Apologies for what might be a seriously n00b question, but does the Diamond recharge the battery while connected to a computer via the USB cable? I want to use the Diamond as a modem/router for my laptop for several hours at a time, but want to make sure that the battery will remain charged.
yes it does.
someone1234 said:
yes it does.
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That's great - many thanks.
voodooflux said:
Apologies for what might be a seriously n00b question, but does the Diamond recharge the battery while connected to a computer via the USB cable? I want to use the Diamond as a modem/router for my laptop for several hours at a time, but want to make sure that the battery will remain charged.
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If you click on the battery right in the upperleft, in the options you canb even choose, if you want or if not
1) can i charge the device with the USB port on my car stereo?
2) Can I purchase a generic USB cable for stereo or PC charging?
thanks guys!
Mr Farmer said:
1) can i charge the device with the USB port on my car stereo?
2) Can I purchase a generic USB cable for stereo or PC charging?
thanks guys!
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1) Yes
2) Yes
205_lacoste said:
1) Yes
2) Yes
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thanks. that'll be good for using GPS in the car and not having enough juice!
you just need to be aware that depending on the curretnt your car usb port thing can put out it is possible that you can't charge the battery as fast as you're consuming from it. so you'd just be extending battery life but not making it last as long as it's plugged in.
depending on the output of the USB charger that is being used in the car, you may be ok. I noticed that when I had TomTom running with GPS and the backlight turned up, battery status was reporting around 270 ma being drawn from the battery, so as long as that is accurate, and the charger can put out more than that, then you should be ok.
Thanks guys. Its quite likely the consumption will be at a rate higher than charging. I'll have to do some tests
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Hi guys,
I must be being slow here - my tytn 2 wont charge via the USB cable when the phone is on which is a total PITA in the car.
Can someone point me at what I am doing wrong...
Thanks
Stuart
there's an option under settings > power > advanced that allows you to turn charging on/off while plugged in and turned on. See if that box is checked, if so, uncheck it.
schford said:
Hi guys,
I must be being slow here - my tytn 2 wont charge via the USB cable when the phone is on which is a total PITA in the car.
Can someone point me at what I am doing wrong...
Thanks
Stuart
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Does it only do this on your car charger? If so, reboot your phone while it's plugged in and then it will work. My Hermes did the same thing. It has to do with the car charger in that it isn't wired right.
smittyofdhs said:
there's an option under settings > power > advanced that allows you to turn charging on/off while plugged in and turned on. See if that box is checked, if so, uncheck it.
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Thanks a bunch that fixed it for me!
Stuart
I'm curiuos why you wouldn't let it charge from the USB cable. Is there some logical reason to not have this enabled?
Read http://wiki.xda-developers.com/inde...y car or USB charger! It just doesn't charge! for an explanation.
kunicki said:
I'm curiuos why you wouldn't let it charge from the USB cable. Is there some logical reason to not have this enabled?
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Some users leave their devices plugged in via USB all day whilst sat at their desk and dont want the device on charge the entire time.
kunicki said:
I'm curiuos why you wouldn't let it charge from the USB cable. Is there some logical reason to not have this enabled?
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One that springs immediately to mind - Because you're travelling, your laptop isn't plugged in to sync or share Internet, and you don't want the PDA sucking the life out of your laptop battery.
Menneisyys said:
Read http://wiki.xda-developers.com/inde...y car or USB charger! It just doesn't charge! for an explanation.
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Thanks for the link, that was rather informative.
hello,
I´ve experienced a long-time charging with my diamond device: this is my 3rd charged and it started at 14.30 and it´s more than 22.10 hours and still one little-gap to be fully charged. Is this normal??? It´s been charged with the 3G (HSDPA) on, and using vodafone real mail connected (HSDPA connection opened to receive emails), but I remember my treo 750v it only took 2 hours or 3 as maximum to be fully charged. WHat do you think about this???
thanks
jumanji1212 said:
hello,
I´ve experienced a long-time charging with my diamond device: this is my 3rd charged and it started at 14.30 and it´s more than 22.10 hours and still one little-gap to be fully charged. Is this normal??? It´s been charged with the 3G (HSDPA) on, and using vodafone real mail connected (HSDPA connection opened to receive emails), but I remember my treo 750v it only took 2 hours or 3 as maximum to be fully charged. WHat do you think about this???
thanks
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Perhaps, your charger battery has a problem, like for exemple, it does not deliver enough power. Did you try with another one or charge it with your PC ?
