Hi. I've had my Dell streak since November. One day it stopped charging. I am currently abroad living in Guatemala where the warranty is not covered, so I was wondering is it possible to open the dell streak and exchange the power source to a mini usb? Does anyone know if it has been done or any general thoughts on the subject?
Won't work, drivers and motherboard issues.
micro USB doesnt supply sufficient charge through the cable to support charging the device, you need at least 1amp to charge the streak 7 micro usb only delivers half of that
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So... its been done before... I think I might as well give it a try... look at this
http://forums.androidcentral.com/dell-streak/241144-dell-streak-7-charging-port-busted-woes-fix.html
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As the title. Oddly the streak will be powered by it when the battery is removed (it shows the "battery missing" screen.
The battery I have is a third-party Chinese thing I got from the amazon market. It seems to do the job for other handsets I have (HTC Raph, Couple of nokia handset)
Is there anything I can do to make it work?
The USB input on the Streak requires 1000ma @5v to charge so many of the chargers on the market won't work. I just picked up a Just Mobile Gum Pro 4400mA from Amazon and it seems to work fine. I haven't had a chance to check it out yet other than to make sure the Streak shows "charging" when it's plugged in.
Here's a link.
***amazon.com/gp/product/B001BWQTOC/ref=oss_product***
Thanks for your info. Would appreciate if you could post your findings later.
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The USB input on the Streak requires 1000ma @5v to charge so many of the chargers on the market won't work. I just picked up a Just Mobile Gum Pro 4400mA from Amazon and it seems to work fine. I haven't had a chance to check it out yet other than to make sure the Streak shows "charging" when it's plugged in.
Here's a link.
***amazon.com/gp/product/B001BWQTOC/ref=oss_product***
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Phjnky, have you tested it further? How long does it take to charge the streak and how many charges can you get out of this?
Does anyone else has any external battery to recommend?
Found Duracell CEF23-UK on amazon which seems like a very good idea. But it only output at 1.4v, 360mha which is useless for the streak. Does anyone know anything similar that can charge the streak?
The mobile gum pro works really well. Went on a trip and used it to power and recharge the streak. I dont recall but it seemed to recharge maybe twice from around 25% or so. It does charge rapidly about like the wall charger but I was using gogo inflight Internet and listening to Pandora, reading blogs etc while it charged. It kept the Streak going all day while on two long flights. I never fully ran it out of juice but got down to one bar.
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sounds good. Might get one.
Hi all,
I also have this problem, after power off streak, i discover third party band name "MOMAX" look like charging but if i press power button once time haven't charging screen show on streak screen, only genuine powersupply or charging with pc on usb can do this job, would you have any advise ? because i can't find genuine battery in hong kong, thanks a lot
Anyone have these 2?
http://www.dealextreme.com/p/usb-ac...able-car-charger-for-dell-mini-5-streak-59493
http://www.dealextreme.com/p/replac...1530mah-lithium-battery-for-dell-mini-5-80156
How are they? I see another battery that is priced at $9.50, but it looks like its the exact same battery... for a higher price.
http://www.dealextreme.com/p/3-7v-1530mah-rechargeable-battery-for-dell-mini-5-streak-59091
I don't have the charging dock so can't comment on it.
These two batteries look the same to me except the $5.80 one seems to have a yelloew sticker with a wholesales vendor's name on it. The $9.50 one shows an extra "Built-in safety and protective circuitries" feature in the description.
I have a different pack, SKU 57931, from them. It comes with a bettery but I am not sure if it is a $5.80 or $9.50 one since there is no serial # on the battery. After initial full charge, Streak uses about 25% per day. I have very mininum phone usage (few quick calls/texting/WiFi. I don't have 3G service).
Even it is a $5.80 one, it seems to be working fine for me.
BTW, it took a while to finally receive the shipment in US. (about 4 weeks after placing the order).
I have the charging dock. It works very well I use the streak as a bedside digital clock
at night while it charges. Good value as mine came with all cables and power supply.
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Careful using the dock / sparr charger it bent the pins in the port oem cable won't work now. Having my baby fixed
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Make sure you buy 3 .
I dont own either, but I do have a usb cable coming from them in a few days, as well as a zune cable amongst other things. Hope it isn't broken.
I got a USB cable from DX and it is very problematic - it causes the Streak to crash and/or drop its connection. I have a number of cables, both original Dell ones and aftermarket ones purchased from eBay, and none of these exhibit the same issue.
I have bought a LOT of stuff from DX over the years, and it is extremely rare to have any problems, so I guess that I just got a bad cable, but you may want to test yours carefully when you get it just in case there is a bad batch out there.
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I got a USB cable from DX and it is very problematic - it causes the Streak to crash and/or drop its connection...
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Can you explain what you mean? I'm not too sure what your saying... it... causes the streak to freeze?! That's so strange!
