new car charger - Acer Iconia A500

Hi,
Any one has experience with this new car charger
http://store.acer.com/store/acereme...=TnXHpgoHArEAAEYOwwYAAAAt&rests=1316341669121
Thanks for the feedbabck

Interesting ! but I am curious to know how long it make to completely recharge the tab...

very good
Silver-Virus said:
Interesting ! but I am curious to know how long it make to completely recharge the tab...
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From 80% to 100% in less than one hour and while using the tablet gps Sygic.

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Dopod U1000 , Im Sick Of Battery Chargin!!! Any News About External Battery Charger !

Hi Guys Im Tired Of Wasting My Time To Charge The Battery Of Dopod U1000. It Takes 4 Hour To Get Full Charge. Any One Have Any News About External Battery Charger? Other Pda Have This Kind Of Charger You Put Your Sencondarly Battery On That External Charger And Your Main Device Battery Got Lowe You Switch The Battery With The Charged Battery And You Put Your Emapty Battery To That Device(external Battry Charger) For Full Charge. Do You Guys Know Where Can I Find That I Kind Of Charger?
emilnaeri said:
Hi Guys Im Tired Of Wasting My Time To Charge The Battery Of Dopod U1000. It Takes 4 Hour To Get Full Charge. Any One Have Any News About External Battery Charger? Other Pda Have This Kind Of Charger You Put Your Sencondarly Battery On That External Charger And Your Main Device Battery Got Lowe You Switch The Battery With The Charged Battery And You Put Your Emapty Battery To That Device(external Battry Charger) For Full Charge. Do You Guys Know Where Can I Find That I Kind Of Charger?
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Firstly, i am tired of you double posting all your question, second, there are lots of solutions, and i have no idea why it takes 4 hours for you to get full charge, it only takes less then 2 hours for me, and how often do you charge your device? if you are a power user, then when do you use your device most often? you see, when i am home or in the office or in the car, i always plug the Athena for charge, can you not do the same? most of us here don't wait for the battery to get fully drain then start charging.
There is no external battery charger right now, (unless you buy another Athena and use that for charging....haha). They will be an official Athena dock which support spare battery charging, GPS for Less site is also offering another Dock which has the same function. However they are both not out yet.
Meanwhile, if you really want to get more battery, you can always buy external charging device which provide battery to your Athena. So if you are in the tube or anytime not using your Athena, you can plug it into the external battery device and charge it all the time. This way you will last longer before your battery fully drain.
Hope this helps, and please don't double post again.
wu5262 said:
Firstly, i am tired of you double posting all your question, second, there are lots of solutions, and i have no idea why it takes 4 hours for you to get full charge, it only takes less then 2 hours for me, and how often do you charge your device? if you are a power user, then when do you use your device most often? you see, when i am home or in the office or in the car, i always plug the Athena for charge, can you not do the same? most of us here don't wait for the battery to get fully drain then start charging.
There is no external battery charger right now, (unless you buy another Athena and use that for charging....haha). They will be an official Athena dock which support spare battery charging, GPS for Less site is also offering another Dock which has the same function. However they are both not out yet.
Meanwhile, if you really want to get more battery, you can always buy external charging device which provide battery to your Athena. So if you are in the tube or anytime not using your Athena, you can plug it into the external battery device and charge it all the time. This way you will last longer before your battery fully drain.
