I bought this cradle a few weeks ago and i love it so much i wanted to share it with you guys!
The good points...Universal, works with any device,
it comes with a separate charger lead off the back with different tips so you can charge other phones while Syncing.
Nice to use, no fiddly slotting it into place.And works in landscape!
its got a blue light!! anything with a blue lights got to be good right
Loads of other stuff..
Bad points...
Only shipped to Europe apparently,(found similar in US in post #3)
Have to use a Sync lead..i don't mind but some might, I actually think its better cos i can pick it up and not have to disconnect it, but hey thats just me.
Basically its cheap and great.
check out the full specs here http://www.mobilefun.co.uk/22432-Desk-Genie-Non-Slip-Charging-Desk-Stand-Reviews.htm
i just found a full review and better pic than mine!
http://www.testfreaks.com/blog/review/desk-genie-non-slip-charging-desk-stand/
Does anyone know where something comparable to this is to be found to ship to the US?
sanjsrik said:
Does anyone know where something comparable to this is to be found to ship to the US?
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I just found this with a bit of lateral googling, its not quite as nice but similar
http://www.bestofferbuy.com/USB-20-...ource=gbase&utm_medium=cse&utm_campaign=gbase
and here http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.26352
not black though
I think i just found it!! nice looking too...looks slick
http://www.gizfever.com/antislip-mobile-holder-with-usb-hub-p-735.html
LOL, should have known to check DealExtreme. I've been buying things from them for years. Ever seen this product. I'd recommend it highly, have two at home:
http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.15294
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LOL, should have known to check DealExtreme. I've been buying things from them for years. Ever seen this product. I'd recommend it highly, have two at home:
http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.15294
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Yeah been looking into these too, seems like a cheap way to have an external drive! glad the link helped.
Something similar:
http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/cellphone/c96e/
I'll do you one better and cheaper:
http://www.hardwaresphere.com/2009/06/21/anti-slip-gadget-holder-double-as-usb-card-reader/
This one appeals to me
USB Desktop Cradle with 2nd battery slot for HTC Touch Pro 2 (GSM) $ 22.95
[KDG-LX-HTP2]
Note: I don't suggest this UNIT.
Based on this Review
Special Features:
* Compatible with USB and USB2 port
* Synchronize and charge at the same time
* Protection circuit
* Comes with a LED indicator
* 2nd battery charging slot !!!
* Support PC and Mac
* A perfect complement for mobile professionals
Package Contains:
* Docking Cradle
* 1 AC Charger Adapter
* 1 USB Cable
Problems:
Cheap quality, break easy.
Second slot needs AC adapter, while cradle needs USB and not work from AC,
poor design and NO cust support.
ATTENTION!!! This cradle is for GSM Version of HTC Toch Pro 2. It will NOT work with Sprint Touch Pro 2 or Verizon Toch Pro 2!
Q: Does anyone think this "Won't" work with T-Mobile TP2 ? It isn't specifically listed on the T-Mobile specific link. ?
Cradle, yes, but not if you have a case
Hi,
I have one of those types of cradles. They are great, UNLESS...
--You have a case on your device. There is no room between the cradle back and the support back that allows you to place the device in the cradle.
--You have an extended battery. These don't (again) have any space that will allow you to put the device in the cradle since there's no room to feasibly put the device in the cradle if you have an extended battery.
I don't know why these things (cradles) have this support back and don't leave any space for any extended options.
osirisHTC.. wats the link to tht dock station for tp2.. it looks sick.
http://www.thinktouchpro2.com/thtctopro2de.html
T-Mobile HTC Touch Pro 2 Sync and Charge Desktop Charger with 2nd Battery Slot - $26.99
I ended up buying this.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=250581187014
2 Battery+USB Charger for Sprint HTC Touch Pro 2 Pro2
US $11.49
T-Mobile HTC Touch Pro 2 Sync and Charge Desktop Charger with 2nd Battery Slot - $26.99[/QUOTE]
That exact same cradle is on e-bay for $13 shipped to the U.S. I bought two of them. Works great for me, and the price is right. As others have noted, it's a little fiddly to slide it on, and tends to stick when sliding it off. And it won't work with a case or an extended battery, but the film guards are ok.
