Broken Freerunner - repairable?
Hi all, Last week I was unfortunate enough to have my Freerunner submerged in a lake for a short moment. While I took out the battery immediately, it doesn't quite work any more. It spent about 10 secs underwater, and after a few days of drying, it seems to boot properly both from NAND menu and plain power-button method. The problem is, the screen goes gradually white at some points during boot (but not on the SHR-Today screen, where the screen shows distorted copies of the screen). I tried reflashing a newer SHR version, but apparently the drawing methods are still the same. There's a video of the boot process here: http://porcupinefactory.org/data/brokenFR.avi (5 MB). After the video ends, the screen goes white again. It doesn't show NAND boot menu which works fine. Can anyone point me to which replaceable part may be broken? Is it the whole screen module that needs to be replaced? Cheers, rhn ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: Broken Freerunner - repairable?
On 08/03/2011 07:04 PM, omcomali@porcupinefactory.org wrote: Hi all, Last week I was unfortunate enough to have my Freerunner submerged in a lake for a short moment. While I took out the battery immediately, it doesn't quite work any more. It spent about 10 secs underwater, and after a few days of drying, it seems to boot properly both from NAND menu and plain power-button method. The problem is, the screen goes gradually white at some points during boot (but not on the SHR-Today screen, where the screen shows distorted copies of the screen). I tried reflashing a newer SHR version, but apparently the drawing methods are still the same. There's a video of the boot process here: http://porcupinefactory.org/data/brokenFR.avi (5 MB). After the video ends, the screen goes white again. It doesn't show NAND boot menu which works fine. Can anyone point me to which replaceable part may be broken? Is it the whole screen module that needs to be replaced? Cheers, rhn ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community Hi Rhn, It doesn't seem to be that broken, it boots, but it shows no splash screen. Did you try to leave it on for 10/15 minutes and see what happens? The freerunner has three (?) splash screens, did you try to reflash them as well? [1] I hope the FR will come to live again. Kind regards, Ed PS i was not able to reflash my splash screens, so if it doesn't work as per wiki, don't dispair. if you are able to reflash the splash screen, please correct the wiki if it was incorrect. [1] http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Splash_screen ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: Broken Freerunner - repairable?
On Wed, 03 Aug 2011 19:26:04 +0200 Ed Kapitein e...@kapitein.org wrote: On 08/03/2011 07:04 PM, omcomali@porcupinefactory.org wrote: Hi all, Last week I was unfortunate enough to have my Freerunner submerged in a lake for a short moment. While I took out the battery immediately, it doesn't quite work any more. It spent about 10 secs underwater, and after a few days of drying, it seems to boot properly both from NAND menu and plain power-button method. The problem is, the screen goes gradually white at some points during boot (but not on the SHR-Today screen, where the screen shows distorted copies of the screen). I tried reflashing a newer SHR version, but apparently the drawing methods are still the same. There's a video of the boot process here: http://porcupinefactory.org/data/brokenFR.avi (5 MB). After the video ends, the screen goes white again. It doesn't show NAND boot menu which works fine. Can anyone point me to which replaceable part may be broken? Is it the whole screen module that needs to be replaced? Cheers, rhn ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community Hi Rhn, It doesn't seem to be that broken, it boots, but it shows no splash screen. Did you try to leave it on for 10/15 minutes and see what happens? The freerunner has three (?) splash screens, did you try to reflash them as well? [1] I hope the FR will come to live again. Kind regards, Ed PS i was not able to reflash my splash screens, so if it doesn't work as per wiki, don't dispair. if you are able to reflash the splash screen, please correct the wiki if it was incorrect. [1] http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Splash_screen Hi Ed, Actually, it boots through the kernel and into Illume. I'm quite sure it's not related to any splash screens - I could switch between SHR-Today (visible) and Illume (broken). I suspect that the screen (?) reacts differently to different video modes. Cheers, rhn ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: Broken Freerunner - repairable?