Hope this helps, and please don't double post again.
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im charging with my wall charger and i realy need external battery charger do you know where can i find it? im working on city to city and 4 days of the week im in travel. thats why i need external charger. and if i want to charge my dopod u1000 at anytime without getbattery empty it will hurt my battery life am i correct? and if i go that way every 3-4 weeks i have to order new battery. i love my device as a baby and i dont want to hirt him because of nonesence charging without the battery at low power. i hope you get me. i had o2 xda 2 , xda 2i ( i love this unit ) , xda exec( which the battery life was sucks) , nokia 9500 , nokia 8800 and nokia 8850(which i had for 5 years) i use them in 2 years i already have them and keep them as my baby. and im palnning to buy HTC SHIFT and nokia E90 too. and you said i can buy from htc website and gps for less can you give me website link for both website if i want to buy dock for dopod u1000 or htc x7500.
thank you
thank you
As I know only 2-3 first charges for Li-Ion batteries are critical, those called as "battery training". You should fully discarge and then fully charge 2-3 times for a new battery. After that it doesn't really matter if you charge battery that is not fully discharged. Li-Ion batteries doesn't have a memory effect. Yes, they have limmited number of charge cycles, usially 500-700. In normal use it is good for 1-1.5 years.
So don't worry, charging you battery in a car or at work will not kill it.
Also you can consider external USB batteries like this:
http://www.tangshop.com/universal-external-battery-powerbox.html
those batteries are very handy if you flying often.
Regards,
Dimitriy
Hi Guy I Think You Got Me Wron Im Looking This Kind Of Charger Just Check The Picture. If You Guys Know Where Can I Find This Kind Of External Charger I Will Appreciate It. This Picture Is From Other Pdas Charger But Im Looking This Kind Of Charger For Dopod U1000 Or Htc X7500.
Thank You
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Hi Guy I Think You Got Me Wron Im Looking This Kind Of Charger Just Check The Picture. If You Guys Know Where Can I Find This Kind Of External Charger I Will Appreciate It. This Picture Is From Other Pdas Charger But Im Looking This Kind Of Charger For Dopod U1000 Or Htc X7500.
Thank You
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firstly, we haven't get you wrong, we understand you completely, and no, you will not hurt your battery by charging it all the time, beside, an extra battery does not cost that much as well.
Second, I have already told you clear, there are no external charger for Athena, and for the web link of HTC and GPS FOR LESS dock, please take your own time and google it, it will only take you 2 mins.
Actually, you could find your answer by searching on net, what's what we do here, and it's not our duty to spend this 2 mins to search for you while you can do it yourself, so don't be lazy and start searching!
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firstly, we haven't get you wrong, we understand you completely, and no, you will not hurt your battery by charging it all the time, beside, an extra battery does not cost that much as well.
Second, I have already told you clear, there are no external charger for Athena, and for the web link of HTC and GPS FOR LESS dock, please take your own time and google it, it will only take you 2 mins.
Actually, you could find your answer by searching on net, what's what we do here, and it's not our duty to spend this 2 mins to search for you while you can do it yourself, so don't be lazy and start searching!
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when i asked you something you can bark for me ok!!!! when you dont know if im searching in internet or not dont come in this forum section and give me bull**** if you think you are senior in xda-developers. know your level and mind your own business.
