No, werner wants us to do some tests. I have to reschedule to come to your house on Friday.
We will figure it out there. -----Original Message----- From: Michael Shiloh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2008 9:32 PM To: steve Cc: 'Joerg Reisenweber'; openmoko-kernel@lists.openmoko.org Subject: Re: My Gta02s wont charge I'm back now, and I have a couple. Should I mail you one? Michael steve wrote: > Ah, > > problem is getting a good battery. Local stores don't carry battery > chargers. > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Joerg Reisenweber [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sunday, June 22, 2008 10:52 AM > To: openmoko-kernel@lists.openmoko.org > Cc: steve; 'Sean McNeil' > Subject: Re: My Gta02s wont charge > > A sure fix should be: insert "good" battery, attach wall-charger, boot > all the way to system, replace "good" by drained battery *without* > switching off or suspending system. > /j > > Am So 22. Juni 2008 schrieb steve: >> Haha the vulcan mind meld. I will try it >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Sean McNeil [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Sent: Friday, June 20, 2008 11:17 AM >> To: steve >> Cc: 'Werner Almesberger'; openmoko-kernel@lists.openmoko.org >> Subject: Re: My Gta02s wont charge >> >> Yes, I can run off usb without the a battery. But if I have a drained >> battery, I cannot. Seems like charging pulls too much power so I >> cannot run.What I had to do at one time was pull battery and charger >> out. Hold down the aux key. Put battery in. Put usb in. hold down the > power key. >> release aux key. wait for menu. When I did this the battery starts to >> charge. >> >> steve wrote: >>> Na, mine wont run off USB power. I'll double check on a 2nd computer. >>> My unit is pre production, but I know guys have done battery drain >>> tests With no problems. So, scratches head.... >>> >>> I tried with the battery in, battery out. Sean, can you run yours >>> while plugged into usb with the battery removed? >>> You have a phone from the same batch I have. >>> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: Werner Almesberger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2008 6:24 PM >>> To: Sean McNeil >>> Cc: steve; openmoko-kernel@lists.openmoko.org >>> Subject: Re: My Gta02s wont charge >>> >>> Sean McNeil wrote: >>> >>>> You do not need a battery to run the phone. It will run off USB power. >>>> >>> Some do, some don't. E.g., I never got any GTA02 (out of 1-2 >>> samples) to run from USB power for more than a few seconds. >>> >>> Regarding charging, the big issue seems to be that we turn off the >>> charger if we don't have USB power. The PMU remembers that setting >>> while it has any power at all. Thus, if the battery is empty and the >>> charger happens to be turned off, USB power is simply ignored. >>> >>> So far the theory. I've tried to actually confirm that behaviour (so >>> that I could observe an improvement after changing the logic), but >>> only got more or less random results, with the system occasionally >>> not charging when it should, and (quite often) happily powering up >>> when I didn't expect it to :-( >>> >>> So there seems to be more going on than meets the eye. >>> >>> - Werner >>> >>> >>> >> >> > > > >