How to charge your smartphone from your laptop

At that time, as manufacturers are coming up with and actively advertise their mobile charging technology gadgets from your laptop in sleep mode, it turns out, there is quite a simple and affordable way to make this is.

Those people who are often on the road, constantly have to address the issue of autonomy of their electronic gadgets. Especially for smartphones. Although now there are some "long-playing" copies, yet for most devices issue an additional power supply is quite acute. We propose to use as such your laptop.

If at your disposal a laptop and a smartphone with a fast fading battery is recharged the latter is very simple: you just connect both of the gadget via USB and start pumping life-giving energy. However, this happens only when the notebook is active. If you're shaking somewhere in the transport and laptop sleeping in your bag, then recharge the smartphone just will not work. The status of the USB ports are disabled sleep, and meals served to them.

Some laptop manufacturers seem concerned with this problem and suggest solutions. For example, the firm Toshiba has even started to use their laptops in special connectors that support technology

However, even if your laptop is not released by the two companies, it is possible to try to activate the charging function mobile gadgets from the laptop is in sleep state. How to do it, we advise Microsoft employees in one of the Support pages.

1. In the "Start" menu, click "Control Panel".
2. Click "Device Manager".
3. In the Device list, locate the category "Controllers USB» and open it.
4. You will see more devices called "USB Root Hub" for each please click the right mouse button and select "Properties."
5. In the window that appears, click on the tab "Power Management."
6. Deselect the option "off Allow this device to save power."

Now when you move the laptop to the USB connector of sleep mode will not turn off, and you can charge your handheld devices. However, please note that this trick works not with all devices, since a lot depends on the notebook model and version of the BIOS.

If you could do it and a laptop was able to recharge a smartphone in sleep mode, then let us know in the comments. And if it did not work, then all the more.