charging tb with droid charger?

[b0n3s]

Anyone know if the droid wall chargers would be OK to use on the thunderbolt? Thanks in advance

 

[fatboy97]

Sure... I still use my Blackberry charger.

 

[b0n3s]

Right on thanks

 

[Chance]

Sure... I still use my Blackberry charger.

You are brave.

 

[Bwangster12]

You are brave.

Why?

 

[gotnoteeth]

Why?

5VDC is 5VDC. I would make sure it was putting out the correct voltage, first though.

 

[VideoEngineerAJS]

All of my chargers prior to the Thunderbolt only put out 700mA and the Thunderbolt charger is 1A or 1000mA, so anything lower than 1A will be fine, it will just take it longer to charge. I'm guessing any Blackberry and feature phone charger is going to be less than 1A. Anything else, I would look at the charger first.


Sorry, mistyped...

 

[HuskyHog]

Yeah the TB charger will technically make it charge faster, but you'll notice it takes WAY longer to charge via USB than using the charger, but they don't recommend against it.

 

[gotnoteeth]

All of my chargers prior to the Thunderbolt only put out 700Mah and the Thunderbolt charger is 1A or 1000Mah, so anything lower than 1A will be fine, it will just take it longer to charge. I'm guessing any Blackberry and feature phone charger is going to be less than 1A. Anything else, I would look at the charger first.

1A does not equal 1000mAh. Amps are a measurement of current at a specific point in time, Ah, or amp hours is the amount of amperes able to be delivered in one hour. Amps are used to measure power consumption, amp hours are used to measure battery capacity. You are trying to compare mileage in quarts.

You could hook your thunderbolt up to a 1kA or 1000 amp power supply, it will only consume a the current it needs. Just make sure the power supply is outputting 5 volts DC.

 

[Mordecaidrake]

I use my Incredible charger at home, and my Blackberry USB cable at the office and in my car. No issues *shrug*

 

[VideoEngineerAJS]

1A does not equal 1000mAh. Amps are a measurement of current at a specific point in time, Ah, or amp hours is the amount of amperes able to be delivered in one hour. Amps are used to measure power consumption, amp hours are used to measure battery capacity. You are trying to compare mileage in quarts.

You could hook your thunderbolt up to a 1kA or 1000 amp power supply, it will only consume a the current it needs. Just make sure the power supply is outputting 5 volts DC.

Thanks, I just mistyped.

 

[Chance]

Why?

I have heard people frying there thunderbolts with BB chargers. "Shrug"

 

[Bwangster12]

So, the output on my LG env3 microUSB charger says:

Output: 5.1V=0.7A
Input: 100-240V-50/60 Hz 0.2A

Is that 5 volts or 5.1 volts? Is there a difference?

Also, can I use the Palm Pixi charger? That thing doesn't say anything on it: http://www.shopping.hp.com/webapp/s..._adapters&product_code=FB286AA#AC3&catLevel=2

 

[htowngator]

All of these chargers that are u-USB for new phones are pretty much uniformly 5VDC. Some might use less amperage, but that's not a big deal.

 

[b0n3s]

The Droid usb connectors output is 5.1v 850mA
That should be safe right?

 

[jas o]

just out of curiousity where could one purchase an HTC OEM charger? I have always wanted to have another one as a backup?

USB cable off CPU takes forever.

 

[paulmike3]

just out of curiousity where could one purchase an HTC OEM charger? I have always wanted to have another one as a backup?

USB cable off CPU takes forever.

Here you go: Amazon.com: HTC 79H00095-14M Travel Charger U250 - Charger - Retail Packaging - Black: Cell Phones & Accessories

Edit: Here's the one you'll want for you car. 1A as well, and rated highly for HTC devices: Amazon.com: Motorola Vehicle Power Adapter micro-USB Rapid Rate Charger: Cell Phones & Accessories

 

[gotnoteeth]

I have heard people frying there thunderbolts with BB chargers. "Shrug"

Citation? I have not heard that anywhere!

 

[gotnoteeth]

So, the output on my LG env3 microUSB charger says:

Output: 5.1V=0.7A
Input: 100-240V-50/60 Hz 0.2A

Is that 5 volts or 5.1 volts? Is there a difference?

Also, can I use the Palm Pixi charger? That thing doesn't say anything on it: Palm 3402WW International Power Charger for Palm Pixi Plus, Palm Pre Plus, Palm Pixi, Palm Pre, Treo Pro, Treo 800w | HP? Official Store

Jesus Christ... USB standards allow a 5% tolerance. So ad 5% to 5. I am so sick of these threads, will blank chargers work for my thunderbolt.