When is the 720 fully charged?

duckie008 · Regular Visitor Joined: Jan 22, 2005 Posts: 103

Does the green light on the 720 turn itself off when the unit has been fully charged?

mikealder · Posted: Sun Sep 23, 2007 10:11 pm Post subject:

No it is simply a dumb indicator that the device is connected to an external power source, a tri state LED would have been much better but all we get is a dumb indication of pluged in or not - Mike

duckie008 · Regular Visitor Joined: Jan 22, 2005 Posts: 103

OK. So can we assume that a full charge only take 2hrs as stated in the manual? How do we know if TomTom is implying to a USB charge or a mains charge? Or will it take the same time?

DennisN · Posted: Sun Sep 23, 2007 10:34 pm Post subject:

Mine conked out running on battery the other day and I was greatly displeased and thought it hadn't been running that long - trouble is, it doesn't auto power off when I turn off ignition, so it could have lost a lot of charge through that.

Anyway, it's been in the cradle plugged into my PC all weekend, so it better just watch out! I use it plugged into ciggy adapter all the time though, so battery life isn't much of an issue for me.
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Andy_P · Posted: Mon Sep 24, 2007 12:57 am Post subject:

You could look at the battery charge level indicator.... Cool

Just tap the area of the screen where the signal strength bars are.

zYx · Posted: Mon Sep 24, 2007 1:23 am Post subject:

bunnyman69 · Regular Visitor Joined: Apr 25, 2005 Posts: 73

i see mine about 3/4 into the green and will show battery light warning just a shame i've not the reactions of a coiled spring because i get about 2 second to plug in the cig adaptor before it turns itself off. I too always use the charger, but on a couple of occasions i have forgot to plug in after parking up and i find the unit runs about 45 mins. Why cant we get longer warning or why cant it be like my pda and go to an amber state. PDA also tells you amount of charge in unit as a % and aprox time left (ok Tomtom takes more out than the 10 hrs stated on a full charge but i still get about 4 hrs and running a bluetooth Holux sat reciever)
Think i made a mistake with this 720, if v7 comes out for PDA i'm gonna bin it
I'll just buy a FM transmitter from a BP garage for a fiver and use that in conjuntion with it.

funkin · Occasional Visitor Joined: Dec 01, 2007 Posts: 1

Andy_P · Posted: Sun Dec 02, 2007 1:41 am Post subject:

Same here on the 720. 5 seconds warning at most.
Waste of time....

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