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CSquid cable

There is a very nice cable out there called a CSquid. They make one for the Streak.
I took an external battery pack which has 2 USB charging ports and plugs straight into the wall on my trip to Vegas. It worked nicely when I tested it at the house prior to the trip. I used it with my Streak on the plane while the wife and I watched a movie. It came in damn handy charging both the wifes phone and mine at the sametime while drinkin way to much playin video poker at the bar.
Then I let the battery on my tablet die. I mean completely discharged dead. So I just plugged it in to the battery backup, plugged the backup into the wall outlet and NOTHING. No charge indicator, no lights on the softkeys, nothing. Tested the USB port with my phone, all was good.
So I ended up buying a USB wall/Vehicle charger at the gift shop of Harrah's for twice what it was worth. Plugged in and the Streak started charging, same stock cable I used with the battery backup charger. After that I was able to use my Streak with the battery backup on the plane ride back home with no problems.
Which lead me to the CSquid cable. It's designed to function off of low powered USB ports. Some device out there, ours included, the Galaxy Tab and the iPads as well, will not charge from a depleted battery state off of some USB ports. This includes PC's if they enter into a low power state. Some ports on laptops for example, my HP has 2 ports that are fully powerd and 2 that are not. A keyboard or a mouse works fine, but try a 3G modem and it detects it, but won't function. Flip the same modem to a port on the other side and it works like magic. What I'm saying is this problem is device specific.
So I recreated the scenario and tested same.
I ran a movie on my Streak until it shut itself off. I tried powering up and it wouldn't go. I plugged my battery backup into the wall, grabbed the stock Streak cable and cabled them up. No charge indicator on the Streak. The battery was dead, dead. Reconnected it twice and the same result.
I then repeated the process with the CSquid cable. I immediately recieved a charge light. This was a good sign. I tried to power it up and it wouldn't go. So I went out to the garage and had a smoke. Came back in about 10 mins later, hit the power button and the Streak booted up. All was right with the world.
If you're in the market for another cable you want this one.
I ordered the cable off Amazon for $20 and some change for delivery. It showed up USPS in 3 days.
This is their site: agreenc.com
Oddly they don't list the Streak on their site, at least yet. But this cable does exist for the Streak.
Like I said I got mine off Amazon. Just search them for Dell Streak CSquid and it'll pop right up

Dear elodahl,
I'm not sure whether I understood you totally correct but you seem to have the problem when you try to charge your streak from you battery backup when this last one is plugged into the wall, am I correct? Was the battery backup discharged and hence you plugged it into the wall? If so, it could be possible that the energy taken from the wall is completely dedicated to charge the battery of your backup device and it is not drained outside to charge the streak. This could explain why after the cigarette the streak started to charge: the internal battery of the backup thing was charged enough to start draining energy to the streak.
Could be this correct?
On the other hand, do you know if this cable has the "on the go" pin enabled? I mean, using a female-female usb adaptor, have you ever tried to plug an external usb device or keyboard to the streak through it? At the moment and to my knowledge, non of the existing cables for the streak can do something like that, one has to open the cable and soldier together a couple of pins to make this possible.
Many thanks

I haven't tried using the cable with a gender bender and use it as a pass though. I don't have a need so I never screwed with it.
This isn't a problem to be solved. This is a solution to a problem that exists.
The battery backup was fully charged. The Streak was fully discharged, which is a big part of it. If you end up with the Streak fully discharged you can't get it to power up off of say a battery backup or (some/most) PC USB ports. You won't even get the red LED charging indicator to light. Again this is with a fully discharged battery on the Streak.
Basiclly what the cable does when you flip the switch on it from it's standard data cable position over to the power postion is send voltage down an additional pin. Voltage on this pin makes your USB power source appear as a AC power source. This allows the system to boot, and charge, even with the same exact USB power source that did not work prior to you sliding the switch on the cable.
This is similar to what Motorola did a few years ago with their USB charges. I carried Motorola Q for a couple years which is were I ran into the issue. Yes The device had a mini-USB connection. Yes it could charge off of that connection. But it could only charge if you used Motorola's mini-USB charger. Only a select few 3rd party mini-usb chargers would work, most wouldn't. On the other hand if you could charge a Motorola off of a charger that charger would charge any other mini-usb device known to man.
I found the pinouts for Motorola's charges on some site which showed that they were using the "spare" pin. There is a open pin in the USB spec. which an OEM can use to do whatever they like.
You can charge a Streak off of any USB power source unless you completely discharge it. If you completely discharge it you need an AC power source, or something that looks like an AC power source to the Streak. Which is were this cable comes in.

