Guest deeone Posted March 3, 2010 Report Posted March 3, 2010 Hi, just a simple question. I don't want to charge my battery while my usb cable is plugged in my pc, but only when is plugged in the wall charger. Is it possible in some ways? Thanks in advance guys!
Guest pulser Posted March 3, 2010 Report Posted March 3, 2010 Hi, just a simple question. I don't want to charge my battery while my usb cable is plugged in my pc, but only when is plugged in the wall charger. Is it possible in some ways? Thanks in advance guys! Not that I'm aware of. The wall charger is just a 5V power supply that powers the USB cable. Both send the power into the phone through the same actual pins on the phone's plug, so I can't see any way to do it. Even if there was, it's probably not a good idea. ie. perhaps you could get a micro-USB lead cheap somewhere and disconnect the +5V pin, but it may just stop the computer recognising the phone. I don't know, so I don't suggest trying it... Whatever you do, don't do anything to the original lead, as it is a 'special' one, and I can't remember what all the pins do, but I'm sure a pinout is available somewhere. Sorry to not be able to help.
Guest volatile_ink Posted March 3, 2010 Report Posted March 3, 2010 Hi, just a simple question. I don't want to charge my battery while my usb cable is plugged in my pc, but only when is plugged in the wall charger. Is it possible in some ways? Thanks in advance guys! Interesting question. I had a few minutes (and a usb cable) spare and thought I'd give it a go. 1. Cut the +5V (Red) cable of a USB cable, phone not recognised by PC and not connecting. 2. Tried accessing SD Card/ADB Shell through serial adapter I built to remove CID-Locks (which does not have +5V cable), can't access ADB shell or SD Card. Seeing as the battery is Li-Ion, there's not going to be any memory effect so can I ask why you don't want to charge your phone through USB? Also, what are you doing whilst the phone is connected? If your syncing with Outlook for example, you could use gSyncIt and not have the phone connected at all.
Guest salahag Posted March 4, 2010 Report Posted March 4, 2010 What about a software solution? something that the OS would allow along with Hardware integration of course, which might be already there. Because that option is already available on HTC devices (maybe other brands too) running windows mobile for years now.
Guest arclife Posted March 4, 2010 Report Posted March 4, 2010 (edited) The Hero can obviously monitor power useage, and what is coming in - so maybe with a bit of software tweaking, it can be done. (edit: or maybe it isn't that clever, it just knew it was on usb therefore ~500mA tops, and knew consumption was higher than that) Edited March 4, 2010 by arclife
Guest deeone Posted March 5, 2010 Report Posted March 5, 2010 First, thanks to everyone who replied to my thread! I was looking for a software solution like salahag said, because it's present in many htc devices with windows mobile (like HD2)...just curiosity :(
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