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hello,
I'm in Belgium I just order a QTEK S100 (Magician) I guess my retractable USB cable from my old QTEK2020 (XDA II ) won't work
I see on images that there is a mini USB connection on the botom
What can I use to recharge my S100 in my car ?
A retractable USB cable would be nice, but where to buy it ?
any idea ? Is someone as any clue on how to recharge a S100 ?
Thank you
PS: I do have a car holder with a USB port, maybe that can help, on finding a simple cable (mini USB in one side and regular USB in the other side, and Sync and Charge)
Me semble que j'ai déjà vu ce nick sur astel...
Pour recharger un s100, il te faut un adaptateur allume cigare-usb, et un cable de liaison pour ton s100.
Covertec fait de tels adaptateurs, pour le cable deliaison, c'est trouvable dans n'importe quell boutique qui vend des accessoires pour s100
Aftermarket USB Charging Kit
Well, there is good news and bad news about aftermarket charger cables for the Magician series-
I purchased a "minisync mobile charging kit" from Boxwave for my MDA Compact. It consists of a retractable cable with normal USB on one end and MiniUSB on the other, plus a wall adapter, car plug, or battery adapter, each of which have a USB socket in them ($50 US).
The good news is that the retractable cable works fine when pluged into a "real" USB port on a computer;
The BAD news is that when the retractable cable is plugged into the Boxwave wall adapter, car plug, or battery adapter - NO CHARGING!!
I checked the voltage on pins 1 and 4 of the 3 power adapters, and there is indeed 6+Volts present. I tried using the cable that came with my MDA Compact along with the 3 new adapters - still no charging.
Since the cables are known good, I suspect that I am experiencing problems similar to those discussed in the XDAI&II forums here, where additional connections must be made to prompt the MDA to accept charging. But the Mini USB cable end is so different (only 5 pins and unserviceable), I don't see a way to incorporate the "fix" reported in the XDA forums.
I've sent an Email to Boxwave with this information, in hopes that they have sorted this out. Am awaiting reply.
Anyone else encountered this (or found a fix)?
Eric
before the Magician I have a XDA II, and a car support with an USB port
and a retractable USB cable, same things happend.
When the battery charge was lower than 50% no way to charge.
I have to go and buy a regular 12V charging cable, special for XDA II
chrysaor said:
Me semble que j'ai déjà vu ce nick sur astel...
Pour recharger un s100, il te faut un adaptateur allume cigare-usb, et un cable de liaison pour ton s100.
Covertec fait de tels adaptateurs, pour le cable deliaison, c'est trouvable dans n'importe quell boutique qui vend des accessoires pour s100
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something like this : http://store1.yimg.com/I/tang-shop_1819_290868
www.boxwave.com :wink:
International shipping to every spot on this planet 8)
Great
GREAT
thanks I just send them an Email to make sure it's the right cable (picture show a regular XDA II USB retratable Cable, maybe just the wrong picture)
I keep you guys posted on that matter
I ordered the minisync and versa charger from boxwave and they both work with Qtek S100.
The Minisync is a little irritating though....it seems to retract when I do not want it to. I am not sure if this is normal for a minisync or if I just got a failty one ???
retractable cables
I remember my first retractable USB was working fine.
Retraction OK, but it broke (after 6 months)
I order a new one (allways for my XDA II ) and this one look more well build, but from time to time it retract also like yours.
Now I'm looking for a new one for my MAGICIAN.
But I get an update on this matter : the guy i'm going to buy the MAGICIAN from, already have a car chargeur (wich is great news)
So I ask him where did he buy it from ? and he told me that the car chargeur is the same as SPV C500
http://www.orange.com/English/productsandservice/thespv3.asp?bhcp=1
Maybe that can help
It seems you can use Motorola MPX200 car charger for the Qtek S100 / MDA Compact... I haven't still test the solution because I ordered one yesterday evening :
http://www.maxouphones.be/boutique/product_info.php?cPath=39_57_211&products_id=1101
See you...
Largo
I use an ordinary usb to mini usb sync cable alongwith my Car lighter to usb adapter and it works. :lol: I have been able to charge it even when battery was 15%. Bought the USB cable locally for around $5USD and the car adapter was from my old XDAII car charger.
bruxelles5 said:
before the Magician I have a XDA II, and a car support with an USB port
and a retractable USB cable, same things happend.
