On Tue, 11 Oct 2011 00:22:20 -0300, Werner Almesberger wrote:
cenob...@dragoncrypt.com wrote:
My guess was
that I used a bad wire set? or that I should not have had both
colors of wire connected.
Hence my suggestion to measure ;-) There's nothing inherently
wrong with trying to use a different battery, so you should be
able to find out why it didn't work.
In theory, a battery could refuse to deliver more than some
minimum current before receiving an "unlock" sequence from the
host, but I haven't heard of this sort of contraption in
mobile phone batteries.
Some batteries do have a cut-off state when the charge is too
low, though. E.g., the battery of the Openmoko GTA02 had such
a circuit. This is to protect the battery from "deep"
discharges. In the cut-off state no significant current is
allowed out of the battery, but it can still be charged. In
the case of the GTA02 battery, a few seconds of charging make
the protection circuit exit the cut-off state.
So you mean to say that headphone wire is a legitimate electrical
connector? Or should I run out to radio shack and get some 'real' wire?
Does it matter that I touched both color wires of each one to the
terminals? and should I have used electrical tape instead of scotch
tape? I will try again after my current battery gives out, so far 5.5 h
going strong even though Jlime says 0% lol. BTW the reading on the
battery is 3.9-4V and it is a motorola bq50.
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