Re: One for the Apple-ites!

[Quinten Uijldert <yahoogroups2@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Phil,

Don't really want to promote my own blog (you lot should already have
it bookmarked! ;)), but have a read of
http://awooga.nl/the-mul-tea-charger

Apple has made some special modifications to all of their newer
iPod/iPhone lines which means that it is no longer possible to do what
you used to do.

Take note though, if you modify your hub to 'workaround' this, you
lose the PC functionality on it.  You can't win :(

Q.

2009/11/2 Phil Harris <phil@xxxxxxx>:
> Back in the good old days (well, last week) I used to have a Windows
Mobi=
le
> based phone and a 160Gb iPod Classic which were hooked up to a powered
US=
B
> hub and all in the world was good ... I would come home at night, drop
th=
e
> phone into its cradle and it would charge, drop the iPod into its
cradle =
and
> it too would charge. Then if I turned on the PC (which was connected
to t=
he
> powered USB hub) I could get to the files that were on either if I
wanted
> to...
>
>
>
> ...fast forward a week and harmony is broken. The iPod Classic has
taken =
up
> permanent residence in the car and has been replaced by an iPod Touch.
Th=
e
> Windows Mobile phone has been replaced by an iPhone in a =A0change of
wor=
k
> mobile phone contracts. Two spanking new iPod cradles are still
connected=
to
> the powered USB hub and when the PC is on they both charge like good
litt=
le
> appliances but that's the thing - even though they're on a powered hub
(a=
nd
> connected using "proper" Apple iPod USB cables) they both
seem to need th=
e
> PC on to charge.
>
>
>
> I have a plug in charger which works with either device but that then
mea=
ns
> that if I want to charge either without having the PC on then I have
to u=
se
> the powered charger and only charge one at a time - it all seems like
far
> too much planning required...
>
>
>
> So the simple question is, do any of you Apple crowd know how to have
two
> iPod cradles permanently hooked up via USB so that they can talk to a
'pu=
ter
> when required yet still "just charge" when docked (without
having to swap
> over cables and plug in the mains charger or leave the PC on all the
time=
)
> or am I missing something obvious?
>
>
>
> Phil
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