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Make non-motorola charger work?

So this is my first motorola and I had heard of the issues they have with non motorola chargers. Now I am experiencing it first hand. With the same ac charger I have charged many phones with and is capable of 1 amp output (D4 charger is only rated at 850 mA) my D4 struggles. With the device off it charged painfully slowly. While on it cannot even charge. It discharges while plugged in despite the charging indicator and reporting "charging (AC)" in status.
How does it know it is not a moto charger? Is it just about the resistance between the data pins? For most other phones shorting the data pins on the charger indicates to the phone that it is a high current charger and not a computer USB port. Is there a similar trick for motorola phones? I would rather not have to purchase an overpriced moto oem car charger. I have a perfectly fine 1.2 amp car charger soldered directly into my car's 12v system behind the dash. Can I make it work?
Thanks!

On a regular basis I successfully charge my D4 using both a charger from a Samsung Reality feature phone and from a B&N Nook Simple Touch, in addition to the one that came with it. I've also used a variety of car chargers.
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Actually, so far I have only one charger that had any trouble charging the phone (it was a $3 charger with 2 USB ports), but the $3 charger with ONE USB port works fine, as does the Nook Color charger, Blackberry charger, and Samsung charger I have tried it with, as well as both my old car charger and Lenovo's always-on charging port on their laptops.

JKingDev said:
So this is my first motorola and I had heard of the issues they have with non motorola chargers. Now I am experiencing it first hand. With the same ac charger I have charged many phones with and is capable of 1 amp output (D4 charger is only rated at 850 mA) my D4 struggles. With the device off it charged painfully slowly. While on it cannot even charge. It discharges while plugged in despite the charging indicator and reporting "charging (AC)" in status.
How does it know it is not a moto charger? Is it just about the resistance between the data pins? For most other phones shorting the data pins on the charger indicates to the phone that it is a high current charger and not a computer USB port. Is there a similar trick for motorola phones? I would rather not have to purchase an overpriced moto oem car charger. I have a perfectly fine 1.2 amp car charger soldered directly into my car's 12v system behind the dash. Can I make it work?
Thanks!
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Not sure how it knows one way or the other. I've successfully used a few LG chargers to charge my D4. The only really hickup I've ran into is the usb cables from those lg chargers won't sync data to the phones when plugged into a computer, they'll still charge off the usb port but won't read as a usb connection to the computer.

Heh, captcha is trynply.
Every charger I've used, including an old charger for an EN-V, kindle, supplied, and various other phone chargers works just fine with this phone. Probably have a bad charger, guy.

Thanks for the replies. I guess I was wrong. My modded car charger works just fine. I guess its just time to retire the old charger that I have been using. I think it might be my old nexus one charger.

A more important question would be does the thing charge over computer-bound USB ports?
When you're without a charger, but there's a USB cable that fits your phone, sometimes a regular USB data port is the only that is around... even though it might take a really long time.
Try a computer bound USB port, then try your actual charger, again. Or do the hard reset (vol down plus power, hold until it actually does it), which is just like pulling the battery.
See how that goes.
Chris

RueTheDayTrebek said:
A more important question would be does the thing charge over computer-bound USB ports?
When you're without a charger, but there's a USB cable that fits your phone, sometimes a regular USB data port is the only that is around... even though it might take a really long time.
Try a computer bound USB port, then try your actual charger, again. Or do the hard reset (vol down plus power, hold until it actually does it), which is just like pulling the battery.
See how that goes.
Chris
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It does in fact charge via USB port. In fact, it has a 'charge only' mode. Depending on how much juice your port puts out, and what you are doing with the phone, it will charge slowly/not at all, though.

from my experiences, the droid 4 will not accept lg microusb cables, the charging bricks work tho. i use a blackberry microusb on mine along with a Logitech and the stock moto ones. 1.2 amps is a bit high but not crazy sounding. personally, I charge at 1 amp.

