Wireless charging fp5

Has anyone else been thinking about adding wireless charging to their FP5 ala Adding Wireless Charging To The Switch Lite | Hackaday ?

I am hopefully receiving mine next week and am seriously considering trying my hand at it. I’m just not sure with the removable back how easy it will be to get things to line up with the coil.

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I’m definitely interested as well - and a little disappointed it wasn’t in the phone to begin with. Once I get the time I’ll definitely attempt it if the test pads are extant and accessible

Having the phone in hand now I’m not sure there’s enough space between the back cover and the battery to fit in one of the wireless charge coils. It might take making a new back cover with a slight gap to fit or maybe a case :thinking:

Also you might wanna consider potential interference with NFC functionality, as the NFC chip of the FP5 appears to be located in the battery.

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Did you guys have any success? I’d buy a FP5 now if it is possible.

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None yet. I recently lost my job and haven’t been able to devote money or time to playing around with wireless charging. I’m hopeful I will be able to get to it in a few months when money isn’t so tight for me

You could try a wireless charging pad that fits onto a case, for example, and plugs into the USB-C port?

[Olixar Samsung Galaxy A12 Thin USB-C Wireless Charger Adapter (mobilefun.co.uk)](Olixar Samsung Galaxy A12 Thin USB-C Wireless Charger Adapter

Possible to add wireless charging trough: Nillkin Type-C Wireless Charging Receiver

Awesome! Does it fit under the cover? And is your NFC still ok? I know Qi can affect NFC receivers, but I don’t know enough about high-freq electronics to tell if FP5 sufficiently isolates the receiver.

Are there any wireless charging add on which will still let you charge your phone with a cable? It sounds kinda neat for charging at home, but I regularly charge my phone in other places as well (on the train, in the car, in the office, at other people places…)

There are some like this (excuse the NL link) which allow you to just plug it in and unplug.

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@aristogeiton If I read your link correctly (I speak Dutch), the latest reviewer claims that once installed, the USB port is permanently blocked and apparently not (easily) possible to unplug, probably due to the tight flat cable. I guess this is true for most retro-fit Qi solutions. Perhaps it is possible to attach the wireless pad a few Millimetres lower so that the flat cable has some “slack”, allowing unplugging. But in everyday use, that “slack” might be annoying and prone to accidental unplugging or damaging the cable or even the USB port.

Blocking the USB port is a no-go for many people I think, as it prevents wired charging, sending power to other smartphones, wired data transfer, and USB headphones.

Also, it seems that no retro-fit Qi solution with high-speed (or even medium-speed) charging is available. Maybe that has to do with going through USB - I guess that integrated Qi coils are directly connected to the charging circuit, while the retro-fit ones lose efficiency by first converting to USB voltage.

For my wife, who has several Qi chargers in use, the lack of this feature is unfortunately a major hurdle against buying a FP5.

Hello.
Also interested in options for Wireless charging for an FP5. Have a car with a wireless charger, now unable to use it, and the cable makes the phone unstable. Can be in a roadmap to have a battery that accepts wireless charge? Just an opinion. :wink:

Yeah I bought that exact charger coil (random bol gift card from my work for the holiday’s hoera). It has the additional issue of, what I think is, running into interference with the NFC chip thats in the back or possibly the coil I got is defective. For some reason it doesn’t want to charge when in use with the fairphone. Though for my original use case I was thinking of soldering the coil into the charge circuit of the USB - C (see the link in my original post) then attaching to the back frame of the phone. It is a shame that wireless charging wasn’t included as I used it all the time on my old iPhone prior to switching to fairphone.