for me it was always working: * unplug charger * take out the battery for a second and place it back * connect charger and leave it charging an minimal current over the night * power up the phone in the morning and let it charge at 1A if not yet charged fully ;-)
I've been going to post about alternative "Chinese" chargers for a while, but forgotten to do that, so doing it now: Some time ago I got smth like http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.1144 just without transformer, so it was a bit cheaper and ebay and other website full of similar things or http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.15924 or http://www.cellphoneshop.net/unbatrch.html you can find more of the models from different makers at http://www.chinasuppliers.globalsources.com/china-suppliers/Universal-Cell-Phone-Charger.htm iirc the one I have gives up to 500mA So, they cost 2-10$ depending on the model/deal/website and work for most of the batteries. since FR fails to charge my battery from nokia phone (don't recall the model), this charger does it fine so I always have a spare battery available if I need a rapid boot to charge original battery from FR It is not that clear from the description how to use this beast. But there is plenty of youtube videos: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKsxq8SeN3Q Hope this helps ;-) If you find it useful - please don't hesitate to update the wiki with this information Cheers On Sun, 04 Jan 2009, Lucas Lacroix wrote: > I forgot to plug the Neo in last night, and now the battery is > completely dead. I cannot even get to the NOR boot. I've tried both USB > and the charger. I have tried with and without the battery. No > combination of these will get the phone to turn on so it can charge the > battery. > I'm saddened by the fact that a phone that was supposed to be released > to the masses can have such a blatant failing. Not only can it NOT turn > on when the battery has little or no charge, the APM service does not > turn the phone off to prevent this (note: all OTHER phones I have ever > used WILL turn off when the battery gets below some critical level). > On top of this, if I ever expect to have a working phone, I have to > disable the only feature which should extend the battery life (read > that as: OpenMoko has fixed the WSoD problem by replacing it with the > BSoD - Black Screen of Death). > I have looked at the work-arounds, and none of them have worked or are > doable. I refuse to "hardware hack" my phone with an external 4.5V line > to give it the initial charge. I also do not have access to a charger > that will work with this battery. Lastly, I do not have a second > battery. > If anyone has any suggestions, I'm open. However, if I'm unable to find > a solution, I I cannot say that I will continue to support or recommend > the OpenMoko platform or the Neo Freerunner phone. > _______________________________________________ > support mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/support -- .-. =------------------------------ /v\ ----------------------------= Keep in touch // \\ (yoh@|www.)onerussian.com Yaroslav Halchenko /( )\ ICQ#: 60653192 Linux User ^^-^^ [175555] _______________________________________________ support mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/support
