Thanks Kevin, I recall asking engineering what would happen if somebody disabled this check ( hey its open source) and the general impression was that if the charger was not capable of fast charging then you would not have nice outcomes. I think the worse case might be if you tried to draw more than 500ma from a PC USB. Somebody not in marketing should answer that question. Steve
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kevin Dean Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2008 12:22 PM To: List for Openmoko community discussion Cc: steve Subject: Re: Price of the Freerunner spare parts On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 2:58 PM, joerg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Correct, it checks for 48k-OHM resistor on ID-pin of mini-USB, then enables 1A > instead of 100/500mA USB-standard. > You also may enable 1A-mode (and 500mA mode) via some small GUI-app IIRC. > This is possible via userspace with Bobby's application. (http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/CheckFastCharge-script). However, the flaw to this is that it will force fast charge even if the charger isn't capable and hints that this could be... bad. :) For the record, it APPEARS that with the Python application, the iGo works just fine as a charger. -Kevin _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
