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Originally Posted by gguruusa
Nice Find.
It's hardware - it might be addressable in software, but it's fundamentally a hardware problem. Refer to this http://pinouts.ru/Devices/mini-USB_pinout.shtml for the pinout description, which explains why the solution you found works. Clearly, some power sources are a little smarter than others.
BTW, I don't recommend the solution you found of shorting out the pins...there should be a pull down resistor in there to protect your device. |
Cool -- thanks for the clarification. I'm pretyt sure it's addressible by software, since the last WM5 OEM update released by Sprint did address the problem, however the version that Verizon had did not. I now know enough that I could possibly have figured out how to apply the core parts of the Sprint ROM, with the Verison OEM pieces, but I must say I'm *much* happier running Helmi_c's WM6 ROM.
Now my wife's Motorola cell phone won't accept any charger except for the one that came with it, and says unfriendily instead, "Not Authorized". A bug I can deal with, but deliberatly locking me out of a standard connection just to get me to buy another charger is totally lame.
But I digress...