I'm looking for recommendations for a car charging cable that will keep the phone charged with the screen on and Bluetooth and GPS running. I have tried both a no name branded and a Samsung OEM car charging cable, and in both cases the phone discharges, not as much with the Samsung but it is still not really usable for long distance navigation.
What do you all recommend for car charging that will stand up to screen/Bluetooth/GPS use?
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Look on Amazon for Griffin charger,make sure the output is at least 1000mha, i have the dual usb port one and it works perfectly well, though charging may be a bit slow on navigation + bluetooth music the same time.
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I'm using simple 1mA micro car charger and my phone keeps charging (slowly but surely) with bt and satnav on (sygic aura). The trick I'm using is a Voltage Control CPU profile (underclocked to 1.2mHz and slightly undervolted) while I'm running satnav for hours. It's more than enough for that purpose.
EDIT: There are 2mA micro USB chargers now available. I'm sure they should pack a punch enough to charge anything no matter what ur running on ur phone:
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/2000mah-2...neChargers&hash=item20cb96c4a9#ht_1838wt_1004
I used psp charger.. 1.2mah
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Hi, i currenty use a usb charger that uses usb connections to charge devices in my car, the question i have it dosent seem to charge up the droid 2 when i have last.fm or navagation or something running, it seems to eather drain the battery or keep it at the same amount of battery life. does anyone have this problem?
Here's why.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=9986245&postcount=5
Check the main piece on the charger for this information. It needs to be above 850mA to work well.
Yeah what kwheel said...although my car charger from verizon doesn't seem to charge my Droid2
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Hi all,
Just a quick question, anyone currently using a 2000 / 2100 mah USB car adaptor with their G-Note?
I currently have a 1000 mah adaptor I believe and after a 2.5 / 3 hour journey, whilst charging, connected to the cars bluetooth and using Co-Pilot, I was down to about 20 / 30 % I think at the end of it.
Will the 2000 / 2100 mah USB car adaptors off ebay be ok to use with the G-Note and will it help keep the phone charged when using the phone as a SatNav?
See link to ebay item
Thanks in advance.
A DC power supply shouldn't be measured in mAh... Maybe they meant 2100 milliamperes? 2100 milliamps would be 2.1 amps which is the more amperage than my HP Touchpad charger (2 amps) which should be more than enough.
I don't know how much I would trust an ebay seller that can't even get the terms correctly, but if it's a 2.1 amp charger it should be fine.
Cool, thanks for the heads up PickleHead, I just thought that mAh was the rate of amp flow per hour and didn't realise it was specific for discharge rate of batteries. I'll have another look around.
Just had a look on the back of the USB mains plug for the Note and my Dell Streak and they both have OUTPUT @ 1.0A which is 1 amp right? But a 2.1 amp USB car adaptor should still be fine right? What about 3.1 or even 4.2 amp ones....or are they way too much for the Note?
I've also discovered today what a thirsty little beast the Note is while running satnav. I have a 1 amp car charger with the centre pins shorted together to force the phone to go into "AC Charging" mode, which it does perfectly well. However, over a 20 mile, 30 minute journey I was seeing the battery drop by about 1% per mile (every 90 seconds) whilst charging. That was with CoPilot Live Premium. On the way back I switched to Navfree, with pretty much the same result. I even have CoPilot set to dim the display in between turning announcements. On my old phone that make the difference between a solidly increasing charge and one that struggles to keep up. On the Note it was losing charge even with that feature enabled.
I'm going to need to be finding an alternate charger for the car, so recommendations would be welcome. I can't see a 2 Amp charger being a problem. The Note should take as much as it needs/wants, so long as the charger lets it have the juice it demands.
I would go for the official dock, except I'm told that it won't accommodate the Note whilst protected by a gel skin/case, so the official dock is a non starter for me.
Griffin PowerJolt car charger
tdodd said:
I've also discovered today what a thirsty little beast the Note is while running satnav. I have a 1 amp car charger with the centre pins shorted together to force the phone to go into "AC Charging" mode, which it does perfectly well. However, over a 20 mile, 30 minute journey I was seeing the battery drop by about 1% per mile (every 90 seconds) whilst charging. That was with CoPilot Live Premium. On the way back I switched to Navfree, with pretty much the same result. I even have CoPilot set to dim the display in between turning announcements. On my old phone that make the difference between a solidly increasing charge and one that struggles to keep up. On the Note it was losing charge even with that feature enabled.
I'm going to need to be finding an alternate charger for the car, so recommendations would be welcome. I can't see a 2 Amp charger being a problem. The Note should take as much as it needs/wants, so long as the charger lets it have the juice it demands.
I would go for the official dock, except I'm told that it won't accommodate the Note whilst protected by a gel skin/case, so the official dock is a non starter for me.
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Griffin PowerJolt Micro for iPad.
Output: 5 volts DC at 2.1 amps
Output power: 10 watts
http://store.griffintechnology.com/ipad/original-ipad/powerjolt-micro-ipad
My Griffen Powerjolt charges the battery while Google navigation is running.
It's possible Google nav is less of a power drain than Navfree. I'll have to try it.
- Frank
I am using the original samsung galaxy tab charger which is rated at 2amps, it works fine with igo, but while using pandora, blurtooth a2dp and igo, the phone charges slowly...
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I hav always used a 2A car adaptor as even the Nexus One was a thirst beast as it played the audio over bluetooth to the car dock that had its own speaker.
It works fine with Navigation/Navfree/Waze and the phone charges rather than discharges slowly with the lower power adaptors. The Official Samsung Car Dock comes with a power adaptor that is only rated at 1Amp.
