I have a small inverter for my car, it has a single 120v ac plug and a USB port on it. I picked it up some years back (during an extended power outage following Hurricane Wilma).
If I'm low on charge in my car (which does not have a USB port) I normally use a cheap 12v USB port and a spare cable (the one that came with my Palm Pre). This normally charges but slowly.
The other day my phone got down to near zero so I was hoping to charge it more quickly during a drive since I needed to then have enough to do some stuff quickly at a remote site and would not be able to charge it there.
Okay, I also had the AC plug for my pre (like the infuse, it is one of the AC outlet with USB affairs that you plug the USB cable into). I hooked it up to my inverter and it got to charging. On the way there I got a txt so I pulled over to check it. I normally use the pattern lock for my phone... but it refused to acknowledge any attempt to unlock it. As it was likely an important message I had been waiting on I finally force rebooted the phone (holding down power button) and had it reboot. Same thing.
While doing this I briefly unhooked the charging cable... and suddenly the phone responded with a "extremely low on battery" window. I hit "OK" and it responded. I then tried to unlock it and that worked. I hooked up the charging cable again... and again, no response to touchscreen.
I hooked it back up to the old charging method.. and it worked fine.
Guess no inverter charging.
If I'm low on charge in my car (which does not have a USB port) I normally use a cheap 12v USB port and a spare cable (the one that came with my Palm Pre). This normally charges but slowly.
The other day my phone got down to near zero so I was hoping to charge it more quickly during a drive since I needed to then have enough to do some stuff quickly at a remote site and would not be able to charge it there.
Okay, I also had the AC plug for my pre (like the infuse, it is one of the AC outlet with USB affairs that you plug the USB cable into). I hooked it up to my inverter and it got to charging. On the way there I got a txt so I pulled over to check it. I normally use the pattern lock for my phone... but it refused to acknowledge any attempt to unlock it. As it was likely an important message I had been waiting on I finally force rebooted the phone (holding down power button) and had it reboot. Same thing.
While doing this I briefly unhooked the charging cable... and suddenly the phone responded with a "extremely low on battery" window. I hit "OK" and it responded. I then tried to unlock it and that worked. I hooked up the charging cable again... and again, no response to touchscreen.
I hooked it back up to the old charging method.. and it worked fine.
Guess no inverter charging.
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