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Review on 📱 Brook Pocket Auto Catcher - Effortlessly Catch Pokemon and Gather Items with Pokemon GO Plus Compatibility by Kevin Carr

Revainrating 2 out of 5

Great when it works until it doesn't work

When this thing works it completely destroys all Pokemon and most PokéStops (I noticed that it doesn't prioritize rotation, too if you don't have Pokeballs (you still have to see the Pokemon first before you realize you need to keep spinning the stop), and that's a joy. Gave me really great walks. The documentation is terrible, but you get the idea. This product is AEFUL for a reason: it just ends up not working anymore. It happened once and I didn't do anything to turn the screen back on, but then it just came back on its own. Then, some time after it did the same thing, it wouldn't turn on again until I plugged it in to charge and then never turned it back on. Since I loved the product when it worked, it bothered me endlessly that it would just shut down, so I tore it apart and tried to figure out what went wrong. The problem is I barely know how to use a multimeter, but here's what I found out. The charging cable for it, which is absolutely short and oddly designed, works perfectly and provides the correct voltage relative to the charging source, say 5.1V from a battery. The battery in the device reads 3.7V, but when I check the wires (after accidentally disconnecting one wire and then throwing away and removing the entire battery) the battery says it's reading 4V. My dad knows more about that these things and from What do I understand it looks like the battery is overcharged? Maybe it matters a lot how the battery is charged (which battery or plug the charging cable plugs into), but it's DAMN because the curmudgeons won't give you a compatible power plug, so if you damage the battery that way, it is your own . Fault? I found 3.7v batteries (there are so many different capacities on the Revain) so I might test if that would bring the thing back to life, but I won't know if the motherboard or the display is still working are damaged until I do, so an annoying investment check. In any case, contact anyone who wants to buy this product. It does NOT come with a power plug and it seems easy to screw up a crappy battery (which is really hard to know what level is off because the display never tells you you just notice it often disconnects from the app when it's about to be discharged, I think again it's very hard to understand if it really needs to be charged or not). I don't care what it looks like, I just need it to function, so now that I've taken it apart I'll get a new, larger 3.7V battery (investment, better quality) and hope that it will be repaired. that, and then just patch it up again and maybe be done with the vibrating disc, because who cares? Fingers crossed that it works, if it does the whole review will boil down to this: great use, confusing user interface, poor/difficult to understand instructions, annoying that there is no plug for a short charging cable, and a catastrophic battery failure that can break the entire device (or just not being able to power it properly)

Pros
  • Stable test results
Cons
  • Could have gone for a newer model