Warning. Don't remove battery with usb power

Tim Knapp duffyd at kokorice.org
Tue Mar 4 05:10:29 CET 2008


On Tue, 2008-03-04 at 16:55 +1300, Ben Wilson wrote:
> Hi Tim
> 
> While it is possible I think it's quite unlikely. When switchmode power 
> supplies die they normally destroy themselves.
> I would expect, if damage occurred due to usb powered battery removal, 
> the phone would be dead rather than develop booting problems.

Oh, cool - thanks for clarifying that :)

-Tim

> 
> Ben.
> 
> Tim Knapp wrote:
> > Hi Ben,
> >
> > Yeah I've done this *once* and it freaked me out. I'm still a bit
> > concerned I've caused some permanent damage on my Neo as I've had
> > problems booting images on the nand ever since but sdcard images work
> > fine - jury is still out on that one.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Tim
> >
> > On Tue, 2008-03-04 at 13:45 +1300, Ben Wilson wrote:
> >   
> >> Hey,
> >>
> >> Just a reminder to everyone *NOT* to pull out the battery while the neo 
> >> has USB power.
> >>
> >> You may not have heard it but the phone gets quite angry. As evident by 
> >> a quiet scream the phone emits as the components in its power system 
> >> begin to vibrate closer to magic smoke land.
> >>
> >> Talking with people on IRC most have done this on occasion without any 
> >> damage. However you are definitely risking permanent damage with the 
> >> chance increasing with every second it is in this state.
> >>
> >> My advice would be… Don't do it and if you do it by accident then pull 
> >> the plug out quickly rather than listening to the interesting sound.
> >>
> >> (I don’t know if this also applies to gta02 or not)
> >>
> >> Ben.
> >>
> >>
> >> _______________________________________________
> >> OpenMoko community mailing list
> >> community at lists.openmoko.org
> >> http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
> >>     
> >
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > OpenMoko community mailing list
> > community at lists.openmoko.org
> > http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
> >
> >
> >   
> 
> _______________________________________________
> OpenMoko community mailing list
> community at lists.openmoko.org
> http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community





More information about the community mailing list