This is not a funny "trick" Motorola is pulling on us. I just had this battery thing happen to me and it scared the crap out of me. Was using the phone normally. Got battery alert. i went to find my charger but couldn't find it. So% used Kodak usb charger rated 5v and 1A with the Droid usb cable. White charging light was on as normal. Then the light kicked off. I assumed at that point the Kodak charger was crap. Then only a few minutes later, it told me it was powering off. I was distracted by my crying child so I neglected to find the proper adapter to plug it in. Well, I couldn't find the adapter and had to go somewhere...so i figured get in the car use the OEM car charger and I'd be fine. But nope. It was as if the energy the Droid takes to boot is more than the charger can provide. Went into a boot loop over and over after pulling the battery and running on just the xharger. I got into recovery mode, zapped it, restored it....but nothing aside from more boot loop. Once i got back home, i found the wall charger and it booted right up...then charged and all is well. Whew.
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Originally Posted by Digitalfix
So I had the same problem in my car with the car charger. Funny as hell. 1981 911SC Targa. Never had a charge problem... But I never tried charging at night. Turns out the gauge lights and cigarette lighter are on the same circuit. Never had the lights on in the day. The gauge lightd pull enough
power to drop the charger level down and kill it. I am hard wiring a 7805 +5 volt regulator chip to a separate fuse. It will put out 1 amp+ 1000 miliamps. No more BS. The 7805 is so cheap I don't know why they didn'y use it in the charger to begin with. I'm going to rig a 9v battery on one for emergencies.
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