Have you ever been in a situation where you wished it was possible to charge your phone without a charger?
If you have, then you’re not alone. Because I’ve been there too. And frankly, it’s frustrating.
In this article, we have properly researched and explained a step-by-step process on how you can charge your phone without a charger.
If you are ready, let’s get started.
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How to Charge Your Phone Without a Charger
The first step is to get yourself either a compatible charging cable for your phone or a wireless pad.
The following are methods or ways of charging your phone without a charger:
#1. Use a USB Port to Charge Your Phone
This method requires a charging cable that is compatible with your phone and which you can also use to plug your phone into your laptop to enable a fast charge. Or you can find alternate USB ports that can perform the task.
The majority of the USB ports found in places like hotels, restaurants, airports, coffee shops, and so on, provide enough power to charge your phone and these ports could be found on lamps, walls, tables, and so on.
The USB ports are mainly of the USB-A shape, which is the rectangle end of the cable normally used to charge your phone. All you need to do is to;
- Plug your USB cable into the USB port.
- Plug the other end into your phone.
#2. Charge your Phone With a Battery Pack
This method of charging your phone without a charger requires a little advance planning.
The recent battery packs being manufactured of late are capable of supplying enough power to charge your phone but possess a little challenge of not supporting fast charge even when your phone does.
It is advised that you charge your battery pack in advance and always take it along with you when you can’t reach your normal phone charger as you never can tell when you might be needing it.
The battery packs range in different power capacities and designs as some are portable, and some are bigger in shape and size. To charge your phone using a battery pack, you only need to plug the charging cable into it and into your phone and turn it on.
#3. Using Hand-Crank Chargers
This method of charging your phone without a charger requires a hand-crank charger that doesn’t make use of any electrical power, thereby giving it an advantage over other methods of charging your phone.
Using a hand-crank charger isn’t difficult as it requires that you plug the charging cable into the charger and into your phone and keep cranking until you get a usable charge.
You may have to crank the charger for a while before you get a usable charge. However, there are some hand-crank chargers that come equipped with a built-in battery.
So you can charge the battery and then use it to charge your phone.
#4. Using Solar Powered Charger
The advantage of this method of charging a phone without a charger is that it could be used for outdoor events. A solar-powered charger only requires sunlight to work well. There are two ways in which the Solar chargers work:
- Firstly, sunlight charges the battery in the unit, which is then used to charge the phone
- Secondly, the solar charger charges the phone directly.
- Set up the charger to collect sunlight or place it on the roof of your house.
- Plug your charging cable into the charger and into your phone.
#5. Charging your Phone with a Car Charger
This method of charging phone without charger involves utilizing your Car USB port or using an adapter.
Lately, the recent cars being manufactured come with a USB port that can be used for charging phones.
In cases where your car doesn’t possess a USB port, you can purchase an adapter that plugs into the lighter port. All you need to do is to;
- Start your car or turn it to accessory mode.
- Plug one end of the charging cable into the car’s USB port or adapter and the other end into your phone.
#6. Using a Wireless Charger
This method of charging a phone without using a charger requires a charging pad. If your phone works with wireless charging, you don’t have to do anything other than place your phone on the charging pad.
You can also plug a wireless charger (charging pad) into the wall, and then never have to touch it again.
When you’re ready to charge after the wireless charger is set up, you simply set your phone on the wireless charger and it starts charging upon contact with the phone and charging base
#7. Using the Wind to Charge your phone
This method of charging phones without a charger is specifically for iPhone users and requires an iFan.
If you’re an iPhone user you can charge your iPhone with an iFan. To charge your iPhone with an iFan you must put the iPhone into the iFan charging case and attach it to the handlebar of a bicycle and ride for six hours.
After riding for six hours, you will have generated enough electricity to fully charge your iPhone. At the moment the iFan is only available for iPhones, there are no other variations of this for Android phones.
Bottom Line
I hope the methods listed above show you how you can charge your phone without using a charger.
If you have any questions or suggestions, kindly let me know in the comments section.
All the best!
FAQs
You can plug your phone into your laptop for a quick charge or find alternate USB ports that can do the job. Most USB ports found in airports and some coffee shops provide enough power to charge a standard smartphone.
You should consider keeping a portable battery and a USB cable in your travel bag so you can always top off your iPhone, even if you’re nowhere near a wall outlet. Other charging methods include a car charger, hand-crank charger, solar charging, and a wireless adapter.
Turn on the vehicle or put it in Accessory mode.
Remove objects from the charging pad or pocket.
Place the phone face up on the coil charging symbol on the pad or in the pocket.
You’ll see the charging symbol display on the phone when it’s charging.
Turn it off
Turning your phone off completely will allow it to recharge even faster than putting it in airplane mode. Again, you might miss out on a few notifications while it is off, but you’ll have to live with that if you want your phone to last until you come home again
Flickr/Bryan Rosengrant Siri does something unexpected when you ask it to charge your iPhone all the way, The Verge has found. If you ask Apple’s virtual assistant to charge your phone (forgetting that it can’t do anything to give you more power), it will call the police.
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