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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.

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...

[Q]Problems with samsung Qi Charger

Hi everyone
I bought myself two Samsung wireless chargers (double pack) and tried them with the original Samsung S6 edge quick charger, with my old Sgs2 charger cable and with a cheap no name charger cable.
With all setups I have the same problem: almost every night at some point the qi charger starts blinking an stops charging. Both of them do. I do not know if it has anything to do with receiving messages or high cpu loads (when syncing/backup apps kick in at night) but this is really annoying.
I am not using any case or anything. Pure S6 edge. Right side up.
Does anybody have any idea? I mean, shouldn't it work properly?

Mine does that too with my Note 5. When I take it off it keeps blinking blue until I disconnect the cable. Seems like those chargers are not that good.

The only way I can Wireless Charge mine is using the Fast Charger that came with it. Using any other charger in the QI charger does not seem to work.

I have the same problem, i'm using the wall charger and cable that came with my phone, same problem at some random point the wireless charger starts blinking and stops charging, i think the problem its in the cable cause i move the cable around a bit and starts charging again, the weird part it's that this does not happens when i charge the phone directly from the cable.

will be sending mine back. really poor product. unusual for samsung
no idea how this made number one qi charger on amazon. completely unreliable

I bought a qi charger from ebay and i had the same problem with you, while was charging was disconnected. Finally i use my s6 edge stock charger and cable i connected it with the chinese charger and all perfect.. I send message to ebay seller with this problem and his gave me back partial refund...

I'm solved that issue with a blackberry cable.

Using standard plug and cable for my qi charger and when I put my s6 edge on have no problems at all strange how some do and some don't get it

tried cheap chinese cable, tried original samsung slow charging cable and tried the original fast charging cable that came with the s6 edge. all showed the same behaviour. i bought the double pack so got two qi chargers and both behaved the same.
maybe it is a software thing?
whatever it is, it renders the wireless charging capability useless

officiallyme said:
tried cheap chinese cable, tried original samsung slow charging cable and tried the original fast charging cable that came with the s6 edge. all showed the same behaviour. i bought the double pack so got two qi chargers and both behaved the same.
maybe it is a software thing?
whatever it is, it renders the wireless charging capability useless
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Try to find another phone to test on your qi chargers.. if the same problems just forget that wireless charging excists.. if not sell it and buy another one..

currently trying the choetech and so far it works flawlessly. i wonder why samsung messed up their chargers so badly

officiallyme said:
Hi everyone
I bought myself two Samsung wireless chargers (double pack) and tried them with the original Samsung S6 edge quick charger, with my old Sgs2 charger cable and with a cheap no name charger cable.
With all setups I have the same problem: almost every night at some point the qi charger starts blinking an stops charging. Both of them do. I do not know if it has anything to do with receiving messages or high cpu loads (when syncing/backup apps kick in at night) but this is really annoying.
I am not using any case or anything. Pure S6 edge. Right side up.
Does anybody have any idea? I mean, shouldn't it work properly?
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Yea mine did that to so I purchased DreamQi Wireless Charging Dual Alarm Clock w/ Bluetooth by VoltNow and just let it charge overnight with no problems. Its not fast charging but my S6 edge charges from 0 to 100 in about 1.5 hours with no charging issues when I have a notification or its fully charged.

wireless charger
I tried the Samsung flat round wireless, didn't work most of the time, exchanged it for the Tylt slanted upright, works flawlessly every time.

Do your fast chargers sometimes register as slow charging?

I've noticed that some of my third party Quick Charge 2.0 chargers register as "slow charging" when plugged in. If I unplug it and replug it in it'll register as "fast charging". Sensitive charging port?
It has happened with different USB-C cables as well. I'll have to try with the stock charger to see if it happens there too.

Happens to me with my LG G5. I think it's a USB c issue. My original cable, anker cable and a Samsung charger don't sit as snug as they used to (phone is nearly 2 years old) and they frequently have this message come up. They also fall out occasionally.
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Yes. All the time. Generally on non Samsung chargers, but not always. After a couple of re plug ins, it's fine

Won't charge on some 3rd party chargers

Just got my new 4a5G mostly set up last night and plugged it into my multi-port charger for the night, and found that it won't charge at all. Tried another high-power charging brick from an old samsung tablet of mine and the same issue. My 3XL used to have issues sometimes charging too slowly on these bricks, but at least it charged. I was expecting the newer phone to fix this issue, not make it worse by not charging at all. The included charging brick works, as does the charger from my Samsung chromebook.
Why not use the included charger? Well I have 3 devices that I like to charge next to my bed at night (phone, chromebook, smartwatch) and only two free outlets. Chromebook, needs its own dedicated charger to fully charge overnight, so I typically have the phone and smartwatch plugged into a 4-port charging brick. This thing supports QuickCharge 2.0 on one port and the other ports cap out at 2.0 A, so it should easily be able to deliver a full charge overnight, but the 4a5G refuses to recognize it at all. Doesn't matter if I plug it into the QC port or one of the other ports. What the hell is up with Pixel phones being so picky about what you charge them with?

Update:
So it wasn't the charging bricks, it was the cable. Tried two of the same brand of cable, and they didn't work at all. Tried another USB A to C cable I was using for a different device, and it works! These cables work just fine for every other USB-C device I own. No flaky connections where you have to wiggle the plug in the port to get it to connect. They connect and stay firmly connected consistently on every other device, but the 4a5G just refuses to recognize them at all. So its picky about cables, not charging bricks. That's not nearly as bad, but still annoying.

Indeed! Also to note that I also learned that this phone needs a charger that has Power Delivery technology. I tried using the adapter from my previous phone that had quick charge 3.0 technology but it was not charging rapidly.

je55ter said:
Update:
So it wasn't the charging bricks, it was the cable. Tried two of the same brand of cable, and they didn't work at all. Tried another USB A to C cable I was using for a different device, and it works! These cables work just fine for every other USB-C device I own. No flaky connections where you have to wiggle the plug in the port to get it to connect. They connect and stay firmly connected consistently on every other device, but the 4a5G just refuses to recognize them at all. So its picky about cables, not charging bricks. That's not nearly as bad, but still annoying.
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I have Pixel 2XL and the 4a 5G too, and both have the same problems with cables one work other doesn't...