I would like to suggest moving all the discussions regarding external charger solutions here.
I got this battery and plan to purchase a 2nd as soon as they are in stock again. I would like to find an acceptable external charger solution.
I'm not trying to hijack anyone's thread. I am ONLY interested in finding a solution to the external charger problem and not in all the other discussions regarding this battery.
me 2 , waiting for a charger just for the battery
Nothing to move really. There is an Anker charger you can mod, otherwise no other options.
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I took my external battery charger I bought on eBay for like $3, opened it, moved the charging pins to one side to the other and can now charge my ZeroLemon externally when it's low on juice.
Granted it's not a 2ah charger so it takes a little longer to charge which I don't mind.
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90awdsm said:
I took my external battery charger I bought on eBay for like $3, opened it, moved the charging pins to one side to the other and can now charge my ZeroLemon externally when it's low on juice.
Granted it's not a 2ah charger so it takes a little longer to charge which I don't mind.
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By a little longer, are we talking about 350mA charger you have in there? If so, we are talking about close to 27 hours to charger ZL9300 Plus, another thing I find bad with these charger, their ready light indicator is based on measuring the voltage of the battery to determine full charge, and it's not accurate. The mod I mentioned in my other thread for a ZL charger, whenever I get a full light on either with Zerolemon or Samsung or Anker batteries - when plugged into a phone it never 100% and have to charge up more...
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Hi Guys,
i've this problem with a high capacity battery. if i load it through the external charger provided with it, i'm able to reach 3 days of normal usage while if i charge when the battery is in the phone, it takes less to discharge (1.5-2 days). I've tried a lot of battery application but seem a more hardware stuff. Probably android have some functionality that ables to disconnect the power when the battery reached the "false" 100%.
In all likelihood, they aren't charging to the same voltage. You'd have to check the full battery with a multimeter to know for sure.
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Mind sharing the details of the battery, brand, capacity, and so on with us?
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Sure,
it's a no-brand battery with 3500mah bought on amazon.
To my knowlage some members have had some issues with the generic batteries not being true to the rating its listed as. It would be best to take a multimeter and get a reading from a 100% charge out of the phone. Then drain the battery. Charge it on the craddle charger then take another reading and see what the difference is. You can also use the multimeter to read the charger itself and compare that to the phone's charge stats. If the craddle is pumping a lot more juice than the phone then there might not be much you can do. Please feel free to report your findings as this is all speculation without the data.
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To my knowlage some members have had some issues with the generic batteries not being true to the rating its listed as. It would be best to take a multimeter and get a reading from a 100% charge out of the phone. Then drain the battery. Charge it on the craddle charger then take another reading and see what the difference is. You can also use the multimeter to read the charger itself and compare that to the phone's charge stats. If the craddle is pumping a lot more juice than the phone then there might not be much you can do. Please feel free to report your findings as this is all speculation without the data.
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Not exactly. The voltage of the charger had nothing to do with the voltage of the battery at full charge. li-ion batteries do better with a "fast charge", about 5V, but what is important here is the voltage of the battery at which the charger stops charging.
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Using CM10.1 (06-14 nightly) on my One (International), connected to a Belkin 1A USB car charger with a decent quality USB cable. The phone discharges slowly in general use, and quickly when using GPS. Looking in battery settings it shows "Charging (AC)", which would suggest that it's drawing the full 1A for charging. I didn't notice this problem on stock Sense, although it's been a while since I used that.
Has anybody else seen anything similar on their One? Is there any useful information I could get from a logcat to give to the CM devs?
Thanks in advance,
Jon
OK I checked on stock and it does drain similarly. Should I just get a more powerful charger or could I have a hardware problem? Tried with 2 different 1A car adaptors.
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Have you got a clamp meter or know someone who has one? That will tell you how many amps are going into your phone. It does sound like the charger though as your charger at home should be similar voltage/amps to the car charger only the AC charger needs a transformer and rectifier to step down the voltage and change it from AC to DC, car chargers just step down the voltage a little (12v-5v) so require little additional size. Probably easiest to swap out the charger, they're pretty cheap
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I think you need a bigger charging maybe the charger is not able to provide the needed ampere.
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Thanks guys. I've ordered a 3.6A charger which had reviews saying it worked well for high power usage Android devices. So hopefully that'll sort things out. I'll post back my results.
