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Ordered a universal one with wall attachment and car attachment and when I connect the USB to microUSB cord the phone doesn't charge. Ordered another stand alone car charger and it, also, doesn't charge. If I attach the USB cord that came with the phone to the wall/car charger it charges fine. Both, specifically said for the "Nexus One". Is it an amp issue? Most microUSB charger in the mall cell phone kiosks won't charge it either. Is it a proprietary microUSB cord that I need or a matter of amps or something?
Why not buy from Monoprice.com?!
I ordered 8 USB cords (2/each of 4 different lengths), 2 Car Chargers, and 2 Wall chargers. All work perfectly fine, and I paid under $25. (Wife has a CLIQ, so we got plenty to work for both of us.)
So, I don't know what your issue is... Other than just not going to Monoprice
JJackson9995 said:
Why not buy from Monoprice.com?!
I ordered 8 USB cords (2/each of 4 different lengths), 2 Car Chargers, and 2 Wall chargers. All work perfectly fine, and I paid under $25. (Wife has a CLIQ, so we got plenty to work for both of us.)
So, I don't know what your issue is... Other than just not going to Monoprice
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well I havent ordered from monoprice since customers got slammed with bogus charges... i guess i could give them another try though, but still... kinda weary
Why? I had over $1300 attempted to be spent at Newegg, and my CC company called me and stopped the charges. Got a new CC in the mail the following day. Some random amount at Apple as well. LOL. Fun times.
(Yes, it happened to me. I'm fairly confident it was from the same issue as others..) But, that doesn't stop me from using a company that makes good products, expecially when they just made such a big mistake. Odds are, it won't be happening again for a long while
Either way... Those are risks with online shopping. You just have to make sure that your method of purchase has fail-safes.
I have a CRAP load of mini USB chargers (all HTC stock) and didn't want to buy more. I bought a bunch of Motorola mini to micro adapters off Overstock.com for $2 a piece and couldn't be happier. I also bought the official Google cradle to avoid additional wear and tear on the microUSB port.
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I bought a car/home charger from eBay when I had my Motorola Cliq, and my home charger would keep going on/off charging. I later found out that it was the voltage issue, where the charger was giving a maximum of 5 amps and the Motorola Cliq needed 5.1V or something like that.
But most chargers I've bought don't power the Nexus One. What specific voltage or amps should I look for it to have? The two I bought off of eBay specifically said they were for the Nexus One. Neither worked. Sellers are putting any micro SD chargers up for sale assuming they will change the phone. They will not. What technical spec will tell me if it really will charge it?
Could someone post a link to a USB charger that absolutely works? I just bought another one from Best Buy that doesn't charge the Nexus. Made by Rocketfish and is suppose to be universal.
Thats really wierd. Every charger i've tried works fine.
You're charger should be outputting 5V and anywhere from 300mA upwards. There is no max mA limit because the phone will only draw what it needs.
This might sound patronising, and I really dont mean it to, but when you say doesnt charge how do you know?
Do you mean from totally flat it won't turn the phone on and start charging it, or do you mean when the phone is on the battery indicator doesnt show a charging, and the LED doesnt go orange/green?
Or do you mean it never charges to full?
When I plug it in it's as if nothing happens. No light, no thunderbolt symbol on the battery, no screen wake-up, nothing. Nada. Now, the HTC wall charger and usb charger work fine. But if a MicroUSB charger calls itself "universal" it does not mean it will charge the Nexus. The HTC HD2 charger my wife has works fine on the Nexus though.
Hmm strange.
The charge process works like this:
- Charger plugged in causes voltage change on +ve USB line - potential charger detected.
- Phone draws minimal current (50 to 100mA) and tries to negotiate USB power
-- If that suceeds it tries to increase power to 500mA if the USB port supports it. If yes charging starts at 500mA, if not charging starts at 100mA
- If USB negotiation fails, it checks if D+/D- are bridged.
