My phone won't charge from a mains charger, it will charge from USB (Very slowly) and an in-car charger but not from mains. I bought another charger just to check that it wasnt the supplied HTC charger being faulty, and that doesnt work either. When i plug the new charger in the wall the charger lights up, when i plug it into the phone it doesnt light up.
The phone will charge fine from USB and the car charger, but when the phone is turned off it wont charge from USB. When i got the phone i thought i had charged it from the mains for 4 hours like the manual said, but im now thinking that it didnt charge as i didnt notice the LED lighting up. I'm wondering if by not charging it properly the first time i have damaged the battery.
I just tried the mains charger for my Jabra BT headset and it charges fine from that, but only at USB charging speed. But it charges when switched off unlike USB. I'm wondering if maybe i have done something in Advanced Config, i have enabled all the power saving settings.
Does anyone have any suggestions as to what i can do and what might be wrong.
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I am on the road a lot and don't want to be carrying the HTC charger with me. For my Treo, I had a foldable USB AC adapter (.8A and 5V) to which I plugged in a Sync and Charge cable and it did just fine.
After reading all the comments about there being two ways to charge a Tilt - fast and slow, I decided to test out a retractable USB data cable with my USB AC brick. I set the option in Power to "Not charge the battery when connected to the PC." and plugged it in. Nothing. I then unticked the box and sure enough, it started to charge. As I was at 70% of the charge, I expected this to drag on, but it didn't. It took about 1 hour and was fully charged.
I'm still a bit worried about charging this way - the description of the Lil Sync cable for the Tilt says that while it might work, under certain circumstances it won't if your battery is below 30% of a charge. Has anyone seen this happen? The last thing I want is to go away for a few days and be stuck with a dead batttery.
Do I need to pick up a special cable from ppctechs or boxwave just to charge? Should I just carry the supplied charger?
I always charge my kaiser just using the sync cable and it works fine even from a flat battery. there seems to be absolutely no need to carry an AC adapter around when you can just connect it to a computer to charge.
Thanks Spooki. Just curious - how long does a charge usually take when you charge against a computer's USB?
it seems to take roughly twice as long as a wall charger but i work with PC's all day so doesn't really bother me, much easier than carrying a charger around.
I just recently bought a wall charger since I lost the original one a while back. I've been charging via USB this whole time (maybe 6-8 months now). Anyway, when I charge with the wall charger, it'll say 100% and the green light would turn on (instead of the orange/amber for charging) so I assume that it's done. As soon as I unplug it, it drops maybe like 20-30%.
Is this a problem with the charger? Or the battery itself? I don't think it's battery since I've never had this problem when I would charge via USB. Could it be that my phone's just not used to being charged with a wall charger? Maybe because it's being charged faster with the wall charger that it's "used to" with USB? Any thoughts would be great.
No there's nothing wrong with your phone,if it gets charged via usb,then its fine.Fault is with your new wall charger,is it compatible with your phones specifications ? is it the original recommended or from other third party manufacturer ?. Wall charger must output a charge of 1.0 amp to fully get the pda battery,less then 1.0 amp will not charge the battery. Check this out,ok
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Hello. I've bought today broken Typhoon. It doesn't turn on, but when i connected cables to the battery and then put battery in and hold a switch, red light appeared under the power button and sometimes display lighted white. When i'm plugging in charger, red light under the power button also appears. Any ideas, how is it broken? what should i do to repair it? help me please
which charger? the one that plugs into the wall or a usb cable that plugs into your computer? If it's into the computer, or not the wall plug that came with the phoen, then it's possible your battery is completely drained dead. When the battery is extra super low, the usb and some other chargers don't have the juice to charge it. You have to have the right wall plug charger i've found.
i'm hopin that's the thing....plug it in, charge it for a bit then try again. Also, once you get juice in there, plug it into the usb port on your computer and hit the camera button. that should jack it into the boot loader mode.
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nosaturn said:
which charger? the one that plugs into the wall or a usb cable that plugs into your computer? If it's into the computer, or not the wall plug that came with the phoen, then it's possible your battery is completely drained dead. When the battery is extra super low, the usb and some other chargers don't have the juice to charge it. You have to have the right wall plug charger i've found.
i'm hopin that's the thing....plug it in, charge it for a bit then try again. Also, once you get juice in there, plug it into the usb port on your computer and hit the camera button. that should jack it into the boot loader mode.
