I just got the dock, I've had the tablet for a while, and I am wondering what the proper way is to go about keeping both charged. I threw the dock on the charger by itself so that it gets a proper charge on its own first (I hope that was the correct thing to do) but I am wondering how I should charge them from here on out. Do I charge both pieces separately? Do I charge them together? Do I plug the charger into the tablet only while docked? Do I plug the charger into the dock only while attached to the tablet? Should I make sure that both pieces are at 100 before docking them the first time?
Sorry for all the questions!
TIA!
Charge them together, I used to charge them overnight but read from peeps that sometimes their dock died doing that so now I charge them both together a couple hours each night before going to bed and it's good the rest of the day. One thing to also keep in mind that I'm gonna start doing is if you leave them docked and sleeping overnight, the dock will lose some charge, like 15% but if you turn the tablet off before then it loses nothing.
by that you mean dock them together and plug the charger into the dock? If that is the case i assume that charger charges both pieces at the same time somehow?
MSmith1 said:
by that you mean dock them together and plug the charger into the dock? If that is the case i assume that charger charges both pieces at the same time somehow?
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yes exactly
from my experience it looks like the charger charges the docking, which in turn charges the tablet... I don't think the charger delivers enough current to charge both at the same time.
darkonex said:
One thing to also keep in mind that I'm gonna start doing is if you leave them docked and sleeping overnight, the dock will lose some charge, like 15% but if you turn the tablet off before then it loses nothing.
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15%? My god are you sleeping about 20 hours every night? For me it's less than one percent an hour, with wifi off...
I turn on airplane put my tablet into my dock and put it on to charge aroudnd 9pm, locked.
I'll take it off around 1am fully charged before i sleep.
When i wake up im sitting aroudnd 97% in the dock.
With the wifi on, i can loose around 40% in the same time.
Just dock the tablet in the evening, plug the charger into the dock, and away you go. There's really no "method" to it.
Gibeon said:
15%? My god are you sleeping about 20 hours every night? For me it's less than one percent an hour, with wifi off...
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No, 15% sounds about right.
You can check out this thread ...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1112835&page=12
But basically I ran the same test and my dock also lost about 15% when connected to the tablet in stanbby over 7 hrs. That's ~ 2% per hour of standby.
This is with wifi on though.
If I power off the tablet completely, and connect it to the dock, then the dock only charges the tablet but loses no charge otherwise.
I should probably try standby and wifi off.
Gibeon said:
15%? My god are you sleeping about 20 hours every night? For me it's less than one percent an hour, with wifi off...
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No, 6-7 hours. It's the dock battery draining issue many if not all peeps have, if I turn them off nothing drains. This is with WIfi on, if I turn Wifi off it loses maybe 8-10%.
On another note, yesterday I decided I would start turning the tablet off completely every night, so last night I turned it off when the dock was @ 90% and tablet @ 100%, then I plugged in the power cable tot he dock for about 30 min so it'd be up to 100%. This morning I opened it up and found my tablet was on for some reason, so when you plug the cable in does it power on the tablet for some wierd reason?
Hi all,
Sorry in advance if I'm asking for something that has been answered before.
I have seen lots of threads that talked about the Asus Transformer tf101 and tf101G that doesn't charge correctly.
My TF101G stopped charging after it was fully drained after the kids played some games on it. When I plugged it in to charge the TF screen came on with a big battery indicator which showed a empty battery with red at the bottom. Then it just goes off. When trying to switch on again it just briefly flashes this battery and goes off again.
I left the TF to "charge" overnight and this morning after about 6 hours of charging it had +-14% battery life.
So it appears that the charger still trickle charges the TF when it completely off, but doesn't want to charge when it powered on.
Also, the TF recognizes the cable when it gets plugged in. If off and with some power in the battery the TF starts to boot up, but no charge indicator is showed when booted and battery drains as per normal.
Could it be that this is a software issue? I would guess not, but then again I ask myself if the charger or USB cable was broken then it wouldn't trickle charge. right?
Anyone came across this yet?
I know that some people suggested the freezer trick, but I don't want to do that before I checked on this with the community members here.
Many thanks in advance for your assistance and sorry again if I missed a similar thread.
Hhunted said:
... but then again I ask myself if the charger or USB cable was broken then it wouldn't trickle charge. right?
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It could. The charger cable got 2 red wires thats connected to the same point on the TF.
One of the wires is your normal +5v USB power, while the other is connected to a USB3 pin to tell the charger to spit out 15V instead of 5V.
If that particular cable is broken, the charger will only send 5V.
The odds that that small wire is broken though, is... well, very slim.
Yesterday after having the tablet full charged I noticed that the battery was draining pretty quickly. Now after having it charging all night with the power off, w/ the charge light on, I powered it up to See that it only had 7 %charged. Now with it on and charging the level stays about the same if no goes down. Now I the charger is a bit temperamental but this is bad. Could the battery be bad organ I reset the battery memory in recovery?
please check your charger current mark. and you can charged xoom by pc usb port.
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No, the USB doesn't charge the Xoom. Only the Family edition and Xoom 2, from what I understand can be charged via USB.
I've found that the tablet will show the battery icon as charging but when powering off wiith Quick Boot and not touching the cord the charge light is not on.
I love this tablet but I'm beginning to feel that after my Verizon contract runs out it may be time to move on. It's quite a shame.
I am not sure what the problem is, so maybe someone can help me.
I have a tf101 whit docking not rooted or anything.
The battery is drained 1% I can start the tabled and it shuts down, exactly what you would expec. When i plug in the adapter directly in the docking or tablet alone. it does not say charching. When i leave the charger in the tablet it is actualy charching(over night it is 30%), but it is not saying that it is charging. When the battry is 30% and i leave the charger in and start up the tablet the battery drains to zero.
I have tried multiple cables and chargers and all simulair.
Anyone?
I just found out that it is charching whit the original charger again. Maybe the charger has been the issue over all.
For now the tablet is charging again and problem looks OK again I still think it is a combo of battey getting bad and bad charger.
After doing some extensive research as to why my Nexus 5 was randomly off when at full charge I discovered there were obviously alot of issues going on with this.
After doing all of the suggestions (e.i. Charging for an hour with standard AC, An hour with USB) I finally got the thing to turn one *whew*
Well not so *Whew* after all. The battery indicator in the tp left of the screen is saying the battery charge is empty. The charging level also says %0. As soon as I unplug the charger it turns off due to lack of charge.
Did the factory rest thing and it's still doing the same thing.
After some experimenting I have discovered that while in the boot screen (Vol+/Vol- & Power) it does not have to be plugged in. Interesting.
Every time the phone gets to where you can see the battery level it thinks it has no charge and auto offs itself.
What do I do?
I would first try a different charger. Its possible that you have a bad charger/USB cable. If that doesn't work then I'd send it back and get a warranty replacement phone but more than likely your issue is a bad charger/USB cable and if not that then a bad battery.
sent from my neXus 5