Hi everybody, I experienced something similar yesterday with my Freerunner running a recent andy+mwester kernel:
After plugging the turned off phone with about 30% battery left into the wall charger at night, I woke up to realize the battery had become completely drained! And in addition, the original battery would not allow a startup neither with charger nor usb attached, only a spare nokia and then quick-changing while on USB allowed it to become recharged again. When plugging in the charger, the icon for USB now switches between shown / not shown in 1s intervals, accompanied by a knock-sound from the loudspeaker. This happens every time, and looks to me as if the charger is broken - any other USB device attached to it blinks with the same frequency, and I cannot measure the 5V but see fluctuations . Any idea, or shall I contact my distributor (Pulster) for a spare charger ? Stefan On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 7:05 PM, Russell Sears <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Michael Shiloh wrote: > > > > > > Russell Sears wrote: > >> I've started noticing this too. It bit me the night before last, when > >> it was plugged in for 8 hours, but the icon indicated battery status. > >> When I woke up, APM reported the battery was low. (I've been regularly > >> running opkg update/upgrade on the factory image). > >> > >> Plug the charger into the phone. Slowly count to 10 or 20. If the > >> icon doesn't change to have a lightning bolt, unplug the charger from > >> the phone, and repeat. > > > > here's another thing to try: make sure the phone is really charging, > > either with 500mA or 1000mA (assuming you're using the wall charger), > > using Andy's patch that lets you manually set any charge rate: > > > > > http://lists.openmoko.org/pipermail/openmoko-kernel/2008-July/003761.html > > > > Let me know the result of this experiment > > > > Michael > > I'm still trying to reproduce the part where it actually runs the > battery down while plugged in, so I haven't applied the kernel patch. > (Perhaps it was accidentally unplugged or something...) In the meantime: > > What's the desired policy for charging? Could the charger be shutting > off once the battery is full? I've heard that doing this is standard > procedure for Li-Ions, since they don't like to be continuously topped > off... > > My phone is plugged into the charger right now, and says it's not > charging. It said it was charging an hour ago, so now its just a > matter of waiting... I'll disable power management, enable wifi, gps, > etc, and see if that gets it to drain the battery while charging. > > charger_type contains: > > charger 1A mode 1A > > chgstate: > enabled usb_present > > chgcur is empty > > chgmode: > enabled > > apm says: > Off-line, battery status high: > 98% (5d+3:01:00) > > ** Update ** > > I was having some problems with my mail client, so this has been sitting > in my outbox. Anyway, I left the phone on the charger last night, woke > up and it was on with the red and exclamation point in the battery > status icon. I pulled the charger plug out of the phone and reinserted > it, which shut down the phone. I can't turn it back on, so I'm going to > buy a second battery and/or external charger today... It seems the best > way to reproduce the issue is with a batter that's not nearly full. > > -Rusty > > > _______________________________________________ > support mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/support >
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