I don't know if I'm the first one to say this, but I find wireless charging completely useless... I had an old '90s Motorola with a charging stand... I find that INFINITELY more useful than "Wireless charging".
First of all, the charger still has wires, so you're still stuck on a wall... Unless it has a battery attached to it, which is nice, though most scenarios where you use an on-the-go charger you are "on the go" and moving, so a normal external battery could do... (see third point)
Second. your phone is still during that time... You can't do anything to it... Why? Just so you don't need to put a wire in the port, to save some (1 second) time (?)
Third, it has ZERO stability. That's why I say that charger from 20 YEARS AGO was a lot better. You put your phone in and it charged. Same as Wireless charging, except that old Motorola didn't fall off and stop charging the second someone bumped into the table just a little bit. Or you are in a car...
I find wireless charging just good marketing taking charging a step back...
Also, the USB pins that keep the wire in my phone got crushed, so my phone right now can't be lifted while charging... PEOPLE ACTUALLY PAY FOR THIS???
PS: I found a "useful" use in cafes
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All you need to do is plug in the phone and "wirelessly" charge....
I can't see the appeal, either. I use my phone a lot whilst it's attached to the charging cable. You can't do that when you use a wireless charger.
My charging cable is 2 meters long. I can sit on the sofa and use my phone as an ereader or TV screen whilst it's charging. If I were to use a charging pad, I'd have to leave it on the table, which is not very convenient.
For me wireless charging is just a useless gimmick.
I find the potential of it interesting, rather than the current state that it's in.
It just seems a billion times more durable than the damn micro-usb port on EVERY Android device.
Maybe wireless charging is the solution, or maybe it's usb type-c.... we'll see i guess :]
Yeah I don't see the appeal either. Maybe it's good for coffee shops or restaurants where you don't use your phone anyways and it's lying on the table, so might as well get charged.
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Hi
Has anyone here hardwired their phone mount / GPS receiver to their car battery?
I have a Mitsubishi FTO and want to hardwire my powered GPS mount to the battery, but I'm assuming the process would be similar for most car makes.
Would be interested in finding out how you did it etc.
Cheers
HPJ
why dont u wire it to the back of the Cig socket
It 's not hard. First you gotta get a car charger for your PDA. Then, to make it look good, ya gotta go get current from your car lighter and hook it directly to your charger, and hide the charger behind the radio, ou in the fuse box. this way, you still have your lighter slot free, and thiz way cant see the charger sticker on the lighter slot.
I've use this metod to adapt a desk cradle to my car:
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Thanks for the advice guys. The reason I dont just wire it to the cig lighter is becasue I dont know how!
Gonna get a mate onto it who will do it for me...
HPJ
macsoft said:
It 's not hard. First you gotta get a car charger for your PDA. Then, to make it look good, ya gotta go get current from your car lighter and hook it directly to your charger, and hide the charger behind the radio, ou in the fuse box. this way, you still have your lighter slot free, and thiz way cant see the charger sticker on the lighter slot.
I've use this metod to adapt a desk cradle to my car:
byMaC
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no offence, but that is a photoshop pro pic you have created isnt it? i mean, if its real then it dont look so real at all, good idea tho.... i might have to try that....
I did something drastic today. I ripped apart the old TF-101 keyboard (already broken prior) to get at the battery pack inside, opened my son's Transformer, and swapped out the dead battery inside with the one from the keyboard, only to find out that... the other pack is just as dead as the one already inside the Transformer.
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I get the same red battery icon when I try to turn on the Transformer I just reassembled using the other battery. Now, I could in theory remove the battery from the second Transformer I have in order to do this, but opening up one of these things and extracting the battery is a non-trivial task to say the least, and I don't relish doing it again. A new battery is rather expensive, at around $40 + delivery, and to be frank I'd rather just spend that $40 as part of the cost of a new tablet. However, it turns out that there are some files inside that thing that I want to be able to recover (mostly photos and videos), so I'd ask what options I have for attempting to power up that thing one last time to extract the data from it. One way would be to use the working Transformer's battery, but that is obviously quite out of the question. I could put the thing on a lab bench somewhere (just assume that I have the facilities to be able to do this) and feed it with 7.4 Vdc along the same 8-pin header that the battery uses, to fool the tablet into thinking it had a working battery, allowing it to boot. What do the wires do, and what voltage levels should they have in order to make the tablet think it has a good battery?
There is a USB mod on the forums here somewhere to feed 1 USB port on your machine 12v instead of 5v using a 12v molex feed from the PSU, which allows charging from a USB port, which would also allow data access from the same port
I`ll post a link if I find it
EDIT - Could be here somewhere
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1087321
Hi guys,
Yesterday my OPO fell down on a busy street and ran over by truck, cars and bikes. The display is completely broken. I tried turning on after that but the phone is not vibrating.
I took my device to service center today, but he said he tried changing teh battery and boot but no luck. So display and logic board needs to be changed.
So I decided tear down and wanted to run few steps.
1. Tried booting with wall charger but without battery - not heating, not booting
2. Connected battery and no wall charger - no luck, board not heating.
3. Connected battery and wall charger - board heating but not booting.
In all the above cases the rotor on the bottom is not spinning.
