Ever go out of town and have multiple gadgets that need to be charged? Staying in a hotel, sometimes it is a pain in the rear to find enough outlets to charge everything. Especially those Bachelor's Party trips to Las Vegas cramming 10 guys into 1 room. Generally my Fiancé and I travel with another couple which means at least 4 cell phones needing to be charged at night.
So while at Fry's Electronics today, I had a stroke of genius. Since we are going out of town tomorrow, I thought it would be a nice idea to get a portable travel charging station together. So this is what I came up with.
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First the phones. A couple of pretty Vibrants.
Two USB to Micro USB cables. Since this is a Portable Charging Station, I opted to get retractable cables for neatness.
A Belkins Hi-Speed 4 port USB hub. It comes with a power adapter which I ditched and also a USB to mini USB cable.
A mini USB cell phone charger I had laying around. I think it is from one of many other HTC phones I have owned.
Put them all together and presto! A Portable Compact Travel Gadget Charging station that can be stowed pretty much anywhere.
Now I was very skeptical at first, but yes, both phones were charging and the only other device that I had lying around was a 3g itouch. Even with the official apple charging cable attached to this charging station it would not charge. Oh well, its an ipod, who cares. I am confident that this will charge most other gadgets that charge via USB. Tomorrow at my destination, I will further test this out with 2 more phones. A 3rd Vibrant, a rooted Mytouch 3g and a 3rd phone which I am not sure what it is.
So what do you all think?
Stroke of genius? Bit of a stretch.
Regardless...if you *needed* to just take up one wall outlet then cool. Otherwise this seems like overkill when a 2nd wall charger would work just fine.
I think its kinda cool. However its a lot of pieces to carry around when you could just carry your factory chargers, but with that said I've been in a Hotel or two when you had to charge one phone on one wall and another across the room because the alarm clock or lamp was plugged in and it was kinda annoying.
NoDataFound said:
Stroke of genius? Bit of a stretch.
Regardless...if you *needed* to just take up one wall outlet then cool. Otherwise this seems like overkill when a 2nd wall charger would work just fine.
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the stroke of genius was a joke. Whenever I go to a hotel, an outlet with 2 plugs usually has one occupied with a vital device, like a lamp. And this leaves just 1 plug available. Tonight when staying in a hotel with my brother and his wife, that would mean 4 cell phones that need to be plugged in. so this charger is viable in situations like this.
kizer said:
I think its kinda cool. However its a lot of pieces to carry around when you could just carry your factory chargers, but with that said I've been in a Hotel or two when you had to charge one phone on one wall and another across the room because the alarm clock or lamp was plugged in and it was kinda annoying.
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The contraption isn't all that big. It can easily fit in a small pouch that won't take any real room in your luggage. Believe me, it is not kosher with me to have to go halfway across the suite to charge my phone because the woman takes the only one available by the bed.
this is but supposed to be sliced bread, just something I am sure at least a few people will find useful.
Major problem there buddy... charging through USB is usually way slower than through A/C (because most USB ports don't supply as much power, like 500A).
With two phones plugged in, charging would take forever...
I think after being plugged in for 8 hours while he sleeps it'll be fine. Good idea, as long as you remember to bring it with you when you travel! I'm constantly forgetting my charger at home...
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oswade said:
Major problem there buddy... charging through USB is usually way slower than through A/C (because most USB ports don't supply as much power, like 500A).
With two phones plugged in, charging would take forever...
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I thought so to, but when I did run a test on 2 vibrants, it didn't seem to take as long as I thought it was going to take. I dont have any supporting data because I was on weekend off. It was able to charge 4 phones to full overnight, which is what I wanted. I will do more testing when I get a chance and get some data.
kantizuni said:
I think after being plugged in for 8 hours while he sleeps it'll be fine. Good idea, as long as you remember to bring it with you when you travel! I'm constantly forgetting my charger at home...
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It charged 4 phones overnight perfectly. 3 Vibrants and 1 Mytouch 3g. None of the phones had critical low battery or anything tho. I didn't know the battery status of any of the other 3 phones, but mine was down to 40% life and it was 100% the next morning.
