Orico Powered Hub Won’t Charge iPhone Fault

I bought a simple USB hub and it won’t charge my iPhone. Yet this is the only reason that I bought it: literally a power splitter to charge my various USB devices. My smart watch and other devices will charge but when attempting with an Apple iPhone something refuses.

I looked at the spec and it seems that because Apple iPhones can draw much more current than the normal 1.5A USB spec a signal is sent to prevent charging. Yet my Orico hub came with a 3.2A power supply. After a simple experiment I’ve now found an extremely easy way to cure the problem.

Locate where the USB ports are soldered to the PCB. USB-A has four connections. Confusingly my Orico also has five plated through holes in a line right by these connectors - ignore these.

In order to prevent the charge inhibit message I picked one USB and shorted its individual Data+ and Data- pins together that way no tracks have to be cut but the signals for this USB just can’t get through. These are shown purple and green on the picture below. There is a surface mounted LSI chip that handles each port’s communication separately so the others remain unaffected and can be used as expanded USB ports in the normal way.

My phone now successfully charges via this port.

Fix Powered Hub Won’t Charge iPhone

To Dismantle

All powered hubs are different but with this one I merely had to remove the rubber feet and undo 4 screws.

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Carefully short pins 2 and 3 together here.

Fix USB Hub Won’t Charge iPhone

Fix USB Hub Won’t Charge iPhone

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