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).
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'.
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).
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.
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?
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.
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)
