Good Charging dock?

**Genjinaro** · #1 (**permalink**) 11-04-2009, 01:48 PM

Looking for a charging dock for the Sprint HTC Hero, anyone spot any good ones? It'd be nice if HTC released an official one like they did for the MyTouch 3G.

Thanks.

Tinkturtle · #2 (**permalink**) 11-04-2009, 02:51 PM

Try this. looks to be on back order.
http://www.seidioonline.com/product-p/crjhtcx1-bkc.htm

Jarkmackson · #3 (**permalink**) 11-07-2009, 10:23 AM

I've also been searching around for a Hero Specific dock but haven't found one yet, I may order the Seido one and report back on it.

mercado79 · #4 (**permalink**) 11-07-2009, 11:42 AM

What I'd love to find is a dock that also charges a second battery. Something like this:

http://cgi.ebay.com/Sprint-Touch-Dia...item2ea8e9a50c

damonwest2000 · #5 (**permalink**) 11-08-2009, 10:45 PM

Yeah Seido always have goos stuff for htc phones...only wish they had diffrent colors for there cases, but i want the charger that can charge the battery like this for example, http://www.seidioonline.com/product-...3htchx1-bk.htm

tommy_riley · #6 (**permalink**) 12-01-2009, 03:34 AM

I have basically a very similar charging dock for the HTC Touch Pro to the one listed here:

http://cgi.ebay.com/Sprint-Touch-Pro...item2ea8f53b2c

I carefully shaved off a bit of plastic on the left and right walls of this charger using a box cutter razer blade knife to allow the HTC Hero to fit into the charging dock, and it worked perfectly! I used just a little bit of sharpie pen to touch up the lightened plastic that happened during the shaving and it looks like the Hero was made to live in this charging unit (minus the wrong battery type for the extra charing unit). The one in the ebay picture I linked looked like it would probably also be able to stand the slight modification to allow for the Hero to dock as well, plus since the TP2 and hero use the same battery, then you would be in good shape.

I will be happy to post a picture of the modification if anyone is interested.

update:
looks like the real deal is now making its way to ebay:

http://cgi.ebay.com/USB-Docking-Desk...item3ca7f77325

princem131 · #7 (**permalink**) 12-01-2009, 04:06 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by tommy_riley

I have basically a very similar charging dock for the HTC Touch Pro to the one listed here:

http://cgi.ebay.com/Sprint-Touch-Pro...item2ea8f53b2c

I carefully shaved off a bit of plastic on the left and right walls of this charger using a box cutter razer blade knife to allow the HTC Hero to fit into the charging dock, and it worked perfectly! I used just a little bit of sharpie pen to touch up the lightened plastic that happened during the shaving and it looks like the Hero was made to live in this charging unit (minus the wrong battery type for the extra charing unit). The one in the ebay picture I linked looked like it would probably also be able to stand the slight modification to allow for the Hero to dock as well, plus since the TP2 and hero use the same battery, then you would be in good shape.

I will be happy to post a picture of the modification if anyone is interested.

update:
looks like the real deal is now making its way to ebay:

http://cgi.ebay.com/USB-Docking-Desk...item3ca7f77325

Nice I wouldnt mind grabbing one of those!

**Genjinaro** · #8 (**permalink**) 12-01-2009, 11:57 AM

I ended up using the MyTouch3G dock & hey...... it fits, LOL!

Luckily the Sprint Hero has a similar form factor.