Android 15 is preparing to tweak the threshold that determines whether a charger is seen as fast, from 7.5W to a more reasonable 20W.

TL;DR

  • Android 15 is preparing to tweak the threshold that determines whether a charger is seen as fast, from a measly 7.5W to a more reasonable 20W.
  • The operating system has long considered any charging speeds of at least 7.5W to be fast, which is far, far below what actual fast chargers can deliver nowadays.
  • The change isn’t live yet in the latest Android 15 beta, though, so chargers that deliver 7.5W of power will still be seen as fast on Pixels.
  • hash@lemmy.worldEnglish
    15·
    9 days ago

    Seriously. This thought occurred to me the other day when I plugged my power bank into a car’s charging port to check the wattage and wondered “why the fuck can’t my phone just do this by default?” Do we actually not trust people to understand higher number = faster?

      • SeekPie@lemm.eeEnglish
        6·
        9 days ago

        I think they meant they plugged the battery bank into the car’s phone charger?

          • eyeon@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            17 hours ago

            I assume they meant check the wattage of the car charger output. some powerbanks have displays now and can show you it’s input or output.

            … All phones also have displays and should show you the same thing but don’t.

          • SeekPie@lemm.eeEnglish
            8·
            9 days ago

            Maybe they have a wattage reader on their charger/power bank/car?