[Q] Does you phone charge directly from your car USB port?

By "directly" I mean using regular USB data cable (most likely USB->Micro USB) and NOT special charge only cable that has data pin shortened to draw higher current.
The reason for this post is that I found that my new phone (Moto X) doesn't charge when connected directly via regular data USB cable even though charging indicator is on. When idle it still loses several %/ hour, when running Google maps - much more.
After Googling I found that if the phone is connected as USB media device it draws less power from USB and it may not be sufficient to charge phones with high capacity batteries. Workarounds include using charge-only USB cables that have data pins shorted, cigarette lighter chargers or AC charger if your car is equipped with AC socket (mine is, but what a pain to have to use it for this!).
Here is my situation on '11 Jeep Grand Cherokee with 430N (2 USB ports, Android phones are recognized as media device on both):
Old phone (Droid Incredible, 1300 mAh battery) charged fine when idle via regular data cable even though it was in media player mode. I haven't really used it when running Google Maps much so can't comment on that.
New phone (Moto X, 2200 mAh battery) doesn't charge via regular data cable (even though indicator shows phone charging). When idle it still loses several %/ hour, when running Google maps - much more. I tried 500 mA cigarette lighter charger and it charges it fine in idle, haven't tried while running Google Maps yet.

The USB power in my truck is provided by one of these:
http://daqstuff.com/400116_5volt_switching_power_supply.htm
The only mod I made was to short pins 2 and 3 on the USB ports, which is required for full current charging with a Nexus 7. Dunno if the Moto X is the same, but it charges just fine when plugged into it.

My Moto X does not charge from the USB port in my Acura. I use a USB adapter in the cigarette lighter if I need to charge it.
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Solutions Etcetera said:
The USB power in my truck is provided by one of these:
http://daqstuff.com/400116_5volt_switching_power_supply.htm
The only mod I made was to short pins 2 and 3 on the USB ports, which is required for full current charging with a Nexus 7. Dunno if the Moto X is the same, but it charges just fine when plugged into it.
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Wow 2 amps. At home my iPhone is good for something! Its 2 amp wort charges the x fast!

Yes all phones charge in my Hyundai but very slowly since its only a regular USB port not a charging port. I use a Griffin dual USB charger instead.
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Moto X does not charge in my Honda or Volkswagen via car's USB port. All my previous phones including nexus 5 did. For Moto X I have to use car charger.
From my Moto X, in your face!

My wife's X does not charge via her aftermarket stereo in her Subaru. I have not tried it in my F-150 though.

Standard USB ports in a PC supply 5V and 550mA which is not enough to charge current smart phones. If you are using apps, 550mA is not enough to maintain the charge level (i..e if you have 90% charge, plug into a standard USB port, and use Google Maps or stream a movie from the internet, your battery's charge will slowly drain. Not as fast as when unplugged, but it will drain).
The X ships with a 1150A adapter. I've used 850mA to slowly charge the phone.
I've not metered the voltage and current coming out of my car's USB port.
I use a dual port USB charger that outputs 2.1A per port. (its either Griffin or Kensington)

I stumbled across this issue when I tried to charge my X in the car. I have an old nokia car charger (had nice thick writes and curly cord) that I cut the plug off and soldered a micro usb plug and a resistor between pin 5 and ground for activating car mode on my SGS2 (i9100). I plugged in the X, nothing. I did some research and found that shorting D+ and D- puts it into AC fast charge mode. Charges fine with the screen on. Luckily the old nokia charger has enough grunt to cope.
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Yep
Interesting. Mine does charge via the USB cable on my aftermarket head unit, but it is fairly slow. All I care is that it doesn't drain the battery at all for 4 hours car trips while streaming music and running Google Maps with the screen on the entire time.

