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Hello all !
I have a Portable battery back up and charger Zagg Sparq. I use it to charge my iphone and Ipod when i am outside.
I know n900 has ability to charge over a USB cable through Pc. But i am curious which the N900 can be charged by this portable battery?

It has two USb port:
1 Optimized is for any device that are capable of taking an optimized charge.
1 general: is used for the standard USB specification and not use optimized.

I dont know which field N900 is belonging to
 
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I have zagg sparq and No, it won't charge your n900.... tried it many times and idk why its not working...
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Originally Posted by chase15 View Post
I have zagg sparq and No, it won't charge your n900.... tried it many times and idk why its not working...
Darn it.. it is very useful. It has two parts why it can not charge.
I really want to know the charging specification of N900 (rate, voltage of recharge and discharge)
 
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You can short the D+/D- cables and it should start charging.

edit: i rememver there's a thread about it too, something with "Charging from dumb sources" in the title

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Originally Posted by MohammadAG View Post
You can short the D+/D- cables and it should start charging.

edit: i rememver there's a thread about it too, something with "Charging from dumb sources" in the title
I dont really get it.
would you please show me how to Short D+?D-
 
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Originally Posted by chase15 View Post
I have zagg sparq and No, it won't charge your n900.... tried it many times and idk why its not working...
Hey, i just got the Zagg sparq 2 back from my friend and it charged my phone.
I dont know if this will harm my phone.
 
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Black berrys chargers also work with N900!
 
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I have the Zagg Sparq battery. It does charge my N900. Since it's just a dumb battery, it takes several tries before the N900 recognizes it. Just insert the plug slowly into the N900. If it doesn't say Charging after a second or two, unplug and try again.
 
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Or it might say that it can't charge because there isn't enough power... I tried with a blackberry and a powermonkey and that's the result, even after shorting the data.
 
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The Zagg Sparq v.1 does charge the N900, if you have the right cable. There was a "charging cable" someone recommended here in a different thread, and since I used that, it has worked fine.

Now, I know Zagg has done a recall of the Zagg Sparq and came out with a new version that supposedly addresses this problem. (2.0) I don't know if it actually does or not, tho.
 
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