Charging Cell Phone from Computer

On Thu, 13 Mar 2008 17:12:18 +0000, Bert Hyman wrote:

>
> What's on the other end of the cable?
>

The TomTom came with two chargers; a car charger(cigarette lighter
adapter), and a 110v wall wart charger. Both of them work just fine on
the V3r. I like the car charger more because I used to run an inverter to
power the wall-wart that came with the V3r.

I keep seeing ppl say there is something wrong with the Motorola, but I
have had no problem interchanging among four USB cables and two wall
warts. More likely they have a bad/crippled cable, or a Windows PC the
lacks the Motorola driver.

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[email protected] (yoyo) wrote in
news:[email protected]:

> I keep seeing ppl say there is something wrong with the Motorola,
> but I have had no problem interchanging among four USB cables and
> two wall warts.

There is something "wrong" with Motorola phones; you apparently have
two chargers from the same vendor that perform the correct magic trick
to wake up your phone.

> More likely they have a bad/crippled cable,

While it's possible to have a bad cable, even good cables exhibit the
same problem.

> or a Windows PC the lacks the Motorola driver.

That part's correct.

http://pinouts.ru/CellularPhones-A-N...r_pinout.shtml

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Bert Hyman | St. Paul, MN | [email protected]

On Thu, 13 Mar 2008 20:23:34 +0000, Bert Hyman wrote:

>> There is something "wrong" with Motorola phones; you apparently have
> two chargers from the same vendor that perform the correct magic trick
> to wake up your phone.
> http://pinouts.ru/CellularPhones-A-N...r_pinout.shtml
>
Yep, it is a Motorola defect.

My experience indicates that it is not that hard to get a cable that is
not crippled.

Quoting from the link:
"RAZR V3 will not charge by simply supplying 5V through USB (it's possible
to use common USB cable for charging if you are using Motorola special PC
driver software).". I'll bet most problems are Windows driver based and
the cable is just fine.

I would think it is fair to say it is way beyond possible; but it is highly
likely your cable will work. A cable that doesn't work can easily be
replaced with a standard cable.

In article <[email protected]>, [email protected]
says...
> OK, it is a Windows driver issue. I use Ubuntu and apparently the driver
> is already built in.
>
My L6 charges without any OS installed at all! I happened to plug it in
while building a new system and it charged happily.

What won't work is charging if the battery's too flat - for that you
have to use the mains charger.