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weihl165

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When I'm using google nav in the car, and plugged into car charger, the battery doesnt charge. Is there a way to fix this? I rememer having the same issue with the Inc. Is it a GB issue? Thanks!
 
weihl165 said:
When I'm using google nav in the car, and plugged into car charger, the battery doesnt charge. Is there a way to fix this? I rememer having the same issue with the Inc. Is it a GB issue? Thanks!
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The charging LED on the notification bar isn't on?
Or isn't the phone charging enough?

Harry
 
It shows it's charging, but when I unplug it the battery level is usally pretty low. Even if I start with a full charge
 
weihl165 said:
It shows it's charging, but when I unplug it the battery level is usally pretty low. Even if I start with a full charge
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I noticed this with my Droid phones too. I always thought it was because Nav is so battery intensive that it was draining as much battery as it was charging.
 
weihl165 said:
It shows it's charging, but when I unplug it the battery level is usally pretty low. Even if I start with a full charge
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You have to use a HTC car charger (e.g. CC200). It charge the phone enough like the wall charger which came with phone.

EDIT: Look at the charging mode of your phone (Settings, About phone, Battery, Battery status):
"Charging AC", the charging of your wall charger.
"Charging USB", the charging of your current (generic) car charger.
This is not enough, the HTC car charger charges with "AC".

Harry
 
kishin14 said:
I noticed this with my Droid phones too. I always thought it was because Nav is so battery intensive that it was draining as much battery as it was charging.
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You should use a Motorola car charger.
The problem is similar with HTC phones charging in a car.
Have a look at my post above :)

Harry
 
weihl165 said:
When I'm using google nav in the car, and plugged into car charger, the battery doesnt charge. Is there a way to fix this? I rememer having the same issue with the Inc. Is it a GB issue? Thanks!
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The issue could also be the heat of the battery - if the battery gets too hot it won't charge. Many times with my DINC i've had to put the phone in front of the AC vent while using Google Nav b/c the phone wasn't charging and I was getting the funky LED warning.
 
Another thing to consider is what setting you have your power settings, Settings>Power>Power Mode.
 
weihl165 said:
Power mode is on normal, I'll have to check on the temp of the battery next time I use it.
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Yes, the temp of the battery could be a reason for not charging.

Li-Ion batteries should not charged over 60C. So the processor will shut down the charging at about 50C for to protect the battery.
You'll see that when the LED has this "funky" green-to-orange flashing.

Harry
 
Harry2 said:
You have to use a HTC car charger (e.g. CC200). It charge the phone enough like the wall charger which came with phone.

EDIT: Look at the charging mode of your phone (Settings, About phone, Battery, Battery status):
"Charging AC", the charging of your wall charger.
"Charging USB", the charging of your current (generic) car charger.
This is not enough, the HTC car charger charges with "AC".

Harry
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I had problems with the car dock and had the same results listed below for in the car and on AC.

I brought my car charger into the house. Using the AC charger that came with the phone and a standard USB cable connected to the charger. Set to 3G, running Pandora, Screen always on. These are my results:

1. AC charger connect to car dock: 30 min run time, charage went from
100% to 92%.
2. Turned off phone waited 30 mins. took phone off dock, turned it on
battery level 96%
3. Placed phone on charger directly for 15 mins. 100% charge.
4. Phone directly conntected to charger, 30 min run time with Pandora and
screen on, 3G. Batterly level 100%.
Repeated on 4G with same results.

This has been the case for two car docks now. Either the store received a bad batch or I have a bad phone
 
maf113 said:
... 1. AC charger connect to car dock: 30 min run time, charage went from
100% to 92%....
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With case 1. did you look at the phone's charging status (as I wrote above) and saw "Charging (AC)" ?

I think, your car dock doesn't use the data pins of its microUSB plug.
So the phone can't "see" the shortend data pins of AC charger.
And this shortend data pins are the "code" for phone to charge with "Charging (AC)".

Harry
 
Harry2 said:
With case 1. did you look at the phone's charging status (as I wrote above) and saw "Charging (AC)" ?

I think, your car dock doesn't use the data pins of its microUSB plug.
So the phone can't "see" the shortend data pins of AC charger.
And this shortend data pins are the "code" for phone to charge with "Charging (AC)".

Harry
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Yes. Ac charging. I think the store got a bad batch or my phone has a problem. This only happens on the car dock. The desktop dock does not have the same problem.
 
maf113 said:
Yes. Ac charging. I think the store got a bad batch or my phone has a problem. This only happens on the car dock. The desktop dock does not have the same problem.
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I think the car dock is the problem.
Could be poor material of the plug/wiring or bad/"cold" soldering (electrical resistance).

Harry
 
I checked my charging status in the car using Nav, and it is charging via AC. I forgot to check battery temp, but did not see the charging light flicker between red and green.
 
+1 one to heat being a factor. I used to drive around with the AC wide open in defrost mode just to keep my DX running cool while using it as a NAV so it would continue to charge.
 
trophynuts said:
+1 one to heat being a factor. I used to drive around with the AC wide open in defrost mode just to keep my DX running cool while using it as a NAV so it would continue to charge.
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+2 Had to do the same with my DX. It was plugged into the Motorola car dock.

Has anybody tried the holders that hook into your A/C vents or any of the holders where you might be able to mount it close to an A/C vent?
 
The problem may be the charger not delivering enough current (1000 mA = 1 amp). The standard USB charger (older ones) is 500 mA. Some newer ones deliver 700 mA. Anyway, for Rezound and many other high-end devices the safe bet is 1 amp.
 
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