Is your device the T-Mobile version?
Last cradle I bought didn't fit it.
I ordered my Asus TF300 3 weeks ago - that damn thing just isn't yet available in switzerland, so I'm still waiting
Now as a future owner of that great device, I wonder if there is any possibility to screw a holder to the wall, that has integrated charging capabilities.
I don't want to fiddle with a charging cable - I just would want to plug it into the mount and it should then be securely mounted and directly be charging the battery.
I've been searching on google for months (for other tablets including the original transformer) but there doesn't seem to be a solution to this for any tablet at all.
Does anyone know of something that would fit my situation?
Sounds like a Kickstarter project to me, LOL!
I have had my G3 for two weeks now and am very happy with it. I dumped my Droid 3, so as you can imagine, it's a huge leap in technology and power to go from the Droid 3 to a G3. I decided I wanted to start doing wireless charging as I saw several others in other forums talking about their shells getting cracked or damaged from excessive force needed to insert the usb cable to charge the phone. It does seem like it could eventually lead to some heavy wear and tear.
So I did some research and a lot of reading, and purchased the following charger and back cover and I can't get wireless charging to work at all. The reviews on the charger appear to be very positive and according to the description on EBAY, the back cover will work on the Verizon G3. The pins appear to line up correctly and I have tried moving the phone all over the mat but no luck. Could one of the apps I have frozen in Titanium Backup be preventing this from working? I basically only froze the crapware stuff. Is there a setting somewhere that needs to be configured? I have an email out to the EBAY person I bought the cover from but have not gotten a response yet. Ideas? Suggestions?
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00LFVPQS4/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=251572589922
JCDinPGH said:
I have had my G3 for two weeks now and am very happy with it. I dumped my Droid 3, so as you can imagine, it's a huge leap in technology and power to go from the Droid 3 to a G3. I decided I wanted to start doing wireless charging as I saw several others in other forums talking about their shells getting cracked or damaged from excessive force needed to insert the usb cable to charge the phone. It does seem like it could eventually lead to some heavy wear and tear.
So I did some research and a lot of reading, and purchased the following charger and back cover and I can't get wireless charging to work at all. The reviews on the charger appear to be very positive and according to the description on EBAY, the back cover will work on the Verizon G3. The pins appear to line up correctly and I have tried moving the phone all over the mat but no luck. Could one of the apps I have frozen in Titanium Backup be preventing this from working? I basically only froze the crapware stuff. Is there a setting somewhere that needs to be configured? I have an email out to the EBAY person I bought the cover from but have not gotten a response yet. Ideas? Suggestions?
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00LFVPQS4/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=251572589922
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Does your new cover have 4 pins space correctly? I know in the past, some vendors from ebay were sending out only the NFC cases on accident and calling them Qi covers.
The charger you got is a knock off of the TYLT charger, so it could possibly be something with that charger too. If you have a Verizon store near by, Id go down and see if they ahve any Qi chargers setup. Each one I have gone into always had at least one so I could test if my things were working.
The new back cover definitely has 4 pins and from the best I can tell, they match up. I will definitely try your Verizon store idea when i can find a store.
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Does your new cover have 4 pins space correctly? I know in the past, some vendors from ebay were sending out only the NFC cases on accident and calling them Qi covers.
The charger you got is a knock off of the TYLT charger, so it could possibly be something with that charger too. If you have a Verizon store near by, Id go down and see if they ahve any Qi chargers setup. Each one I have gone into always had at least one so I could test if my things were working.
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hi, I have European version D620 for my girlfriend, incl. a NFC chip, attached to the inside of the back cover. So it has 2 contacts in the phone that connect to that. We do not use NFC at this point, would prefer Qi Wireless charging... would putting in a Qi wireless charger foil connected to those 2 contacts instead of the NFC chip do the trick? Would it be something LG would have need to have built in, or would it be recognized by Android? This D620 has Android 4.4, my Nexus 5 had that too.... Concerning the Nexus 5, hardly anywhere it's mentioned that it is compatible with Qi wireless charging, , but I would not want a phone without it anymore.... (now with the S6 having it standard it will come to life i'm sure!!)
