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    Also.. according to the uk forums on these other people have had this problem - buying 3rd party chargers.

    Various people suggested removing the middle pins and/or cutting the data wires. But no-one seems to have managed to get it going yet!
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    This is so frustrating, as the built in battery is next to useless... I went from glenfield to barrys point road and back and it was almost flat!

    I am going to be seriously peed off if I have to buy the oem charger after all this kurfufle
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    Think i'm gunna kill....

    just found this... (pic)

    Seems the stupid twat that originally quoted me $49 for the charger was wrong...

    OMFG

    Right. tomorrow I am taking the usb thing back and getting the oem charger. Bastards.

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    This is not over navman!!!!!!
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    Disco drop me a PM and i can pass you the email of a good friend of mine who designed alot of the Navman ICN and marine stuff. He can tell you what the story is.
    Generally mini usb just charges off the supply pins. However i have had a device that received a 'charging' message from the comms pins too. Pissed me right off.
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    Disco, that thing where it thinks it's connected to a computer sounds familiar. I build an iPot charger (well, any USB charger), and the interesting thing about charging an iPod, is that it gets the voltage from the power pins on USB like normal. However, it won't actually charge until you trick it into thinking it is connected to something; the way you do this is put a small resistor between the data lines.

    This method of detecting connection seems common across many devices that charge via USB. You probably have to find the resistance value the Navman is looking for. Maybe it's nothing and you have continuity between the two data pins?

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    $35 for the oem one ehh... you've spent more than 3.5 hours on this judging by teh time stamps... your time has gotta be worth more than $10 an hour surely?

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    Quote Originally Posted by imdying View Post
    $35 for the oem one ehh... you've spent more than 3.5 hours on this judging by teh time stamps... your time has gotta be worth more than $10 an hour surely?
    You should know better than this -- you're missing the point

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    Quote Originally Posted by xerxesdaphat View Post
    You should know better than this -- you're missing the point
    Heh, yeah I know... but I did learn a while ago, there's not much point making anything you can beg/borrow/steal/buy

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    Got my money back on the USB thingy, now have to wait while they order the oem charger...
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    Grrr... anyone notice my new problem?
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    wrong usb plug?

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    Some days you just want to curl in a ball and die

    Hack saw time (I assume the mount is blocking the right angle plug body?)

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    Ahh. The dreaded primary interface problem.
    "Standing on your mother's corpse you told me that you'd wait forever." [Bryan Adams: Summer of 69]

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    Quote Originally Posted by imdying View Post
    Some days you just want to curl in a ball and die

    Hack saw time (I assume the mount is blocking the right angle plug body?)
    Quote Originally Posted by Hitcher View Post
    Ahh. The dreaded primary interface problem.
    yes, and yes.

    Looks like I will have to get out my hacksaw and start cutting the overly expensive-I-moaned-about-it-for-ages-mount just to make it fit... *sigh*

    I'm betting after all this kurfuffle the bloody navman will shit it'self and i'll have to start all over again...
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