My wishlist for Neo1973 phase1.5

Tim Newsom cephdon at gmail.com
Tue Mar 13 07:15:35 CET 2007


On Mon, 12 Mar 2007 23:12, Paul Eggleton wrote:
> After experiencing and reading about the problems with charging
> (http://bugzilla.openmoko.org/cgi-bin/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=212)  I 
> am
> beginning to wonder if it would be a good idea to add a charging LED at 
> some
> point. Most phones show some kind of indication when charging, and a 
> small
> LED would mean you don't have the device in a running state for it to 
> show
> the charging status and it only draws a small amount of current. I'm 
> not
> convinced that using the backlight as an indication is the right thing 
> to do
> in this case.
>
> Obviously I realise "just adding a charging LED" is not an easy task at 
> this
> point but I think it's worth considering for the future.
>
> Cheers,
> Paul

Something that might be easier would be a led in series with one of the 
power terminals on the charger plug.  It will only light when power is 
flowing so you know that you have it connected correctly.  Plus, this 
can be added even in the current generation as it does not require a mod 
to the phone at all.
--Tim



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