Question
1. Why board heats in step 3?
2. I plan to buy the display and battery, how do I make sure the board is perfect. BTW the board looks perfect?
3. In all the above tests, the SIM card is inserted and waited for few minutes and tried dialing my number but it says Switched off all the time. Is that mean the device is completely dead?
Need constructive replies please.
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If your device has really been ran over by truck or car, I don't think anything in the device will survive. (Maybe the plastic cover is flexible enough to withstand such pressure, but the motherboard is definitely not so strong although on the outside its not wrecked) As for the motherboard heating then wall charger and battery in, I suggest that it's because something is short circuited in the motherboard.
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Only heating with battery hooked up sounds to me like you are on the right track. The chip packages don't have internal wires to break these days. Good luck and report back.
I received my battery yesterday, I tested it, no sign of notification light, vibration during turn on. I tried connected it to PC, but dont know which process to look at. Any help?
Update: The process is "windows driver foundation user mode driver framework host process" but it shows when connected by other android not mine [broken opo]
Hi all,
got a bit of an odd one for you all to ponder over. I recently purchased a magnetic charging cable. One of these
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/201496892947?_trksid=p2057872.m2749.l2649&ssPageName=STRK:MEBIDX:IT
It has a very small adapter that plugs in and lives in the micro usb slot on my note 3. The cable end then attaches magnetically and away we go - charge and data - pull and it drops off. Pure magic.
The pondererance is how do I connect OTG devices? This adapter is a snug fit and designed to stay put. For socket damage I would also prefer it stay that way. The lead goes to a normal USB male. So to connect I think I need a usb Female to Female - such a thing does exist here
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/2-x-USB-2...515514?hash=item20cfdff93a:g:~9kAAOxy4t1Sf0rr
but I am unsure what is wired to what - and indeed what should be wired to what... So
1) is this the right thing - plug the magnetic lead into it then plug a USB pen in to the other end and away we go?
2) if not how should a female to female be wired? I have plenty of usb extension leads and am willing to cut a pair of them to make the appropriate adapter?
3) if there are no definitive answers how safe do you think it will be to try? I am thinking get the one from e-bay and then plug in a usb pen. Best case it just works, bad is the power is wrong and it kills the pen (upsetting but I can live with it). Worst case it blows up the phone. What chances do people think for just working or damaging stuff?
Open to any and all thoughts and suggestions...
Keverso
Personally, I would give it a try - learning by doing. But I think the chances are not quite high that it will actually work.
Here is a scheme of the difference between OTG and regular USB.
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Sounds good. Looking forward to it.
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Personally, I would give it a try - learning by doing. But I think the chances are not quite high that it will actually work.
Here is a scheme of the difference between OTG and regular USB.
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So - if I am reading this correct I take two extension leads - cut the female ends and join each colour to the same on the other lead (assuming both leads have the same colour code) and that should (with a little luck) work? That sounds easy enough. I am obviously worried about killing something but I have got an old galaxy 1 phone kicking about somewhere as well as a usb pen I would not be too upset to lose. I may well give it a shot this weekend and see what happens... I will report back if I do.
Thanks for the help.
Keverso
Hi all
Earlier this year my phone stopped working with Android Auto, and then more recently, I realised it wasn't recognised by my laptop for the purposes of moving files.
Around the time AA broke, I discovered my Belkin power bank had melted component on the circuit board (not sure which device caused it but presumably my pixel) and when the phone was plugged in the head unit showed the error "Overcurrent caution on USB" until I unplugged the phone. Never saw the message again but AA won't launch on the head unit now, phone still charges through the head unit. My phone still detects the charger type (still fast charges) and I bought a cheap inline voltage display and it shows the phone charging at the expected current for each type of charger.
I've done all the usual;
AA unit still works with my wifes Samsung A40, tried different cables for my phone. Uninstalled and re-updated AA, factory reset the head unit, (Sony XAV-AX100) and completely hard reset the Pixel 3a with no luck.
So I took the plunge yesterday and opened the phone up and fitted a new USB-C port...however, frustratingly this has not fixed the problem! I've put the phone back together but I'm reluctant to glue the screen back down before exhausting all avenues. Is there anything else that may have been shorted or damaged if the USB-C was faulty? I turned on developer mode and *I think* the phone should allow me to choose what to do when plugging the phone in (i.e. file sharing?) but it does not do this.
Any tips on further diagnostics or parts I should check would be appreciated
Thanks
I'm a little confused by my own sequence of events as it was several months ago and it was a couple of weeks before I realised it wasn't just a simple fix. I took a photo of the head unit error message and my phone is reflected in the screen and doesn't appear to be plugged in. So either the message remained after I unplugged the phone, or perhaps power bank was faulty and damaged the phone, I may have charged it from the head unit by mistake which detected the fault and protected itself (hence the message). Normally I wouldn't attempt to charge the power bank from the headunit, but the USB sockets are not far from each other.
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This is what happens when I try and transfer files via USB. The computer prompt comes up immediately and the phone charges, if I click the File Transfer/Android Auto option, after a few moment the phone greys them out
Just bumping this in case anyone has any advice, I've had the screen taped down temporarily but its vulnerable to water and damage like this so I think its time to admit defeat and glue it back together!