Hi, John I replaced with cap too. It's easy to extract one from some old phone. Result is very good then you remove main battery.
BUT > The last time my FreeRunner's battery died, the clock reset to epoch. > Now, it no longer keeps time during suspend either. I'm guessing this > means the clock battery has finally died. In suspend clock is powered by main battery not backup, as PMU remain in Active state. In fact in suspend backup battery is _charging_. So, i think you have some software trouble, probably you setting clock somehow in wrong way (they not saved to hw clock). Gennady. В Втр, 21/12/2010 в 08:50 -0500, Gay, John (GE Energy Services, Non-GE) пишет: > OK. I was a little confused about the mention of 2 super caps at the > time. That make more sense. > > I'll have to check for an American source and get one. I've got some > rusty soldering skills I can brush up before I attack my phone. > > Cheers, > > John Gay > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > From: community-boun...@lists.openmoko.org > [mailto:community-boun...@lists.openmoko.org] On Behalf Of Benjamin > Deering > Sent: Tuesday, December 21, 2010 8:14 AM > To: List for Openmoko community discussion > Subject: Re: The epoch is upon me. > > > > Jon, > > I'm don't know how you can be sure the clock battery is to blame, but > I just wanted to mention that I replaced the battery with a single > supercap. The pair of supercaps was because I have two freerunners. > > Ben > > On 12/21/2010 07:55 AM, Gay, John (GE Energy Services, Non-GE) wrote: > > The last time my FreeRunner's battery died, the clock reset to > > epoch. Now, it no longer keeps time during suspend either. I'm > > guessing this means the clock battery has finally died. > > > > Someone recently commented that they replaced their battery with a > > pair of super caps. I just wanted to confirm my diagnosis before I > > take a soldering iron to my phone. > > > > Cheers, > > > > John Gay > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Openmoko community mailing list > > community@lists.openmoko.org > > http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community > > > > _______________________________________________ > Openmoko community mailing list > community@lists.openmoko.org > http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community