GPS power eater

[kadhumia_flo]

I bought a usb to car adapter recently for my ameo, and still, power is being drained from my pocket pc when i run tomtom.

Is it the charger?

[johnwalk]

its been brought up before somewhere, the athena's wall charger is 1amp, car chargers and usb are lower, usb only being 500ma, so it takes longer to charge but using the car charger the battery should last a lot longer.

[azcaddman]

you need one of the pocket pc techs mini 5 adapters (http://pocketpctechs.com/main~unit~HTC_Advantage-895~area~accessories-HTC+Advantage+Lil%27+Sync%AE+Cable+Accessories.htm )

without one, using an amp meter, my athena pulled 350-400 ma off of any charger i hooked it to (using usb cable).. wall charger, car charger, computer usb didnt matter.

using the ppc techs adapter... upped the draw to 750-775 ma, it charges 2x as fast, and more importantly, doesnt run down the internal battery in the car, while running tomtom.

[mahjong]

I got that trouble with my old charger coming from Mitac Mio A701 since gives me 500 mA. I got the HTC car charger at Expansys (original HTC charger for car) and gives me 1 A... and now I got no trouble. I can use Tomtom all the way home full screen bright and HDSPA with Blackberry Connect working and the X7500 still charges.

So got a 1 Amp car charger. I got the HTC one because someone told me the pinout is different and use the 5th pin to run quick charge. I cannot confirm that... sorry, but I got the HTC and works.