[Q] HTC ONE DIED, wont charge, wont turn on, no LED

good morning everybody :
so last night, my phone worked normaly untel i unplaged it from computer, the screen wont turn back on, and got the red led (like it still in charge )
so i pushed the power button down for 10s and i thought that i just turned the phone off . but i actually killed my phone.
i pluggued it on wall charge all night. and today i tried several solutions and nothing:
held power button+down/up button for 10s and more then 10s
faced the light sensor to light and held power+down/up button
plugged unplugged to computer several times
the only thing i got is a sound when i plug it to computer, and adb devices wont list anything.
i noticed that my computer( win 8 ) detected it as : Qualcomm HS-USB QDLoader 9008 (com3)
please help

please, i allow my thread a little up . i still can't fix it

I had this issue after my kids were using my usb to wall plug, and later had this issue when they used my usb to 12V charger in the car. They have our old Inc.s. Anyway I ended up using a different cable and it began to charge and everything has been fine since. The odd thing is that both of the other cables still work for other devices just not my One anymore. If you don't have another cable to try it with I've found them for $7 - $8 at Big Lots/Odd Lots and for about $5 at Dollar General & 5Below and once at Dollar Tree. I should have bought 4 or 5 of those. I haven't had any issues with any of them except my kids seem to ruin them fairly quickly but they are both under the age of 10.

thanks for your reply, i already tried several chargers .. but no results
VidJunky said:
I had this issue after my kids were using my usb to wall plug, and later had this issue when they used my usb to 12V charger in the car. They have our old Inc.s. Anyway I ended up using a different cable and it began to charge and everything has been fine since. The odd thing is that both of the other cables still work for other devices just not my One anymore. If you don't have another cable to try it with I've found them for $7 - $8 at Big Lots/Odd Lots and for about $5 at Dollar General & 5Below and once at Dollar Tree. I should have bought 4 or 5 of those. I haven't had any issues with any of them except my kids seem to ruin them fairly quickly but they are both under the age of 10.
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It sounds like you're port may be damaged. Next step is probably the tech center at your carrier. ? hopefully you have insurance.

Tablet won't charge when on (android and Windows)

Hi everyone! Today a very strange thing happened... I was using my tablet with Windows, with a usb hub attached to use a simple mouse. This hub has a micro usb output, so that I can charge the tablet while plugging in usb devices (that's exactly the one techtablets uses in one of his videos about this tablet). All of a sudden it stopped charging, so I tried rebooting: NOTHING. Then I switched to Android, but still no luck!
I'm happy I see that it charges if it's completely off, but I don't think it's normal!
What do you suggest me? This tablet is fundamental for me, as I study with it!

Anyone who could kindly help?

Same here and notice this after your post here. Windows notice that i plug in the charger (screen brightness was different with pluged in charger) but doenst charge.

I'm thinking that it might be BIOS related... Unfortunately I can't update it (I have 2.02 version already), or at least sort of reflashing it, cause I don't have a usb keyboard... Can you make a try? Cause it's weird it happens on both Windows and Android! I also noticed that if I have it off, charging, right when I trigger the power button and the teclast logo appears, right before the choice of the OS, it stops charging..

i have same problem, do you resolve it for present? how do you use your tablet?

Mine was a bit temperamental and as described above for the 1st 6 months but now it will not charge even when off unless it is left for days. Then no where near full charge.

I had very similar problem on my old teclast c6j6 tablet a year ago .
It seems my usb connector in tablet was too loose after few months .
I opened and pressed ( squeezed ) usb connector and was work again fine .
For the time being I connect and disconnect usb cable very gentle on all my teclast tablet and is fine .

