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Nighthawk M1 battery flat and offline in morning
Hello, I have a Telstra Nighthawk M1, works pretty well. Happy with the speeds, the form factor, real ethernet port and on the very infrequent times I use it without power the battery life. ...
The Telstra Advanced III hotspot and cradle do work well.
I remove the battery on the hotspot so that the person onsite can just power off the cradle and hotspot at the same time. Otherwise I have found the cradle switches off due to a power failure or reboot/any reason. It then requires user intervention to boot back up and connect with the battery in place.
I'm currently using the Nighthawk M1 in "attended" situations, because I don't trust the device in long term usage cases. I love the M1 otherwise. Someone posted about using the USB 3 power supply from a Pixel Laptop. That seems like a good idea. I'm still working OK with my iPad power supply (that is a real one, not after market). I did try a Kogan 2.4 amp supply and experienced rebooting.
So in summary the laptop power supply mentioned by another user above and an original iPad 12W power supply have been the only sucess stories removing the battery. (If it's not getting enough power it reboots).
Without the battery the Nighthawk M1 does restore itself to powered on mode and connect after a power loss. With the battery it's just trouble in my experience.
Netgear should sell a power adapter to run it permanently and add a firmware setting for "Always ON". That's essentially the "proper" solution to this problem. Netgear don't exactly admit there is a problem, it's a bit of a cop out saying it was designed for intermittent use only.
If I've missed some update that Netgear has done, let me know. My Nighthawk M1 is packed away right now and I'll be using it much more in about a month or two.
It looks like many people have the same problem about charging. I suffer the same issue.
But today, I found another way. I use SONY Xperia Performance charger adapter which support QC2.0 to connect with Nighthawk M1 with battery inside, and the battery can keep 100% almost for whole day usage. Share this with you, and I will keep watching it and updating.
After about 1 and half day testing, I noticed that with a good adapter(I use SONY Xperia Performance adapter charger), M1 can stay in a good condition. And temp does affect the charging. If the temp runs high over 43~44 degree C, the charge current will become very small, like under 100mA, and after the temp decrease below 40 degree C, the charg current will be about 1.5A ~ 2A. So if you want to use M1, you better to have a good adapter.
