Bug 192283

Summary: Blackberry charges slowly
Product: [openSUSE] SUSE Linux 10.1 Reporter: James Mason <james>
Component: HotplugAssignee: Ihno Krumreich <ihno>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact: E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity: Enhancement    
Priority: P4 - Low CC: suse-beta
Version: Final   
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Hardware: Other   
OS: SuSE Linux 10.1   
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Description James Mason 2006-07-13 20:47:54 UTC 
RIM Blackberry devices charge very slowly, if at all.  According to the following posts, the Blackberry devices advertize to USB as 100ma devices, and the Windows Driver overrides that, pushing 500ma on the port to charge the device.  Given a specific set of USB Device IDs, could a similar 'charging mode' be implemented?

http://mendel.livejournal.com/146802.html

http://www.blackberry.com/knowledgecenterpublic/livelink.exe/fetch/2000/8021/7925/8142/What_Is_-_Device_is_not_charging_as_quickly_as_expected_with_a_bus-powered_USB_hub.html?nodeid=346353&vernum=0

BTW, my Blackberry is ID 0fca:0001
Comment 1 James Mason 2007-07-30 20:38:24 UTC 
NetDirect Canada has started an open source project, "barry", aimed at resolving this, as part of a larger project to allow full blackbery sync on Linux.

http://www.netdirect.ca/software/packages/barry/index.php
Comment 2 James Mason 2007-12-28 18:03:04 UTC 
The Barry project has produced bcharge, an application specifically for enabling high-output charging for Blackberries (blackberrys?).

http://rivviepop.wordpress.com/2007/02/19/bcharge-charge-your-blackberry-under-linux/

Perhaps this could be integrated into SUSE in a future release?
Comment 3 James Mason 2008-07-22 19:22:18 UTC 
Using barry from OBS resolves this:

http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/jganovsky-novell/openSUSE_10.3
Comment 4 Ihno Krumreich 2009-07-15 10:41:24 UTC 
See comment #3