Distance for cable from phone pad to USB ports?

[richlove]

Looking at purchasing a wireless charging pad, it has an option for a 1m or 30cm cable. Wondering if 30cm will be long enough to go from the pad, through the slits, to USB ports?

 

[siteguru]

People have used 30cm cables to connect up their phones.

 

[richlove]

People have used 30cm cables to connect up their phones.

Cheers

 

[stevegus]

Thats going to give you charging only facilities and not data coms to the phone. But i guess you know that.

 

[richlove]

Thats going to give you charging only facilities and not data coms to the phone. But i guess you know that.

Thanks. Looking to get this to place phone on with a wireless Android Auto device also. Hopefully, that should resolve wireless charging and Android Auto?

Hoping you can plug the wireless charger into one USB port (USB-C) and the wireless Android Auto device into the other USB (USB-A?)

(Don't have the car yet, planning ahead)

 

[stevegus]

Im an electronics engineer but not a phone expert. The term wireless charging is a bit misleading as its better described as a loosely coupled transformer with a coil in the back of your phone that picks up power from a coil in the charger base. There is some low level comms that sorts out the charging protocol.

But im not aware that any base will give you wireless usb data. Though your bluetooth should work as normal.

If you need to use google maps I think you will need to connect to the phones usb port.

 

[richlove]

Apologies, probably a bit of an ambiguous reply. So, two devices, something like these:

• wireless Android Auto and
• wireless charger

 

[siteguru]

FWIW I believe many Wireless AA devices come with a USB passthrough facility ... so the AA device plugs into the USB A port in the car, and then the charging mat plugs in to the AA device.

But of course you could also use the USB C port as the power source for the mat.

 

[richlove]

Great, thanks for the info. Handy to keep the other port free.