Cheap car or AC chargers causing wonky touchscreen

[cerberusss]

Hi guys,

Two days ago, I connected my Samsung Gio to a cheap no-brand car charger. This charger used to work fine with my older iPhone 3G. When I disconnected it an hour later, the touch screen acted weird. It wouldn't respond to my tapping, or it would register the tap but think I tapped somewhere else.

This disappeared with a reboot, which was quite hard to do (because pressing the poweroff asks for a confirmation on... the touchscreen!).

I thought it was a one-off issue, but the same thing happened when I charged the Gio with another cheap no-brand AC charger.

Since then, I've only charged the Gio with either the official AC adapter or via my laptop and the problem hasn't appeared anymore.

Anyone else experienced this?

 

[Dodge34]

I didn't experience this but thanks for warning users, I'm new to the android phones and would like to buy a car adapter that is safe to use on this phone, if you get any ideas of a good car adapter for this phone, that would be awesome.

 

[cerberusss]

if you get any ideas of a good car adapter for this phone, that would be awesome.

In the end, I got an official Samsung car charger. I got it secondhand off of eBay, so it's still affordable. Works perfect, and I didn't get any of the problems mentioned earlier!

 

[Dodge34]

Will a Ipod/Iphone USB to car adapter work without problems, I'm considering getting one since it got 2 USB ports on it that could be awesome since I also have Ipod that I need to charge and my father car as only 1 single plug for this kind of tech (old Toyota Camry 2004)

 

[Ijaz Ahmed]

Will a Ipod/Iphone USB to car adapter work without problems, I'm considering getting one since it got 2 USB ports on it that could be awesome since I also have Ipod that I need to charge and my father car as only 1 single plug for this kind of tech (old Toyota Camry 2004)

Should work fine, you will just need data cable of Galaxy Gio.

 

[Dodge34]

Data cable is using mini-usb so any mini-usb cable should do the trick, or maybe I'm wrong on this.

 

[Ijaz Ahmed]

Data cable is using mini-usb so any mini-usb cable should do the trick, or maybe I'm wrong on this.

AFAIK - Samsung Gio uses micro-USB cable, any micro-USB cable should work, I am personally using a cable for a Nokia phone.

 

[FrizzleZA]

The only important thing to look out for when looking for a charger is to make sure that the voltage and current supplied by the charger is similar to that required for the phone. Lower current is fine (5-20%) but higher is not preferable. With voltage you can err on about 5% on either side. Lower current will simply charge it slower.