Re: Battery discharging while plugged in

2008-09-05 Thread Edgar D' Souza
On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 8:59 AM, Dale Maggee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, currently when I have my freerunner plugged into USB, it will charge to 100% and then start (slowly) discharging. If I unplug the USB cable and plug it back in, it charges back up to 100 percent, then starts discharging

Re: Battery discharging while plugged in

2008-09-05 Thread Dale Maggee
Edgar D' Souza wrote: On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 8:59 AM, Dale Maggee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, currently when I have my freerunner plugged into USB, it will charge to 100% and then start (slowly) discharging. If I unplug the USB cable and plug it back in, it charges back up to 100

Re: Battery discharging while plugged in

2008-09-05 Thread Edgar D' Souza
On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 12:15 PM, Dale Maggee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, this sounds like the correct explanation - it stops charging once it hits 100%. When I have it unplugged, it SEEMS to discharge faster, but this may be due to usage [...] I'll do some more testing by unplugging it and

Re: Battery discharging while plugged in

2008-09-05 Thread Dale Maggee
Edgar D' Souza wrote: Hmmm... I suppose there's a good reason for that, not being as aware of battery tech as I ought to be :-) AFAIK, Li-Ion batteries don't suffer from the memory effect, so I don't really see what harm would be done by keeping a constant trickle charge going, sufficient to

Re: Battery discharging while plugged in

2008-09-05 Thread Dale Maggee
Which charger are you using? USB cable connected to computer, not the charger. Is the phone on and unsuspended the whole time you're charging? yes, using 2007.2's dim only, don't lock option, so most of the time the screen is turned off, but the phone is not suspended. I don't use

Re: Battery discharging while plugged in

2008-09-05 Thread Daniel Benoy
On Friday 05 September 2008 09:51:34 Dale Maggee wrote: USB cable connected to computer, not the charger. See if you have the same problem with the official charger. Is the phone on and unsuspended the whole time you're charging? yes, using 2007.2's dim only, don't lock option, so

Re: Battery discharging while plugged in

2008-09-05 Thread -stacy
Dale Maggee wrote: Hi, currently when I have my freerunner plugged into USB, it will charge to 100% and then start (slowly) discharging. If I unplug the USB cable and plug it back in, it charges back up to 100 percent, then starts discharging again. any Ideas? I noticed the same thing,

Re: Battery discharging while plugged in

2008-09-05 Thread Mike Montour
Dale Maggee wrote: Hi, currently when I have my freerunner plugged into USB, it will charge to 100% and then start (slowly) discharging. If I unplug the USB cable and plug it back in, it charges back up to 100 percent, then starts discharging again. That might be normal - the charger in

Re: Battery discharging while plugged in

2008-09-05 Thread Angus Ainslie
On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 9:37 AM, Mike Montour [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That might be normal - the charger in the PCF50633 shuts off the charge current once the battery is full, and turns it on again when the voltage falls below a threshold. It seems that it can discharge quite a bit before

Re: Battery discharging while plugged in

2008-09-05 Thread Dale Maggee
Daniel Benoy wrote: See if you have the same problem with the official charger. Ok, I'll switch it over to the charger later tonight and report back. the way I'm plugging it in hasn't changed since It used to charge to 100% and stay there. My theory isn't so good then.. but it's

Re: Battery discharging while plugged in

2008-09-05 Thread Dale Maggee
-stacy wrote: Dale Maggee wrote: Hi, currently when I have my freerunner plugged into USB, it will charge to 100% and then start (slowly) discharging. If I unplug the USB cable and plug it back in, it charges back up to 100 percent, then starts discharging again. any Ideas? I

Re: Battery discharging while plugged in

2008-09-05 Thread Mike Montour
Angus Ainslie wrote: It doesn't completely turn off charging. It drops to a 100mA trickle charge which is insufficient to keep the battery topped up with the GSM radio turned on. That's why the batteries state of discharge is slower when its plugged into the charger ( even the wall charger

Re: Battery discharging while plugged in

2008-09-05 Thread Edgar D' Souza
On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 8:13 PM, -stacy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I noticed the same thing, I have a short shell script that will cause it to start charging again with unpluging the USB cable. = #!/bin/sh

Battery discharging while plugged in

2008-09-04 Thread Dale Maggee
Hi, currently when I have my freerunner plugged into USB, it will charge to 100% and then start (slowly) discharging. If I unplug the USB cable and plug it back in, it charges back up to 100 percent, then starts discharging again. any Ideas? I'm using 2007.2 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# opkg