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Battery Charging using a USB port on your computer

Anonymous
2010-12-25T03:32:07+00:00

I bought my daughter an Air Hogs Hawk eye remote control helicopter.  It powers up the batteries from a USB port on my Dell computer.  It has a warning "DO NOT simply unplug the USB cable from your computer.  Safely remove it as per your computer operating system's recommendation"  Does anyone know what this means or what risk they want me to avoid??

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  1. Anonymous
    2010-12-25T08:10:11+00:00

    Depends on the smartness of the charger plugged into your Dell computer port.

    If there is no status or special icon in your small icon area. Chances are you can ignore this.

    Imagine a computer USB controller and driver communicating across your usb port.

    If a controller can cummunicated by simply saying good bye wirelessly then it wouldnt need a physical connection. 

    Safely removing just allows for things like (examples) ; printers, DVD ram read write drives, game controllers, USB key drives , all to stop communicating gracefully.  or to complete any left over work. 

    So I would say that without a icon being present on what most people call the system tray you can ignore this just for charging the helio rechargeable battery. But if this bothers you or a family member consider purchasing a USB charger that plugs into a wall. Advantage being, it can be unplugged and be more green not waisting energy at the same time.

    Cheers and M.Christmas

    Keith

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  2. Anonymous
    2015-12-27T16:37:50+00:00

    I have the problem also.  It will only charge in the usb and will not recognize on the laptop (windows 10).  It has a camera and video in it and you are supposed to be able to download it to the computer and I cant even get it to recognize it.  we even returned it thinking it was defective.  But the same problem happens.  Maybe its just a cheap thing.  Any suggegetions?

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  3. Anonymous
    2010-12-25T18:43:39+00:00

    it's the same as inserting a USB flash disk, you need to tell XP that

    you want to remove it before you physically remove the plug.

    see

    http://www.wikihow.com/Safely-Remove-a-Storage-Device-from-a-XP-Computer

    on how to safely remove a device

    Best Regards,

    Singapore Web Hosting

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  4. Anonymous
    2010-12-25T17:42:12+00:00

    I had the same question, but then once I plugged in the USB/Hawkeye to my Computer, it said "USB device not recognized".  Then when i tried to troubleshoot the problem, it says "no drivers are installed".  Does anyone else have this problem?  How do you fix it? 

    Thanks a bunch, my son is trying to be so patient, but this is driving us both crazy!

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