Mod enables wireless charging on HTC HD2

An American has adapted his HD2 to be able to put an inductive charger on it. In addition to connecting the connections, the metal battery cover of the device had to be replaced with a plastic one.

The American, who only calls himself Tony by his first name on YouTube, has performed the mod with a larger battery than HTC supplied with the device. The 2400mAH battery is charged via the inductive charger of the Palm Pixi. Palm supplied an accessory for its smartphone that allows charging without a cable.

The four connectors are connected to the micro USB port at the bottom of the device. The connector is fixed to prevent charging being interrupted if the connection is lost. The induction charger works with four magnets, which ensure that the charger stays in place. The charger works with a fluctuating magnetic field, which generates voltage in the coil mounted in the device and thus charges the battery, a principle that tweaker Antique Radio explains in his response.

It is not the first time that someone has demonstrated that it is possible to adapt the HD2 for use with an inductive charger. earlier pale It is already possible, but the metal battery cover that is standard on the device disrupts charging via induction.

HTC released the HD2 in November last year. The Windows Mobile 6.5 device has a 4.3″ touchscreen and was the first HTC to run on a Qualcomm QSD8250 CPU. This Snapdragon processor is clocked at 1GHz. Despite many rumors, it is still unclear whether users have officially received a update for Windows Phone 7. So far no ROM with Microsoft’s new mobile OS has appeared.

Update 16:33: The operation of the inductive charger is explained in the article.