Cheap is Cheap even if it works.

So when I got my S6 Edge I got a pair of Qi Chargers. One stays at work, the other stays on my desk at home. When I need a quick charge I set my phone down and easy as that I get a top off. The thing is I didn't get the chargers with the intent to have on at work. I got one for home and the other I wanted to magiver into a car dock.

I took the magnetic plate mounting dock system I got, put the plat that was inside the case of my old phone on the back of the Qi Charger and then put a rubber stick pad on top of the charger pad to hold my phone to it. This actually worked at first, but the fact that the Qi charger had to push power through the almost 1/8" rubber pad and my Otter Box case it didn't charge all that well and pushed up the heat output hard core.

I gave up on using that setup because it kept disconnecting and the rubber mat stopped gripping because it got baked too much in my car. I could have just put the mag plate inside my case and took my phone out of the case to charge if I wanted to use my Qi Charger(The mag plate blocks Qi charging) but that is just too much effort.

The other week I decided to give a cheap combo charger on Amazon a shot. The M.Way Qi Wireless Charger Dock Magnetic 360 cost less then $10 and contrary to its name uses an adhesive backed rubber grip pad in the center of the white denoted charging ring to hold a phone. I checked the charging specs and its rated about the same as the Qi chargers I got before so it should do the job of charging my phone or as I intend it to provide charge to the phone so I can use it for GPS and Music without having to plug and unplug it whenever I get into my car.

I got the charger and found a few things odd in both the good and the bad.First the good. It works as a charger and the adhesive grip of the rubber pad on my phone was so grate at first that I could hold the dock upside down and shake and my phone wouldn't come off. I wouldn't try that any more because to test the charger I lest my phone docked to it charging while I watched a few videos at my desk. The result of the charging was heat so great that adhesive holding the grip pad onto the dock melted causing the rubber pad to come off the dock stuck to the back of my phone.

Cheap adhesive isn't all. The rubber grip pad was so stuck to my phone case that it molded to it. I pealed the mat off my phone and stuck it back onto the dock. Now it doesn't grip all that strongly and I'm not sure I can trust it holding my phone at any steep angle for fear of it shearing off the dock.

The second problem I found was the other adhesive pad on the dock meant to hold it to my dash or god for bid my windshield. It's a 3M foam type adhesive that's so week it couldn't hold the phone and dock on a flat surface with the phone angled. I pulled it off and replaced it with some home mounting foam tape I got at the store and not it sticks very well.  The stuff I'm using is meant to hang pictures on walls so holding a dock and phone is nothing to it even with about one square inch of the stuff.

Now I will admit that the dock came with spares of both the 3M base pad and the grip pad for the phone so I could just replace them if needed with the same sort of stuff that came with the dock if need be. The fact that it's a working Qi charger for less then half what I paid for my BestBuy brand Insignia chargers is something worth noting. I'll post back on how it holds up over time later.