backup battery and case screws questions

Alfa21-mobile freerunner at my.is.it
Mon Oct 25 17:05:32 CEST 2010


On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 4:45 PM, Patryk Benderz <Patryk.Benderz at esp.pl> wrote:
> Is there any backup battery? I was sure there was none by design - my FR
> lost RTC since i bought it, even when I removed battery for just a few
> seconds.


yes, look here:
http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Image:Gta02a5_pcba_ps.JPG

on the right, near the middle, the little round metallic shape
soldered on the pcb is the battery.

It's a known hardware bug and afaik replacing it will dry the new one
in short time too.
I'm not aware about a fix to that bug.



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