Re: GTA02 is now an expensive brick

2009-01-06 Thread Lucas Lacroix
From: Mike Montour m...@mmontour.net Gothnet wrote: I still find it amazing that the FR doesn't charge when off and empty. Every phone (and every other portable device) I've ever owned does this. It's not even a software thing - there ought to be some direct hardware way to charge the

Re: GTA02 is now an expensive brick

2009-01-06 Thread Gothnet
Mike Montour wrote: If you program the PCF50633 as: - charger enabled - 100mA current limit - do not wake on USB insertion (avoids the brownout issue) then it will have the behaviour that you want - even with a completely-dead battery, you can plug it in and it will slow-charge

Re: GTA02 is now an expensive brick / pcf50633 defaults

2009-01-06 Thread Andy Green
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Somebody in the thread at some point said: | | Mike Montour wrote: | If you program the PCF50633 as: | - charger enabled | - 100mA current limit | - do not wake on USB insertion (avoids the brownout issue) | | then it will have the behaviour

Re: GTA02 is now an expensive brick

2009-01-06 Thread Henner Zeller
Hi, On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 2:55 PM, Gothnet openm...@nastylittlehorse.net wrote: Mike Montour wrote: If you program the PCF50633 as: - charger enabled - 100mA current limit - do not wake on USB insertion (avoids the brownout issue) then it will have the behaviour that you want -

Re: GTA02 is now an expensive brick / pcf50633 defaults

2009-01-06 Thread bburdette
Andy Green wrote: There's two interesting ideas from Mike though, one is that disable USB insert as ON will help by giving longer for VB_SYS to charge and the other is leave charger enabled. For both of these, they are defeated (USB insert is ON action, charger disabled) by NOPOWER and we

Re: GTA02 is now an expensive brick

2009-01-06 Thread Craig Woodward
Ian Darwin i...@darwinsys.com wrote: There is no place that OM has said that the current *software* is ready for the masses. That's really mincing words... You're right, OM never said the software was ready for the masses, but FIC said the FreeRunner was consumer ready when it was

Re: GTA02 is now an expensive brick

2009-01-06 Thread Ian Darwin
Craig Woodward wrote: Ian Darwin i...@darwinsys.com wrote: There is no place that OM has said that the current *software* is ready for the masses. That's really mincing words... You're right, OM never said the software was ready for the masses, but FIC said the

Re: GTA02 is now an expensive brick

2009-01-06 Thread Paul
Then he would be out 390 bucks, right? On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 7:06 PM, Ian Darwin i...@darwinsys.com wrote: You accuse me of mincing words. Let's see if you'll stand by your words. If you really feel the device is that worthless, sell it to me for $10.00. Final offer. -- Paul Email -

Re: GTA02 is now an expensive brick

2009-01-06 Thread Paul
Why wasn't this discussion held prior to releasing the Freerunner? Is the Freerunner a prototype? -- Paul Email - pault...@gmail.com There were moments when he looked on evil simply as a mode through which he could realize his conception of the beautiful. Oscar Wilde - The Picture of Dorian

Re: GTA02 is now an expensive brick / pcf50633 defaults

2009-01-06 Thread Gothnet
bburdette wrote: Andy Green wrote: There's two interesting ideas from Mike though, one is that disable USB insert as ON will help by giving longer for VB_SYS to charge and the other is leave charger enabled. For both of these, they are defeated (USB insert is ON action, charger

[2008.12] ssh instability

2009-01-06 Thread Robin Paulson
i'm having a lot of problems with my ssh connection over usb - it usually takes several attempts to connect, and will hang mid-way through operations very often sometimes un-plugging and re-plugging usb will sort it, sometimes leaving it for a minute or two, or suspending and resuming. sometimes