Re: Car charger to GTA02

2008-08-10 Thread Olivier Berger
Marco Trevisan (Treviño) [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: steve wrote: Magic 47 ohm resistor will get you 1A. its on the wiki somewhere. Thanks... Should be that on the ID pin? We need a better search on the wiki Maybe also a small article with photos (as example) of a reworked charger (I

Re: Car charger to GTA02

2008-08-10 Thread C R McClenaghan
Although not measured, I've confirmed that the iGo systems - Juice and car charger - with the A32 tip will charge the Neo Freerunner. At one point it stopped working, but either of a uboot or kernel change has it working again. On Aug 10, 2008, at 8:19 AM, Olivier Berger wrote: Marco

Re: Car charger to GTA02

2008-08-08 Thread Joerg Reisenweber
Am Fr 8. August 2008 schrieb Michael: On 11/07/08 00:00:51, Marco Trevisan (Treviño) wrote: I'm pretty sure the neo1973 cant charge with more than 500mA due to the hardware, nothing in software will fix that, I think the post you quoted was about the freerunner. I read months ago

RE: Car charger to GTA02

2008-07-21 Thread steve
I'll have to check. I used the same tip with my old razr -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of C R McClenaghan Sent: Sunday, July 20, 2008 5:00 PM To: List for Openmoko community discussion Subject: Re: Car charger to GTA02 Steve, I'm either

Re: Car charger to GTA02

2008-07-20 Thread C R McClenaghan
McClenaghan Sent: Friday, July 11, 2008 8:44 PM To: List for Openmoko community discussion Cc: Brenda Wang Subject: Re: Car charger to GTA02 A general question related to car charging. I have an iGo charger and many tips. One is a mini-usb tip. It seems to be charging my Neo okay

RE: Car charger to GTA02

2008-07-13 Thread steve
: Re: Car charger to GTA02 A general question related to car charging. I have an iGo charger and many tips. One is a mini-usb tip. It seems to be charging my Neo okay. Is there an reason I shouldn't use this device? There is also an iGo car charger that accepts the same tips. I'm not trying

Re: Car charger to GTA02

2008-07-12 Thread Al Johnson
On Saturday 12 July 2008, Marco Trevisan (Treviño) wrote: steve wrote: Magic 47 ohm resistor will get you 1A. its on the wiki somewhere. Thanks... Should be that on the ID pin? Should be 47k ohm from ID pin to ground. Description is on:

RE: Car charger to GTA02

2008-07-11 Thread steve
Subject: Re: Car charger to GTA02 Andy Selby ha scritto: How do you enable 1A charging via software? The echo 'fast_cccv' etc.. only seems to give me 500ma. Is there a sysfs interface to this, or does it have to be done by the kernel? This is for the Neo 1973 by the way. I'm pretty sure

Re: Car charger to GTA02

2008-07-11 Thread C R McClenaghan
] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Marco Trevisan (Treviño) Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2008 4:01 PM To: community@lists.openmoko.org Subject: Re: Car charger to GTA02 Andy Selby ha scritto: How do you enable 1A charging via software? The echo 'fast_cccv' etc.. only seems to give me

Re: Car charger to GTA02

2008-07-10 Thread Andy Selby
How do you enable 1A charging via software? The echo 'fast_cccv' etc.. only seems to give me 500ma. Is there a sysfs interface to this, or does it have to be done by the kernel? This is for the Neo 1973 by the way. I'm pretty sure the neo1973 cant charge with more than 500mA due to the

Re: Car charger to GTA02

2008-07-10 Thread Marco Trevisan (Treviño)
Andy Selby ha scritto: How do you enable 1A charging via software? The echo 'fast_cccv' etc.. only seems to give me 500ma. Is there a sysfs interface to this, or does it have to be done by the kernel? This is for the Neo 1973 by the way. I'm pretty sure the neo1973 cant charge with more

Re: Car charger to GTA02

2008-07-08 Thread Michael
On 04/07/08 20:38:02, Michael Shiloh wrote: Depends what you're going to do with it. If you use a Y cable to charge the phone while powering another USB device you may need 1.5A. Recognize also that you'll have to either add the ID resistor yourself, or manually enable 1A charging

