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Re: Closed USB thread

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Originally Posted by mrdenial (Post 716552)

So, the red led is one indicator that it's charging right? Right now, I have the phone plugged into a USB port on my monitor (one test of mine), and the red LED is not on.
The charging icon on the phone is on, but the battery is discharging. The phone is sitting there idle with no open apps.

I realize that the USB port on my dell 19" might not be enough power.

I've now gone to a port on a different laptop that is currently charging a 700wx, and the same thing. Red LED off, charging icon is on, phone says charging, but battery is discharging.

The last laptop that wasn't charging a phone didn't start charging until we installed Activesync.

I have had this happen to me from time to time. If the red light does NOT come on, it is NOT charging. The bar icon does not indicate charging. Usually to fix the problem, I have either had to soft reset the phone, or reboot the PC. That has always worked for me in the past.

Re: Closed USB thread

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Originally Posted by SkipJack (Post 717908)

Same here. A soft rest has always worked for me.

Re: Closed USB thread

Maybe it is not activesync, but instead the lack of treo driver. I've tested more phones today with desktops, laptops, with and without activesync. I've power cycled the phones too. So far, the only way we've gotten these phones to charge with USB is with activesync installed. However, none of the computers without activesync have the treo driver installed (windows is trying to install the driver for the phone, etc).