Hi everyone,
I recently bought a replacement charger for my XDA IIi (lost the old one) off ebay.
When I first got it, it seemed to work pretty well, but now it will either show the orange charge light for only a couple of seconds, or not at all. When it's plugged in, the xda screen gets brighter (as set in the brightness options) indicating that there is power there somewhere.
I've taken the plug apart, and discovered that the following pins are connected:
GND - 5, 16, 17, 18 20, 21, 22
+5v - 13
All I can find in the way of pinouts are for the wallaby, which i understand is slightly different to the Alpine?
Can anyone suggest what is going on, or what I could do to fix it?
Thanks,
Tom
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My 18 month old Tytn is not longer charger via the wall chager or car charge. But strangely it will charge is connected to the PC. I have tried a few different wall chargers including the original one and also test the wall charger on other charge by USB plug devices.
I have done a hard reset and also re-installed the stock rom.
Any other idea's ?
Same strange thing happens to me since 2 weeks.
No Charge with power adapter, tried different modells.
No Charge in car
But Charge via USB from PC . And Activesync works...
Any Idea would be very helpful.
tytn2user said:
My 18 month old Tytn is not longer charger via the wall chager or car charge. But strangely it will charge is connected to the PC. I have tried a few different wall chargers including the original one and also test the wall charger on other charge by USB plug devices.
I have done a hard reset and also re-installed the stock rom.
Any other idea's ?
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Same here, no fix, just dealing with it, hoping the charge by usb doesn't crap out.
A few months ago I receive a wallcharger from a friend who had a HTC TOUCH, as I inspected the voltage on my original TYTN II charger and the touch charger I figured out the touch charger would do the job, so I plugged in and for a brief moment the amber light go on, but almost inmediately it went of, so I guess it would not work with my phone.
But I rechecked the voltage and got me thinking what could be wrong, and after messing around a little bit with the charger and the usb plug I found out that for some reason if I plug the usb jack all the way down it doesn't make contact with the phone usb, so I have to plug it half way to make it contact and charge the phone.
Maybe that would be your case.
Good Luck.
in my situation the yellow loading light of the TytnII is even switching on when I connect the power charger . But even after being yellow=loading for a full night .
No Change in battery status
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My Tilt had a loose Mini-USB connector thing.
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OK. After reading people having the same problem I decided to pull mine down and take a look. Expecting to find a blown SM fuse on the circuit board. To my surprise I did not find any SM fuses in that area of the USB plug. While I had it apart I noticed some damage to the USB socket, viewable from the outside without having to pull it apart . I re-assembled the unit and VERY VERY carefully tweaked the damaged pin (pin 1 in my case) with the tiniest sewing needle I could find in the sewing kit. I bent the gold color wire back into a position matching the other 4 and pulled it into a wall charger and it started charging. So the problem in my case was a damaged pin 1 in the USB plug visible from the outside.
Charging is done by the two outside pins.
For the pinouts check out http://pinouts.ru/Slots/USB_pinout.shtml Picture on the left hand side of the screen called MINI is the same as looking at the plug on the tytn from the outside.
While looking at the plug with a magnifier I could clearly see that pin 1 was collapsed into the plastic center part and would not be making contact with the USB charger when inserted.
I will need to take more care when inserting a USB plug from now on and reduce the amount of time I used the plug. I have been geocaching with my TytnII the last few weeks and it has resulted in a lot of plugging in each time when returning to the car. This practice will have to stop for me if I want to get more millage out of my tytnII.
So, I bought one of those $4 charging cables from Deal Extreme. Not bad, actually. A couple of initial thoughts:
#1) Shipping: 3 weeks from order to delivery. This is not some next day, in-house job. This is coming from Hong-Kong or some area in China and it will take the full 3 weeks from the time you order to it arrives at your door.
#2) It works. Charges just fine, plugs into the existing wall adapter. No worries.
#3) It crashed my PC. I don't know if it was the pulling of it out or the putting of it in, but my PC crashed, and my PC never crashes.
#4) It does not have the top labeled like the stock one does. No little white arrow / triangle.
#5) Fits just like stock. Once you get the orientation correct (little black tabs guide you), it fits in solidly with no worries.
For four dollars, I am extremely pleased. I'll use it with the wall socket, and I'll use my stock one for delicate operations like PC-to-Phone transfers.
Thank's for the review... I was wondering when mine would get here, it had been about a week and a half already.
[[ UPDATE ]]
My charging cable has stopped working. I think.
I let the battery completely drain, and then I tried using the Deal Extreme cable plugged into the wall. The phone threw up an icon for bad connection to cable. I unplugged and replugged several times. Eventually I left it all night. It did NOT charge.
