Samsung Wireless Charger Flashing Blue and Not Charging

Lots of users have the same problem – Samsung wireless charger stops charging and blue LED light starts blinking. The mostly affected phones include Samsung Galaxy Note 5, Note 8, S6, S7, S8, S9, iPhone XS Max, iPhone 8, Motorola phones, LG phones, etc.

If you’ve also encountered Samsung wireless charger flashing blue and not charging issue, you’re in the right place to fix it.

We’ve covered why your Samsung wireless charger is not charging and flashing blue, how to fix it (top 17 solutions) and what the LED light colors mean.

Table of Contents:

Why: Samsung Wireless Charger Flashing Blue and Not Charging
How: Top 17 Solutions to Solve This Issue By Yourself
101: Samsung Wireless Charger LED Color Meanings

Why Your Samsung Wireless Charger Starts Flashing Blue and Not Charging

Many issues may cause your Samsung wireless charging pad or stand not charging and blinking blue. If you want to figure out the reason, here are the most common causes to check.

#1. Coil misaligned – your phone and the Samsung wireless charger cannot line up correctly.

#2. Inner corruption or conflict – the Samsung wireless charger may have inner corruption or conflict.

#3. Wrong USB cable or power adapter – you use a cheap and wrong USB cable/power adapter to power up the wireless charger.

#4. Corrupted system cache – this occurs to many phones, especially those that are more than 1 year old.

#5. Problems with the over the air update – you update your iPhone or Android phone over the air and there may be problems affecting wireless charging.

#6. Vibration – your phone may get many notifications and vibrates a lot, which may cause the phone to shift out of the center of the Samsung wireless charger.

#7. Fast wireless charging mode – in some cases, the fast wireless charging mode may cause conflicts which stop the Samsung wireless charger to charge your phone.

#8. Errors of the phone’s apps – some apps may have bugs and cause conflicts to the phone that will interfere with the wireless charging process.

#9. NFC on or off – in some cases the NFC will interfere with the wireless charging process.

#10. Daydream o or off – the Daydream feature may interfere with the wireless charging process.

#11. Foreign objects – objects like magnetic mounts, cards, cases made with PC/TPU and metal materials, etc. between the phone and the wireless charger will stop wireless charging.

#12. Overheating – if the phone gets too warm, the software will stop wireless charging automatically to protect the battery. That’s why you see your phone stops at 80% or 85% sometimes.

There may be other unfrequent issues that cause the Samsung wireless charger blinking blue and not charging. Share with us what you’ve found out or what you’ve had in mind. We’d like to add your opinion to this part to give others a head-up.

Top 17 Solutions to Solve Samsung Wireless Charger Flashing Blue and Not Charging

We’ve summed up all the workable solutions to solve the Samsung wireless charger not charging and flashing blue issue. Till now there are 17 solutions. We have tried some and successful solved the problem. Others are shared by other users in Reddit, Quora, Facebook, Twitter, and other communities and forums.

The thing is, all these solutions have been tried and successful fixed the issue. We will keep updating this post if there is any new solution out there.

Please let us know in the comment below if any of the listed helps you out, or share with us the other solutions you’ve found, which would greatly help others.

Note: It’s normal for Samsung fast wireless charger to show blue, green, and another blue light when you first boot it up. If this happens all the time and even when there’s no phone on the charger, that can be sign of an charging issue.

1. Reposition the phone

The best place for the phone to get charged on the Samsung wireless charger is the exact center. If you’re sure you’ve put the phone onto the exact center but the Samsung wireless charger is still blinking blue and won’t charge the phone, try to move the phone left or right or pick up the phone and place it again on the exact center.

If you’re using a Samsung wireless charging stand, slide the phone from side to side, or even place it horizontally on the charger. You will see the LED light turns blue steadily and then it chargers your phone.

2. Unplug and replug the cable

An unplug and plug-in of the cable is a reset and restart process to the Samsung wireless charger. And this will fix all inner conflicts from the charger itself.

This is the same with the power adapter. You can unplug the power adapter and then plug it in to do a reset and restart to the wireless charger.

Had the same problem. Unplugging the cord from the wireless charger and plugging it back in, fixed it.

3. Use the original cable

There are chances that you have mixed up the cables and use a wrong one for the wireless charger if you have several phones or several chargers from different brands. Wrong USB cables that are cheap or higher-voltage or lower-voltage may stop the Samsung wireless charger from normally working.

Use the original cable that comes with the Samsung wireless charger to charge the Samsung wireless charger. If you’re not sure which one is the correct one, swap out the cable one by one until the wireless charger works.

Pro tip: Cables fail more than you think. There are many cases that customers can’t get the Samsung wireless charger to work with the original cable connected. You can try another cable you can find around that works with the Samsung wireless charger.

4. Change the power adapter

If you use a fast charge adapter for the Samsung wireless charger, try to use another wall charger. In our test, a Verizon a36-502a wall adapter works perfectly with the Samsung wireless charger and the phone gets charged again. You can use a 2amp adapter you have around your house, or try an a36-502a wall adapter.

