Slow charging when connected to the dock?

[darkalfx]

I just received my dock today and it's been working great so far.

However when I plugged in my phone it was around 54% battery and it was very very slowly chargin (definitely not fast charging) and the phone got pretty warm.

Later when I tried the dock at 100% battery the phone got nowhere as warm.

Is this normal or is my dock somehow defective?

 

[Zeem Frostmaw]

If you have USB accessories connected which use a lot of power then there might not be much juice left for the phone itself.

It's totally normal for the phone to get warm when charging though.

 

[Alexander Long]

The dock as well as all the USB components use power too, plus the phone is charging mechanism is meant to slow down is the battery closer to full as a protection to battery anyway.
And when your phone is in charging, it make sense there would be heat, since normal room temperatures superconductor doesn't exist yet.

 

[mryan55]

Continuum certainly uses a reasonable amount of juice from the phone -- I have noticed the same thing when using the dock -- slow-ish charging. I also have a MS Wireless Display Adapter, so my new favorite setup is just to use a Bluetooth keyboard and mouse while running Continuum via Miracast. That way I can just use a wall charger to keep the phone juiced up while using Continuum.

 

[nekooh]

Yes