Freerunner will be GTA02v5 or GTA02v6?

[Gilbert Hartmann]

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Crane, Matthew wrote:
| How complicated would surgery to fix this be?  Is it reasonable to
| create a wiki page detailing hw fix?
|
| Matt
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| From: community-bounces at lists.openmoko.org
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On Behalf Of Andy Green
| Sent: Tuesday, April 29, 2008 8:56 AM
| To: List for Openmoko community discussion
| Subject: Re: Freerunner will be GTA02v5 or GTA02v6? (was: Fwd: Future
| Button and LED software spec)
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| Somebody in the thread at some point said:
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| |>  | Is it possible to turn off these LEDs via Software?
|
| |>  Yes, they're all controlled from the CPU and default to being off.
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| | Does this mean that they won't draw any power when they're turned off?
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| They won't draw any power when off... that part works as intended.
|
| It's only when you turn them on, the transistor causes the CPU pin
| itself to eat current itself due to an oversight.  The effect in
| consumption terms is something as if you lit several LEDs instead of the
| one, say.  But the LEDs come on and off as normal, are lit properly,
| etc.
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| In normal use the LEDs aren't on much if at all, so it isn't anything
| that would stop me getting an A5 personally.
|
| -Andy

I believe I've read somewhere (probably another branch of this thread) that the
LED issue will be fixed for all shipping Freerunners because they just need to
switch out a transistor (though the current testing models still have it). So no
surgery will be necessary.

- --Bert
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