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Nighthawk M1 battery charging problem
I have just bought a Netgear Nighthawk M1 through Telstra to enable working in the field. Plugged into the wallmount to charge and the battery seems to drain instead. It will only charge through USB which defeats the purpose of being completely mobile. There is a community discussion on this going back to 2014 but no obvious solution offered. Any suggestions?RBR50, Draining mobile phone and tablet battery
Issue: Have new Orbi router and satellite. Install was vanilla - no issues. Updated firmware on both components to latest (a week ago). Worked as advertised- great, as a matter of fact. However, it wasn't long before we noticed battery life on our Samsung Note 5s were severely diminished! (one on Verizon, the other on US Cellular). It appeared the Verizon 3G iPad was also impacted. Example: Went to bed with phone at 100% on nightstand- woke up and it was dead. Tried turning off Orbi satellite, and thought it might have improved a little. Went back to old router (Netgear N600/WNDR3400) and the problem went away. Example: Went to bed with phone at 78% and woke up and it was at 70%. What is going on? Is there a setting that will fix this??Nighthawk M1 Won't Charge when Connected Via Ethernet
Hi Team, I have a bit of a conundrum that is causing me grief at the moment. My Nighthawk M1 will not charge at all when an ethernet cable is plugged in. I am having to share it out via another router (long story) at the moment. However, the moment I connect it to any device via ethernet, it stops charging. I have tried USB PD chargers, straight up USB chargers, plugged into USB on my computer, all to no avail, I remove the ethernet and reboot again and it will charge without issue. Any tips/advice/possibly a faulty unit? Many thanks, StuartNighthawk M1 custom fan
Hi everyone. Just wanted to share a little fun setup I made out of boredom. I found a spare slide switch and a 5V fan in my electronics box and also a 2 AA batteries socket connected in serial. I soldered it together and insulated the wires in a coating and stuck it beneath an opening in the lid and positioned the small fan inside the square, where the Li-Ion battery was supposed to sit before I detached it. It now runs on 3 volts providing a refreshing stream of air to aid the logic board in receiving its heavy loads from the telecommunications network. :) You could actually make it spin faster by using three or maybe four AA batteries without burning out the circuitry (I have tested it with as high a 12V battery, and it did tolerate that for several minutes). You could even get a 9V battery and a just slightly larger fan, or you could perhaps use a tiny lithium polymer battery and make a compact solution completely inside the device itself by using up the dimensions from the hollow battery compartment! I have noticed that the modem gets really hot when you pull torrents down for hours and some report that the DC current will decrease in case of overheating and start to drain the internal battery down to zero, while others report that using a fast charger (2.4A and up) without internal battery will less likely make their modem reboot, so for those people, this could be an adequate option to avoid removing or poking holes in the cover lid and mounting a regular sized cooling fan.AirCard 779S (Sprint) – NETGEAR Fuse Mobile Hotspot
Hello, I have a quick and easy question: If I need to replace the original rechargeable Li-Ion battery in my "NETGEAR Fuse Mobile Hotspot" device: I need to know which of the 3 batteries that you carry will work the best in this device: (longest lasting, compatibility that will for sure work) 1). Nitecore 18650 3400mAh 3.7V Protected Lithium Ion 2). Olight 18650 3400mAh 3.6V Protected Lithium Ion 3). XTAR 18650 3400mAh 3.6V Protected Lithium Ion ps. I need to make sure either of these 3 batteries will work (compatible) in the Netgear AC779S-Sprint Mobile Hotspot, simple as that! Thank you! /S/ Chris
