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Best car charger for Kaiser?

As the title says!
I need a car charger and i don't know what to buy...
i wanted something that can last at least 6 months without having the cable damaged due to stretching

I use the cable of my TomTom One XL. Same voltage...

I like using my ebay-bought USB adapter and retractable mini-usb cable. Cuts down on the mess, and lets me charge other USB devices.

I use Motorola OEM that I got long time ago (4 years back with my first RAZR) - It works no problem
I also use regular USB cable with my wife's iPhone car charger and works fine too... So I guess Blackberry charger will do the same since I use Blackberry as home charger too occasionaly

Note that many of the miniusb chargers will not work consistently. Elsewhere here on the forum there are extensive details, but in short, HTC compliant chargers (meaning will charge 100% of the time) short pins 4-5 on the mini usb port. This is not implemented in normal mini usb chargers. The normal (non-HTC compliant) will usually work but not always.

Read about a small percentage that seemed to have trouble (RLOD related trouble) from cheap or non-HTC chargers, so I got a true HTC OEM at www.tiltdepot.com. Best $25 I've spent.

I have used a tomtom car(borrowed from my mom) charger too, wich is 2.0 Ah, but found out the HTC charger (same 2.0 Ah same voltage) charged a lot better than the tomtom one. After one hour(started with a 3/4 charged battary) the tomtom was pretty much the same(3/4) and the HTC one was fully charged.

Yep... With the TomTom charger I believe the charging current is limited because the HTC phone sees it as potentially a data connection. The HTC charger has short between pins 4 and 5 addresses that. Hard to beat the HTC charger.

Naztech Premium LCD Display Car Charger:
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http://www.naztech.com/products.php?id_prod=40
The "11 Foot Heavy-Duty Cord" is nice... it's coiled tightly, and long enough to get to wherever you need to in the front of the cab, be it a center console or a seat. The digital display tells you how long it's been charging, and changes color when still charging the device (blue is standby, orange is charging). Nothing beats the Naztech for a USB car charger. I have the silver one, but it looks like the newer ones are black; you can probably get your choice of either if you get one off of Ebay like I did.
They have lots of other cool products for phones, too.

no charge, no light.....

hi,
i drained my battery completly, and now when i want to charge it nothing hapened. it is not charging, no green light on device..... and i can`t turn it on becouse no juice in battery.... help needed how to charge the batery away from device or something.....
thanx in advance

Well,Jump start the battery,or charge it with Wall charger capable of 1amp out put,it'll start to charge.

To jumpstart the battery use a 9v battery and give the battery a few 30 second charges which should give it enough juice for the phone to boot and get it charging from the usb cable or wall charger thats less than 1amp.
It may take a few attempts to get enough charge.
Also cutting and end of a spare usb cable and using that to jumpstart the battery is possible too.

it would be more nice that if u could show it with picture illustration guide (if possible)
by the way. Is this the 9v battery u were refering too:-
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hey dhawal4u stop spaming ) ..... and don't do 30 seconds shocks...try firstly with 15 seconds...or use a wall charger like zabardast said..it's safer

I guess charging it using a USB cable may also work because when my battery all once drained i used a USB cable to charge it and it worked but for sometime in the starting dont do anything after sometime its orange light will automatically be on or you can use the Wall charger as other are saying and once problem is solved do tell in the THREAD so that people dont post replied saving sites bandwidth.

usb cable jump worked for me. happened to have one usb cable without another head so tried it, few less than 10sec spikes and then connected to computer and boom it started charging
thanks.

tunppi said:
usb cable jump worked for me. happened to have one usb cable without another head so tried it, few less than 10sec spikes and then connected to computer and boom it started charging
thanks.
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Hi,
Could you tell me how to do this? Which are the + and - contacts of the wizard's cell?
Thanks.

DI, Igo and power ratings.

I have and igo with the microusb tip and my DI is headed home soon. I was checking stuff out at the store and I got a long lecture about how power ratings can be different. Clearly verizon sales reps are better than electrical engineers. Anyways so the power ratings on the igo happen to be 4-5w, does anyone know what the ratings on the DI stock charger.
Even better if anyones charged their DI using Igo, how is that working out?
My fuze used to run a little hotter than usual on the igo.

