On Monday 08 September 2008, you wrote: > On Mon, 8 Sep 2008, Al Johnson wrote: > > Some time ago Joerg (IIRC) suggested it might be possible for the > > brave/foolhardy to replace the undersized caps in the headset output with > > something more suitable, or even with audiophile esoterica like Black > > Gates. Looking at the schematics I see these are C4110 and C4111 which > > appear to be located under the can that has the bluetooth module stuck to > > the top of it. So how easy is it to open and close this can without > > breaking anything? > > Hi, > > I tried, just to see if I could do it, to add a capacitor in parallel to > the VB_SYS one: this is the solution the OpenMoko-people were researching > to get rid of the > gta02-won't-boot-on-an-empty-battery-even-with-usb-connected-thing. My > experience: Don't do it unless you have experience with soldering tiny > SMD-stuff, and the tools to do it. It's almost trivial to destroy stuff if > you don't have the experience. > > (btw, I made pics of my endeavour; if anyone wants to see them, just raise > your hand and I'll upload them.) > > Jeroen
I've done the odd bit of rework on tiny SMD stuff before, so that's not so much of a worry. I'm more worried about breaking something while lifting the lid, especially with the bluetooth module where it is. _______________________________________________ hardware mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/hardware
