This Kickstarter project is about to ship:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/fusechicken/une-bobine-for-people-who-love-iphone
One of the devices that was tested was a Note, and it performed flawlessly. I backed the project, and will give my review once I get it. Really looking forward to it - works on both desk/countertops as well as in your car.
Be careful when adjusting it, could really bend or break your ports. Otherwise it looks like a cool product. Could see it being great in the car.
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Be careful when adjusting it, could really bend or break your ports. Otherwise it looks like a cool product. Could see it being great in the car.
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For sure. It looks like they made a nice, fat base for the mini USB connector to rest on. Hopefully it will support a good deal of weight. Supposedly it will even hold it in landscape, which I am cautiously optimistic about.
That does look pretty cool. As the others have said, the microusb port is such a shallow port, it may not provide a lot of support if any when adjusting, or if set at an angle of any sorts. Be curious to hear your review when you get it!
Im not impressed. Micro USB ports arent designed to hold weight.
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Im not impressed. Micro USB ports arent designed to hold weight.
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The port doesn't hold the weight. The base does. Same concept as a dock.
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The port doesn't hold the weight. The base does. Same concept as a dock.
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I watched the videos, I dont see where your getting the idea that the base holds the weight. They only show a glimpse of the iphone connector in one of the videos and it doesn't look any different from my ipad2 cable.
I would love to see a Note held horizontally via USB. Its one thing to position an iphone in every position since the port is 100x more secure and locks to an extent.
This has no base. Your USB port will support the entire wieght of the phone. Won't be long before USB port is loose and ceases to function.
By 'base', I mean 'connector plug'. The USB port is on a large plug which distributes the weight across a larger area than if your phone sat on just the cable end. Still, small port, certainly not made to be jostled around on. I bought mine for my desk, so should be fine. Again, more details when I get the thing.
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By 'base', I mean 'connector plug'. The USB port is on a large plug which distributes the weight across a larger area than if your phone sat on just the cable end. Still, small port, certainly not made to be jostled around on. I bought mine for my desk, so should be fine. Again, more details when I get the thing.
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From what I'm seeing that would only be true if the phone were completely balanced at a 90 degree angle otherwise much of the weight is actually distributed as shear stress against the inside of the micro USB plug which is not good.it needs some kind of backplate to cradle with.
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From what I'm seeing that would only be true if the phone were completely balanced at a 90 degree angle otherwise much of the weight is actually distributed as shear stress against the inside of the micro USB plug which is not good.it needs some kind of backplate to cradle with.
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I've asked Jon Fawcett, creator of Une Bobine, to drop by this thread and comment on concerns. I think they are all valid.
Hey all. Meatlocker sent me an email to address your concerns. I'll give some info here, but please feel free to ask more questions of me.
We made 2 substantial changes to the standard details around the micro connector that are intended to resolve the issues with all of the weight on the connector. First, our connector housing for the micro is about the same width as a standard iphone cable. The extra width spreads the weight of the phone to a greater area, which places less weight on the connector itself. Also, if the phone is tilted slightly, the phone body will hit the connector housing and stop the phone from putting additional sideways strain on the connector.
The second thing we did was to make replaceable caps on the housing end. These caps adjust the space between the connector body and the tip of the connector. This essentially adjusts how far out the connector comes. These allow us to reduce or remove the gap between our housing and the body of the phone so that the 2 items listed above are as good as possible. We have 3 caps designed to adjust this spacing to keep the phone tight in position. We also have one cap with a right angle bracket to assist with some side-port phones. And we have another cap that leaves a small portion of the traditional micro end sticking out that will let it fit into cases. Each device comes with all 5 caps.
Of course, these won't solve every phone and every usage. But we have tested with 30 different androids, windows, bb's, and feature phones and these have made the difference for most of them. Also, we don't recommend adjusting the position of the phone while it is connected to the cable except for small amounts to get it to the exact right position.
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Hey all. Meatlocker sent me an email to address your concerns. I'll give some info here, but please feel free to ask more questions of me.
We made 2 substantial changes to the standard details around the micro connector that are intended to resolve the issues with all of the weight on the connector. First, our connector housing for the micro is about the same width as a standard iphone cable. The extra width spreads the weight of the phone to a greater area, which places less weight on the connector itself. Also, if the phone is tilted slightly, the phone body will hit the connector housing and stop the phone from putting additional sideways strain on the connector.