The HTC charger that comes with the phone is just a little stub that plugs into the wall with a female usb connector on it to accept the micro usb cable that ships with the phone.
It outputs 5v at 1 amp.
Here's a photo of the charger:
(the part that's obscured by the flash says 50-60Hz)
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I have an iGo charger as well and was planning to order a tip for this phone. Is it the A97 tip? The iGo site doesn't have the Incredible in their system yet.

very nice picture, thanks for the detail. the igo is rated at 5 watts so its perfect for this. and yes i think a97 is micro usb, however there are many micro usb tips and all of them work. easiest way to make sure is just carry your phone when u go get the tip. unfortunately i have left my tip in the car so i cant say for 100% but the packaging reads A138 which is another microusb. on monday i get my phone so i can hook it to the car and verify.

Has the A138 been working for you? I ended up getting a few A46 tips instead of the micro USB tips because my local Radioshack had them on clearance for about $2.50 a piece. The micro USB tips were $10.
The A46 is a female USB-A connector so it will work for pretty much anything that uses USB, provided you have the proper USB cable to connect it. I got a few 1.5' micro USB cables from monoprice for that part of it.
I haven't used these enough to notice if it's charging significantly faster/slower than the stock charger, but it seems to work fine. I wish iGo would publish the specs for all the tips (amps, volts, etc) instead of just listing compatible devices.
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[A] - Hardware Hack - Solved the no-charging battery when everything else fails

My daughter's Nexus 7 wouldn't charge.
After trying ALL the tricks found here and elsewhere I bought a new battery for $40.
Replacing the battery gave me the ability to boot the tablet and I discovered that it was not charging anymore : when powered off, the white on black battery sign wouldn't show up and when booted, the small battery icon wouldn't show the lightning sign when plugged in.
I tried all the chargers and usb cables to no avail.
I then tried to power it using the pogo pins and THAT worked. :laugh: I was finally able to charge it but using the pogo pins.
Conclusion : sometimes the internal charging circuits that links the USB power to the battery is dead but another path exists between the pogo pins to the battery.
The best way to solve my problem was then to buy a dock but :
I couldn't find one below $40
My Daughter's cover wouldn't fit into a dock
So I decided to do a small hardware hack to resurect the Nexus 7 : to internally short-circuit the +5V pogo pin to the +5V USB pin.
It took me about 5 mn to do so and it's been working for a week now with no flaw.
Disclaimer :
I do NOT advise you to do this, Do not do this.
If you do, I'm not responsible of any damage you should encounter.
It really is a last chance option, and it only works if you have that (rare!) problem.
You can tell that you have the same problem if the tablet is charging with a dock and not charging with a USB cable.
If this is the case, you'd better buy a charging dock than doing this.
Hardware fix (see disclaimer)
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In the picture above, I just soldered the +5V pogo pin (bottom right when on the screen) to the USB +5V (right one when on the screen) using thin cable.
To do this I first removed the speakers (3 screws). The standard thin wire was preimpregnated with solder paste on both ends and I only briefly (2sec) heated the wire end on the pogo and usb pin to make them catch.
Problem solved.

How to plug a [Joying?] HU to a PC Power Supply?

Hello, I've just received a Joying Head Unit, and would like to 'prepare it' calmly at home.
I would like to plug a computer's power supply to the Head Unit to boot it up, and check it before starting to mess up with the car.
Can anybody point me in some direction as what to plug where? I guess basically I would need to plug the 12V entry and ground, but don't know exactly where...

OK, these are the cables:
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I see a red 'thick' cable that is labeled as 'ACC'. That one I guess goes to the 12V.
There is another orange one that has a cilinder labeled as "JY-VWA V01". I guess that could be an aerial fuse. I would connect it to 12V too
Then I miss a black cable to connect to ground (maybe I can connect the power supply black 0V cable to the metallic frame of the Head Unit) but I think maybe there should be a cable to achieve this.
Another question that I have: the 'thick red cable' labeled as VCC is the male of another thick red cable labelled "Note: if install in high configuration car, please disconnect label area connector" (WTF does it mean?)
I guess both red cables should be connected when I connect the unit in the car to the VW harness, but not sure there as I cannot understand what can that label try to say...
Any ideas?

Ok, finally I figured out.
1st, I unplugged the CANBUS module
2nd, I plugged the red male-female VCC cable
3rd, I took from my computer PSU out a yellow line (+12V) and a black line (GND).
4th, I plugged the PSU's yellow line (+12V) to the RED and YELLOW
It's working now...

thanks for posting this, I could never figure it out. Everyone just says "any 12v power source will work", which is true but, leaves out a bunch of steps

CadillacMike said:
thanks for posting this, I could never figure it out. Everyone just says "any 12v power source will work", which is true but, leaves out a bunch of steps
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The principal is the same for all head units. You can view this clip that should help you: