Another one of these silly patented methods to lock out manufacturers... It goes both ways I suppose, prevents crappy chargers but...
LOCKS OUT THE TINKERER!
Anyone know if these 9V 2A (18W) USB charger protocol has been hacked? I suppose this shouldn't be too hard to reverse engineer (at least I would think it is) - supposedly these high speed charge capable devices can poll the charger whether it supports 18W and then manually switches to this mode, and then the charger can automatically and immediately shut off 9V when the device gets unplugged.
What I'm wondering is if these chargers have a USB host implementation in it... would think that it needs to.
LOCKS OUT THE TINKERER!
Anyone know if these 9V 2A (18W) USB charger protocol has been hacked? I suppose this shouldn't be too hard to reverse engineer (at least I would think it is) - supposedly these high speed charge capable devices can poll the charger whether it supports 18W and then manually switches to this mode, and then the charger can automatically and immediately shut off 9V when the device gets unplugged.
What I'm wondering is if these chargers have a USB host implementation in it... would think that it needs to.
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