The second thing we did was to make replaceable caps on the housing end. These caps adjust the space between the connector body and the tip of the connector. This essentially adjusts how far out the connector comes. These allow us to reduce or remove the gap between our housing and the body of the phone so that the 2 items listed above are as good as possible. We have 3 caps designed to adjust this spacing to keep the phone tight in position. We also have one cap with a right angle bracket to assist with some side-port phones. And we have another cap that leaves a small portion of the traditional micro end sticking out that will let it fit into cases. Each device comes with all 5 caps.
Of course, these won't solve every phone and every usage. But we have tested with 30 different androids, windows, bb's, and feature phones and these have made the difference for most of them. Also, we don't recommend adjusting the position of the phone while it is connected to the cable except for small amounts to get it to the exact right position.
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Do you guys have any pictures?
Looks cool...but I don't trust it.
I know the Note doesn't weight a ton, but it seems a little top heavy/big to be comfortably used with this thing.
Hmmm...maybe they could come out with something that'll attach to the USB port and allow the phone to be rested on or something to prevent all the weight from being on the phones port?
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Do you guys have any pictures?
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http://www.kickstarter.com/projects...or-people-who-love-iphone/posts/238347?page=2
Lots of good pics there (Note included), along with a video of both the micro usb and iPhone connector in action with a phone.
This is a cool idea, and I like that the maker takes time to come and talk. I understand what he means that the weight is on the plug and the base and it seems like it would work fine under ideal use, but my concern is that I would smack it, hit it, knock it over, something that would cause far more then normal amount of weight on the plug. Im glad to see some innovation though, I may give it a whirl, we'll see.
Managed to get my hands on 2 of these and they are great - if you have a smaller phone. I have no problems with HTC wildfire s or Sony Xperia Ray. When it comes to the rather large Samsung gs3 it is a different story. I have to lean the phone forward to get it to charge and this defeats the purpose of the bobine. Also in portrait mode it doesn't charge just rest against the connector casing.
Great idea for small phones! Just hope they can get a solution for larger devices as the concept is great!
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post any accesories that you want hopefully some manufacturer will read this as as yet there is little avaiable except screen protectors so heres an idea
how about a case that protects the shift but heres the clever partwith a solar panel built in so it will charge and thus extend the battery life of this amazing machine?
any other ideas ?
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post any accesories that you want hopefully some manufacturer will read this as as yet there is little avaiable except screen protectors so heres an idea
how about a case that protects the shift but heres the clever partwith a solar panel built in so it will charge and thus extend the battery life of this amazing machine?
any other ideas ?
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how about also shrinking it to size of athena and when bac in use makes it same size. would make it pocketable though
i dont know if any one is fammiliar with the company called incase...
they have great cases for iphone.. hard rubber silicon. I hope they can come out with something like that for athena....
or most phones.
My family own a plastic manufacturing company in middle east. i might have to check with them to see about manufacturing some accessories....
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i dont know if any one is fammiliar with the company called incase...
they have great cases for iphone.. hard rubber silicon. I hope they can come out with something like that for athena....
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Or do what the rest of us Athena Owners have done, get yourself a
"Tuff as Nuts" case.. Much better build quality.
Solor panel bag
spzero said:
how about a case that protects the shift but heres the clever partwith a solar panel built in so it will charge and thus extend the battery life of this amazing machine?
any other ideas ?
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Hey about that solor panel, you may want to check out this...
http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/09/voltaics-new-generator-solar-bag-can-charge-a-laptop/
WOW
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Hey about that solor panel, you may want to check out this...
http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/09/voltaics-new-generator-solar-bag-can-charge-a-laptop/
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HOW MUCH !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
First, there has got to be a slick docking station similar the one for OQO 2. Lan port, 3 usb, optical drive, vga out, PCMIA slot, and throw in a big ass battery to charge the Shift from when the onboard goes dry. Long trips you can bring the docking/charing station. A shoulder bag for this would be great as well, 7" screen isn;t going to fit in the pocket so nicely, but a minimal stylish shoulder bag could work pretty well.
Of course, accessories won't matter if nonbody buys it cause the GPS and voice are disabled Really, without GPS, voice, and the ability for both OS's to access all the storage resources you are going to have to carry a phone anyway so why would you buy this and not a cheap mini-laptop for half as much?