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The batteries do die totally over time especially if they are charged from part full and never allowed to totally discharge. Do the do as described and if that doesn't work there are 10 on UK eBay right now one with 256Mb card for £25.00, you can't say fairer than that
Battery is too low in order to initialize the charging process.
Just plug in and plug out the wall charger until the LED turns orange.
Totally stock (but i don't think it matters).
Plug the phone in, orange LED comes on.
Hold it or place in on the counter five seconds later, LED is off.
Had the phone since 6/4.
Anyone else having issues?
Are you using the AC charger ? I have two Evos and one of the chargers does what you are describing. The orange LED comes on and then goes off after a while and the phone stops charging. Does it on both phones, the other charger works fine with both usb cables.
Are you using the USB charger with a computer or laptop or plugging straight into the wall with an AC charger?
This does make a difference because if you are charging with a USB + laptop combination you could be suffering from the computer going to sleep and disabling the USB ports power to conserve laptop battery life. If you are having the issue when plugging into the wall, try plugging into a computer and selecting the "Charge Only" option when your USB debug comes up. Once it does this, allow it to charge for a period of time and then turn the phone off, switch to AC power plug and see what happens.
Perhaps you had some kind of over voltage spike on the charger through the AC plug. I could see it possibly tripping something in the phone to stop taking charge to protect the handset.
Also make sure if you do use a laptop, use a USB 2.0 or better port. More power and faster connection. Gotta love it.
Your charger may not be sourcing enough current anymore (for whatever reason). I have seen the exact same behavior with USB car chargers that were only sourcing 100-150mA.
Have you tried plugging the USB cable into a modern desktop PC? (Some laptops have reduced current ports, so a desktop is a safer bet)
Its definitely a current issue. I tried to charge my phone using my bluetooth headset's wall charger, but I got the behavior you are describing. The bluetooth headset's charger just doesnt put out enough current.
Are you using the charger that came with the phone? if so, you may want to exchange the charger...
im having the same problem when i connect it to my desktop, it sees it for about 2 secs n then disappears. My computer at work has no problem seeing the phone. i wonder if i need a driver or something for my usb ports, anyone have any ideas??
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im having the same problem when i connect it to my desktop, it sees it for about 2 secs n then disappears. My computer at work has no problem seeing the phone. i wonder if i need a driver or something for my usb ports, anyone have any ideas??
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Probably not a driver issue, but that that rail from the power supply is either undervolted (say 4.6V instead of 5V), or can't provide enough current (amperage) or both. If I recall correctly, the Evo needs 5V @ 1A (+/- 3% tolerance).
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my phone has been charging fine since I got it... even been using the night desk clock app while sleeping at night for the alarm with it plugged in... everything was good...
With my phone about to die today, I plug it in to the wall charger, the led/batter indicator shows that it is charging... then POW.. it says I have a low battery and it needs to be plugged in... WTH??? it is plugged in!
The only thing I did today was flash the new boot.img for the cap fix over in Toast's thread...
Weird thing now is that I took my hero battery and put it in my EVO, plugged it into wall charger, and it stays charging... So, I put my EVO battery in my hero, plugged it in, and whola... it's now charging...
Please help as I am baffled.
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The only thing I did today was flash the new boot.img for the cap fix over in Toast's thread...
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that's your problem right there. that custom kernel is known to have charging issues.
I'm having the same issue with my car charger consistently. Plus my AC charger less consistently. For example, I'll go to bed and plug it in, the next morning I wake up and see the phone is at 80% charge and isn't charging. At some point over night, it gave up. This is with the stock charger too.
Well this is odd, happened overnight too suddenly.
The phone now only takes a change when it's plugged into a Samsung wall charger. I have no idea what could have happened, I woke up like I normally do, phone happened to be off. Plugged it into my normal cable which is in a hardwired USB wall outlet. Wouldn't start charging, the lightning bolt didn't go away. Tried different cables, nothing. Tried different USB wall outlets, nothing. Finally dug out a white Samsung white USB wall charger, plugged it into the same wall outlet the USB charger is built into, used the same cable that was plugged into the wall, and it started fast charging. I have never even seen fast charging before this. Tried different cables with the wall charger, they all work.
Things that no longer work also include plugging the cables into my USB ports on my laptop. The same white usb cable that worked with the Samsung wall charger wont charge on the laptop. Actually, now that I am trying it the laptop / phone doesnt even detect a data connection anymore. The lightning bolt on the phone shows that its plugged into some kind of source but I am watching the battery drain.
So what the heck could be going on? Samsung charger works perfectly and the phone charges back up but anything other than the Samsung charger does nothing