Hi, I just found out my cradle seems to be charging my XDA II with no power adapter plugged in??
In this right? Does it charge through the USB cable instead??
yeah, charges thru USB.
Hmmm:
What about the 'spare battery' slopt at the back?? Does that do the same or is the power adapter required??
The battery slot appears to need the power supply plugged in.
Does this trick work with the XDA 1 ?
The spare battery DOES need to be connected to the power supply to charge it, the light in the front will light up when it is plugged into power and the extra battery is there
thanks very much for the help
Edy said:
Does this trick work with the XDA 1 ?
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Not from my own experience unfortunately.
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Hi tere, I bougth an usb sync/charge cable on ebay, I use it for a couple of hours, It works well but now it's switch off by hiself and the right led is become red. I can't switch it on! do I burn it?
Possible solutions
1. Put the XDA in the cradle and charge it
If this does not help
2. Do a soft reset with the stylus, I have had one hang where I had to do this.
The red LED indicates a message or missed call.
Regards
Michael
thanks, I tryed to soft reset but it still doesn't work, I removed the battery and I recharged it in the craddle, now it works but i lost all my data becase when I insert the charge battery it does an total reset. I think the usb cable instead to recharge the battery decharge it.
usually when I have a missed call or a new message, the red let doesn't flash.
you cant use USB to charge XDA2!!!
the usb port only gives out 1amp max and it has to share that amp to all the devices connected on your pc via that usb port.
XDA 2 needs 2Amp to charge up
so charging via usb will drain the battery instead of charging it lol.
gaz
I charge my XDA 2 via USB and it works...
I have just found that my XDAII is charging via USB -- is this a 'designed' function ?
I took my power cable home and left it there and docked the XDA in the morning at work, to my suprise the screen brightened (as i have it set to dim on battery) and it is charging !! BONUS
Now I can leave the power cable at home (I sync via WIFI at home anyway)
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yep that is designed, a benefit above the old ipaq
BUT be aware, it will NOT charge the additional battery slot in the craddle, you still need the charger for that
fishmedia said:
I have just found that my XDAII is charging via USB -- is this a 'designed' function ?
I took my power cable home and left it there and docked the XDA in the morning at work, to my suprise the screen brightened (as i have it set to dim on battery) and it is charging !! BONUS
Now I can leave the power cable at home (I sync via WIFI at home anyway)
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Yes. XDAII can be charged by USB - you do not need to use the "power cable", USB itself is enough. And surprisingly: USB charging is fast enough.
usb is 500mA pr powered port
a powered port is a port in the pc or a port in a hub
if the hub is not powered and you have alot of other stuff
the xda will get less power and it will take longer
500mA is ok current to charge with imho
Well is saves buying another charges. as you need definately two of them, one at home to cover the weekend, usage and one at work, to cover the dailly job :lol:
Are you really sure that it is charging if the battery is under 30%? For me with older firmware (1.52) it can charge only if over 30%! In other cases it shows "Charging" but really it only faster discharges because of brighter backlight.
Is this behaviour fixed in 1.60 firmware?
I can actually charge from compete NILL, :lol:
charge vis USB
I find my xdaII charges much more slowly by usb alone.
From my laptop it took 2 hrs to charge from 40% to 100%, with the power adapter it takes about 30mins.
USB charge but can´t sync
Hi,
Can I use XDA usb cable on XDA2 for sync and charge? Is it the same cable?
Yesterday, I suddenly stoped the sync and I cannot perform it again after that. Could you help me to solve this problem?
hi,
is there is difference between charging at charger or usb? charging speed, battery life?
whats your aprox. batt life for one charging?
What about car charger (there is lots of story that is no good for batt?) its a same jack for mda compact, jasjar and phone motorola v3! can use theese chargers safely!?
tnx!
I have a motorola BT headset with usb style plug so that users can charge headset and phone (ie V3) at the same time, I have tried it with my "spare" o2 xda exec and can confirm that it does not charge dispite the charger being the same voltage as the exec charger - I still cant see why it wouldnt work, unless its something to do with reversed polarity.
I've got a similar problem, I have a Leadtek GPS with a mini USB plug, the output is also 5v and 1amp as per the XDA's charger YET the XDA won't charge.
I presume the XDA charger is sending some kinda of data signal in addition to Voltage that tells the HTC unit to switch onto Charging mode?
I've disected a USB cable trying to get this to work, so has anyone got any ideas as to how to make a Y cable capable of charging the XDA?
I had the same issue with my old Motorola BT headset and the "two-pronged" charger. When I plugged in the car charger and connected the Exec....nothing. Until I turned OFF the phone and left the phone connected to the charger. Hey Presto! Charging light.
Now though the BT headset packed in and I've had to buy a G2 from Bluetrek.
Cheers
Ant
Oh right! So you turned the Phone element off, or do you mean put the PDA on standby mode?
I'll play more with this later.
Pressed the power button.
Sorry, should have been more precise. With the phone connected, press the power button, wait a few seconds. You should see the green signal light flash a few times, then suddenly flash twice quite quickly. Finally, the charge light should appear.
