Battery discharging after long time connected to the power charger ?

[Jim Colton]

Also to note:

I found the Freerunner not charging (actually it was discharging because it
was on) when it was attached to a USB port on the dock station of a laptop.
I moved the connection to a USB on the laptop and it started charging.  I
think some USB ports have lower power or maybe next to none.

The wall charger charges up the device quick - like in 2 hours  .. as is
stated in the wiki.


On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 7:17 PM, Joerg Reisenweber <joerg at openmoko.org>wrote:

> Please note:
> 1) Openmoko does NOT recommend to do this, nor is it usually necessary when
> using the OM-charger or a standard powered host at PC.
> It's a hack for non-OM wallchargers only.
> 2) there already is such an app. Please search the wiki for it!
>
> /jOERG
>
>
> Am Di  29. Juli 2008 schrieb Angus Ainslie:
> > I got tired of forcing the charge from the command line. I wrote a python
> > app to view and control the charge current.
> >
> > You need to "opkg install python-pygtk python-pygobject" and your kernel
> > needs to have the force_usb_limit_dangerous patch.
> >
> > copy http://www.handheldshell.com/software/power_center into /usr/bin
> and
> > "chmod u+x /usr/bin/power_center"
> >
> > copy http://www.handheldshell.com/software/power_center into
> > /usr/share/applications
> >
> > To enable fast 500 mA charge "touch /home/root/allow_force_500"
> >
> > To enable fast 1000 mA charge "touch /home/root/allow_force_1000" I don't
> > recommend using this one
> >
> > The home page is here
> http://www.handheldshell.com/software/powercenter.php
> >
> > Angus
> >
>
>
>
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