Re: [GTA02] clock reset on battery removal?

2010-04-09 Thread Werner Almesberger
Paul Wise wrote: > Yet another hardware design issue I guess, I'm quite surprised there > isn't a small battery to power the clock like in PCs. There is. It's called the "backup battery". It's the small "button" next to the front speaker. Strangely, this battery has a very pronounced death wish. I

Re: [GTA02] clock reset on battery removal?

2010-04-09 Thread Russell Hay
I started seeing this in Jan - similar time to the RTC errors being discussed on the list; http://lists.openmoko.org/nabble.html#nabble-f1958 Russ On 9 April 2010 15:39, Al Johnson wrote: > On Friday 09 April 2010, Paul Wise wrote: > > Timo Juhani Lindfors wrote: > > > USB usb power while swa

Re: [GTA02] clock reset on battery removal?

2010-04-09 Thread Timo Juhani Lindfors
Paul Wise writes: > Yet another hardware design issue I guess, I'm quite surprised there > isn't a small battery to power the clock like in PCs. There is a small battery. Look at the schematics please :-) ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@l

Re: [GTA02] clock reset on battery removal?

2010-04-09 Thread Al Johnson
On Friday 09 April 2010, Paul Wise wrote: > Timo Juhani Lindfors wrote: > > USB usb power while swapping batteries so that you don't need > > to power the system down. > > Most of the times that I need to remove the battery I don't have USB > power, so that isn't very helpful. > > Yet another har

Re: [GTA02] clock reset on battery removal?

2010-04-09 Thread Jakob
On 4/9/10, Paul Wise wrote: > Timo Juhani Lindfors wrote: > >> USB usb power while swapping batteries so that you don't need >> to power the system down. > > Most of the times that I need to remove the battery I don't have USB > power, so that isn't very helpful. > > Yet another hardware design is

Re: [GTA02] clock reset on battery removal?

2010-04-09 Thread Paul Wise
Timo Juhani Lindfors wrote: > USB usb power while swapping batteries so that you don't need > to power the system down. Most of the times that I need to remove the battery I don't have USB power, so that isn't very helpful. Yet another hardware design issue I guess, I'm quite surprised there isn

Re: [GTA02] clock reset on battery removal?

2010-04-05 Thread Timo Juhani Lindfors
Paul Wise writes: > until FSO (in Debian & SHR) sets the system time to the GPS time. > Is there any better way to deal with this? USB usb power while swapping batteries so that you don't need to power the system down. ___ Openmoko community mailing

[GTA02] clock reset on battery removal?

2010-04-05 Thread Paul Wise
Hi all, I've noticed that the clock gets reset to the year 2000 after shutting down, swapping batteries and starting again. It doesn't happen when I leave the battery in. I usually deal with that by turning on the GPS until FSO (in Debian & SHR) sets the system time to the GPS time. Is there any b