Fabliv said:
Perhaps, your charger battery has a problem, like for exemple, it does not deliver enough power. Did you try with another one or charge it with your PC ?
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not yet, but i´m charge it through the usb cable, tell u tomorrow
thanks
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not yet, but i´m charge it through the usb cable, tell u tomorrow
thanks
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The USB cable does probably NOT provide quite enough energy to compensate for the connections you've switched on. If you have your WiFi/Bluetooth/GPS (one or combination) on, it even drains the battery quicker.
Let's say your phone requires 100mAh to run using the open connections and the USB delivers between 80-120mAh. Of course this is an example with random numbers... just to explain what I mean.
So either the power consumption of your phone is higher than the power the USB can give: this leaves the phone discharging slowly. Or the phone is being charged, but very slowly.
Conclusion: Better use the 230V charger!
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The USB cable does probably NOT provide quite enough energy to compensate for the connections you've switched on. If you have your WiFi/Bluetooth/GPS (one or combination) on, it even drains the battery quicker.
Let's say your phone requires 100mAh to run using the open connections and the USB delivers between 80-120mAh. Of course this is an example with random numbers... just to explain what I mean.
So either the power consumption of your phone is higher than the power the USB can give: this leaves the phone discharging slowly. Or the phone is being charged, but very slowly.
Conclusion: Better use the 230V charger!
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it´s still charging, that´s not normal don´t you think?¿?¿
jumanji1212 said:
it´s still charging, that´s not normal don´t you think?¿?¿
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As I explained... USB doesn't give much juice. If the device uses more energy than the USB can give (or almost the same) charging takes very long.
Simply use the 230V charger, and see how fast that goes! I guarantee that works.
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As I explained... USB doesn't give much juice. If the device uses more energy than the USB can give (or almost the same) charging takes very long.
Simply use the 230V charger, and see how fast that goes! I guarantee that works.
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i´m using the 230V charger from 14.30 and it´s 23.16, and still got one little gap to be fully charged
it´s amazing!!!
Just as a sidenote, usb gives 500mAh.
jumanji1212 said:
i´m using the 230V charger from 14.30 and it´s 23.16, and still got one little gap to be fully charged
it´s amazing!!!
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Have you got a battery charger 5V 1A mini USB other than the one that came with the Diamond ?
Fabliv said:
Have you got a battery charger 5V 1A mini USB other than the one that came with the Diamond ?
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i´ve a qtek 9000 charger, does this work with Diamond???
jumanji1212 said:
i´ve a qtek 9000 charger, does this work with Diamond???
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Yes of course, I've also a Qtek 9000 and the charger is the same.
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Yes of course, I've also a Qtek 9000 and the charger is the same.
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can´t find the qtek 9000 charger right now but found a charger that outputs DC5V 400mA.
1.-is this better than the original diamond´s charger?¿?¿?
2.-do you think it takes so long bc of the HSDPA connection on for the mail?¿?¿?
if any doubt of faulty unit I have till Wednesday to have my money back or change for another one so any kind of test bf that day would be great
thanks for all your help guys
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can´t find the qtek 9000 charger right now but found a charger that outputs DC5V 400mA.
1.-is this better than the original diamond´s charger?¿?¿?
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No, the original Diamond charger outpout is DC5V 1A. Better than that one.
jumanji1212 said:
2.-do you think it takes so long bc of the HSDPA connection on for the mail?¿?¿?
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so long bc ? What you mean ?
jumanji1212 said:
if any doubt of faulty unit I have till Wednesday to have my money back or change for another one so any kind of test bf that day would be great
Try to find the Qtek 9000 charger for testing and you'll take a decision.
thanks for all your help guys
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You welcome !
Por favor !
