Will there be a hardware revision for the buzzing issue?

Joerg Reisenweber joerg at openmoko.org
Mon Nov 24 02:58:14 CET 2008


Am Mo  24. November 2008 schrieb hiciu:
> Is buzzing issue linked with speaker?
> 
> When my freerunner has removed case and I'm calling to someone I can
> hear silent buzzing. But I am sure it comes from back of the phone
> (near GPS antenna), not from speaker. It is really silent and I can
> hardly hear it with case putted on. It is there even if I use headset
> or mute speaker in alsamixer. It isn't issue for me, but I wonder if
> it is related to "this" buzzing issue or it's something completely
> different.
> 
> Sorry for my bad English. I hope you can understand what I'm mean :).

This is probably caused y the high intermittent current the GSM-modem is 
drawing from battery, what makes coils and the ceramic capacitors on the 
current path act like little speakers.
No reason to be scared ;-)

/jOERG
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