Hi, I wouldn't recommend this that you'd go and buy a Nokia battery to boot up your phone. IMHO the first thing that needs to be fixed is a wall charging thing, with Qi/u-boot.
You do get Taiwan made fake batteries for 30 INR (0.6 $) but they may explode, and I wouldn't recommend it. -Karthik Ian Darwin wrote: > Lucas Lacroix wrote: > >> I forgot to plug the Neo in last night, and now the battery is >> completely dead. I cannot even get to the NOR boot. I've tried both >> USB and the charger. I have tried with and without the battery. No >> combination of these will get the phone to turn on so it can charge >> the battery. >> > This is one of the most annoying misfeatures of the phone, I think > everybody agrees. > >> I'm saddened by the fact that a phone that was supposed to be released >> to the masses can have such a blatant failing. Not only can it NOT >> turn on when the battery has little or no charge, the APM service does >> not turn the phone off to prevent this (note: all OTHER phones I have >> ever used WILL turn off when the battery gets below some critical level). >> On top of this, if I ever expect to have a working phone, I have to >> disable the only feature which should extend the battery life (read >> that as: OpenMoko has fixed the WSoD problem by replacing it with the >> BSoD - Black Screen of Death). >> > You've answered your own question in a roundabout way. There is no place > that OM has said that the current *software* is ready for the masses. > The fact that the software doesn't halt or suspend or shut down on low > power is proof of this. The fact that it's software means it will > eventually get remediated. > >> I have looked at the work-arounds, and none of them have worked or are >> doable. I refuse to "hardware hack" my phone with an external 4.5V >> line to give it the initial charge. I also do not have access to a >> charger that will work with this battery. Lastly, I do not have a >> second battery. >> >> > Do you live in a part of the world where anybody uses Nokia phones? Do > you have a friend or co-worker who knows you well enough to lend you > their battery for 5 mins to jump-start your phone? If not, maybe you > need to get out more :-) Borrow their battery, insert it, boot up, plug > in the charger, swap batteries, return the battery leaving your phone > charging. On some cheaper Nokias you have to re-set the Nokia phone's > date & time after this operation; I've not seen it lose any other > information from the Nokia and I've done this 3 or 4 times (the rest of > my family has mostly Nokias at present, and they're not switching until > the OM is more consumer ready). > > _______________________________________________ > support mailing list > support@lists.openmoko.org > https://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/support > > _______________________________________________ support mailing list support@lists.openmoko.org https://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/support