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Google has long been committed to making phone charging more user-friendly. Information technology was among the first to offer wireless charging, back earlier everyone got bored with information technology the first time around. More recently, information technology has focused on fast wired charging. The 2022 Pixel Xl shipped with speed 18W fast charging, but something appears to have gone wrong in the recent Android Pie update. This phone's maximum charging speed is now painfully slow.

Like all Google devices since the 2022 Nexus phones, the Pixel XL has support for USB Power Delivery (USB-PD) standard. USB-PD has increasingly shown up in phones from LG, Samsung, and others, even if in that location's another fast charging standard in the included plug. This standard supports a plethora of charging modes going all the fashion up to 100 watts. Laptops similar the Pixelbook and MacBook Pro employ USB-PD over Type-C ports to recharge, which ofttimes operate around 40-60W.

The Pixel XL supported 15W and 18W fast charging at launch, which is around what nearly other Android phones can exercise. The current Pixels also back up these charging speeds. Notwithstanding, users of the Pixel 40 encountered a bug starting in the later Android P developer preview builds that completely disabled fast charging. Someone started a bug tracker thread for the issue, and Google seemed to take observe. However, the terminal build rolled out, and a large number of non-beta users accept the aforementioned issue.

Pixel XL

I've been able to ostend with my dev preview test unit of measurement that the final version still has the fast charging issues. With a Google charger, the telephone doesn't go either 15W (5V 3A) or 18W (9V 2A). It'south pulling about 9V and 0.55A, which is 5W. That's the fallback low-ability charging speed that predates even the original Qualcomm Quick Accuse technology. It's so incredibly slow past today's standards.

In an alarming move, Google even marked that original bug thread as "Won't Fix (Infeasible)." Google reserves that designation for bug that cannot be fixed on Google'south terminate because they're caused by a third-party manufacturer or application. This bug is all Google, though. Users have started another thread, which Google has not officially recognized withal.

So far, this issue seems limited to the 2022 Pixel XL. The smaller 2022 Pixel has a slightly different fast charging setup that could only practise 15W, then maybe that'south why it has been spared from the bug. If you lot're a Pixel Xl user and fast charging is vital, you might want to hold off on that Pie update if it's not already likewise belatedly.

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