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[Essential Phone Real Life Review] IM0001:
That's because it will never fast charge a USB-C Fast Charge device. You need something like this since this device does not have Qualcomm quick charge.

That 60W charger doesn't really support any modern Quick Charge, it just supports the max 2.4A charging for things like Tablets and whatnot.
[Essential Phone Real Life Review] LastQuark:
For those using Quick Charge to the PH-1, it is only compatible with QC 4.0 and not QC 3.0 or below. QC 4.0 is compatible with Power Delivery (PD) that PH-1 uses.
[Essential Phone Real Life Review] Franksr:
27W USB Charger

Just got mine today... It says 27W...
[Essential Phone Real Life Review] LazerL0rd:
Yeah.. that should be average.
[Essential Phone Real Life Review] ack154:
Quick charge or no quick charge, I'm pretty sure it's supposed to charge faster than 3% overnight. It still said charging slowly when I got up this morning and said 5 days until full. It had actually only gone up 3% in the past 9 hours.
[Essential Phone Real Life Review] BigJermZ:
My battery is at 96% so it may not be the most accurate test, and it was over 1000mah on initial plug in and then slowly went down to what's on the screen shot after about a minute.
[Essential Phone Real Life Review] BigJermZ:
That doesn't sound right, mine charged in under two hours from 15%, I wasn't measuring it or anything but it's very fast at charging
[Essential Phone Real Life Review] ack154:
That time was with my 10 port Anker charger. I may try a different cable with it. I hooked up the OEM charger and it was fine.
[Essential Phone Real Life Review] KielAM:
anyone else notice the coffee cup never seems to entirely fill? I let it go for 90 minutes and it was still going back and forth on the last two bars with the yellowish notification light. But I took it off and it said it was at 100% so I suppose that's normal for this thing? I dunno but the battery seems to be pretty solid... took it all the way down to 1% and was at 6hrs+ SOT
[Essential Phone Real Life Review] flakko86:
So I just afk charged this thing (phone on), and it went from 7% to 84% in 40 min. It seems the last 15% or so get a bit slower. Possibly to prevent battery degredation?
[Essential Phone Real Life Review] tsquare2112:
Using the supplied charger, I haven't had any issues until today. Plugged in around 930 with about 60% remaining. Woke up at 4, looked at it to check messages and it was at 69% and "charging slowly" unplugged and plugged back in and went to "charging quickly".
[Essential Phone Real Life Review] ack154:
So for some reason this Anker charger worked fine last night. Still said charging slowly but at least it actually did charge the thing. It went up 15% or so in 20-30 min or so and said it would be about another hour and a half until full (at about 50%).

Weird that charging seems to be such a random problem for this phone.
[Essential Phone Real Life Review] zeldatp151@yahoo.com:
Yes, this is pretty normal for most Lithium battery chargers now, the last 10-20% of the charge on the battery will be much slower, this helps prevent thermal runaway and accelerated battery degradation. Most newer cell phone batteries are Lithium Nickel Manganese Cobalt Oxide, which typically have a dead to full charge time of 3 hrs at .8C of charging power, however the fast chargers typically initially charge at a rate of 1.5C and slow to .7C - .9C near the end, because the 1.5C charging on this type of cell reduces the life of the cell.
[Essential Phone Real Life Review] IM0001:
It does seem to be a bit finicky charging on other chargers, but on the included one I was getting up to 3A (3000Mah) charging speed which filled it from 20% to 100% in under an hour. Pretty neato.
[Essential Phone Real Life Review] 808phoneaddict:
Fast charging is fast! Faster than my pixel Xl...!
[Essential Phone Real Life Review] CRasH180:
Agreed! I love fast charging.
[Essential Phone Real Life Review] ryaleon87:
Mine charges much quicker than my pixel does. I have been impressed with the speed. Around half an hour to go from 15% to the mid 80s
[Essential Phone Real Life Review] mtmdatlanta:
Mine took just under 90 minutes for it's first full charge from dead to 100% Very pleased with that. Used the included charger.
[Essential Phone Real Life Review] Viper8382:
I have used a 30 watt charger from a Moto Z Force when it was dead and after an hour and a half the phone still wouldn't turn on. Last night I used the oem charger from an HTC U11. It was at 49% when I put it on, and without using the phone at all I got to work and discovered it was only at 50%! I have good chargers everywhere, and it is going to be a serious pain if this phone will only charge at any decent rate with the oem charger. I don't even need fast charge, but it is unacceptable to be unable to fully charge overnight, or even worse barely do more than tread water on charge overnight. I will keep testing.
[Essential Phone Real Life Review] Viper8382:
This is ridiculous, just tried an old Droid Turbo 2 micro USB charger with an adapter to USB C and it charged lightning fast getting 4% in a couple of minutes. Then I tested it again after lunch, hooked it up at 37% and after a couple of minutes it was down to 36% (it said slow charging when I plugged it in that time). I then unplugged it and plugged the same charger back in and within a couple of minutes it is up from 36 to 40! If it says slow charging when you plug it in, unplug it and try again.
[Essential Phone Real Life Review] gqukyo:
Ampere says over 2500 mA on my Samsung Chromebook Pro charger and still doesn't say "fast charging"... its a pretty powerful charger, but I don't recall the exact specs.
[Essential Phone Real Life Review] dpackerz:
Bought an Aukey and it works great. Also a dual car charger they make. And my portable charger also charges fast.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B01LX063QN/ref=ya_aw_od_pi?ie=UTF8&psc=1
[Essential Phone Real Life Review] compuguy1088:
Funny, I've gotten it also to work with QC 3.0 chargers (it says charging rapidly) and some USB PD chargers.
[Essential Phone Real Life Review] cherritaker:
Which car charger are you using. Mine doesn’t seem to work that well goes from charging to slow charging to quickly charging.
[Essential Phone Real Life Review] dpackerz:
Okay, it's Aukey Car Charger w/ USB C & Power Delivery, Dual Port 36W. Amazon purchase.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B01L..._SX236_SY340_FMwebp_QL65&keywords=aukey+usb+c