For in-car use
a car charger
a car cradle
case
how bout a hard case with a flat bottom and holes for vents and ports on sides so its usuable on lap, and solar panel not so much to get it 12volts id have to cover the whole screen and even then id tske hours to chage like 6 or 7 so id basically be usuless in less u sit outside in bright sun all day and dont want to see anything in less it flipped up that might work then i block sun out too to cut black glare,
a bigger internal battery
i would love..
a battery around 4000 ma even with a bigger cover.
...maybe an official upgrade of wm side, by paying the full licence but with a good implementation of qualcom grafic drivers
finaly.. if ppctechs could provide a 256 ram update , plus a micro sd slot . they can do it
I believe HTC Shift will have probably a short life cycle... As this is their first "rather mature" product of this kind. They are surveying the market, know the design flaws and specification mitakes. The next one should be now specified at 80% already.
I'm confident we will see lot of improvements on the device itself (but this is not the topic of this thread). Let's focus on accessories as this is also a weak area when comes to HTC Shift offer. From HTC, I just see the following:
- Extended Battery (for heavy user and because... this is a great margin generator. ).
- Docking Station (more USB ports, VGA output, Ethernet).
Third party manufacturers can take care of the rest (Car Craddle/Charger, Cases, ...) but they will do it only if the next product has good sales or benefits from strong HTC support. Due to short HTC SHift life cycle, I dont think HTC is pushing hard for having partners making accessories.
i was wondering if they actually sell a replacement stand for the Thunderbolt anywhere? i know how to take the thing apart just the stand is a bit 'jacked up' i guess you could say(peeling).
also, why the hell did they put the stand on the way they did? you can't charge it and have the stand open at the same time.
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also, why the hell did they put the stand on the way they did? you can't charge it and have the stand open at the same time.
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To sell docks...
Via my HTC Thunderbolt
I want to take mine off and gold plate it... Ha ha
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i was wondering if they actually sell a replacement stand for the Thunderbolt anywhere? i know how to take the thing apart just the stand is a bit 'jacked up' i guess you could say(peeling).
also, why the hell did they put the stand on the way they did? you can't charge it and have the stand open at the same time.
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It's built into and sold with part of the housing.
http://www.repairsuniverse.com/htc-thunderbolt-front-housing-replacement.html
Buy from there or search for the same part elsewhere.
The peeling is pretty common after owning for a while and has been complained about by many users.
I peeled the rest of the filmy stuff off of mine and polished it. It looks better IMO
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I peeled mine off. Use a plastic pen cap. Go with the grain then after you clean it all. Go buy mothers polish or the blue magic polish. Just use a rag and polish it. Looks awesome Chrome look and it has the grain and with Google on it still. I like it better.
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also, why the hell did they put the stand on the way they did? you can't charge it and have the stand open at the same time.
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I just stand it up so it's not in landscape mode
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I just stand it up so it's not in landscape mode
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But my streaming "videos" only play in landscape :/
While it's true they probably did this to sell docks, it might also have been simply due to internal design of the hardware. Remember they try to pack as much silicon into these things as possible, and due to location of processors, memory, gpu, capacitors, backlights, and all the circuitry required to connect them all, they may have simply had no room to squeeze the hinge+usb port on the same side together, whereas theres some dead space on the other end so they just went with that. Maybe they dont want people charging on the kickstand because the backlight would burn out more quickly if you just left it on every night as a bedtime clock. Maybe verizon freaked out and thought we'd all just stream ESPN all day long if we could keep it charged like that and wreck the network.
No, they did it because it's the correct design.
When used in a (car/home/media) dock, the charging port needs to be on the "bottom" (the standard for Android docking is landscape orientation), so it connects when you dock it. You also need the volume rocker on the top, so you can control volume. The bottom in landscape mode is the left side when held in portrait mode - neither the standard video player nor Netflix will play in any other orientation.
Move the USB port to the other side or top/bottom, and then you can't have a (reasonable) docking solution . Changing the kickstand so it opens from the other side, and the volume rocker is now inaccessible on the bottom, and your videos will be upside down (yes, I know Youtube will adapt, but it's the exception).
The kickstand is intended to be used for video when running under battery power. If you want to charge at the same time, get a dock. Given that it's a $600 phone, a $20 dock isn't anything to complain about.
lol mike is absolutely right
Designing a car mount to work with my Seidio case that will still allow docking features. The mount will be mated to a ProClip mount for ideal location. It will be molded out of Kydex and will have a micro-fleece like lining in it. The electronics will be torn from a Samsung OEM desktop dock from my Vibrant (close relitive of the captivate). This is a very rough idea based on a design in my head. Any input would be appriciated.
