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Re: Odd Semi-Android Charging Glitch

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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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Odd Semi-Android Charging Glitch BenignBodger <nobody@nowhere.org> - 2024-10-27 18:12 -0400
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