On Tue, 2008-03-04 at 16:55 +1300, Ben Wilson wrote: > Hi Tim > > While it is possible I think it's quite unlikely. When switchmode power > supplies die they normally destroy themselves. > I would expect, if damage occurred due to usb powered battery removal, > the phone would be dead rather than develop booting problems.
Oh, cool - thanks for clarifying that :) -Tim > > Ben. > > Tim Knapp wrote: > > Hi Ben, > > > > Yeah I've done this *once* and it freaked me out. I'm still a bit > > concerned I've caused some permanent damage on my Neo as I've had > > problems booting images on the nand ever since but sdcard images work > > fine - jury is still out on that one. > > > > Thanks, > > Tim > > > > On Tue, 2008-03-04 at 13:45 +1300, Ben Wilson wrote: > > > >> Hey, > >> > >> Just a reminder to everyone *NOT* to pull out the battery while the neo > >> has USB power. > >> > >> You may not have heard it but the phone gets quite angry. As evident by > >> a quiet scream the phone emits as the components in its power system > >> begin to vibrate closer to magic smoke land. > >> > >> Talking with people on IRC most have done this on occasion without any > >> damage. However you are definitely risking permanent damage with the > >> chance increasing with every second it is in this state. > >> > >> My advice would be… Don't do it and if you do it by accident then pull > >> the plug out quickly rather than listening to the interesting sound. > >> > >> (I don’t know if this also applies to gta02 or not) > >> > >> Ben. > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> OpenMoko community mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community > >> > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > OpenMoko community mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > OpenMoko community mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community _______________________________________________ OpenMoko community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