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when i asked you something you can bark for me ok!!!! when you dont know if im searching in internet or not dont come in this forum section and give me bull**** if you think you are senior in xda-developers. know your level and mind your own business.
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That is just unnecessary. Your question has been answered severeal times. BTW, you could have answered it yourself very easily using that very new concept called Google.
HTC Advantage Docking Station w/2nd Battery Charger
http://www.expansys.com/p.aspx?i=145164
Maybe it can be of interest.
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That is just unnecessary. Your question has been answered severeal times. BTW, you could have answered it yourself very easily using that very new concept called Google.
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I second that.
We are all here to help each other, but if you come here with a bad attitude, we will not help you.
Now you can 'bark' for me, whatever that means....
wow, I believe moderators shall stop such posts and lock out people like "emilnaeri"
Isn't there a thread about this already? Started by the SAME person no less... Yipes, and there I was trying to be helpful.. apparently not good enough for this apparently "I'm the center of the world. Look at me I'm yelling all the time in a panic because I think I have a problem."
Clearly, mate, calm down two notches and read through this forum. There are not that many topics about Athena, and most of the trivial things have been covered already.
Check out this link. I bought two to test then bought four more for cars laptops and my travel bag. If you use thier penquin AC/DC charger I get a full charge in under two hours.
http://pocketpctechs.com/main~unit~...2Dn%2Dcharge+cables~item~USB%2DLSPDUO001X.htm
I have also noticed that the battery indicator gets stuck sometimes. If I disconnect the charger then wiat a bit and shut the unit off then on it will register correctly.
The issue with charging off the laptop is that Activesync keeps the device on. When the device is on it switches to high speed mode then it takes MUCH longer to charge.
hammermedia said:
Check out this link. I bought two to test then bought four more for cars laptops and my travel bag. If you use thier penquin AC/DC charger I get a full charge in under two hours.
http://pocketpctechs.com/main~unit~...2Dn%2Dcharge+cables~item~USB%2DLSPDUO001X.htm
I have also noticed that the battery indicator gets stuck sometimes. If I disconnect the charger then wiat a bit and shut the unit off then on it will register correctly.
The issue with charging off the laptop is that Activesync keeps the device on. When the device is on it switches to high speed mode then it takes MUCH longer to charge.
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I'm glad I found this post. I noticed this with the device that the battery indicater stays orange (amber ..whatever). I have to continue to check it. After an hour or two...depending on when i started....it will stay amber. If I unplug it and navigate to the Power screen, it will jump to 100%.
Can I fix this? Second, does the advantage only register battery percentage in 10's? i.e. 10% 20% 30%
I did search the forum...but couldnt locate a relative answer to these.
Thanks in advance!
Kenjari said:
I'm glad I found this post. I noticed this with the device that the battery indicater stays orange (amber ..whatever). I have to continue to check it. After an hour or two...depending on when i started....it will stay amber. If I unplug it and navigate to the Power screen, it will jump to 100%.
Can I fix this? Second, does the advantage only register battery percentage in 10's? i.e. 10% 20% 30%
I did search the forum...but couldnt locate a relative answer to these.
Thanks in advance!
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When it is fully charged, it will turn to green.
Affirmative to your second question. It register in 10% increments, AFAIK.
Thanks again eaglesteve!!

