Hello. Few days ago I tripped on my AC charger cable and looks like some of the pins inside microusb part (on the charger) were damaged. It still charges the phone but I'm afraid to use it because it might damage my phone or something. Should I get another charger or is it okay to use it as long as it works?
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Damaged AC charger
- Thread starter phlox
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- samsung galaxy gio
Ijaz Ahmed
Android Enthusiast
Get a new one, don't ruin your phone
or just use your computer with the USB cable.
Ijaz Ahmed
Android Enthusiast
The only problem is that charging via USB port of PC is slow and it wastes lot of power if you just leave your PC on for the sake of charging only.
waist of power ? Only if you are using a laptop.
And in this case, like many other Samsung phone, the AC charger only gives 700mA vs 500mA from the computer. Not a big difference.
My HTC AC charger gives 1000mA and I cant even say if its faster than my computer USB port...
And you dont need to leave your PC "ON" btw, you can charge it while it is in "Stand By" mode.
Ijaz Ahmed
Android Enthusiast
Imagine several watts used by motherboard and Intel CPU + RAM + HDD (even in standby) got wasted just to charge a phone ?
I dont care much how the standby mode cost in electricity. All my computers are always on standby mode anyway so why not charging my phones at the same time ?