Cheers
Ant
Dude, you're right!!!
I've just gone ahead, and made my Y cable by stripping two USB cables, joining, heat shrinking...
Plugged it in and IT WORKS!!
YIPPPEEE, that saved me a fortune!!
Not sure if this is right part of forum, but here it goes.
I am having an issue with the charging of my O2 XDA Mini.
If my battery dies, with still a small bit of power left in it (enough to get splash screen) and I go to charge it works fine no problem. Now over the wkend my phone died on my and I left it till this afternoon when I tried to turn on, it wouldnt turn on at all (not even splash) because obviously the battery is completely dead. Now when I go to plug it in, it wont charge, from USB cradle, the little orange light to say that its charging doesnt even come on.
Last time this happened I eventually got it to work via a friends socket (plug) charger, rather than USB, charger. Is there any reason for this or anyway that it can be fixed that even when the battery is completely dead I can charge it from my USB cradle.
Any help would be apreciated.
Thank you in advance
Rattlehead
Sorry to bump this, but does anyone have any idea. I beleve the cause of this is due to the fact the USB power from the PC isnt enough to get the charging process started, is there anyway to get this done via the cradle.
Thanks
Rattlehead
You'll need to use a charger that plugs into a wall socket I'm afraid. This happened to me once & that was the only way I could get it to work. If you search on Google, you'll find methods that involve a stripped down usb cable, but a wall charger is definately easier.
Good luck.
Should any usb based wall charger work?
I have a Motorolla one and Ive tried that but that didnt work.
I know for a fact that when I use my friends one it works and will charge, but he aint round for another 2 weeks
Poop
Rattlehead.ie said:
Should any usb based wall charger work?
I have a Motorolla one and Ive tried that but that didnt work.
I know for a fact that when I use my friends one it works and will charge, but he aint round for another 2 weeks
Poop
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You cannot charge a totally flat battery through usb cable using PC,cuz it only supplies 0.5(500)amp,whereas to get the dead battery back into charging,it requires a supply charge of 1.0(1000)amp,secondly you can only charge the phone via usb if it's working normal and not when it's dead,as you cannot boot into OS.
Therefore,it'll only start to charge with a 'Wall Charger' which only supplies 1.0 amp,your friend's Wall (Mains) charger must be suppling a 1.0 amp charge.You cannot even charge it with the Motorola usb charger cuz it also supplies only 0.5 amp.So try to get a Wall (Mains) charger to get it start charging.
OR,
Yes! you can Jump start the battery using Motorola charger,but you'll have to sacrifice the motorola charger to do it,as you'll have to cut off the usb plug of the charger cable end and attach the 'Red' wire to the '+' (Possitive) connector of the battery and black wire to the '-' (Negative) connector of the battery and give Shock Charge to the battery for 10 seconds,repeat this for 4/5 times,it'll give the battery a jump start and will increase the 'Pulse' level of the battery,after that put it in the phone and check if it loads up,if it does then you can charge it via usb cable connected with PC.
Good luck
BTW ! there's an excellent thread regarding charging to avoide the battery to go flat and saving from getting into this situation,it wud be very info for you,check it also :-
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=342162
Cheers
zabardast_1 ,
You are the Guru ~
sorry couldnt reply to you before now, zabardast_1 thank you so much.
Thats great will have a look tonight and see what I can do
Here is a simple way of solving the problem, go and buy a charger, they cost next to nothing.
Hello. I've bought today broken Typhoon. It doesn't turn on, but when i connected cables to the battery and then put battery in and hold a switch, red light appeared under the power button and sometimes display lighted white. When i'm plugging in charger, red light under the power button also appears. Any ideas, how is it broken? what should i do to repair it? help me please
which charger? the one that plugs into the wall or a usb cable that plugs into your computer? If it's into the computer, or not the wall plug that came with the phoen, then it's possible your battery is completely drained dead. When the battery is extra super low, the usb and some other chargers don't have the juice to charge it. You have to have the right wall plug charger i've found.
i'm hopin that's the thing....plug it in, charge it for a bit then try again. Also, once you get juice in there, plug it into the usb port on your computer and hit the camera button. that should jack it into the boot loader mode.
Li Ion
nosaturn said:
which charger? the one that plugs into the wall or a usb cable that plugs into your computer? If it's into the computer, or not the wall plug that came with the phoen, then it's possible your battery is completely drained dead. When the battery is extra super low, the usb and some other chargers don't have the juice to charge it. You have to have the right wall plug charger i've found.
i'm hopin that's the thing....plug it in, charge it for a bit then try again. Also, once you get juice in there, plug it into the usb port on your computer and hit the camera button. that should jack it into the boot loader mode.
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The batteries do die totally over time especially if they are charged from part full and never allowed to totally discharge. Do the do as described and if that doesn't work there are 10 on UK eBay right now one with 256Mb card for £25.00, you can't say fairer than that
Battery is too low in order to initialize the charging process.
Just plug in and plug out the wall charger until the LED turns orange.