Is my Sony Xperia Acro smartphone a dud?

[tobbera]

Short story:
It requires a special charger. The off the shelf eBay wont cut it. I have solved it. Ran my Samsung Note 2 (big beast!) with constant GPS navigation on, during a 5000 km / 14 day trip on the south island. Always ended up 100% battery when stopping for the day.

Long story:
What you are experiencing is that the phone is not taking enough current from the charger. I have solved this by making a proper 12v charger for smartphones that charges your phone to 100% even if you have all functions on full blast. It charges with the same speed as your OEM wall charger. And I'm also in the process of making a bunch of these chargers for people who wants to use their phone as a GPS on their bike or car.

Tell me if you're interested in one of these. I can also help you install it if you're in the Auckland area. I have bought material to make 10 chargers.

[Akzle]

well i dont know about trusting that nigger. Pretty sure you can buy em for 30 buck.

[nerrrd]

Short story:
It requires a special charger. The off the shelf eBay wont cut it. I have solved it. Ran my Samsung Note 2 (big beast!) with constant GPS navigation on, during a 5000 km / 14 day trip on the south island. Always ended up 100% battery when stopping for the day.

Long story:
What you are experiencing is that the phone is not taking enough current from the charger. I have solved this by making a proper 12v charger for smartphones that charges your phone to 100% even if you have all functions on full blast. It charges with the same speed as your OEM wall charger. And I'm also in the process of making a bunch of these chargers for people who wants to use their phone as a GPS on their bike or car.

Tell me if you're interested in one of these. I can also help you install it if you're in the Auckland area. I have bought material to make 10 chargers.

Hell yeah I'm interested - let me know the details cheers.

[nerrrd]

Solution finally found!

So tobbera unfortunately never got back to me, so I've occasionally been looking for a solution elsewhere via google.

Glad to say I've found it - a "charge only" USB cable which I got from eBay. Now the phone charges when plugged into the accessory port even when running the GPS. It's also quite a short cable, only 30cm long, which probably helps. Nice and cheap, $5.99US from seller "yourcharger".

Interestingly they list different micro USB cables for different phones (did wonder what difference there could possibly be between them? but got the sony xperia one anyway.)

Don't quote me but apparently if you use a data+charge cable the phone goes into a low charging mode when connected to 12 volt source. Or something.

So now I'm golden (except for the occasional Google Maps crash, hopefully that will sort itself out with updates in time) .