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so long bc ? What you mean ?
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This charging time is the first one that i´ve charged the diamond while the real mail of vodafone (HSDPA connection was always on to get push mail) so i suppose this can affect at charging velocity don´t you think?¿?
but instead of that, it´s really amazing how slow was the charging bc i´ve also a treo 750v and never remember to be so slow even with the push mail on...
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This charging time is the first one that i´ve charged the diamond while the real mail of vodafone (HSDPA connection was always on to get push mail) so i suppose this can affect at charging velocity don´t you think?¿?
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So you think that the first charge was not done correctly cause of the push-mail and his power need, right ?
Usualy, I leave my device off 12h during the first charge.
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but instead of that, it´s really amazing how slow was the charging bc i´ve also a treo 750v and never remember to be so slow even with the push mail on...
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I understand, but I think your charger is probably down. You have to test a new charger before compare.
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So you think that the first charge was not done correctly cause of the push-mail and his power need, right ?
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this charging is my 3rd time, the 1st one was long but not this long, i´m going to look for the qtek charger tomorrow morning and try it. talk 2 u tomorrow
bonne nuit
hello,i am going to change my diamond this afternoon.at first it comes with some battery, what do u recommend me?make a full charge bf any kind of use or use till the battery run out of power?
i have the same problem. Full charging takes more than 10 hours, no matter if i use USB or the charging device...if i turn the phone completely off, it doesn´t charge at all.
Why do you need a HSDPA Connection (Mails), when you charge via USB? Not possible to use ActiveSync for Internetaccess?
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hello,i am going to change my diamond this afternoon.at first it comes with some battery, what do u recommend me?make a full charge bf any kind of use or use till the battery run out of power?
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You can use till the battery run out of power and let the device off 12h during the first charge.
Hi everyone,
I've got a problem. When i charge my phone by USB on my laptop. The battery keeps to be drained. The notification icon says it is charging but it's like if it wasn't. When i try to charge my phone by AC adapter, It quickly charge without problems.
When i charge the battery, Wifi and Bluetooth are not activated.
Does anyone has noticed that ?
Thanks by advance
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Hi everyone,
I've got a problem. When i charge my phone by USB on my laptop. The battery keeps to be drained. The notification icon says it is charging but it's like if it wasn't. When i try to charge my phone by AC adapter, It quickly charge without problems.
When i charge the battery, Wifi and Bluetooth are not activated.
Does anyone has noticed that ?
Thanks by advance
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Try from another laptop or desktop.Sometimes Laptops don't provide enough power! Mine for example takes double time with laptop
gpo2307 said:
Hi everyone,
I've got a problem. When i charge my phone by USB on my laptop. The battery keeps to be drained. The notification icon says it is charging but it's like if it wasn't. When i try to charge my phone by AC adapter, It quickly charge without problems.
When i charge the battery, Wifi and Bluetooth are not activated.
Does anyone has noticed that ?
Thanks by advance
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Being my 1st smartphone (came from a BB) I have noticed it is slow to charge on USB but dont have anything to compare to. Will go up by about 10% in 40Mins for me.
I know that USB has less power running through it so wont charge up anywhere near a mains charge so bare that in mind.
Have you tried other USB ports or another computer? Might be just not enough juice coming through to charge it properly.
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Being my 1st smartphone (came from a BB) I have noticed it is slow to charge on USB but dont have anything to compare to. Will go up by about 10% in 40Mins for me.
I know that USB has less power running through it so wont charge up anywhere near a mains charge so bare that in mind.
Have you tried other USB ports or another computer? Might be just not enough juice coming through to charge it properly.
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Hahahahaaha! Same answer same time!!!!
hello,
I had the exact same problem when I had juice defender installed. Who said "irony" ?
