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Doesn't charge via wall charger, OK car and usb

Hello Group
My Kaiser has stopped charging via a wall charger. I woke up this morning, and the battery had not charged at all
Some notes
-This problem occurs with 2 different chargers from 2 different outlets
-The device does show the charging indicators (lights and icons) even though it isn't charging
-The device does charge on PC USB port
-The device does charge on the car charger
-No visual bending of the USB pin
I've searched forums, and although I can find references to the opposite issue (wall power OK, USB power or car power NG), I can't seem to find any reference to what I'm seeing. My apologies to the group if I've missed any previous thread regarding this.
Thanks to all who help.

hello, strange problem. have you powered off the phone, pull out battery and try again, see if that might help
lupe

overhaulengines said:
hello, strange problem. have you powered off the phone, pull out battery and try again, see if that might help
lupe
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Yup, and I have removed and re-inserted the battery.
I thought this also might have to do with a battery going bad, but from what I understand a wall charger gives more power than a usb port, so, again, if that were the case I'd think the opposite would be true
And I did find the thread on some Kaisers are eating up a lot of idle current, but after standby BatteryStatus/HomeScreen PlusPlus says just 1 ma

It sounds like your wall charger has gone bad. It may provide enough current to light up the charge LED, but it certainly doesn't have enough power to charge the battery. Try another wall charger- they all work the same way. I have a number of USB-mini devices and they all interchange for charging.

lsica said:
My Kaiser has stopped charging via a wall charger. I woke up this morning, and the battery had not charged at all
Some notes
-This problem occurs with 2 different chargers from 2 different outlets
-The device does show the charging indicators (lights and icons) even though it isn't charging
-The device does charge on PC USB port
-The device does charge on the car charger
-No visual bending of the USB pin
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For what it's worth, you are NOT alone! The EXACT same thing has been happening to me on and off now for the past several months. At first, I thought it was the wall charger (I have 3 iGo chargers); however, ALL 3 of them failed to charge. I can understand one them failing, but ALL 3? No way. In my case, the car charger wasn't working either (it's also from iGo).
I ended up having to charge by USB. I eventually thought it was a battery problem, so I bought a new battery.
That worked...until the problem re-appeared again. The bottom line for me right now is that every now and then the wall charging does not work. So it will work fine for some time and then it will not, and then it starts to work again, etc. This erratic behavior happens with both batteries.
The duration of the wall charging working/not working is not fixed, I have found. For example, I have gone a couple of months of it charging fine and then it stops. At other times, it has been as short as a day. In any case, I usually find out about the problem in the morning, when I still see the amber charging light.
I'm convinced it's a Tilt problem.

I've loaded HomeScreenPlus to monitor current draw, and have seen the following:
-One wall charger is showing positive current (negative draw) SOMETIMES, and during those times it does charge the phone. This unit also makes the charge light turn off and on when I jiggle the plugs or cable. Obviously this charger is just broken.
-Another charger does not turn off/on the charge light or current draw when the wire is jiggled, but also never shows a positive current on the phone. This is an IGo charger, and based on previous posts here I'm thinking they just don't supply enough current to charge the phone. in other words, they suck
Any one have recomendations for a replacement wall charger for my Tilt?

i had the same issue with my htc tytn. no charger worked well for more than 5 minutes, until i got an official htc charger from my wifes shadow... now i use it because it works... and she uses the 3rd party one that came with my hermes when i bought it used... it charges her smart phone just fine, i assume beause it requires less juice? I dont know, but get a official htc branded charger... black berries have the same issue after they start getting a little old... probably something to due with wear and tear on resistors of some sort?

Found a charger that works
http://www.radioshack.com/product/index.jsp?productId=2935909
although I expect any ac to usb power adapter that supplies enough current will do. You just need to use your Kaiser/Tilt usb sync cable with it

I got exactly same problem for my Moto Q.
Tried several charger that worked before. Now, none of them works.