-- If D+/D- are bridged, the phone draws as much current as it can/needs
-- If D+/D- are not bridged, the phone draws a max of 500mA
There's nothing special about the chargers unless they have been wired in some special way for a specific phone. Thats why I'm very surprised these chargers dont work.
I know that if I chop a USB extention cable and cut out D+/D-, my nexus charges at 500mA. I've tried this myself for a totally different purpose. Thats no different to ground and power being wired to a 5v source.
Odd, I have three car USB adaptors and two AC USB adaptors.. All charged the phone, although only the AC charger shipped with the Nexus would do a fast charge, and none of my car chargers would. I found one that was rated 1Ah and soldered the two middle pins, now it works as a fast charger too.
The Motorola P513 car charger (OEM designed for a Droid) gives out 950mA, is super cheap (~$3+shipping), and works great for a fast charge with the Nexus One.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000Y8IH2Q/ref=oss_product
pakraider said:
The Motorola P513 car charger (OEM designed for a Droid) gives out 950mA, is super cheap (~$3+shipping), and works great for a fast charge with the Nexus One.
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Thank you sir. I've been trying to find a car charger that guarantees a fast charge.
Just ordered one from Play.com for £3.99 w/ free shipping.
Maybe now I can use GPS for more than an hour...
I dunno.
My motorola charger for my old bluetooth (H780?) works fine, as well as the original google charger. I also have a car charger for my old bluetooth as well.
My suggestion, is to only buy name brand chargers?
b0dge said:
Thank you sir. I've been trying to find a car charger that guarantees a fast charge.
Just ordered one from Play.com for £3.99 w/ free shipping.
Maybe now I can use GPS for more than an hour...
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This P513 has also been the best fast charger for me...
I am thinking about ordering this:
http://www.amazon.com/G2x-T-Mobile-..._24?s=wireless&ie=UTF8&qid=1304350783&sr=1-24
But was wondering if I should spend the money and get a LG issued micro usb and car charger.
Anyone have experience with these chargers?
Hmmm that's alot of stuff for such a cheap price. Makes me wonder the build quality of that stuff. I might stay away from that. Just my opinion though. But to answer your question, I use a micro-usb cable I got from newegg. I also use the car charger I got with my MyTouch Slide a year ago.
First thing I thought was "too good to be true" and in my experience cheap stuff brakes stuff.
Yeah I think the quality of those accessories is probably quite low. If you want a good micro-usb cable I ordered 3 of these about a year ago and still use them today and they work fine on the G2x for data transfer and charging:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...&cm_re=micro_usb_cable-_-12-189-164-_-Product
I still have my micro usb charger I used for my blackberry curve (2 yrs old). I would assume that would work. I wonder if the old wall charger would work as well.
Those chargers are pretty much worthless. You need a high amp charger. The phone comes with a 1amp or 1000mA charger. If you buy a cheap charger that's 500mA for example you take more time to charge your phone. If the charger is really weak then you might not charge at all or even drop you battery levels while connected and using your gps in your car.
Note these are Blackberry and Motorolla OEM products that will work with your G2X. I use these and they are fine. They are both under $5 each at Amazon.
http://www.amazon.com/BlackBerry-Fo...PN0S/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1304613708&sr=8-1
http://www.amazon.com/Motorola-Vehi...Q9CA/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1304613757&sr=8-1
http://www.amazon.com/BlackBerry-Cable-Micro-1-0m-Black/dp/B001QATRCA/ref=zg_bs_wireless_10
Cheap doesn't mean bad. All that stuff costs nothing to make anyways.
I buy stuff like that all the time off amazon.com.
I buy stuff like that all the time off amazon.com.
I can tell you you get what you pay for.
I buy stuff like that for coworkers and everthing is still working fine except car chargers breaking because of rough handling of the chargers. Evething else is alive and kicking.
If you decide to get it let me know how the car charger, Charges the phone, and make sure to post pictures because some times picture are diffrent from what is posted on the web.