When the battery charge was lower than 50% no way to charge.
I have to go and buy a regular 12V charging cable, special for XDA II
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what was the voltage of the charger?
Hi All,
I have MDA compact unlocked. When I use a in car charger, it does not charge the phone when I plug the cable into the phone.
I have to do a soft reset with the USB cable attached and then the orange LED will come on. Now, I do not always want to do a soft reset everytime that I wanna charge my phone in the car. Hows anyone had this problem?
Thanks in advance.
im using an orange spv c500 car charger and mines working fine? what charger do you have? motorolla? spv? imate?
I brought one from ebay. so most likely to be a third party make.
How much is your charger?
I think you need the fifth pin connected to ground. This is what the original chargers do. You can either buy a special car cable for the SDA-Music or Magician, or cut the existing cable of your power supply and solder it correctly (Pin 5 to ground). What I did was to solder a 5V car adapter together with the cable of the Magician (Pin 5 to ground), the cable of my GPS mouse and of my BT Headset. You can do that too, provided that the car adapter delivers enough power (800 mA to 1 A) and all the devices you want to load are 5V ones.
£7.99 from orange.co.uk was free delivery when i got it
£7.99 from orange.co.uk was free delivery when i got it
I have been after a car charger for my Exec and as O2 dont sell one i searched ebay for one. There are loads on there so bought one and it was deliverd in 2 days. But it dont work (the charger has a sticker on it saying its for motorola v3) I have emailed the seller 3 times and he wont reply. I will be reporting him to ebay. But i wanted to warn you all to avoid the seller by the ebay user name of siennacommunications.
If anyone out there has bought a car charger for thier exec then i would like to know where you bought it thanks.
I got my car charger from gpsforless.co.uk
www.dsldevelopments.co.uk
is the website of a chap on here called Bryson. He's a Brodit distributor and in fact I got my passive cradle from him. I even later bought a proper USB charger from there, both work a treat.
Cheers
Ant
Blackberry charger works
hi, I too fell into the ebay trap. So I shopped around and bought a Blackberry in car charger from vodaphone shop for £10. works a treat and doesn't look cheap.
Hope that helps
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The car chargers from Orange shops @ 9.99, intended for the SPV C500 / SPV C550 / SPV M500 / SPV C600, also work fine (they're HTC devices, after all).
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Ineedtoys said:
The car chargers from Orange shops @ 9.99, intended for the SPV C500 / SPV C550 / SPV M500 / SPV C600, also work fine (they're HTC devices, after all).
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I tried the blackberry charger from O2 but it didnt seem to work correctly i.e it took around 5 to 10 mins before it started to charge, if at all. So i took it back and one of the O2 staff that gave me a refund said that they shouldnt of sold it to me.
I think i will try the one from Orange, because like you said it is a HTC device. And if there were any problems then at least i could get my money back.
BTW that twat from ebay still wont get in touch with me for a refund.
Universal Charger
Got my accessories from www.gpsmidlands.co.uk.
Also selling proper mounts for the Exec
Anton.Valleyman said:
www.dsldevelopments.co.uk
is the website of a chap on here called Bryson. He's a Brodit distributor and in fact I got my passive cradle from him. I even later bought a proper USB charger from there, both work a treat.
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I used Bryson as well. Quite happy with the solution as well. I got the brodit clip and a window stalk from him.
Motorola V3 charger
-----------But it dont work (the charger has a sticker on it saying its for motorola v3)------------
Hi, I have an i-mate Jasjar and a Motorola V3, and I can use the V3 charger with the Jasjar, the only problem is that the V3 charger has an output of 550mA and the Jasjar charger has (should have) 1000mA.
The only way I managed to charge my Jasjar with the V3 charger is to power it off with the button, closing the lid with the Jasjar in Portrait mode and plugging the V3 charger in to the mini USB port of the Jasjar, you should see the charging led of the Jasjar (in UR case O2 EXEC) turn on Ambar it will take about 5 seconds.
Hope this helps
I swapped the curly cable from my Brodit Active cradle for a regular USB cable with a cigarette light/USB adapter, but it didn't work at first. For some reason pin 4 (which isn't normally wired up in a 4pin to 5 pin plug) had to be connected to pin 5. That might be the problem you are suffering from with the non-Exec/HTC cables.