For every phone I owned, I had always bought an additional charger and left the spare in my luggage. This device is now currently sitting right beside my spare charger. Only downside is the ability to charge only 4 gadgets. But the days of me cramming 10 peeps into a hotel room are behind me.
Now I'm going to Florida Next month and staying in a Hotel Room and well there will be at least 3 cell phones in the room along with 2 laptops and Im sure a few cameras. LOL, I guess I need to start looking into maximizing my chargeability of all that stuff.
Heck I think I might have a little wall powered USB hub already and its easier to carry USB cables than to carry AC adapters. As a matter of fact its a Tiny RockBand Usb adapter and I think it might put out 500mA per Usb port. 4x500mA since it has to power each instrument.
Hmmmmm................
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Hey Everyone,
Thought I would start a car charger thread.
I picked up one of these at Walmart the other day:
http://store.griffintechnology.com/smartphone/powerjolt-dual-universal-micro
And it works quite wonderfully. It's tiny, and even with bluetooth/GPS/Navigation running, it was slowly charging the battery. And it charges it quite quick if you don't have nav running.
It can be a bit annoying to pull out once stuck in, although you probably don't need to do that very often.
- Frank
I have the single port version of the one you have cracking charger and sits flush worth the extra few pounds over the cheap ones and delivers plenty of juice
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If you have amazon prime you can get it for less than $10 in two days here:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0042B9U8Q/ref=olp_product_details?ie=UTF8&me=&seller=
I got it the other day but haven't driven far enough yet to need to use it
Glad to hear though that it charges even while using GPS.
what is the exact output of each USB of this Griffen car charger ?
i have a JABRA charger (comes with JABRA Cruiser) and it doesnt seem to charge my GN while GPS navigation is on (even though its saying charging on the battery icon)
it used to work perfectly on my HTC Desire HD (with GPS+Bluetooth+WIFI ON )
any recommendation on how to fix this please ? like a reference output current that is enough to charge the GN while navigating ?
thanks.
Goodm7sn said:
what is the exact output of each USB of this Griffen car charger ?
i have a JABRA charger (comes with JABRA Cruiser) and it doesnt seem to charge my GN while GPS navigation is on (even though its saying charging on the battery icon)
it used to work perfectly on my HTC Desire HD (with GPS+Bluetooth+WIFI ON )
any recommendation on how to fix this please ? like a reference output current that is enough to charge the GN while navigating ?
thanks.
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The Griffen claims 1A per USB port, and I believe it.
Online reviews say some users with other phones need to mod the Griffen to charge their phone, otherwise it only supplies 100mA. Some crack open/mod the Griffen to short two terminals to get the full charging ability, and/or use a 'charging cable' which shorts the terminals within the cable.
As a reminder, the Griffen seems to charge the Note full blast, but perhaps something similar is needed for the Jabra. I suggest installing 'Currentwidget' to see what sort of charge you are getting.
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SGP has one as well, it will lit up BLUE!
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OR you can just get a no brand one on eBay for around $3.
ChodTheWacko said:
The Griffen claims 1A per USB port, and I believe it.
Online reviews say some users with other phones need to mod the Griffen to charge their phone, otherwise it only supplies 100mA. Some crack open/mod the Griffen to short two terminals to get the full charging ability, and/or use a 'charging cable' which shorts the terminals within the cable.
As a reminder, the Griffen seems to charge the Note full blast, but perhaps something similar is needed for the Jabra. I suggest installing 'Currentwidget' to see what sort of charge you are getting.
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Thank you for the reply.
I have battery monitor widget installed & it shows charging via usb when i connect it to jabra charger, but the weird thing is that the galaxy note starts mtp mode once i connect it!
Could it be the cable? Or shall i just take the griffin charger to solve this?
By the way,griffin charger works out of the box out do i have to solder modify it?
Cheers
I just bought this dual port 2.1A + 1A charger on eBay for £2.49 inclusive and delivered the following day....
