I guess I left my charger in the office over the weekend, so I didn’t have a way to charge my mobile. Thats when I looked closer at the USB mini connector on it. It has the 5 pins 1 of which isn’t connected and they’re able to move around in a space of about 1 mm, that way when you plug in the connector from the cable, they kind of spring on to the pads of the connector. You can use this to your advantage by sticking wires into the far left and far right holes. Use a gauge of wire which is large enough to fit snugly inside. Then bring out the wires to a 5 volt source. I used this old PIC microcontroller programmer which I built a while back.

Feeding Power through USB

After this is done, and you power up your 5 volt source, the blackberry should turn on and begin charging.

Blackberry Powered on and Charging

Here is a pic showing power being pulled from a 5 volt source. This PIC programmer which I built happens to have two PCB test points for which I can check and pull power from.

Pulling 5 volts from PCB Test Points

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