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Doit2it

Doit2it

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My sister bought a Rezound tonight. Against the urging of the sales rep, I told her not to buy the Verizon car charger. No one is having problems charging their Rezound with a generic micro usb car charger, are they?

Thanks!
 
Doit2it said:
My sister bought a Rezound tonight. Against the urging of the sales rep, I told her not to buy the Verizon car charger. No one is having problems charging their Rezound with a generic micro usb car charger, are they?

Thanks!
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I can't comment on its general use, but the Verizon car charger will not charge the Rezound battery when it is being used in the car dock. At best, it will hold the battery at the same level or slowly drain. It uses a trickle charge, at least when connected to the car dock. I returned the Verizon car charger and have ordered an HTC branded one that supposedly does a much better job.
 
Go on eBay. Get the Motorola charger that's like 950 miliamps. Anything less will charge real slow. If u have a cheap generic one, it probsbly charged at like 500 which will take double the amount of time.
 
BenjaminH said:
I can't comment on its general use, but the Verizon car charger will not charge the Rezound battery when it is being used in the car dock. At best, it will hold the battery at the same level or slowly drain. It uses a trickle charge, at least when connected to the car dock. I returned the Verizon car charger and have ordered an HTC branded one that supposedly does a much better job.
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Hi, may i have the link or part number of the HTC branded car charger? Thanks.
 
BenjaminH said:
I can't comment on its general use, but the Verizon car charger will not charge the Rezound battery when it is being used in the car dock. At best, it will hold the battery at the same level or slowly drain. It uses a trickle charge, at least when connected to the car dock. I returned the Verizon car charger and have ordered an HTC branded one that supposedly does a much better job.
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That is the dock not the charger. I tested it with several chargers that charge just fine without the dock, having the dock connected causes a loss of an average of like 300ma, more than enough to take it from charging the battery to draining it. I have a verizon charger and a generic both are 1a and both charge fine without the dock and drain with it.
 
Kane5581 said:
That is the dock not the charger. I tested it with several chargers that charge just fine without the dock, having the dock connected causes a loss of an average of like 300ma, more than enough to take it from charging the battery to draining it. I have a verizon charger and a generic both are 1a and both charge fine without the dock and drain with it.
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For me, if the charger doesn't work with the dock it's useless. That's why I prefaced my comments with saying I am not speaking of its general use. Good to know it works otherwise though.
 
Kane5581 said:
That is the dock not the charger. I tested it with several chargers that charge just fine without the dock, having the dock connected causes a loss of an average of like 300ma, more than enough to take it from charging the battery to draining it. I have a verizon charger and a generic both are 1a and both charge fine without the dock and drain with it.
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... but why won't the phone proper charged in the car dock?

Battery Charging Specification ...
... The Dedicated Charging Port shorts the D+ and D- pins with a resistance of at most 200 Ω. The short disables data transfer, but allows devices to detect the Dedicated Charging Port and allows very simple, high current chargers to be manufactured ...

This is from USB Specifications, section Power, about high current charging (Wikipedia)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB#Power

So the reason for not proper charging in the car dock may be that at the car dock's microUSB plug the data pins haven't any function.
And so the phone won't detect the option for to go in high current charging mode: The car charger's shortend data pins.

Harry
 
Harry2 said:
Maybe this helps ...
Cell Phone Accessories

As I have seen this is a double charger for the car (HTC CC C300).

HTC has also a single charger named HTC Car Charger C200.

Harry
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Hi Harry, i couldn't find the C300 and C200 (maybe due to my location when the website asked for a zip code), but i found a dual-port item listed as part number 99H10128-00. Thanks.
 
andr01d said:
Hi Harry, i couldn't find the C300 and C200 (maybe due to my location when the website asked for a zip code), but i found a dual-port item listed as part number 99H10128-00. Thanks.
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In Europe this is the C300 :)

Harry
 
If it can deliver 2A on one port, then yes, that will do it. It it's current limited to 1A per port (which I doubt) it will not.

From my tests, you need a 2A supply like for a tablet... http://androidforums.com/htc-rezound/444731-official-accessories-thread-4.html#post3570531

This is the one I ordered Amazon.com: 3.1A Dual USB Car Charger Adapter for iPad iPad2 iPhone iPod: Cell Phones & Accessories

But it's literally coming from China so it won't be here for another 3 weeks. Wish I had of read the fine print before I ordered. I also got a HTC USB cable for $1.96 from the same outfit. Will it really be an HTC brand cable... who knows?
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005Q39PTI/ref=oh_o02_s00_i01_details
 
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