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/2-1A-Dual...neChargers&hash=item19ca66b4df#ht_2865wt_1163
At first it seemed the phone was only drawing a "USB" level of current, so I was all set to rip it apart and solder the centre pins to force AC charging, but when I double checked with a dry run and a temporary short the phone switched to AC charging. Now it seems to be continuing to draw "AC" levels, so maybe I had a poor contact initially and a few (un)plugging operations have made the contacts more reliable. I'll try it out later today with satnav running and see if it keeps up with the pace and report back.
EDIT : Charge level draining like water out of a sieve with this thing whilst running satnav, and the phone said it was "AC" charging too. Switching ports didn't help.
i'm using the official car charger from my old nexus, the only charger i found can charge my phone with 3g and nav on because of the 2A output. other cheap usb chargers i tried with so called 2A output just don't work
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A couple months ago I got this one for my SGT:
http://www.cyberguys.com/product-details/?productid=51740
It does 2.1a. I paid full price:-( not the current sale price. Works fine with my SGN.
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This may be old news but I found this MHL adapter for like $15 on amazon and it put a full HD mirror of my phone to my 73" TV that looked great!
Oh and it can allow charging of the phone at the same time.
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I am an idiot that cant seem to get the youtube video link to work but I have a video of it
They have tons online ranging from $4.99 to $15.99. Some have charging ports, some don't.
Can you do a test to see if your battery slowly depletes while using it AND a charging cable? Some say that even when charging the same time, the Nexus screen and video out eats too much power for the USB charger to keep up with.
So as a test, could you hook it up with power and output to your TV for like an hour (maybe a movie) and see if the battery % is less, the same, or more then before you started.
There's a Thanks in it! Plus I'm thinking of buying one but there aren't enough tests to prove it's the USB Wall Charger, MLH Adapter, or phone that is the problem.
Also - That link is absolutely atrocious.
sorry about the youtube link. I tried a bunch of different things, all failed. Mine does have the charging port. I will test the charging functionality tonight. I tell you what, the one Youtube video that I watched with it looked great and I haven't found anything that isnt mirrored yet
I will say this, I picked this one because it was one of the ones being used at the MHL booth at CES
Can you supply a link to it on amazon please? Thanks.
player911 said:
Can you do a test to see if your battery slowly depletes while using it AND a charging cable? Some say that even when charging the same time, the Nexus screen and video out eats too much power for the USB charger to keep up with.
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I ran into this with the 700mA BlackBerry charger by my home theater, but I used a generic 1000mA charger with no problems (search Amazon for B005F9W6DU to find my model). I believe that the stock Samsung charger is also 700mA.
EDIT: Just for kicks I hooked my phone up to my HP power supply via a cannibalized USB cable. I measured just shy of 1000mA when plugged in directly. When plugged into the MHL adapter I was just north of 400mA. I'll have to explore more, but what I don't understand is how I was able to play a movie and not lose any charge at that charge rate. I suspect the voltage of the cheap-o USB adapter may be a bit on the high side, allowing a faster charge over the same current (with a non-zero risk) but that would require investigation.
Yea I think this is the cause of the confusion. The standard charger is slow. Seems it can't keep up with charging while using the phone. I have TONS of chargers because I'm an IT admin that services hotels. They always have a box of left over goodies behind the front desk (good tip to know). They are always happy to get rid of that crap. I always find some awesome universal chargers, backup batteries, laptop chargers, cell phone accessories, etc left behind by guests.
Good to know it'll work with the right equipment.
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2 things. Its smooth video with audio and it charges just fine . Get the one shown. I have it, works great. Use a battery pack when you don't have a close outlet.
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haydtdiu said:
Use a battery pack when you don't have a close outlet.
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More good advice. I have a pair of APC UPB10 batteries because I can't stand the thought of buying spare batteries (and custom chargers) for every phone and Bluetooth device I own. With 10,000mAH it's enough to last me when I'm away from a power source, plus with the GN I don't need to worry about spare batteries making NFC more painful to use.
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I ran into this with the 700mA BlackBerry charger by my home theater, but I used a generic 1000mA charger with no problems (search Amazon for B005F9W6DU to find my model). I believe that the stock Samsung charger is also 700mA.