Update: I pulled the circuit board from the OEM dock. I'm torn between using it or not. The dock offer audio pass through but at the cost of fast charge capabilities. Not sure if i want to sacrifice this. Day to day the audio pass through will be very handy, but when I need GPS on long trips, I will have to rely on an occasional battery swap. Thoughts?
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EDIT 2: Initial beta build is done and thread is up
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1569099
Where the hell did my attachments go?
Will reattach tomorrow at work, sorry folks.
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Photos re-added. Any thoughts, opinions, recommendations would be great.
On the charge front, can you modify the pins internally to allow for fast charge?
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On the charge front, can you modify the pins internally to allow for fast charge?
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Yes I'm sure I could, but I imagine this would interfere with the audio pass through as you would be shorting the data pins to accomplish this, then how would the data pass.
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Yes I'm sure I could, but I imagine this would interfere with the audio pass through as you would be shorting the data pins to accomplish this, then how would the data pass.
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I see. So the dock uses the USB connector to take the audio from the phone, to the 3.5mm jack attached to the dock. Then from the dock fo your head unit?
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I see. So the dock uses the USB connector to take the audio from the phone, to the 3.5mm jack attached to the dock. Then from the dock fo your head unit?
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Precisely, I use slacker every morning for my morning commute plugged into the AUX via patch cable so this has major everyday advantage for me. This would allow me to simply drop my phone into the dock. Using Tasker I could have it auto launch slacker.
The only alternative to obtain the best of both worlds is to open up a patch cable, ID +/- then wire a switch shorting the data pins in the closed position. While this works in theory, I’m not sure what the effects it would have on the phone/stereo (noise or actual damage). I have little working knowledge of audio.
What if you used the current OE dock and modified that one? That one is already proven to charge.
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What if you used the current OE dock and modified that one? That one is already proven to charge.
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If I run into one cheap I may try, but I don't want to throw money at this which was my original plan. I made my first car mount tonight. This is the first time working with the much thicker Kydex T 0.093" and boy was it a pain to work. The stuff is about 4 times thicker then the seidio cases plastic shell. I took pics and even a couple videos. I'm happy with it in that it was a shot in the dark and I didn't expect alot out of the first one and also I found out how damn touch this thickness of Kydex is. I will post up info on it tomorrow when I have time to actually type it all up.
interesting, I was hoping to build my own dock as well. Could you post pictures of the circuit board from the original dock? I'm close to buying one just to tear apart for the charge+audio
Great work so far, Keep us posted
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interesting, I was hoping to build my own dock as well. Could you post pictures of the circuit board from the original dock? I'm close to buying one just to tear apart for the charge+audio
Great work so far, Keep us posted
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You can buy the dock for vibrant or captivate for about $8-$10. I tested they board and it does charge and pass audio.
There are about 6 tiny screws that are accessed by prying off the panel off the back. Be careful doing this, easy to gouge your hand.
The problem will come when you try to mount the board without leaving these delicate wires exposed. Hope this helped.
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You can buy the dock for vibrant or captivate for about $8-$10. I tested they board and it does charge and pass audio.
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I'm interested in doing this, too.
I've got my old Captivate OEM car dock around here somewhere. I'm wondering if that would work, too.
lactardjosh said:
I'm interested in doing this, too.
I've got my old Captivate OEM car dock around here somewhere. I'm wondering if that would work, too.
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Should work just fine. I am putting the finishing touches on my guide right now for my first mount that I made last night. If you follow the instructions you should have no problem making a mount an incorporating whatever features you like. I'm still up in the air whether I will be using this dock board or just placing a 90 degree USB cable in. I am waiting to hear back on a quote from a Kydex dealer for a few more sheets and when I get those I will make a more refined end product. What I post here in a bit will be just a way of getting people on the track to making their own mounts. Many people don't realize how easy it really is.
The OEM dock offers fast charge and audio pass through at the same time. No idea how, but it does work...
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Should work just fine. I am putting the finishing touches on my guide right now for my first mount that I made last night. If you follow the instructions you should have no problem making a mount an incorporating whatever features you like. I'm still up in the air whether I will be using this dock board or just placing a 90 degree USB cable in. I am waiting to hear back on a quote from a Kydex dealer for a few more sheets and when I get those I will make a more refined end product. What I post here in a bit will be just a way of getting people on the track to making their own mounts. Many people don't realize how easy it really is.