Make sure you try different cable also. Bad cables make my chargers do same thing.
[Essential Phone Real Life Review] balane:
I'm using a Nekteck 5.4A USB-C Car Charger and it's great. My phone is receiving almost as many milliamps while plugged in as the OEM wall charger.
[Essential Phone Real Life Review] cherritaker:
Any particular cable you guys are using? I love Aukey chargers always had great experiences with them. Aukey and ravpower are my go tos.
[Essential Phone Real Life Review] dpackerz:
Right now I'm using their cables. A little stiff, but no failures yet. I've used Ravpower for a long time, but they eventually fail after a few months. Hoping for better life out of Aukey.
[Essential Phone Real Life Review] Poli169:
Yeah I have aukey cables too wish they made non braided because they're too stiff.
[Essential Phone Real Life Review] dpackerz:
The ones I have are not braided. I did order braided though.
[Essential Phone Real Life Review] InfDaMarvel:
Does essential sell their own accessories. If I have to pay about $30 for a charger I might as well get a stock charger from them.
[Essential Phone Real Life Review] Jmar72:
I used a charger from Verizon. It has 27 watt necessary to charge the phone. It charges as fast as the that came with the phone. Also you can try the trianium car charger it does both QC 3 and PD charging. The other chargers I have the have a Max of 15 watt charge at a rate of 1800ma, which isn't bad just not as fast as the Verizon. Charger or the one in the box.
[Essential Phone Real Life Review] basongwe:
I've a Anker PowerPort +1, so, as I can read, my charge will be slow ?
[Essential Phone Real Life Review] socali:
I honestly can't figure out what's going with this phone and other chargers. I have several 2.4amp chargers and batteries and also QC 2 and QC 3 chargers.

The weird thing is that the phone chargers with 1,000mA - 2,000mA on the QC 2 and QC 3 chargers, but is refusing to charge on standard 2.4amp chargers..

I'm not looking for fast charge with those, just normal charge would do. However, when using those I get "charging slowly" on the lock screen, with Ampere app showing anywhere from 200mA - 500mA and the crazy thing AccuBattery shows *negative* values.

What's even weirder is that AccuBattery seems to be right, since the battery % is not going up. :(

I really don't want to buy a whole bunch of extra home, car and battery chargers just to get normal charge.

