Cuzoe
Autocross Champion
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- Los Angeles
I don't have the charger with the fan but my Pixel(s) have only ever charged when facing one direction. I don't ever remember seeing he failed message, just nothing happens.
Your experience replicates mine exactly; I'd say it successfully charges one in every ten times I place it in there. Takes a looooot of fiddling, and even then one hard stop and it'll fail again. The older charger was definitely more reliable in that regard. We had a couple warm days last week (60º F) and a 30 minute drive with CarPlay did render it back into the "I'm too hot to work correctly" realm. Biggest telltale sign (aside from physically being warm) is that Siri responses switch to a significantly degraded audio quality when the phone is too hot.Just wanted to provide a two-week update on this charger. I have an iPhone 15 Pro with the Apple silicone case. As noted in my post above, I had a 95% success rate of placing my phone once and immediately start charging with the non-vented pad. With the vented charging pad, I would say that I've successfully placed the phone on the pad and had it charging without adjustment about 10% of the time. I usually have to adjust the phone 3-5 times before it finally catches and starts charging without error. I've also noticed that the placement on the pad to avoid errors is inconsistent.
That being said, I'm starting to see that the fiddling may be worth it as @bobloblawGTI noted that not only will my phone charge, it will do so without ever getting relatively hot. So, is it worth $75? If you already have a Qi pad, probably not. Otherwise, if you are doing this as an initial install, I would heavily consider it. Either way, it is nice knowing that I'm avoiding heat related fatigue on my phone why still being able to use and successfully charge it.