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Wireless charging for Z3 compact ?

Daichi — Sat, 17 Jan 2015 13:20:32 GMT

Hi,

After looking during hours for a way to charge my Z3 compact by wireless, one conclusion stroke me :

> There is no accessory or Qi case or whatever to wireless-charge the Z3 compact.

Some could say there are the micro usb basic port or the magnetic dock charger.
Absolutely, but both have their issues (micro usb access only by opening the cache and obvioulsy fragilizing it and taking risk, magnetic docks issues some devices " loosing " the magnetic strip)
Both of those issues eventually might cause troubles for the IP certification though.

For these reasons I'm desperatly searchig for a Qi case (like the Z3 one) or a Wireless charging station.
Or any information about a new feature from Sony about this.

Thanks for replying...

Re: Wireless charging for Z3 compact ?

Thommo — Sat, 17 Jan 2015 13:52:16 GMT

There maybe 3rd party cases available but understand that these cases work by connecting to the magnetic charging port on your phone

Re: Wireless charging for Z3 compact ?

Daichi — Sat, 17 Jan 2015 14:13:11 GMT

Actually I meant without using the magnetic dock (as I explained why before), kind of stuff like the custom case for the Z3 :

http://www.sonymobile.com/global-en/products/accessories/wireless-charging-cover-wcr14/ (WCR14 case)
+
http://www.sonymobile.com/global-en/products/accessories/wireless-charging-plate-wch10/ (WCH10 wireless Plate)

Those are great solutions, if there was a same case for the Compact...

Re: Wireless charging for Z3 compact ?

Thommo — Sat, 17 Jan 2015 14:41:55 GMT

For now all that's available is the charging dock and I've been using one for over a year every day on a Z1 and Z Ultra without issue

Re: Wireless charging for Z3 compact ?

woko41 — Tue, 27 Jan 2015 20:07:47 GMT

Sorry confused.com now😕 so are you saying you can have the charging plate but can NOT charge a Z3 Compact?

Re: Wireless charging for Z3 compact ?

dandy63 — Tue, 27 Jan 2015 20:30:12 GMT

Hi Thommo is speaking about either the DK48 Magnetic Charging Dock which fits your phone or the DK36 for the Z2.......have a look at them in the Accessories part of the main page.....:smileyhappy:

Re: Wireless charging for Z3 compact ?

cescGandaraVe — Sat, 07 Mar 2015 15:34:01 GMT

the Z3 COMPACT may or may not charge through Bluetooth wireless charger or not ???

Re: Wireless charging for Z3 compact ?

dquilon — Sat, 07 Mar 2015 17:01:13 GMT

Hello,
I wanted to chime in and say that I have 4 magnetic adapters and use them daily... The strip on the phone seems really robust and as a mechanical engineer I would guess that the people having issues is because they pull the charger perpendicularly to the phone, but the best practice would be to take it out at an angle (as if you are breaking a cracker)... This is actually simpler and not even annoying to remember and my phone is still waterproof, I can confirm.

Also the magnetic charger allows you to confortable use your phone while charging, I doubt that with a Qi solution.

In my opinion the magnetic strip allows for more third party options and is superior to wireless, both on implementation and in efficiency...

Anyway I hope you find what you are looking for...

Re: Wireless charging for Z3 compact ?

jeff1414 — Wed, 11 Mar 2015 02:20:07 GMT

I was glad to hear this from a mechanical engineer. I also heard the issue that the strip gets loose when magnetic cable has been used.

But I actually bought one and I use it always in charging and like he said, when removing the cable, I snap it off instead of pulling it away from the phone.

Also I had a magnetic cable which has low magnet force and I guess it's a +1 in my PoV.

Re: Wireless charging for Z3 compact ?

Olatho — Wed, 18 Mar 2015 08:47:04 GMT

I currently have 5 or 6 QI-chargers, spread around in the car, in the living room, in the bedroom...

The lack of a QI solution is what is currently stopping me from getting a Z3 Compact. The regular Z3 is a bit big, and the Compact looks and feels perfetct in all other ways.

Because we have "standardized" on QI, and that curerently works great for borh my last and current Samsung device, and for my wifes Xperia Z1, I really dont want to get a bunch of new chargers.

So a QI-case for the Z3-compact, like the one for the regular Z3 would be a really great add on, and would make me get both the phone and the case..

And hopefully Z4 Compact will get built in QI as well...

Re: Wireless charging for Z3 compact ?

Argentea — Mon, 06 Apr 2015 00:11:59 GMT

Thank you dquilon for the hint with not perpendicularly direction! I was starting to think that either something was wrong with my phone or the doc station and the cable were broken. Still, the design is not very good... But at list I know that everything's working, so thanks a lot!)

Re: Wireless charging for Z3 compact ?

euler_phone — Tue, 01 Sep 2015 08:52:47 GMT

Hello dquilon,

I still have a few questions to better understand and choose my adapter :

Could you please precise the model of your magnetic adapters ?
For how long have you been using these 4 adapters ?
As a mechanical engineer, I understand the "cracker" strategy but do you think you could improve the "smoothness" of the strategy by removing (cutting with a machine) a part of the magnet on the adapter ?

Re: Wireless charging for Z3 compact ?

sam5577 — Thu, 26 May 2016 17:16:49 GMT

easy solution mate... just get the z3 compact and stop moaning about it.. problem solved.. p.s this is danielle and not actualy sam replying to your questions ok.. god ppl that just cause isues and moan about every answer that can possibly solve your problems do my head in secretley ha ha, peace .. danielle

Re: Wireless charging for Z3 compact ?

Olatho — Thu, 26 May 2016 22:56:43 GMT

What kind of answer is that?

The device don't have any wireless charging built in, ant there is (still) no official or 3. party way to enable it.

If you can't provide any useful info, why are you replying at all?

Re: Wireless charging for Z3 compact ?

YoGem — Fri, 27 May 2016 02:28:32 GMT

Well, ant is enabled by default and not sure why you say you can't enable it. The Z3c is a wonderful device and the magnetic charger on mine works flawlessly. Yes, it's no wireless charger but hey! It's not bad at all and it's ways much better than opening the flap to connect the USB cable.