Any technician who would now the answer??
I'm thinking of buying a Samsung NOTE 2 compatible foil for a couple of dollars,put it in and and just give it a try...( I checked for the size, should be able to fit it in easily, hopefully it will not be too thick...
thanks in advance,
Wil
nice idea, but it won't work, i'm pretty sure. charging doesn't work with any two contacts you have on your phone especially if they're designed for something that runs on low power like nfc. it's the same as if you would try to take out the ir blaster diode and use it's two contacts to charge the phone... that's why there is a usb port on the bottom of the phone
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I just bought an OEM Verizon Qi charging phone back, and two different Qi chargers. All sourced from Amazon, and listed as their best sellers.
Neither would connect to the phone and provide wireless charging. I am RMA-ing the new phone back to rule it out.
Could being on a custom ROM be interfering? I am on SkyDragon 4.0. I don't want to bother the dev on it, if it is a hardware problem.
Anyone else have a similar configuration that worked?
BoulderGeek said:
I just bought an OEM Verizon Qi charging phone back, and two different Qi chargers. All sourced from Amazon, and listed as their best sellers.
Neither would connect to the phone and provide wireless charging. I am RMA-ing the new phone back to rule it out.
Could being on a custom ROM be interfering? I am on SkyDragon 4.0. I don't want to bother the dev on it, if it is a hardware problem.
Anyone else have a similar configuration that worked?
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as far as i know, there is no "oem" charging backs available. you can buy an aftermarket sticker to make it work though.
anyways, the sticker should have 4 contact points, not 2. if you have that, the only way to properly verify its working is to put stock back on.
yes, it should work on SD, but to rma a device, without verifying the issue on the clean stock it was intended to run on is just not smart.
Yep, my back has four contacts, to match the internal contacts on teh phone.
it is branded LG and "Verizon 4G LTE", same as my original, hence why I referred to it as OEM.
I believe they made them standard for sale in Rest of World and optional for the US.
It is hard for me to believe that the charging on those two pins would be disabled in software, but considering the ridiculousness of US carriers, I put nothing past them. Which is why I wanted to know if anyone had one that worked.
I didn't RMA the phone, just the 4-pin optional Qi charging back plate. To call someone "not smart," when you clearly have no grasp of the facts...that's not smart.
I do know from experience that AOSP roms do break wireless charging, but SkyDragon is based off of stock, so it should work just fine.
BoulderGeek said:
Yep, my back has four contacts, to match the internal contacts on teh phone.
it is branded LG and "Verizon 4G LTE", same as my original, hence why I referred to it as OEM.
I believe they made them standard for sale in Rest of World and optional for the US.
It is hard for me to believe that the charging on those two pins would be disabled in software, but considering the ridiculousness of US carriers, I put nothing past them. Which is why I wanted to know if anyone had one that worked.
I didn't RMA the phone, just the 4-pin optional Qi charging back plate. To call someone "not smart," when you clearly have no grasp of the facts...that's not smart.
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i can only comment on what you post, and dont pretend to understand what you mean while vaguely explaining it.
what i perceive from your post appeared to be "not smart", and thats how i called it.
now that you have clarified, even returning the back plate before verifying the issue on clean stock, is not smart, but hey, its your time and money to do with as you wish.
good luck with that
Have you checked the other threads on this already?
There are only a few places to get the parts that enable wireless charging on the G3. As far as I know, the only official OEM part that verizon sells is the flip case. Any others are either the Sticker type, or an OEM part imported from europe, to get the correct 4 pin option, (Both at&t and korean variant parts will not work, as the 4 pins do not align correctly for the verizon phone.) and neither would have the verizon logo on it, unless it was an aftermarket mod from a third party, and I'd be a bit weary of those, personally. So I'm a little confused on the 4 pin, verizon logo part of your message. Still, if it is a correctly modified original part, with an aftermarket sticker attached on it, it should work on stock, and on most roms based of stock, like SD's ROM.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00N29ECGE
Bought one from Amazon last week from a US seller who unfortunately doesn't seem to be listed anymore (sold out?). Back was OEM with only the LG logo, and had the Qi+NFC pins in the correct place for the VS985 (the AT&T/Asian models had their pins aligned slightly differently).
