Mobile Charging?

[waldo1963]

I planned a trip for my and my gf from Paris, Texas to Dallas, Texas.

The phone was fully charged using the 110v wall charger. I put the phone in the car dock, and it showed it was charging. I used Navigation to get directions from Paris (Texas) to the hotel. The trip was about 2 hours long. The only other app that was running was Weatherbug Elite, and the update time is set to 4 hours.

Strange thing is, by the time we got into Dallas, the battery level was 30%

Is the VZW car charger not able to keep up with the charging requirements when using GPS Navigation?

If that is the case a 6 hour trip would require a real GPS and I might as well go back to a Blackberry.


Thoughts/Ideas/Suggestions?

 

[EmoTonyB]

my phone seems to gain JUST OVER what my gps eats. so while it will never go dead, it wont have much charge if pulled right after gps is turned off

 

[TheSultan]

The Navigation definitely FRIES the battery. And, the mobile chargers I've always used never really give it a ton of juice. As EmoTony does, I expect while plugged in and using such services that the mobile "charger" will just stave off a dying battery.

 

[zerocool79346]

Huh, I never noticed any difference between charging with nav on and charging without. I guess it's possible that the Eris nav doesn't eat nearly the battery that the X or Inc does, or maybe the chargers are different. I'm still using my Moto Razr's car charger.

 

[Demache]

Huh, I never noticed any difference between charging with nav on and charging without. I guess it's possible that the Eris nav doesn't eat nearly the battery that the X or Inc does, or maybe the chargers are different. I'm still using my Moto Razr's car charger.

Same for me word for word (Eris/razr charger). I think the Razr charger puts out 800 mAh which a good amount.