Christopher Heiny wrote: > I think I've done something awful to my Neo. No, you've just emptied the battery :-)
If you have a means to recharge the battery from an external source, I'd recommend you try that. If you have a battery that is compatible in size, polarity, and voltage, you could use it to bring up the phone and update u-boot. That in turn should allow you to charge the original battery in the Neo. The problem is basically that, if using an old version of u-boot, the phone powers up if you connect a charger and the battery is very weak, and then tries to start. During this, the power needed will exceed what it can draw from USB. It then takes power from the already empty battery, which will sooner and later, run out. That was the flickering boot splash screen your coworkers saw. The phone will (un)happily continue with this, but after a while it won't even make it to the point where the backlight is turned on, so you don't see the screen. All the gory details can be found here: http://bugzilla.openmoko.org/cgi-bin/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=212 (For the solution, you can skip right to the end.) - Werner -- _________________________________________________________________________ / Werner Almesberger, Buenos Aires, Argentina [EMAIL PROTECTED] / /_http://www.almesberger.net/____________________________________________/
