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Originally Posted by polly
Not sure why it didn't work with your Griffin, but that's the only one on your list where I'd expect it to work.
At the risk of being painfully obvious, how are you deciding that it's not charging? Are you waiting for the screen message to change or are you looking for the red light to come on next to the stand by slider? When you plug it into a wall, you can still use it as a reader. The only indications mine shows that it's charging are the tiny red light and a change in the battery icon at the bottom of the screen.
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I just plugged it in again to double check my results. The red light does not turn on. The screen goes to a spot where I cannot continue to read - it says USB is connected, and gives a message that says "Charging stopped". The fine print at the bottom says "The reader is unable to charge as no power supply is being detected. Please check that the charger is plugged in and switched on or that the USB cable is correctly connected."
I've ordered an aftermarket Kindle 3 charger kit off Amazon, that contains a generic USB wall wart and car charger. With luck it contains the resistors/solder described in this thread, and I won't have to open it up and do that myself - my soldering is terrible! If it works to charge both the Sony reader and my Sansas, then I'll use those instead of the ones I have now. Maybe it will even work to charge my phone.