Help, please! GTA01BV4 died!

Joerg Reisenweber joerg at openmoko.org
Sun Jun 1 20:54:34 CEST 2008


Am So  1. Juni 2008 schrieb Panta:
> Sorry, i'm not so good enough in speaking english so perhaps have 
> misunterstood your words: you can really send me a faster charger for the 
> Neo1973? 

Sorry Panta!
I was in a bad mood when I answered your last posting. :o(
No, I don't have spare fastchargers, only 2 I need for tests. But you 
can "easily" convert a off-the-shelf charger when you find a 5pin-mini-usb 
plug to build the 47kOhm-ID hack GTA02 charger is using to switch to 
fastcharge automatically. There's a howto in the wiki, I think from Michel 
Shiloh. Also in a few weeks pulster.de and other distributors will sell the 
original GTA02-chargers if I got that right. With any standard charger you 
still should be fine with 12h of charging time (or use the script to 
fastcharge)

And yes there is a script / tool to switch on fastcharge with standard 
usb-chargers, which should work with GTA01 as well. I'm not sure whether 
it's "approved" by OM, but AFAIK it's not deprecated and has been tested by 
some users. You have to care yourself not to smoke up a too weak usb-charger 
that isn't designed to deliver 1A at least (that's why we don't "approve" 
it). So please double-check before using this script (charger should have 
spec "5V=/1A" (or 1,5A or 2A;))

Alas to me it seems your problem isn't the battery or charging it. Though I 
have no GTA01 here to test, I think your battery should charge faster, and 
your Neo should at least show *some* kind of reaction when starting it.
I suggest you visit next Nokia-store, there should be some batteries that fit 
to the Neo (see wiki:battery for compatible Nokia bats). Ask the guy in the 
shop whether he can check his battery is full, and then ask him you like to 
test if it works with your device before you buy.
If your Neo boots with the Nokia bat, probably you should buy it right away, 
cause yours is probably dead. If it does not boot, I fear you are in trouble 
that's worse. Maybe you should find a technician then to check your Neo 
whether it charges correctly, has working contacts etc.

Best Regards
jOERG
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