It's alive! In case it will ever help someone else, here's how I got the thing working: First I had to tape the little switch that detects when the battery cover is open. Then, with the battery in place and the charge cable connected, I applied 4.5 volts to battery pins 2 (-) and 6 (+). That's counting pin 1 as the pin closest to the top of the device. (I used 4.5V because I had forgotten to grab a power supply, and so I just taped three D-cells together. I probably wouldn't try more than 5V or less than the battery voltage of 3.7V.) Once the device lit up I waited until the boot sequence completed and I had tapped through the stupid Windoze Mobile "tutorial", then I turned it off and removed the external voltage and saw the charging lights come on. I let it charge for several hours without touching it. Finally, I verified that it turned on and off with no problems and then removed the tape from the cover switch (which caused it to turn off) and put the battery cover on. I gave it an overnight charge, and I will try from now on to never let it get completely discharged (although I will occasionally try to let the battery get pretty low to keep it in good health).
Thanks everyone for your help. If nothing else, you gave me enough encouragement to not give up on my 4150 completely. regards, NT _______________________________________________ Angstrom-distro-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/angstrom-distro-users