Cheers,
Steve.
o2 car charger
just seen an o2 car charger in the o2 shop today price 14.99
Ive just ordered a hollux slim gps, a mount/cradle from dsldevelopments and a cigerette lighter to 2x usb port adapter from ebay. Only just ordered, waiting for everythign to come at the moment. The adapter is just a cigerette lighter with 2x full size usb ports on back of it, rated at 5v/7.2A, im assuming I can use the supplied usb cable that come with the exec and plug it into this to charge? (along with the gps at same time).
pyrom said:
Ive just ordered a hollux slim gps, a mount/cradle from dsldevelopments and a cigerette lighter to 2x usb port adapter from ebay. Only just ordered, waiting for everythign to come at the moment. The adapter is just a cigerette lighter with 2x full size usb ports on back of it, rated at 5v/7.2A, im assuming I can use the supplied usb cable that come with the exec and plug it into this to charge? (along with the gps at same time).
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No, that's the point I was making - that configuration didn't work for me (or my colleague). The standard USB cable that has a USB A at one end and the USB B Mini at the other doesn't have pin 4 wired up in the Mini B, and so doesn't charge the Exec. I had to splice open my moulded plug, and put some solder on pins 4 and 5 to make it work.
Cheers,
Steve.
thx, i was vague (i hope ) by supplied cable, I mean the orginal exec-usb cable that came with the exec, not a generic one. The connectors on the cigerette lighter are full size usb A sockets, not plugs.
StevePritchard said:
...The standard USB cable that has a USB A at one end and the USB B Mini at the other doesn't have pin 4 wired up in the Mini B, and so doesn't charge the Exec. I had to splice open my moulded plug, and put some solder on pins 4 and 5 to make it work.
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This is weird: I'm charging my Exec using a USB cable that came with my Canon camera and I keep the original Exec cable in my laptop bag for emergencies.
The Canon cable works fine and charges my Exec no probs. Wonder why. Maybe digicam cables also have the pin arrangement you describe?
I have now emailed the prick i bought the car charger from 5 times (ebay) and he is still ignoring me. Do you guys think i should post his email address on here so the UNIVERSAL community can have a go at the twat, or do you think i should cut my losses and move on. After all it is only £5.49 ive lost, but its the first time ive had this trouble from an ebay seller and its winding me up. WHY WONT HE RETURN MY EMAILS?
Leave a neg feedback and open a dispute case would be my advice.
try a guy on ebay 'solwareltd'
i have bought 3 cradles from him Arkon type with car charging systems built in and they worked a treat. Xda2s and Xda2i were perfect as windscreen mounted aswell as charging.
the Exec version i have to mount upside down as the mini USB is obxtruced by the side clamps but with 'rotate screen' option in TomTom this proved not to be a major problem at all.
Trustworthy and reliable i have found this guy to be and i recommend him to anyone whos after the car options for HTC devices.
thanks
SiliconS said:
StevePritchard said:
...The standard USB cable that has a USB A at one end and the USB B Mini at the other doesn't have pin 4 wired up in the Mini B, and so doesn't charge the Exec. I had to splice open my moulded plug, and put some solder on pins 4 and 5 to make it work.
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This is weird: I'm charging my Exec using a USB cable that came with my Canon camera and I keep the original Exec cable in my laptop bag for emergencies.
The Canon cable works fine and charges my Exec no probs. Wonder why. Maybe digicam cables also have the pin arrangement you describe?
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The interesting thing is that regular USB cables work if plugged into a PC, it's just when they are plugged into these cigarette lighter adapter devices. My setup in the car actually has one of those with a two port USB hub plugged into it, and that required the mod I mentioned.
Cheers,
Steve.
Ebay seller has just emailed me (after 4 days and six emails to him) and admits he sent the wrong charger. He says he will send me a charger for C500 which he says will do the EXEC. I hope hes right for his sake!!
I am in the UK and looking for a two pin euro charger for my phone - if it is packaged with a 12v charger or any other kit i dont really mind, as I could do with an extra car one.
Alternately - I have a 'plug' for a UK socket that instead of having a cable on it has a socket like a car charger at the back, so I can use it with a car charger for any new mobile I get so I have a second mains charger - is there a euro-two pin plg equivalent of this?
Cheers
Any USB charger (there are many varieties) should work fine, so you just have to find a Euro-plugged USB charger then stick the USB cable into the charger.
