Dead battery

[Aaron Sowry]

On Wed, 2008-08-20 at 20:17 +0200, Konstantin wrote:
> Andy Green wrote:
> > Somebody in the thread at some point said:
> > | I have completely drained my battery to the point where the Freerunner
> > | will not boot and hence I cannot charge it.
> 
> I don't know if that is relevant, but some days ago, I think I had a dead
> battery, too (freerunner shut down, didn's start via the power button or by
> connecting the charger), and for me, it helped to start into NOR (which
> surprisingly worked) and then boot from there. The FR started up and began
> charging and worked happily ever after... :)

In case anyone else has the same problem, the above solution worked for
me. I booted into NOR, then selected 'boot' which seemed to start the
phone up - at which point I very hastily plugged the phone in and let it
charge.

Thanks,
Aaron