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MDA II Will Not Charge Unless Laptop Is On

Hi folks,
Love my MDA II, but I can only get it to accept a charge when my laptop is turned on. If the unit is not plugged into USB or the laptop is not on, it won't charge.
What am I doing wrong?
Finally, I have noticed the last few days that the wall AC adaptor has not been plugged in, yet the MDA has been charging through the USB when the laptop is on.
My question is what is the point of having the AC adaptor if it serves no purpose.
I rechecked and pulled the USB and plugged in AC adaptor. No charging takes place.

you are doing nothing wrong. the power thru the usb port comes only when the laptop is powered up (whether the AC power is on or not ).
In other words u can
1. charge it from your laptop's battery but the laptop has to be turned on and it does not matter if the AC power of the laptop is plugged or not
2. you can charge the XDA directly thru its own AC adapter, independent of the laptop

The AC adapter does have a use, you can either use it in conjunction with the little square dc converter that you get free in the box to charge up the xda without the cradle, so you could have the cradle at home and tyhe AC adapter at home if you wished, and if you plug the AC adapter into the cradle you can charge an aditional battery, as the additional battery can not be charge via USB, Maybe xda developers may be able to frig the cradle to charge the additional battery in the future (hint hint)

My Holiday discovery re activesync connection problems

Whilst on holiday last week i had the same problem that you get with AS when the device is powered on, the usb connection problem thing.
but i was using a mains to usb charging plug, and a standard usb lead, to get the device to charge i had to switch if off and then plug it in, bingo it starts charging, so i dont think the issue is with AS on the PC. it could well be AS on the device thats at fault or something else.
just thought id share that

What was the normal USB lead for in this setup?
Device > Mains Charger I can understand, but were you daisy chaining or something?
Device > Normal USB Lead > Mains Charger?
Cheers,
Joe

Tehnical issues, USB Craddle or PDA?

I was outside yesterday and my battery went out, but when i came home i puted my PDA on the USB cradle and no sign of working before i went out my USB cradle felt from my table, and i dont know if it is my PDA or USB Craddle? pls help...

my device came with a cradle
which can
1 power over the usb cable
or
2 have the powersupply that came with the device connected to it and charge that way
i can also connect a charger connector directly to the powersuppy and charge that way
sometimes when the device goes loco you have to hardreset it before it will
charge and connect to the pc and turn on for that matter

Yeah but, i got my pda from my cousin, so he's got the half of the stuff that's included in package, i have only usb cradle and the pda Ok but look, USB Cradle has a slot to charge only batery right? i plug the USB Cradle in my computer, place the battery in that slot, and after two hours of "charging" battery isnt even warm ... So i guess the usb cradle is not charging! Is it the usb craddle? But the battery is totaly empty, so i cant even start my pda, if i place it in the cradle it wont start...

Tytn will only charge when connected to PC via USB

I have an HTC Tytn and it will not charge when connected to a charger but will only charge if it is connected to my PC via USB.

Chargers
Hermes will only charge from an original or hermes replacement charger...for example a motorola or blackberry charger wont do it.

Charger problems
breaker28 said:
I have an HTC Tytn and it will not charge when connected to a charger but will only charge if it is connected to my PC via USB.
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Your charger is probably defective.
The trouble is, charging via a PC jack doesn't work as well, it will take noticeably longer to get to a full charge.
Cheers.

Have you dropped the charger or something?
Sounds like somethings wrong with it if the phone will still charge on pc usb

put it on charger. softreset with stylus. It will restart and charge through normal charger.

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