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Thanks so much man! Do you think you could include the tasker profiles as well? That would be awesomeme!!!!!!!
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The OEM dock offers fast charge and audio pass through at the same time. No idea how, but it does work...
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I was looking at the wiring, if I could figure out which pins are used for audio, I could figure out if the other pins could (possibly already are?) fused. I know there are complains about OEM desk docks from captivate and other same gen galaxy s devices not fast charging.
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Thanks so much man! Do you think you could include the tasker profiles as well? That would be awesomeme!!!!!!!
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I will get to all that when the time comes, but of course I would be more than happy to supply anything I possibly can to help others out. May be sending out these early prototypes to those who want them once I get something more refined cranked out.
The thread is up. Go, read, comment.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1569099
Nice work so far! I've been entertaining the idea of a car dock for my precious Note as well, and I wasn't a big fan of the one that is available from Samsung.
If you plan to move into any sort of CAD/CAM development, I'd love to offer my modeling skills to the cause. I made this guy a while back for my Atrix as a desk dock, but ended up buying the HD dock towards the end of the Project lol.
I'm not trying to highjack this thread or anything, just want to offer my services to the cause. If there is an interest, i will start drawing up some plans.
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Nice work so far! I've been entertaining the idea of a car dock for my precious Note as well, and I wasn't a big fan of the one that is available from Samsung.
If you plan to move into any sort of CAD/CAM development, I'd love to offer my modeling skills to the cause. I made this guy a while back for my Atrix as a desk dock, but ended up buying the HD dock towards the end of the Project lol.
I'm not trying to highjack this thread or anything, just want to offer my services to the cause. If there is an interest, i will start drawing up some plans.
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Very cool work but mine will be mounted in my truck so that cool work would go to waste. My mount is aimed at the average joe who can invest <$20 and have themselves a full functional car dock. I'm working on tracking down sources for different parts. I just some rotating adjustable low profile swivels that will allow the case just to rotate from portrait to landscape rather then disassembly. I ordered two to try it out.
Nice cant wait to see the finished product will you be selling any?
I just received my SGS3 and it is being charged for now so my first question is an easy one. Does it or doesn't it have microusb? I noticed that the microusb plug is slidely different from my HTC cable and when I tried to use that one, it wouldn't go in. I didn't apply too much pressure of course but enough to realise that it doesn't fit. I was under the impression that MicroUSB should be universal and the same cable works for 3 other HTC devices.
HTC cable works just fine, you know that the micro usb is turned upsidedown?
With the flat side down the cable is plugged in, just saying
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Yes I know. I've been using it for years but it certainly is harder to fit on the Samsung. Maybe if I push harder it will go The one that came with the phone fits just fine though without needing to push hard. Anyway, I'll push harder again.
Asking if it has MicroUSB is not really correct. As with every USB-Type (normal, mini and micro) there are at least 2 different incompatible plugs per size. Talk about uniformity of the USB standard!
The Microusb-A has trapeze-like corners while Microusb-B has rounded corners.
HTC and Samsung both use MicroUSB-B so if both look the same, they match but it might be a tight fit due to differences in production.
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Asking if it has MicroUSB is not really correct. As with every USB-Type (normal, mini and micro) there are at least 2 different incompatible plugs per size. Talk about uniformity of the USB standard!
The Microusb-A has trapeze-like corners while Microusb-B has rounded corners.
HTC and Samsung both use MicroUSB-B so if both look the same, they match but it might be a tight fit due to differences in production.
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You must be correct. What I noticed is that they have the same shape and size bit if you look inside, the plastic is a bit larger on Samsung, making the free space inside smaller than HTC and maybe that's why I found it hard to plug in. However, if everyone confirms here that they must be the same, it must be so. I guess people have tried it and it worked.
Hello Good People,
Can someone please share some insight here. My issue is that every now and than my phone acts as if it is being controlled remotely. Home screens progress to the next screen, apps will open and close, widgets resize themselves or close, the notification pull down menu is goes up and down.
When this happens it all happens back to back within seconds and I cannot stop it. All I can do is do a hard reboot.
Any solution or tips as to what is going on? I have tried different ROMS and yet it has been known to happen again.
T.I.A.
Mine does it while charging and using the phone. Perhaps because of the lack of proper ground a charge builds up and starts "ghost click".
