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Re: Do not know which package bug is in



On Fri, 2016-04-01 at 11:34 +0100, Robin Oberg wrote:
> On Fri, 2016-04-01 at 11:21 +0100, Oliver Elphick wrote:
> > Intermittent failures like that sound more like hardware problems.
> > I
> > seem to recall reading that charging devices like that demands more
> > power than the computer can supply.
> > 
> > Oliver Elphick

> Would that not mean that the same problem exists in other operating
> systems as well? But seeing as it works fine to charge this old
> iPhone 4
> in Windows, so it does not seem like a hardware malfunction in this
> particular case.

Not necessarily. It might be that Windows doesn't use a particular area
of memory that Linux does.

I should go for the other poster's suggestion, of using a powered USB
hub. If the failures cease, it was a hardware problem.



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