Freerunner not charging?

[Marcel "MadJo" de Jong]

> 1) should there be a led indicating it's charging?
>
> nope.

Ok, then I don't have to worry about that. (would be nice to have though)


> 2) and is it normal for the icon to appear red after it had a chance to
> charge overnight? (about 7hrs of charge time)
> 3) or should I leave it in longer for the first time?

> there have been several reports of the fr discharging when connected to  
> usb (incl charger) for a long time. so that bug might have bitten you as  
> well. the flash from green to red might be due to an additional bug in  
> redrawing the icon correctly (i recall at least one posting, i think).
> i am absolutely not sure how a fresh li-ion battery likes to be handled --  
> some manuals say you need to discharge and recharge a few times to get the  
> full capacity, others do not. stroller announced a well thought strategy  
> how to handly his freerunner's battery -- but that was before he got his  
> fr, so no clue what to do :-)

But wasn't it so that the freerunner can't recharge the battery if it's
completely empty?

> did you flash your u-boot, too?
> what image (rootfs, kernel) do you use right now?

Yes, I flashed the uboot, the kernel and rootfs.

Uboot is: 
(u-boot-gta02v5-1.3.1+svnr4297+gitb29661fc1151077776454288051bc9a488351ce8-r3.bin)

Rootfs is:
(scaredycat-openmoko-devel-image-om-gta02.jffs2)

And I believe (but I can only check that when I get home tonight) that I
used this for the uImage:
uImage-2.6.24+git20080507-r0-om-gta02.bin 
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