where do you guys buy wall charger for new razr EU TYPE?
i'm looking for one, since my device is on its way to me. i guess it is not necessary to look for charger for razr, 'coz chargers for older models (such photom atrix etc) will also work ?
I have multiple chargers and they all work with the Razr. It only needs to provide 500mA.
official razr charger has 850mA
so my 700mA will work without any problems i guess
Yeah 700mA will work, but anyway, don't expect it to charge your battery if you're watching a flash HD movie while calling
Seriously, it'll work, but the battery will charge slowly compared to its 850mA charger.
I ever use my 1A HTC wall charger for all of my phones (SGS2, ATRIX, ...RAZR). It won't blow up anything, but that prevents a slow charge if you're playing on your phone while charging it
so where i can find 850mA?/0.85A so i can play/call/watch/have sex/take shower while charging ???
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asheg said:
so where i can find 850mA?/0.85A so i can play/call/watch/have sex/take shower while charging ???
searched whole internet...
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Just a 1A one, will be easier.
delette...
No need for a new charger, just buy an adaptor for it and don't use other brand chargers with any motorola phones.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Cargador-Mo...9?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_186&hash=item2312ee9b7b
original moto charger for europe
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So I'm coming from the Apple world and I love having the Atrix because I can just use any microUSB cable that is around. I have a question about using different chargers though. The charger that can with the phone is 5.1V at 850mA but I have some extra Motorola ones that are lying around that are only 5.0V at 550mA. Will using the other charger degrade the performance of the battery over time or will it just take longer to get a full charge?
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So I'm coming from the Apple world and I love having the Atrix because I can just use any microUSB cable that is around. I have a question about using different chargers though. The charger that can with the phone is 5.1V at 850mA but I have some extra Motorola ones that are lying around that are only 5.0V at 550mA. Will using the other charger degrade the performance of the battery over time or will it just take longer to get a full charge?
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Well it'll definitely take longer to charge but *could* cause problems in the battery. My guess is that it will judging by how others have had an "on and off" problem with lower-amperage chargers. Instead of just charging slowly the charging sort of stops and starts randomly. Leads to the assumption that the transformer in the phone itself is having trouble accepting the power. Constantly connecting and disconnecting power when charging a battery can have consequences later on.
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So I'm coming from the Apple world and I love having the Atrix because I can just use any microUSB cable that is around. I have a question about using different chargers though. The charger that can with the phone is 5.1V at 850mA but I have some extra Motorola ones that are lying around that are only 5.0V at 550mA. Will using the other charger degrade the performance of the battery over time or will it just take longer to get a full charge?
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The Atrix is really picky with the chargers. I recommend to use only the original charger or the chargers that came with the docks. People described the weirdest things from touchscreen problems to not charging at all. Charging via USB cable doesn't work either (or it is very slow), neither on the computer nor in the car.
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The Atrix is really picky with the chargers. I recommend to use only the original charger or the chargers that came with the docks. People described the weirdest things from touchscreen problems to not charging at all. Charging via USB cable doesn't work either (or it is very slow), neither on the computer nor in the car.
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In my opinion....
I wouldn't go as far to say "use only original chargers/Motorola chargers". The underlying issue is just like hotleadsingerguy said, lower-amperage chargers.
If you avoid these chargers, you should be fine. My Motorola Atrix charging brick/USB cable are still in their original packaging, inside the phone's box, tucked away in a cabinet.
At home, I have a few Blackberry MicroUSB chargers which I've used on my Captivate (not picky), and now they charge the Atrix without problems. They are 5.0V/700mA chargers.
At work, I pieced together some chargers from Monoprice, buying USB (female plug) power adapter with long USB -> MicroUSB cables. The power adapter from Monoprice is 5.0V/1000mA, and I use these chargers on my Atrix without a problem...and that's also using like 15 feet long cables.
Monoprice Power Adapter
http://www.monoprice.com/products/p...=10420&cs_id=1042001&p_id=6171&seq=1&format=2
Blackberry Charger
http://www.amazon.com/BlackBerry-Or...0UGC/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1299396971&sr=8-1
I'd probably say your 550mA charger is not going to cut it, since I've seen some other threads mentioning charging problems with ~500mA chargers.
So, I don't know if this is just my device or maybe already known. I don't see it here(or google) so I am going to post this so others can find this info faster than the 2hrs it took me.
Some Li-Ion batteries have a low max charge rate. Meaning you cant "over-current"(mA "Milli-Amps" or A "Amps") them too much(saves life). Well my Razr just showed me this. This can allow you to charge the battery faster if you have one that is tolerant of the "over-current".
