<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 11:46 AM, Seth Rothenberg <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:seth@pachai.net">seth@pachai.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
2009/8/13 François-Léonard Gilbert <<a href="mailto:gilbertf@gmail.com">gilbertf@gmail.com</a>>:<br>
<div class="im">> Coincidentally, I left my Freerunner too long between charges<br>
> and I had to find a solution this morning (in the wiki, of course).<br>
><br>
> Try this:<br>
> 1) unplug the FR from USB and charger<br>
</div>> 2) push the AUX button and, while<br>
<div class="im">> maintaining it down, plug the charger in.<br>
</div><div class="im">> 3) push the AUX button periodically (about every 5 secs)<br>
> for 2 minutes (each push cycles the selected item in the menu)<br>
<br>
</div>François,<br>
Thanks for posting this, it is a great creative solution.<br>
Do you know if there is a way to extend the time<br>
in the NOR boot menu? (i.e., to make the timeout<br>
longer) - or, better, is there a way to add a menu choice<br>
"Wait for more intructions" (or "CHARGE" :-)<br>
<br>
While trying to flash the phone, it's annoying<br>
to have to juggle FR, keyboard, mouse, etc.<br>
<br>
Should I open a ticket? (It would be the<br>
first for me on this product, need to learn how :-)<br>
<br>
Thanks<br>
<font color="#888888">Seth<br>
</font></blockquote></div><br>I think "CHARGE" could be a nice menu option, it would lead to a text progress bar showing in real time (every 10 secs to save power) the battery status.<br><br>Another way to do this is to change the default action when plugging in the charger to a shut down FR for a silent charge without booting. I don't know the complexity of doing this - I never even looked at any source code for the FR...<br>
<br>They are already working on U-Boot because of dfu-util so they could be rolling this second patch in a major release of U-Boot and campaign for people to upgrade like they did for the GSM firmware.<br><br>To return to the start of this thread: media_farm, did you get your FR to charge or boot?<br>
<br>Francois<br>