How to get eVic to Charge rather than Charge/Upload?

[Bubba]

Anyone know how to get the evic to charge only when connected to a computer that does not have MVR installed?

Here's the deal:

At home, I have MVR installed, so I can tell it to charge only

At work, don't have MVR (and can't install outside software). When I connect eVic at work to charge, it goes into charging/uploading mode, which means I cannot use it while it's charging (as a pass through).

Anyone know a workaround for this?

I'd like to see this addressed in the next firmware update, maybe allow the user to specify from the device itself

Thanks!

 

[LazyBulldogge]

Don't think there's anything you can do about it. Be happy you even have the feature, us Mac users don't have it (yet)
You could of course use the wall charger, which allows passthrough - that's what I do, when necessary

 

[cricque]

There is no workaround for it as off now. And I highly doubt there will be in the future. the evic contains a small flash chip which is used by the windows auto detect, and thats most likely how they do it. I tried messing already with it under linux, to get it to detect to use the mvr in Linux, but so far haven't succeeded.

 

[desertlover]

I'm having the same problem. It's been hours and it keeps saying charging 100, Uploading. I sent Joyetech an e-mail. Maybe I'll receive an answer. In the meantime, anyone know how to resolve problem? Thanks

 

[cricque]

it will stay in upload I guess untill you connect with MVR

 

[MrStik]

Would a charge only micro USB cable work? I haven't tried, but it would be worth a shot.

 

[cricque]

charge only cable ? never heard of that. Any usb cable should be able to pass on data if I am not mistaken.

 

[Bubba]

I'm thinking they can fix this with firmware update.

Any micro usb charger will work - car chargers, etc.

The problem I have is that I don't have MVR installed at work, and when connected to a computer the eVic goes into charging/uploading with no option to have it just charge so that it can be used as a pass through. Currently you have to open MVR to tell it to charge only. There should be a setting on the device that allows you to tell it to charge rather than charge/upload, so if you're at a computer that doesn't have MVR installed you can still use as a passthrough.

A small issue I know, but maybe if they're listening it could be fixed

 

[MrStik]

charge only cable ? never heard of that. Any usb cable should be able to pass on data if I am not mistaken.

yes there are.. Either the data pins are shorted out manually, or they are purchased without any connections to the data pins. I believe they are the 2 middle pins, but i can be mistaken on which ones.

 

[cricque]

yes there are.. Either the data pins are shorted out manually, or they are purchased without any connections to the data pins. I believe they are the 2 middle pins, but i can be mistaken on which ones.

Thanks, didn't know that. Need to get me one of those then

 

[Codrut Popescu]

I am a new owner of the eVic and with firmware 1.3 I can vape while charging without having MVR installed. Checkout the 1.3 firmware