Hello, I forget to read the DK31 manual and use my DK31 connect to PC USB port. (the manual said do not connect to that port, use only AC adapter). I use it for a week, and I concern about bad effect with my z1. Is my device will damage or have any problem? What is the bad effect that will happen to my phone? To think about this, it make a crazy. Please help me!!!
sorry my bad english
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Hello, I forget to read the DK31 manual and use my DK31 connect to PC USB port. (the manual said do not connect to that port, use only AC adapter). I use it for a week, and I concern about bad effect with my z1. Is my device will damage or have any problem? What is the bad effect that will happen to my phone? To think about this, it make a crazy. Please help me!!!
sorry my bad english
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Thats because the USB port does not have the enough power to supply the charger, the charger works with 1500mAh and the USB port 3.0 "only" with 900 max, that means that it will take longer to charge your phone and the dock and phone could over heat. Besides doing this often you will be decreasing the battery life of your Xperia Z1
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Thats because the USB port does not have the enough power to supply the charger, the charger works with 1500mAh and the USB port 3.0 "only" with 900 max, that means that it will take longer to charge your phone and the dock and phone could over heat. Besides doing this often you will be decreasing the battery life of your Xperia Z1
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Thank for you reply. But I have another question.
So, you mean that charging via usb port connect to PC (mini usb port not the magnetic) is not recommend too?
And I confuse about this --> I think, Charging with High current will be hotter, so AC adapter with 1500 mA must be drain my battery life more than USB (via PC)?.
iammop said:
Thank for you reply. But I have another question.
So, you mean that charging via usb port connect to PC (mini usb port not the magnetic) is not recommend too?
And I confuse about this --> I think, Charging with High current will be hotter, so AC adapter with 1500 mA must be drain my battery life more than USB (via PC)?.
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In USB charging mode, your Android device charges slowly, only drawing a maximum of 500ma from the USB host device, even if that device is a USB charger that is capable of supplying much more power, this means that your phone will take longer to charge, but there are cases where this process makes your phne overheat
there are several opinions about USB charging, the 2 most commons are. 1 your phone takes longer to charge and the battery charges better, and 2. the battery takes longer to charge and the battery life decreases.
So, in my opinion, I use the dock and the battery life is great, almost 18 hours with 4.5 hours on screen,
maybe you should make some test and post how was it
PS in all opinions some says that the battery life increases and other says that decreases, in both cases i think you will never notice
regards
I bought a crappy battery pack from dx.com.
the battery works but makes a horrible noise when connecting the phone to the 2A port ... 1A no problem
also it was cheap, chinese, and labled "power bnak" instead of "bank"... total crap
and then I thought... I have a practically new perfectly good huge capacity 12 cell laptop battery that is just sitting on the shelf doing nothing since I don't carry around my laptop most of the time and its connected to ac power with battery disconnected all the time....
what if I could connect a Usb port directly to the battery?
It could be a really overkill emergency charger!
Anyone knows how this can be done?
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I bought a crappy battery pack from dx.com.
the battery works but makes a horrible noise when connecting the phone to the 2A port ... 1A no problem
also it was cheap, chinese, and labled "power bnak" instead of "bank"... total crap
and then I thought... I have a practically new perfectly good huge capacity 12 cell laptop battery that is just sitting on the shelf doing nothing since I don't carry around my laptop most of the time and its connected to ac power with battery disconnected all the time....
what if I could connect a Usb port directly to the battery?
It could be a really overkill emergency charger!
Anyone knows how this can be done?
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Wrong voltage.. U would frie your charging circuts..
maydayind said:
Wrong voltage.. U would frie your charging circuts..
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When you charge from the wall socket it's also the wrong voltage... you convert it
maxlieb said:
When you charge from the wall socket it's also the wrong voltage... you convert it
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True but u asked if u connect it derectly. So stop asking questions u already know the answer to..
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True but u asked if u connect it derectly. So stop asking questions u already know the answer to..
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Directly meant without a huge laptop attached to it
It's possible
Some laptops will keep power flowing to USB ports without being fully on- possibly in sleep mode. Recommend doing that if that's the case, although that's quite heavy to carry around just for charging your phone.
A multi meter can tell you what voltages are coming off the laptop battery and radio shack or a local electrical supply store can get you the parts to convert the voltage to the same as the battery on the "power bnak" then it should just be a matter of making sure you have solid connection and plug in - that big of a power source would be great for camping or power outages.