Category: Hardware

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My new Nexus 5X won’t charge

So, I finally got my Nexus 5X on Friday. Being a happy camper I get started right away and everything looks and works great. Battery is at 74% so I plug in that bad boy using the USB-C cable in the box. In no time the battery goes to 82% and the phone even displays a little notification about rapid charging. Great.

Then Google tells me there’s a software update to Android 6.0.1. I happily accept and the phones updates. Great, I am now running the latest and greates Android has to offer.

Imagine my surpise though when I realize that the battery is now down to 72%, despite being plugged into the wall socket. As the battery keeps draining out of my brand new phone I go on the hunt and try to figure out how to deal with this. So far nothing at all has worked, but here’s what I have tried so far:

  • Factory reset – no dice
  • Clear system cach – no dice
  • Charge the  – no dice. Yes, somebody actually recommended that charging the phone would help!
  • Let the battery run down to 0 and recharge – no dice

So now I am stuck with a new phone that has no juice left and won’t accept the charge.

Update 1: I just did the unthinkable and bought a USB-C to USB adaptor from Humac. It cost me my entire savings but now I will try to charge the damn phone via my laptop as suggested.

Update 2: I have tried using the charging cable with another Nexus 5X and guess what – no charge. I am starting to think the cable is dead.

Update 3: Now we are getting somewhere. I used the new converter with an old USB cable and guess what, the phone is charging! Right now it charges 10% pr. hour which really sucks but at least we have power.

Update 4: The Force is strong with me, but I am not a Jedi yet! My Nexus charged over night but only reached 40%, which is pretty disappointing. I am going to get a new USB-C charger and see if that works. Google suggest a lather-rinse-repeat approach to this, so I am going to let the battery run very low before charging again. Who knows it might work.

That being said, I have to admit that I am pretty disappointed in this Google product right now. It doesn’t work as intended if at all.

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Garmin Forerunner 310XT not uploading

My Garmin Forerunner has given a lot of headaches lately. It has not uploaded my running data to Garmin Connect, causing me to lose data from three runs, including a personal best.

As with most devices, a master reset did the trick. So, if you have this problem I suggest you try the following. It worked for me. Just remember that you will lose all data and there are no guarantees that it will work for you, just because it worked for me. I stole this from the support forum by the way.

To perform the master reset:
1.Power Forerunner off
2.Press and hold Enter and Mode buttons
3.Press and release Power button
4.Press and release Lap/Reset (watch will power off)
5.Wait 3 seconds
6.Release Enter and Mode

The reset on the Forerunner 310XT is only successful if the device finishes powering up, and goes to the setup wizard. Repeat the steps again if the setup wizard does not appear.

Leave the device outside with a clear view of the sky for a minimum of 20 minutes to acquire satellite data once the reset and setup wizard are complete.

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Getting my Lenovo on

imageA couple of weeks ago my old trusty desktop PC died. I ended up up buying a Lenovo U430, which I had been looking at for a while.

The machine has some pretty good specs, but notably lacks an SSD drive, which I guess I have to add eventually. Of course, it has no CD drive, so I will have to get Windows on there in some other way.

As it turns out, I never ever use the touch screen, mainly because I don’t want to amke the screen dirty, but since the trackpad supports muliti gestures pretty well, I don’t really need the touch screen. The screen itself has pretty bas viewing angles, but nothing that I cannot live with.

The one thing that has surprised me, is how much I use the metro environment. I think metro is better for touch, but it offers me a lot of opportunity to connect to my work accounts such as Exchange and Lync easily, so I find myself using quite a bit these days.

That being said, I am not sure I really get the whole dual environment thing as I have multiple apps that do the same thing. Mail and Skype are good examples.

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Must have notebook

Lenovo U300

Som verden ser ud I øjeblikket står jeg til at miste mit hjemmekontor. Det betyder at min desktop PC samt skærme skal pensioneres og derfor kommer jeg til at stå uden min egen PC. Katastrofe!

Derfor er jeg begyndt at kigge på notebooks igen, og I særdeleshed Ultrabooks, som I bund og grund er Macbook Air kloner.

På arbejde bruger jeg Lenovo, og selvom designet ikke er det bedste, er jeg faktisk rigtigt glad for min maskine. Derfor kom det som en god overraskelse at Lenovo snar lancerer U300, som er en Ultrabook I konsument serien. Designet er super fedt, og hvis kvaliteteen lever op til Lenovos sædvanlige standard er der vist dømt vinder.

Man kan se lenovos nye Ultrabooks her.