Apache WM6 Kitchen CE OS 5.2.1908 (Build 18508.0.7.0) 071117_1 Bugs/Patches

[jsavin]

Originally Posted by gguruusa

That's interesting. My car chargers (4 different ones, ranging from poor quality to very nice) work fine. Considering that the charger is just providing DC power on 2 wires, I'd say it's more likely that your charger is underrated. How many Amps is your charger rated for? The guy (runt) who has to turn his phone off to charge from a car charger is likely suffering from overloading his charger as well.

This is most likely a software problem, not a hardware one. I just posted the same link in response to another message in this thread, but I had such a hard time finding the info, I wanted to make sure people having this problem saw the link:

http://www.jakesavin.com/newsItems/d...tPc/2007/06/20

Good luck!

[gguruusa]

Originally Posted by jsavin

This is most likely a software problem, not a hardware one. I just posted the same link in response to another message in this thread, but I had such a hard time finding the info, I wanted to make sure people having this problem saw the link:

http://www.jakesavin.com/newsItems/d...tPc/2007/06/20

Good luck!

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.

[jsavin]

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...