For example, I have the iPod USB charger with swappable front plugs, which charge my Wizard, Sony Ericsson phone and the iPod.
Exactly, but it is finding a two pin one that is the problem.
Try Expansys. They usually have a wide variety of weird and random plug combinations so you might be lucky there.
alternatively - a bit uglier - get a travel plug converter (just the plug converter, not the big transformers). The charger that came in the box is rated for 100V-240V and ~50Hz-~60Hz - so it'll work in EU, USA, UK, JP - as long as I bring the plug converter so that it'll physically fit
Here.
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=5818157604&rd=1&sspagename=STRK:MEWA:IT&rd=1
£5.99 plus postage. Uses the standard usb cable that came with the device.
I've bought a few things from them - good quality.
pewe said:
Here.
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=5818157604&rd=1&sspagename=STRK:MEWA:IT&rd=1
£5.99 plus postage. Uses the standard usb cable that came with the device.
I've bought a few things from them - good quality.
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By default, the standard USB sync cable will not charge from a cigarette lighter / mains adaptor USB socket, it will only charge via a computer.
If you want to modify the cable so it will charge from a cigarette lighter etc, you need to short pins 4 and 5 of the mini USB end. Do a google search for a diagram etc. Once modified the cable will no longer work as a sync cable.
Richard
By default, the standard USB sync cable will not charge from a cigarette lighter / mains adaptor USB socket
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I am puzzled. I understand what you are saying about the connections, but what puzzles me is I have a GPS receiver that I bought which came with a flexible USB charger and had a cigarette adapter and mains adapter (both US and UK) in the box.
I bought a cradle for my Vario (complete with usb sync cable) so don't need the the usb sync cable supplied with the Vario in the office. So I use it in the car with the USB Cigarette adapter that came with the GPS unit and it charges the Vario in the car with no problem.
I haven't tried it with the USB mains adapter yet, but having seen the above reply will try it tomorrow, but I'm sure it will work because its the cable that should prevent it.
fluffcat1 said:
By default, the standard USB sync cable will not charge from a cigarette lighter / mains adaptor USB socket, it will only charge via a computer.
If you want to modify the cable so it will charge from a cigarette lighter etc, you need to short pins 4 and 5 of the mini USB end. Do a google search for a diagram etc. Once modified the cable will no longer work as a sync cable.
Richard
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I beg to differ. My shiny white Apple iPod USB charger works perfectly as a charger for the Wizard, with the USB cable provided with the phone.
I'm aware that some phones including the Razr and Blackberry are sometimes reported to be picky about the USB chargers, but so far Wizard has no such curiosities.
ZeBoxx said:
alternatively - a bit uglier - get a travel plug converter (just the plug converter, not the big transformers). The charger that came in the box is rated for 100V-240V and ~50Hz-~60Hz - so it'll work in EU, USA, UK, JP - as long as I bring the plug converter so that it'll physically fit
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Not really viable - as often when abroad i just take a rucksack and see where i end up - so ideally everything is light and preferably a cable that is permanently attached to the plug.
Incidentally - there is a company in italy called Wind doing a PAYG sim that offers a gig of data in Italy for 20 euros - so not much use to most here - but if you use it for roaming in europe - they drop it to 20% of that - so 204.8 meg for 20 euros per month - Tmobile charges 1500 and orange 2 grand for the same!
Hi,
i'd like you to suggest a "good" car charger for my s200.
Otherwise is there any application that can manage usb functions??
(mean: Just to charge like plugging official ac-dc charger & not popping up the message for synchronizing or card reader mode)
*sorry for my eng
i bought the cheapest car charger in mediamarkt (15eur) and its working fine for s200.
it has miniusb and not microusb connector, watch for this!
There's even a cheaper USB charger (1,39 euro VAT included) at the Action store. They have stores in Holland, belgium and Germany. I used the cable from my external USB-card-reader (which also has a mini-usb port) to charge. In fact that usb-cable works perfectly (just as the mini-USB cable from my Nikon digicam). Oddly enough I also have another mini-usb cable (a transparent one instead o/t usual black) that doesn't work at all. But you could just use the included USB-cable anyway.
The charger from Action is rated 1000mA (max.). To compare my omnia i900 also comes with a car-charger rated 750mA.
Cheers
EPDM