Here is the solution.
From www dot heberts dot net/motorola-q-wasnt-charging-via-usb
Start → Settings → Connections → USB to PC. I make “Enable advanced network functionality” on and off, and it works.
szniwawa said:
Tried several charger that worked before. Now, none of them works.
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My Kaiser
- Charges via AC
- Charges via Doc
- Does not Charge vis USB
- Does not charge via Car Charger
But if I use an "audio Adaptor" which has usbMini Input it will charge whatever i plug in!!
Weird as hell.
Regards
Mo

I bought one of these from fleebay and it works a treat with ANY charger I plug into it.
HTC Multifunction Audio Cable YC A300
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Mo

[Q] Charging on CM7 With A Non Nook Charger

Hey Guys,
So I've been using CM7 since Nightly 13 or so. Around that time I was using both my stock charger and other micro usb cables I had. I would plug the non-stock into a non-stock wall plug usb outlet thing or to the computer and I had no trouble charging the nook. This is great for being at work.
Then, somewhere around nightly 22 or so this stopped working. The icon in the status bar on the nook shows charging, spare parts reports "Charging USB" and "Charging AC" respectively, but the battery level only goes down.
To make matters worse, around nightly 22 I found that after I had used the non-stock charger even the stock stopped working. I was not getting ANY charge. I read somewhere that I could use CWM to clear the battery stats so I did and that appears to correct the problem. I'm able to use the stock again.
So here I am, running CM7 rc4 but I see that I'm still not able to charge from non-stock.
Does anybody know what gives here or can you point me towards more information?
Thanks

yeah, I seem to be having the same problem
My nook was out of juice this morning so I brought a usb cable with me to work
it's been plugged in for over an hour and it still won't even turn on..

mine charges fine with the cabble that came with my evo into my laptop

This sounds important enough to repost in the Developer forum, no?

actually, I think it is charging
it's just charging REALLY slowly
mine's finally booted up now

Well I understand it always has charged much slower without the standard Nook charger, so maybe this is just an isolated case for the OP?

If I don't turn off the screen and use 1100 mhz + performance governor and have live wallpaper running, it won't charge. I think it's because it's using more power than my USB can supply.
If I have it on interactive 300/1100, with the screen off, it will charge overnight.

I don't think its and isolated event, I have the same problem but with the original nook charger its all out of juice its been connected to the wall jack for 1 hour and its not even trying to turn on.
It's a very pretty paperweight telling me that I should try again in 15 minutes for the past hour.

Yours won't charge with the original charger? What kind of light are you getting on the charger cable? Have you tried turning the machine completely off?

chisleu said:
If I don't turn off the screen and use 1100 mhz + performance governor and have live wallpaper running, it won't charge. I think it's because it's using more power than my USB can supply.
If I have it on interactive 300/1100, with the screen off, it will charge overnight.
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Yeah, after waiting the day it appears this is the case. I have to leave the screen off and it will charge. If I actually use it I think I'm consuming more power than trickles in. That's really lame.
I've had the screen off for the last 5 hours (using it occasionally) and it is now at 50% battery, up from 8%. So I guess it is charging... just REALLY slowly.
What, if anything, can be done about this? Is this a purely hardware issue or is there a software aspect to this. I'm telling you, I didn't have this issue with nightly 13 (or so).

You know, I had been using the "ondemand" governor but have changed over to the "interactive". I wonder if that has anything to do with it. I'm going to switch it back and see if it makes a difference.

Someone please correct me if I'm wrong but I believe the nook only charges with the nook charger.
When I plug CM7 into the PC the battery percentage will jump to 100% after some (brief) time. Since I know it's too short of a time to fully charge the battery I rebooted the Nook Color and it showed the proper battery percentage.
As an aside, you're not supposed to let lithium ion batteries fully discharge. It's bad for the battery.

No I understand that it does charge via regular USB, just more slowly. The Nook cable is specially designed to add additional pins for higher voltage charging. Or something like that.

I have this plugged into a standard Motorola microUSB wall charger and it works fine for my Nook Color.
The only thing is that it charges at a much lower amperage.
You can verify this with a quick dmesg piped to grep in a terminal:
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With the standard Nook Color Charger, it charges at a rate of 2A.
It works fine at 500 mA; it just takes a lot longer.
Does anyone know if charging this way might cause damage over time to the Nook?

