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I believe that we should demand a recall from HTC of their junky chargers. As of a couple days ago, my charger stopped working. In order to get it to charge my phone, I need to unplug and plug in my phone 20-40 times and get the physics of the connection PERFECT... if my phone moves 1mm, it will stop charging, so I need to have the phone somewhere that it will not move...
This is not the case with my Car Charger, so I know it is simply the phone charger itself that comes with HTC... they supplied us with $0.10 charger cables to save money, and we should demand a higher quality cable be supplied to us after buying their "Flagship Device"
Anyone else experiencing this problem?
Yes. My charging/USB cable has gotten loose. The Radio Shack one I bought with the phone works great. I doubt a cable recall will occur, however.
Yes mine does the same thing and I HATE it. I thought I was the only one
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Compared with the older style cables this one is a lot better
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I wish they would have kept the mini usb like for the hero and most cameras.
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Demand a recall? No. Should you ask for a replacement? Yes.
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*Facepalm*
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Surprised nobody suggested a class action yet...
Apple did something similar, so this might work.
I had an iphone, and got a notice that I needed to get a new wall plug due to defects in the ones that were released with the iPhone. So my new wall plug had a bright green dot on it to indicate it was new.
HTC could do something similar, couldn't they?
Wait, are you complaining about the charger plug or the USB cable? Replacement cables are, like, a nickel on EBay. Or you can get an adapter and use your old micro USB cables.
If it's the charger itself, you may get some sympathy from OEMs, but I wouldn't even waste the stamp (or email) for a cable. Just my opinion, of course.
both me and my buddies cables have done the same thing their super weak
I took a chance and bought 3 (I have 3 EVO's) of these adapters:
http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.36150 - works perfectly.
Now all my BB and old phone chargers work - Take that HTC!
Mule
It's weird. I also have charging issues, here they are:
1. Occasionally, after charging for a period of time on the home charger, the EVO will light up and stop charging. I check the battery info and temperature is in the 20s, so i know that it's not a temperature issue. Then, after about 30 seconds or a minute, it will light up again and continue charging. I never touch the charging cable or connection and it does it on its own.
2. Using the car charger, the EVO seemingly decides that it doesn't like the connection. When i plug in the charger, the EVO will begin to charge, then after two or three seconds, go back to discharge mode. It takes me pulling the plug and reinserting (into the cig lighter port, not the EVO) anywhere from 3-100 times to get it to accept the charge demand.
Muledeer said:
I took a chance and bought 3 (I have 3 EVO's) of these adapters:
http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.36150 - works perfectly.
Now all my BB and old phone chargers work - Take that HTC!
Mule
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Exactly what I have. My wife and I can share one plug, she with her Hero and me with my Evo.
I don't even use the OEM one, I use my Treo Pro chargers and have not ran into an issue. The OEM just sits on my desk...I have had my EVO since launch date.
Treo pro OEM chargers are fairly cheap now.
Just my 2 cents.
Have a wonderful weekend everyone!
I am using Froyo update from HTC also.
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My Eris charger did the same thing after two months.. so now I'm using my ps3 controller charger usb cord, and its working teriffic lol.
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Then pins that hold the cable get pushed in when this happens you dont get a good connection. I have seen a few come in to my shop. usually give them a cable I have laying around. Leads me to wonder what others are doing differently. I havent had any issues with either of my chargers and I will test and play games with it plugged up so I know I put a little stress on it.
tomp517 said:
I wish they would have kept the mini usb like for the hero and most cameras.
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yeah that would have been nice, nice all my car stuff was mini usb
The physics of my connection are perfectly fine.
It's not the charger it's the port. There was a bad batch and it was fixed. Mine had the same issue and I couldn't charge my phone.
When I use my sprint charger everything is fine I can use the phone/screen with no problems...but any other micro usb causes the phone to lock up on the screen....any1 else having this problem? Any solution?
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When I use my sprint charger everything is fine I can use the phone/screen with no problems...but any other micro usb causes the phone to lock up on the screen....any1 else having this problem? Any solution?
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I made a post about this the other day. Mine seems completely random. My phone will completely lock up and it requires a battery pull. I can go a week using the same charger and it may not do it then out the blue it will lock up.
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It makes no sense at all! Never had this problem with any other phone ever before
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I had the same problem using a clone travel charger from ebay. I also had a clone usb cable that won't recognize the Epic as a mass storage. I bought from this guy on ebay that sells OEM Samsung accessories and they all work perfectly for me.
