Quick note from the forums! MintyBoost and DROID works… malsbury writes –
I just wanted to add that I just finished a stock build of Mintyboost v2.0 and it works with my Motorola Droid (Milestone) as well.
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** awesome news!
“@hahaha” we edited a portion of your comment. many people have the motorola droid are looking for great charging solutions like the mintyboost. offensive comments, insults or personal attacks will be removed immediately.
Got a new Droid A855 recently and this is great news. The thing chews battery life like a Labrador in a shoe factory. Then again maybe I’m playing with it too much. 😉
Did some testing. Here’s what I find:
1. Sometimes when I insert the Droid’s micro-USB the Droid doesn’t recognize the MintyBoost as a “valid” charger. Re-inserting seems to help. It may be that the Droid is drawing a LOT of current and the in-rush is dragging MintyBoost down.
2. I also tested on an old Blackberry 8830.
Output voltage (No load) = 5.02 VDC
Output voltage (Droid) = 4.31 VDC
Output voltage (RIM 8830) = 4.62 VDC
3. I found that the LT1302 is getting a bit warm; it’s so warm that I can’t comfortably hold my finger on the case for longer than 2 seconds.
4. The AA batteries are also getting a bit warm.
Question: What is the max current the MintyBoost v2 is designed to comfortably source?
…dtw
Sparqi said:
>Question: What is the max current the MintyBoost v2 is designed to comfortably source?
Good question! I too would like to know. Anyone??