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Please Help: Problems with charging!!

:?: Hello. I was wondering if anybody has had same problem as i have.
I work on my xdaIIs a fair bit away from home and as a result i need to recharge it every now and then. I have a usb charger cable that i use to charge it using other computers and also via a usb car charger pluggy thingy sorry cant remember name :lol:
The problem i have is that while i am charging my xdaIIs using this method the battery power starts running DOWN as if the power is being drained!!! The device is definately telling me its being recharged.
Please help... I have no idea what is going on???!!!
THANKYOU in advance. 8) :?

Depends what you are using to charge I had the same problem with a mini sync cable I bought sync'd fine but didnt charge but that because it was designed for an XDA not an XDA2 bought a new one from boxwave and its fine.
But certainly if your device is sufficiently drained it will be pulling more power that your PC's USB slot will be willing to give it so you could be running into that.

Novice Gadget Boy said:
The problem i have is that while i am charging my xdaIIs using this method the battery power starts running DOWN as if the power is being drained!!! The device is definately telling me its being recharged.
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I would guess that the charger doesn't supply sufficient current to actually charge the unit. I say this, because I have seen exactly the same thing (= orange light on and the battery power level decreasing fast) when I built my custom charger for XDAII. XDAII is very "picky" and needs a lot of power to charge and the "USB car charger", as you described it, probably can't supply enough.

Thanks for the reply guys.
It used to work when i first bought it but now doesnt.
Any ideas on what i could purchase that WOULD work??

I have had a similiar problem with a similiar charging setup, but mine charges fine as long as the battery level does not fall too low, if it gets below about 30% then it seems to decharge instead of charge... its really strange.

Cigarrete adaptor charger Draining mine too..
I had a Ipaq 2210 installed in the handle bars of my bike with a Holux BT GPS, recently after breaking 2 of them( IPAQS) I've replaced with a XDA IIs, I had a cigarrete adaptor for the IPAQs and another for powering the speakers... as now i can't use the speakers (due to the horrible 2.5 jack)I've modified the supplied connector for charging without the craddle to fit the connector for the speakers...
I realized from time to time the XDA turned it self off... and last travel it just died with the orange led on and battery 0%....
However first time I've used it was a 700km trip (paris - switzerland) and that time had no pbm (once or twice it turned off but that was all)
I've noticed that the supplied wall power adaptor is a 2Amp one... which looks like enourmous to me... but i tought that cigarrete adaptors were not amperage limited (but for your battery and generator/alternator)
One think I havent tried is to cut the Ipaq's one and fit the connector there... as the Ipaq uses the same wall power thing perhaps the cigarrete adaptor will be the same too....
Please any advice for me ??
I would also like to mod the suppplied connector into a usb stand alone sync cable (pls advise on it too....)
Also i would like to fit an Ipaq IR led onto the XDA to use it as remote for my digital rebel camera.... (advice again?)
Thanks in advance
N

Can't connect via USB

Suddenly I can't connect my Armetis via USB connection. I connect the USB cable, and the charging light start working (so there is a connection), but ActiveSync doesn't respond. I tried to HR the device - but problem doesn't resolve. I tried connect through another computer - nothing.
It seems that the problem is in my PDA, doesn't it? But I can charge it with the USB cable, so there is a connection.
Can someone please help me???

exactly the same here. see my thread i started a couple of days ago:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=294892
driving me mad!!

Hey mattan...
I totally agree i think it's something in the device going on. I was going to offer a list of apps i have installed to see if there's anything in common but the fact that you've done the HR implies not. Let me know if you manage to resolve!

I had the same thing twice in about 4 weeks. The store where I have bought my device has replace my P3300 each time I had this problem.
I was also using a non HTC car charger. On the last replace they also gave me an official car charger for my device because the last time the USB port dies happens when I just came out of the car and the P3300 was on the car charger.
On this new car charger I found a warning not to use this charger when starting the car.
So I think what has happened to my P3300 is that it dies when starting the car while it is already connected to the car charger. It could be that in some cases there will be a large voltage spike on the USB port which will blow up the USB port.
I have used my P3300 in the car with this car charger but I only connect it after the car has been started. Until know everything still works.

