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</div></div>You can charge the battery in an external charger, it just need a bit of extra<br>
juice to be able to boot the FR. But you could also use a Nokia BL-5C battery<br>
to boot the FR. After it is started it will keep running from the charger<br>
when you remove the battery. This allows you to boot from one battery and<br>
switch batteries to charge a dead one. The BL-5C battery is found in lots and<br>
lots of nokia phones, there is probably one nearby which you can borrow for 5<br>
minutes :)<br>
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AVee</blockquote><div><br>Thanks AVee. I will try to get an external battery charger or a spare battery or borrow a nokia battery.<br><br>I found other thread which suggests some tricks as well (subj:"External battery charger"). But the trick of holding AUX and inserting USB charger doesn't work for me. That's probably because what the wiki says (<a href="http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Neo_FreeRunner_Battery">http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Neo_FreeRunner_Battery</a>):<br>
"Another complication is that some Freerunners are capable of starting up
without a battery while others are not (possibly due to different
capacitor values on the internal power rails)."<br><br>I will check with alternate battery option in nearby electronic stores.</div></div><br>