EDIT: Just for kicks I hooked my phone up to my HP power supply via a cannibalized USB cable. I measured just shy of 1000mA when plugged in directly. When plugged into the MHL adapter I was just north of 400mA. I'll have to explore more, but what I don't understand is how I was able to play a movie and not lose any charge at that charge rate. I suspect the voltage of the cheap-o USB adapter may be a bit on the high side, allowing a faster charge over the same current (with a non-zero risk) but that would require investigation.
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Thanks!
This is all well and good but you still haven't specified which company makes the one you have or supplied a link to it.
How do you turn on video out? I plugged it in and it doesnt work right off....
jdbower said:
I ran into this with the 700mA BlackBerry charger by my home theater, but I used a generic 1000mA charger with no problems (search Amazon for B005F9W6DU to find my model). I believe that the stock Samsung charger is also 700mA.
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Samsung in-box AC charger is 1A. Their DC car charger is .7A. I picked up the Samsung OEM MHL (actual Samsung, not a fake) dongle with the OEM Samsung charger, it still drains a bit when in use. Since it's just a bit, the phone naturally gets blazing hot.
The official MHL outputs at 720p (having used two different MHL kits, it seems that's the phone's output most of the time), unless I'm playing a 1080i/p movie, where it switches output to 1080p. Does the one you have do the same or does it up-convert to 1080p all the time?
Can anybody confirm that this is a worthy purchase?
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Can anybody confirm that this is a worthy purchase?
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Can anyone confirm the meaning of life?
The cable works. If you have a use of connecting your phone to the TV, then its worth it. If not, then it isn't. You can check plenty of videos on YouTube to see the cable in action with our phone.
Did anyone try flash videos directly from a website? Youtube and videos from file work fine but when I try playing a flash video through a site, the video keeps flickering. I told the seller and got another one shipped. Same thing though. Wondering if I got two bad products or if this just happens with flash.
can we get a link to the amazon one OP?
Got monoprice one......loses signal every time i move :////
Just for reference..."Full HD" is 1080p, not 720p. This thing doesn't output Full HD.
I'm looking for an external battery charger since I bought a couple extra batteries for my phone.
anyone have experience with a certain charger? Obviously I don't want something that will damage my battery but nothing that will break the bank either.
Thanks.
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Anything wrong with the charger that came with the phone??
I need a charger that I can put a battery on so that I can use my phone out of the house and a second battery can be charging at home..
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mihneagabriel said:
I need a charger that I can put a battery on so that I can use my phone out of the house and a second battery can be charging at home..
Sent from my Incredible 2 running Zeus 1.3
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Oh OK my bad. That's where I was confused.
tylerlawhon said:
Oh OK my bad. That's where I was confused.
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Yeah, sorry I probably should have been more specific but I dont know the exact name for them. haha
It's like the dock "travel" charger for just the battery, not the battery connected to the phone.
I havent been able to find something decent (crappy charging, made in china).
Ok a little update for those interested.
I ended up buying some cheap (REALLY cheap) charger off ebay not expecting too much but just experimenting.
The charger itself looks something like this:
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The 2 metal prongs connect to + and -; the charger is able to read which is the + and which is the - no matter how you set the battery in there. The bottom part that pushes the battery toward the prong is extendable or you can flip it 180 if you have a really small battery.
-Flashing red and blue light means charging
-Dull red light while plugged in means fully charged
-Dull red light while not plugged in but with battery set up means the pins are set up correctly on the terminals
NOTE: do not take batter off/put battery on while the charger is plugged in. It can ruin the battery.
The exact one i bought:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/270908124203?ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1497.l2649
(no problems with the seller, they actually sent me a few free ones due to a misunderstanding)
Now for the review and my experience.
Pros:
-Fits any battery, interchangeability of pins (differentiating + and -) means you can fit any battery really
-Has a side USB port so you can charge a battery and plug in your USB cord to the phone and charge it at the same time
-Voltage input is 110-220V so (with an adapter) you can theoretically (will test this summer) plug this charge straight into an european plug or north american plug.
