@blakeyrat said:
@OzPeter said:@Qwerty said:A bigger WTF is my Blackberry. It won't charge off USB unless it can talk to the USB hub and confirm that it's allowed to draw power.Same thing with my Motorola Razr. It has a micro USB port but the stock phone will not charge if you use a standard cable and plug it into any old USB port. It has to work through an approved charger. I think at one stage I did try a third party firmware mod that allowed the phone to charge off any USB port, but I don't bother with that and just make sure that I have an approved charger handy at all times.You can get a fake driver for Windows XP that enables computer charging, but can't actually talk to the phone. Sorry I don't have a link, and I'm not sure if there's a Vista/Windows 7 version of that driver available.
IIRC, my Mac could actually charge the thing without hacks. This was around OS X 10.4.
No need for fake ones, just get the real charging drivers...
http://www.motorola.com/Support/US-EN/Support-Homepage/Software_and_Drivers/USB-and-PC-Charging-Drivers