Logically, if it were harmful they wouldn't allow you to use a USB cable to connect to a powered USB port on a PC. (Or they'd disable charging upon such a connection.)
I mean, some people are going to leave the things connected to their PC for long periods.

xdabr said:
Logically, if it were harmful they wouldn't allow you to use a USB cable to connect to a powered USB port on a PC. (Or they'd disable charging upon such a connection.)
I mean, some people are going to leave the things connected to their PC for long periods.
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Well... for the record, the stock nook complains when you use the non-stock charger. And it doesn't report charging.
It definitely charges using CM7, but it is super slow AND using the nook while charged seems to break even on battery consumption. If I shut the screen off though it definitely puts power into the battery.
You can see all this by using SpareParts. It shows battery info on demand and you'll actually be able to see the voltage in the battery and watch it charge. Percentage be damned I'm looking at voltage
So... I think my original question is answered. Yes, it will charge off USB or non-stock charger using a non-stock cord. It charges slowly and with a low amount of voltage meaning I can't really use the thing if I expect it to charge.
Maybe I just need to man up and buy another stock charger. :/

Paul22000 said:
It works fine at 500 mA; it just takes a lot longer.
Does anyone know if charging this way might cause damage over time to the Nook?
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Quite the opposite. For Li-Ion batteries, a slower "trickle" charge is actually recommended over the "quick" version via higher amps.

3rd party chargers aside, are you saying with stock Nook Eclair it doesn't "report" any charging when attached with a standard USB cables to a PC -- and does it in fact NOT charge at all that way? 'Cause that would be a signifier to me that it's not intended and is potentially unsafe.
I thought I had read that it does eventually charge, just as it does in CM7....

Mine will charge with the non-oem chargers, but it takes forever. I try not to let mine completely die because it's such a pain to get it powered on again. I get the notice on screen that says something about "continue charging and try again in 15 minutes" and it takes much longer than that. Last time it died all I had was a non-oem charger at my parents' place and I had to leave it plugged in over night and when I woke up it was back on but STILL not 100%. It's a pain when you're in a hurry, but if you're in a bind and that's all you have but have time to leave it, it will eventually power back on. At least that's my experience with the nook running cm7.

Definitely seems software/driver issue. For me, the Nookie Froyo SD build had great battery time, and would slow-charge from a normal USB cable plugged into laptop. I know this because 1. It would charge, and 2. If it was fast-charging as normal, and pulling too many milliamps from the laptop, it would have informed me the USB port draw was too great, and disabled it. I have a Y USB power splitter for external hard drive - I should test if it changes anything if I use it (I'll assume it won't as it wouldn't have the custom pins).
Now that I'm messing with CM7 (sd) builds, battery drain is horrible, so I often get that "15 minutes" screen and I've had cases where it won't charge from a regular USB cable. Haven't done a lot of testing with these much, as I didn't want to have to leave it plugged in constantly.

[Q] Touchpad ICS down to 0% Power

Ok, I'm really sweating bullets here...
I had installed Cyanogenmod ICS alpha2 on my TouchPad and had spent all day on that tablet - loving the new lease on life it had. Before I went to sleep last evening it had like 10% power left. I plugged it in with the official Touchpad charger and left it charging until I woke up the next morning - a full 8 hours later.
To my surprise, it had 0 power left. Nada. Zip. I had checked the outlet and it was fully plugged in at both the tablet and the outlet to the wall. I knew I had turned off the tablet.
Now that it has 0% power - how in the heck am I supposed to boot into Palm mode to charge the battery (as I have heard that that is a work-around)?
I could really use your help here - many thanks.
@kstagg

Not sure if its the same problem...but I noticed recently that whenever i let my tp go down below 10%...and i hook up the charger...it doesnt charge at all...even with charger hooked up..battery drains....So when its 0% and I boot into WebOS to charge to fully....
For your issue, if your TP is dead...do you see battery sign when hooked to wall charger? if you do then wait for some time (mine takes 15-20 mins)...it will boot up..if your android is default then it will boot into android....without removing it from the charger...boot it into webos and charge...
If you cant do this..get it fixed by HP

