If you charge your Icon on a Qi plate with a case on the phone your battery may be charging slower and not to max capacity.....MAYBE
I was not all jazzed up about wireless charging at first. I heard you had to put a special case or sleeve on the phone and I didn't see how that was more convenient than plugging it in. So then I find out the Icon doesn't need that sleeve and the Microsoft Store is giving away a free charger. Now I'm all about Qi Charging. Then I wonder...do I have to take my phone case off to charge it? It turns out I don't so now I'm super happy. That's what I call convenient. Plop the phone down and pick it up with no hassle at all.
Here is where it gets interesting. The instructions that came with the charger says that the little white light on the charger would go off when the phone was fully charged. The white light on my charger never goes off. The phone will lay on the Nokia charging pad by my bed all night long and the little white light is sill on in the morning but the battery indicator on the phone looks like a full charge. But, I think, I have noticed varying degrees of battery life from one day to the next. Not terrible battery life, just inconsistent.
Last night I had the phone on the supplied usb wall charger before bed and it was pretty much fully charged when I put it on the Qi pad. This morning... the little white light was out. I used the phone "normally" today and have a little below half charge at 6:30 pm. So, who knows. This stuff is so subjective.
Tonight I'll charge with the cover off and see about that white light tomorrow morning. Then I'll try it with the cover again. I'll let you know if I figure anything out for sure.
Does anyone have any insight into this phenomena? Could have different results with different cases too, I think. I've got a Puregear holster combo. Kind of hard-ish plastic. Oh, it has a kickstand too and I just notice it has a small metal hinge pin at the pivot. Metal will screw with an inductive field. Hmmmmm.
Well, it only figures that charging with a case on the phone would have some effect I guess. The question is how much of an effect. If you are doing this and don't like your battery life it is worth investigating.
I was not all jazzed up about wireless charging at first. I heard you had to put a special case or sleeve on the phone and I didn't see how that was more convenient than plugging it in. So then I find out the Icon doesn't need that sleeve and the Microsoft Store is giving away a free charger. Now I'm all about Qi Charging. Then I wonder...do I have to take my phone case off to charge it? It turns out I don't so now I'm super happy. That's what I call convenient. Plop the phone down and pick it up with no hassle at all.
Here is where it gets interesting. The instructions that came with the charger says that the little white light on the charger would go off when the phone was fully charged. The white light on my charger never goes off. The phone will lay on the Nokia charging pad by my bed all night long and the little white light is sill on in the morning but the battery indicator on the phone looks like a full charge. But, I think, I have noticed varying degrees of battery life from one day to the next. Not terrible battery life, just inconsistent.
Last night I had the phone on the supplied usb wall charger before bed and it was pretty much fully charged when I put it on the Qi pad. This morning... the little white light was out. I used the phone "normally" today and have a little below half charge at 6:30 pm. So, who knows. This stuff is so subjective.
Tonight I'll charge with the cover off and see about that white light tomorrow morning. Then I'll try it with the cover again. I'll let you know if I figure anything out for sure.
Does anyone have any insight into this phenomena? Could have different results with different cases too, I think. I've got a Puregear holster combo. Kind of hard-ish plastic. Oh, it has a kickstand too and I just notice it has a small metal hinge pin at the pivot. Metal will screw with an inductive field. Hmmmmm.
Well, it only figures that charging with a case on the phone would have some effect I guess. The question is how much of an effect. If you are doing this and don't like your battery life it is worth investigating.