I think the fixed bug the wiki refers to is a state where the phone would discharge the battery while plugged into a charger...
The unbootable state is a known hardware bug. I don't think leaving it plugged in and turned off will help. It might even drain the battery further. I think they're working on getting it to boot without a battery, which will solve the problem. Shouldn't the qtopia image have seen that the charge was below, say 5%, and shut itself off? Does / should that logic live in the kernel, or in a userspace daemon? What about third party batteries (that don't report % charge)? -Rusty Vincent de Grandpré wrote: > Quote : "and booting through USB power alone does not work." > > Fact is that on my Neo1973 it is working fine to charge with USB power > alone. > Look at the Wiki (OK I found much more infos on it since the last four > months..) ... somewhere it says (and that's true) that your Neo (I figure > it's the same thing for Freerunner) will charge at a minimal (say really > minimalistic) rate so you can be able to boot from a completely discharged > battery within hours. Here is the steps you must try : > > 1. Remove the battery for about 2 minutes (just to be SURE that there is no > voltage left in the hardware) > 2. Replace the discharged / dead / disfunctionnal battery > 3. Plug in your USB cable to your PC directly (no USB-power hub or anything. > Straight on the PC. Also make sure that there is voltage sent thru the USB > port you plugged your device into) > 4. Wait! (go to sleep and come back after 8 hours of good sleep) > 5. Take a breakfast and push you power button. That should do. > > On my side, I got my battery busted after some hardcore bluetooth testing > with my Neo1973. Since then it seems to discharge but I cannot tell if it is > software related or not.. Since my system's flash space is almost used at > 99.9% I have a lot of unconventional behaviors with my Neo. Anyways. When I > plug it into my PC tower it always boots when he reach the state of "Man! I > got enough GuRu to lift myself up!!" (read: Enough energy to boot). Then, > what happens is that for some reasons the battery do not charge so the > device ran out of power then again it boots and so on and so forth until I > turn off my PC. > > So I do not know if you battery is so in deep state of usefulness but if she > got some little power inside (did you tried to test it with your tongue?) > she might just boot again!! > > If not, ask FIC for another one. > > Good luck! > > Regards, > Vincent de Grandpré > > 2008/8/20 Aaron Sowry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> I have completely drained my battery to the point where the Freerunner >> will not boot and hence I cannot charge it. >> >> >From the Wiki: >> >>> Make sure that the battery never discharges completely. This is an issue >> because >>> the internal charging circuitry can not be turned on until the FreeRunner >> has >>> booted, and booting through USB power alone does not work. >>> (If you have the newest kernel images, you should be safe due to a >> software fix.) >> >> I was using the latest Qtopia image so assume I have the newest kernel >> images as well, but I >> still have no idea how to get my phone booting again in the absence of an >> external charger >> or a second battery. Ideas anyone? Chou >> >> Aaron >> >> _______________________________________________ >> support mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/support >> > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > support mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/support _______________________________________________ support mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/support