What does it do when you plug it in?
First take the power adapter and twist off the bottom part and put it back on. When you connect it, do you get the battery "charging" symbol?
What I do is let it charge enough to hit moboot, then if I catch it in time I choose webOS and let it charge a little then reboot to CM, unplug the charger for a few seconds, then reconnect it. If it boots direct to CM the first time (moboot default) it's going to stay 'charging' but doesn't change from 0%. In that case, reboot and either go to webOS or reboot into CM9 a few times till it shows 1%... then disconnect the charger a few seconds and reconnect.
No matter what level the battery is at, if you boot into CM with the charger connected it will not charge. You have to unplug it for a few seconds and then reconnect it.

When I am hooked to wall charger, I see the battery symbol with the red line on it showing that battery is extremely low - in my case battery is dead. It won't even boot up when I take it off the charger. I just get the power cord symbol.
I have even been able to turn off the touchpad completely (since the TP has been on 0% power) by holding in volume up and power buttons simultaneously. I have no idea how I knew to do this - perhaps it was desperation. So I have even attempted to charge it via the wall outlet and waited a couple hours that way - but no change. It still has squat power.
Everything I've read is that once you've rooted the touchpad to a different OS, HP will no longer support it. Not sure where I would go to get it fixed by them either? Please correct me if I'm wrong. Hopefully it won't come to that though. Besides, the Mrs would kill me. :]

mountaindewmi said:
What does it do when you plug it in?
First take the power adapter and twist off the bottom part and put it back on. When you connect it, do you get the battery "charging" symbol?
What I do is let it charge enough to hit moboot, then if I catch it in time I choose webOS and let it charge a little then reboot to CM, unplug the charger for a few seconds, then reconnect it. If it boots direct to CM the first time (moboot default) it's going to stay 'charging' but doesn't change from 0%. In that case, reboot and either go to webOS or reboot into CM9 a few times till it shows 1%... then disconnect the charger a few seconds and reconnect.
No matter what level the battery is at, if you boot into CM with the charger connected it will not charge. You have to unplug it for a few seconds and then reconnect it.
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Just tried twisting off the bottom of the HP charger and reattaching and am just getting the power plug icon.

I installed CM7 in my friends TP back when that was the current release and about a month ago it went dead, wouldn't power up at all (no battery icon) and they still took it and repaired it with no problems.
In your case though I think you are fine... just leave it charging in that screen for a while. Then do a home/menu + power button reboot (15+ seconds) and see if you can get moboot. It may go back to the charging screen but thats fine, give it more time and try again. A few of my coworkers have the same problem sometimes and they come running to me, lol.

mountaindewmi said:
I installed CM7 in my friends TP back when that was the current release and about a month ago it went dead, wouldn't power up at all (no battery icon) and they still took it and repaired it with no problems.
In your case though I think you are fine... just leave it charging in that screen for a while. Then do a home/menu + power button reboot (15+ seconds) and see if you can get moboot. It may go back to the charging screen but thats fine, give it more time and try again. A few of my coworkers have the same problem sometimes and they come running to me, lol.
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Guess you can add me to one of those unfortunate souls you can add to your list who keeps running back to you. :]
My question to you is - where did they take it back to? Do you have a URL showing a shipping address? Sure, HP HQ is a few miles away from me - but am not about to go knocking on their door and say "Yeah, uh - can you fix this?" Besides that is a corporate HQ - not a manufacturing plant.

I have two TPs and one (older one by about a month) has the connector going loose... It usually charges fine but once in a while, it fails to connect. Depending on the angle of the way the tablet meets the micro usb I will sometimes fail to connect it properly.
My other one has a very tight micro ubs port and it's hard to plug in, but it works fine everytime...
So my point is, make sure you have an actual connection when you plug in for charge.

