Battery discharging after long time connected to the power charger ?

Joerg Reisenweber joerg at openmoko.org
Wed Jul 30 03:17:33 CEST 2008


Please note:
1) Openmoko does NOT recommend to do this, nor is it usually necessary when 
using the OM-charger or a standard powered host at PC.
It's a hack for non-OM wallchargers only.
2) there already is such an app. Please search the wiki for it!

/jOERG


Am Di  29. Juli 2008 schrieb Angus Ainslie:
> I got tired of forcing the charge from the command line. I wrote a python
> app to view and control the charge current.
> 
> You need to "opkg install python-pygtk python-pygobject" and your kernel
> needs to have the force_usb_limit_dangerous patch.
> 
> copy http://www.handheldshell.com/software/power_center into /usr/bin and
> "chmod u+x /usr/bin/power_center"
> 
> copy http://www.handheldshell.com/software/power_center into
> /usr/share/applications
> 
> To enable fast 500 mA charge "touch /home/root/allow_force_500"
> 
> To enable fast 1000 mA charge "touch /home/root/allow_force_1000" I don't
> recommend using this one
> 
> The home page is here http://www.handheldshell.com/software/powercenter.php
> 
> Angus
> 


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