New Nexus 7 charger help

lolly5648

Please ignore

forgotmyname

Nice to know your here to help others as well as yourself.

DCFC79

forgotmyname wrote: »

Nice to know your here to help others as well as yourself.

Can you remember what the post said ?

FreddieFrugal

It may have been - help the charger won't fit in a standard UK socket!

Because I thought that for 5 seconds until I realised the top pin pulls up into place.

I thought briefly that it must have been designed for some strange squashed down version of a socket.

KiKi

I don't usually hijack threads, but seeing as this one has the same title as the one I was going to post...

I've never had a tablet before; the new Nexus is my first one. Plugged it in for 3 hours or so, and it charged maybe 10%. That didn't seem right to me, and there was a horrid plastic smell by the charger - it smelt like burning.

I tried charging with my HTC phone charger (lower amp output) and that charges at around 20% an hour, which seems reasonable for a tablet - is it?

I've since tried the original charger again - and it no longer functions at all. I tried with a different USB lead to the charger, and that doesn't work, either, so it's definitely the charger itself. I'm sure it burnt out; that's what it smelt like.

Equally, when I play a simple game like Candy Crush and surf the web with the screen brightness at around 30%, it loses battery quite quickly - I'd have to re-charge after about 4 hours. A quick web search says that battery life should be around 9 hours of streaming / surfing.

It seems to lose around 5-7% an hour when sleeping, but other people have said theirs lasts days in sleep mode. I've had to switch mine off completely to stop it losing battery.

I have auto updates switched off, as well as location. I have an auto-kill app, so the only thing that's 'on' all the time is Wifi. So I don't think that 4 hours seems a reasonable amount of non-sleep time to be using it.

Could the original charger - which I'm sure was burning (although it wasn't hot) - have damaged the tablet in some way?


TL;DR - how long should I be able to use a tablet without charging; how long should it last on standby; and can a very slow charger have damaged it?

TIA
KiKi

lolly5648

IanRi wrote: »

It may have been - help the charger won't fit in a standard UK socket!

Because I thought that for 5 seconds until I realised the top pin pulls up into place.

I thought briefly that it must have been designed for some strange squashed down version of a socket.

That's exactly what it was, only it took me about 10 minutes to notice that the pin could be moved.

Got my Nexus today and have hours trying to work everything out. It is very different from the IPad.

lolly5648

Kiki - once I worked out how to plug it into the socket mine charged very quickly. Sorry I don't know how long but it seemed fast.

clangnuts

If its faulty, return it.

I returned my 2012 Nexus7 because of charging issues/dud battery after 10 months of use.