Charging a zen microphoto using mains u

hi,?my girlfriend recently got a green zen microphoto 6gb and as it just comes with the usb cable to charge i bought her a mains charger to charge it. the charger is supposed to work with ipods and all the usual usb stuff but there seems to be a problem. when the zen is plugged into it the chargers status led does not show that it is giving any charge until you actually use the player!? i.e. if you put the player to sleep and try and charge it only seems to 'trickle' charge (2 days later still only about half charged!). it seems the more power the player is using the more charge it gets... am i missing something here? does the player have a charge mode? the charger http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.d...m=330052286986?thanks in advancemark

I bought the Belkin wall charger. It came with a car charger and a USB cable. Both the wall and car charger units have a place to plug in the USB cable (so the same cable works for both). When I tried to use the USB cable that came with the player (that plugs into the PC), it didn't work with the wall charger (it had to be the Belkin USB cable). That's when I started searching this forum for what others had said. And that's when I learned that not all USB cables are created equal ... some follow the complete USB spec and others don't. Creative apparently requires a cable that does. Unfortunately, retail USB cables are not marked in a way for the consumer to know whether or not they follow the entire USB spec ... so consumers don't know until they try to plug it in. My personal opinion is that many of the people who are experiencing an unrecognized player have bought a low-end cable unknowingly ... and since the player (as an MTP device) uses Windows Media Player's drivers, it's up to Microsoft to decide what is or is not required. A USB device that is not MTP will usually work with a low-end cable ... and that's why you have to click the "Safe to Remove" icon before pulling the cable to that device out (else you risk having voltage on the wire when you unplug it).

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