Hi im after a dam good power bank. I want something that will keep my phone watch and ally charged. Mainly what i want is in a few months got a long tride 5+ hours. Ive been gaming on my phone tonight to see how fast battery dies and i dont get long on the Ally. Ideally i want something that will do the 30w to allow the allow to game as if it was plugged in, fast charge my phone went needed. Ideally have more than 1 output. I dont want something to pricey ie £100 & over if o i can avoid it. I did look on amazon but its a mine field, it will be going in a bag where i can feed the cables round to me for on the go gaming. Im a sad sod. I have heard of Ugreen and Anker my current. Battery bank is a Juice brick ive had 10 years and it charges but not fast. If ive missed anything i apoologise. I dont really get the numbers on the batteries the whole 20000 10000 ect and why some do 140w ect i think max id need would be 65w ??? I dont know
just buy the biggest you can comfortably carry, I'd imagine you probably want around 100w for Ally top mode and charging, certainly using my Claw in a dock I don't get full power without 100w charger despite it coming with a 65w but that is perhaps because the dock needs power. I use a 140W Ugreen Nexode 25000mAh, it seems decent and is about £50, that is about 90Wh, after conversion loss (converting one voltage to another) probably works out at about 78/80wh in reality so maybe two charges of an Ally. You can get bigger that are still compact like the 60000mAh and more but that is over 100Wh and you need to request special permissions to fly with something that size, if that is a consideration, basically anything under100wh, ~27000mAh, you can travel no problem. Wh is mAh x Voltage / 1000, these things typically use Lithium Ion ternary batteries that are 3.7v. You can of course find games on the handheld that will run at 4-7w for example my AOKZOE 7840U handheld would run Stardew Valley and similar light titles on one charge for ~10hrs on its 65Wh battery If you have net access, you could do similar running AAA games off of Geforce Now.
I'd warn against Anker's version of that thing... hang on, let me pull it up from my order history... This one. Seemed great, but it has some really weird compatibility issues. First, it won't charge my laptop. At all. No idea why, I've other much smaller Anker power banks that charge it fine. The kiss of death, though: I've an Anker portable solar charger thing... and it won't take a charge from that either. Yeah, Anker to Anker. Just brings up a message saying "circuit protection enabled" - even though the solar panel charges other power banks, including my other Anker ones, just fine.
Yup just the ticket, I like the screen on that, would save me plugging in my little tester as I like to know what wattage a device is using as I've experience some similar things that @Gareth Halfacree mentioned with weird compatibility, not charging fast enough etc, in my case resolved with better specced cables.
Rather than open a new advice thread. I'm after a usb c hub. I want it for my Ally so it will need to allow it to still power it but ideally I want a ethernet jack and hdmi out on it. I just found a few on Ugreen as I got the power bank and a few of there good cables but never used a usb hub thing and there was a few but there where mixed reports about power delivery ect. Any help would be appreciated
Any usb4 dock should be sufficient, if you have one for your laptop etc, it'd do the job, your Ally is a like my Claw, in fact I think the Claw is a rip off the Ally design so what I use would work for you. I use this bad boy though I don't use the cooling fan. You need a 100w usb power source to go with it for full power turbo modes etc, on 65w it will perform as if un docked. The dock portion can unclip from stand for travel or use on a laptop etc. JSAUX Docking Station for ROG Ally X/ROG Ally/Steam Deck/Legion Go, 7-in-1 Dock for ROG Ally X with RGB Cooling Fan, HDMI 4K@120Hz, Gigabit Ethernet, Dual USB & USB C 3.0, 100W PD Charging - HB0705: Amazon.co.uk: Computers & Accessories There is also this JSAUX Steam Deck Dock 4K@120Hz(6-in-1), Docking Station for Steam Deck OLED/ROG Ally X/Legion Go (S)/MSI Claw, Steam Dock with HDMI 2.1, Gigabit Ethernet, 3 USB A 3.0 and 100W Charge-HB0603: Amazon.co.uk: Computers & Accessories Jsaux site is worth a browse they have a few If you want to get spendy you could have one of these, it will give you extra storage and the option to add more GPU grunt for when you dock. Minisforum DEG2 eGPU Dock Station | OcuLink & Thunderbolt 5
Ah, I'm not sure how compatible the old Ally is actually, is yours the OG one, I just remembered asus went with a custom port for that, so perhaps you can't use the eGPU docks, does it have display-alt etc?