Would love to know if anyone has any idea?
[Essential Phone Real Life Review] socali:
Update: Apparently, the new (2017) USB-C phones are pretty sensitive to the cable you're using. I tried different cables and got good charging amps with new Aukey cables, even with the standard 2.4amp chargers and batteries. QC3 actually shows "charging rapidly" in many cases.
[Essential Phone Real Life Review] antrax360:
this would be great then for the iphone x right. i just traded my note 8 for the iphone x. my main phone was the note but i bought the essential phone and once i started using the ph1 i couldnt go back to the note. i felt like i was holding a tablet everytime i took the note. so since the iphone is the same size as the ph1 i traded. im running the oreo beta and so far is great.
[Essential Phone Real Life Review] niko_c:
Charging for an hour or an hour and halve using the cable and charger that came in the box, easily gets me through the day.
[Essential Phone Real Life Review] herwarth:
Tried the MacBook usb-c charger. Works! Showing charging rapidly! Good from essential to use the usb-c standard! Have the phone for 4 days now and I love it!
[Essential Phone Real Life Review] Fukmeharder:
I haven't been able to get any more than ~2,4 amps from my oem block and cable. Could it be I just got a bad block or cable? I'd really like to take advantage of PD but it is rather apparent that I'm not able to given the stock equipment
[Essential Phone Real Life Review] bigmook:
Reboot and try again.
[Essential Phone Real Life Review] viperc:
I am using the supplied charger and cable to charge my phone. I noticed, on my lock screen, it is randomly showing "charging rapidly", "charging slowly" and "charging" status randomly in no particular order in a single charge cycle from 20% to full. i did reboot my phone to try again. The result is the same.

Is this normal or is my phone or charger or cable faulty? Are your phones showing the same behaviour? Thanks in advance for your inputs.

Update: contacted support. They say it's normal to have the fluctuations in charging speed. Hmm.. Haven't seen any other phone do this.
[Essential Phone Real Life Review] Teloah:
I kind of have this issue, some times it sticks with "charging slowly" and won't charge at all, I have to reconnect the charger (a few times at times) to get it to charge rapidly.

I'm not using the supplied charger since I live in Sweden and it won't work here. Also, I'm on the Oreo beta.
[Essential Phone Real Life Review] gqukyo:
Adapters won't work?
[Essential Phone Real Life Review] combat goofwing:
I am in the UK ,bought mine from Amazon .com in USA and came with USA charger ,I use a USA to UK adaptor and it works fine,I also get the change in charging mode from rapidly ,to charging to charging slowly,while it may seem wrong the phone still charge's from 1% to 100 in about 70/80 mins which is what I think should be expected
[Essential Phone Real Life Review] xda-sam:
Same problem with my essential too

True I am also noticing the same behavior, frequent change in charging speed status on lock screen is really confusing but phone charges well in 70/80 minutes as others confirmed, however what dissappoints me is the customer care rep's response.

My mind also urge that this fluctuation of charging speed status could be a software issue possibly, but I am not sure. Only when they fix we will come to know.

Thanks
[Essential Phone Real Life Review] viperc:
My charging speed is not consistent though. Sometimes takes 2 hrs, sometimes 1.5 hrs.

Yesterday I left the phone to charge and fell asleep. I unplugged it in the middle of the night few hours (more than 3 hours) later. When I checked the battery usage in the morning, I realised the battery graph started at 92%. So meaning the phone didn't fully charge itself although I left it plugged in.
[Essential Phone Real Life Review] takashiyeo:
Using stock charger and cable

Ampere test: max 980 mA
[Essential Phone Real Life Review] benfisk:
On a scale from 1-10 for me, I rate the essential phone a 7.5 or 8. My previous phone the LG G5 was probably a 9 or 10. It was fast, but the essential phone won't disappoints in my opinion. The pure stock helps a lot and I am very pleased with the charging speeds with the Essential charging adaptor or with a 3rd party charger.
[Essential Phone Real Life Review] rootnooby:
Same issue here. On occasion I need to unplug and replug in my charger to get normal charging speeds. Other than that, I have no issues with the amount of time it takes to charge. Seems fairly quick. No. I am not using the essential charger, I use other old Chargers.
[Essential Phone Real Life Review] teostar:
Coming from one plus 3 I expected slower charging speed but this is beyond belief. My one plus charged 3-4x faster, I doubt the stock wall brick is "fast charging" I only use the supplied brick and cable and whenever its charging it only says "charging" or "charging slowly" never anything to suggest fast charging.
[Essential Phone Real Life Review] seabro01:
That's not normal charging speed. The power brick definitely supports fast charging. My Essential phone shows rapid charging and can charge 75% in an hour.
[Essential Phone Real Life Review] Rox598:
just wondering here has anyone else's phone lockscreen jumping from rapid charging and charging over and over? mine just started doing this today after I rolled back to Nougat. I flashed Oreo out of the box so not sure if this is a bug in the Nougat builds or not.
[Essential Phone Real Life Review] teostar:
Nope, just "charging slowly" and "charging ". Never rapid
[Essential Phone Real Life Review] bigmook:
I don't think it is a bug. I think that when the screen turns on it slows the charging so it doesn't build heat and ruin your battery. If you like battery to charge fast leave the screen off
[Essential Phone Real Life Review] i killed tupac:
Mine does the whole charging , charging quick, charging slowly, etc. over and over again. On 7.1 no mods.
[Essential Phone Real Life Review] zhuanyi:
I have just received this one:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B06XQGPJY6

