USB cable hacking
Hello Community, I just bought a portable USB battery pack ( one of these: http://apc.com/products/family/index.cfm?id=314 ) to use with my FreeRunner so that I could keep tangogps running to log a track for me during a bike ride. It worked quite well: I was able to keep the unit powered on for over 12 hours and still had some juice left over to make some phone calls at the end of the day. However, I noticed that the FR was only drawing 100mA. I was sort of hoping that the battery pack would emulate a USB host and negotiate current, but it looks like it just has available power. Anyway, I saw on http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/USB_charger that the included AC adapter has a 47.5 kOhm resistor betwen ID and GND. Like many other people on this list, I have dozens of USB A to Mini-B cables cluttering the house, and I figured it might be a neat idea to cut a cable, splice it short (about 20cm or so), and add a resistor. This cable would be used only for charging with the battery pack. I don't like the idea of having to switch the FR to force fast charge, possibly forgetting to switch it back before plugging it into a computer, and possibly destroying the USB port on the computer and/or the FR. A dedicated charging cable would make this simpler. Problem is, the ID pin apparently exists only on the Mini-B connector, and doesn't have a corresponding wire inside the USB cable. Has anybody on the list done USB connector hacking, and have any tips on how to get a resistor in there without interfering with plug in operation? Also, what part of the software exactly is responsible for charger detection? I guess another possibility is to hack the software to recognize shorted data pins as a charger. I have another device with a charger that identifies itself by shorted data pins, but more importantly, shorting the data pins is a much easier mod to perform on a USB cable. I suppose the easiest option would be to cut off the end of a FR charger (or other compatible charger with a resistor across GND and ID) and splice it with a USB cable... but I would like to hear other suggestions that people may have. ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Highest order number shipped? (Was Number of GTA02s ordered)
Steven Kurylo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think you're pretty low. In another thread someone said their OM store tracking number was 1087. Mine is in the 1600s. While there are some assumptions there, it strongly indecates they've shipped 600 from their store alone. Has yours shipped yet? Our 10-pack is order #2267. I wonder how many they ship a day. I wonder what the highest order number shipped yet is... Anyone get a ship confirmation last night? If you think you have a high number, what was it? ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: ATT SIM problems
Thanks, Vinc. What worried me was the fact that the trouble ticket isn't closed yet, and there's no positive confirmation that ATT SIMs work now that I have found. I e-mailed Michael; hopefully he'll have the answers. (Also, sorry to everybody for posting twice. For whatever reason my message didn't go through when I posted it the first time. I re-posted several hours later, only to discover that my original message made it several hours after that.) From: Vinc Duran [EMAIL PROTECTED] It looks like there's more information on this bug here http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Community_Updates, scroll down to Delivery of a GSM firmware update for the 3G SIM bug. From this I'd think [EMAIL PROTECTED] would know more. ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
ATT SIM Compatibility in FR
Sorry if this question has been asked before, but I have noticed that there seem to be issues with ATT SIM cards and the Neo1973. (http://bugzilla.openmoko.org/cgi-bin/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=666) Have they been resolved in the FreeRunner? ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
ATT SIM problems
Sorry if this question has been asked before, but I have noticed that there seem to be issues with ATT SIM cards and the Neo1973. (http://bugzilla.openmoko.org/cgi-bin/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=666) Have they been resolved in the FreeRunner? ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
