Accessories Weird Droid 2 Car Mount Problem

[OSUcowboy2k8]

When I have my phone mounted and plugged in it says it's charging and it has the little lightning bolt charge symbol in the battery, but then after like 20-25 minutes it says it's not plugged in or charging but then when I unplugg it gives me the 'disconnected' message as if it was in fact connected and charging. I try to re-plug it in and then it doens't even acknowledge it.

I've already returned the first mount because I thought it was the problem but apparently it's the phone.

Any help with this would be greatly appreciated as I really like the mount besides this problem

 

[Super_Six_Two]

Do you ever have problems when charging at home? When you exchanged the dock, did you exchange the car charger as well?

 

[frasej]

I've had the same problem. I think it's a bad connector on the back of the mount. I wiggled it a bit and it started charging again.

 

[Lare]

Are you using any kind of a case on the phone? I put the Verizon case on my phone, bought the car and home docks, and could never get the phone to charge in the home dock--although it worked find in the car dock. (And, yes, I did take out the inserts!) The case moved the phone just enough that it wasn't making a good connection to the USB plug in the dock.

 

[frasej]

I've had the same problem with the car dock. Turned out that I needed to apply a little more pressure on the device, like it wasn't sitting far enough down on the USB plug.

 

[tgarner444]

I have the soft, rubber case for my droid 2. Like others have explained, even after removing the insert from the car mount, with the case on my droid2 it just can't be jammed down enough to make good contact with the car mount's usb connection on the bottom.

I just took out my dremel, and in five minutes cut out the usb connection area on the bottom of the mount. Now I just connect my usb cable directly to the droid 2 through the cut out.

Works great. The mount is plenty stable with the droid2. Cutting out the usb connection area does not effect the magnet, so the car dock app is still launched automatically. (PS, there are better, free car dock apps out there on the market.)