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Can you explain what you mean? I'm not too sure what you're saying... it... causes the streak to freeze?!
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When I have the Streak connected to my PC (or to a USB power outlet) using the cable that I got from DealExtreme, it frequently reboots and/or loses the connection to the PC. This only happens with the DX cable (I have 4 genuine Dell cables plus 2 bought from eBay and none of them have this problem).
There is obviously a loose connection or short inside the cable.
As I said, I don't want to put anybody off from buying from DX, as I find it's very rare to have any problems with their items.
any problem with this dock and battery so far?
Will the Streak (with the Otterbox case) fit on the dealextreme dock?
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any problem with this dock and battery so far?
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Took a few weeks to get it but I finally got it. The dock is great, the only complaints I have is that the AC charger is only EU (thankfully I had my AC adapter from another Mini-USB device), the car charger can be easily disassembled because it's not glued, and you can't charge a spare battery AND your phone at the same time through AC power alone... if you want to charge them both at the same time, you must also use the USB adapter and connect the dock to a computer. There is an LED that changes from Red to Blue, depending on what it is charging at that moment. If you have your phone docked, it will charge the phone and the light will be Blue. If you insert a spare battery to be charged, the light will change to Red and only the spare battery will be charging.
I've been using the $5 spare battery for 3 days now and I must say it's as good as the original. Let's just see if it holds a charge after a few months!
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Will the Streak (with the Otterbox case) fit on the dealextreme dock?
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The answer to this is no, the Streak with Otterbox is too thick for it.
Every time i plug in the charger it thinks im plugging in a dock. All it would do is go into docking mode. Now the battery is dead and it won't do anything. Anyone have any advice on a fix or alternate way to charge. I tried every way possible of resetting before it died but to no avail. I appreciate any and all help guys.
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My streak 5 did this to me, without any time to waste I went to Best Buy and bought one flat out, tried the new cable and I was good to go, I kept the good cable and returned the new phone to Best Buy.... crappy thing to do I know but i couldn't go without and dell was the only place to get cable.
esox23 said:
My streak 5 did this to me, without any time to waste I went to Best Buy and bought one flat out, tried the new cable and I was good to go, I kept the good cable and returned the new phone to Best Buy.... crappy thing to do I know but i couldn't go without and dell was the only place to get cable.
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Sounds like this might be a solution, unless it's the Streak7 that has the connectors wrong.
I'd guess that this has to do with the connexion points in the PDMI cable or port. It has pins that will trigger dock mode and pins that will trigger battery charging (iirc), so perhaps either the ones on the cable or on the S7 are switched around (or have some sort of jump going on due to poor QA).
Ugh, my new Dell 7 won't charge now either. I did charge it once, then flashed HoneyStreak, and now it won't charge. It can connect to my computer's USB port, but no charging.
I think I saw someone suggest to go back a version of HoneyStreak. Any suggestions?
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Ugh, my new Dell 7 won't charge now either. I did charge it once, then flashed HoneyStreak, and now it won't charge. It can connect to my computer's USB port, but no charging.
I think I saw someone suggest to go back a version of HoneyStreak. Any suggestions?
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The S7 cannot charge from the computer USB port; it only works with the mains adapter supplied with the device.
stevedebi said:
The S7 cannot charge from the computer USB port; it only works with the mains adapter supplied with the device.
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What's annoying is the LED goes red like it's charging, but it isn't... or it's draining faster than it's charging.
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Sounds like this might be a solution, unless it's the Streak7 that has the connectors wrong.
I'd guess that this has to do with the connexion points in the PDMI cable or port. It has pins that will trigger dock mode and pins that will trigger battery charging (iirc), so perhaps either the ones on the cable or on the S7 are switched around (or have some sort of jump going on due to poor QA).
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After looking further into my problem, i see now that part of the board where you plug it in at is broken. Dell sent me a new one, so im gonna crack it open and try bypassing the old charge port and put in a new usb port to charge it with. Then ill have two of them. Ill never know why dell didnt go usb on this thing anyway. Oh wait they did that so we cant buy aftermarket cables for it! Damn is dell owned by microsoft!! Lol. But thx for all the help and helpful ideas everyone!
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After looking further into my problem, i see now that part of the board where you plug it in at is broken. Dell sent me a new one, so im gonna crack it open and try bypassing the old charge port and put in a new usb port to charge it with. Then ill have two of them. Ill never know why dell didnt go usb on this thing anyway. Oh wait they did that so we cant buy aftermarket cables for it! Damn is dell owned by microsoft!! Lol. But thx for all the help and helpful ideas everyone!
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I am having this problem with a new streak I got for one of my boys, the connector inside is broken. Did you ever get the part replaced? Or is it just an expensive paperweight? What did you have to do to change it out?
