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Originally Posted by Shopaholic
I also have an iPod Nano, 5th gen & it doesn't charge on any of the sound docks the way the larger Classic iPods do. It's the same connector physically but it has something to do with USB & Firewire internal connection. They don't charge on the sound docks because Apple decided to change it.
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Originally the iPods only supported Firewire, then FW + USB2, and now only USB2. The power pins for Firewire and USB2 have different current and voltage limits, so you can't just feed it in as if they were the same without some sort of converter. A lot of the early chargers only charged over Firewire, assuming that it was okay to ignore the USB power pins.
So far, it's been lucky that the biggest change that's happened to the cables is the Firewire/USB2 nonsense.
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Originally Posted by Shopaholic
I went to the local friendly Apple store to look for an adaptor to make it charge on the docks I already own. The tool told me I had to buy new sound docks.  Buddy, my Bose cost me $400 a couple of years ago & is perfect working order I'm NOT spending that kind of coin because head office decided to change the guts of the connector on the Nano! sheesh |
Apple doesn't carry adapters, but I know they exist:
http://www.ilounge.com/index.php/rev...hone-and-ipod/