-No problems so far with over charging; Charger stops charging the battery when it is full
-Has a light to tell you when the battery is done charging and when you have the pins connected correctly to the battery
-Compact; Small and plug folds up into unit.
-Charges a fully dead battery quickly.
Cons:
-No instructions when I first received this product (i know what you're thinking, how hard could it be to just charge a battery but I was reluctant to rely on the self detecting terminal feature)
-While charging, the light on the unit (the one i posted/bough) flashes red and blue like cop lights and is very bright so it might be a problem if you are plugging it in overnight in a bedroom. Also this is a normal function of the charger but i thought it was malfunctioning so they sent a new unit but then figured out its normal.
-Looks cheap
-Dont know how long it will last for (really cheap so buying another one isnt a problem)
-Noticed that after i pull a battery off the charger and use it the phone states it is at 99% (undercharged) although if i try to bump charge a fully charged battery it wont charge more. This could be a problem with my battery/phone/etc.
-Nothing else really
So final verdict on this product:
Its a great, affordable charger; works great if you are traveling and need to charge an extra battery. Will fit the Incredible 2 extended batteries and technically virtually any battery. Its pretty easy to use once you know what the color lights mean and how to set a battery up.
If anyone has any questions or want more pictures of this product just reply in this thread. Hope this helped out anyone looking for a product like this.
i just wanted to jump on here and say rthank you for posting this. i just oredered one for myself. i droid incredible 2 usb port took a dump on me and now have no way to charge it now without taking it apart and replacing it. thanks again for this info. it will hold me over till i am ready to fix the usb port or get my upgrade. i will just the ftp app from the play store to transfer my files till then.
so just an update. just recieved this device today in the mail. only cost less than four dollars and is working perfectly. thanks again for this post.
scoobntaz1996 said:
i just wanted to jump on here and say rthank you for posting this. i just oredered one for myself. i droid incredible 2 usb port took a dump on me and now have no way to charge it now without taking it apart and replacing it. thanks again for this info. it will hold me over till i am ready to fix the usb port or get my upgrade. i will just the ftp app from the play store to transfer my files till then.
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mine did the same thing just a few days ago only issue I"ve ever had with the phone...I actually ordered this same one off of amazon about 10 mins before I saw this, lol. Glad it works well
is there a way to modify a car usb charger to fast charge the nexus ?
thanx
Mine charges plenty fast on my free one that amazon sent with my phone.
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is there a way to modify a car usb charger to fast charge the nexus ?
thanx
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Get the charger at the link below
http://www.amazon.com/Motorola-Vehi...Q9CA/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1334801727&sr=8-1
I got this to replace a cheapo one i had when i had my Droid X. With the old charger, I couldnt keep the screen on and use GPS and listen to music at the same time without the battery losing power. Basically the old charger acted like a battery extender lol.
This new charger charged my phone at least 3-4x faster...even while doing all the things listed above...WELL worth it
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Get the charger at the link below
http://www.amazon.com/Motorola-Vehi...Q9CA/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1334801727&sr=8-1
I got this to replace a cheapo one i had when i had my Droid X. With the old charger, I couldnt keep the screen on and use GPS and listen to music at the same time without the battery losing power. Basically the old charger acted like a battery extender lol.
This new charger charged my phone at least 3-4x faster...even while doing all the things listed above...WELL worth it
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ho well i hope it works!
i previously got a 2amp usb car charger and still slow.
guinnes.s said:
ho well i hope it works!
i previously got a 2amp usb car charger and still slow.
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I have that exact same car charger. Just make sure that you get it from a reputable dealer... I got mine from one of the parties for a few bucks cheaper and they sent me counterfeits. I had to contact Amazon where Amazon gave me my money back and also sent out two OEM from an Amazon warehouse with free expedited shipping!
guinnes.s said:
ho well i hope it works!
i previously got a 2amp usb car charger and still slow.
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Quite a few of the cheaper car chargers simply do not have a point soldered on their boards, causing the phone to think it's charging from a 500mA USB port (like you'd find on a computer) and not go above that even if the charger does 1A/port.
