Wait, you guys don’t use VGA for charging your devices? It literally stands for Very Good Ampere!
Yesterday, I plugged a usb A memory stick into my phone using a USB-C OTG adapter. I had used it before and knew it worked, but this time, it said that it was charging my phone, and I couldn’t figure out how to make the flash drive be recognised as storage.
I spent a while troubleshooting and then saw a suggestion to unplug the adapter and rotate it (i.e. do the thing that you do when you try to plug in a USB A but it’s the wrong way round (except this was obviously usb C)). It worked. I was nonplussed but happy it worked.
This post reminded me of that
If you had an old Samsung android smartphone or select HTC Windows Mobile (win ce 6.1/6.5) phones, they had HDMI over micro USB.
I have a bunch of old phones with mini HDMI lol
My 3 year old mirrorless camera has mini hdmi.
That USB port is more blown out than the fourth page of a porn hub search.
The monitor practically became a charging light
Those are some anxious electrons.
There’s no way that charges.
Sure there is. A display signal is essentially just current through specific lines. The way the current is routed makes no sense, but there will definitely be current running through the wires. The only thing needed is for the charging pin of the micro-usb to be connected to any vga pin that transfers current. The rest is just the magic of conducting wires.
It won’t charge quickly though, I’d expect it’d take hours just to charge like 20%.
I think you still need a minimum amperage of like 1.2 or something like that though. Not sure how the display would be giving that much.
