For those of you who have this charger and are interested in seeing what's inside here is a video I made.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ODph2zLnR0
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I just wanted to share the chargers I use to everyone.
I have no problems with battery life mainly because I carry at least one charger with me everywhere I go.
Currently, I'm using 3 chargers. Sometimes I carry all 3 with me.
1. The Ultimate Charger
2. Monaco Solar Charger
3. TMobile Battery Boost
Anyway...
1st charger. Nice and simple. USB Charger that can plug into an outlet to charge your phone through a cable. Bonus is a builtin 1340mAh battery. Not enough to fully charge the phone, but it definitely helps me out a lot. Always helpful to have a outlet charger that can store some battery.
2nd charger. A common solar charger for the situations where I'm always out in the sun. Not much to say about this. Free energy is always a nice thing right? 1800 mAh battery too.
3rd charger. My latest addition to my charger family and quickly becoming a favorite. Builtin USB and MicroUSB cables now makes it so I no longer need to carry out even my retractable cables. 1700mAh battery inside. I think of it as a charging cable with a battery inside. Lots of uses for this. I can just plug 1 end to a computer and another end to my phone to charge my phone if the battery inside has run out. Charger just became a simple cable replacement. Or unplug phone and it'll charge the charger instead.
What's nice is how it can be used with the other two chargers. Say I'm no where near a computer, all my chargers are dead, but there's an outlet. Plug the 3rd charger into the 1st charger and have the 1st charger in an outlet. It'll charge the 3rd charger or my phone if that's connected to my phone. Replace 1st charger with the 2nd charger if I'm no where near an outlet but its a sunny day at a nearby park. Able to use the 3rd charger as a cable between the solar and my phone or just use it to charge my stuff.
Think I'm starting to repeat myself, but yes, those are the chargers I use and I don't have any battery problems.
Sorry, I never proofread or format what I write.
I'm looking for more chargers to use. Thinking about a good kinetic charger. Any recommendations?
I prefer the #2. Monaco Solar Charger.
I recently received the Anker Astro Mini 3000mAh External Battery for free from Anker in return for my open and honest feedback...so, here it is!
Anker Astro Mini 3000mAh External Battery
http://www.ianker.com/product/79AN3K-SA
The Astro Mini best served my purposes as I spent the last 2 weeks in the hospital visiting my brother. I used the Astro mini to recharge my completely discharged 0% Anker battery in my Galaxy S4.
Testing:
After extensive testing, I have determined that the Astro Mini provides roughly 1900mAh or 73% of a charge that makes it to the battery in the GS4. Anker states in the manual that 30% of the battery capacity is lost to heat and voltage conversion...which would effectively make the battery 2100mAh. I found this to be relatively accurate, given the fact that the GS4 can also lose some of the charge capacity through heat dissipation. It's within the realm of possibility that the GS4 wastes another 200mAh of capacity in the charging process.
My Verdict:
The Astro Mini is GREAT for use as an emergency backup battery! It consistently provides a 73% charge to my GS4. At $22 on Amazon, it's a great value as a quality external battery. It also comes with a short micro usb cable, a micro usb to Apple (up to 4S) adapter, and a quality bag to carry it all in. For my purposes, I choose to carry a backup battery in my pocket at all times. However, this external battery has come in quite handy on the few days at the hospital that I depleted both batteries and fits perfectly in my pocket in addition to my spare battery.
As a side note, I'd HIGHLY suggest that you purchase Anker replacement batteries for your GS4, as I did, as they most certainly outperform the Samsung factory batteries. NFC is fully functional with these replacement batteries as well.
Anker 2600mAh Li-Ion Battery
http://www.ianker.com/product/70SMGLXS4-S1W26NA/1461
I also purchased the Anker 18W car charger for my vehicle and it seems to perform far superior to any car charger that I've had before. I'm quickly becoming an Anker fan, after seeing and experiencing the quality of their products...and this is currently the only Anker product that I've received for free...I have purchased all of my other Anker products.
Anker 18W/2.4A+2.0A Dual Port USB Car Charger
http://www.ianker.com/product/71AN1852C-BA
MasterN02 said:
I recently received the Anker Astro Mini 3000mAh External Battery for free from Anker in return for my open and honest feedback...so, here it is!
Anker Astro Mini 3000mAh External Battery
http://www.ianker.com/product/79AN3K-SA
The Astro Mini best served my purposes as I spent the last 2 weeks in the hospital visiting my brother. I used the Astro mini to recharge my completely discharged 0% Anker battery in my Galaxy S4.
