[Hidden-tech] looking for an old phone charger

[Jan Werner]

Motorola phones used standard 5V chargers but they kept the mini USB 
style socket long after nearly all other manufacturers standardized on 
micro USB.  You can still buy Motorola branded mini-USB adapters on 
Amazon for about $5.

But any standard phone charger with a mini-USB connector should work, as 
should any micro-USB phone charger with a micro-to-mini USB adapter. In 
fact, Motorola used to make those adapters - I have several around which 
I use for charging older MP3 players with Mini USB sockets.

If the phone rejected the charger your friend tried at Staples, it might 
not have been a standard 5V  charger - 12V chargers for external hard 
drives often use mini-USB connectors and the "experts" at Staples might 
not know the difference.

Jan Werner
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Diana Hardina wrote:
> A friend has an older model Motorolla phone which uses a mini USB
> charger, which is lost. I couldn't get one from Verizon, or Radio Shack,
> but Staples had one and the phone rejected it saying non-compatible.
> Does anyone have an old wall charger that would work with a mini-usb
> Motorolla phone?
> Thanks,
>  Diana
>
>
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