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Originally Posted by JSWolf
My wife has an iPod Touch and she got an AC USB charger for it. I tried this on the 505 and it did not work to charge. The red led did not light up. She still has her 500 so we use the AC adapter that came with her 500 to charge out readers. Also, while charging via the AC adapter, I can also read at the same time. I cannot read & charge with USB. I've never tried to charge my 505 via USB when it's been flat so I cannot say if it works or not. But I highly recommend an AC adapter because you can read while charging, it charges from flat, and it takes less time to fully charge. And You are not relient on a computer to be nearby to charge.
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I've tried recharging my 505 several ways. Several wall-plug USB chargers do NOT work, and drain the battery instead! I've tried using usb chargers for my blackberry, bluetooth headset, and a generic mini-usb wall wort.
OTOH, my 505 does seem to charge from a USB cable connected to a computer. The trick seems to be if the computer can recognize the Reader as a storage device (even without the Sony Connect/Library sw installed), it will charge. I haven't drained the 505 fully so I don't know if it would charge that way. (The 500 seems to require the Library sw in order to charge from a computer, as I recall. Not sure though.)
The best 'universal' charging option for either Reader is a PSP charger, either a standalone one (many inexpensive types available in game stores), a PSP tip for a universal charger, or a USB-to-PSP cable, which will allow charging from any USB charger (computer or wall wort). The PSP jack charges faster and, as noted above, allows you to read while charging.