ASUS Laptop

[zrock]

Little stumped here i have a Asus tuf gaming laptop (F17 FX706HF). I just put a docking station on it to hopefully eliminate a random monitor issue i have waking it up. Now according to the specs of this laptop it has a the usb c thunderbolt and my intention was ditch the old school round charging cable and just do the charging through the docking station. Well to my dismay the docking station does not have that capability even though it states it does, it will not even fast charge my phone, i have a good 100w charger running the docking station. Just to rule out the charger i plugged it into the laptop direct and it would not charge it, plugged in my phone to the power supply and it fast charged it no issue, plugged the charger into my del computer and had no issues charging that laptop. I even grabbed my dell 85w charger and had the same scenario with everything. No my question is am i missing something with this laptop that i cannot get it to charge through the USB?

I guess worst case the laptop charger i purchased has a additional USB that i can plug my old USB hub into and charge everything at fast charge if i want to. Was hoping to get rid of a few plugs off my desktop.

Just tried the USB charging on my kits laptop that is identical and same issue.

 

[EbS-P]

My guess is that they didn’t hook the thunderbolt up to the power input of the laptop and are only using it as a data connection. My dell has two usb c ports only one will charge the laptop.

 

[zrock]

Ya thats what i was afraid of.. gotta love their advertising dept only give 1/2 the info required and then dummies like me assume.

 

[gthomas785]

I have seen a few laptops that will only charge on a very specific selection of usb-c chargers, even if it's the exact same wattage and other specs. I don't know what the difference is between them. If you have another newer one on hand or that you could borrow I would try that

 

[stoveliker]

Chargers communicate with "chargees" to set the power level. Hence the claim that it does not matter if you charge your phone (30 W or so) with a laptop (150 W or so) power supply. And it is said that if communication does not work well, things default to a 5 W charging.
For a phone that means hours for a full charge.
For a laptop (the issue here) that may mean "no charging", as 5 W is too small?

(I'm not fully convinced that the phone charging with a laptop charger is okay because of communication is true, having felt my phone heat up significantly more once when I was charging with a laptop power supply...)

 

[gthomas785]

Chargers communicate with "chargees" to set the power level. Hence the claim that it does not matter if you charge your phone (30 W or so) with a laptop (150 W or so) power supply. And it is said that if communication does not work well, things default to a 5 W charging.
For a phone that means hours for a full charge.
For a laptop (the issue here) that may mean "no charging", as 5 W is too small?

(I'm not fully convinced that the phone charging with a laptop charger is okay because of communication is true, having felt my phone heat up significantly more once when I was charging with a laptop power supply...)

No device made in this century will accept a charge rate it isn't capable of. Worst case it will simply not charge or fail to recognize a charger connected. If your phone is heating up, that means it is charging at the faster rate it was designed for. Your phone's battery thermal management is probably poor, which could lead to degraded battery life, but it was designed for that nonetheless. Many people would prioritize faster charging over phone longevity since they replace their phones on an annual basis. Not to say that I subscribe to that wasteful philosophy in any way.

 

[stoveliker]

No device made in this century will accept a charge rate it isn't capable of. Worst case it will simply not charge or fail to recognize a charger connected. If your phone is heating up, that means it is charging at the faster rate it was designed for. Your phone's battery thermal management is probably poor, which could lead to degraded battery life, but it was designed for that nonetheless. Many people would prioritize faster charging over phone longevity since they replace their phones on an annual basis. Not to say that I subscribe to that wasteful philosophy in any way.

So, "capable of" is thus regardless of "what it's designed for". That's bad (imo).

I have kept my first (flip) phone for 10 years, the next (flip) for 3 because at that point I needed a smart phone for some reasons, that first smart phone I kept for 6 years. Battery life was still more than 24 hrs at that point. I had charged it a few times with my laptop charger in a time of need (though only did so partially because of the heat). That only happens when traveling or so.
My second smart phone is now 2 years old.

I subscribe to your philosophy!