Is charging a phone on my pc bad for the pc?

[Drop That Ammo]

I am not going to be close enough to an outlet most of the time from now on so i wanted to know if charging my phone almost 80% of the time will have any negative effects on my desktop. I think I am just paranoid but I want to make sure. Thanks

 

[The_Man12]

No it won't, the computer will be fine. I usually do it everyday and I've been doing it for a long time now and nothing has happened. So you're safe

 

[notlim981]

Don't be, there is nothing wrong in charging your phone on the pc, as a matter of fact a lot of motherboards vendors these days provide a software to make one of the usb ports to work as a charging device even when the pc is off.

 

[photonboy]

A regular USB2 port will charge slower than USB3. (maybe special USB2 ports that are faster than normal as well)

Yes, motherboard manufacturers have SOFTWARE to speed things up, but I believe the port has to support the higher current draw to also reduce the charging speed. (this probably varies a bit depending on how much current a device needs to charge)

 

[utroz]

I have been doing it for over ten years with no problems. I will say that it may not charge as fast as some wall adapters due to many usb 2.0 ports being limited to 0.5Amps.