> The "something fancier" mode may need drivers, but the "ordinary USB flash 
> drive" mode does not.

AKA-  MTP vs MSC--Media Transfer Protocol (commonly referred to as MTP) is part 
of the "Windows Media" framework vs USB mass-storage device class (MSC)

-----Original Message-----
From: Ben Scott [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2012 2:21 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: [dkim-failure] Re: BB curve 9300 installation

On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 4:38 PM, Joseph L. Casale <[email protected]> 
wrote:
> He claims its plugged in to his laptop via USB but wont charge.

  You have forgotten the Seventh Universal Truth of Information
Technology: Users lie.

(see: http://trioptimum.com/truth/)

  My first guess: The phone will charge just fine without a driver.
It's just Windows is prompting for a driver to make all the other magic 
BlackBerry stuff work, and the user assumes that means it won't work without 
one.

  My second guess: Try fiddling with the Mass Storage Device settings of the 
Blackberry.  Depending on how it's configured, the BlackBerry will present 
itself as either an ordinary USB flash drive, or as something fancier.  The 
"something fancier" mode may need drivers, but the "ordinary USB flash drive" 
mode does not.

-- Ben

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