Apparently maximum for the Droid RAZR is somewhere between 850mA and 1000mA
Tried using an HTC @ 1A and no joy.. wont charge.. actually says charging.. but the battery seems to have flipped the switch to not charge; and just continues to discharge normally; even the hidden status(dial *#*#4636#*#*) says charging but obviously not! Tried different HTC models and different cables. I am now only using my Moto supplied cable.
Even after it was dead. It would show the charging screen @ 0% and the light would be red. Stating that you cant turn it on cause there is not enough juice to finish boot. It would never go Green no matter how long I waited(10-15 minutes) usually only takes 5 minutes.
Found my OG Droid charger; remembering that it was lower than 1A. It actually is 5v 850mA. Charging away!
Remember the stock charger is rate @ 5v 750mA - this means you can probably use chargers from 700ish to maybe 900ish mA. I cannot confirm these estimates. Anyone else seen any other rates work?
Hope this helps someone down the road. I know it would have helped me!
MODS - Please, if this is wrong info please DO NOT HESITATE to notify me/remove/edit my post. I just want the right info somewhere, cause it was not well documented anywhere i searched via google.
Also - Thinking more on the subject - this could be the "Authorized Charger" bull that Moto likes to put on its devices i.e. The RAZR flip-phone was notoriuosly bad about this. Even my old nextel "beep beep" had this problem with OEM chargers. Had to spend $15+ on the official one. Again - if this info is wrong in ANY way please fix it or remove it.
use official 850mA charger and be happy. Motorola also confirmed using 1A chargers without any problems but any ways original ones are recommended.
Brilliant, my problem now makes sense!
Couple of questions: What does this mean to charging via USB instead of mains? Is it the plug or the cable that is rated to a certain ampage?
One more question. I found another usb plug rated to 300mA. I presume using this will just mean the phone charges slower? It won't have any negative effect on the battery?
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Just adding my experience... Have been using an iphone wall charger w/ the usb jack on it and the supplied motorola cable. Its listed as 1000Mah. Battery Monitor Widget shows it charging around 945Mah. Doesn't get hot, charges like a bat out of hell. Down side is phone is about 60% unresponsive during the charge.
Found a little info on this. Apparently different cables, when plugged in, short different contacts to let the device know what it's plugged in to. Resistors change the current. Audio out can tell if it's plugged into a dock versus USB versus wall charger. The Verizon replacement didn't work for me, but an hard incredible one did. They both charged but only the htc recognized computer connections
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My stock Razr wall charger is 750mA. I use a 1000mA car charger and it works fine - doesn't get hot and charges faster.
But sometimes you do have to be careful. I had a friend who's noob mother fried her Bionic with a charger that was too many mA for it to handle.
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strange... my stock charger's rated 850mA.. maybe because i use international GSM version of RAZR.. but it charge just fine..
but even i tried charge it with blackberry's 700 mA charger or my ipod touch 1000mA charger it both charge just fine.. and it feels like the 1000mA charge slightly faster..
too bad i broke my old nokia n900 1200 mA charger..
I'm using an HTC 1A charger: the RAZR doesn't become hot while charging and it's charging faster.
The limit is 1A anyway.
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The limit is 1A anyway.
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dang! so i guess nokia 1200mA charger won't be any good then..
thanks for the info though.. i was thinking of getting myself a nokia charger after read this thread..
Ever since my first motorola I've noticed that the stock charger is 5.1 volts.
Charging with other brands always seem to give worse battery life.
My old Rizr only lasted a day when charged from the USB of my computer, but 6-7 days with the original part.
Some of that is apparent with my car charger too, it says it's taking charge, but sometimes it will run backwards with GPS running..
I experience the charger issue last night.
I had low battery when I went to sleep, put the cable in and it said charging.
Came late to work because the phone drained the battery instead of charging. I used a 5V 1.2A charger and its been working great until last night. And I noticed my original charger is 5.1V 850mA for the Razr.
You learn something new every day!
/J
Is it safe to charge a Motorola Droid Razr with a LG charger which has the following specs:
Output: 4.8V-1A
I mean, will it be safe for the battery like its life and other things?
Standard USB chargers should work with all phones with microusb
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Is it safe to charge a Motorola Droid Razr with a LG charger which has the following specs:
Output: 4.8V-1A
I mean, will it be safe for the battery like its life and other things?
