[2008.12] fr gets very hot w/ wifi, gps and wallcharger Re: Hot stuff (literally!)

Christ van Willegen cvwillegen at gmail.com
Wed Jan 28 16:30:39 CET 2009


On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 4:10 PM, Andy Green <andy at openmoko.com> wrote:
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> Somebody in the thread at some point said:
> | On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 3:50 PM, Andy Green <andy at openmoko.com> wrote:
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> |> Somebody in the thread at some point said:
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> |> | - Wifi-icon is on
> |> | - tangoGPS shows movement (so, GPS is on)
> |> | - 'battery' icon shows a nice flash
> |> | - red light in AUX is on
> |> |
> |> | Note the absence of any cables to the FR at the moment :-)
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> |> What kernel is this, 2.6.24 or andy-tracking based one?
> | This is a stock 2008.12, with updates, so a 2.6.24 one.
>
> Well the charging LED thing is broken in 2.6.24 are fixed in any recent
> andy-tracking.  Basically we're not doing anything with 2.6.24 these
> last months, all the effort has been on the -tracking branches.

Figures...

> |> 30 degrees C doesn't sound too volcanic, it's easily reached in ambient
> |> temperature in Taipei on a nice day.
> | No, it's not volcanic, but it shouldn't run that warm to the touch,
> should it?
> |
> | Inside, it's just over 20C (I guess). Outside, it's a nice 2C at the
> moment :-)
>
> It's hard to guess where the power is going if you can't ssh into it.
I'll go home and check if I can still SSH into it from Ubuntu.

> WLAN or GSM side would be reasonable guesses.

How can I check what's going on to any reasonable detail that may
track this down for you?

Christ van Willegen
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