Battery powered charging/USB hub
Ian Stirling
openmoko at mauve.plus.com
Thu May 10 14:14:22 CEST 2007
Frank Coenen wrote:
>
> On 5/10/07, *Aloril* <aloril at iki.fi <mailto:aloril at iki.fi>> wrote:
>
> Small battery-powered USB charger:
> http://www.ladyada.net/make/mintyboost/
> I assume above should be able to charge Neo1973?
>
>
> No it won't be able to charge the Neo1973, since it doesn't identify
> itself as a USB2.0 host.
> Hence, the Neo will only draw 100mA. You need the full 500mA from USB2.0
> to charge.
Unless you apply the soon-to-be-created patch that someone (maybe me)
will write that draws 500mA anyway, if the host does not talk USB1 to us
in 10 seconds.
Maybe even with a confirmation dialog box.
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