Charging via car charger while navigating (long GPS usage time)

Hi all,
It is really exciting to see how a new device's forum gets filled up so quickly . (i'll be getting my device sometime today so I feel like a small kid waiting to go to the candy store hehe)
I did do some reading on http://www.batteryuniversity.com/ and also in different parts of the forum.
But i am not sure how this case fits in all of the battery discussions out there. If am going to drive in the states for 3-5 hours a day where i;ll need to use my phone afterwards to continue my day.
Will keeping the phone plugged in the car charger hurt the battery?
Thanks all.
The best to do in order to increase your battery's life is to let it drop to 5 or 10% then plug it on your car charger.
It will last longer then if you keep it plugged on the charger, that's for sure.
On the other hand, the average life of a battery of this type is between 1 year and 1 year and a half.
Personally I keep a second battery with me all the time.
That's what I used to do with all my previous devices so I never be short of battery
Thanks, then i guess i'll play it safe and recharge when it goes low on juice.
If i dare ask, given the scenario where you disrubt the battery while charging, would it hurt it? I read that it is better to keep it charging once plugged in, but then again this is Li-Ion which should not get hurt if you take it out while charging!
Thanks
Not charging in the car
I noticed that when I have my device pluged into car charger and use it as GPS, it does not charge or loose power. In other words, if it is half-charged when I get into the car, and I drive for 2 hours, it is still half-charged, no more and no less.
What is going all?
Thanks
Fadik said:
but then again this is Li-Ion which should not get hurt if you take it out while charging!
Thanks
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This is correct, but for the good of the battery you need to have it down to 5% (or less) from time to time
michael_r said:
I noticed that when I have my device pluged into car charger and use it as GPS, it does not charge or loose power. In other words, if it is half-charged when I get into the car, and I drive for 2 hours, it is still half-charged, no more and no less.
What is going all?
Thanks
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I used to have this behavior with my HTC Athena, but did not see it yet on the blackstone. I'll check in the coming days and will let you know
Hi Fadik,
I'd recommend just using your GPS and charging at the same time. Go with BigDede's advice and let it run down a bit before plugging in. This will help avoid possible overcharging.
Compare this with what most laptops are put through - permanently connected to the charger and hardly ever being used on battery. Our Dell still has more than half its capacity after three years of this. If you are still using your HD in 2 years, give a battery as a birthday present!
I don't know of anything that would damage your phone's battery during normal usage. The main battery killers are deep discharge (protection circuits turn your phone off before this point) and very high temperatures (you weren't going to leave your HD on the dashboard of the car during summer while you shop??). Oh, and the obvious, including blocking your car's wheels on a hill, providing canine nutrition, etc...
Hope this helps...
Thanks all for the feedback and input.
and I guess, I should replace the battery every year and a half
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This is correct, but for the good of the battery you need to have it down to 5% (or less) from time to time
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This is a common misinformation.
Do charge the battery often. The battery lasts longer with partial rather than full discharges.
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Avoid full cycle because of wear. 80% depth-of-discharge recommended. Re- charge more often. Avoid full discharge. Low voltage may cut off safety circuit
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No maintenance needed. Loses capacity due to aging whether used or not.
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All quotes from this handy table at batteryuniversity.com
So to adress the question of the OP:
Your battery will probably do just fine, as long as the pack itself does not heat up too much from the prolonged charges. The battery it self should be protected from overcharge, and tickle charge should not hurt it.
-KJ
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This is a common misinformation.
-KJ
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You can stick with what you found on batteryuniversity.com
Im talking about personal experience here
I got my 2 batteries dead in less then 2 monthes on my HTC Athena
due to charging the device everyday while on 50% or more. (Actually charging it in the car, in the office at home, etc ...)
The 3rd one lasted more then a year when I was letting it drop to around 15 or 20%
Again, this is personal experience
michael_r said:
I noticed that when I have my device pluged into car charger and use it as GPS, it does not charge or loose power. In other words, if it is half-charged when I get into the car, and I drive for 2 hours, it is still half-charged, no more and no less.
What is going all?
Thanks
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I had this same thing when charging through the USB port in the car stereo. I had to revert to the dedicated car charger providing power from the cigarette lighter socket to get it to charge.
Hello
I had some trouble in the past, charging an Ipaq in my car.
You have to check how much the device can provide.
I think the wall charger is giving 1A.
On my USB car charger it could output 750mA. Maybe that's enough to maintain battery level in the case of the HD in GPS use.
I'll check.
You can check how much your usb on your car radio/USB can provide.
But I suppose it's 500mA which is the standard level given by a PC.And that may not be enough.

