From:  John Syne <[email protected]>
Date:  Tuesday, June 24, 2014 at 1:41 PM
To:  "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Cc:  Robert Nelson <[email protected]>, Gerald Coley
<[email protected]>
Subject:  Re: [beagleboard] Power down a battery backed up BeagleBone Black

> 
> From:  Colin Bester <[email protected]>
> Reply-To:  "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
> Date:  Tuesday, June 24, 2014 at 8:14 AM
> To:  "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
> Subject:  Re: [beagleboard] Power down a battery backed up BeagleBone Black
> 
>> 
>> Several observations.
>> 
>> When pressing power button or executing halt instruction, processor does
>> shutdown but the voltage rails SYS_5V and VLD02 don't (I didn't check
>> VLDO01). VLDO2 does drop to less than 2V but appears to still be enough to
>> trigger U4 TL5209's enable pin thus switching SYS_5V to VDD_3V3B. This to me
>> doesn't look right, this level (VLD02) should either be asserted or negated
>> and not in between levels.
> Yep, you are right, the SYS_5V remains on after a sudo halt or pressing the PB
> for more than 8 seconds. Since the 3V3B is derived and enabled from the
> SYS_5V, it also remains powered.  Looks like we need to also turn off the
> AC_EN and USB_EN bits in the PPATH register on the TPS65217C PMC. I¹ve copied
> both Robert and Gerald to see if this is something they want to fix.
Thinking about this some more, this isn¹t going to work. Not sure how to fix
the problem you have.

Regards,
John
> 
> Regards,
> John
>> 
>> Powering up with just battery and no 5V (not pressing any buttons) shows
>> SYS-5V active high (5V) and VLD02 at expected 0V.
>> 
>> Looks to me like there is a power switching problem although fixing this
>> still won't fix the issue I am having as I want to totally switch off LCD4
>> which is using SYS_5V for backlight. I am not sure from the tech notes if
>> it's possible or not to switch off SYS_5V voltage (Pins 7.8 SYS1/SYS2 on
>> TPS65217C).
>> 
>> If one can't then my question to LCD module supplier/manufacturer is how did
>> they intend us to shut device down with a battery connected.
>> 
>> ~C
>> 
>> On Monday, June 23, 2014 6:52:03 PM UTC-5, john3909 wrote:
>>> 
>>> Power Button is also on P9 Pin 9. BTW, sudo halt powers off all power rails
>>> and is functionally equivalent to holding the power button for 10 seconds.
>>> If your LCD backlight is still on, then it is powered from the 5V rail
>>> because all other power rails are off.
>>> 
>>> Regards,
>>> John
>>>> 
>> 
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