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Originally Posted by Stitchawl
When I got my Sony I went on a quest for a USB charger to reduce the weight of my baggage when traveling.  I bought quite a few different models. In fact, I tried every model a PSP store had on offer! None would charge my e-book reader. 
The only thing that worked was going in to the reader via the round power port.  They might have been USB on one end of the line going into the AC mains power point, but the other end had to enter the reader through the round port, not the USB port.
Stitchawl |
Yeah, that's what I found too. My new cable has both the standard mini-USB for syncing to the PC and the round yellow AC connection for charging from any non-PC based USB socket.
With such a strange setup, it's odd that Sony didn't include such a cable in the first place.
I still have no idea WHY they designed it to not charge from a non-PC based USB port (e.g. mains adaptor/car adaptor) into the mini-USB when it charges perfectly from a PC (even a PC that doesn't have the software/drivers installed).