Be very careful with these things, folks... many charges can have terrible voltage regulators on them. You don't want to kill a very nice phone now, do you. Stick with a good charger and cable. I use the stock cable and the Palm Pre charger cable. I've never had screen issues or lockups with other chargers, but I only use the Palm and Samsung chargers, to be honest.
Yes, be wary of cheapo chargers!
I was able to get a OEM Blackberry MicroUSB charger off amazon for about 4 bucks shipped and it works fine to charge my Epic. My friend also gave me one of her extra HTC chargers which came with her EVO and they also work fine.
my charger is a 800ma sanyo which should not cause issues. I have not had the issue within the past week either.
Guys, check the output voltage of your chargers... specially on the cheap ones. its supposed to be no more than 5V. I broke my Hero's screen with a cheap charger with 5.5 V output. It starts by acting weird , then it looses touch capability when its connected and then stops working at all...
My mum borrowed my DHD Charger to send her Desire back to Virgin (as hers previously broke and she had bought a cheap one). Anyway, she borrowed me the cheap charger, and as her Desire, along with my charger got lost in the post, I am stuck with this charger (I have already bought 2 Original HTC chargers on ebay but they both broke, so I gave up. This cheap charger keeps controlling my phone, calling people, sending texts, etc.
All I want to know is, does anyone know why it does this? It's really annoying!
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My mum borrowed my DHD Charger to send her Desire back to Virgin (as hers previously broke and she had bought a cheap one). Anyway, she borrowed me the cheap charger, and as her Desire, along with my charger got lost in the post, I am stuck with this charger (I have already bought 2 Original HTC chargers on ebay but they both broke, so I gave up. This cheap charger keeps controlling my phone, calling people, sending texts, etc.
All I want to know is, does anyone know why it does this? It's really annoying!
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How come charger will do that?!... Maybe you install of apps/games that you didn't look for permission before you install it...
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How come charger will do that?!... Maybe you install of apps/games that you didn't look for permission before you install it...
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I am 100% sure it is the charger, I am just asking if anyone knows why the charger is doing this, cheap or not, how the hell does it do it lol
yeah my charger makes the phone act funny too
but its never called anyone
it just makes the screen lock not come off sometimes and other times your trying to send a text and it keeps adding lots of randum letters
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I am 100% sure it is the charger, I am just asking if anyone knows why the charger is doing this, cheap or not, how the hell does it do it lol
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Use cable in nokia its working fine in our dhd
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I have seen this, it happens if I plug my phone into one of the USB ports on my old macbook pro. If the supply voltage/current is dirty or has spikes or is badly regulated it can make your phone do odd things.
Just get a better charger. The only way to fix it
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I also facing the same situation... But it was when I plug in the in car charger, my DHD will automatic open premium navigation... Weired
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I have seen this, it happens if I plug my phone into one of the USB ports on my old macbook pro. If the supply voltage/current is dirty or has spikes or is badly regulated it can make your phone do odd things.
Just get a better charger. The only way to fix it
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It also not very good idea to use cheap charger as it could damage your battery, or even worse your phone.
I suppose HTC chargers use usb data lines to tell if it's really is an htc charger which is connected.
I use 2 chargers for my DHD. Orignal HTC charger+cable which i leave in the office as i do most of my charging there, and spare iphone charger + motorola micro-USB cable (from my old Moto Razr V3) at home. both work flawlessly.
but before this, i used the original HTC cable with some el-cheapo USB charger, and whenever I use that, the touchscreen is not working properly. not responding to touch and moves by itself. Another thing i noticed is that the phone was grounded, i can feel that very slight current that is not there when the phone is not charging.
so sure, its a charger issue, and chances are, the line is not grounded properly.
I use original charger and Samsung Galaxy Ace charger and they both work fine...
So i was playing dead trigger with my sixaxis (awesome combo btw) with an overclocked kernel. everything was going fine till i saw the 14% battery left window and it went away all by itself very fast. i didnt think anything of it. (this whole time i was plugged in) anyways, i played for another 45 mins and all the sudden, i got some static and then a shutoff. i let it sit for a while (maybe it overheated?) turned it back on 10 mins later. went good for 5 mins, then shut off. the screen was just black. i un and repluged in the charger and didnt get the white battery symbol. i was thinking "oh **** i just fried this thing" so i took the usb cable out of the charger and dont ask me why, but i smelled it. and i instantly knew, burnt electronics. got my droid x charger and plugged it in. instantly got the battery symbol. this is a temp fix cuz its only 700ma but does anyone know where i can get another charger, possibly better quality, or a way to fix this? for some reason my computer just doesnt have enough oomph to charge it. its probably only ~500ma.