Re: Car charger to GTA02

2008-07-06 Thread Joerg Reisenweber
Am Sa 5. Juli 2008 schrieb Marco Trevisan (Treviño): btw has ever written the howto (we was talking about some months ago) for adding an ID resistor to a standard USB charger? Too many different usb-connectors out there, most of them molded and break when you open. So any howto very

Re: Car charger to GTA02

2008-07-06 Thread Al Johnson
On Sunday 06 July 2008, Joerg Reisenweber wrote: Am Sa 5. Juli 2008 schrieb Marco Trevisan (Treviño): btw has ever written the howto (we was talking about some months ago) for adding an ID resistor to a standard USB charger? Too many different usb-connectors out there, most of them

Re: Car charger to GTA02

2008-07-06 Thread Michael Shiloh
Al Johnson wrote: On Sunday 06 July 2008, Joerg Reisenweber wrote: Am Sa 5. Juli 2008 schrieb Marco Trevisan (Treviño): btw has ever written the howto (we was talking about some months ago) for adding an ID resistor to a standard USB charger? Too many different usb-connectors out there,

Re: Car charger to GTA02

2008-07-04 Thread Al Johnson
On Friday 04 July 2008, Alexander Frøyseth wrote: Marco Trevisan (Treviño) skrev: I'd like to buy one. Is this [1] good to get the full-charging speed with the Freerunner? Thanks! [1] http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=360065251941 Yes it is :) You only needs 1 Amp,

Re: Car charger to GTA02

2008-07-04 Thread Michael Shiloh
Al Johnson wrote: On Friday 04 July 2008, Alexander Frøyseth wrote: Marco Trevisan (Treviño) skrev: I'd like to buy one. Is this [1] good to get the full-charging speed with the Freerunner? Thanks! [1] http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=360065251941 Yes it is :) You only

RE: Car charger to GTA02

2008-07-04 Thread steve
make a compilation of this stuff and wikify accordingly -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Marco Trevisan (Treviño) Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2008 7:09 PM To: community@lists.openmoko.org Subject: Re: Car charger to GTA02 I'd like to buy one

Re: Car charger to GTA02

2008-07-04 Thread Marco Trevisan (Treviño)
Michael Shiloh wrote: Al Johnson wrote: On Friday 04 July 2008, Alexander Frøyseth wrote: Marco Trevisan (Treviño) skrev: I'd like to buy one. Is this [1] good to get the full-charging speed with the Freerunner? Thanks! [1] http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=360065251941

Re: Car charger to GTA02

2008-07-03 Thread Marco Trevisan (Treviño)
I'd like to buy one. Is this [1] good to get the full-charging speed with the Freerunner? Thanks! [1] http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=360065251941 -- Treviño's World - Life and Linux http://www.3v1n0.net/ ___ Openmoko community

Re: Car charger to GTA02

2008-07-03 Thread Alexander Frøyseth
Marco Trevisan (Treviño) skrev: I'd like to buy one. Is this [1] good to get the full-charging speed with the Freerunner? Thanks! [1] http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=360065251941 Yes it is :) You only needs 1 Amp, this have 2 Amps

Re: Car charger to GTA02

2008-04-02 Thread Andy Green
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Somebody in the thread at some point said: | If you want fast charge (1A) you can either : | - Use the special cable that have the resistor, that provides GTA0x a | way to recognize the charger | - Use the applet somebody wrote to force fast charge

Re: Car charger to GTA02

2008-04-02 Thread Andy Powell
On Tuesday 01 April 2008 17:01, Michael Shiloh wrote: snip By the way, if someone nicely documents step 3, including the resistor value, and how to identify which wires go to which pins, with excellent drawings or photographs, I'll nominate that for a developer of the week award :-) I

Re: Car charger to GTA02

2008-04-02 Thread Andy Green
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Somebody in the thread at some point said: | Annoyingly enough this will be the hard bit because the fifth ID pin is | typically not connected to any wire in the cable. | | Good point. Are you aware of any cable that does bring out this pin? The