Hey! As developer of SHR-Today/idle_screen I can say, that idle_screen is just a fullscreen window above the illume desktop. = It shouldn't change any mode of the screen/Shouldn't treat the screen any other than the illume desktop. BR, Lukas On 03.08.2011 19:56, omcomali@porcupinefactory.org wrote: On Wed, 03 Aug 2011 19:26:04 +0200 Ed Kapitein e...@kapitein.org wrote: On 08/03/2011 07:04 PM, omcomali@porcupinefactory.org wrote: Hi all, Last week I was unfortunate enough to have my Freerunner submerged in a lake for a short moment. While I took out the battery immediately, it doesn't quite work any more. It spent about 10 secs underwater, and after a few days of drying, it seems to boot properly both from NAND menu and plain power-button method. The problem is, the screen goes gradually white at some points during boot (but not on the SHR-Today screen, where the screen shows distorted copies of the screen). I tried reflashing a newer SHR version, but apparently the drawing methods are still the same. There's a video of the boot process here: http://porcupinefactory.org/data/brokenFR.avi (5 MB). After the video ends, the screen goes white again. It doesn't show NAND boot menu which works fine. Can anyone point me to which replaceable part may be broken? Is it the whole screen module that needs to be replaced? Cheers, rhn ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community Hi Rhn, It doesn't seem to be that broken, it boots, but it shows no splash screen. Did you try to leave it on for 10/15 minutes and see what happens? The freerunner has three (?) splash screens, did you try to reflash them as well? [1] I hope the FR will come to live again. Kind regards, Ed PS i was not able to reflash my splash screens, so if it doesn't work as per wiki, don't dispair. if you are able to reflash the splash screen, please correct the wiki if it was incorrect. [1] http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Splash_screen Hi Ed, Actually, it boots through the kernel and into Illume. I'm quite sure it's not related to any splash screens - I could switch between SHR-Today (visible) and Illume (broken). I suspect that the screen (?) reacts differently to different video modes. Cheers, rhn ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: Broken Freerunner - repairable?
Thanks for your answer, Lukas! Now I suspect that SHR-Today worked better because it's much darker than Illume desktop. Similar things happened to me when working on monochrome LCD displays with broken capacitors. rhn On Wed, 03 Aug 2011 20:17:07 +0200 Lukas Märdian lukasmaerd...@googlemail.com wrote: Hey! As developer of SHR-Today/idle_screen I can say, that idle_screen is just a fullscreen window above the illume desktop. = It shouldn't change any mode of the screen/Shouldn't treat the screen any other than the illume desktop. BR, Lukas On 03.08.2011 19:56, omcomali@porcupinefactory.org wrote: On Wed, 03 Aug 2011 19:26:04 +0200 Ed Kapitein e...@kapitein.org wrote: On 08/03/2011 07:04 PM, omcomali@porcupinefactory.org wrote: Hi all, Last week I was unfortunate enough to have my Freerunner submerged in a lake for a short moment. While I took out the battery immediately, it doesn't quite work any more. It spent about 10 secs underwater, and after a few days of drying, it seems to boot properly both from NAND menu and plain power-button method. The problem is, the screen goes gradually white at some points during boot (but not on the SHR-Today screen, where the screen shows distorted copies of the screen). I tried reflashing a newer SHR version, but apparently the drawing methods are still the same. There's a video of the boot process here: http://porcupinefactory.org/data/brokenFR.avi (5 MB). After the video ends, the screen goes white again. It doesn't show NAND boot menu which works fine. Can anyone point me to which replaceable part may be broken? Is it the whole screen module that needs to be replaced? Cheers, rhn ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community Hi Rhn, It doesn't seem to be that broken, it boots, but it shows no splash screen. Did you try to leave it on for 10/15 minutes and see what happens? The freerunner has three (?) splash screens, did you try to reflash them as well? [1] I hope the FR will come to live again. Kind regards, Ed PS i was not able to reflash my splash screens, so if it doesn't work as per wiki, don't dispair. if you are able to reflash the splash screen, please correct the wiki if it was incorrect. [1] http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Splash_screen Hi Ed, Actually, it boots through the kernel and into Illume. I'm quite sure it's not related to any splash screens - I could switch between SHR-Today (visible) and Illume (broken). I suspect that the screen (?) reacts differently to different video modes. Cheers, rhn ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: Broken Freerunner - repairable?
omcomali@porcupinefactory.org píše v St 03. 08. 2011 v 19:04 +0200: Hi all, Last week I was unfortunate enough to have my Freerunner submerged in a lake for a short moment. While I took out the battery immediately, it doesn't quite work any more. It spent about 10 secs underwater, and after a few days of drying, it seems to boot properly both from NAND menu and plain power-button method. How were you drying it? Hrabosh The problem is, the screen goes gradually white at some points during boot (but not on the SHR-Today screen, where the screen shows distorted copies of the screen). I tried reflashing a newer SHR version, but apparently the drawing methods are still the same. There's a video of the boot process here: http://porcupinefactory.org/data/brokenFR.avi (5 MB). After the video ends, the screen goes white again. It doesn't show NAND boot menu which works fine. Can anyone point me to which replaceable part may be broken? Is it the whole screen module that needs to be replaced? Cheers, rhn ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community