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jeepguy_1980

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I got my POGO charger yesterday and am very dissatisfied. I put my Nexus on the charger last night and it charged so slowly, that my nexus was only at 91% when I woke up. I checked my email and browsed a website or two before I disconnected it from the charger and my charge actually went down to 89% in a few short minutes. Even my USB charger charges faster than the tablet consumes the battery on simple tasks.

I have attached a graph of my battery level for the night, and you can see where I woke up at 0830 and the battery dipped. Then you can see a steeper slope after I plugged in my USB charger.
 

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I got my POGO charger yesterday and am very dissatisfied. I put my Nexus on the charger last night and it charged so slowly, that my nexus was only at 91% when I woke up. I checked my email and browsed a website or two before I disconnected it from the charger and my charge actually went down to 89% in a few short minutes. Even my USB charger charges faster than the tablet consumes the battery on simple tasks.

I have attached a graph of my battery level for the night, and you can see where I woke up at 0830 and the battery dipped. Then you can see a steeper slope after I plugged in my USB charger.
Get the Battery Monitor Widget and check the charging rate on both micro-USB and POGO.
 

OldGaf

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I got my POGO charger yesterday and am very dissatisfied. I put my Nexus on the charger last night and it charged so slowly, that my nexus was only at 91% when I woke up. I checked my email and browsed a website or two before I disconnected it from the charger and my charge actually went down to 89% in a few short minutes. Even my USB charger charges faster than the tablet consumes the battery on simple tasks.

I have attached a graph of my battery level for the night, and you can see where I woke up at 0830 and the battery dipped. Then you can see a steeper slope after I plugged in my USB charger.

There is something wrong there for sure
you may want to return it.
 

metaled222

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I got my POGO charger yesterday and am very dissatisfied. I put my Nexus on the charger last night and it charged so slowly, that my nexus was only at 91% when I woke up. I checked my email and browsed a website or two before I disconnected it from the charger and my charge actually went down to 89% in a few short minutes. Even my USB charger charges faster than the tablet consumes the battery on simple tasks..

I may be wrong since I have not received mine yet, it may be a totally stupid question, but the pictures I've seen show it just includes the cable. Did you do the test with the original nexus 10 ac transformer (wall charger) and pogo cable? Other chargers and even USB ports could supply less charging amps. That would be the only true way to test the pogo cable against the known usb charging cable using the same power port and comparing the results.
Btw, I had a similar result charging with my regular cable, and very slow to charge, and didn't top off, and then it drained extremely fast... Don't know what caused it but just reset the hardware and it was back to normal (hold power button down 10 seconds till it reboots)
 

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I need a replacement for my cable and they don't answer my e-mails. My cable smells very bad and I don't want it like this, I paid for something normal... what do you guys think I should do.
 
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AngDR01D

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How is the magnetic pogo cable, does it work perfectly? I feel like getting one for my nexus but I need to know if this cable is legit/durable, let me know what you think guys.

Sent from my Nexus 10
 

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Mine came today! Looks nice and doesn't smell. Haven't had a chance to use it as my device is stuck in limbo waiting for parts to arrive after Samsung messed up my device the first time.

Sent from my often RMA'd Nexus 4, So that I can use the one I'm using now when I get the 6th and hopefully final one.
 
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jeepguy_1980

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Get the Battery Monitor Widget and check the charging rate on both micro-USB and POGO.

I used Battery HD to view the charge rate. I have had this widget/app installed since the day I got my Nexus, so I know it didn't adversely affect my results.




I may be wrong since I have not received mine yet, it may be a totally stupid question, but the pictures I've seen show it just includes the cable. Did you do the test with the original nexus 10 ac transformer (wall charger) and pogo cable? Other chargers and even USB ports could supply less charging amps. That would be the only true way to test the pogo cable against the known usb charging cable using the same power port and comparing the results.
Btw, I had a similar result charging with my regular cable, and very slow to charge, and didn't top off, and then it drained extremely fast... Don't know what caused it but just reset the hardware and it was back to normal (hold power button down 10 seconds till it reboots)

I used my OEM charger with both the POGO and factory USB cable for the results I posted.

For reference, here is my charge from the previous night with the factory USB cable.
 

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wptski

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I used Battery HD to view the charge rate. I have had this widget/app installed since the day I got my Nexus, so I know it didn't adversely affect my results.
I have no issue with it being slow, in fact it's much faster. Sounds like you don't shut it off completely while charging? Your the first to complain about slow charging.

We do know that if one uses OTG, charging will cease and not resume when one removes your flash drive. It'll take a reboot or removing/reinstalling the POGO cord for charging to start again.
 

jeepguy_1980

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I have no issue with it being slow, in fact it's much faster. Sounds like you don't shut it off completely while charging? Your the first to complain about slow charging.

We do know that if one uses OTG, charging will cease and not resume when one removes your flash drive. It'll take a reboot or removing/reinstalling the POGO cord for charging to start again.

I didn't use an OTG cable. I connected the pogo charger and went to sleep. I'll try again tonight and see what happens.
 

OldGaf

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You need to do this with the charge around 50%, maybe 60%.

Lithium batteries are charged in two stages. The first stage, from 0% to somewhere around a bit over half, is done as fast as the charger can pull off. The second stage is current-limited, and typically the charge current goes down as you approach 100% charge.

So, in order to test the maximum current it can pull from the POGO adapter, you need to make sure you're in that first stage.

This assumes a reasonably cool room. The N10 may also slow down charging if the battery gets too warm, I haven't tested this.

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Not a big difference.....
 

Ashade

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I used my OEM charger with both the POGO and factory USB cable for the results I posted.

For reference, here is my charge from the previous night with the factory USB cable.

Seriously, that charging rate is not normal even for usb and the tablet turned on. You may want to return it. Was the screen on?
 

Ashade

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Here you have my last 24h, tablet on all the time and charging through usb. The bottom yellow bar indicates screen on.

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Something is wrong with that tablet.

(Sorry for the double post, I couldn't EDIT the previous one to had the image)
 

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    So are there any places currently selling these?

    Not sure I got this from the eBay seller in South Korea that had his ad taken down.

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    Where are you located?

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    Yeah I was surprised too! the seller had an option for express shipping when I paid for $10 more, I didn't have a problem spending a few bucks more.

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    I searched high and low and finally found an adapter that puts out 2.1A on each of two outlets - concurrently. Excellent quality. Same spec on each channel as oem charger on its single outlet. Great fit and finish too. Can support two high demand devices at once.

    I've been using it with the Pogo cable, and it is perfect. Link:

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    It's here!

    Just wanted to let everyone know I got my Pogo Cable today!

    It is in my opinion extremely high quality build. I have so far used it with my wall charger and my car charger and it works fantastic.

    If I didn't know better I'd say was an OEM from Samsung or Google.

    I know I know post pictures..........

    OK I'll get some made and post them very soon.

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    Just out of interest, has anyone actually measured what current the nexus actually draws from the charger?

    I've just spliced in my ammeter and with the battery showing 45% its currently drawing 0.59A and this is with the stock charger and whilst typing this. If I put the nexus into standby then it drops to 0.50A

    I'll do some further testing this week charging from 0-100% this week and let you know what I find.

    Btw this is using the USB port.

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