I personally got this charger from T-Moble (granted, it was $30), 4.8v 1A... and integrated it into my car:
Code:
http://www.t-mobile.com/shop/AddOns/Accessories/AccessoryDetailPopUp.aspx?accessory=f2105fae-0bb1-47f2-b53b-a8acc9e98c56&inCart=True&catCode=-1
I removed the LED since it's hardwired to the car.
Grated, if you want to move the charger from car to car it's not ideal to hard-wire it... but eh.
Be careful what you buy.
I ordered a Micro-USB cable from an Amazon vendor. It was the one in this package:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004XGBBY6
Package seemed good enough. Good deal. The case was serviceable (I won't use it fulltime, but for what I paid, I wasn't expecting much-- it's good for putting my phone in for when it's in the car, sitting on the dash, so that it doesn't slide around while I get GPS maps). The car charger works pretty well. But the USB cable...
I was experiencing battery drain from my phone while it was plugged into my desktop PC's USB with the aftermarket cable.
The next day I tried it with the one that shipped with my phone from LG and it works just fine.
For reals, has anyone experienced battery drain with an aftermarket cable while it was plugged in?
eatabagel said:
Be careful what you buy.
I ordered a Micro-USB cable from an Amazon vendor. It was the one in this package:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004XGBBY6
Package seemed good enough. Good deal. The case was serviceable (I won't use it fulltime, but for what I paid, I wasn't expecting much-- it's good for putting my phone in for when it's in the car, sitting on the dash, so that it doesn't slide around while I get GPS maps). The car charger works pretty well. But the USB cable...
I was experiencing battery drain from my phone while it was plugged into my desktop PC's USB with the aftermarket cable.
The next day I tried it with the one that shipped with my phone from LG and it works just fine.
For reals, has anyone experienced battery drain with an aftermarket cable while it was plugged in?
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Well typically USB doesn't have enough juice to power the phone while you are using it. It might in some cases but with WiFi, the screen, GPS, or whatever... you probably won't be charging the battery much if at all, and in fact might be losing power.
The same with USB chargers. The better chargers provide more power where most only provide the standard 5v (just like a desktop) so with heavy usage (GPS, screen, bluetooth) you might not gain anything.
I'm not sure about PC's because computers follow the standard of 5v and I don't think they will send more over the cable. A bad cable will have more resistance and probably not do as good of a job but overall should work.
The answer is any microUSB cable will work because it is a standard. Chargers (home and car) should provide more power to give it a faster charge.
Some Chargers are able to do "fast-charges" which I know the G2x can handle. I have a Microsoft Zune charger and it devastates my battery charge times. I'll be full in like 30min.
Typically batteries like a slow progressive charges though, which seem to last the longest. Oddly enough, I get the best battery life by charging my phone via my USB port on my Cable Box (haha).
As long as the charger's output is 5V then you're good. The higher the milliamp output on the charger the faster yourphone will charge.
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Well typically USB doesn't have enough juice to power the phone while you are using it. It might in some cases but with WiFi, the screen, GPS, or whatever... you probably won't be charging the battery much if at all, and in fact might be losing power.
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My phone charges just fine when I'm using while connected to my computer via USB.
It's the amperage that counts when it comes to filling up your battery. I've used .5, .6, .8 and 1 amp wall adapter and car chargers. The 1 amp charges much faster but, if I remember my USB spec, that's all that was allowed until Apple came along PCs are typically restricted to 500 milliamps (.5 amp) so it's a little slower but still enough to charge it., even under use. I suppose if you have GPS seeking satellites and the display turned up all the way you may draw more than 500 milliamps but I'd be surprised.
EDIT: if you're really interested in this stuff, check http://batteryuniversity.com/ and https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Universal_Serial_Bus#Power
Any one have reccomendations on some after market fast chargers? My dog chewed up my Samsung one.
First be a new dog. Then I seen 2 on here but everyone tends to go back to Samsung.