Car charger problems

I use TomTom on my Touch HD with a car charger.
The first charger I used was fine but since I lost it I cannot find a charger that works properly... At first I thought I was just using faulty charger's but as I have now tried 3 different ones I am beggining to wonder if the problem is with my HD!
The funny thing is that on both the main screen and in TomTom it is showing the status as 'charging'... even the light on the top of the phone is lit to show it is charging but the battery level is still going down all the time!
The only thing I can think of is that maybe the chargers I am using now are not as powerful as the first one I used? Or are all car chargers standard?
Either that or my HD is broken!
Can anyone please help me find a solution?
Ps. The phone still charges fine through both a wall plug socket and a USB connected to a PC.
The car charger I use I bought for my old Tytn 2 (original HTC one), works great for the HD and Diamond, even when the battery was at about 20% left on the HD, TomTom 7 running, screen brightness max, the battery was almost fully charged within an 1hr.
Think it's rated at 1amp, you might want to check the power rating on yours, anything under 1amp and it's really going struggle to charge while using it.
Unfortunately its not printed on any of my chargers what amp they are... I actually thought they were all the same amp but if some are more powerful than others this could be my problem.
What does concern me however is that even when the HD is switched off it is still not charging (even though the light at the top of the phone shows it should be!)
There are plenty of tools around (HTC's battery.exe, acbpowermonitor, battlog, powerguard, etc...) that can show you charge/discharge current. If your car charger gives you less than the unit is consuming, battery will not be able to charge.
loll_l said:
I use TomTom on my Touch HD with a car charger.
The first charger I used was fine but since I lost it I cannot find a charger that works properly... At first I thought I was just using faulty charger's but as I have now tried 3 different ones I am beggining to wonder if the problem is with my HD!
The funny thing is that on both the main screen and in TomTom it is showing the status as 'charging'... even the light on the top of the phone is lit to show it is charging but the battery level is still going down all the time!
The only thing I can think of is that maybe the chargers I am using now are not as powerful as the first one I used? Or are all car chargers standard?
Either that or my HD is broken!
Can anyone please help me find a solution?
Ps. The phone still charges fine through both a wall plug socket and a USB connected to a PC.
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I had this problem and found it was because I was charging through the usb socket on the stereo which always worked on Polaris but not with Blackstone. If I charge from the cig lighter socket it works good.
deanoyouno said:
link the charger to the main battery under the bonet and you will recieve a quicker phone charge, usually a full battery charge will take 24 hours, link it up to your main battery and a full charge will be done ina matter of minutes, its genius
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No it doesn't. You're a twat. Now piss off...
I belive you will need one of these
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/2000mA-2A-USB...3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=66:2|65:1|39:1|240:1318
Im sure someone will tell me if im wrong
Burnzoi said:
gonna try this now, ill post a reply when im done
EDIT: DO NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES TRY THIS
my phone is now permanently stuck to my battery under my bonnet!
maybe i shouldn't have left the car running
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I am assuming you are joking!!!!
deanoyouno has been banned for being his useless self.
In future be careful what you read as a few people think it is funny to post damaging advice. If you are unsure about something or advice received UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES DO ANYTHING YOU ARE UNSURE OF
Generally most people here want to help and share knowledge.
Hope this doesn't put you off.
Any future advice, I'm always willing to help.............like many others
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All noobs should try reading the wiki pages
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I am assuming you are joking!!!!
deanoyouno has been banned for being his useless self.
In future be careful what you read as a few people think it is funny to post damaging advice. If you are unsure about something or advice received UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES DO ANYTHING YOU ARE UNSURE OF
Generally most people here want to help and share knowledge.
Hope this doesn't put you off.
Any future advice, I'm always willing to help.............like many others
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All noobs should try reading the wiki pages
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God I hope he's joking too...
First I used my original HTCTyTn carcharger by trial. But he has not
enough power to charge and run TomTom at the same time!
So, i bought this new one (more powerfull) for the Touch HD.
http://www.pdashop.nl/product-gallery/48058/0
This one works perfect for me!
luckyuser said:
First I used my original HTCTyTn carcharger by trial. But he has not
enough power to charge and run TomTom at the same time!
So, i bought this new one (more powerfull) for the Touch HD.
http://www.pdashop.nl/product-gallery/48058/0
This one works perfect for me!
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I bought a cheap and cheerful universal usb charger from tesco's for a couple quid. Works great and no problems with power whilst running TomTom
Hi, first post here and rather than start a similar thread so soon, i thought it best to post here.
Is it possible for car chargers to over-charge the device? I bought a cheap and cheerful car charger off ebay but was a bit concerned some of them are listed as having overcharge protection and this one wasn't. Wouldn't normally be bothered but its a £550 handset!
Cheers!

Safe to let dock charging tab until dock 0% ?

