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Urgent Question: GPS + XDA Charger Cable

I am wiring up a GPS mouse for my Dad's XDA, and I just wanted to make sure it would be ok link off of the XDA's cigarette lighter charger to also provide 5volts to the GPS to power it?
The unit is a Rikaline 6010, will the XDA car charger be able to supply both the xda and GPS ??
Data sheet for GPS here:
http://www.rikaline.com/download/GPS-6010-Manual-E.pdf
Need a reply asap
Cheers
Neil

Should be fine...
Not sure about your specific unit, but I have done exactly this with a Digitraveler GPS mouse, and it works great. Can't imagine the the load would be much different between the two.
Josh

um might work might not :| my dads i converted my dads ipaq 3870's car charger to power his bluetooth gps lol (point being it now isnt wireless lol) and the gps kinda steals all its charge power causing the ipaq to charge then stop charging and the ipaq drains instead
ive ordered a usb gps from ebay and a xda car charger im going to wire them up when they come ill let you know the results just try and see no harm in trying
gaz

It will run off of 5 volts.
8)

i use the rikaline 6010 with tom tom2 software...but it came with the tom tom....2 leads come out of the cig lighter one for the xda and the other for the gps receiver....have a look on e-bay you can buy the leads on there own

Its ok, got it sorted now. It's all powering off the one lighter plug :wink:

Car charger... is it an aftermarket fake or the real deal?

I bought a "HTC" branded car charger from Ebay last week.
I got it in the mail today and it seems to be to be built too cheep to be actual HTC brand.
Is there a way to tell what is actual HTC and what is a second hand knock off?
Im not to sure I want to use this charger on my phone for fear it will get damaged.

Was it shipped from China/HongKong? => it is fake
Was it bought on eBay => it is fake
To be honest, I have never seen a HTC HD2 car charger made by HTC(perhaps it is sold with the car holder?). I need such thing but to be honest, I am also a little bit scared about damaging my phone.

Take some images so we can all take a look.

The HTC version of the car charger has the part that lugs in to the cigarette lighter and then a SEPARATE usb wire that connects to it which then connects to the phone, the wire is not permanently attached to the plug. If you bought one of those adapters that say "HTC" on it and glows (for under $10), you bought a fake.

I've got this item:
pearl.fr/automobile/accessoires-12v/station-de-recharge-usb-allume-cigare_PX1093.html add www before because of the silly antispam regulation
with the usb wire it's work well and I can charge 4 device in the same time (hd2/mp3/buetooh car hand free/gps
great and cheap
anyway 5 Volt is 5 volt and it's working !

Thanks for the replies...
yeah its from Ebay and it has the glowing HTC logo on it. wich = fake.
Oh well. glad I didnt spend a lot on it
guess it will be going into the trash with the packaging it came in. I am NOT going to risk my phone for over this piece of garbage.
thanks for the heads up on the "real" HTC car charger. Will search for one of them instead.
wolfee

wolfee said:
yeah its from Ebay and it has the glowing HTC logo on it. wich = fake.
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Huh? The official one has a lit HTC logo...
I have the official car mount and it comes with the car charger + cable. It's flat on the USB end and has a backlit HTC above the USB port.
Also, you can buy them separately.

does it work? if so, whats the big deal?
Like someone has asked, get some pictures up so we can inspect it

Charger
Seriously. I bought a Micro USB cable from the store for like 5.99. Been using the same cigarette USB universal charger for everything from GPS, to Tilt 2, to PSP, to bluetooth headsets using the same adaptor. Never had a single problem for about 3-4 years...

HTC=Taiwan
Taiwan=China (depending on who you want to ask)
Hong Kong =China

[Q] Car Chargers

Has anyone found a good car charger that they know works with the Focus? My dad's super-paranoid about my phone, and wants me to have a car charger. The problem, as many of you probably know, is that the Focus seems finnicky about what chargers it gets along with. Does anyone have one that they've tried that works?

I went with the Belkin Micro USB car adapter, works great, especially if you need to charge other USB devices.

This is the charger I used. It's made by Motorola but it works great with the Focus. Plus the LED light is a transparent window which looks awesome. It doesn't quite look like the photo. It's also discounted. I'll probably be ordering a couple more to keep in my other car.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16875982168

IGO
I use the IGO car charger with the tip for my Samsung Focus. I also have the tip for my wifes Samsung Sync A707. I also had the tip for my FUZE when I was using that. It was nice, we could travel and just bring the additional tip and charge either phone. Works on my Focus very well.

I bought my Focus from Costco and they gave me a free no-name chinese car charger with the phone. I used it only once so far and my phone did not explode or anything, but I don't know if it was actually charging or not. The battery icon had the 'plug' graphic on it, but how can I tell if it was working properly?

