iPhone 4 Car Charger??

[ic0n]

Hi Guys

I have an Alpine radio in my car which syncs with my iPhone and plays music and so on it worked fine with my original iphone but when i use it with my iphone 4 it just plays music and will not charge.

i also had a iphone car charger just a cheap bay job but it charge my original iphone and wont charge my iphone 4

now i am going camping at the end of the week so will need to be able to charge my phone from in the car

are there any chargers out there that will charge an iphone 4?

Alex

 

[Overlag]

Tesco do a charger that has a USB port, then just use your iphone4 usb lead?

but then i did the same, brought a 2 port usb lighter socket thing, 1 for my girlfriends iphone and one port for my nokia, and it wont charge via its usb cable... is that the same problem you are having?

 

[ic0n]

I have just ordered a usb plug from the bay

£1.80 so even if it wont charge iphone sure it will work for something or someone i know might use it

anyway

The reason for this is the old iphone and old ipod would charge over firewire as apple wanted firewire to take over from usb as they created it (i think) once usb was obviously going to be the most popular format apple changed and started being a usb company, old ipods got a firewire lead and usb in the box now its just usb.

So because of this the cheap and older cables will charge using the firewire parts of the old iphone and ipod but the new iphones and ipods dont have the firewire parts as apple wants everyone on usb now.

So using a usb plug and a new cable should charge your iphone 4.

This is what i have found out with a lot of googling but until my usb thing shows up i carnt say this for sure.