5. Turn off Fast Wireless Charging

If your phone supports Fast Wireless Charging, try to turn this mode off. To do this, go to settings and slide the “Fast Wireless Charging” to Off. To some phones, this option is in the Battery section.

Your phone will get charged in the 5W standard wireless charging mode.

6. Restart or reset your phone

If you believe there is an inner error in your phone, such as a conflict or bug caused by an app (but you don’t know which app it is), try to restart your phone.

You can also try a hard reset, which will also shut off all conflicts and issues from the phone. Then put the phone onto the Samsung wireless charger again.

7. Update or uninstall the app that has problems

It takes a little more time to find out the app that causes the Samsung wireless charger blinking blue and not charging. If you have a few more time, you can close all the apps, restart the phone, then run one single app each time and place the phone on your Samsung wireless charger to see if it stops charging.

Once you figure out the app that causes the charging problem, update it to the latest version or uninstall it.

Took it off the charger, checked email on the phone and replaced into charger and then it STOPPED charging. Powered off and then powered on, logged in and then placed on the charger and it started charging.Seems to me starting after using an app, the phone stops charging.

8. Remove the case or any foreign object

Take off the protective case or any object such as magnetic mounts or cards on the phone and place again the phone onto the Samsung wireless charger. Some sturdy cases are made with PC or TPU materials mixed with metal, which will interfere with the wireless charging process.

9. Turn off the vibration mode

If the Samsung wireless charger charges your phone normally and then after a short time or a long time it starts flashing blue and stops charging, the phone vibration may be the cause. If your phone gets many notifications, it may shift and would not be on the charging area (the exact center).

Replace the phone onto the center and it would get charged again. But the best solution is to turn off the vibration mode, especially when you’re sleeping at night, leaving the phone charged overnight on the Samsung wireless charger.

Turn on the Do Not Disturb mode if you are in this case.

10. Turn NFC on or off

Many users have reported the NFC interfered with the wireless charging process. You can try to turn NFC on or off on your phone to see if the Samsung wireless charger blinking blue and not charging issue could be fixed.

11. Turn Daydream on or off

Same to NFC. If your phone is an Android smartphone, try to turn the Daydream feature on or off to see if the issue could be solved.

Turned on Daydream and it worked – for note 5.

12. Fix with the latest version

It’s best to keep your Android or iOS software latest. But if you’ve updated to the latest version over the air and the Samsung wireless charger started flashing blue and stopped charging while you placed the phone onto it, then there should be an update issue over the air.

Find a local official store of your phone and ask the staff to help fix the update version. It needs to download the latest version on to a computer and then install the version to the phone.

13. Cool the phone and the Samsung wireless charger

If you find there is a noticeable warm on the phone during charging, cool the phone and the Samsung wireless charger. You can try to move them into another cooler place. After the temperature goes down, the Samsung wireless charger will work again.

14. Update apps, clear cached partition and reboot

This solution is from Samsung official support. If you are using an Android phone, you can try the steps below. To give you the whole information, we’ve quoted all:

Update the apps to the latest version, clear the cached partition of your device: To do this you will power down the device and upon start up you will hold the volume up, home, and power keys until the device powers on into a boot mode. Once there you will use the Volume keys to navigate to the wipe cache partition option. You will then use the power key to select this. This will delete only temporary files used by the device and should not delete any saved data. Once this is complete. You will navigate to the reboot system option and use the power button to select this.

15. Charge on safe mode

The safe mode will blocks all third party apps from running on your phone. If your phone charges fine in safe mode, then clearly one or several apps are causing the Samsung wireless charger not charging and blinking blue. You can then test each app to see which one causes the issue.

Steps of running safe mode are different for different phones. You should refer to the manufacture’s guide to run your phone into safe mode.

16. Send back the charger to Sansung to get a fix or replacement

Check if your Samsung wireless charger is still in the warranty period. If yes, contact the seller and send back the charger for a fix or replacement. You may be responsible for the freight charge.

17. Get a new wireless charger

If all the solutions above do not fix your Samsung wireless charger flashing blue and not charging, it’s time to get a new one. Try another brand with good reputation, such as Anker, Yootech, and CHOETECH.

LED Light Basic 101: Samsung Wireless Charger LED Light Color Meanings

Below are the LED light color meanings for the Samsung wireless charger:

Note: different wireless charger versions from other countries may have different LED light colors. Blow are the most common LED status reported. If you’ve encountered a different status, add it to your comment blow. We will try to figure it out and add it to the list below.

Flashing blue: issues detected and not charging correctly
Solid blue: the phone is properly connected to the wireless charger charging correctly
Solid green: the phone has been charged fully
Blinking red: higher-voltage or lower-voltage (wrong cable or adapter)
Blinking green: higher-voltage or lower-voltage (wrong cable or adapter)
Blinking orange: higher-voltage or lower-voltage (wrong cable or adapter)
Blinking yellow: higher-voltage or lower-voltage (wrong cable or adapter)