Hi,
This post feels a little bit like asking how to pour water out of a bucket, but I guarantee you it's bewildering.
I just recently tried to use a loaner and then purchased my first battery pack to charge smartphones with.
Previous to those experiences, I would have imagined that the operating instructions would have been one sentence: plug in your thing to be charged.
However, when I tried to use the first one that I borrowed to do a trial run with my smartphone, the results were quite interesting. My phone was at about 80% before bedtime. I powered off my phone, and then plugged the battery pack into it. In the morning when I got up, my phone was at about 63%, which I think is worse than had I just left it on and not plugged it into the battery pack. I was joking that they should have named that device a battery vacuum. I tried that same battery pack a couple more times and it was able to charge my phone, at least up into the 90% range. I don't think I did anything different after the first time, but the owner of the battery pack said you have to shake the battery pack to make it charge. That sounded pretty bizarre.
Based on that minor success, I thought maybe it would be okay to buy one. I went to Walmart and bought their mid-range, $20 unit capable of 10,000 mAh, which they said is good for five charges of an average phone.
Before use, I first charged that new battery pack from where I found it at 66% up to 100%. Then I connected it to my phone and it seemed to charge the phone just a little bit, which reduced the battery pack to 90%. It has an LED indicator.
In any case, since that first attempt, my battery pack has remained at 90% and consistently refuses to charge my phone at all.
Although I'm tempted to ask if you need to hop on your left foot before you plug it in, I'm seriously asking if there's any operating necessity for these stupid battery packs other than just plugging your cord into your phone and then into the battery pack? Any other explanation for the frequent malfunctions that don't involve hallucinogenic drugs, etc?
Other than how to use them in general, I'm trying to figure out if I should just take my battery pack back to Walmart and try another one, such as the $40 Anker, or whether to just give up on battery packs as more or less unreliable devices for recharging a smartphone.
I'm pretty sure that the link below shows the one that I bought:
http://www.walmart.com/ip/Blackweb-Power-Bank/508154088
Tom
This post feels a little bit like asking how to pour water out of a bucket, but I guarantee you it's bewildering.
I just recently tried to use a loaner and then purchased my first battery pack to charge smartphones with.
Previous to those experiences, I would have imagined that the operating instructions would have been one sentence: plug in your thing to be charged.
However, when I tried to use the first one that I borrowed to do a trial run with my smartphone, the results were quite interesting. My phone was at about 80% before bedtime. I powered off my phone, and then plugged the battery pack into it. In the morning when I got up, my phone was at about 63%, which I think is worse than had I just left it on and not plugged it into the battery pack. I was joking that they should have named that device a battery vacuum. I tried that same battery pack a couple more times and it was able to charge my phone, at least up into the 90% range. I don't think I did anything different after the first time, but the owner of the battery pack said you have to shake the battery pack to make it charge. That sounded pretty bizarre.
Based on that minor success, I thought maybe it would be okay to buy one. I went to Walmart and bought their mid-range, $20 unit capable of 10,000 mAh, which they said is good for five charges of an average phone.
Before use, I first charged that new battery pack from where I found it at 66% up to 100%. Then I connected it to my phone and it seemed to charge the phone just a little bit, which reduced the battery pack to 90%. It has an LED indicator.
In any case, since that first attempt, my battery pack has remained at 90% and consistently refuses to charge my phone at all.
Although I'm tempted to ask if you need to hop on your left foot before you plug it in, I'm seriously asking if there's any operating necessity for these stupid battery packs other than just plugging your cord into your phone and then into the battery pack? Any other explanation for the frequent malfunctions that don't involve hallucinogenic drugs, etc?
Other than how to use them in general, I'm trying to figure out if I should just take my battery pack back to Walmart and try another one, such as the $40 Anker, or whether to just give up on battery packs as more or less unreliable devices for recharging a smartphone.
I'm pretty sure that the link below shows the one that I bought:
http://www.walmart.com/ip/Blackweb-Power-Bank/508154088
Tom