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syncUp Tracker
has anyone have this plugged in to a power bank to extend battery life?
Hey Jacobi, you sound like you've dealt with these a while. I use them for vehicle anti-theft.
A short question to skip reading all the below history novel: you say you leave it on usb charge 24/7 and it doesn't run down? Does your magnet cord have four pins or five pins?
Maybe that design change allows that now. I need to test that.
Why do I ask this?
In 2019, I got the Sprint "Safe & found Tracker" I'll call it the "4-pin" tracker made by Coolpad, there were only four pins on the cord magnet. If you left it on a live usb charger, it would charge to 100, stop charging, and drain down to zero. (T-mobile says new ones will still do that) So I needed to cycle the power source to keep it alive. I got a digital 12volt on/off programmable timer off the internet, to cycle the usb car charge ON for X minutes. Two one hour charges per day worked great. 24hr protection of course; fed by the car's battery.
With the 3g Sunset original date to be "Jan 2022", during the Spint/Tmobile merger, my wife and me also had cellphones set to go dead also, so we had to buy all new stuff in Nov 2021. MY cellphone was still in factory warranty, went to junk drawer, with all our USB-B chargers, cords headphones!
The Tmobile Syncup tracker was a "5 pin" (made by Coolpad also), I had to swap in the new 5-pin cable. After argueing it, they finally let us keep our original Sprint phone #'s, still in Sprint's database, not T-mobile's yet, including the new Tracker. But it could not locate, until they did some trick to use it's Sprint # instead of gmail ID to activate. Fine.
Then in April 2023, it kept going offline, right about when the merged databases were announced, and the bill changed to T-Mob. The mobile app upgraded, and won't complete "Onboarding". Their store told me they had a current deal of 3 Syncup trackers at half price service. I wanted another one anyway, for my wife's used car that OnStar went 3g dead this year. (conspiracy deluxe, must-buy-new-car-along-with-phones!)
Well the new ones do work great! Still "5-pin" but now brand shows TCL
They still can't get the Coolpad 5-pin to Onboard, but they sure are still trying! LOL