I don't know if it just can't do it when it was completely dead battery, or if the cable itself just is broken or if it is just poor quality. I will keep experimenting.
i have had the same problems with 6ft cables from yourcharger on ebay, none work with my pc to sync and when charging one killed my battery like it was wired wrong and the phone started freaking out and the home screen froze and i had to remove the battery, and the other it doesnt even show i have a cable connected to the phone
I've experienced bad battery/charger error with $4 dealextreme cable.
The cause is extremely thin conductors inside the cable.
The solution is simple. You have to make it shoter. Just cut 55cm off, and connect the rest.
As a result - 20cm cable, which can be made longer with any quality usb extender.
I recently purchased the car charger that came with a usb/charger for $6.50 the build quality for the car lighter charger is pretty outstanding it even has all the safety and mfg. Stamps on it. The usb charger on the other hand is quite shabby and it took me a few tries to get the pin to go in correctly. Also didn't have an arrow to differentiate which side was which so I had to take a bright marker n mark it. All in all for the price and the usual long delivery time it was well worth the 7$ now I don't have to log around my stock usb cord everywhere
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Hi,
I bought a lime green (if it matters) Gear 1 from Amazon. First one did not charge, didn't turn on. Replacement came in today and same thing: won't charge, won't turn on.
I tried using a USB cable and plugging it into a computer, then my Chromebox, then a different wall wart. No dice. My second replacement will be here tomorrow and I am already dreading that the same thing will happen.
Is this a known issue?
Or is it a stock issue? I wonder if these boxes have been sitting around in a warehouse since 10/2013 and the batteries are all just beyond saving. I have a Gear S, but would love to have full Android on my wrist, and at $118, it was such a great deal.
I had the same issue as you. The way I fixed it was by plugging in the charger with the included wall adapter and putting the watch in without closing the lid. Then I used a small flat head screwdriver (The kind you use to fix glasses etc) and pressed the power button on the side of the watch while it was plugged into the charging unit. The watch then rebooted and voila it started charging. Been working fine since.
So I ordered a new back for my Nexus 6 because my previous one was peeling off (I've replaced it before) and in the process of changing it today, the ribbon cable running from the mobo to the little connector that attaches it to the volume and power button ribbon cable ripped in half.
I was able to fiddle with it until I could turn the device back on but I can't repair it (unless someone knows how to temporarily connected a torn ribbon cable).
Anyhow, I can order one relatively cheap no problem but it won't be here for a week. Without that cable, the phone doesn't seem to charge. The battery indicator (I'm using CyanogenMod 13) shows that it's charging but it doesn't and if I go into the battery settings it says "Not Charging".
So, I may have to go back to my Nexus 4 for a bit but I was wondering if anyone on here might have access to one of these cables (http://thumbs.ebaystatic.com/images/g/BpIAAOSwZ1lWd8H7/s-l225.jpg) in or near Canada that I could pay to ship it here really quickly.
Bottom USB-C Port Problems (No USB Transfer & Charge), Temp. Abnormalities Reminder
Hi,
I am not certain if for random drop of water when cleaning or just a software issue but the bottom USB-C port of my ROG II is not working properly. It stopped being shown when connected to a PC and would eventually start charging, sometimes even fast charging, but many times will report "USB port temperature abnormalities reminder" and the tiny LED light at the top will get red and flash. After restart/shutdown, alerts will disappear and they may not show for days, then at random times, they will start again. The side USB ports work OK. I checked all temperatures from sensors and one called "soc" was at 80 degrees although the phone itself was warm at most (like 30 degrees). I noticed that if I load the phone, i.e. gaming, Instagram, etc. this temperature will fall. Now it is 39 and I believe it is not the actual one. The other temperatures that fluctuate quite a lot are pm8150b-ibat-lvl0 and pm8150b-ibat-lvl1. Like they can show 80 degrees for half a second, but then will go back to 16, 19 or something up to 30 degrees and stay there more or less the whole time.
Since I read quite a lot online and it seems to be a common issue - for many people with charging only and only the bottom USB-C port, not the side one - is this a software issue or combined (hardware & software)? Anyone came with a fix? Some comments said this started with what seems like a June or July software update and it was never a subject to humidity, damage to the USB-C port or similar.
I've just noticed that the charging current off a USB 2 port in a PC which must be quite low reached 1200 mA and AccuBattery was reporting reaching 80% in 1 hour from about 39% currently. Not certain if I could trust this data, I disconnected and reconnected the USB cable and now the same app reports 450 mA (more than 3 hours to 80% which is better and more like what is coming out the USB port).
I would be grateful for any feasible suggestions. If the charging port is to be replaced, I don't want to send it to a service center and prefer to do it myself (in case someone here did it before). I am planning to flash the same firmware (stock and latest, ww) I am currently on again and see if there is any change.
Just to add that this "USB port temperature abnormalities reminder" alert has been with the phone randomly since I had it but eventually got fixed by itself, I also updated the phone over time so may be updates-related too. But I never had the USB port not recognised before.
Many thanks to everyone.