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How to Charge Phone Faster with Your Laptop: 6 Speed Up Tips
Your laptop and your smartphone need to have compatible charging protocols
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Updated onSeptember 18, 2024
updated onSeptember 18, 2024
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In this piece, we’ll share some tips and tricks to help you charge your phone faster with your laptop.
While it’s true that a USB connection won’t match the speed of a wall charger, you can still speed things up with a few simple tweaks.
How can I charge my phone faster with a laptop?
1. Check your USB ports and cables
If your phone and laptop support it, use a USB Type-C. It is the fastest of all USB types, supporting up to 3000 mA (3A) of power, which means it charges your phone much quicker.
On the other hand, USB 3.0 ports deliver up to 900 mA, while USB 2.0 ports are limited to around 500 mA.
2. Disable USB Selective suspend
That should improve the charging process, at least marginally. In addition, there’s only one more thing you can do to focus power on charging rather than allow yourPCto spread it out to various devices.
3. Enable the High-Performance Mode
This will allow your laptop to allocate more resources to your charging as it won’t focus on preserving battery life.
4. Close unnecessary apps and features
For iOS:
On Android:
5. Put your phone on Airplane mode
On iOS:
On Android:
6. Unplug other USB devices and peripherals
Finally, the output current from your motherboard depends on how many devices are plugged in. If you have a mouse, keyboard, and phone connected, the power available for charging your phone is reduced.
Unplug any unnecessary peripherals to optimize charging. Keeping your laptop connected to an outlet during this process can also help.
To sum it up:
That should conclude our article on the topic of how to make a laptop charge a phone faster. Make sure to share your questions or suggestions with our readers. You can do so in the comments section below.
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Aleksandar Ognjanovic
Aleksandar’s main passion is technology. With a solid writing background, he is determined to bring the bleeding edge to the common user. With a keen eye, he always spots the next big thing surrounding Microsoft and the Windows OS.
Focused on Windows errors and how to solve them, he also writes about the OS’s latest features as well as its interface.
In his free time, he likes to read, listen to music, and enjoy the nature. Hiking is one of his newly found passions.
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