[Om 2008] Re: fixing bug #1024 successful reports?

[Al Johnson]

On Thursday 23 July 2009, Lothar Behrens wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am also interested to get my daily phone :-)
>
> Why not just soldering another 10uF capacitor on top of the other. As
> I think soldering the capacitor to the shielding on the right
> yet requires an insulator.

I don't think there's enough space under the can. If there had been I doubt 
people would have been using the methods in this thread:
http://lists.openmoko.org/pipermail/hardware/2009-June/001230.html

> That way no long extra wires may be needed and no unsoldering is
> required.

The method in the post above avoids the long wire and unsoldering, but still 
needs insulation above and below. 

> Some questions:
>
> I have read that making phone calls is impossible with that recamping,
> but I am able to do phone calls.

You can't make or receive the call when the phone isn't registered, and in 
worst case the phone will spend ~1/3 of the time reregistering. Networks seem 
to handle reregistrations differently though - O2 UK sometimes thought the 
phone was switched off when I called it, while Orange and t-mobile always 
connected. This may have been luck though...

> I tried to start logging the battery with
>
> root at om-gta02 ~ $ while true; do
>
>  > date
>  > mdbus -s org.freesmartphone.odeviced /org/freesmartphone/Device/
>
> PowerSupply/battery org.freesmartphone.Device.PowerSupply.GetInfo
>
>  > sleep 5
>  > done >> battery-data
>
> to compare the data, but I do not have mdbus command and it seems not
> to be installable with opkg (OM 2008).
> Where do I get it?

It wouldn't help on om2008.x as it isn't using FSO. You should be able to use 
apm or the sysfs battery entry to get similar information though. See:
	http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/GTA02_sysfs