mine slowly/medium charges with MyLog and CarHome Ultra or Nav.
I have a magnet and SkipDot in my car dock to auto unlock and trigger car mode which launches CarHome Ultra. I use Llama to further trigger and enable bluetooth and gps as well as disable WiFi. bluetooth connecting to my JVC head unit triggers My Log and automatically logs journeys for tax. Llama cleans up and turns of gps/bt which causes MyLog to finish too.
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Weird battery/moto charger issue

I bought a used nexus 6. It's in good shape. I immediately installed twrp and flashed cataclysm (my fav). This was all done on day one. I began using the device as normal. Upon plugging the device in to the charger (moto quick charger) I noticed it was charging VERY slowly. I checked the battery usage menu in settings and noticed that it said "charging over USB.". I was plugged into the wall. So, I thought, alright the guy sold it to me with a borked charger. I tried my old note 5 quick charger and it seems to work fine. Then, just for additional trouble shooting, I tried using the moto charger on my wife's lg g3. It worked fine. Seems the issue only happens on the nexus 6 with the moto quick charger. I searched with Google and found:
https://m.reddit.com/r/nexus6/comme...is_charging_slowly_says_it_is/?ref=readnext_3
Anyone know anything about this, or knows of a fix? I can use my note 5 charger, but my obsessive and anal tech ways keep me from just letting it go.
Thanks in advance!

I'm having a similar issue with two different chargers:
The Included Charger (the one that comes with the phone)
and
Aukey 12W / 2.4A Home Travel USB Wall Charger Adapter
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00Q873I3K?psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=oh_aui_detailpage_o02_s01
+
Monoprice 6-Feet USB 2.0 A Male to Micro 5pin Male
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003L18S0E?psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=oh_aui_detailpage_o02_s00
In my case, what happens is that the phone intermittently start and stops charging while plugged in. Not sure if it actually slows down the charge process though...

Turbo Charger Acting Strange

Carrier: ATT
Rom: AOSiP-V4.0-Marshmallow-6.0.1
Issue: Motorola Turbo Charger
Info: I have had no problems with the stock charger for the last year. Recently, when I plug in the turbo charger into my device, it will not charge. Usually in Ampere, it says it average around 1950 mA of charge, after the issue started occurring, it gives the charging icon but ampere and the built in battery meter says not charging. It actually decreases the charge at a quicker rate.
What I have tried but failed:
Restarting device
Changing Cables
Unplugging charger from wall
What has worked but is not a real solution:
It seems that the phone accepts the wall charger and charges normally after I plug my phone in to my computer via just the cable and then back into the main charger.

424aca said:
Carrier: ATT
Rom: AOSiP-V4.0-Marshmallow-6.0.1
Issue: Motorola Turbo Charger
Info: I have had no problems with the stock charger for the last year. Recently, when I plug in the turbo charger into my device, it will not charge. Usually in Ampere, it says it average around 1950 mA of charge, after the issue started occurring, it gives the charging icon but ampere and the built in battery meter says not charging. It actually decreases the charge at a quicker rate.
What I have tried but failed:
Restarting device
Changing Cables
Unplugging charger from wall
What has worked but is not a real solution:
It seems that the phone accepts the wall charger and charges normally after I plug my phone in to my computer via just the cable and then back into the main charger.
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This honestly sounds like a outlet problem or a charging box problem. I would check both those if you have not allready.
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what wall charger are you using?

at home, i use the charger that came with the phone, but i need something new for the office.
what are you using?

Ended up buying this charger: http://www.amazon.com/Charger-Spigen®-Adapter-MacBook-Surface/dp/B019MUE3R4

My original charger just stopped working this morning. I tried with an old Micro-USB Cable (with type C Adapter) on a Samsung charger and it works fine. Guess will be using that for now or shouldn't I?

Using the original LG charger + choetech chargers. Although I've had one choetech charger stop working completely, and they don't seem to charge as quickly as the LG charger (even when the phone says "rapid charging").
Not many options out there, but I recommend getting an OEM or Google charger.