As the title says, I'd like to do this, use the smartphone as a wifi hotspot for the nexus 10, but since the hotspot drains the battery heavily, and its likely that when ill turn the tablet on, the smartphone has already been on for many hours, id like to know if it would be possible to connect the two with a cable, so that the smartphone gets some power from the tablet's battery, thus prolonging the smartphone's battery life for the day.
Thanks all!
No, I tried with my nexus 7 and it would not turn on for 3 hours
Nuclearcodes said:
No, I tried with my nexus 7 and it would not turn on for 3 hours
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What the phone you charge ?
It may work with an OTG cable so the tablet is pumping juice and not receiving..
Back in the day my XOOM could power a 2.5" WD Passport HDD, or charge my HTC Desire. Got rid of it before I could test it on my SGS2 and SGS3 and Galaxy Note though.
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Will the nexus 10 support otg? I heard that otg support for the nexus 7 is somewhat limited or something...
I'm using the OTG cable for connecting my hard drive (powered) and ps3 control pad to it. Works perfectly fine
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Hello everyone, I just purchased a Nexus 7 and I'm very happy with it so far :laugh: but I have 1 little concern that do we have anyway to disable charging when plug in to computer ? I connect my nexus to my pc like a 100 times a day and I'm afraid that's not good for the battery Thanks for reading and have a good day
Charging via your computer is such a low amp that you will be lucky if it can keep up with the charge.
That being said, you can get a data only cable and it won't charge at all if you are really worried about it.
Why are you connecting it so often? I can't remember the last time I even plugged into a computer with mine, I transfer all I need over Wi-Fi.
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Hi,
I just bought a Nexus 7 and noticed that it has a different charger than the Android smartphones I have, e.g. Nexus S and Galaxy Nexus. However, the connection is still the same.
My question is, is it safe to use a smartphone charger with my Nexus 7, just to have less stuff lying around? Is it safe to use the 7's charger with my smartphone? Will I break my devices if I do it?
Thanks!
Perfectly safe. The Nexus charger puts out slightly more current than most phones, worst case it will charge them slightly faster, just as a phone charger will be a little shower with the tablet.
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frandavid100 said:
Hi,
I just bought a Nexus 7 and noticed that it has a different charger than the Android smartphones I have, e.g. Nexus S and Galaxy Nexus. However, the connection is still the same.
My question is, is it safe to use a smartphone charger with my Nexus 7, just to have less stuff lying around? Is it safe to use the 7's charger with my smartphone? Will I break my devices if I do it?
Thanks!
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You won't break your devices, but it would take an extraordinarily long time to charge your N7 with the phone's charger. Conversely, the phone is not going to charge exponentially faster using the tab's charger. So, all in all, wile it's not ideal, you won't be hurting anything.
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So I can just keep my Nexus 7 charger and use it for every other gadget, and put the other chargers into a drawer? That's nice to know, thanks guys.
dr.m0x said:
Perfectly safe. The Nexus charger puts out slightly more current than most phones, worst case it will charge them slightly faster, just as a phone charger will be a little shower with the tablet.
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The phone won't charge any faster using the N7 charger, but the tablet on the phone charger would be significantly slower- to the point that even moderate use while plugged in would result in still draining the battery. Assuming no use while charging, the tablet would require several hours more than normal for a full charge.
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najaboy said:
The phone won't charge any faster using the N7 charger, but the tablet on the phone charger would be significantly slower- to the point that even moderate use while plugged in would result in still draining the battery. Assuming no use while charging, the tablet would require several hours more than normal for a full charge.
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I disagree, my galaxy prevail charges twice as fast on my n7 charger than with a standard phone/car charger. However my n7 does take forever on the phone/car charger. Literally like 8hrs+ to reach 100%.
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Ryan_Shea said:
I disagree, my galaxy prevail charges twice as fast on my n7 charger than with a standard phone/car charger. However my n7 does take forever on the phone/car charger. Literally like 8hrs+ to reach 100%.
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Check the 'mA' or 'A' rating on the charger.. The higher it is, the faster it will charge.
the charger I got bundled with Nexus 7 is outputing 2A (2000mA to be exact), which is quite higher than most phone chargers
(I've got chargers with standard 500mA & with 800mA).
I've been using the Nexus 7 charger for charging my ZTE Blade and nothing seems wrong using it..
A phone's charging circuit will automatically restrict the current to the specs needed by the phone.
PS: 'A' stands for 'Amperes' & 'mA' stands for 'milli Amperes ', both are units of measuring current.
I have tried 3 different chargers and my nexus will only charge when the charger is forcibly pushed into the port, which is not possible to do for a long time, what can i do to fix the problem as at the moment my nexus has been rendered useless.
