Guest SmartCarl Posted December 20, 2002 Report Share Posted December 20, 2002 Power packs (uk/us/eu mains/airline/sync and charge/ card charge) Single sync and charge cables And the pick is the emergency charger, 9V battery and cigar lighter http://www.proporta.com/Dept.asp?id=110 What i said on the USB charge posting, but you don't want to miss this, i stumbled upon this forum and did a bit of sniffing around, so someone finding this is a real find, just wanted to make sure everyone sees it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Paul [MVP] Posted December 20, 2002 Report Share Posted December 20, 2002 It does look pretty cool, the 9V keyring adaptor is particularly useful, bearing in mind the SPV battery life :shock: P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest chewie Posted December 20, 2002 Report Share Posted December 20, 2002 And it could be what the "backup battery" monitor, monitors when you goto smartphone properties in all explorer? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Paul [MVP] Posted December 20, 2002 Report Share Posted December 20, 2002 Nah... My guess is there WAS gonna be a back up battery in the SPV and now isn't, or there is, and the monitor isn't coded correctly! P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest claudine Posted December 21, 2002 Report Share Posted December 21, 2002 Smartcarl you are brilliant - thank you so much for the link to proporta. I ordered the battery recharger and if it works it might make the difference between me sending this great phone back or keeping it. I am going off to the states in a few days and need it not to die on me when waiting around in airports. Actually, in the last few days the battery life does seem to have got much better - I remember someone else said the same in an earlier post - how come this happens? And thank you everyone, by the way - this is such a good place to come for help - don't know where I'd be without you. Some of the people at 156 are really great but some of them know less than me (and that's not an awful lot) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Wlodek Posted December 22, 2002 Report Share Posted December 22, 2002 Power packs (uk/us/eu mains/airline/sync and charge/ card charge) Single sync and charge cables And the pick is the emergency charger, 9V battery and cigar lighter http://www.proporta.com/Dept.asp?id=110 [...] Has anybody actually tried this with the SPV yet? Wlodek Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest claudine Posted December 23, 2002 Report Share Posted December 23, 2002 yes! It arrived two days after I ordered it (the emergency battery charger). It works fine and is nice and portable and not fiddly or fragile looking. Would recommend Proporta to anyone Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Noah Posted December 23, 2002 Report Share Posted December 23, 2002 Just ordered the pack also, can't wait to try it, will make life a bit simpler.... no news of improved life battery yet? :shock: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest muude Posted December 23, 2002 Report Share Posted December 23, 2002 I ordered it aswell.... Does anyone know how long a 9v can supply the SPV with juice??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest HelloDave Posted December 23, 2002 Report Share Posted December 23, 2002 Does anyone know how long a 9v can supply the SPV with juice??? Well, this is only a very rough estimate - I thought the battery life you'd get from a PP3 would be dire but it's not that bad! Checking the back of the SPV battery says its capacity is 1000mah. The capactiy of your average 9v alkaline PP3 is somewhere around 550mah. Allowing for power losses in conversion (which shouldn't be too drastic) you can probably work on roughly half the life of the SPV's battery (depending on how efficient the charging process is - you might get more life by taking the SPV's battery out as charging generates waste heat). Don't use rechargeable PP3's though - their capacity is around 150-250mah depending on the battery! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest claudine Posted December 23, 2002 Report Share Posted December 23, 2002 ...um - you have lost me - do you mean that I can only charge my phone til it's half full of power once per battery? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest HelloDave Posted December 24, 2002 Report Share Posted December 24, 2002 do you mean that I can only charge my phone til it's half full of power once per battery? Speaking roughly...yes! Unless there's some very clever power conversion circuitry in the charger which I doubt. Look at the physical size of a 9v PP3 battery - you can't expect to get that much out of it! A few years ago I had an ancient Motorola brick which was supposed to be able to run off 4 AA batteries and that would barely start up with them, never mind make a phone call! SPV battery ~ £70 (probably). 9v PP3 ~ £2. You can't expect too much!!! Not having used one of these chargers I stand to be corrected - I'm only going by relative battery capacities, so when someone actually uses one for real let us know how it goes! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Noah Posted December 24, 2002 Report Share Posted December 24, 2002 UNBELIEVABLE!! I ordered the power pack at 2pm yesterday and it arrived at 8.45 this morning! and thats with the christmas post as well...Sterling service :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest comanchero Posted December 31, 2002 Report Share Posted December 31, 2002 UNBELIEVABLE!! I ordered the power pack at 2pm yesterday and it arrived at 8.45 this morning! and thats with the christmas post as well...Sterling service Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest claudine Posted December 31, 2002 Report Share Posted December 31, 2002 yes it works fine. I haven't quite worked out how long one battery charges the phone for because mine was already half charged when I used it, but it does definately work! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Noah Posted January 5, 2003 Report Share Posted January 5, 2003 :D Yep works fine !! :( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest SmartCarl Posted January 7, 2003 Report Share Posted January 7, 2003 Been away from the forum for a while, just checked on my post, had no idea that it would get so much interest, hope there are as many happy customers out there as myself and a couple of my friends were, good to see they did well with getting things out over Xmas too, guess it gets pretty busy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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