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JRH147
December 8th, 2008, 01:11 PM
So - installed Boxee for the first time on my ATV last week. Bought a brand new USB flashdisk and used the ATV Flash Creator.

Seemed to work well - installed great on the ATV - everything was fine.

Until I went back to my iMac and noticed that I had left my iPhone plugged in during the flash creation stage. On the phone I had the world BG with the picture of the USB cable on it and it said iPhone activated.

Unplugged the phone, turned it off, back on again - seemed to be fine.

Until today when I went to plug in my phone and charge it - the USB port doesn't work at all now. The phone works fine in other ports and when using the wall charger.

Anyways - point is - does anyone know what could've happened during the Boxee install on the flash drive that might've corrupted my USB drivers? Any help would be greatly appreciated thanks!

davilla
December 9th, 2008, 06:05 PM
Not a chance that atvusb-creator did anything to the USB port. It just does not work that way. Apple USB ports are limited to 500mA current draw and they will not allow more that 500mA.

Any problems are going to be due to the device that is plugged into the USB port, not the software accessing it.

Try a power-down, power-up cycle.