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frank and val,
I was reading through this post and was astonished that the CLIX cable had five wires, so I took a look for myself. Sure enough it did, the funny thing is no USB port made has five connectors. Standard USB is Black = Ground, Red = +5 VDC, Green = D+(Data Up), White = D-(Data Down), So why would there be a fifth blue wire? I took apart the adapter end and low and behold Blue is not pinned to power the red wire is. It seems that blue wire is pinned to a charge only pin on the connector. But here is the kicker, If you look inside the USB end of the Clix cable there are five connectors, like I said before no USB port has five connectors. So with a stripped USB Cable I touched the red cable to the Mysterious fifth pin (it's in between the ground and the D-) and the black wire to the ground pin. I get the exact same results you get, it charges without connecting. So it would seem that there very well may be an adapter that allows you to charge only. All I can say is the Iriver engineers are some sneaky bastards. I am looking into making a USB adapter to tap that fifth pin. If anyone want to help please let me know.
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