Car Charging Support ...any .cab? tweak?

[af123ctrp2]

Hello all,

Right now i'm using, the schapps Rom 3.30 portuguese, but unfortunately, it doesn't have car charging support. Schapps, don't know how to do it. The Faria Rom's, have this issue solved, and i´ve asked on his thread, if he can share the knowledge, but till now, no answer.

Anyone knows the solution and can share it with the Rom's developer's?

Theres any .cab, or registry solution to fix this?

Thks in advance

AP

[jakubd]

What does it mean "car changing support"? AFAIK you just connect miniUSB plug from you power supply in the car to Hermes munuUSB port and it starts charging - it doesn't matter it the power comes from car, computer or AC power supply. Is there anything I miss here? How the device could see any difference? Some special "vibrations" on the power current? :D

[thefunkygibbon]

What does it mean "car changing support"? AFAIK you just connect miniUSB plug from you power supply in the car to Hermes munuUSB port and it starts charging - it doesn't matter it the power comes from car, computer or AC power supply. Is there anything I miss here? How the device could see any difference? Some special "vibrations" on the power current? :D

whilst that may seem a funny comment to make, i've noticed that mine and a freinds phone "deciding" on not bothering to take a charge from a car charger seemingly randomly. Cant see how it could be a hardware thing so can only assume that theres something in the software which instructs the phone to charge should a cable be plugged in.

[xdaman85]

Hello all,

Right now i'm using, the schapps Rom 3.30 portuguese, but unfortunately, it doesn't have car charging support. Schapps, don't know how to do it. The Faria Rom's, have this issue solved, and i´ve asked on his thread, if he can share the knowledge, but till now, no answer.

Anyone knows the solution and can share it with the Rom's developer's?

Theres any .cab, or registry solution to fix this?

Thks in advance

AP


it might be your car battery, is it in good condition and is it giving out the correct volts, i remember that i couldnt charge my laptop from my car because the voltage was too low.

[af123ctrp2]

It's not so simple. In some roms, after i connect the cable, the PDA start immediately charging, on others it wont. It's a software problem. Faria have corrected it on the roms that he's making. Some other don't.

(it's not a car battery problem...)

AP

[TheBrit]

It's a hardware/power management "Feature" - the reason for it and the solution is discussed in this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=277742&page=3

I'll be getting my soldering iron out at the weekend. :)

[Lordsmiff]

Just before you start burning yourself ;-) this is what I think happens...

I had mine plugged into my car charger the other day and it was charging away merrily (it wasn't whistling or anything...) and then sometime later on, I noticed that the charging light wasn't on.

I assumed at first it was the charger that was broken but I tried it again a couple of days later and it was working again so I put it down to a loose connection and carried on.

It stopped charging again later on but this time, I noticed what did it - it was because I'd received a message (or missed a call...one of 'em :) Now, I've not yet check if it did stop charging or if the indicator was just blinking for the message or something but it's worth checking before you start taking your phone apart :)

Cheers,
Smiffy.

[redmega]

This happens on mine (black 2.0) all the time. A soft reset will get it going again, so it looks like a software thing - and yes, receiving a text message seemed to kill the charge at any point too.

[thedogger]

Car and AC mains chargers that worked with the HTC Wizard don't always work well with the TyTN. They work fine if the TyTN is completely powered off (hold power button down for a few second seconds and do a full shut down). But if the TyTN operating system is running and the phone is on or in standby, it only charges the first time after a soft reset. If it goes into standby, then it doesn't charge any more. This is an issue in software - the TyTN is checking for certain wiring of the charger and certain pins having the right voltages on them.

Faria's ROM truly fixed this somehow in the ROM. Unfortunately I had to soft reset Faria's ROM every day, so went back to Black and stability.

[TheBrit]

Just before you start burning yourself ;-) this is what I think happens...

I had mine plugged into my car charger the other day and it was charging away merrily (it wasn't whistling or anything...) and then sometime later on, I noticed that the charging light wasn't on.

I assumed at first it was the charger that was broken but I tried it again a couple of days later and it was working again so I put it down to a loose connection and carried on.

It stopped charging again later on but this time, I noticed what did it - it was because I'd received a message (or missed a call...one of 'em :) Now, I've not yet check if it did stop charging or if the indicator was just blinking for the message or something but it's worth checking before you start taking your phone apart :)

Cheers,
Smiffy.

I'll be taking the usb plug in the car charger apart and soldering it - not the phone :eek:

Shorting the pins (in the charger - not the phone) as described in the thread I linked to should resolve all of these issues. :)

[Alfud]

I have the same problem with car and home (not HTC) chargers.
I've found
If charging in the car all is ok until the power is cut, then it only charges whilst off until the TYTN is soft reset.
This looks to me like there is a software / powercontroller confilct. It is a little confusing but see the scenarios below;

Soft reset TYTN, leave it off. Plug in to cigarette charger, turn TYTN on/off all is fine.
Turn off TYTN and unplug, all is fine, plug back in (TYTN off) will still charge when TYTN on.
Turn TYTN on, unplug, will not charge whilst on anymore until soft reset but will charge whilst off.
This is the same if I turn the ignition to power the lightere socket.

However, another spanner in the works, if I pull out the charger even with the device off and re-insert it it stops charging until soft reset.

What seemd to work best was to do a soft reset whilst the unit is charging and powered on. After that I was able to unplug, plug in even when the unit was on, turn ignition off/on etc... It only reverted back to not charging when I removed the charger from the socket as it was charging.

These are my findings and I presume each charger will be different.

[af123ctrp2]

i've done lot's of research and haven´t found anything to fix this.

It seems that Faria is the only that know what to do.

still waiting.

AP

[jfrm]

Ok, I've read a lot about this and no doubt, is a soft related problem.

I have asked about this in various threads and at the moment there are only 3 solutions:

-Tweak the USB cable
-Buy a special charger
-Install any of the Faria's roms.

Faria, Please, can u share your soft solution?


I' using now the Schaps Spanish Rom...