- So last week I found chargers for the Storm on ebay for dirt cheap. So I ordered 2 wall chargers and a car charger, it all came to under 10 dollars with shipping! Awesome deal right!
Last night I plugged the storm into the ebay charger overnight, woke up this morning to find it is completely dead. So I charged it back up with my manufacturer charger, only to find that the touchscreen no longer worked properly. So needless to say I was devastated and completely furious with myself for being duped by a 2 dollar charger which had now likely costed me much more than that.
But hey! Rebooted it a couple times, and an hour later now it seems to be working perfectly again. Needless to say I am relieved, and all three fleabay chargers are in the trash. I realize you have probably heard this countless times before, but anyone who's thinking about buying a cheap charger off ebay.....DON'T DO IT. I'm still hopeful that no permanent damage was done.10-20-09 06:44 AMLike 0 - I've found chargers and batterys on amazon for a great deal and not had any problems. Just look at all the other buyer feedback (for the same item) before you purchase.
Posted from my CrackBerry at wapforums.crackberry.com10-20-09 06:58 AMLike 0 - Glad to hear this actually came out to the good for you Eng.
Everybody - Always buy OEM. You can still get them off e-bay or Amazon but make dang sure it's OEM. Non-oem may not match the phones needs as far as charging rates, etc and that could possibly have an effect on your phone. Why risk a several hundred dollar phone with a "cheap" charger?
Eng - I'm not singling you out here bro, just making a blanket statement that hopefully others will pay attention to what you said and what I said for what it's worth.10-20-09 07:30 AMLike 0 - When I bought my car charger for my curve 8300 2 years ago, I bought an oem for $ 7 shipped on fleabay... I only recommend OEM because I have had too many cheap and expensive aftermarket ones die on me.. The best part is it works perfectly with my bold!
Cheers,
Charlie10-20-09 12:16 PMLike 0 - Amazon is better. My Bold Chargers and docs all came from Amazon, and I have spend only $30 worth of chargers with how they cost between $15-$30 for one charger. CB Store is highway robbery on Bold Docs, its insane!
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10-20-09 12:20 PMLike 0 - TheSultanThe Sultan of CrackBerryI did the ebay thing for my Curve and Storm, they were PERFECT and dirty cheap. Now, with the Tour, I went through 7 chargers (only two were actually mine, 2 orders of 3 chargers) and all of them were garbage until I finally bought a Verizon brand one (the 7th). I guess I learned my lesson!10-20-09 12:58 PMLike 0
- To Radius:
How does one do a quick check of something that is being shipped to them? Also, I take it that you are grilling me about electrical specs since I have engineer in my name...
Something that you might, or might not know, is that charging connections are standard. For instance, if a cell phone has a micro-usb port, it requires a published, standardized input/output voltage/wattage. This is different than the input/output voltage/wattage of a mini-usb port.
If a company advertises a micro-usb wall charger, it should conform to such standards. Of course, if it was manufactured in a different country, they could probably care less.10-20-09 06:30 PMLike 0 - I use a htc herald charger and a cingular general motorola car charger for my curve 8320 and haven't had any problems and its been a year now. Granted, they're oem chargers but for diff. applications.
Most of the time, if you had a problem with a charger its probably because of the regulator
Posted from my CrackBerry at wapforums.crackberry.com10-20-09 07:22 PMLike 0 - I use a htc herald charger and a cingular general motorola car charger for my curve 8320 and haven't had any problems and its been a year now. Granted, they're oem chargers but for diff. applications.
Most of the time, if you had a problem with a charger its probably because of the regulator
Posted from my CrackBerry at wapforums.crackberry.com10-20-09 07:28 PMLike 0 - i bought adapters too but they only work for charging, not for data transfer!!!! ANyone else have this problem????10-27-09 09:50 PMLike 0
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