OK, tried with the new charger and a good USB cable, and all is well. Even with GPS and Spotify running together the phone still charges slowly.
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OK, tried with the new charger and a good USB cable, and all is well. Even with GPS and Spotify running together the phone still charges slowly.
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It's probably not about the Amp rating of the charger. You probably had a cheap charger unit that couldn't deliver the amperage the phone needed either cos it was using cheap parts or something. A proper 1amp charger will still do as well as your new 3.6A charger
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It's probably not about the Amp rating of the charger. You probably had a cheap charger unit that couldn't deliver the amperage the phone needed either cos it was using cheap parts or something. A proper 1amp charger will still do as well as your new 3.6A charger
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Yeah that makes sense. I just thought that if I got a massively over-specced charger then it would at least manage 1A Would have expected the Belkin one to work properly in the first place but never mind.
I have the VS980 from Verizon.
Does anyone know if there are any portable chargers / external battery packs that will charge this phone without giving an incompatible or "slow charging" notice? If there aren't any that fast charge, are there any that slow charge? Slow charge would still be better than a dead battery.
I find the battery life is mostly great, but some days it seems to run down quite quickly. In any event, I'm going on a trip and may not have access to a charger during day and plan to be taking lots of pictures and videos and listening to music, so I'd like a back-up battery, just in case.
(curse Verizon and their non-removable battery...)
Anyway, there are threads for compatible car chargers, wireless chargers and USB cables, so why not add one for portable chargers / external batteries? Please list them here!
I purchased 9000 mAh portable charger from walmart online shop for about 70 to 80 dollars, and it seems to work fine. Its just bit bigger then other portable chargers, but ull never have to worry about battery with this monster.
I have tmo version btw
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ILLHYHL said:
I purchased 9000 mAh portable charger from walmart online shop for about 70 to 80 dollars, and it seems to work fine. Its just bit bigger then other portable chargers, but ull never have to worry about battery with this monster.
I have tmo version btw
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Way to much $$$$
Check out this
http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B008YRG5JQ/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?qid=1381189010&sr=8-1&pi=AC_SX110_SY165_QL70
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Slow Charging?
ILLHYHL said:
I purchased 9000 mAh portable charger from walmart online shop for about 70 to 80 dollars, and it seems to work fine. Its just bit bigger then other portable chargers, but ull never have to worry about battery with this monster.
I have tmo version btw
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Thanks for your reply! Does this device give a "slow charging" notification?
I have both these and both charge at full speed:
http://www.amazon.com/Portable-External-Micro-USB-Rechargeable-Smartphones/dp/B00CEZJT2E
http://www.amazon.com/13000mAh-Portable-Dual-Port-Thunderbolt-Incredible/dp/B00BQ5KHJW
theres also the E5 which is 15000mah, any anker that outputs 2a will charge the phone at full speed as the charger the G2 comes with outputs 1.8a
Not just amperage
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I have both these and both charge at full speed:
http://www.amazon.com/Portable-External-Micro-USB-Rechargeable-Smartphones/dp/B00CEZJT2E
http://www.amazon.com/13000mAh-Portable-Dual-Port-Thunderbolt-Incredible/dp/B00BQ5KHJW
theres also the E5 which is 15000mah, any anker that outputs 2a will charge the phone at full speed as the charger the G2 comes with outputs 1.8a
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The problem is, it seems that the phone doesn't just go by amperage, but also by the cable. The OEM USB cable has 20AWG wires, which carries a higher load, and cables which have thinner wires seem to trigger the slow charging. The only way to know if these chargers would charge at full speed would be to plug them in.
Has anyone actually plugged any of these in to verify that they do the full speed charging without a 'slow charging' notification?
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The problem is, it seems that the phone doesn't just go by amperage, but also by the cable. The OEM USB cable has 20AWG wires, which carries a higher load, and cables which have thinner wires seem to trigger the slow charging. The only way to know if these chargers would charge at full speed would be to plug them in.
Has anyone actually plugged any of these in to verify that they do the full speed charging without a 'slow charging' notification?
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Ive used all types of cables on my g2 with the chargers I listed they don't trigger slow charge. For me at least.