Hey guys,
I just want to know something : is it safe to let the keyboard dock charging the tab until the dock become uncharged (0%) ?
The battery in the dock should suffer, no?
Thanks.
needhelp11 said:
Hey guys,
I just want to know something : is it safe to let the keyboard dock charging the tab until the dock become uncharged (0%) ?
The battery in the dock should suffer, no?
Thanks.
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It is meant to go down to zero
Yeah sorry for my english
i let my go down all the time mate
Shouldnt let it go below 20-25% bruv. After you dip it so lower than 20% time and time again you wear out the battery, same thing happens with laptop batteries and then people blame the manufacturer.
skylinenegro said:
Shouldnt let it go below 20-25% bruv. After you dip it so lower than 20% time and time again you wear out the battery, same thing happens with laptop batteries and then people blame the manufacturer.
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unless the manufacture already built in the 20% to be read as 0% since the voltage would be too low by that point...
Yes but how do you know that ? It's write anywhere.
skylinenegro said:
Shouldnt let it go below 20-25% bruv. After you dip it so lower than 20% time and time again you wear out the battery, same thing happens with laptop batteries and then people blame the manufacturer.
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I disagree.
If that was true,then I had to remove the dock after 4 h. and recharge it before new use on the pad.
Asus say 15 h total use,that mean ca.10h use with emty dock.:cyclops:

One Plus 8 Pro Battery Charging Time

My One Plus 8 Pro takes 45 minutes to charge from 0 to 50% and 1 hour 40 minutes to charge from 0 to 100%...is it normal or any Issue?...... anyone help me here....Thanks
Simple dumb question but are you using it while it charges?
Surfeur-des-Reves said:
Simple dumb question but are you using it while it charges?
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Nope....i don't use phone while charging
Are you using any custom kernel? Could you try charging it once with the phone completely switched off and check how long it takes? Are you using the original accessories coming with the phone? Is the charger directly connected to the wall or on an electric adaptor?
pharandeamit said:
My One Plus 8 Pro takes 45 minutes to charge from 0 to 50% and 1 hour 40 minutes to charge from 0 to 100%...is it normal or any Issue?...... anyone help me here....Thanks
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When you turn it off and then plug it in, what shows up on the screen ?
gaww said:
When you turn it off and then plug it in, what shows up on the screen ?
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Well it shows Wrap Charging
Surfeur-des-Reves said:
Are you using any custom kernel? Could you try charging it once with the phone completely switched off and check how long it takes? Are you using the original accessories coming with the phone? Is the charger directly connected to the wall or on an electric adaptor?
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Nope any custom kernel or Unlocked bootloaderl, not even rooted as it's brand new device I got 2 days back...yes yesterday I completely drained device to 0% and then charged to 100% and above mentioned charge timing I noticed during charging...yes I'm using original accessories which came with phone....yes charger connected directly to wall... Thats why I'm concerned and posted here to help... Thanks
I don't have any complaint about Battery backup or not even screen issue in my one Plus 8 Pro..whole device working fine except this Charging Time....just concerned about Charging Time thats all
Could be the cable that came with the device that *might* be defective, I see nothing else. If you bought it from a local reseller, try to see with the shop maybe? If you bought it online, then you may want to buy a good quality USB-C cable, those made for charging the ultrabooks, for example. Wish you luck!
Surfeur-des-Reves said:
Could be the cable that came with the device that *might* be defective, I see nothing else. If you bought it from a local reseller, try to see with the shop maybe? If you bought it online, then you may want to buy a good quality USB-C cable, those made for charging the ultrabooks, for example. Wish you luck!
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Thanks looks like buying new Charging cable from official one Plus site maybe good and cheap idea ?
pharandeamit said:
Thanks looks like buying new Charging cable from official one Plus site maybe good and cheap idea
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Could you have a soul sucking app or widget that is putting a little strain on the battery or is it pretty much fresh out of the box? I know I have a weather widget that is the Bain of my existence but I like the way it looks so I put up with an extra 25 minutes to charge the battery.
chetly968 said:
Could you have a soul sucking app or widget that is putting a little strain on the battery or is it pretty much fresh out of the box? I know I have a weather widget that is the Bain of my existence but I like the way it looks so I put up with an extra 25 minutes to charge the battery.
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Yeah I use Overdrop Weather App and it's Widget... The issue here is maybe the power point where I plug my charger maybe that's underpowered....so I tried today on overpowered power point usually uses for Refrigerator or Washing Machine I plugged there my One Plus 8 Pro and magic happened my phone was on 45% and it went to fully 100% just in 45 minutes... So for now I figured out that issue was in power point not in My device. Hope it's true ?

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