Its the expected reaction because the touch panel is a "capacitive" type. This model has support for a pen with stock rom. So there might be that the sensitive threshold is set too high to what is optimal when charging?
You can change this setting by editing a file. (that's for another day).
For me it can be minimized for a while by turning off the screen and swiping the whole palm over the screen and downwards. Like you give the charge to go somewhere with the largest possible surface area.
If I remember this right I can recall that SONY had a picture showing how the phone was designed.
It was made part of nylon, glassfiber and magnesium...
Nylon and copper is an excellent material that gain negative charge, aluminum and glass that can gain positive charge.
Magnesium mold is an alloy with part aluminium and other neat stuff.
ah found it:
http://blogs.sonymobile.com/2013/09...rlds-slimmest-full-hd-smartphone-infographic/
What I am saying is that the materials are there to create ghost clicks. Its not a hardware failure. I think it is only the interaction of the material the designers desided to use for this device.
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Mine does it while charging and using the phone. Perhaps because of the lack of proper ground a charge builds up and starts "ghost click".
Its the expected reaction because the touch panel is a "capacitive" type. This model has support for a pen with stock rom. So there might be that the sensitive threshold is set too high to what is optimal when charging?
You can change this setting by editing a file. (that's for another day).
For me it can be minimized for a while by turning off the screen and swiping the whole palm over the screen and downwards. Like you give the charge to go somewhere with the largest possible surface area.
If I remember this right I can recall that SONY had a picture showing how the phone was designed.
It was made part of nylon, glassfiber and magnesium...
Nylon and copper is an excellent material that gain negative charge, aluminum and glass that can gain positive charge.
Magnesium mold is an alloy with part aluminium and other neat stuff.
ah found it:
http://blogs.sonymobile.com/2013/09...rlds-slimmest-full-hd-smartphone-infographic/
What I am saying is that the materials are there to create ghost clicks. Its not a hardware failure. I think it is only the interaction of the material the designers desided to use for this device.
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I would agree with you, I remember my phone used to have ghost touches with certain usb cables. Try a different cable if it is occurring while it is charging.
If not, do you have a screen guard on?
mofoahh said:
I would agree with you, I remember my phone used to have ghost touches with certain usb cables. Try a different cable if it is occurring while it is charging.
If not, do you have a screen guard on?
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Any cable does the same thing. Received three SONY EC450 cables in the mail the other day.
The charger used today is a a bulk order of Samsung eta-p10x because of the removable plug so that I can put any longer C7 cable for long distance from the outlet. I do have a front+back glass panel.
It can be related to ghostclicks because I dropped the phone strait on the asphalt a month back. Luckely with a battery case taking the hit. But the glass is shattered. Two days after I replaced the glass..............
However ghost clicks have occured to and from during the three years time I have had this device. When charging.
Worth notice is that I have removed the asf sheet.
I am aware that the tempered glass isn't just recycled glass molded thin with a silicone residue on one side. There are metals and other possible conductive and charge holding ingredients mixed in the mass. Not to mention the most common sale argument: "HD clear visibility" what many sellers advertises their product to give you. This also has some fact in the paper...can't remember what they use for that at the moment. If it was a mineral or whatever.
Thank you SUPERUSER and mofoahh for the response.
Yes I do have a screen protector on the device. Weird that most of the time it happens when the usb cable is connected to the computer. I was getting freaked out as I thought someone might have been accessing my device remotely. I will get another charging cable.
Thank you again for the informative and technical insight, much appreciated!
You can check your touchscreen's responsiveness using an app called YAMTT:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rn.yamtt
My phone has ghost or phantom touches all over the place.
PamelaGirl said:
Thank you SUPERUSER and mofoahh for the response.
Yes I do have a screen protector on the device. Weird that most of the time it happens when the usb cable is connected to the computer. I was getting freaked out as I thought someone might have been accessing my device remotely. I will get another charging cable.
Thank you again for the informative and technical insight, much appreciated!
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If you are worried that someone is tapping your phone you can monitor the network with wireshark and dump a log every day. And use a keylogger. Or/and run catlog with dump at the end of every day.
Or to do this without any suspension from the hacker, run a man in the middle proxy to your computer. Have all traffic dumped there and you can review what's happening every now and then.
If you find anything suspicious then the first thing to look at when it comes to hacking is DNS servers. Google it.
electrical grounding issues.
change the charger.
tsiros said:
electrical grounding issues.
change the charger.
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In general it is the recommended choice.