online check in issues & phone battery ideas

[sndral]

I am a month away from a return to the mouse’s kingdom so I decided to do my online check in & can’t. I’m trying through the MDE website on my IPad & the add credit card button doesn’t work - I tap it & nothing happens, thus I can’t finish logging in Anyone more tech savvy than I have any suggestions?
Second, it seems that once I’m there I’ll be using my phone a lot more than previous visits & I’m guessing I’ll drain my battery - any advice/experience w/ charging your battery on the go - I’ve never done so (except to sit near an outlet on layovers in airports) and need a quick course in portable charging your phone battery for dummies. It’s an Apple iPhone 11 if that makes a difference.

 

[DonMacGregor]

Second, it seems that once I’m there I’ll be using my phone a lot more than previous visits & I’m guessing I’ll drain my battery - any advice/experience w/ charging your battery on the go - I’ve never done so (except to sit near an outlet on layovers in airports) and need a quick course in portable charging your phone battery for dummies. It’s an Apple iPhone 11 if that makes a difference.

Get a Mophie or some similar phone battery case. There are tons on Amazon, and they have come down in price dramatically.

iPhone 11 Battery Case

 

[CarolMN]

Get something like this:

https://smile.amazon.com/Anker-Port...-B08LH26PFT/dp/B08LH26PFT/ref=dp_ob_title_wld

 

[heapmaster]

Get a Mophie or some similar phone battery case. There are tons on Amazon, and they have come down in price dramatically.

iPhone 11 Battery Case

I would get an Energizer vs a Mophie, I got the Energizer 10,000 QE10007PQ from Best buy.

 

[LadybugsMum]

I am a month away from a return to the mouse’s kingdom so I decided to do my online check in & can’t. I’m trying through the MDE website on my IPad & the add credit card button doesn’t work - I tap it & nothing happens, thus I can’t finish logging in Anyone more tech savvy than I have any suggestions?

Use a desktop if you can. I have much better results when checking in online when using the full website than when I attempt using my ipad or cell phone.

 

[DonMacGregor]

I would get an Energizer vs a Mophie, I got the Energizer 10,000 QE10007PQ from Best buy.

External chargers are a pain. We probably have 60 phones all using either Mophies or some other similar charger/case and our associates get a full day of actual phone/web browsing use out of a typical 5000mAh charger, without having to ever plug it into an external power block or placing it on a block with a charge pad. The charge cases just plug in as your phone would and the phone charges through the case when plugged in.

 

[Chuck S]

I use a PowerAdd brand block similar to the Anker brand charger that CarolMN linked to, I also purchased from Amazon. I can get about 5 charges out of it on my iPhone 11, before I need to recharge the charger.

Also remember there are USB outlets at the DVC lounge at EPCOT you can plug into.

 

[DonMacGregor]

I use a PowerAdd brand block similar to the Anker brand charger that CarolMN linked to, I also purchased from Amazon. I can get about 5 charges out of it on my iPhone 11, before I need to recharge the charger.

Also remember there are USB outlets at the DVC lounge at EPCOT you can plug into.

I definitely carry a larger charge brick with me when I travel, but I just find that a charge case is much more convenient and simpler to carry around as it really just takes the place of my normal Otterbox. I know I'll get fewer complete charges out of the case, but I only need maybe 1-1/2 over the course of a full theme park day. As I mentioned above, when I get back to my hotel room, I'd be plugging my phone in anyway, so my routine doesn't change plugging in the charge case, which charges both the phone and the case simultaneously. In the morning, both are fully recharged. The phone ends up being only marginally thicker than with my normal case, it still fits in my pocket, I don't have anything else to lug around the parks with me, and the case has ample juice to run the phone all day plus some.

If something goes completely south, there's always the USB outlet backup.

 

[kilik64]

So heres my problem with getting the phone case route, its only good for that phone. Get a new phone, gotta get a new phone battery case.

If you get a decent external battery, its good with any phone basically or any other device you might wanna charge (ipad etc.). Also if there are more than one person who might need a top off charge, youd need the same phone to swap the case, vs a battery pack that you just plug in whatever to.

Long as you get a battery pack that can do 20w or more (like that anker) and supports usb c for charging and you use a usb c to lightning cable , you'll do fast charging which should pretty much top your phone off from 20 percent to 80+ in 30 mins or so.

 

[Chuck S]

I definitely carry a larger charge brick with me when I travel, but I just find that a charge case is much more convenient and simpler to carry around as it really just takes the place of my normal Otterbox.

True, but I carry a messenger-type bag in the parks for my charger, ID, a credit/gift card, my DVC Card, water bottle, and a light jacket. Plus it can hold a few small park purchases, since I don't think resort delivery has come back yet. Plus my charger has two USB out ports, so I can charge a friend's phone at the same time, if needed.

 

[Chuck S]

BTW, does anyone know if there are USB outlets in the upstairs bedrooms of an OKW GV? I guess I'll pack a few cubes just in case.