Works with my Qi charger fine, and I too am running SD 4.0, as I value battery life.
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I do know from experience that AOSP roms do break wireless charging, but SkyDragon is based off of stock, so it should work just fine.
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I have actually used quite a few AOSP roms and they seemed to have fixed it. I've been using PA for about 3 months now and its been working this whole time. Also on my wife's G3 CM12's wireless charging works for her. Just thought i would let you know in case you wanted to try it out again. I'm using some cheap wireless sticker from amazon and all is working on both of our phones
EDIT: This is what i purchased http://www.amazon.com/Wireless-Charging-Antenna-Sticker-T-mobile/dp/B00MWS5L34/ref=sr_1_2?s=wireless&ie=UTF8&qid=1445349009&sr=1-2&keywords=lg+g3+qi+wireless+charging+sticker
Thanks for those constructive posts. Good to know that any issues I may be having are likely hardware. That points me in a good direction.
I should be receiving the replacement back today, so I can see if the problem is my phone core or the accessories.
Yeah, it's weird that the phone back would have Verizon branding, especially if it isn't their part. I can't see an advantage to doing that. The silkscreen looks identical to the OEM back that shipped with the phone.
EDIT: Ah ha! Now I understand what happened. This is the product: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00NL9GWPY?psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=oh_aui_detailpage_o04_s01 I sort of blindly purchased, since it had a good rating. I now see that the seller has taken OEM backs and retrofitted them with a sticker! it's the same deal that you can do for six bucks, and not OEM. So, I am a stooge because I didn't read the fine print.
Amazon is not the place for popular items.
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I just bought an OEM Verizon Qi charging phone back, and two different Qi chargers. All sourced from Amazon, and listed as their best sellers. ...
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"Best sellers" on Amazon sometimes means "lots of victims".
A couple weeks ago I also search for a genuine LG/Verizon charging back, so that I wouldn't have to mess with a "stick-on" solution. While the items looked promising at first blush, a little research showed that there is no such device as a "genuine LG/Verizon charging back", despite what is obviously marked as such. The genuine charging back from Verizon is a clamshell-like cover, that apparently doesn't fit well with the usual belt clips. Life is like that.
Sadly, Amazon has become a haven for scammers offering counterfeit products of all types. A few months ago, I wanted to buy a power adapter for my Samsung tablet. The price on Samsung's site was $35; the price from all of the vendors on Amazon was $10, for devices clearly marked with the Samsung logo. However, reading the reviews showed that they were all cheap counterfeits that often failed in a month or two.
I have come to the point of only buying stuff on Amazon, that Amazon buys directly from the manufacturer. Ie, "sold by and ships from Amazon", not "sold by <whomever> and ships from Amazon".
As they say, "buyer beware".
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Okay, now you do (grin).
Thanks, Dean. You're absolutely right.
I received the second replacement "wireless charging & NFC" cover, last night. Still doesn't work on my phone. But, it looks like a new Verizon cover, just one that had some yahoo replace the original NFC antenna with a cheap knockoff that purportedly would charge.
Ah, well, I got a new, unscratched G3 phone back plate and learned a lesson.
Icanthelplt90 said:
I have actually used quite a few AOSP roms and they seemed to have fixed it. I've been using PA for about 3 months now and its been working this whole time. Also on my wife's G3 CM12's wireless charging works for her. Just thought i would let you know in case you wanted to try it out again. I'm using some cheap wireless sticker from amazon and all is working on both of our phones
EDIT: This is what i purchased http://www.amazon.com/Wireless-Charging-Antenna-Sticker-T-mobile/dp/B00MWS5L34/ref=sr_1_2?s=wireless&ie=UTF8&qid=1445349009&sr=1-2&keywords=lg+g3+qi+wireless+charging+sticker
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I want to try again, but my phone was just replaced by VZW, and it has 35B. I'm treading lightly on the recovery/rooting until I do enough research to be confident in my next attempt. I REALLY miss CM.
I have the original back cover and the only way that the qi charger works when I raise up the pad...