I ended up getting a cheap charger off from eBay, it's kind of like the motorola listed that has the USB port. It also came with the USB cable and another house plug-in with the USB port. I travel a lot for the military so I like to have a spare cable and house charger.

i've used a Griffin which has a USB plugin...from my blackberry phone, HTC Tilt2 (winmo 6.5), HTC Aria (android), and will use it on my Focus. but with the battery, i haven't had a need for it yet lol. off the home charger with a full charge at 6:30am...drove to atlanta (well covered 3G area) to Athens (so so 3G) and all the back home down back roads through no name towns (spotty coverage). it's now 5:30 and i'm still showing half a battery gauge. that's with a few calls, plenty of texting, and a lot of web browsing.
damn i love this phone

I use one I got from Costco with my Backflip last year. I figured all micro USB would be fine.

Got a couple Rocketfish ones from Best Buy - work great

IMO, the Belkin is nice because it is low-profile. a very clean looking charging setup. Also can use whatever microusb I have handy rather than some dedicated cable.
DownbeatClique said:
I went with the Belkin Micro USB car adapter, works great, especially if you need to charge other USB devices.
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Get the OEM charger here. I have had no issue with the MicroUSB connector, unlike my last car charger that just died. Can't beat the price either.

I bought three of these chargers...
I got three of these chargers off amazon. They are oem, but are official motorola and look really nice. They have a translucent window with the M on them that lights up when they are plugged in. They are a steal at less than five dollars. Go here-->http://www.amazon.com/Motorola-Vehicle-Adapter-micro-USB-Charger/dp/B000S5Q9CA/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1304549428&sr=8-1-spell.

That's what I got too, just through Amazon for prime 2 day.
Sent from my Samsung Focus using Board Express

[Q] Car charger when using GPS!

Hi,
I have got a generic car charger I got off Ebay which seems to have a minor issue. When using GPS and charging in the car, the charge continues to drop...although slower than if it wasn't being charged. Basically means that eventually, despite being charged all the time, the battery will go flat when using GPS. I assume this is because the car charger is behaving as though its being charged via a USB port rather than mains.
Is this a problem with all car chargers...or just because I got the cheapest car charger I could get on eBay?
Would buying the official Samsung car charger provide a more efficient and quicker charging?

Im curious about this as well. I use a cheap charger and it seems to "maintain" the current charge, but doesnt actually charge.
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Mine was dropping one percentage point every 15 minutes or so. If I was running low on battery before getting in the car, I probably wouldn't get very far using the GPS

you guys need to get a HIGH amp car charger
i purchased a 2Amp charger and it works perfectly
average old (free) included car chargers are usually rated at 450 mAh or less
translation, you use the battery faster than it can charge it back
basically you need charger that guarantees 1 Amp (1000 mAh) or more for it to properly work in the car, meanwhile using the GPS and Bluetooth streaming

i picked up a cheap duracell brand car charger from the local frys store before embarking on my 4 hour journey from Houston to Dallas, i had music playing and gps with screen brightness at 100%
no issues for me

I use a Motorola charger, 950 mah. Works find for me. Got it for $5 on Amazon. It's not a USB adapter charger, but it gets the job done.
royalsego said:
i picked up a cheap duracell brand car charger from the local frys store before embarking on my 4 hour journey from Houston to Dallas, i had music playing and gps with screen brightness at 100%
no issues for me
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Hope you had that phone in front of your A/C otherwise the back cover probably would have melted.

the one i'm using was originally made for BlackBerries

There's a thread somewhere about modding your car USB charger charger cable by linking the data parts to make it think it's mains and allowing a full 1amp to come through.
Can anyone link to a reliable 1amp on Amazon or something?

AndyCr15 said:
Can anyone link to a reliable 1amp on Amazon or something?
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I've just got one of these from Amazon...
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B002SKF654/ref=oss_product
Seem to do the trick so far, rated at 1A and on a brief test this morning on the way to work actually charged the phone with NAV and GPS running.
The Samsung I had bought previously did show as charging from 'AC' (so D+ and D- shorted) but was only rated at 750mA which clearly wasn't quite enough.

I had one from Belkin, bought for my old iPhone, it works really well with the Nexus S, even with the GPS always on.

Most of the ipad chargers are rated at 2 amp. Get one with a usb connection and use your own usb cable. Kensington makes one in a micro format that hides completely in the lighter outlet. Works great for me.
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Philips AS140 will not charge devie while docked

Heads up the Philips AS140 sound dock will not charge the Nexus 7 while docked. I called their tech support and they said that I had a faulty dock and they shipped me a brand new one. I updated the firmware on the replacement sounddock when it arrived and connected my Nexus 7 to the dock.... Still no charge while connected. Bluetooth functionality work great.

I have the same issue with my phillips dock. No idea what the cause is as to why it won't charge the Nexus 7 but it's frustrating

At a guess the socket/adaptor is not configured for high power devices like tablets that need the data pins to be shorted.

Same issue
Have the same issue with Samsung Note 4. My samsung Note 3 charges just fine, but the Note 4 wont ever recognize it. I read on another post that the Note 4 uses 2.4 amps and the Note 3 used 2.1 amps... So maybe it just isnt the right juice for it to recognize it, but it seems like it should at least recognize that its trying to put juice in it.