Battery charging/draining issues

Krzysztof Kajkowski cayco at poczta.cayco.pl
Fri Aug 3 08:57:25 CEST 2007


2007/8/3, Pranav Desai <pranavadesai at gmail.com>:
> Hello,
>
> I am having a few issues with the battery:
>
> 1) I can't seem to be able to charge the phone when connected to a host
> running windows. Windows does complain about RNDIS device found and then
> 'not working' since it cannot install the driver. I tried to search for the
> driver with no luck.
> But as soon I switch to linux, within 5 mins I can power it up (still
> connected to the host). dmesg shows the usb entry.
>
> What am I missing here ?
>
> 2) Last night I shutdown the phone with the battery indicator showing more
> than half left. This morning it wouldn't fire up. Does the battery keep
> draining even when its shut down ?

Hi! I think I'm having the same thing - I left my Neo ON for night and
in the morning it was down and  I could not wake it. This page
explains some battery and charging issues:
http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Neo1973_Battery_Charger

> Has anyone measured the battery life ?

Some talked about 2 days but mine is completly discharged after one
night. I am going to buy some bigger Nokia BL-5C battery...

cayco



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