Fun using power button LEDs as battery indicator

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I have written other script for that LEDs some time ago, it's called
ledd and it's indicating charging state and transferring data over
wifi. http://openmoko.opendevice.org/~dos/ledd

On polish wiki (http://openmoko.opendevice.org/wiki/) you can find
other interesting stuff.

On 10/10/08, Nick Van Fossen <stix213 at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> Some of you probably knew this, but I just found out that the Freerunner
> actually has a couple LEDs under the power button, but they don't seem to be
> used yet in 2008.9 stable.  So, I thought it would be helpful to use them as
> an external battery power indicator.  If you are like me, I let my phone
> screen go black after 60 seconds and go to suspend by button press only, so
> this is also helpful to tell if the Freerunner is in suspend or powered on
> with the screen off.
>
> Power button blue for high battery, purple for medium, and orange for low.
>
> Perl script and simple instructions:
> http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/FreeRunner/Buttons_and_LEDs#Led_Power_Status_Perl_Script
>
> By the way, suspend mode and the phone itself are working great for me after
> figuring out that pulseaudio was causing major problems.  Don't install the
> mediaplayer, and if you did...  get rid of pulseaudio and the phone starts
> working pretty good.
>
> -Nick
>
>
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