Charge Your Android Devices at Full Capacity Using the Anker® 25W 5-Port USB Charger

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Charge Your Android Devices at Full Capacity Using the Anker® 25W 5-Port USB Charger

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The Anker® 25W 5-Port Charger is an amazing charger! Unfortunately I it has some ports specific to iOS devices. Since I only own Android devices i could only charge them at full capacity on 2 of the 5 ports available, so I decided to fix that and here is how it was done!

Open It!

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After many tries I was able to find that the plastic part where the AC power connector is can be removed.

Just insert a really thin blade where the case meets the back sticker an force it open.

After that, just cut the white glue looking thing and pull the circuit out!

Soldering!

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Now that you have access to the circuit board let the soldering begin!

On picture number 2 you can clearly see that the Pins 2 and 3 of the Android specific ports are soldered together.

To make all the ports Android AC chargers you only have to solder all the other ports pins 2 and 3 together.

Put It Back Together!

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To put the charger back together just do the reverse of step one and use some superglue to keep it in place.

I hope that helped you! Let me know if you have any questions.