Thanks in advance.
P.S. Anyone else have this problem?
yea happened with my wire too. like the adapter piece still works its just the usb wire thats fried
Found this link on the charger issues thread
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B008FF8360/ref=oh_details_o04_s00_i01
it's not a detachable usb charger, but should work.
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It might be my cable, but thats the one im using with the droid x charger soo... yeah.
i forgot to mention that the charger smelled burnt too but i though maybe it just runs hot.
Thanks for the link to the charger!
One last question.
is this the same way as the (dare i say it here) iphone charger that couldent support the phone running and charging the battery? because my friend burnt up his charger by doing that. im thinking about making a 30amp usb port and just let the onboard battery charger take care of it. then again, id rather the charger blow up than the little processor for charging the battery.
And JESUS these captcha's are freaking unreadable!
All of the voltage looks the same as the Asus charger. The reviews also state that it works like the OEM charger.
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Well even though the charger seems to be working again, I will probably buy that one because the plug doesn't come right out the back of it. Thanks
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Does it also do the same deep cycle charge that the OEM charger supposedly does?
My nexus so far seems great but i have this issue and idk if its a defect or idk? When i go to charge my phone with the stock AC adapter and even a HTC adapter it starts charging on AC then sometimes switches to USB and charges slower. And I have to like plug it in and out a few times for it to finally catch as AC its super annoying and my GNex never had that issue. And when i want to use the phone on AC the Charge Drops significantly sometimes discharging and im not even doing anything intensive. Does anyone have this issue? Is it a problem with the USB cable maybe? Or do you think this is a defect? Because its about to be 14 days and i dont have much left to get an RMA cause its what im considering and if I need it i dont have 380 dollars in my bank account either if i do need it so idk how that would work. Any help would be appreciated Thanks!
It lowers the incoming current, by dropping to usb charge, to help keep the battery cooler. They seem to be really trying to keep the battery temp down on this thing.
Ordered my Nexus 4 on the 13th. Still waiting.
Really? Do you know the temps? Or does anyone? Cause sometimes it changes to USB after plugging it in for like 5 mins and i wouldnt think it gets that hot that quick. And when i finally get the AC to seem to stick the temps go up to 30-35 degrees celcius as normal and im getting around 850mah and it doesn't drop to usb charging it just drops current sometimes mainly when im using it obviously. So idk if it really is what you say or maybe someone could elaborate more?
I just want to get to the bottom of this issue so to know if i need to get an RMA :/
I forgot to mention that it also seems to randomly switch between AC/USB/UNPLUGGED really fast sometimes and i have to unplug and replug to get a charge I have no idea why.. I really want to know if its a software issue or hardware. Thats my main concern.
Woww this makes sense Ive been trying to figure out why this freaking thing was taking so long to charge. this reminds me of the galaxy s and how long that thing took. hopefully this is a software bug and they can get this thing worked out
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Woww this makes sense Ive been trying to figure out why this freaking thing was taking so long to charge. this reminds me of the galaxy s and how long that thing took. hopefully this is a software bug and they can get this thing worked out
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Yea idk if its a hardware or software bug im hoping software but i may just do an RMA incase if i can ill call google tommorow. And if you want to check how your phone is charging you can download Battery Monitor Widget it shows the mah and all that.
I have that same problem with the charger that came in the box.once it goes to USB it take forever to charge but when I use the charger from my gnex it stays on ac and charges really fast not once does it goes to USB.so I tried the N4 charger on my HTC thunderbolt and gnex and both would go into USB mode and charge really slow.
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I have that same problem with the charger that came in the box.once it goes to USB it take forever to charge but when I use the charger from my gnex it stays on ac and charges really fast not once does it goes to USB.so I tried the N4 charger on my HTC thunderbolt and gnex and both would go into USB mode and charge really slow.
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For what it's worth, my Nexus 4 *NEVER* charges in an AC mode using the OEM charging plug, regardless of which power point / cable I use with it. And to charge from 'critical' to 100% took about 7 hours last night. Wtf.
