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Originally Posted by Sven
Well, I'll tell ya. I had my doubts about this when you asked, because I have tried it before and it didn't work with other devices. So after thinking a bit and noting the response, I checked with a hub I have, a little 4 port Belkin, and it worked...got the lighting, and with other things the battery icon filling up.
I firmly believe that a hub can be designed to not provide power to ports if there is A) no data connection on the input side, and/or B) no data connection on the output side. Maybe what you tried is so designed.
For reference the one I have that does work is an F5U234
http://catalog.belkin.com/IWCatProdu...duct_Id=159070 |
Thanks, that helps, especially considering I'm using the same hub. Ha!
In the end I only wanted this as an easy solution for my kids to do chargings, but I found a wall charger so cheap over at Dealextreme that I'm just going to order couple of those.