Re: "Unauthorized charger" peeve

David Arnstein wrote:
For the most part, I have good experience with Motorola cell phones.
My complaint involves charging the battery. Some of these phones only
charge with a Motorola charger. I suspect that this is a ploy to sell
Motorola battery chargers.

Anyway, the most frustrating aspect is that I can physically connect
my notebook computer to my cell phone using a bog standard USB cable.
But then the phone displays the dreaded "unauthorized charger"
message.

I would prefer not to pack a dedicated phone charger when I travel. Is
there a hack to allow me to charge my cell phone from my notebook? My
current cell phone is a W755.

Thanks for any suggestions.

If you install Motorola Phone Tools then the phone will charge from a USB port.

"http://www.monoprice.com/products/product.asp?c_id=108&cp_id=10833&cs_id=1083301&p_id=3678&seq=1&format=2";


Or you can do some hardware hacking, see "http://pinouts.ru/CellularPhones-A-N/razrv3_charger_pinout.shtml";.

This one _may_ have the hack built in:

"http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.21693";
.

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