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My Pineapple Mk5 has been working flawlessly since I got it a week or so ago, until today. I have used my pineapple tethered to my android phone before without any problems. I was using it like this again today for about 15 minutes or maybe longer without a hitch when suddenly I lost connection to my phone. I checked my phone and it showed no device was connected. Shortly after this I unplugged my android phone and it gave me a message that stated, "Charging paused, voltage too high." It continued to do this without being plugged in until I left the battery out for 10+ minutes. I tried tethering to another phone and it said no device was connected.

I have tried tethering several times since then and no phone will show a connected device. I have rebooted, reset, and reflashed the pineapple without any change. Also, I always get that strange charging message after unplugging my phone from the pineapple (with 2 different batteries even).

Everything else seems to be working, just the USB port is giving me problems.

Has anyone else seen anything like this? I suspect something failed mechanically, but If anyone has any suggestions I'd love to read them.

Thanks!

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Have you tried other devices on the USB of the Pineapple? You could try a non powered USB hub with say a flash drive plugged in to draw current away. That way maybe you won't get the voltage too high warning.

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My Pineapple Mk5 has been working flawlessly since I got it a week or so ago, until today. I have used my pineapple tethered to my android phone before without any problems. I was using it like this again today for about 15 minutes or maybe longer without a hitch when suddenly I lost connection to my phone. I checked my phone and it showed no device was connected. Shortly after this I unplugged my android phone and it gave me a message that stated, "Charging paused, voltage too high." It continued to do this without being plugged in until I left the battery out for 10+ minutes. I tried tethering to another phone and it said no device was connected.

I have tried tethering several times since then and no phone will show a connected device. I have rebooted, reset, and reflashed the pineapple without any change. Also, I always get that strange charging message after unplugging my phone from the pineapple (with 2 different batteries even).

Everything else seems to be working, just the USB port is giving me problems.

Has anyone else seen anything like this? I suspect something failed mechanically, but If anyone has any suggestions I'd love to read them.

Thanks!

What's your method for tethering your android? I cant seem to get mine to work as of yet.

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