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Hi all,
Was just on Amazon purchasing a ZL case for my phone and saw that they now have a external battey charger available. Right now i am using the Anker Wall Charger but might consider this as either a replacement or just an additional charger. I have two ZL batteries that i switch back and forth every now and then.
Anyone have thoughts or reviews on this ZL product?
They're all the same thing and work just as well.
How long does it take to charge a zerolemon batrery from zero to full. Does it charge at 1800 Ma or 1000Ma
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I have had the battery for a couple of weeks and now got the charger... I am trying it for the first time for charging the zero lemon battery from 10% as I would be up most of the night trying to get it to the recommended 2%... hopefully I haven't screwed up my battery....
Though with moderate to heavy usage I am getting roughly a day and a half out of this battery.
I hope this charger lives up to the manufacturer hype as it takes over 12 hours to charge this battery using the samsung plug and cable that came with my note 2...
I do hope this ends up being money well spent for the whole lot of the battery, charger, and case.
Is it just my device or does this thing charge super slow? I can't even get a full charge in a hour and a half and the battery is only 410mah.
Do you use original AC Adapter? I use another one now and I can get it charged in 45 minutes, which is ok to me.
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bad battery
I have been having really bad battery on this yesterday left it a home with a full charge at 9.0am and today at 7.30am had 11% it had screen always off and it had not been touched thinking of send it a off to LG to be looked at
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Do you use original AC Adapter? I use another one now and I can get it charged in 45 minutes, which is ok to me.
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I'm using the turbo charger from Motorola. I guess I can try another brick.
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I use my Samsung charger with 2.0A and from 5% to 100 in an hour.. My orginal LG charger was only 0.7A!
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I use my Samsung charger with 2.0A and from 5% to 100 in an hour.. My orginal LG charger was only 0.7A!
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I would advise against doing this. You will shorten the battery life due to the extra heat produced. Always use a lower amp charger unless you are in a rush!
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Can someone tell me how long the actual charging time exactly takes ?
I use the original charger that comes with the device and it takes about 3 to 4 hours to fully charge the watch.
I find that quite long as I read the comments here.
The first tames it takes only 1,5 hours to charge it but all the other times it goes real slow.
A factory reset didn't help to resolve this issue.
Thanks.
As far as i remember battery have a capacity 410mAh, original charger have power output 700mAh, so charging time should be about 40-45 minutes max.
Change usb cable, if it doesn't help change charger (but it should have power output >700mAh)
PS. AFAIK using charger with power output >700mAh is harmless because watch limits charging current by itself.
Measuring charging time is best indicator.
Charging with 2.0A adapter will not increase the charging speed - the watchregulates the charging current, it will not just blindy "connect" the charger to the battery (in fact, I can't think of any piece of electronics that would have the charging logic in the adapter nowadays).
I had no problems with any chargers, not even with USB charging - the battery is very small, so unless you have a charger that can't put even 500mA you should have no problem.
I've seen an issue where the watch was "charging" constantly and ended with 85% and wouldn't charge anymore - reboot fixed that and it showed 100%.
I was thinking that your charge takes so long because you could have some process draining your battery in the meanwhile (that starts when you connect your phone, like a tasker thing or smt). Newbie thoughts so correct me if this is impossible
I could try to do a factory reset and see after that if it charges much faster then now.
For the moment i have a few apps on the watch, i do not know if it matters or not for to influence the charging time.
It's weird that we do not have the ability to load the watch while it is off.
From the moment that i put it on the charger it turns on automatically !
hello my friends.
the charging dock is limited to 0.85 A (850mA)
It makes not more sense to use a Adapter with 2.0 A Output. It won't charge faster.
Look if every pin on your dock is ok.
also the connection pin on your watch.
Try to clean a little bit with high percentage alcohol.
best regards
Problem solved by using another USB cable.
Now fully charged in 1,5 till 2 hours.
I haven't measured the charging time of my watch but it looks to me pretty fast. I guess with original charger 30 mins - 45 max, not a min more.
Don't sweat the amps
Hawke84 said:
I would advise against doing this. You will shorten the battery life due to the extra heat produced. Always use a lower amp charger unless you are in a rush!
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Hi,
that statement isn't particularly correct. The charging system in the watch (as with any LiIon battery) will draw as much current as is "good for it" and no more.
Just because a charger offers 2A doesn't mean that this is the amount of current flowing through the charger / battery!