General [Info] Samsung Galaxy Tab A8 (2021)

[MikeChannon]

See:

Samsung officially reveals new Galaxy Tab A8 budget tablet

www.xda-developers.com

 

[garyemiller]

The SM-X200 spec says it will charge at 9V, but took me a while to get that to work. The charger that comes with it only does 5V. I tried one QC 3.0 charger, and also only 5V. Another QC 3.0 charger will charge the SM-X200 at 9V and 1.5A.

Digging deeper, the tablet needs Samsung Active Fast Charge (AFC) 9V. Few chargers support AFC 9V.

 

[cnlson]

The SM-X200 spec says it will charge at 9V, but took me a while to get that to work. The charger that comes with it only does 5V. I tried one QC 3.0 charger, and also only 5V. Another QC 3.0 charger will charge the SM-X200 at 9V and 1.5A.

Digging deeper, the tablet needs Samsung Active Fast Charge (AFC) 9V. Few chargers support AFC 9V.

I was just going to post the same thing, most of my non Samsung chargers won't charge at qc speed, but, interestingly pd chargers charge at 15 watt and ankerp iq2 chargers charge at 14w not sure if this is a unisoc thing or a Samsung non Qualcomm thing.

With the sharp corners, restricted chargers, no flash, and tft instead of ips, I'm not sure if I'd have chosen this tab over my 2018 tab a, but it was a present from work.
It is 128/4gb model and it's faster than my old tab a. So I can't really complain too much.

 

[letsdonyc]

Looks like Samsung got their specs wrong as well as shipped with the wrong wall charger for the Tab A8. The AFC in my package is a 9V 1.67A brick, which is 15W, and it cannot power the device. Can't even power it from 0 to power-on. So I got in touch with the tech dept and they cited the same figures: AFC 5v+9v is the correct charger. So I figured I had a bad brick and bought another. Nope, same result.

Tab A8 requires the 25W 9v Fast Charger, same as the S20 S21 and S22. It has sufficient amperage to provide the 9V needed.

For reference, Samsung's Fast Charger is also adaptive, and is rated:
25W / 2.77A = 9V
and
15W / 3.0A = 5V

 

[McTakeda]

Is worth to buy the 2022 version now?

 

[letsdonyc]

Not really. It runs slow on Tiger T618. Maybe it will improve when it gets Android 12, supposedly next month.