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No, definitly not. Motorola oem charger is 5.1V and 850 mA. You might not notice anything wrong with the batttery in short term but it might cause damage in long term. Plus, motorola have never been the brand that offered compability to other brand accessories.
well this is depressing to read, the charger that came with my razr a year ago was lost about a year ago. i've used probably 20 different usb chargers from different phones but all were older so i assumed the lower amps / volts wouldn't hurt anything, that only a higher amps / volts could potentially harm the battery.
i do remember the charger that came with it had 2 usb ports on it but it was so weak that it could never charge a second device plugged into it
No dude, if it's higher, the phone will only pull the amount necessary. USB is a universal standard. You're fine, no need to worry. If something uses MicroUSB, then it's universal. USB= Universal Serial Bus. Your phone is safe
Edit: For the record, when I had the Droid RAZR, I used everything from the stock OEM charger, to Samsung and everything in between, including an LG charger.
Hey people,
It doesn't mean it's safe to use another brand chargers if your phone didn't get any kind of damage. My xt910's digitizer went weird after i had to charge it for 30 minutes with a genuine htc charger. My atrix's digitizer didn't work while it was plugged into a nokia micro usb oem charger. A motorola phone should be charged with an oem motorola charger, not a stupid lg charger. Micro usb itself is a standart but it doesn't mean you can use anything that fits into the slot safely !
Your phone will be fine
lamborg said:
Is it safe to charge a Motorola Droid Razr with a LG charger which has the following specs:
Output: 4.8V-1A
I mean, will it be safe for the battery like its life and other things?
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I think it will be fine, I charge my phone with my sister's Galaxy Nexus charger and nothing has happened so far.
USB always uses around 5 volts and the 1A means that your battery will charge faster than using the regular 850mAh motorola charger.
Semseddin said:
Hey people,
It doesn't mean it's safe to use another brand chargers if your phone didn't get any kind of damage. My xt910's digitizer went weird after i had to charge it for 30 minutes with a genuine htc charger. My atrix's digitizer didn't work while it was plugged into a nokia micro usb oem charger. A motorola phone should be charged with an oem motorola charger, not a stupid lg charger. Micro usb itself is a standart but it doesn't mean you can use anything that fits into the slot safely !
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Yeah, in my XT910 digitizer went weird too... when I use original Motorola charger...
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Yeah, in my XT910 digitizer went weird too... when I use original Motorola charger...
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Mine too. I don't touch my moto charger these days.
So, I may be the only one in the world who doesn't want a fast car charger... But, I'm looking for some recommendations on a "regular speed" car charger.
I know a lot of people are of the "I want it charged faster, consequences be damned!" variety but, I would rather not inflict damage to my battery from quick charging.
You need at least a 1 amp charger to charge and use GPS at the same time. The phone has circuitry in it to prevent "over charging"I use one I got from at&t. It has an additional USB port on it to charge two devices at once
rakuten.com/prod/mobilespec-ms20w-20-watt-dc-to-ac-power-inverter-with-usb-input/228936142.html
I use this with standard wall charger.
Sorry don't know why my links are messed up.
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So, I may be the only one in the world who doesn't want a fast car charger... But, I'm looking for some recommendations on a "regular speed" car charger.
I know a lot of people are of the "I want it charged faster, consequences be damned!" variety but, I would rather not inflict damage to my battery from quick charging.
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I use an HTC branded car charger. Charges at the same rate as my wall charger for the LGOG
erwaso said:
I use an HTC branded car charger. Charges at the same rate as my wall charger for the LGOG
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Wall charger for LGOG Is 1 AMP right?
Snow_fox said:
Wall charger for LGOG Is 1 AMP right?
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1.2A output.
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Hi all,
When I use the charger that came with the HTC One my phone charges great, rapid.
But when I use any other charger that I have in my home/office it charges very slow. Even with a 2.1 amp charger!
The charger that comes with the phone has an output of 1 amp.
I've tried multiple other chargers (1 amp and 2.1 amp) and they all trickle charge.
Anyone else noticing this?
Thanks
Joe
I'm using old charges at home and in the office and it did seems slow but had not heard of rapid charge. Will the phone indicate this rapid charge mode? If not, is it real?
I'm getting slow charging even on the stock HTC charger. Not sure how I can enable this rapid charge cause 4+ hours from 0-1% to full is a bit ridiculous.
use orginal charger is best , maybe it has some relationship with your battery life
If anyone is coming from phones with smaller batteries, remember the larger the capacity the long it takes to charge.
I use the cable and charger from my Nexus 7 and it charges fast. Off my USB it is slow.
Real AC chargers have two pins shorted. You can hack a USB to micro USB cable and short the same two pins to enable AC charging with any adapter, wall, USB, or car. Should be pins 3+4, but don't hold me to that.
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flooty333 said:
Hi all,
When I use the charger that came with the HTC One my phone charges great, rapid.