It must be a fairly common problem. HTC has a support site section dedicated to it:
http://www.europe.htc.com/support/faq.html?id=164&cat=synchronisation

have you downloaded the latest 4.5 version of activesync
Once I did that my sync hassles were solved

anebula said:
I had the same thing twice in about 4 weeks. The store where I have bought my device has replace my P3300 each time I had this problem.
I was also using a non HTC car charger. On the last replace they also gave me an official car charger for my device because the last time the USB port dies happens when I just came out of the car and the P3300 was on the car charger.
On this new car charger I found a warning not to use this charger when starting the car.
So I think what has happened to my P3300 is that it dies when starting the car while it is already connected to the car charger. It could be that in some cases there will be a large voltage spike on the USB port which will blow up the USB port.
I have used my P3300 in the car with this car charger but I only connect it after the car has been started. Until know everything still works.
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I am afraid this what happened to me
So - there is no solution, beside replacing the phone ?
I bought it in the states, so how and where can I replace it ?

check out the thread i linked to above... do you have tcpmp installed? try deleting i if so!

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check out the thread i linked to above... do you have tcpmp installed? try deleting i if so!
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I don't get you.
Can you explain to me what to do ?

I had the same problem... drove me mad.
Anyway, ended up hard resetting my orbit and active sync started working again. I slowly reinstalled all my apps and when i installed tcpmp 0.72RC1 it stopped working again. I uninstalled it and i had active sync again.
Not sure you have TCPMP installed but if so try uninstalling it.. worth a shot!

XDAIIs

Hi All
just joined today,great site and can anyone help, I have a xda IIs which just stopped, would not charge, so bought new battery but could not charge it, even when fitted to phone, in craddle or pluged into power in car, Is the phone done or repairable
Thanks:

Car Charging

I have a TomTom one car charger that worked fine on my Hermes when i had wm6 from T-Mobile installed. I then installed PDA corner v10 and worked now I upgraded to v11+ and its not charging any hack I can do to get this working ?? I got my Hermes installed how I want it but need to charge when in the car to get a whole days use.

Usually when I have this problem, I just turn off the phone, and then back on with it plugged into the car charger and it will work fine.. give it a try. I know its annoying, but its a simple workaround.

I plug it in and do a soft reset if it does not start charging.

Agree with above its a pain in the #@% but reset while plugged in usally works (untill you "use" the pnone, then it stops charging)
Or as has been said before, just buy a proper car charger and use that for the tom tom/other usb as well ?
Cheers
Fadge
tnt for toadays rom

This is what I do and it usually works for me (assuming you are connecting to car charger after activesync):
Make sure to power off (standby) your device while in activesync before disconnecting it from the computer. This does seem to be ROM dependent, as with some ROMs this is not necessary.

with my hermes i have similar problem but solution presented here - soft reset while plugged works for me allows to recharge my TyTN up to 100%

Thankyou
Thankyou will give this a go

All -
I posted quite a while back about why this happens... It seems not all USB-mini chargers are created equal... It turns out that apparently the connections between two of the 5 pins need to be "jumpered" (connected) which is easy enough if you have decent electrical / soldering skills and a charger you can half-way get apart. I can't for the life of me remember which two of the contacts need to be jumpered but if you do a search here on XDA I'm sure you'll find it. I bought a cradle-style charger on ebay, took it apart, jumpered the two pins, and have *NEVER* had the intermittent-charge-when-I-want problem again.
Hope that helps.

help .xda orbit got charging problem.

hi friends
i have o2 xda orbit
i have no original charger
but i use a converter pin which is nokia to motorola/lg
i plug it to set and then plug nokia charger in it
it was going ok from abt two months but one day accidentally i have inserted ZTE CDMA sets charger having 12 volts to that pin.
set displayed charging for a moment and then stopped charging
i have not noticed it, and it remained in for abt an hour.
set was ok.
but when i tried to insert nokia pin set displaed charging for while and then stopped charging
same condition from pc.
now i m in trouble
any body to help me.

Hi
I have looked at my charger and the output on this is 5v. If you have put 12 through then i expect the charging circuit to have fried.
Sorry for the bad news . Is the phone still under warranty if so see if you can take it back.
Cheers Dave

nop
no warranty
i got it in pakistan, used without warranty
i need diagram to fix it my self
i m doing hardware and software of mobiles here in pakistan
but as i have no diagram of this set.
set is working well, but only charging problem.
i think charging IC got fire.
can any one help me to do so