I know even the belkin one has a forum topic somewhere regarding modifying it so that it'll always get detected as an AC power. I believe custom ROM's and kernels has a Fast Charge feature that can fix this too (ie force the device to detect the power as AC), I think.
I use the Motorola charger as well, and it works just fine... I had two lying around, one came with my Milestone and the other came with my Milestone Car Dock that I've bought separately...
Vanhoud said:
Get the charger at the link below
http://www.amazon.com/Motorola-Vehi...Q9CA/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1334801727&sr=8-1
I got this to replace a cheapo one i had when i had my Droid X. With the old charger, I couldnt keep the screen on and use GPS and listen to music at the same time without the battery losing power. Basically the old charger acted like a battery extender lol.
This new charger charged my phone at least 3-4x faster...even while doing all the things listed above...WELL worth it
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Interesting, this is the model I had and I ALWAYS felt like my battery was draining while using the GPS+Music combo. Not a lot, a few percent over a couple hours, but it's not charging it or atleast keeping its current charge. I want the official Sammy card dock. SOMEONE JUST TAKE MY MONEY.
HideYoKids said:
Interesting, this is the model I had and I ALWAYS felt like my battery was draining while using the GPS+Music combo. Not a lot, a few percent over a couple hours, but it's not charging it or atleast keeping its current charge. I want the official Sammy card dock. SOMEONE JUST TAKE MY MONEY.
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I believe you will be disappointed...
First, this Motorola charger is good up to 2A, while the original Galaxy Nexus Wall Charger is good up to 1A, and Galaxy Nexus recognizes it as AC Charging, meaning that phone is draining as much current to charge as it can...
Second, I do not believe that those pogo pins are good to move 1A, and I could bet the farm (if I had one ) that it won't go over 1A for sure, so, I do not believe that the official car dock will allow more current than what this Motorola charger is already providing...
But, anyway, I doubt that charger is the one to blame, and I will tell you why... Battery is rated 6.8W/h and it usually allows up to 4 hours of screen on time... So, quick math, phone in use, screen on, is draining 1,7W/h and USB charging (500mA x 5V) gives you 2,5W/h, AC charging gives you 5W/h....
Lets say that you get up to 3 hours screen time with GPS on... It still is 2,27W/h... Below 2,5W/h USB charging limit...
So what is going on? Probably battery is too hot charging and being discharged at the same time (and probably the phone is not able to use the battery like a no-break and get its power from USB, so, phone is getting juice from battery and battery from charger) and phone will stop charging to avoid battery damage/explosion due to high temperatures, and also, battery efficiency is lower when battery is hot (it will drain faster)...
My guess is that if phone is still draining with a charger, in this case, check if it is too hot, and if it is, try to move it so it is cooled by car A/C / vent... At least, with milestone, it helps a lot, since I still own my Milestone and its gps is leaps and bounds better than Galaxy Nexus GPS, I've never really used Galaxy Nexus to navigate (yes, my Milestone turned into a dedicated Google Maps GPS )
its very easy to mod any usb charger to turn it into a AC charger. what you need to do is connect the two data pins.
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just connect pins 2 and 3 by solder, i've done this on a few car chargers and it works great always shows AC. i didnt modify the usb wire itself but opened up the charger and connect the solder points connected to the data lines, not sure if you can just mod the usb wire. i have 600mah car charger that i did this to, before it wasnt enough to charge the phone with google maps running now it can charge it very slowly.
Just a update,
i purchased the motorola charger and been working great for nearly a month till this couples of days.
the only way that charge is by holding and pushing up the micro port wile inserted in the phone.
i noticed that the charger micro plug does have clips on only one side ,the other side is flat.
does that mean is not a original charger???
thanx
I'm currently using this cables
http://ca.startech.com/Cables/USB-2...USB-Cable-A-to-Left-Angle-Micro-B~UUSBHAUB3LA
with this charger:
http://www.kensington.com/kensington/us/us/p/1411/K39224US/powerbolt™-micro-car-charger.aspx
No issues. the USB cable is very thine, so hides well on the dashboard.
http://www.amazon.com/HTC-T-Mobile-...KTHO/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1337307263&sr=8-3
generally can be had for about 3 bucks shipped. works fantastic - the phone reports as being plugged in and charges accordingly.