For the first few seconds it was constantly changing between Charging Rapidly and Charging Slowly but after a few seconds it is now steadily increasing @ about 1%/min which I think is pretty good.
[Essential Phone Real Life Review] sactownbully84:
My Halo gray ph1 charges fast and I have no issues using the supplied charger n cord
[Essential Phone Real Life Review] Wolfhawke:
I'm using the stock charger at night with a long USB C cord and I don't have any particular issues with charging. At the desk I use a BrexLink braided USB 3.0 type A to C cable and it's always charged up to 2.0 amps off the USB hub that supports that at least that much juice and it seems to charge pretty quick.
[Essential Phone Real Life Review] Yayaboy13:
Opiniob guys?

I always got slow charging whenever i installed custom rom.. be it aosip, RR, etc... I have read everything on thier thread in hope ive got a fix on this, with no reply and no solution... I charge with 18 watt charger since i lost my stock charger... And it charge fine whenever i running stock rooted... Had to accept the multi touch issue whenever i played games like pubg.. its driving me nuts.. ha ha ha.. does anybody have opinion on this... ? Help.. ha ha ha...
[Essential Phone Real Life Review] innoth:
does anyone use power bank ? Its safe for PH-1 ?
[Essential Phone Real Life Review] :
My device arrived with NO charger. First charge went very slow. After that it's been very fast and I haven't noticed the heat I get with my Moto X Pure quick charging.
[Essential Phone Real Life Review] matistight:
Using a Pixel charger and this is crazy. I am seeing a 2 or 3% increase in 1 minute. Even then, I was downloading the Android Pie update and all my apps. I may update this in the future because that was like 20 minutes after unboxing the phone lol
[Essential Phone Real Life Review] ghiri:
I bought my Essential PH1 from Amazon US so I can't use that charger without an adapter in Europe. I use another 21W charger from my Lenovo tablet and the charging speed is good for me. The only problem is when I charge it from USB high power (1-1.5A) port of my laptop, the charging rate doesn't go above 300-400mA. I asked Essential about the issue and they replied back after a few hours:

"Thanks for reaching out! The cable itself is unlikely to be an issue - most quality cables are widely compatible and wouldn't cause charging issues. The Essential Phone uses a specification called USB Power Delivery ("USB PD") to implement rapid charging. Your computer may not support this specification, which is why it would default to the normal slow-charging rate."

I am not an expert on the matter but should I believe them? All my previous phones charged relatively fast on that USB port.
[Essential Phone Real Life Review] Samrath:
Mine does the same thing, it just flip flops btw charging, charging slowly and charging rapidly. I tried many different cables and bricks, it appears that the problem is in the phone. I'm on stock Android Pie.
[Essential Phone Real Life Review] XDA_RealLifeReview:
It's amazing how much we actually use our phones in a given day, especially when we watch "videos"! Rate this thread to express how many hours of screen-on time you can get on the Essential Phone before depleting the battery.

Then, drop a comment if you have anything to add!
[Essential Phone Real Life Review] KielAM:
took it down from 100% to 1% and was just over 6hrs SOT. couldn't be happier at the moment ?
[Essential Phone Real Life Review] eakrish:
how is your signal strength and what carrier do you have?
[Essential Phone Real Life Review] flakko86:
My most recent battery charge shows 5hrs of SOT with 2 hrs straight gaming in King's raid and about 40 min of Google maps navigation and it's at 15% left.

