Motorola Q Wasn’t Charging via USB
May 28th, 2008 by Scott Hebert
Although I usually put tech postings on Slaptijack, this one isn’t quite right for that site. Still, I think it’s really useful.
After a recent trip, I’ve misplaced the wall charger for my Motorola Q. It’s likely that the silly thing is just in a bag somewhere in the house, but my wife thinks it may be at her office. None of that really matters — the silly thing is missing!
Although I have a Motorola Q, which is powered by Microsoft Windows Mobile, I haven’t used a Windows-based workstation in 3 years. I completely converted to Apple Mac OS X at that time. As if that’s not strange enough, I’m a total Mac user, but don’t own an iPod. This gets even weirder considering everyone in my house owns one, including my 4 year old son. Anyway, that was another mostly uninteresting digression.
As the title indicates, I was unable to charge my Q with the provided USB cable. After poking around a bit, I finally discovered that the device was configured to use USB for “advanced network functionality.” I’m sure that’s amazingly useful if your Q is fully-charged and connected to a Windows desktop. Disabling this functionality suddenly allowed my Q to start charging.
You can find this setting by following Start → Settings → Connections → USB to PC. Clear the “Enable advanced network functionality” checkbox.
Photo by Alessandro Paiva.
good tip. I found out that installing then uninstalling ActiveSync (just to install the USB drivers) in Windows and installing this on the Mac also enables USB charging…but this is more elegant…since I don’t even use the network functionality of the Q…
Re: Motorola Q Wasn’t Charging via USB.
It works! I am now charging my Motorola Q via USB on my iMac running (Leoprad 10.5).
Thanks,
This must be something that AT&T removed from the Q9H. I’ve found numerous references to this setting throughout the internet, but it is nowhere to be found on the Q9h. I have no idea why that would be. I’m sure it just toggles a registry setting somewhere on the device, but who knows what that setting might be?
Worked great! Thank you:)
With Verizon, I could do this on the Razr3 but with the Razr 6 tv the “connection” option is gone - anyone know how to get it to charge?
Thanks!