Error message, device uses too much power

I am attempting to transfer digital photos from a point and shoot type digital camera to my Ipad 2. I am connected through an USB and the Apple connector kit. I get an error message that says, "device uses too much power" and it will not transfer images.

Does the camera use an SD card? Have you tried going that route?

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To upload photos from my pc onto my ipad using a usb stick. I bought a camera connector kit and tried placing the usb stick onto one of the white square adaptors, stuck it into the ipad2 and I got 'the device uses too much power'' message. Pls help.

I am not very familiar with the ipad2. I wished to transfer some photos from my pc (not an apple pc but that is the only one I have) to my ipad2 as I thought it would be easier to cull them, edit, crop etc to create albums for our recent trip (the photos are already on the pc and no longer on the camera memory card). When I place the usb stick on the adaptor and stick it onto the Ipad2 I keep getting 'device uses too much power/ requires too much power' message. I read somewhere on the internet that a usb hub could be used to solve the issue but that did not work either. What am I doing wrong? Is there actually a way around this problem. If not why does apple sell this product for Ipad users at all?
Thank you for any help/ solution you can offer.
Regards

I'd ask that on the iPad forum.
https://discussions.apple.com/community/ipad

When I plug in my Olympus TG 820 to my iPad2 a message pops up warning me that the attached device uses too much power. Is there a way around this?

When I plug in my Olympus TG 820 to my iPad2 a message pops up warning me that the attached device uses too much power. Is there a way around this?

1. Turn off iPad
2. Connect camera to iPad
3. Turn on power of camera
4. Turn on iPad

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When I connect my Nikon coolpix S9200 to the camera adaptor I get a message saying this device uses too much power, how can I overcome this?

You are probably seeing this message because the camera uses the same port to charge it. The iPad can not supply the power to charge devices from it's dock connector. Also if you use the SD card adapter you are not using up the camera's battery for transferring the photos.

IPad camera kit error "device uses too much power"

Got the camera kit....when I attach it I get an error that says the device uses too much power. I've shut down and restarted the iPad several times and still get the same error. Anyone know what I can do?

I have a camera that uses compact flash cards therefore I have been experimenting with card readers to avoid draining the camera battery when downloading the images to the iPad.
I have been using the USB part of the camera connection kit with a multi card reader, at first I could not get anything to work, I thought ' the not enough power reason, I sorted out a powered USB hub to try, again no good, I disconnected everything and thought one last try, I put the card in the reader, connected the USB cable to the USB part of the camera connection kit and finally inserted the whole lot into the iPad, to my surprise the light on the card reader came on and a few seconds later 70 nef files were previewed on the screen.
I repeated the above several times with the same results, I then tried two other card readers again OK, but if I just removed the card and then re inserted it nothing happened, these card readers are no name supermarket specials.
I may have been lucky but I will continue to try my method and see if it holds up to regular use, so make the physical connection to the iPad the last part of the connection process, I hope this is of some help to others.

Device uses too much power error when trying to upload pictures

I am now getting the device uses too much power error when trying to upload pictures from my Nikon Coolpix. It had worked fine using the Apple camera kit, but just started giving this error. What changed?

1. Turn off iPad
2. Connect camera to iPad
3. Turn on power of camera
4. Turn on iPad

: USB DEVICES DISABLED Unplug the device using too much power to re-enable USB devices, message won't go away even w/all external devices unpluged!

USB DEVICES DISABLED
Unplug the device using too much power to re-enable USB devices
Message appears in upper right of screen. I've unplugged all & it still appears, software, hardware?
Any suggestions?

Look into the USB ports for foreign material and other abnormalities
Reset the SMC and PRAM
Intel-based Macs: Resetting the System Management Controller (SMC)
About NVRAM and PRAM
Does it happen in Safe Mode?
OS X: What is Safe Boot, Safe Mode?
In Recovery mode?
OS X: What is Safe Boot, Safe Mode?
If still problem, make an appointment at the Genius Bar of an Apple store since it appears you have a hardware problem.
Apple Retail Store - Genius Bar

HT4101 My ipad says the device uses too much power when I connect my camera

I brought my ipad 2 on holidays and have purchased the camera connection kit. I tried to download my photos and an error message came up saying that the device uses too much power! My ipad is powered up to 100% and I have closed any open files and it still says the same thing? Does this actually work or do I have to return it?

What have you connected to the kit ? The amount of power that is supplied to the kit is limited, and can't be changed - and a lot of card readers and cameras need more power than is supplied to it. If you have connected the kit directly to your camera then does your camera have a setting to enable 'mass storage device' and/or PTP (picture trasnfer protocol or pictbridge) ?

On my MacBook Pro with Retina Display, Why does the "USB Devices Disabled Unplug the device using too much power to re-enable USB devices" keep coming up after I unplugged the usb device?

