Slow charging of 8" tablet, any way to improve?

From	Chris Green <cl@isbd.net>
Newsgroups	comp.mobile.android
Subject	Slow charging of 8" tablet, any way to improve?
Date	2016-08-25 18:55 +0100
Message-ID	<t1o39d-1kj.ln1@esprimo.zbmc.eu> (permalink)

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We have a couple of Argos Bush Spira 8" LTE tablets, they work pretty
well and are good value for their price.

However they have one rather annoying issue, they are incredibly slow
to charge.  Whatever charger I try the charging current is never more
than 0.6 amps and most of the time it sits around 0.45 amps.  I have
chargers which can provide 2.5 amps and they do so with other devices. 

When the tablets are in use the charge rate is very close to zero
because the power is being used at the same rate as the charger is
providing it.  The only way to get the tablet charged seems to be to
turn it off and leave it to charge overnight.

Am I missing something obvious here?

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Chris Green
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Slow charging of 8" tablet, any way to improve? Chris Green <cl@isbd.net> - 2016-08-25 18:55 +0100
  Re: Slow charging of 8" tablet, any way to improve? Theo Markettos <theom+news@chiark.greenend.org.uk> - 2016-08-25 19:14 +0100
    Re: Slow charging of 8" tablet, any way to improve? Chris Green <cl@isbd.net> - 2016-08-25 20:00 +0100
      Re: Slow charging of 8" tablet, any way to improve? Poutnik <poutnik4nntp@gmail.com> - 2016-08-25 21:32 +0200
        Re: Slow charging of 8" tablet, any way to improve? Chris Green <cl@isbd.net> - 2016-08-26 09:43 +0100
  Re: Slow charging of 8" tablet, any way to improve? VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> - 2016-08-25 14:11 -0500
    Re: Slow charging of 8" tablet, any way to improve? Chris Green <cl@isbd.net> - 2016-08-26 09:47 +0100
  Re: Slow charging of 8" tablet, any way to improve? AL <noemail@none.com> - 2016-08-25 13:43 -0700

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