Originally Posted by bsweetness

All you have to see is the picture of the standard microUSB tip to know that the charger in the link will not adequately charge the View while under moderate use. HTC uses a modified microUSB port that allows for faster charging of their devices. Standard microUSB cables and chargers can be used with the View, but they don't supply the same level of charge. All the charger in that link would do for the View is charge it very slowly if it wasn't in use at all.

OK, but did you search Amazon for car chargers? There are several.

Sent from my HTC View in LALA land.

BTW, this thread might get more responses in the accessories section...

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Originally Posted by bsweetness

Did you only order a OEM cable, or did you order the actual OEM car charger? I ask because I've used the OEM cable with a 2.1A car charger, and it was unable to charge the device while it was in moderate to heavy use. The charging process via a wall outlet is also incredibly slow if you use the OEM cable with a USB wall charger (versus using the OEM charger which is one piece rather than a USB cable that separates from the charger). The actual OEM car charger should a difference since the OEM wall charger does.

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Well, you're likely to be disappointed I believe, and it's no fault of the View or the chargers. Expecting to be able to have the screen on with full brightness, to be playing music, and to use the GPS all simultaneously is a tall order for absolutely any device. Under those circumstances, any phone or tablet will likely not be able to charge when connected to a vehicle charger. At the absolute best, you might maintain the charge level or lose just a small amount. But to actually increase the charge while doing all of that (especially having the screen on at full brightness continuously) is very, very unlikely with any device or any vehicle charger.

That's a design flaw if that's the truth. Not being able to use a device to it's fullest potential with power flowing to it?? Cmon now.

You can use it with power flowing to it...it just has to be enough power.

Like I said, it needs 9V and 1.62A (I'm not positive about the amperage, but pretty sure that's it).

Originally Posted by stevedebi

OK, but did you search Amazon for car chargers? There are several.

That's great. The conversation was about that specific charger in the link and why it is inadequate.

Originally Posted by J3ff

That's a design flaw if that's the truth. Not being able to use a device to it's fullest potential with power flowing to it?? Cmon now.

Do you realize how taxing it is on any mobile device to run under the circumstances you want the View to run? Like I said, with the proper charger, you're like to be able to maintain a charge on it with the screen on at maximum brightness, music playing, and GPS on. This is the case for essentially any tablet and many smartphones. If it's a design flaw, then it's a design flaw in pretty much each and every mobile device out there.

You won't have a prayer of even maintaining a charge unless you've got the correct amount of power flowing to it like freak4dell said:

Originally Posted by freak4dell

You can use it with power flowing to it...it just has to be enough power.

Like I said, it needs 9V and 1.62A (I'm not positive about the amperage, but pretty sure that's it).

Yea, I have to say that tablets aren't designed to be used like that, particularly the flyer. It's aimed at a different user base, the business and student crowd. It's not meant to be mounted in a car. Buy a cheap, crappy tablet from an off brand if that's what you want.

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Originally Posted by bsweetness

That's great. The conversation was about that specific charger in the link and why it is inadequate.

You know, I went to the trouble of searching Amazon; my point was that if the OP is interested, he could do that as well. There are a couple of others on there, and I welcome people to search - for themselves, I'm through with this negative thread.

Originally Posted by devator22

Yea, I have to say that tablets aren't designed to be used like that, particularly the flyer. It's aimed at a different user base, the business and student crowd. It's not meant to be mounted in a car. Buy a cheap, crappy tablet from an off brand if that's what you want.

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I want a high quality screen WITH a real GPS.

Find a "crappy tablet" from an off brand that has that.......for less than 150 and maybe I would.

However..

As I said before, a tablet in it's most basic form, should be designed to be able to run it's processor at 100% and screen at full brightness and not lose a single % charge if it's charging.

Let's hope the official HTC charger does just that.

That'd be like having my i7 laptop being plugged in and when I'm transcoding a movie for 36 hours (running 8 cores at 100% the whole time) the battery wouldn't be able to charge and it'd run out of juice a couple hours in.

Totally lame design if that was the case, which it isn't thank god.

Originally Posted by stevedebi

You know, I went to the trouble of searching Amazon; my point was that if the OP is interested, he could do that as well. There are a couple of others on there, and I welcome people to search - for themselves, I'm through with this negative thread.

You think I didn't search amazon? "OEM Flyer charger" brings up lots of chargers that will not charge it while it's being used.

Ok while I'm nowhere near a hardware guy, your reasoning just doesn't quite make sense to me. I mean, isn't the connector itself going to be a limiting factor? You can only run so much juice for it before something is going to start smoking. I think HTC would have enable a power governor to prevent us end users from frying our devices...but who knows, maybe I'm wrong!! :P