It's been RMA'd as I don't believe this to be correct behaviour. Perhaps also related, the USB computer connection has stopped working. It'll charge via USB but won't connect to any computer.
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I have that same problem with the charger that came in the box.once it goes to USB it take forever to charge but when I use the charger from my gnex it stays on ac and charges really fast not once does it goes to USB.so I tried the N4 charger on my HTC thunderbolt and gnex and both would go into USB mode and charge really slow.
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Hmm so did you use the Gnex charger like the USB cable and AC adapter? Cause ive just used the ac adapters with the N4 Lg USB cable. It makes me think that the USB cable is **** to. I need to find another USB to test this out.
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For what it's worth, my Nexus 4 *NEVER* charges in an AC mode using the OEM charging plug, regardless of which power point / cable I use with it. And to charge from 'critical' to 100% took about 7 hours last night. Wtf.
It's been RMA'd as I don't believe this to be correct behaviour. Perhaps also related, the USB computer connection has stopped working. It'll charge via USB but won't connect to any computer.
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Did you try a differnt USB and AC adpter like the previous post said? I just want to make sure cause if not im gonna RMA
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Did you try a differnt USB and AC adpter like the previous post said? I just want to make sure cause if not im gonna RMA
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Yep, tried a whole bunch of different power sockets, usb charger plugs and cables. Still screwed. The more I read, the more its obvious that the devices behaviour isn't correct.
You should send it back because mine charges fine. It takes 2-3 hours to charge mine to full from empty. I'm using the charger and USB cable that came with the phone.
I'm actually facing the same thing, I slept for 3 hours and woke up to my phone being only 60% charged. I tried plugging it in and out a couple of times, and now its back to AC and not switching to USB anymore.
In using Franco kernel and even enabling USB fast charge doesn't keep it from showing USB.
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Hmm so did you use the Gnex charger like the USB cable and AC adapter? Cause ive just used the ac adapters with the N4 Lg USB cable. It makes me think that the USB cable is **** to. I need to find another USB to test this out.
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I was looking at my LG charger and it seems to be missing one of the gold connectors on the male part of the cable Idk if this is normal but my gnex has all the gold connectors.
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I was looking at my LG charger and it seems to be missing one of the gold connectors on the male part of the cable Idk if this is normal but my gnex has all the gold connectors.
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Yea mine is missing it to I wonder if that is why? And i just got my RAVpower external battery and that usb has all the pins and i tried to charge my phone with the lg brick and the ravpower usb and it seems to charge fine goes to ac every time. So im really wondering if its the LG USB that i got and it being faulty or not. I need to get another USB to test this out. Cause i dont want to swap out an entire phone for just a usb..
I've noticed mine charges as USB when using the stock LG charger. I had put it down to the 3 metre USB cable it was attached to, but I guess it's just a pants charger.
I just started having the same problem since Sunday. Had the phone for 2wks now. I had the same problem with my gs2. I really don't like these adaptor charger now a days. I go for the straight wall charger. Seems to work best. I think it's better because it doesn't convert to a usb cord as well, I don't know but I went ahead and ordered this one. http://pages.ebay.com/link/?nav=item.view&id=150959459340 should be here Friday. it says original OEM charger for E960 nexus 4. We'll see.. I suggest direct wall charger instead of those USB adaptor that come with phones now.
I just looked at my USB charger from lg, it has 4 gold pins. Seems like they're all there, how many are there suppose to be??
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I'm not having the issue ... But it happened to me when I had my s3 I would use oem Samsung home charger and it would charge for a bit and it would stop ...
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noodles2224 said:
I just started having the same problem since Sunday. Had the phone for 2wks now. I had the same problem with my gs2. I really don't like these adaptor charger now a days. I go for the straight wall charger. Seems to work best. I think it's better because it doesn't convert to a usb cord as well, I don't know but I went ahead and ordered this one. http://pages.ebay.com/link/?nav=item.view&id=150959459340 should be here Friday. it says original OEM charger for E960 nexus 4. We'll see.. I suggest direct wall charger instead of those USB adaptor that come with phones now.
I just looked at my USB charger from lg, it has 4 gold pins. Seems like they're all there, how many are there suppose to be??
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That actually sounds like a good idea and should hopefully work! I need to order one. Still debating on Getting an RMA cause i dont want **** phone or worse phone..
Correction And it should have like 2 gold outer pins and 3 gold inner pins and mine and I guess a few other people have the outer pins but only 2 inner pins im missing the left most inner pin.