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Odd Semi-Android Charging Glitch

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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.

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...

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