Turn off data and only leave power on USB port?

How do I make a USB port in Windows 10 just provide power and not a data connection? For example my satnav has a low battery and I just want to use it indoors. But when it sees the PC, it just becomes a removable drive and I can't use it.

On 7/13/20 7:25 AM, Commander Kinsey wrote:
How do I make a USB port in Windows 10 just provide power and not a data
connection? For example my satnav has a low battery and I just want to
use it indoors. But when it sees the PC, it just becomes a removable
drive and I can't use it.

I am just guessing here -- but if you eject the drive does it still get
power?

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On 7/13/2020 7:30 AM, Snit wrote:
On 7/13/20 7:25 AM, Commander Kinsey wrote:
How do I make a USB port in Windows 10 just provide power and not a
data connection? For example my satnav has a low battery and I just
want to use it indoors. But when it sees the PC, it just becomes a
removable drive and I can't use it.

I am just guessing here -- but if you eject the drive does it still get
power?


How could it still have power if you ejaculate it, idiot!?

On Mon, 13 Jul 2020 15:44:27 +0100, Avila Kap wrote:

On 7/13/2020 7:30 AM, Snit wrote:
On 7/13/20 7:25 AM, Commander Kinsey wrote:
How do I make a USB port in Windows 10 just provide power and not a
data connection? For example my satnav has a low battery and I just
want to use it indoors. But when it sees the PC, it just becomes a
removable drive and I can't use it.

I am just guessing here -- but if you eject the drive does it still get
power?


How could it still have power if you ejaculate it, idiot!?

Some people can come twice.

On Mon, 13 Jul 2020 15:30:48 +0100, Snit wrote:

On 7/13/20 7:25 AM, Commander Kinsey wrote:
How do I make a USB port in Windows 10 just provide power and not a data
connection? For example my satnav has a low battery and I just want to
use it indoors. But when it sees the PC, it just becomes a removable
drive and I can't use it.

I am just guessing here -- but if you eject the drive does it still get
power?

Good idea, but the satnav is persistent. Windows says it's ejected it, but the drive stays there and the satnav stays in USB mode.

I remembered I’d cut a USB cable in half a long time ago so I could insert an ammeter to see how much current something was drawing. So I just used that and disconnected the two data wires.

But surely Windows must have an option to change the socket into charging only?

On 7/13/20 8:07 AM, Commander Kinsey wrote:
On Mon, 13 Jul 2020 15:30:48 +0100, Snit
wrote:

On 7/13/20 7:25 AM, Commander Kinsey wrote:
How do I make a USB port in Windows 10 just provide power and not a data
connection? For example my satnav has a low battery and I just want to
use it indoors. But when it sees the PC, it just becomes a removable
drive and I can't use it.

I am just guessing here -- but if you eject the drive does it still get
power?

Good idea, but the satnav is persistent.Â* Windows says it's ejected it,
but the drive stays there and the satnav stays in USB mode.

I remembered I’d cut a USB cable in half a long time ago so I could
insert an ammeter to see how much current something was drawing. So I
just used that and disconnected the two data wires.

But surely Windows must have an option to change the socket into
charging only?

Not that I know of. Nor would I know how to do this, off hand, for Linux
or macOS. I suspect with Linux, at the very least, there must be a way.

--
Personal attacks from those who troll show their own insecurity. They
cannot use reason to show the message to be wrong so they try to feel
somehow superior by attacking the messenger.

They cling to their attacks and ignore the message time and time again.

On 13/07/20 16:07, Commander Kinsey wrote:
On Mon, 13 Jul 2020 15:30:48 +0100, Snit
wrote:

On 7/13/20 7:25 AM, Commander Kinsey wrote:
How do I make a USB port in Windows 10 just provide power and not a data
connection? For example my satnav has a low battery and I just want to
use it indoors. But when it sees the PC, it just becomes a removable
drive and I can't use it.

I am just guessing here -- but if you eject the drive does it still get
power?

Good idea, but the satnav is persistent. Windows says it's ejected it,
but the drive stays there and the satnav stays in USB mode.

I remembered I’d cut a USB cable in half a long time ago so I could
insert an ammeter to see how much current something was drawing. So I
just used that and disconnected the two data wires.

But surely Windows must have an option to change the socket into
charging only?

I can do that with my Kindle. Plug it in - comes up as USB drive.
Right-click/eject it from the control in the system tray but keep it
plugged in. USB works charging only.


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Chris Elvidge, England

On Mon, 13 Jul 2020 16:36:54 +0100, Snit wrote:

On 7/13/20 8:07 AM, Commander Kinsey wrote:
On Mon, 13 Jul 2020 15:30:48 +0100, Snit
wrote:

On 7/13/20 7:25 AM, Commander Kinsey wrote:
How do I make a USB port in Windows 10 just provide power and not a data
connection? For example my satnav has a low battery and I just want to
use it indoors. But when it sees the PC, it just becomes a removable
drive and I can't use it.

I am just guessing here -- but if you eject the drive does it still get
power?

Good idea, but the satnav is persistent. Windows says it's ejected it,
but the drive stays there and the satnav stays in USB mode.

I remembered I’d cut a USB cable in half a long time ago so I could
insert an ammeter to see how much current something was drawing. So I
just used that and disconnected the two data wires.

But surely Windows must have an option to change the socket into
charging only?

Not that I know of. Nor would I know how to do this, off hand, for Linux
or macOS. I suspect with Linux, at the very least, there must be a way..