Dunno if I'm just lucky or what, but my tp died on the way to work this morning, so I plugged it in when I got here, got the red battery symbol, and let it charge for about half an hour. Here is where I am now:
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I should also note that it died in cm9, showed the battery screen, then when I checked it next, it had 7% or so in cm9 as well. Never had to boot into webOS for anything.

mountaindewmi said:
I installed CM7 in my friends TP back when that was the current release and about a month ago it went dead, wouldn't power up at all (no battery icon) and they still took it and repaired it with no problems.
In your case though I think you are fine... just leave it charging in that screen for a while. Then do a home/menu + power button reboot (15+ seconds) and see if you can get moboot. It may go back to the charging screen but thats fine, give it more time and try again. A few of my coworkers have the same problem sometimes and they come running to me, lol.
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OK, did exactly what you said and plugged it in w/battery indicator in the red and walked away for a few hours. When I came back just now so far it was at 93%. Can I get a Hallelujah?
Ok, can anyone tell me what to do to prevent this from happening again in the future? Do I have to do any routine cache cleanup (?) or other general maintenance? Will booting into WebOS to charge before battery gets too low always work?
Thanks again folks-
@kstagg

kstagg said:
OK, did exactly what you said and plugged it in w/battery indicator in the red and walked away for a few hours. When I came back just now so far it was at 93%. Can I get a Hallelujah?
Ok, can anyone tell me what to do to prevent this from happening again in the future? Do I have to do any routine cache cleanup (?) or other general maintenance? Will booting into WebOS to charge before battery gets too low always work?
Thanks again folks-
@kstagg
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Booting in WebOS before battery gets too low and charging in webos always works for me

Last time i drain my battery to 0% for the calibration. But it charges just fine after that.
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I'm glad it worked for you! I would say just don't let it fully drain, lol. If it does, just repeat the steps and you should be ok. And you don't need to boot into webOS when it is low, you can plug it in while in android and it will be fine, as long as the battery isn't at 0% which is when it shuts off.
Mine is actually at the same point right now, fully drained.

Sometimes mine doesn't charge....because the USB cord gets ever so slightly slightly unplugged from the adapter.
Be sure to try that in the future.
~ E.R.A.

Xperia Z dead(Reverse Polarity)

So i accidently plugged in the usb the wrong way and the phone shut off. Have tried every button combination and holding down the powerbutton numerous times with no success. Led light doesn't light up and have tried leaving it in the charger for various hours and used different chargers. My next step was to disassemble the phone and hope a battery pull did the trick but that didn't work. However when I disconnect the black battery connector and plug in a usb the red led lights up for about 15 seconds and dissapears.
anyone know any possible solutions? I think my battery might have fried
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Is there a way to jump the battery and hope that that works? I've jumped plenty of batteries on phones with removable batteries but I'm not sure if the Z has metal contacts for negative and positve

no one?

normally any device that has DC input (like usb) is secured with diodes so that even when a faulty charger is connected it doesn't fry. But that's my electrical knowledge speaking. Please reply when you found out what the problem is

laandennis said:
normally any device that has DC input (like usb) is secured with diodes so that even when a faulty charger is connected it doesn't fry. But that's my electrical knowledge speaking. Please reply when you found out what the problem is
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My One X did fry when I connected it to a car charger not too long ago
still no luck on this phone however

How did you even manage to connect the usb the wrong way? lol

wawyed said:
How did you even manage to connect the usb the wrong way? lol
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**** happens lol what sucks is that as soon as it made contact the phone turned off

adolfo778 said:
My One X did fry when I connected it to a car charger not too long ago
still no luck on this phone however
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Alright thx for the info but maybe you had another problem with you charger and the transformation from 12V to 5V was bad, that can't be controlled with only a diode. Or maybe your One X hadn't any security internally because the manufacturer wanted to save money on that component / no place anymore to put it in the phone.

Think I have something similar..... Connected to car charger, led didn't go red,pushed charger in moved wire in phone charger goes off, phone won't start tried all button combos.
Sad bit is I only just got phone 3 days ago:banghead::banghead::banghead::banghead::banghead:
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Can anyone else comment on this? I recently did this and my Xperia Z will not turn on. Would replacing the battery work or is the damage related to the other internals?

Do you see any damage to the usb port?

ngvuanh said:
Do you see any damage to the usb port?
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No I don't see any damage to the USB port.

I did the same to my xperia Z1 (reverse biased it using usb and 5 volts wires) The battery however had charge so as soon as I connected the phone restarted and could not charge any more. Any solution please ????

