Re: More iPod BS
- From: <aborgman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 13 Dec 2005 18:13:26 GMT
Jon Enslin <jenslin@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Tom Enright wrote:
>> I've decided to have another go at that piece of crap
>> known as my iPod. I think the wife is a bit disappointed
>> that I haven't been using it very often.
>>
>> So I go on iTunes buy a few more songs, plug the iPod
>> into the USB port and my experience has told me to
>> expect a few different reactions from my iPod:
>>
>> The circle with a diagonal slash through it, the universal
>> sign for "Don't" blinking on and off with the words "Do not
>> disconnect" written underneath. This means nothing.
>> Sometimes it results in the iPod syncing, sometimes not,
>> sometimes the battery charges sometimes not.
>>
>> The blinking battery. AFAIK this means it is charging.
>> Which means it may be charging and it may not be.
>> I'll go to bed, wake up, put it in my pocket and it will
>> be dead. Sometimes it lasts a one hour, sometimes
>> three days. It's a crap shoot.
>
>>>From what I understand, that could simply be that it isn't drawing
> enough power from the USB port. My son got a charger that you plug
> into the wall, and that works a lot better and a lot quicker.
Quite a possibility. The USB standard says a port should be able to supply
450mA of current. A lot of motherboard USB implementations do not meet the
standard. Also if multiple devices are connected through an unpowered USB
hub they share that 450mA - and there are devices out there that want the
whole 450mA for themselves.
--
Aaron
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