Comments on: Hack a cell phone charger to make a USB charger

by: isko

Sat, 27 Oct 2007 16:56:04 +0000

i found a blackberry usb charger in a thrift store…it works perfectly with my nano….no modification needed……i think any usb charger will do

by: Al

Thu, 25 Oct 2007 19:38:30 +0000

Cool idea! But would it be safer if you used a current limiting device like a diode or resistor or even a transistor?

by: Eric

Mon, 24 Sep 2007 17:20:21 +0000

I did this a few hours before I found this site. My wife’s ipod (click wheel) didn’t see the charger unless pins 2, 3, and 4 were grounded.

by: Chandhan

Tue, 04 Sep 2007 09:49:51 +0000

hi am going 2 convert my ps/2 mouse in usb mouse. i want 2 how about the voltages coming in usb. and am taking a usb cable and cut that and then cut the ps/2 and solder that how it is posible

by: Newt

Tue, 19 Jun 2007 23:46:48 +0000

There are four wires in a USB cable, two for data and two for power. If your phone only requires 5V @ 450 mA then you should be good, but unless your phone has a USB interface you won’t be able to get data.

by: jerry

Tue, 19 Jun 2007 00:39:53 +0000

i have an lg ax 8600 and was wondering if there’s any way to hack the wall charger by adding the end of a usb that plugs into ur pc and plug the other charging receptacle into the phone thus assumably making ur own usb data cable with pc charging capabilities for your phone. or are there more wires in a usb data cable for said type cell phone needed than there are wires in ur cell tele charger

by: kiran kumar

Wed, 30 May 2007 06:15:16 +0000

every thing fine, my question is why to cut the existing cell charger, instead of that we can make a connector for connecting cell charger port to USB port directly. this will be definitely very useful. With the same charger you can charge your cell phone and also your mp3 player.

by: Vishnu

Wed, 07 Mar 2007 13:05:42 +0000

My Nokia 2300 was not getting charged with this idea.
It is showing a message “NOT CHARGING”. Is there any other idea to make it charged?
Please help me.

by: Newt

Thu, 01 Feb 2007 05:53:26 +0000

I believe some iPods need to have a voltage applied to the data lines. I think I saw something like 2.5V, but I would check around first before doing that.

I’ll try to dig that up..

by: isko

Tue, 30 Jan 2007 05:48:21 +0000

i purchased a used lg charger, 5v, 1A….followed the your instruction….even checked the polarity using a multimeter…..it dint work on my 4g nano…tha charging icon blinked only about 3 times and gone…i left it connected thingking that it was charging even if the icon was not there…i was wrong…it did not charge at all…what could be wrong?????:D