Can someone please re-confirm from their experience that this holder actually can charge if using GPS and cellular data? My experience has been that the charging rate on the Qi standard is low (500ma?) and it cannot "keep up" and will actually discharge faster than it can recharge?
Thanks, please advise.
-Rob
I just got my charger a few days ago and I'm struggling with this a lot. My commute to work is about 35 minutes, and the very first day my battery
discharged 8% on the way to work. I didn't have bluetooth on, only had Drive+ running for about 5 minutes, and the phone was idle on the Nokia car app with the screen on the rest of the time. Similar story on the way home that day.
Today it was even worse... but I used Drive+ the entire way to work just to see what would happen.
I lost 20%.
I'm sure part of the problem is that I'm driving in and out of LTE, and whenever I'm on LTE my battery drains super fast... I'm wondering if the phone doesn't turn off my HSPA+ radio when it's using LTE or something, but I guess that's a problem for another day.
I've been corresponding with @NokiaCareUS and they suggested that I do a hard reset of my phone (volume down + power for 10 seconds), and that I disable ALL background tasks (I only had a single weather app enabled).
Today, my phone charged 2% on the way home while using Drive+ and chatting via a bluetooth headset for 10 minutes... so I suppose that's an improvement. Overall I'm pretty disappointed though, and depending on how things go, I may end up returning the device. It's too expensive to not actually charge my phone.
I'm also having problems with the car app itself - the weather shows the right city most of the time, but sometimes it's a city with the same name in another state. e.g., if I'm in Springfield, IL it may show the weather for Springfield, MO. On a few occasions the app thought I was in France. Also, whenever I launch Drive+ through the app I get an error screen complaining about invalid parameters, but it works fine after dismissing the error. Launching Drive+ normally, by itself, always works fine.
Anyone else having issues like these?