Quote:JFerio wrote:Huh. Ironic, ain't it?
Quote:Sofaspud wrote:Most of the problem is that there is the Energy Star rating... which if you want to put that 'green friendly' label on your device and ensure the sandal wearing set will buy it, you have to design it so that those of us who want to recharge our USB devices are forced to rely on the computer being on... with the increased amount of websurfing going on.
Add in the fact that quite a few if not most powered USB hubs expect a live PC to be connected and shut themselves off to save power (assumption on my part, there) when the PC shuts off. It's not a bug, it's a feature!
Really.
I've been half tempted to go out and track down one of the wall warts you get with a phone that plugs into the phone's quite standard USB jack.
Well... iPods and iPhones are unique in that they gotta talk to a chip inside a USB to make sure they get a proper charge, yes? Think there might be a way to take advantage of that and tie that into the auto-off feature? The idea is this: you have a USB Hub with several devices plugged in: an iPhone on port 1, a flash-drive on port 2, a USB Hard Disk Drive on port 3, a camera on port 4, and a iPod Classic on port 5. Computer powers off, but the Hub would recognize that it still has an iPhone and an iPod on ports 1 and 5, and thus keep those ports (and those alone) powered via its own power supply.
Bonus points if we can get standard-firmware PSP and PSP-Go to charge in such a manner as well.