The adaptor I use was intended for an iPad which needs at least 2A. Some adaptors have ratings that should be taken with a pinch of salt. If you can find one rated for an iPad (the type that plugs into the cigar socket and has a USB socket on it rather than an integral iPad connector) then you can't go wrong.
For those asking, I got my Samsung Car Dock from Handtec (in the UK) at: http://www.handtec.co.uk/product.php/5881/samsung-galaxy-note-official-vehicle-dock-kit-
I have the micro usb power cable from the original htc Nexus One car dock. I believe that this provides a 2 amp charging current, and my note charges, albeit slowly while using the phone as a sat nav with google maps
On a similar note about charging (which seems appropriate here), I have the original Galaxy Tab which doesn't allow charging over USB with the standard cable. However I bought an adapter which allows the Tab to charge from a USB port but you can't use it for data, I'm wondering if it's ok to use the same adapter with the Note so it charges quicker off a USB port?
Thanks for the link to the car dock, that looks pretty good
John
I have just got a galaxy nexus after coming from a iphone 4 and when i use my phone in the car i have the sat nav on(co pilot live) and have my music playing through bluetooth to my radio and i have it plugged into the phone charger charging but for some reason the phones battery decreases, never had this problem on the iphone anyone else have this probelm
When the screen is on it can use more output than a standard usb port can make. The charger you are using is likely only charging at 500 may(usb charging), you need a 1 ah charger. There have been several posts in the accessories forum. Apple uses a different method (go figure) for higher amp chargers. A standard micro usb cable will work but the charger must be capable of 1amp output.
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Thanks, guess I'll have to have a look for a new charger then
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B002TOKTHO/ref=cm_sw_r_an_am_at_ws_us?ie=UTF8
This is the one I use, otherwise just read reviews and make sure they can do 1 amp.
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For some reason it won't charge in the car. At home fine. But when plugged in the CIG lighter it won't. It shows the icon in the battery as charging and I have the nexus set with lux auto brightness to be full brightness when charging which it fully illuminates. But if I check battery under settings it states not charging. I've used 2 different cables ( which work on the PC) and 2 different plugs in the light but neither seem to work. One of the states 5v at 1 amp the other has not writing or sticker. What could be the reason for not charging? Running vanir now and was on job sourcery and neither one charges..
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I've had some cheap cig lighter chargers 'lie' about their effective output - charging at 0.5amp (standard usb) instead of 1amp or better (wall charger). In which case the charger won't keep up with usage if you're on full brightness and will discharge even though it's getting 0.5amp of charge. Theoretically that may improve by using fast charge setting in your kernel but I've not tried that, just switched to another charger which does output the full 1amp.
Try setting your phone to autobright on charger and then see if the battery says usb charging.
If not maybe the lighter socket in your car is borked.
Well I decided to buy a new plug in for the lighter. Rayova, year I'm cheap. Haha but it worked. Weird 2 of my others worked before but just quit
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Hello everybody,
I have recently bought the Griffin Dual USB car charger.
I use quite often a GPS navigator when I am driving, so I wanted to buy a car charger which was powerful enough to sustain gps and 3g data plus a little extra juice to charge my phone battery. I found this charger on the internet and the specifications say it's got an output of 1A which should be more than enough for my needs. However, I was quite surprised when I realised that the battery still goes down really slowly when I use the gps app.
I've had a look online and apparently most car chargers are not recognised by your phone as a proper charger. For this reason, they provide only 500mA. You can double check this by having a look at 'settings > about device > Status > Battery status'. If it says 'Charging (USB)', it provides 500mA. Instead, if it says 'Charging (AC)', it provides more (so called fast charging). Well, my phone says Charging (AC). But it's still not enough apparently
Do you guys know any app or anything I can do to test how much the charger is actually providing?
As you can imagine, this is quite annoying.
Thanks
i'm in the same boat as you but a different dual USB Charger
It's suppose to output 2.1A + 1A or something along those lines and it does charge last generation iPad and an iPad Mini at the same time without an issue.
When I plug a Galaxy Nexus in it charges as a USB BUT when I plug the Galaxy S3 it charges as AC but a 2 hour trip only got my phone battery up to 47% which is way way too slow and that is without GPS
The AC charger that came with my phone only outputs 1A but it charges my phone in 2.5 hours from dead flat to full
My car charger is the same. 2.1A port for tablets and stuff. 1A port for everything else. I have noticed that if I plug my s3 in the 2.1A port, it charges slightly faster. However, it's not even close to my 1A wall charger.
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Any idea at all?
Thanks
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzoMhKFiOB0
I don't know if this will help. have a look at the comments as well.
Dual Usb Car Charger
Valdagor said:
Hello everybody,
I have recently bought the Griffin Dual USB car charger.
I use quite often a GPS navigator when I am driving, so I wanted to buy a car charger which was powerful enough to sustain gps and 3g data plus a little extra juice to charge my phone battery. I found this charger on the internet and the specifications say it's got an output of 1A which should be more than enough for my needs. However, I was quite surprised when I realised that the battery still goes down really slowly when I use the gps app.
I've had a look online and apparently most car chargers are not recognised by your phone as a proper charger. For this reason, they provide only 500mA. You can double check this by having a look at 'settings > about device > Status > Battery status'. If it says 'Charging (USB)', it provides 500mA. Instead, if it says 'Charging (AC)', it provides more (so called fast charging). Well, my phone says Charging (AC). But it's still not enough apparently
Do you guys know any app or anything I can do to test how much the charger is actually providing?
As you can imagine, this is quite annoying.
Thanks
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I recall back with my old phone (Virgin Mobile LG Optimus V), the lead devs teamed up and made a flashable patch that allowed you to toggle fast charging on and off, basically telling the phone whether it should consider the power source a USB or Wall charger and it worked good. Maybe we can get some people to team up and build that for the S3?