Yup it does have display alt so you'll be fine with any of the normal docks, no eGPU for you though. 1x ROG XG Mobile Interface and USB Type-C combo port (with USB 3.2 Gen2, support DisplayPort™ 1.4)
From what I understand the OG ally still let you use a usb dock but it has the xg port for a GPU too. That jsaux site sold a dock for the OG ally so I'd assume it let me do that. I was thinking more a hub not a dock https://amzn.eu/d/0gL42aGD https://amzn.eu/d/003Vxwy2 https://amzn.eu/d/0fAP2W4m So I'm dumb and really struggling spotting the difference between stuff I also grabbed https://amzn.eu/d/084nLbO7 for my Rog ally and cooler https://amzn.eu/d/04FZXFep for on the go https://amzn.eu/d/0jjHfiEP as my dog snapped my 3m cable.
Because your handheld is old rubbish like mine you want the higher spec hub/docks that support 4k120 and VRR, not because you will do 120 but because VRR is essential for these low spec machines to feel good. The first one I posted is essentially no different to the Ugreens you have posted once pulled out of the stand apart from having VRR support.
Been happy with the Ugreen battery bank I got..got more than 2 full charges of my phone out of it. Rather than keep making new threads, I need a HDMI cable I snapped mine last night and need a 3m one as it goes from one side of the room where the TV is to the opposite side where my laptop is, https://amzn.eu/d/0g8aHMmg https://amzn.eu/d/0bHePqLx https://amzn.eu/d/03YBwkTC I've only picked Ugreen as I've been happy with the stuff I got recently rather pay for something that's going to last, but am I dumb but is there a difference..it's only doing 4k max and I think 120hz but most of the time is on my old 1080p TV at 60hz. When not in use at home I take it to the caravan. The 2nd question is can if I connect to WiFi can I then share that connection over a LAN. I no I can WiFi hotspot but wanted to see if it can go the other way.
Yup any of those will be fine though first couple a bit chonky for travel carry purposes, the last one is not bad I have that, it works great though I do have an even slimmer lighter one. On the second point I used to do similar in my 'van to share the wifi, there were a couple of ways, one was with a soft AP, easy to test this before you go, the other is to take an AP with you, a lot of sites have cottoned on to this behaviour though and require sign on access pages etc, so not always straight forward. I had a little travel AP/router designed just for this stuff, plenty on amazon but I couldn't recommend any as I have not used then and mine was use decades a go when mobile wifi wasn't so good.
A more flexible hdmi would be better.. So in the conservatory my old TV needs a update but it can only do it on a LAN I was hoping I could just connect my laptop and share a WiFi to the network port, I know I could share WiFi to Bluetooth..
Ah yes you can do that but have not done it in W11, used to be a bridge option if you had two lan ports, perhaps wifi - Lan would work, the other thing you can do if your phone is upto it is plug a usb LAN adaptor into your phone to share your internet connection that way.
Ahhh that's where I went wrong I new I could bridge networks but assumed it had been removed I keep forgetting the old style on system settings and stuff is hidden *not actually under settings*** I can remember having to bridge stuff on 7 in the past ect but been so long and when I searched network settings it kept showing windows 11d settings. Oh so if not that dock I got has a Ethernet jack could I connect that to my phone then link it to my TV ?? I got the dock for my Ally and tried it with my phone shocked how easy it was, a few phone exclusive games I want to play. And I want to get a controller for my phone but waiting for the OhSnap MCON to hit the UK. Atm is US and Canada only and they don't ship internationally Thanks as always Sandys.