Also if i cannot fix the micro usb port does the new nexus 7 dock need the use of the micro usb port or do the pogo pins charge the device on their own
Thanks in advance
Just get the dock... It's a much better way to charge it IMO.
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having the same issue and wanted to use the device but right now its dead and useless. any other suggestions then going out and buying a dock for it?
Had the same problem
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having the same issue and wanted to use the device but right now its dead and useless. any other suggestions then going out and buying a dock for it?
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I had the same problem after installing M-Kernel. Removing M-Kernel fixed it for me.
I have the Nexus 7, and i used to use it during school a lot. It's easy to carry around and can be pulled out at a seconds notice. Since I got my HTC One, and Samsung Chromebook though, I've noticed my tablet just sits there, not doing much really.
I've loaded the tablet up with emulators, and am currently in the process of loading it with ROMs. My question is has anyone used their Nexus 7 for old school gaming? Maybe more of a permanent setup as well? I have an OTG cable, dualshock to usb adapters, original xbox controller with usb(Featured an article on how to use original xbox controllers on nexus 7, a few months back that i wrote) and the xbox 360 wireless dongle.
My main plan was to cut the cable down on the 360 wireless dongle, just so it was long enough to maybe velcro onto the back of the tablet, and then just use a 360 controller with it. would I be able to use the official nexus charging dock with it and still have enough power to power the dongle? or would the dongle probably draw too much power for the nexus to stay powered for an undisclosed amount of time?
I find the nexus 7 great for retro gaming.
However rather strangely dock charging and OTG do not work in unison, strange but true!
There is however some kernels that support OTG plus charging using an "OTG charging cable" timurs usb kernel and faux kernel are two that i know of.
I had alot of problems myself with timurs kernel, however others seem to have no issues. I have faux kernel myself but havnt played around with it much as i purchased a ps3 joystick to get round the issue.
I might be wrong but i think using ps3 joysick while charging discharges slowly. But should add i have a third party charger as i blew the one up that came with my nexus.
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joesnose said:
I find the nexus 7 great for retro gaming.
However rather strangely dock charging and OTG do not work in unison, strange but true!
There is however some kernels that support OTG plus charging using an "OTG charging cable" timurs usb kernel and faux kernel are two that i know of.
I had alot of problems myself with timurs kernel, however others seem to have no issues. I have faux kernel myself but havnt played around with it much as i purchased a ps3 joystick to get round the issue.
I might be wrong but i think using ps3 joysick while charging discharges slowly. But should add i have a third party charger as i blew the one up that came with my nexus.
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So I should just buy a ps3 controller and use the sixaxis app that way its over bluetooth, and not draining battery and can still charge?
Definitely get the Six axis controller app and look for the AndPair apk here on XDA so that you won't have to find a windows computer to sync it. Less hassle that way
I think that it does slowly discharges, mind you I have been playing some graphically intense games recently and overclocking etc.
Sixaxis can pair without a pc. I also went as far as changing the Bluetooth mac address on my phone to math me tablet. Saves me having to keep pairing with sixaxis .
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I bought the nexus 10 a few weeks ago. I know it takes a long time to charge. I noticed when charging my galaxy note 2 with 0 lemon battery it is a 9300 mah, when I plugged it into the Samsung charger it charges 20% in 30 minutes so why doesn't the Nexus 10 charge like that when I use my samsung charger and it has a slightly smaller battery. I love the table I just hate the charging time. I did order pogo cable so I am waiting on that.
Joe
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Buying the pogo plug was your best and only option to address this issue. No one knows why Google switched from releasing the N10 with a pogo charging cable, at the last minute, which I read a long time ago. I suspect it had something to do with the Android kernel not being able to charge through the pogo connector at the same time as the micro USB connector is being used. It may also be that other Android tablet manufactures resisted this new connection type. To this day the audio/video capabilities of the the pogo connector goes untapped by even custom ROMs.
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Buying the pogo plug was your best and only option to address this issue. No one knows why Google switched from releasing the N10 with a pogo charging cable, at the last minute, which I read a long time ago. I suspect it had something to do with the Android kernel not being able to charge through the pogo connector at the same time as the micro USB connector is being used. It may also be that other Android tablet manufactures resisted this new connection type. To this day the audio/video capabilities of the the pogo connector goes untapped by even custom ROMs.
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I don't understand why Google makes a great product but does not have the forsight to address issues that the engineers know of at the time of a tablet release. The pogo charger and a kernel that would let the tablet charge faster would be a huge for them to keep the nexus 10 going longer into production. I don't mind that the tablet only gets 6-7 hours screen time with surfing the web or watching movies and about 10 hours with the cpu throttle back dimmer to 50 percent and wifi off when reading a book. I just hate the charging time, it should just charge faster lol. My Samsung galaxy note 2 charges faster with a bigger battery and that kills me lol it does not make sense.
Thanks for the reply.
Joe