We have HTC Desire S phones and a car charger . Although the car charger has power and lights up when plugged into the cigarette lighter of the car, it will not charge the phone or give any sort of power. Is there a setting we need to adjust on the phone to allow car charging?
Thanks.
Gill said:
We have HTC Desire S phones and a car charger . Although the car charger has power and lights up when plugged into the cigarette lighter of the car, it will not charge the phone or give any sort of power. Is there a setting we need to adjust on the phone to allow car charging?
Thanks.
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I think the bad is in the charger because it is working for me fine like normal charging.
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When using my Toch Diamond as a GPS which is connected to a car charger, the battery will run flat in a few hours. Is there a charger that will charge it with a higher current than 500mA? It is inconvenient for a long trip.
Wait ..... you are saying that your GPS app runs your battery down even while plugged in the car charger?
Mine doesn't do that...
yangys said:
Is there a charger that will charge it with a higher current than 500mA? It is inconvenient for a long trip.
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Are you using an original HTC charger?
Some of the generic after-market car chargers output a lower current than what the GPS is actually draining from the phone, so effectively, rather than just charging it, that charger is simply "extending" the time it takes to drain the phone battery.
I'm not near my HTC car charger at the moment, but if I remember correctly the HTC charger outputs 2A.. ie, 2000mA? (can someone correct me if I'm wrong?) And I have no flat battery problems while using TomTom... (The fone does get warm, but that 's another issue that's been discussed previously...........)
Most car chargers only do 500mA
When using good navigation it will pull more than 500mA off your phone, so eventually, the phone will drop dead It's true, I have this too.
With an other ROM it can be fixed! Now I don't have this problem anymore. You can also connect 2 chargers parallel but you got to have the possibility in your car. Or you buy a universal USB car charger which can handle 1A. Just like home wall charger (No 2000mA ).
Good luck!
My car chager (with a mini USB output plug) is rated at 5V 2A. My suspicion is that the charge current is determined by the phone, not by the charger. The charger is simply a (constant voltage) 5V power supply. Even if the chager is capable of supplying 2A, the charging circuit in the phone is limiting it to a maximum of 500mA. If the phone is designed clever enough, it could allow a higher charging current though signaling via the two signal wires of the USB plug. Would anyone know if this is the case or not for Touch Diamond? If yes, what would be the signals for higher charge current?
Your idea about using two chargers sounds interesting. Would you be able to give us more details about how to charge one phone with two chargers? Or are you thinking of having two phone and two chargers? That is, after one phone battery gets flat, simply uses another phone.
Riel said:
Most car chargers only do 500mA
When using good navigation it will pull more than 500mA off your phone, so eventually, the phone will drop dead It's true, I have this too.
With an other ROM it can be fixed! Now I don't have this problem anymore. You can also connect 2 chargers parallel but you got to have the possibility in your car. Or you buy a universal USB car charger which can handle 1A. Just like home wall charger (No 2000mA ).
Good luck!
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Confused
I have got an O2 Ignito (diamond) I have done an 8 hour round trip using GPS and my battery has not drained... And i do have the original I am using the charger that came with my polaris. my batt always stays full when plugged in and gps is running maybe your charger is what is causing it to drain
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Needs a 1 amp charger.
So the cable for my car dock broke and unfortunately HTC does NOT sell this cable without buying a whole new car dock. I'm struggling at the moment to find a 2A rated car charger to use with the car dock, so do you think a 1A would work okay? Has anyone tried it?
Charging mine off of a USB cable coming from my Sync system. Supposedly a USB port only provides .5A. I think you'd be fine as the least it would do is charge your phone slower.
madj42 said:
Charging mine off of a USB cable coming from my Sync system. Supposedly a USB port only provides .5A. I think you'd be fine as the least it would do is charge your phone slower.
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Is yours connected to the car dock or directly to the phone?
the normal wall charger is 5v 1A,so it should be fine using the same in the car.
msnuser111 said:
the normal wall charger is 5v 1A,so it should be fine using the same in the car.
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For the phone itself yes, but it also needs to power the car dock as well.
hmm
1 A
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GPS
2/3G (Navigation, Pandora, social apps)
Display
Dock
Bluetooth
should be possible to run a normal trip with +/- 0. Maybe it will charge a little bit
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Is yours connected to the car dock or directly to the phone?
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Didn't see your post until now.. I have mine connected directly to the car dock. I've been using it for a couple weeks now and it's been fine.
Hi,
Today I was using GPS app - HTC Locations. In about 45 minutes battery went down from 100% to 50% (I noticed that using satellite GPS makes the phone very hot) and I decided to connect a charger that I have bought recently - HTC CC-C200 car charger.
The problem was... the battery was still being discharged!
I turned off the nav app and left only basic system apps and the phone was charging only about 5 percent in 30 minutes. Keeping in mind how fast the phone was discharging using navigation, it is simple that the car charger won't do.
Anybody else has this problem? How can I actually use a navigation??
is it the official car charger from t-mobile.
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It is original HTC's car charger - CC-C200
One question - can an USB extension cord (plug in to this original HTC's charger and then original HTC USB cable to this cord) decrease the speed of charging?
Car chargers will always charge slower. 12v vs. 110v.
hah2110 said:
Car chargers will always charge slower. 12v vs. 110v.
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Are u sure that the 110V network adapter, charge the phone with 110 volts ?
The 110V charger:
HTC New Slim Design AC Adapter TC E250 (with EU Plug Unit + micro USB Cable, 5V/1A
and the car charger:
HTC Generic Car Charger with USB/micUSB Cable CC C200 (1A/5V)
have SAME charge power: 1A at 5Vm that is 5W.