Found the answer - disable the device in device manager. The computer immediately ceases communication with it, and the satnav thinks it's been unplugged. But its charging circuitry keeps running, it presumably now thinks it's plugged into a power outlet.

On Mon, 13 Jul 2020 17:05:12 +0100, Chris Elvidge wrote:

On 13/07/20 16:07, Commander Kinsey wrote:
On Mon, 13 Jul 2020 15:30:48 +0100, Snit
wrote:

On 7/13/20 7:25 AM, Commander Kinsey wrote:
How do I make a USB port in Windows 10 just provide power and not a data
connection? For example my satnav has a low battery and I just want to
use it indoors. But when it sees the PC, it just becomes a removable
drive and I can't use it.

I am just guessing here -- but if you eject the drive does it still get
power?

Good idea, but the satnav is persistent. Windows says it's ejected it,
but the drive stays there and the satnav stays in USB mode.

I remembered I’d cut a USB cable in half a long time ago so I could
insert an ammeter to see how much current something was drawing. So I
just used that and disconnected the two data wires.

But surely Windows must have an option to change the socket into
charging only?

I can do that with my Kindle. Plug it in - comes up as USB drive.
Right-click/eject it from the control in the system tray but keep it
plugged in. USB works charging only.

My satnav reconnects instantly when I do that. For some reason it shows up as two USB drives. I ejected both and tried disabling them from the tray, but the drives remained and the satnav stayed in USB mode.

Found the answer - disable the device in device manager. The computer immediately ceases communication with it, and the satnav thinks it's been unplugged. But its charging circuitry keeps running, it presumably now thinks it's plugged into a power outlet. And it remembers this the next time I plug it in too.

On Mon, 13 Jul 2020 15:25:21 +0100, Commander Kinsey wrote:

How do I make a USB port in Windows 10 just provide power and not a
data connection? For example my satnav has a low battery and I just
want to use it indoors. But when it sees the PC, it just becomes a
removable drive and I can't use it.


Put a USB data blocker between the PC and the USB cable.

https://www.google.com/search?q=USB+data+blocker

https://www.google.com/search?q=USB+%63%6F%6E%64%6F%6D


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Kind regards
Ralph

On Mon, 13 Jul 2020 19:26:35 +0100, Ralph Fox wrote:

On Mon, 13 Jul 2020 15:25:21 +0100, Commander Kinsey wrote:

How do I make a USB port in Windows 10 just provide power and not a
data connection? For example my satnav has a low battery and I just
want to use it indoors. But when it sees the PC, it just becomes a
removable drive and I can't use it.


Put a USB data blocker between the PC and the USB cable.

https://www.google.com/search?q=USB+data+blocker

https://www.google.com/search?q=USB+%63%6F%6E%64%6F%6D

As per other posts, I've made my own with a USB extension cord. And then discovered I can just disable the device in Windows Device Manager (which remembers the setting).

On 7/13/20 9:25 AM, Commander Kinsey wrote:
How do I make a USB port in Windows 10 just provide power and not a data
connection? For example my satnav has a low battery and I just want to
use it indoors. But when it sees the PC, it just becomes a removable
drive and I can't use it.

A charge-only cable?

IIRC the data lines are cut on the controller (computer) side and
shorted on the device side.

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http://notstupid.us/

"The Bible account of the creation of Eve is a preposterous fable."
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On 7/13/20 9:44 AM, Avila Kap wrote:
On 7/13/2020 7:30 AM, Snit wrote:
On 7/13/20 7:25 AM, Commander Kinsey wrote:
How do I make a USB port in Windows 10 just provide power and not a
data connection? For example my satnav has a low battery and I just
want to use it indoors. But when it sees the PC, it just becomes a
removable drive and I can't use it.

I am just guessing here -- but if you eject the drive does it still
get power?


How could it still have power if you ejaculate it, idiot!?

"Eject" is a computer command to unmount the drive, not physical removal.

--
Mark Lloyd
http://notstupid.us/

"The Bible account of the creation of Eve is a preposterous fable."
[Thomas Huxley, English biologist]

On Tue, 14 Jul 2020 16:37:07 +0100, Mark Lloyd wrote:

On 7/13/20 9:25 AM, Commander Kinsey wrote:
How do I make a USB port in Windows 10 just provide power and not a data
connection? For example my satnav has a low battery and I just want to
use it indoors. But when it sees the PC, it just becomes a removable
drive and I can't use it.

A charge-only cable?

IIRC the data lines are cut on the controller (computer) side and
shorted on the device side.

That's what I did, using a USB extension I found that I'd already cut open to monitor current.

But I've since discovered I can simply disable the device in Windows device manager, and it permanently doesn't connect, but just charges.

On Tue, 14 Jul 2020 16:38:56 +0100, Mark Lloyd wrote:

On 7/13/20 9:44 AM, Avila Kap wrote:
On 7/13/2020 7:30 AM, Snit wrote:
On 7/13/20 7:25 AM, Commander Kinsey wrote:
How do I make a USB port in Windows 10 just provide power and not a
data connection? For example my satnav has a low battery and I just
want to use it indoors. But when it sees the PC, it just becomes a
removable drive and I can't use it.

I am just guessing here -- but if you eject the drive does it still
get power?

How could it still have power if you ejaculate it, idiot!?

"Eject" is a computer command to unmount the drive, not physical removal.

Ejaculating is not physical removal of the hardware either, unless BDSM went terribly terribly wrong.