But when I use any other charger that I have in my home/office it charges very slow. Even with a 2.1 amp charger!
The charger that comes with the phone has an output of 1 amp.
I've tried multiple other chargers (1 amp and 2.1 amp) and they all trickle charge.
Anyone else noticing this?
Thanks
Joe
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Try to change your phone
c5satellite2 said:
Real AC chargers have two pins shorted. You can hack a USB to micro USB cable and short the same two pins to enable AC charging with any adapter, wall, USB, or car. Should be pins 3+4, but don't hold me to that.
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i've done exactly this, and damned if the One still refuses to draw more than ~500 ma off of anything but the 2.1 A wallwart it came with (i don't have any others to try with). i'm about to dig out an old inverter to see if that will actually work. wish i'd paid more attention to my EE dad when i lived at home; i've gotten a serious crash course in this stuff while trying to get my One to charge in my car, when it's on.
edit: so i got my old inverter out, and spent about 15 minutes testing. i used the 2.0A adapter that came with my Nexus 7 to test, as well as the 3.1A Mediabridge adapter i got here. my phone was at about 45% when i started testing. unplugged, Battery Monitor Widget reported a drain of anywhere between 500ma and 650ma (running Ingress, wifi on). plugged in to the Mediabridge adapter showed, at best, a drain of 50ma. the Nexus adapter plugged in to my inverter charged at a fairly consistent ~120ma. i didn't touch my phone the entire time.
i left my Nexus 7 at work so i can't use it to repeat the test, but i will do so tomorrow. the cable i'm using is this one. i'm not crazy about having a ridiculous DC-AC inverter in my car for my phone, but if that's what i have to do so it can be used and not drain, then so be it. admittedly, i don't really understand these things enough to explain these variations, but i plan on learning ASAP. perhaps somebody else can shed some light on why the device charges different, and how it identifies an AC-USB adapter vs a DC-USB adapter.
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Math doesn't support what is happening though. Phone has a 2300mAh battery. The OEM charger outputs 1A (1000mAh)
At most, it should be around 3 hours for full charge, when in fact it is closer to 4-4.5 hours. It's the last 10% that is the issue, it will trickle charge to 100% rather than rapid charge.
nest75068 said:
Math doesn't support what is happening though. Phone has a 2300mAh battery. The OEM charger outputs 1A (1000mAh)
At most, it should be around 3 hours for full charge, when in fact it is closer to 4-4.5 hours. It's the last 10% that is the issue, it will trickle charge to 100% rather than rapid charge.
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Yes, I think that's exactly what the HTC does... I read a pretty good article recently about Li-Ion batteries that talks about how trickle charging is the best for battery life, and it wouldn't surprise me if HTC got a little aggressive the way the this phone charges since we can't swap the battery ourselves.
I'm trying one last car charger, which matches the wattage of my Nexus 7's 5Vdc/2A AC adapter (which I've had the best luck with, when charging the phone while in use): http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B009TBF7IG/ref=oh_details_o00_s00_i00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
If that doesn't work, I'm going to put a 300W inverter in my car with the AC adapters themselves and stop buying stinking DC adapters. This phone clearly pays very close attention to the wattage available from whatever it's plugged in to.
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I use the cable and charger from my Nexus 7 and it charges fast. Off my USB it is slow.
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Same here, 2a Nexus 7 brick with a long Logitech USB cable, much faster than stock (and longer)
Harbinger1080 said:
Yes, I think that's exactly what the HTC does... I read a pretty good article recently about Li-Ion batteries that talks about how trickle charging is the best for battery life, and it wouldn't surprise me if HTC got a little aggressive the way the this phone charges since we can't swap the battery ourselves.
I'm trying one last car charger, which matches the wattage of my Nexus 7's 5Vdc/2A AC adapter (which I've had the best luck with, when charging the phone while in use): http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B009TBF7IG/ref=oh_details_o00_s00_i00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
If that doesn't work, I'm going to put a 300W inverter in my car with the AC adapters themselves and stop buying stinking DC adapters. This phone clearly pays very close attention to the wattage available from whatever it's plugged in to.
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I'm fortunate my car has a built in inverter that I use for charging my phone.
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I'm fortunate my car has a built in inverter that I use for charging my phone.
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My next car will too, because I can only imagine that power requirements for these devices is going to increase.
That said, I think I have a winner, and instead of retyping my posts, I'll just link to that thread instead: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=41797839&postcount=6
Since the snap Dragon 600 has fast charging capabilities, why didn't HTC Include it in the kernel??? I've noticed my 2500 mAh note battery charges faster than my 2300 MAH HTC one
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