few seconds
    the blue charging light on the charger would start to blink and charging would stop. The question came: phone failure or charger failure. I
    answered that by putting the phone on another on in my office and it
    worked perfectly so it had to be the charger so the next logical step
    was to swap the two. The 'bad' charger worked fine in the office and the 'good' charger failed in the bedroom. Same problem.

    At that point I was thinking that there were only two possibilities: the
    USB wall changer feeding the wireless was going bad and that seemed the
    most likely culprit so I dragged the massive hand-crafted cherry bed
    away from the wall and crawled behind it as swapped the charger. Pushed
    the bed back (an error) and tested again and had the same problem. By
    then it seemed that the only culprit must be the cable between the
    charger and the stand - had it gotten pinched and damaged? So, drag the
    bed out and replaced the cable pushed the bed back, full of confidence.
    Same problem.

    By now I was thinking that maybe I was doomed to wired charging but
    then, quite by accident I rearranged the nightstand items and move the charger all of six inches diagonally. It worked. OK, serious spooky
    things here.

    Interesting.

    I finally came to the only possible conclusion -- it was a feng shui
    problem. Then, after a bit of cogitation I came to the conclusion that placing that combination of phone and charging stand too close to the
    New Amazon Echo which had replaced an old Dot on the 18"-square
    nightstand top could induce insanity into either the phone or charging
    stand or perhaps just interrupted their handshakes. I've come to think
    that maybe the Zigbee hub in the new Echo is the culprit. Maybe I'll
    never know.

    And to think that I used to be considered an expert troubleshooter...

    You did find the cause :-)


    Something in the Echo alters the electromagnetic field sufficiently.

    --
    Cheers, Carlos.

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