blink AUX or power light while suspended?

Nathan Kinkade nath at nkinka.de
Mon Aug 31 20:00:11 CEST 2009


On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 07:40:53PM +0200, Sebastian Krzyszkowiak wrote:
> 
> A5 isn't prototype, it was sold to end-user for some time. And waking
> system is bad idea.
> 
> PS. I have A5 and I'm already using AUX LED to blink when there are
> missed calls or unread messages using opimd interface. I'm just saying
> facts (well, that was me who noticed that power-hungry aux led) ;)

Hmmm.  And it looks like I've got revision A5 too. :-)  I was  basing
what I said off something I had read on the Openmoko wiki, which seems
to have been incorrect.

$ cat /proc/cpuinfo
<snip>
Hardware    : GTA02
Revision    : 24420350
<snip>

So you're already using the AUX light to let you know when a call or SMS
was missed?  Is this only while the phone is charging and/or not
supended?  How did you get that working?

And as someone else pointed out, illuminating the power LED instead of
the AUX might be a nice idea if the power consumption flaw only exists
for the AUX LED on revision A5.

Nathan



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