Generic charger

[paulet96]

I recently purchased a generic charger for my droid.
The first time I used it for only a couple of hrs. and it worked fine. Tried it again leaving it on over night and the phone went beserk. It called my home phone twice at 3:00 in the morning and sent 7-8 text messages to the last two people I had talked to the day before. The messages were all jibberish, numbers, symbols and letters. "does your phone make calls and text on its own, "Droid Does" What a laugh !!!!

 

[icculusX]

Wow that is very odd. You sure it is because of the charger? I have heard stories about generic chargers messing up phones a bit, but never heard anything like this! You rooted and been toying around with ROMs too? I wonder what this could be.

I have a generic wall and car charger and they both work fine on my phone.

 

[BayouFlyFisher]

Some generic chargers and even some usb cables do this. I've bought three generic chargers and one works and the other two make my droid go crazy.

It's a known issue with some chargers.

 

[paulet96]

No rooting. I had read also about generic chargers doing weird things, but this is above and beyond.

 

[timp]

I have the exact same problem. I bought 3 generic chargers off ebay, and they all do the same thing. As soon as I plug in the phone, everything goes crazy...all kinds of patterns start appearing on the lock screen, and if it's unlocked, things start clicking and scrolling all by themselves. I unplugged right away because I was afraid it would damage the phone. Plugging in a quality wall charger or a USB-computer doesn't do any of this.
My droid is stock, not rooted.

 

[TheOldFart]

This likely happens because some of the cheap generic chargers do not regulate to the correct voltage of 5.0 +/- 0.25 volts. That is the USB standard and what the phones are designed to operate on from an external source.