IS the IPOD data cable used for charging ????? (1 Viewer)

[th]

sup my cousin gave me his mini ipod (just the player) yesterday.
today i bought my self data cable and the dude in the apple centre told me this cable can be used to charged the ipod, now ive been waiting for like an hr and it still has the battery on empty and wont turn off

Is it becase that cable is only used to transfer data from PC or is the cable broken???

 

[...]

umm

you can still charge it if you connected from the computer
is your usb 2???

 

[th]

yeh my comps fairly new it doesnt seem to detect the connection from the ipod

 

[santaslayer]

1) Your cousin gave you a fucked up Ipod
2) Cable is fucked
3) If your computer cannot detect the Ipod, then naturally, your Ipod has some problem of its own.
4) Your cousin stole the Ipod.
5) Are you puitting it in the A/C adaptor thing?
6) Try resetting Ipod.
7) Hand it to an Apple Store.
8) My 20Bigs takes 4 hrs to fully charge.

 

[th]

thanks for all the help after bloody 2 hrs it starts charging
so now all i need is to get songs in there
do i use a special program where can i get
or is it just like a usb stick (drag and drop)???