Replacement of N800 wall charger? (Canada)
 

Damned it. I was watching a holiday roaring fire .avi on my N800 when I walked away and pulled the plug with my foot.

The N800 landed softly but the wall charger/plug head going into the unit bent and now will only charge when I sit there and physically jam the plug in.

The USB cord is not a practical help since the computer is not in my bedroom and the N800 is used as my bedside clock. Because it's my bedside clock and the clock face is always on, I don't want to depend on swapping out batteries or powering down. I need the unit to be plugged in and juiced up all the time.

I need a new wall charger and am in Canada.

I *really* don't want to pay expensive shipping costs from Europe for this thing and if there's a replacement supplier thread, I didn't find it (maybe I was using the wrong text for searching).

Any suggestions?

Re: Replacement of N800 wall charger? (Canada)
 

It's a standard nokia phone charger which most nokia phones use. The one that comes with the N800 is an 'AC-4X' but I'm using an 'AC-5X' fine. Just make sure that you don't buy an 'AC-3X'.

Re: Replacement of N800 wall charger? (Canada)
 

Well... I got a Nokia with a 7/11 SpeakOut pay-as-you-go that expired about 6 months ago. It's a 1600.

I'm looking at the plug now. "AC-2U Input: 100-240V~/50-60Hz/150mA Output: 5.3V = /500mA and that's all there is.

The N800 charger says "[same]... Output: DC 5V, 890mA".

So... if I plug that sucker in, will it fry my N800?

Re: Replacement of N800 wall charger? (Canada)
 

Ebay... Search "Nokia AC-4", and it should find you OEM chargers at reasonable cost.

Re: Replacement of N800 wall charger? (Canada)
 

Moot point - the wall charger plug doesn't fit the N800 anyway.

Re: Replacement of N800 wall charger? (Canada)
 

I took an usb extension cord, cut the female plug and spliced it into the charger cable, then I bought a cheap usb charging cable from dealextreme.
Beware, some people reported problems with this adapter, for me it's working fine (I had to push in some strands of wire after a while, but that may be because the socket in my n800 is also damaged).

Re: Replacement of N800 wall charger? (Canada)
 

Thanks for all the quick replies. As usual, this forum is great and good.

Once I got the name of the plug, I just narrowed it down to a local source:

http://www.gocellular.ca/index.php?c...id=981879cfe32 . Cheap enough to get 2, close enough to make a fast run to during a lunch hour on Monday if they won't allow me to get it by my favorite courrier service.

Hurray!

Re: Replacement of N800 wall charger? (Canada)
 

There are two Nokia plug sizes. A bigger one that doesn't fit, and the small one that does fit. Any Nokia phone charger with the small plug will work. You should be able to find a compatible charger in most electronic stores that sell replacement chargers for cell phones.

Re: Replacement of N800 wall charger? (Canada)
 

This will probably work.

The rule with Nokia chargers is: if it fits, it works.

AC-3E and AC-5E work on several Nokia devices including N810 and probably N800 as well. AC-3E is older, it has far less output, so it probably takes a lot longer with this charger. It came with a 2630 which is a slightly bigger brother of your Nokia 1600. AC-5E came recently with my Nokia E71 (far newer).

In fact, tons of Nokia telephones use the same battery as your N800.

But maybe you already damaged your N800 (as well, or only the N800).

You can find the very same charger (or very similar) on eBay probably cheap enough that it isn't worth your time to hesitate. ;)

Re: Replacement of N800 wall charger? (Canada)
 

Specifically, see www.forum.nokia.com/info/sw.nokia.com/id/3378ff2b-4016-42b9-9118-d59e4313a521/Nokia_2-mm_DC_Charging_Interface_Specification_v1_2_en.pdf .html

I am using the charger I got with my Nokia 5200. My second charger is a generic 5V charger (actually from an old LG phone) with a cable hacked off the original UK charger I got with my N800.

Note if you read the spec, a 5V charger will only show as a "special" charger and in my experience, it never indicates a "full" state. (It does with the 5200's AC-3U charger though)

Re: Replacement of N800 wall charger? (Canada)
 

You should be able to find the iGo universal chargers in Canada. That's what I've got. My original Nokia chargers, car and wall, both failed.

My iGo's seem to be more robust, or at least I haven't managed to break them. The tips can be a pain to find, but they're out there. I use an A95. I think the A69 is an earlier revision that also works.

I've got the same charging problem, too. That's how I broke my original wall charger. I find if I loop the cable under the device, so that it angles the tip towards the back of the device, it will charge.

There's a springy contact in there that gets bent and loses it's spring. A few posters here have fixed it a couple of different ways. I'm lazy, and it's easier to just screw around with the cable until it starts charging. I wish it had USB charging.

Re: Replacement of N800 wall charger? (Canada)
 

1. Thanks for the iGo tip. Good to know.

2. I got my USB charger that I'm using now until I can get a replacement wall charger for about $11CAN at The Source (or Circuit City or whatever the RadioShacks are now called). I like using that whenever I take the n800 to work so I can pop down to the local coffeeshop in the building with free WiFi if I'm waiting for some email response that'll be sent to my personal email.