Everything you're describing sounds legit. Good catch on pin 30, I failed
to notice that.
It seems like your on-board VREG failed (it is bypassed when connected to a
PC, that's why your red LED turns on then). I don't know why it did, a 9V
source should not be able to cause that. The failures mode that I'm
currently familiar with on the VREG are either reverse polarity or over
voltage (which may caused by a voltage surge, when connected to a >10V
source over long wires).


On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 8:02 AM, Mark Thrasher <[email protected]>wrote:

> I will explain to you my system and maybe you can tell me if there is a
> better way to do it with the IOIO.  For now, I am powering the IOIO with a
> 9V wall adapter.  I'm relying on it's own onboard voltage regulator to
> manage the voltage.  For my potentiometers, I built a voltage regulator
> using a LM317.  I chose resistors such that the regulated voltage is 3V.
>  I'm using this 3V as the reference for the linear potentiometers.  I just
> wanted to make sure the ADC channels never saw more than 3V.  Right now,
> everything is connected on a breadboard.  That is basically it...a fairly
> simple setup.  I will be reading as many as the max 16 channels for ADC.  I
> did realize why the board was freezing when I connected to pin 30...pin 30
> is not an analog input channel.  I thought the corner pin was 30, but
> instead it is 31.  So, the analog channels are 31-46.  As for why the board
> quit working (or it's onboard voltage regulator quit working), I don't
> know.
>
>
> On Wednesday, December 18, 2013 9:36:18 PM UTC-6, Ytai wrote:
>
>> Red light not on = either a power supply problem or a damage to the board.
>> How are you powering the board?
>> Which firmware version is it running?
>> What's connected to the board exactly?
>> How are these potentiometers wired?
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 3:27 PM, Mark Thrasher <[email protected]>wrote:
>>
>>> It seems I've been chasing problems all day.  The first problem was the
>>> IOIO working fine for my Nexus 7 tablet with Android 4.4, but not working
>>> for my Note 3 device with Android 4.3.  I made sure debugging was turned
>>> off and ran the exact same apk on each device.  I still don't know what is
>>> up with that.
>>> The next problem seemed to be hardware related.  If I tried to do an ADC
>>> on pin 30, my program would freeze.  I was converting 3 different signals,
>>> and tried using pins 30, 31, and 32.  It never worked.  When I tried using
>>> pins 40, 41, and 42, everything worked fine.  When I tried using pins
>>> 31,32, and 33, I could move one potentiometer and it would affect one of
>>> the other channels that had a constant voltage on it.  None of it made any
>>> sense to me.  After experimenting around with the different pins, the red
>>> light on the board went out and I could no longer connect to it.  I know
>>> the LED still works because I attempted reloading the firmware and the red
>>> and yellow lights behaved as expected.  Anybody have any ideas what was
>>> going on with all of this?  Anything I can test or do I accept this is a
>>> bad board now?
>>>
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