I have the same problem. The tablet will not charge while powered on and starts charging right away as soon as it powers off. I do not have to wiggle the cable or anything. ON = not charging, OFF = charging. It's very unlikely that this is caused by a bad connector.
Be careful when you use Android. If Android shuts down because the battery is low, the tablet will start as soon as you connect a power cable. The tablet starts up, stops charging because of this, shuts down because the battery is low, starts charging as soon as the tablet is powered down, starts up, stops charging, shuts down, starts charging, starts up, stops charging and s on. Viola: you have a boot loop.
I wrote about it here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/x98-air/help/dead-battery-bootloop-t3243993
There is a fix which requires some soldering. This is a YouTube video which describes the procedure:

Car charger problem

So i am having this problem, wonder if anyone else is also. I reported it to samsung.
The problem is when using a car charge my phone will say charging like normal. BUT then it will says "powering connected usb device".
It will say this the whole time it is charging.
Its a 5v 2amp charger i am using a micro usb cable with the included usb c adapter.
I use the this same charger for my s7 edge without problems.
Now the kicker here. Once i unplug the note 7 from the charger it will keep to saying "powering connected usb device"
The battery icon will flip between the power out icon and normal battery.
The first time it did i had to reboot the phone so it would stop.
The next time it went away after a few minutes.
I havent try using a usb c cable, but will later today.
Just wondering if anyone else is having this problem. Its probably OS related or have something to do with the adapters.
Just wondering if anyone else has this problem

The included micro-usb-to-usbc adapter seems to inhibit the charging speed. I used the adapter with an official Samsung Micro USB cable that came with my Note 5 and plugged it into a Samsung fast charger and the charging takes forever... Maybe you're experiencing a similar symptom?
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Its possible. Today i drove for about 20mins and i didnt have this problem. It charged but only went up 3% more. I should of gotten at lest 5-6% with that charger (amount i would of gotten with my s7 edge, same charger in cable)
I will do a test today with the usb c cbale plug right into the usb adapter. I only have the one for the time being

Well the problem is still here.
My wife gotnher phone and the same thing.
She needed to charger her phone.
Plug it up and it says chaning connected usb device. Just stays on the screen for a while then goes away.
Now we got out the car and turn the car off.
Then phone lit up and says powering conntect usb device. Then my rasio started to boot up and ended up in a boot loop as long as the phone was connected.
So thephone was trying to power my car through the usb charger.
This is something samsung should fix asap. There should be an option to turn this off.
Ill have another chat with samsung

Turning galaxy tab s 8.4 into a wall clock. Socket power, no battery. Need feedback.

Hi,
A little bit of background:
I had previously converted my original nexus tablet into a clock. I followed a guide on YouTube by cutting the wires from the battery. Then, just connecting the red wires from the battery to a spliced up micro USB cable (red wires). Trimming all other wires. Cut a hole at the back of the case so that the USB port can pass through and connecting straight to the USB charger. The modified clock has been running steadily for more than 5 years now. Aside from power failures which I need to turn it on and turn on the clock app back, no other issues. The battery indicator is 0%, but charging. Direct power, no battery in tablet.
So I thought the same technique would work for the galaxy tab s 8.4. Did the same like the nexus tablet. It kind of work, until I noticed the battery is draining. It starts at full charge (100%), then it will slowly drain to 0% and the battery will die. At first I thought I did a bad job at soldering or connnecting the wires, but after a week of trial and error, I finally found the problem. With the tab s, direct connection does not work. The battery appears full, then slowly charges down. The tablet does not detect a charge, even when it is actually connected to the wall.
Does anyone know how to fix this problem?
One method I did think was rewiring the battery csbles so that it loops to itself. Red to red, black to black, without the spliced micro USB cable. Then power will come directly from the micro USB port. I noticed that if I connect the charger to the port, there is a charge. But since I have two power sources going to the tablet, connecting through USB port will cause the tablet to turn off. Maybe overload or something.
I don't think removing the battery connection and just using the micro USB port port for direct power supply will solve the problem as I did try to just connect it while removing the power source which is attached directly to the battery. It did register a charge, but it can't turn on.
Thanks.

You may be able to fix this with a resistor, but I really don't know much about that at all.
I know you can make a "download mode" cable, to get certain devices into download mode...
Here's another - .