Android will not name sluggish chargers ‘quick,’ however solely on Pixel 9 to date

It’s been over two weeks since Google unveiled the Google Pixel 9 sequence, and we’re nonetheless studying new issues in regards to the gadgets that the corporate didn’t point out at its Made by Google occasion. Whereas it’s unlucky it didn’t get round to mentioning neat options like Adaptive Contact, it’s comprehensible that it didn’t have time to say among the actually minor quality-of-life modifications. That’s what we’re right here for, although.

Earlier at present, APKMirror founder Artem Russakovskii posted on X about a facet of his Pixel 9 Professional XL that he discovered annoying. He talked about that his Pixel 9 Professional XL not exhibits the “charging quickly” textual content on the lock display screen. As a substitute, the lock display screen exhibits an ETA for when his telephone will full charging. The explanation that is annoying is as a result of it makes it more durable to inform if the telephone is related to a quick charger.

Because it seems, although, the “charging quickly” textual content hasn’t disappeared from the lock display screen. It nonetheless exhibits up in the event you use the Google 45W USB-C Charger, as talked about by some customers within the replies to Artem’s publish. Nonetheless, you don’t want a 45W charger for the Google Pixel 9 to make the “charging quickly” textual content seem on the lock display screen, and also you actually don’t want to make use of Google’s official charger to make it seem, both.

In truth, any charger that may ship no less than 20W of energy to the Pixel 9 will set off the “charging quickly” textual content to seem on the lock display screen. That is due to a current change in Android that’s at the moment solely enabled on the Pixel 9 sequence.

We reported earlier this 12 months that Android was making ready to improve the quick charging threshold from 7.5W to 20W. The OS on all different Pixel telephones nonetheless makes use of the outdated quick charging threshold of seven.5W, however the OS on the Pixel 9 sequence makes use of the upper 20W threshold as a result of Google set the system property charging_string.apply_v2 to true. When this method property is ready to true, the 20W quick charging threshold is used to find out whether or not to indicate the “charging quickly” textual content on the lock display screen. Though my preliminary reporting on this transformation was based mostly on code I discovered throughout the third beta of Android 15, I examined the Android 14 firmware for the Pixel 9 sequence and located it was enabled there, too.

Despite the fact that the quickest charging speeds are solely assured in the event you use Google’s official 45W charger, it is best to have the ability to quickly cost any telephone within the Pixel 9 sequence utilizing a quick USB-PD PPS charger, as Google’s telephones don’t use a proprietary wired charging normal. Nonetheless, it’ll must ship no less than 20W of energy for the Pixel 9 to contemplate it as “quick,” because the Android OS on the system not makes use of the outdated, outdated quick charging threshold.