Freerunner won't boot: dies in uboot

[Werner Almesberger]

Chris Wright wrote:
> It's been plugged in for about 100 hours at this point, and went for a
> stretch of about 50 hours without me touching it. No change in
> symptoms.

So even after 100 hours, you can't even make it to the boot menu ?

This would sound like a pre-MP device with a too small Vsys
capacitor:
http://people.openmoko.org/werner/gta02-chg/

You could try to trickle-charge the battery with a ~4 V voltage
source. Once it comes out of cut-off, you may be able to make
it to the boot menu.

- Werner