The PC USB ports are rated at 500mA, but if u check the port with digital multimeter (cut the cable and put Ampere-meter) u can see that u can drain ~700-800mA , Asus and SuperMicro Motherboard tested from me
@EniHS if u make the lenght of the cable bigger the electrical resistance grow too . I think that 1 meter more wont be such a problem, but if u really wanna check how this will change the power of charge u need to measure it with Ampere-meter
This is an easy one... I try to never get the charger from the store because it (usually) won't put out enough juice to keep up.
I found that if use the same current for charging my ipad, it works much better and can keep up. With that in mind, you can purchase any charger with a 2 Amp output (10 watts) that has a generic USB connector. Try the search "10 watt usb car charger" on Google or Amazon.
Get the free app "juice plotter," which will plot your battery usage and charge. If you're plugged in and the plot is still going down, then the drain is still greater than the charge, and you'll need a better charger. Good luck!
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This is an easy one... I try to never get the charger from the store because it (usually) won't put out enough juice to keep up.
I found that if use the same current for charging my ipad, it works much better and can keep up. With that in mind, you can purchase any charger with a 2 Amp output (10 watts) that has a generic USB connector. Try the search "10 watt usb car charger" on Google or Amazon.
Get the free app "juice plotter," which will plot your battery usage and charge. If you're plugged in and the plot is still going down, then the drain is still greater than the charge, and you'll need a better charger. Good luck!
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That would be a solution. I'll buy 2A 5V charger. I assume that I should only replace the plug and the USB cable can be left from original HTC car charger?
Isn't it dangerous for the phone to charge by 2A instead of 1A (original charger)? Or the only difference is the charging speed?
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I did some tests today and discovered that if I charge the phone normally (no program running, GPS off) with HTC car charger WITH extension USB cable... phone was charging 1% in 25 minutes!!! That would be over 40 hours to charge the device from zero to full! I thought I had charger broken, but... I tried with NO EXTENSION CABLE, just the HTC plug and HTC cable, then the phone was charging normally 1% in 2 minutes!
So... the problem are extension cables, but still don't know why...
I noticed this even with wall chargers. Yesterday when I bought my phone, I plugged it in to my old charger & noticed it was charging slow. Once I switched to the charger that came with my Sensation, it charges normally now. I haven't looked at the chargers to compare if something is different but it is very strange
Isn't strange at all, it's essentially that they are not being supplied a great enough charge and so power from the battery is utilised in addition. ideally you want above 700mAh for standard charging/use.
Been using a Technocel Platinum MV3CPCP that came with a Moto Razr v3 to charge my HTC Sensation and used it previously with a BB8900 with no issues.
But when in the car listening to the Music app and GPS nav runnin' it eventually drains the battery meaning that the fone is using more power than the charger is providing but it is a USB charger putting out nominal power so this must mean the the fone "can" use more power than is provided while charging by normal means (USB spec), yes? ... anyone else with a similar experience?
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It all has to do with current output capacity. If you look at the wall charger, it has a max output of 1A (1000mA). Your current usb charger doesn't seem to be able to supply enough current to your phone if your phone is draining while charging.
Try to get a new car charger that does at least 1A, and you'll be good.
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Get the tmobile rapid car charger.
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Trying to find a car charger and cable that will charge the phone while GPS is on.
Currently using: Incipio Auto Charger 2.0 Quick Charge
...and an HTC branded coiled charging cable that came with my One M8's HTC branded car charging adapter. (My M8 had no problem charging while the GPS was in use. Bluetooth too.)
It DOES say "charging by AC" when connected but still drops as I drive. No other apps running, not even bluetooth.
Not interested in having the screen dim between directions because I like to see what's coming before the GPS announces it (and I typically run the GPS muted anyway.)
I am also confused by the charging cable comments. I've read the cable has to be "charge only, no data" and also that it DOES need to be a data cable so the phone can identify the "quick" charger. Which is correct?
Help?
TIA!
kjarrett said:
Trying to find a car charger and cable that will charge the phone while GPS is on.
Currently using: Incipio Auto Charger 2.0 Quick Charge
...and an HTC branded coiled charging cable that came with my One M8's HTC branded car charging adapter. (My M8 had no problem charging while the GPS was in use. Bluetooth too.)
It DOES say "charging by AC" when connected but still drops as I drive. No other apps running, not even bluetooth.
Not interested in having the screen dim between directions because I like to see what's coming before the GPS announces it (and I typically run the GPS muted anyway.)
I am also confused by the charging cable comments. I've read the cable has to be "charge only, no data" and also that it DOES need to be a data cable so the phone can identify the "quick" charger. Which is correct?
Help?
TIA!
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Hi I had the same problem. In the end, I made my own being an electrical engineer, I was tired of having charging problems. You need a regulated 12V to 5V DC power supply capable of at least 1A continous charging. What i find helps too is put the phone in battery saving mode when charging continuously . This is the sort of thing I made:
http://i00.i.aliimg.com/wsphoto/v0/557345118/DC-Step-Down-Converter-DC-8-22V-12V-to-5V-Auto-Car-Power-Supply-Waterproof-USB.jpg
Thank you so much for your reply.
I might even be able to build something like you describe, I have friends with the requisite skills.
Question is, will that hack allow me to charge the phone while the GPS is on? Charging while the phone is off or not in use is just fine.
I have my M8 here, dusting it off, in case I need to return the M9...
Mine charges ok with the screen and GPS running whist I have igo primo running