I just got a portable battery box (2800mAh) for $14 from monoprice. (LINK)
Nicely built, relatively small, and about to test whether it will give me 1.5 full charges as mAh would suggest (2800mAh / 1800mAh on HOX = around 1.5 charges).
Box itself doesn't come with any charger, but is able to be charged by any charger with Micro or Mini USB connector (yep, it has 2 inputs).
Output is a male MicroUSB connector that fits HOX nicely (duh!).
Output: DC5.0V 800mAh
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I'd imagine if you want to use the phone while charging from it, you can connect them with a female-male MicroUSB connector.
The charger has a button that shows the charge level of the box with 25% increments (4 lights).
Has another light for "FULL".
As soon as I connected the box to HOX, phone immediately showed that it's being charged, as if from the regular charger. Not sure what the current is, but it may come across as slow charge (USB port charge) as opposed to AC charger.
So far I tested the charge over 10 minute deep sleep period, and I got this:
With the box, in average HOX charged for 2% every 10 minutes.
That would suggest that it would take this box 8.3 hours to charge HOX fully, which isn't bad at all, considering you're free to use it while it's charging.
Over next day or so I'll try to completely discharge the HOX and charge it overnight from the box. I'll see just how much this box can spit out.
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EDIT/REPORT:
I discharged my phone to 5% yesterday, disabled wifi and BT, and connected it to batt pack to charge overnight.
It turns out that this batt back is crap.
Overnight, when phone was in deep sleep with wifi/BT off, a full battle pack charged my HOX only by 55% (I charged the batt pack before using it). Even considering some small drainage during charge, I'd say this pack actually acts if it had just over 1000mAh or so, nothing close to 2800.
Oh well, gonna return it and keep looking.
shouldn't this be in the accessories forum?
More appropriate in the One X Accessories forum.
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More appropriate in the One X Accessories forum.
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Oh damnit I could've sworn I created it in Accessories..
Mods, please move this, I'm sorry
Hate the ones that plug right into the phone like that. Pretty much makes the phone a huge pain to use. I would rather spend the extra money and pick something like this up
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vaas-VM50-5...ain_0&var=&hash=item35bc78b2c2#ht_2029wt_1396
mbh87 said:
Hate the ones that plug right into the phone like that. Pretty much makes the phone a huge pain to use. I would rather spend the extra money and pick something like this up
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vaas-VM50-5...ain_0&var=&hash=item35bc78b2c2#ht_2029wt_1396
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That's a good option too, although I actually like that monoprice's sticks right into the phone, so you don't have to carry a cable with u.
Also, it seems smaller and cheaper.
DarkDvr said:
That's a good option too, although I actually like that monoprice's sticks right into the phone, so you don't have to carry a cable with u.
Also, it seems smaller and cheaper.
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I know of certain defense organisations that allow the fixed connectors but not those with detachable cables. Disallowing the cables reduces the risk of the cables being used for data transfer.
ultrawires said:
I know of certain defense organisations that allow the fixed connectors but not those with detachable cables. Disallowing the cables reduces the risk of the cables being used for data transfer.
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huh?
It's a security standpoint from Defence services (IE: Australian Army, etc) who wish to minimise security leaks. A data cable can be used to link up other devices, not just the charger.
Werewolph said:
It's a security standpoint from Defence services (IE: Australian Army, etc) who wish to minimise security leaks. A data cable can be used to link up other devices, not just the charger.
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Okay, and I guess if I were flying in outer space, my suit was venting air, and the only thing that would save me is connecting a batt pack to a phone - in that situation a cable could freeze solid to a connector on the batt pack, making batt pack unusable, and thus killing me.
WRONG!
That's when Iron Man comes flying to the rescue thus saving your life and getting an autograph that you could sell on eBay for some money and covering your costs of the HTC One X.
OK well, turns out that this batt back is crap.
Updated the main post.