BAD ASS NOTE 4 & GEAR S
slowz3r said:
Any one have reccomendations on some after market fast chargers? My dog chewed up my Samsung one.
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I got the Getwow fast charger from Amazon. So far, it works as it should. I have not experienced any problems. It was 15.99. FYI, Getwow also has a car charger version.
I got a Puregear as a spare. works just fine
Saw the other day. Shop, Android central had the samsung oem. Which is odd bc samsung last I thought didn't have then in their website to sell.
I have a Tenergy fast charger and a Power Partners Fast Charger. Both work as good and even better than the OEM Samsung charger. I got them on Amazon and they were about $20 - $25. The Power Partners charger comes with a 20 awg usb cord but it's 3 feet. They recommend using the provided cord for the best results. The specs are insane though. 5V-4A, 9V-2.22A, 12V-2.5A, or 20V-1A. I have tested it on several devices and they charge twice to three times faster (Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 especially) and I haven't had any issues with heat and/or battery life nor faster battery depletion. The Tenergy is 5V-2A, 9V-2A, or 12V-1.5A and works perfect as well. The only thing about the Power Partners which hasn't been an issue just very.......different is that is has a pretty high pitched current noise. It's like a whistling noise when charging but it is cooler to the touch than the OEM Samsung and Tenergy chargers.
got my tenergy charger on friday, works wonderful
I ordered the Getwow home and car charger set from Amazon and it doesn't work. Still trying to find a good backup as well..
have the getwow unit and verified AC charger works. are you using the getwow or samsung cable. you need to use a data cable(just in case you weren't aware) and not a charge cable.
bobn said:
have the getwow unit and verified AC charger works. are you using the getwow or samsung cable. you need to use a data cable(just in case you weren't aware) and not a charge cable.
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I'm using the cable they provided. Tried both cables they sent, nothing. Used the cables in my laptop and Xbox One and the phone charged.
This one from Verizon is the best one out there and I've tried them all.
I did buy the getwow ( http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00Q6H51F0/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o04_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 ) since having two ports was a great idea (one QC plus one 2.1A port). The first 2 didn't work and the replacement 2 are working well.
One more thing: it is not QC certified (not listed on QC's website)
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This one from Verizon is the best one out there and I've tried them all.
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I didn't know the base plug lit up too, I thought it was just the micro usb cable end. I wanted to get that originally, but it was too expensive for me.
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I'm using the cable they provided. Tried both cables they sent, nothing. Used the cables in my laptop and Xbox One and the phone charged.
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Get a replacement. You might have a defective unit. My Getwow works well with my Note 4.
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I didn't know the base plug lit up too, I thought it was just the micro usb cable end. I wanted to get that originally, but it was too expensive for me.
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And you can see this light from across the whole house and the red ring of light goes out when the phone is completely charged.
Great Charger, I don't even use the stock Samsung one anymore.
So I was looking for a longer USB C to USB C cable. And found this one on Amazon.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B01...cham+usb-c&dpPl=1&dpID=41PDOVivm1L&ref=plSrch
It took ages to arrive but seemed like a reasonably decent quality cable. Does everything it should and I like the connectors and braided cable.
However it won't charge the phone nearly as fast as the stock cable / charger combo. That seems to charge at around 2700-2800mA.
This cable seems to top out at 1700mA.
I'm not sure if the length of the cable is a factor but I've contacted the seller to see what they say.
Moral of the story / topic - avoid this cable if you want guaranteed 3amp charging.
Give this a read. I personally just purchased the iOrange-E cable.
pahardie said:
So I was looking for a longer USB C to USB C cable. And found this one on Amazon.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B01...cham+usb-c&dpPl=1&dpID=41PDOVivm1L&ref=plSrch
It took ages to arrive but seemed like a reasonably decent quality cable. Does everything it should and I like the connectors and braided cable.
However it won't charge the phone nearly as fast as the stock cable / charger combo. That seems to charge at around 2700-2800mA.