On my MacBook Pro with Retina Display 15", that I purchased a few weeks ago, started coming up with the following message on my desktop:
"USB Devices Disabled Unplug the device using too much power to re-enable USB devices".
I unplugged the device and the message still keeps coming up.
This is what I have done so far to troubleshoot:
I shut down the laptop. When booting up I pressed the command+option+p+r at the same time. It comes up with a menu to reinstall OSX, Get help online, Run Disk Utility, etc. I choose the disk utility and repair the disk and then restarted.
The message keeps popping up and I can't seem to get rid of it. Why does the message keep popping up even though I don't have any devices hooked up to the laptop at all? Any help to reenable my usb ports and get rid of the messaage would be helpful.

I talked to Apple Support and we at least stopped the bleeding, a little bit. These are the troubleshooting steps I did before I contacted Apple Support:
1. Reinstalled OSX
2. Restore the last known good Time Machine Backup.
This did not fix my issue, so I called Apple Support and they told me this:
1. Turn Power off.
2. Wait 15 seconds.
3. Plug in Magsafe adapter.
4. Wait 15 seconds.
5. Hold down the Shift+Option+Power Button for 20-30 seconds.
6. Turn Power back on.
Ok, this stopped the bleeding a little, but as soon as I plugged in a Apple USB Superdrive
and a Apple Mini Displayport to VGA Adapter. This "USB Devices Disabled" pop-up pops up like every 30 minutes now. At least, it is not constantly popping up after I close it, so I guess it will do for the temporary. Going to contact Apple support, later, though to see what else can be done.

Why does my Macbook pro said "unplug the device using too much power to re-enable USB devices" when i plug in my iphone's charger to connect my phone with the mac?

my iphone 5's charger is not working anymore with the mac or the normal plug in neither, i dont know why. whenever i plug in my mac, i have to twist the charger a little and my mac said "USB Devices Disabled: Unplug the device using too much power to re-enable USB devices". of course it cant connect with the itunes in my mac, but somehow it still syncs the music to my iphone... i don't understand why. please help me thanks!

try resetting the ipad,or change the cable ,it woould work

HT4106 unplug the device using too much power to re-enable USB devices

iPad min cannot be changred, it shows
unplug the device using too much power to re-enable USB devices

Try unplugging it. Give your iPad a reset by holding down the sleep and home keys for about 20 seconds (until it reboots) then try again.

Usb devices disabled unplug the device using too much power to re enable usb devices

usb devices disabled unplug the device using too much power to re enable usb devices

Use a powered USB hub.

I made an extra backup on a USB device and now I can't get it back because "the device uses too much power". Why didn't it a few weeks ago and how can I use the device anyway?

because "it uses too much power"
I did'nt get that message a few weeks ago when I used Snow Leopard and now I can't approach the files I saved on the external disk.
Question 1: How do I solve the problem? (Without going back to Snow Leopard)
Q2: Why this parential supervision by Apple?

riks1105 wrote:
because "it uses too much power"
I did'nt get that message a few weeks ago when I used Snow Leopard and now I can't approach the files I saved on the external disk.
Question 1: How do I solve the problem? (Without going back to Snow Leopard)
Q2: Why this parential supervision by Apple?
Get a powered hub
USB is cranky, you're not the first (probably not the last) to have this happen.

I just got an iPad 2 16 gb and was wondering how I can upload pictures from a micro sd card but my iPad is saying cannot connect device using too much power. I have tried a 16 gb micro sd card and 4 gb micro sd card. Can anyone help please??

I got an iPad 2 and I cannot get my pictures to upload from a micro sd card as the iPad is saying device not accepted using too much power. Can anyone help? My iPad 2 is a 16 gb and my micro sd card is 4 gb

You can use a USB flash drive & the camera connection kit. First download the pics to your computer.
Plug the USB flash drive into your computer & create a new folder titled DCIM. Then put your movie/photo files into the folder. The files must have a filename with exactly 8 characters long (no spaces) plus the file extension (i.e., my-movie.mov).
Now plug the flash drive into the iPad using the camera connection kit. Open the Photos app, the movie/photo files should appear & you can import.
 Cheers, Tom

Constant error message: USB drawing too much power - no USB plugged in for weeks?

Starting about two days ago, I've been getting error messages about every 30 seconds saying that a usb device is drawing too much power, and my usb device has been disabled. I haven't had anything plugged into the usb ports for about 3 weeks, well before I started getting this error message. At first the error messages came up one at a time, but now about 5 of them pop up every 30 seconds..
There seems to be no visible damage to either of the usb ports, and I've updated software and restarted it too. Can anyone help me figure out what's going on?

If SMC and PRAM resets do not correct the problem, make an appointment at an Apple store genius bar for a FREE evaluation.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3964
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1379
Ciao.

Error message, device uses too much power

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