Yesterday when I was running ASU and had had the FR plugged in overnight to its charger I looked at its screen and there was a popup window was saying "your battery is really low, better recharge it soon" (I paraphrase). I figured it was wrong. Since I was about to reflash it with FSO I checked the sysfs readings and found the entry that said "this is probably most useful" and it said "91" which I took to mean 91% so I figured it was okay. Maybe it meant 91% empty? I was able to put it on USB and reflash without incident.
After putting FSO on it I now see an ambiguous battery picture. It either shows almost full or almost empty. Then the FR started going to sleep on me every 30 seconds or so. I would push the power button and it would wake up again. It did not issue any kind of warning, it would just fade to black. Eventually it seemed to die. So I plugged it back in to the official charger and went to bed to recharge my own batteries. I have not looked at it yet today. I guess what I am saying is that I'd like to know what the sysfs numbers mean -- why did ASU think the battery was dead when the sysfs said "91"? I will try cat /proc/apm tonight but knowing how to interpret it would be good too. Can't I expect the FR to charge when it's plugged in to its own charger or is there something else I have to do? (I like the FSO image a lot more than ASU. But that would be a new topic.) Brian On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 8:23 AM, kazaam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 06 Aug 2008 11:10:22 -0400 > Joe DiTommasso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> 'cat /proc/apm' in the terminal will show you the current charge level, >> as well as the time to full charge or full discharge, depending on >> whether the device is plugged in or not. > > This shows me: > > # cat /proc/apm > 1.13 1.2 0x02 0x01 0x03 0x08 -1% -1 ? > > -1 % == battery_percentage > -1 == battery_time > > is at least the description from here: > http://wiki.openmoko.org/images/3/37/Om-daemons.pdf > > But what shall those negative values mean?? _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