Might be an old post but I had the same problem. I was fixing a cable (18V) and I wanted the range the cable in the corner. I was so lazy to use a screw driver or something else. So I used what I have in my hand: The jack cable, plugged into my phone. So I used the bare part of the cable (Don't ask me why, I don't know). I don't remember if my phone restarted, but he was fine. But not my jack connector. When I plug an earphone it says that my earphones are not recognized. So I change it (by my self) But still the same problem...
Seems like the problem comes from somewhere else.

do you found the fried parts of your phone or fixed it ?
i have same issue today i connected an experimental cable (v+ was placed into gnd pin and gnd to v+) to my lumia 625 and it flashes then shut off immediately now it show no sign of life not charging not turning on
anyone knows what parts have been fried ?

Qi plus external battery

Ordered one of these today, big battery plus qi charging, should get it Tuesday, I'll report back with a quick review how it does with the turbo
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00J409JCM/ref=pe_385040_30332200_TE_item

Was looking to buy the same item. Let us know how it is. Specifically, if really charges ~10,000mAhr worth of battery. Thanks!
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Ordered one of these today, big battery plus qi charging, should get it Tuesday, I'll report back with a quick review how it does with the turbo
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00J409JCM/ref=pe_385040_30332200_TE_item
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Got it in the mail yesterday, nice looking packaging, the instructions are a bit strange, think it was translated but not proof read, but not a big deal since there is just one button.
The qi charging is pretty neat, slower than ordinary chargers (all qi chargers are limited) but so much nicer to use the phone without having to plug and unplug device. Both usb ports claim 2.1a, one labeled Samsung, one Apple. Everything seems to work fine, will get better idea today after letting it full charge overnight.

How many times can you can fully charge your phone using this?

Depends if you use the usb or wireless, usb is roughly 90 percent effective, so that works mean only 9,000 mAh, so about twice fully charging the droid, wireless is roughly 70 percent effective, that's about 1 full charge and three quarters charge.
That's on paper, haven't fully tested yet, doubt I'll ever will, like knowing I have a fully charged device ready to go. I just charged my nexus 7 wifi from half full, charges pretty darn fast. Love the wireless charging, no need to plug phone in, slower charge but that's expected. It has worked with every device we own, 2 iPad's,2 iPhones,3 android phones,2 android tablets and a kindle, yes we own a bunch of electronics, three kids plus the wife and me, the biggest kid of them all!

Can it be used in a "bypass" mode as a dock? In other words, have it plugged into the wall and charge devices without it constantly charging the internal battery of the qi device.

Yes it can, it is different from my ankor 12,000 mAh external battery, if it's plugged in to charge it will charge it's battery and whatever you have plugged in, this one seems to only charge the phone when plugged in, when the phone is full it charges the battery.
Now that could be wrong, the charging lights on the battery can be confusing what is actually going on, it could be charging the external battery and whatever is plugged in, the device manual looks like it was crudely translated,I hear the company is releasing a new pdf with updated instructions, either way it doesn't effect me.
One of the best features over other batteries is a normal micro usb is all you need to charge it, the ankor has it's own brick, lose or break it the battery is useless. Really love this, owned several packs and this one goes everywhere with me, my Droid hasn't gone below 55% , just too easy to charge wireless, set the phone down, hit a button it charges, no cord to undo to use the phone, awesome

Just looked at the online faq, there is pass thru charging, plus I found out it has two modes by long pressing the only button, red light on wireless on, red light off,usb charging only, here is from the faq
Pass-Through Wired Charging: While the power bank is connected to a USB charger, long press the power button so that only the red LED is on. You can now use the USB1 (1A) jack to charge a device (USB2 is disabled due to insufficient current).Pass-Through Wireless Charging: While the power bank is connected to a USB charger, long press the power button so that only the red LED is on. Place a mobile device on top of the power bank, and align the center of its wireless receiver with that of the wireless transmitter within 2 cm (0.6 inch).

I don't know anything about qi charging and am just learning. Are there others out there like this? This looks really nice I'm just curious for comparison.