Freedom Keychain 2k charger with iPaq 112 classic?

[Cyberdrool]

Hi

May be a silly question but will ask it anyway.
I've just bought a Freedom Keychain 2000, great unit!
Can I use its supplied car charger with my iPaq 112 classic? as both use the same mini USB. Individually it fine.

Says here: Output4.5v - 5.3mV DC, 500mA

May be I'm paranoid but I dont want to do re-enactment of the terminator battery overload scene from Terminator 3.

Thx.

[Darren]

You should be fine. USB and its 5v @ 500mA output is a standard of sorts. I regularly interchange chargers between devices as its far from easy to tell whose is whose. Never had any issues of damage yet.
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[Cyberdrool]

Thanks for your help, my iPaq doesn't get any charge from the Freedom Keychain car charger.
It charges the Freedom OK but not iPaq. Even tried turning it off & charging, leaving it for 20mins still no charge light, ipaq still low.

Any idears? could the FK2K charger be not giving enough juice?
Like you said, it makes sense that USB should be a standard output.

Otherwise I have to spend enother $50 or similar on a charger (yet enother accessory).

Hmmm! Too bad it does'nt tell me there is a cop in the bushes with with a radar pointed at me.. theres another $220 bucks to our useless gvnmt.

[mikealder]

Have a look in the settings/ battery options, look for a check box marked, "Use USB power for charging" (or similar), make sure this is checked, I am not too sure if your device has this option, the iPAQ-4700 certainly does.
As for speed cameras, have a look at GPS Speed Sentry see Here for information and the pocketgpsworld speed camera database - Mike

[Cyberdrool]

Yes, It is checked, tried the "fast" charge and slow, no joy. Just charges OK on pc.

[Cyberdrool]

Solution:

I could never get it to charge my iPaq 112 classic not matter what I did, it would just charge the freedom that it came with.

THEN.... I simply found an after market car charger at the local department store for $14.00 (AU).

Problem solved.

[AllyCat]

Hi,

Yes, I had the same problem with my 114 (UK version). The HP charger has about 3.5 volts on the USB data pins which the PDA seems to require.

Maybe a simple resistor chain can be used, but I found the quick solution was to plug the mini-USB cable into a cheap USB hub and plug the hub into the "power only" charger.

Cheers, Alan.
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