Guest Funster Posted February 25, 2004 Report Posted February 25, 2004 Just thought I'd share a stupid situation I got myself into. I wanted to give my E200 a full charge from the USB cradle. So I thought I'd do smart thing and discharge it fully before starting the charge. To speed up the process, on went Bluetooth. Once the phone's battery gave up, it as usual turned itself off. I placed it into the cradle and expected to see the orange charging light come on, no...... It appears that it can only charge from the cradle when it's on. Unfortunately, there's not enough juice to even power up. So no phone until this evening. Adding to the stupidity is that I have a spare charger from the original SPV, sickening really. :oops: Update: In the vain hope that it might charge, I left it in the cradle. The led is now flashing red and doesn't look good. I think I'll remove it. :-s
Guest newquay_kev Posted February 25, 2004 Report Posted February 25, 2004 Question, do you have the AC adapter plugged into the cradle or are you charging purely over USB?
Guest Funster Posted February 25, 2004 Report Posted February 25, 2004 Purely through USB, I didn't see the point on using my spare charger as my work PC is always on. You live and learn.
Guest capt_janeway Posted February 25, 2004 Report Posted February 25, 2004 Don't think you can charge using USB only? (but may be very wrong!) I have a USB cable and it only syncs and does not charge - as I discovered one day to my horror!
Guest Funster Posted February 25, 2004 Report Posted February 25, 2004 Sure you can charge with the E200 cradle. It's the main way I charge the phone. Like I said in my first post, don't let your phone die and try to charge it with only the USB cradle, it won't work.
Guest newquay_kev Posted February 25, 2004 Report Posted February 25, 2004 A totally flat battery will indeed require the AC charger - USB charging alone will not do the trick.
Guest Funster Posted February 25, 2004 Report Posted February 25, 2004 Yeah I know now. It was just a warning to others not to let the E200 run entirely flat before trying to charge it with only the USB cradle.
Guest Funster Posted February 25, 2004 Report Posted February 25, 2004 Purely through USB, I didn't see the point on using my spare charger as my work PC is always on. You live and learn. See above. I may not have brought the charger, but I'm not entirely stupid either. :wink:
Guest Baddass Posted February 26, 2004 Report Posted February 26, 2004 obviosuly u can charge by usb cradle, but if the battery is totally dead then when u plug it in the battery doesnt have enough charge to initiate the connection with the PC thru usb so it wont even recognise its there, u may even need to have the phoen on to start the initial charge bit, but once it's going ur ok
Guest Bjorn S. Posted February 26, 2004 Report Posted February 26, 2004 Ok, I have a (maybe) stupid remark about this. It seems to me that, if the phone is charged through the cradle, the battery life is shorter then when charged by the AC adapter, although fully charged... Am I going insane or is there an explanation for this????
Guest colingwalker Posted February 26, 2004 Report Posted February 26, 2004 A computers USB output is regulated to 500mA if you check your charger it's output is 5V @ 1mA Your computer may not be giving the required output to the USB port to satisfy the needs of your e200. Most USB devices are supplemented with an AC power adaptor due to the limited output from the USB.
Guest Bjorn S. Posted February 26, 2004 Report Posted February 26, 2004 Ok, but that would mean it only takes longer to charge the phone, correct? I get it charged upto full 100% (according task manager) but it seems to run flat a lot quicker...
Guest Trancemaster Posted February 27, 2004 Report Posted February 27, 2004 PC needs to be on. Not neccessarily, my PC provides power to the USB ports even when switched off.
Guest Rusty Posted February 27, 2004 Report Posted February 27, 2004 A totally flat battery will indeed require the AC charger - USB charging alone will not do the trick. This is certainly not the case with my E200, am currently at work and found my phone switched off due to low battery a few hours ago. Have since restarted it several times, of course it shut itself off again very shortly after each switch on, so this battery was most definitely flat :). An hour or so ago, i dug my laptop out, along with my spare cradle that i keep with the lappy, E200 went onto charge via USB only and immediately the orange 'charge' light came on and i was able to restart the phone with no problems whatsoever. Hence it would seem that the E200 is capable of USB charging whilst turned off and that the USB provides sufficient power to start-up/run the phone aswell as charge (at least mine does :D)
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