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After looking further into my problem, i see now that part of the board where you plug it in at is broken. Dell sent me a new one, so im gonna crack it open and try bypassing the old charge port and put in a new usb port to charge it with. Then ill have two of them. Ill never know why dell didnt go usb on this thing anyway. Oh wait they did that so we cant buy aftermarket cables for it! Damn is dell owned by microsoft!! Lol. But thx for all the help and helpful ideas everyone!
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I think they planned to have an expansion port, where the connector was used for other things, like HDMI perhaps. HP did the same thing with the Slate 500.
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Hi I've got my DS7 for a while now but 2 days ago it stopped charging battery.
I thought maybe the charger is broken so I plugged it to my laptop via USB cable only but every time I've tried my laptop crashed and turned off ( I've got Asus G72GX which have safety switch when there is issue with power ).
I've tried also to connect it to my PS3 to charge it but no sucess too.
Right now I can't do anything about it because Dell Support told me that even if my DS7 is still on warranty I can't calim it because I bought it from Amazon from original owner, bastards ...
Any ideas ? Is it common issue with DS7's ?
No this is not common. Was it like this when you first bought it?
The s7 will not actually say it's charging if it's not on a 1/2A source. Pretty much only dedicated chargers can provide 1/2A, most laptops and pcs and etc usually dont.
You can get a cheap charger replacement at Amazon.
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It was allright before.
I just bought new charger on ebay to check if its the charger or the actual device issue but it will arrive probably after christmas.
Thanks everyone.
Hi everyone @xda,
Here's a new thread I wanted to open to share a recent experience.
I currently have a Nexus 4 and a Nexus 7. Both are recent ones and I have myself newly fallen into Android and tablets.
So far, I only had small cell phones and I could charge them with almost every charger and USB cable in the world.
No so easy with the Nexus 7.
First, it seems it's charger delivers a thick 2.6A so any charger weaker than that, and the full charge would last for ever...
But another weird thing is that I noticed that, if I use the stock charger with another USB cable, the charge is SSSLLLLOOOOWWWW....
Even better. I have the dedicated Nexus 7 dock.
If I use the USB cable that came with my previous Sony Ericsson mobile, the Nexus 7 won't even consider it is charging.
Same USB port, same dock, but different cable (from Belkin or the stock cable) : no problem, it charges !
So, I have come to the conclusion that the USB cable can make a big difference.
Can I be wrong ?
Regards.
NexusPenguin
Yes.. I broke the USB cable of my Nexus 7 after 2 weeks... The only one who charges the Nexus as fast as the stock is the samsung cable of my SGS2. With another cable (lower than 2A), it takes more than a night to charge my nexus...
Hi Albadros,
Thanks to confirm that...
For a moment I thought I was a little stupid thinking the USB cable could be at fault !
So the cable DOES make a difference... I'll take care of the cable I'll buy from now on
Regards.
NexusPenguin
NexusPenguin said:
Hi Albadros,
Thanks to confirm that...
For a moment I thought I was a little stupid thinking the USB cable could be at fault !
So the cable DOES make a difference... I'll take care of the cable I'll buy from now on
Regards.
NexusPenguin
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It's hard to find an USB cable where the informations are written but you can buy a charger micro-USB and it's written on it. You must have the same as the Nexus charger (2,0 A). (I think a charger for BB Playbook has the good characteristics)
In my experience it has something to do with the cable length and how the charger is constructed...
but there is already a thread about this topic:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1823377
NexusPenguin said:
Hi everyone @xda,
Here's a new thread I wanted to open to share a recent experience.
I currently have a Nexus 4 and a Nexus 7. Both are recent ones and I have myself newly fallen into Android and tablets.
So far, I only had small cell phones and I could charge them with almost every charger and USB cable in the world.
No so easy with the Nexus 7.
First, it seems it's charger delivers a thick 2.6A so any charger weaker than that, and the full charge would last for ever...
But another weird thing is that I noticed that, if I use the stock charger with another USB cable, the charge is SSSLLLLOOOOWWWW....
Even better. I have the dedicated Nexus 7 dock.
If I use the USB cable that came with my previous Sony Ericsson mobile, the Nexus 7 won't even consider it is charging.
Same USB port, same dock, but different cable (from Belkin or the stock cable) : no problem, it charges !
So, I have come to the conclusion that the USB cable can make a big difference.
Can I be wrong ?
Regards.
NexusPenguin
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In disagreement here. Got my Nexus 7 about a week ago, and right off the bat the USB cable that came with it (asus) was awful. Just like the crap that came with my S3. Not sure how or why, but the USB cable that came with my Pantech Crossover a few years ago is still the best for me. It charges my N7 fast as hell, and it's pretty durable too! Only cable I have that doesn't seem cheaply made, again as confused as everyone, I repeat a PANTECH cable..