 

[kilik64]

BTW, does anyone know if there are USB outlets in the upstairs bedrooms of an OKW GV? I guess I'll pack a few cubes just in case.

Dvc fan have a video on the okw gv? Usually really good at pointing those out on em lol

 

[DonMacGregor]

So heres my problem with getting the phone case route, its only good for that phone. Get a new phone, gotta get a new phone battery case.

If you get a decent external battery, its good with any phone basically or any other device you might wanna charge (ipad etc.). Also if there are more than one person who might need a top off charge, youd need the same phone to swap the case, vs a battery pack that you just plug in whatever to.

Long as you get a battery pack that can do 20w or more (like that anker) and supports usb c for charging and you use a usb c to lightning cable , you'll do fast charging which should pretty much top your phone off from 20 percent to 80+ in 30 mins or so.

True, but it's not like the "old days" when a Mophie-type case was $150.00 (I think Apple's still is). Nowadays, they're like $35. When you're paying $1,000 for a new phone and a regular Otterbox is $50, another $35-$50 isn't going to break the bank. Plus, for me, fast charging, whether its 30 minutes or 10 minutes, is still an extra step that my case is otherwise doing continuously

Seriously, I get it. More power is always better. Charge bricks are definitely more versatile, but when I'm out in the parks, all I want is for my phone to be charged. I'm just not into lugging anything more around with me than I have to. For me, a bigger charge brick and a cable is more stuff, no matter how I slice it. Certainly not for everyone.

 

[DonMacGregor]

True, but I carry a messenger-type bag in the parks for my charger, ID, a credit/gift card, my DVC Card, water bottle, and a light jacket. Plus it can hold a few small park purchases, since I don't think resort delivery has come back yet. Plus my charger has two USB out ports, so I can charge a friend's phone at the same time, if needed.

Totally understand. I'm just more of a phone in one pocket, wallet in the other, and a Magic Band kind of guy. I'll bring a jacket and throw it in a locker when I get to the park, but almost never bring anything else other than maybe a poncho if the weather is threatening, and a hat.

Of course, 90% of the time, year-round, if I'm not dressed for work I'm in shorts and flip-flops. Product of growing up in So Cal.

 

[Chuck S]

Of course, 90% of the time, year-round, if I'm not dressed for work I'm in shorts and flip-flops. Product of growing up in So Cal.

Yep, I was born in Compton and grew up in Lynwood, but even in the summer you needed a jacket if we went to Long Beach in the evenings. But we left CA when I was 21 and moved to the San Antonio area.

 

[MM1102]

My son used a FuelRod kiosk at, I believe, Boardwalk when his phone died and I think there are kiosks elsewhere around WDW. You buy one of their power banks initially and then you can swap them for a fully charged one as you need them.

 

[Chuck S]

My son used a FuelRod kiosk at, I believe, Boardwalk when his phone died and I think there are kiosks elsewhere around WDW. You buy one of their power banks initially and then you can swap them for a fully charged one as you need them.

They're good in a pinch, but In the long run, though, it is cheaper to buy one of the larger ones if you're going to use it a lot.

 

[DonMacGregor]

Yep, I was born in Compton and grew up in Lynwood, but even in the summer you needed a jacket if we went to Long Beach in the evenings. But we left CA when I was 21 and moved to the San Antonio area.

Your family must have been part of that large migration (its got a coined term we'll leave alone) of people out of the Compton and Lynwood areas in the 50's nd 60's that led to the almost complete racial transformation of those cities. I'm too young to have experienced it directly, but I know a whole generation left those cities in that short period of time, and I've known quite a few. There are so many people who literally repeat that "I was born in Compton and grew up in Lynwood" phrase (or vice-versa) and whose families moved out of there to other parts of LA, Riverside, the OC, or completely out of state.

 

[Donna M]

I bought an Anker like the one above before my recent trip. My phone needed a charge in the afternoon, and guess what? The battery wasn´t working! There´s some annoyance for you. They do have good costumer service though, and my new one should be here soon.

 

[Chuck S]

Your family must have been part of that large migration (its got a coined term we'll leave alone) of people out of the Compton and Lynwood areas in the 50's nd 60's that led to the almost complete racial transformation of those cities. I'm too young to have experienced it directly, but I know a whole generation left those cities in that short period of time, and I've known quite a few. There are so many people who literally repeat that "I was born in Compton and grew up in Lynwood" phrase (or vice-versa) and whose families moved out of there to other parts of LA, Riverside, the OC, or completely out of state.

Well, yes and no, we didn't sell until 1980, when we were required to do so as the house had to be sold per my grandparents estate, and the rest of the family wouldn't let us (Mom and I) buy it from our share of the estate. Other wise we would not have left. We wound up in Texas because my Grandma also owned a house here, that she specifically left to us, and we had a LOT of her relatives in this area. I'm still living in that house today.