Originally Posted By: DWallach
Originally Posted By: Folsom
What mode does your phone show when connected to the charger? AC or USB?

It just says "charging" without additional useful details. Other owners seem to indicate on various forums that they see an indicated difference, so I need to do some experiments.

EDIT: if you go to Settings -> Battery, it tells you "USB" or "AC" charging. From this, I can see that the three different chargers I've got at home report "AC". (Well, one of them *sometimes* reports AC and sometimes reports USB.) I'll later try out the car chargers.

Meanwhile, if you do a suitable Google search, several vendors advertise "high power" car chargers. I might need to give one of these a try, but then there's the question of whether I'm getting the Apple (non-)standard or what.


There are some battery widgets that show the charging state. You'll have to short D+/D- either with a cable or on the charger to get AC charging which is 1A. I've found that old Palm Pixi wall chargers provide AC charging, and they are cheap. The Griffin 2A car charger I bought needed the pins shorted.