This cable seems to top out at 1700mA.
I'm not sure if the length of the cable is a factor but I've contacted the seller to see what they say.
Moral of the story / topic - avoid this cable if you want guaranteed 3amp charging.
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How do you know how fast your phone is being charged? Is there an app you use that gives you the "1700mA" number you quote?
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How do you know how fast your phone is being charged? Is there an app you use that gives you the "1700mA" number you quote?
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I used an app called ampere to show the charging rates.
I concur with OPs findings. Using this cable with the stock charger only gives medium speed charging. The phone will not report chatging rapidly. (Im using nexus 5x). I guess it's fine for me because I do overnight charging but needed the longer length, and in a pinch I sub in the stock white cable for a quick battery boost.
I do miss not having qi, that is my ideal bedroom charger.
Just for info I contacted pecham and got this in reply:
Dear Peter,
Thank you very much for buying from PECHAM, we are very glad to serve for you.
About the charging speed, we are trying our best to improve it. As you know, type c is a new technology, so far so good, but still need being upgraded, our engineering team is doing this .
This cable is a good choice as a backup , both for charging or transfering data.
Please let's know if there is anything we can do for you.
Best wishes
PECHAM Support
I'm not too worried its a decent cable and 2m long so does the job.
I have this cable and it works find for me. Build quality is excellent and it charges me to 100% from 20 of 30% in about an hour and a half(ish).
I drive a truck, I need a 6ft cable to reach my phone. I have seen from the posts here that quality and real functionality can vary greatly for what seems to be the same things. What brand or even be link specific to a high quality cable. I'll be using the Belkin car charger.
Just grab a ul type c to type a and grab a a-male to a-female extension.
The USB extension will come in handy one day I'm sure, and it's nice to have a a-c cable
I've always had good luck with my choetech cables
Tried the cheotech 6ft cable..... it lasted 4 days and quit working.
Still looking for a long high quality cable. Using the one that came with the phone for now but it is too short for the way I want to arrange things in the truck.
breadtrk said:
Tried the cheotech 6ft cable..... it lasted 4 days and quit working.
Still looking for a long high quality cable. Using the one that came with the phone for now but it is too short for the way I want to arrange things in the truck.
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They have good customer service email them and they'll send you a new cable. Duds happen, I've had a bunch of their cables with nary a problem.
I just bought a 6ft cable from AmazonBasics. No complaints about it. I believe they have a 9ft cable too.
Just get a normal usb A extension.
I have used this one for almost two years and it's worked very well for me, I have used it to only charge, and used it plugged into the computer on occasion and has worked flawlessly. It's braided and solid, 10 ft is a bit longer than you mentioned but I find the extra length helps.
https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B017ILDZCI/ref=oh_aui_search_detailpage?ie=UTF8&psc=1
Anker makes some quality cables and they make a 10ft cable that I have been using forever:
https://www.amazon.com/Anker-PowerL...d=1522244932&sr=8-4&keywords=anker+usb+c+10ft
I have been using this one for a while now - seems really sturdy and has worked really well. Plus, you know, different colors. This one is 10' but I believe they make them in different lengths. BEst of luck, enjoy your phone!
https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B01D175HMO/ref=oh_aui_search_detailpage?ie=UTF8&psc=1
Get one that is approved by Benson Leung on Amazon. He regularly tests USB-C cables and chargers and posts reviews on Amazon. I've bought cables he recommended and have had no issues with them.
Go to 5below and buy this https://www.fivebelow.com/tech/cabl...c-sync-and-charge-metallic-braided-cable.html
I bought one for behind the bed and it's high quality and even supports Fast charging. That reminds me I need to go and get 2 more
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Get one that is approved by Benson Leung on Amazon. He regularly tests USB-C cables and chargers and posts reviews on Amazon.
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Well, he used to. His last public review was apparently made on May 22, 2017. Not sure why he stopped posting. Probably because it was unpaid work and he's gotta have a life outside working for Google.