Recent content by Bampe

Heh, a week later the back cover of my Desire 601 popped off. Turned out the battery had swollen to twice its thickness. I put it in a ceramic jar and carried it carefully to the recycling station.:-\

Hello again. No, you are absolutely correct. After some thinking and poking around I realize that the batteries are bad in both my phones. Hence they behave similarly. The Desire 601 has been connected 24/7 to a workstation and the Mugen extended battery was either less-than-stellar quality to...

Thanks for the response! Could be, but I doubt it. It is a Mugen 4300 mAh extended battery that is six months old and the phone shows no sign of failing in any way outside of this tethering issue. Also, my (admittedly old) HTC One Mini also do this error I mention, although I only use it as a...

Hello I'm using a secondary phone - a HTC Desire 601 - as a tethered mobile modem for my laptop when I travel. All is well, except that if I pull out the cable after a couple of hours the phone clamors about being unable to charge and then promptly turns off. Up until I pull the cable, it does...