On Thu, 2009-01-08 at 23:11 +0100, Finn-Arne Johansen wrote: > Finn-Arne Johansen skrev: > ... > >... > I charged my GPS battery for some time yesterday (30-60 minutes), and > was able to boot my FR. I connected the FR to my laptop, and the Red > AUX-light came on. I also logged into it, and checked that it charged > the device in 500mA mode. From the log of my DHCP-server, I saw that it > was active for 20 minutes with wlan powered. Then it died. I recharged > the battery in the GPS over night, and tried it this morning. Then it > should have 680 mAh. I turned it on this morning at the office, and from > the dhcp-log , it seems to be up for ~67 minutes, without suspend, with > full backlight on, wlan connected. I think the red light indicated > charging the whole time. But as said - this is not a GTA02 battery, so > maybe the charger fail to charge. but shouldnt it be able to at least > stay on ? > I guess its time to return the device for repair, or ? > What sort of battery is your "gps" battery? - you know that the FR can only charge its own specific battery type? - it will operate on others such as a nokia battery, but wont charge it which is what seems to be happening to you.
Boot the FR using the substitute battery - once up, plug in the usb so charging is enabled and swap the batteries over live - the FR battery should then start charging. BillK _______________________________________________ hardware mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/hardware