Testing:
After extensive testing, I have determined that the Astro Mini provides roughly 1900mAh or 73% of a charge that makes it to the battery in the GS4. Anker states in the manual that 30% of the battery capacity is lost to heat and voltage conversion...which would effectively make the battery 2100mAh. I found this to be relatively accurate, given the fact that the GS4 can also lose some of the charge capacity through heat dissipation. It's within the realm of possibility that the GS4 wastes another 200mAh of capacity in the charging process.
My Verdict:
The Astro Mini is GREAT for use as an emergency backup battery! It consistently provides a 73% charge to my GS4. At $22 on Amazon, it's a great value as a quality external battery. It also comes with a short micro usb cable, a micro usb to Apple (up to 4S) adapter, and a quality bag to carry it all in. For my purposes, I choose to carry a backup battery in my pocket at all times. However, this external battery has come in quite handy on the few days at the hospital that I depleted both batteries and fits perfectly in my pocket in addition to my spare battery.
As a side note, I'd HIGHLY suggest that you purchase Anker replacement batteries for your GS4, as I did, as they most certainly outperform the Samsung factory batteries. NFC is fully functional with these replacement batteries as well.
Anker 2600mAh Li-Ion Battery
http://www.ianker.com/product/70SMGLXS4-S1W26NA/1461
I also purchased the Anker 18W car charger for my vehicle and it seems to perform far superior to any car charger that I've had before. I'm quickly becoming an Anker fan, after seeing and experiencing the quality of their products...and this is currently the only Anker product that I've received for free...I have purchased all of my other Anker products.
Anker 18W/2.4A+2.0A Dual Port USB Car Charger
http://www.ianker.com/product/71AN1852C-BA
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Do you have screen on time and standby time for the anker battery?
I received a RavPower 3000 lipstick charger. Think it performs quite similar as yours. I love that they have a luster gold color, it matches perfectly with an iPhone 5S.
I have a spare Anker 2600 mAh batter that I've been using which came with the Anker wall charger, however I'm not impressed by the quality or rate of charging. Do you guys have any other alternatives for travel/wall chargers for spare batteries?
Thanks,
Anything that delivers a true 2A (2 amps) is all you need. Search this sub-forum for titles including the word "charger" and you'll find a few recommendations.
I had the anker that came with 2 batteries and the wall charger but HATED the charger. Ended up getting the oem Samsung extra battery plus charger. Charger is nice because it isn't attached to the ac plug. Plugs into wall has like 2 foot wire then you can rest the external charger on a flat surface. Yeah more expensive but realisticlly I don't need more than 2 batteries and the quality
of the charger is superb.
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I have the same Anker charger. That things takes a long long time to charge
batterys.
However I have gotten used to the 10hours+ charge rate. I heard its a lot more gentle on the batterys.
One of my original Samsung batterys failed and I had to get it replaced using the 2 amp charger.
What are the specs of the charger?
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I have 2 external batteries one is 3000mAh and the other is 8000mAh, I have previously used them both with another device with no problems. When I plug either into my G3 it stops charging after about 5 seconds. I can however charge from a car charger, just very slowly. Anyone else experience this? (yes I have confirmed both batteries indicate they are full before trying.)
Listed output for 3000mAh battery is 5V, 1000mAh. 8000mAh battery doesn't have that info printed on it, will update if I can find it.
Hi
The S6 comes with what they call an adaptive fast charger. Because I am not too happy with the battery life on my S6, I am looking for an adaptive fast charger in an external battery pack. There are lots of portable chargers on Amazon and a lot of them say fast charging but I am not sure whether that is the same thing or they just say fast charging because they are around 2A. Is there something similar to what the phone comes with available in an external battery pack charger?
TIA
I've only seen 2 batteries that support the Samsung fast charge. Officially it needs to be Qualcomm quick charge 2.0 compatible. There is one from incipio that is $80 or so and one from Aukey for $30. The Aukey is out of stock right now on Amazon and I'm waiting to get one as well.
Also if you are looking for a multiport charger or cigarette lighter adapter Choetech make some that work really well and are QC 2.0.
-Mark
ely105 said:
I've only seen 2 batteries that support the Samsung fast charge. Officially it needs to be Qualcomm quick charge 2.0 compatible. There is one from incipio that is $80 or so and one from Aukey for $30. The Aukey is out of stock right now on Amazon and I'm waiting to get one as well.
Also if you are looking for a multiport charger or cigarette lighter adapter Choetech make some that work really well and are QC 2.0.
-Mark
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Thanks. I'll take a look at the two you mention.
I also looker before at the Choetech cut I was rather put off by at least three people claiming it caused a fire!
For my car charger, I use my 2015 KIA Sedona's charger adapter that came with the purchase, and it charges just as fast as the charger that came with the S6.
However, the adapter does get a little hot, but not bad. Really surprised at how fast it does charge.
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car charger
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for what it is worth, aukey also sells a car charger for ~15 or 16 dollars on amazon
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