Cell levels were fluctuating yellow to red for the first 3/4 of the charge but once i went downtown to work, it's all green. I'm with Verizon.
[Essential Phone Real Life Review] tardis_42:
I've been really impressed so far - pushing 7 hours. Not the consistent 7.5 my short-lived S8+ got, but a huge step up from my Nexus 6P's 4 hours.
[Essential Phone Real Life Review] z28tovette:
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[Essential Phone Real Life Review] Kukaless:
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I am very happy with these numbers.
[Essential Phone Real Life Review] -Michael_:
Yesterday, all day without charging.. Still 25% at the end of the day. When I finally plugged it in two hours later think I was around 23% battery.
[Essential Phone Real Life Review] qnc:
Impressive stats for all. Getting mine ordered mine today.
[Essential Phone Real Life Review] mohit1234:
I'm getting amazing battery life on this. Way better than the 3h on my Nexus 5 [emoji16]
[Essential Phone Real Life Review] varun.gid:
easily hits 5.5 hours SOT with LTE usage full day and Location off.

Love the phone! Just need a custom ROM now
[Essential Phone Real Life Review] theandroidbot:
I can confirm that I'm getting good screen on time too. Around four and a half to 5 hours. This is a lot better than I was getting on my old Nexus 6p. So far I'm very impressed but will do further testing and post the results here.
[Essential Phone Real Life Review] iLLdWes:
Today is my second day with this phone... Got about 3 1/2 hours SOT with everything on and screen to full brightness. I assume you guys have brightness turned down and gps off?
[Essential Phone Real Life Review] johnny8910:
Wow

After first full charge I'm blown away ?

My old S7E would have been well and truly on zero battery by now.

42 percent battery left and just over 5 hours SOT!!
[Essential Phone Real Life Review] cybertec69:
This phone sips on the battery, battery life has been outstanding to say the least.

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What's with the full brightness, I get blinded if brightness is pushed to the max
[Essential Phone Real Life Review] tianmi:
First day and first full charge, pretty impressive. Only downside is the camera is so bad compare to my old s7e.
[Essential Phone Real Life Review] bill3508:
This thing sips battery. Mind you this is mainly indoors but still it's up their with the best life I've ever gotten from a device with no effort on my part.View attachment 4288336View attachment 4288337
[Essential Phone Real Life Review] Tikerz:
I have to say compared to my HTC U11 the battery life of the Essential is pretty impressive. I use Accubattery to monitor my battery and it gives estimates on SOT and the U11 was always at 8hr but this Essential is at 11hr. I know that will never happen but it does show the difference calculated by the app based on use.

Right now I'm at 4hr SOT and 52%. Very impressive.
[Essential Phone Real Life Review] flakko86:
What apps you have running? Also what is your awake to screen ratio? Might have some apps in the bg eating your battery.

My brightness is at 50% with bt disabled, location on. I get around 6-7 SoT bout 1.5 hrs of gaming and an hour of YouTube
[Essential Phone Real Life Review] bill3508:
GPS on. I've never used a phone at max brightness. All my devices are set at 30%, with adaptive brightness on. Bt on also.
[Essential Phone Real Life Review] XDA_RealLifeReview:
When you sleep, does your phone sleep, or does it stay up all night and crunch 1s and 0s? Rate this thread to express how you deem the speed at which the Essential Phone's battery drains under standby conditions. A higher rating indicates that when the phone is not in use, the battery drains minimally.

Then, drop a comment if you have anything to add!
[Essential Phone Real Life Review] gflexstump:
7.1.1 Nougant 10 hours sleep mode 2% battery drain how can it get much better than this? Wifi & cellular on with bluetooth off.
[Essential Phone Real Life Review] Tom23824:
hello,

PH1 phone is having problem to hold charge.

I hardly use the phone but lately battery is not able to keep the charge.

I deleted atleast 20 apps that were recently installed and still did not see any improvement.

I turned off notifications from almost all apps (except for very important apps).

Screen timeout is using standard setting.

Any ideas???
[Essential Phone Real Life Review] Ricky Vercetti:
Hi, I have the same problem , since yesterday battery drain from 100% to 0% in 3h with no apps, no Google account, no Wifi, no SIM inserted , no bluetooth.

Recently I boot from recovery and made Wipe data / reset, loosing all mi data, but phone continue draining, any ideas? or it is a problem with Battery?

I bought the phone in Amazon.com and I from Spain, I hope the can help me
[Essential Phone Real Life Review] chanh2018:
If reset to factory doesn't work, then for sure it's battery issue.