Re: Car charger to GTA02

2008-04-02 Thread Steven Milburn
a mini-USB to min-USB cable will only have 4 wires. The ID pin is tied to ground at one end of the cable, and left floating at the other. The ID pins at the two ends of the cables to not connect. --Steve On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 6:48 AM, Andy Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP

Re: Car charger to GTA02

2008-04-02 Thread Michael Shiloh
Andy Powell wrote: On Tuesday 01 April 2008 17:01, Michael Shiloh wrote: snip By the way, if someone nicely documents step 3, including the resistor value, and how to identify which wires go to which pins, with excellent drawings or photographs, I'll nominate that for a developer of the week

Re: Car charger to GTA02

2008-04-02 Thread Michael Shiloh
Marco Trevisan (Treviño) wrote: Michael Shiloh ha scritto: A generic solution can be built this way: 1. Locate a generic USB car charger e.g. http://www.daydeal.com/product.php?productid=10892. Make sure it can supply at least 1A. Note in my example that the specs don't say this, but if

Re: Car charger to GTA02

2008-04-02 Thread Alexander Frøyseth
Anyway, I am going to try this out, but I do not have a Neo for the moment, soo if anyone can confirm the works I lay out. Michael Shiloh skrev: Andy Powell wrote: On Tuesday 01 April 2008 17:01, Michael Shiloh wrote: snip By the way, if someone nicely documents step 3, including the

Re: Car charger to GTA02

2008-04-02 Thread joerg
Am Mi 2. April 2008 schrieb Michael Shiloh: Marco Trevisan (Treviño) wrote: Michael Shiloh ha scritto: A generic solution can be built this way: 1. Locate a generic USB car charger e.g. http://www.daydeal.com/product.php?productid=10892. Make sure it can supply at least 1A. Note

Re: Car charger to GTA02

2008-04-01 Thread Kolja Dummann
I don't know, if there will be a official Car Charger, but if not you might use something like this[1] [1] http://tiny.cc/IJMHm 2008/4/1, Alexander Frøyseth [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hey. Is it any plans about a car charger to FreeRunner? And if it is, what are the status? If not this is something

Re: Car charger to GTA02

2008-04-01 Thread Alexander Frøyseth
Hmm Perhaps I will make one, and offcorse share the plans. I do not have a Neo, but if someone dares to try it on theirs and it works, I will be a verry happy man. Starting the research now, anyone that can give me the specs of the charger, Voltage and Amps. Alexander Frøyseth Kolja

Re: Car charger to GTA02

2008-04-01 Thread Johann Koenig
On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 7:35 AM, Alexander Frøyseth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hmm Perhaps I will make one, and offcorse share the plans. I do not have a Neo, but if someone dares to try it on theirs and it works, I will be a verry happy man. Starting the research now, anyone that can give

Re: Car charger to GTA02

2008-04-01 Thread Andy Green
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Somebody in the thread at some point said: | 3. Carefully slice open the cable and solder in the appropriate resistor | between the appropriate conductors (someone needs to document this) Annoyingly enough this will be the hard bit because the

Re: Car charger to GTA02

2008-04-01 Thread Alexander Frøyseth
I can take a look and draw some plans, perhaps even a PCB plan. But I have to wait to I am back at school in 2 about weeks Alexander Frøyseth Andy Green skrev: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Somebody in the thread at some point said: | 3. Carefully slice open the cable and

Re: Car charger to GTA02

2008-04-01 Thread Marco Trevisan (Treviño)
Michael Shiloh ha scritto: A generic solution can be built this way: 1. Locate a generic USB car charger e.g. http://www.daydeal.com/product.php?productid=10892. Make sure it can supply at least 1A. Note in my example that the specs don't say this, but if you look at the picture carefully

Re: Car charger to GTA02

2008-04-01 Thread Alexander Frøyseth
It have to be mod sinse a pc usb uses 5V and a car 12V Perhaps the is other resons to Alexander Frøyseth 2008/4/2, Marco Trevisan (Treviño) [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Michael Shiloh ha scritto: A generic solution can be built this way: 1. Locate a generic USB car charger e.g.