Free Runner won't turn on

Armin ranjbar zoup at zoup.org
Mon Sep 15 07:10:00 CEST 2008


On Mon, 15 Sep 2008 00:10:41 +0200
umaxx <umaxx at oleco.net> wrote:

> On Sun, 14 Sep 2008 17:53:46 +0530
> "Edgar D' Souza" <edgar.b.dsouza at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 3:09 PM, Christian Adams <morlac at morlac.de>
> > wrote:
> > > ARGH!
> > > moin the 2nd
> > >
> > > my freerunner is back to life .. strange thing ..
> > > i just connected to my powerbook (as external pwr-source instead of
> > > wall-charger) and inserted battery and it turned on ..
> > 
> > Heh... I discovered this by accident some time ago, running 2007.2
> > stock with upgrades... shut down the phone since not using it; an hour
> > later, I tried to power the phone on again, and discovered it
> > wouldn't, just like Michael describes (I got no click/AUX LED blink
> > like you describe). Pretty amazed at how the battery could possibly
> > discharge in one hour with the phone *shut down*, I plugged in the
> > wall charger, and it came on on its own... and when it booted, batt
> > charge was pretty much above 90% - so I still have no idea what that
> > was all about. Have only encountered it twice more; once when running
> > Qtopia, with a near-full batt, and once with Qtopia and the battery
> > was almost drained, so no wonder it wouldn't come on.
> > 
> > I observed this once with 2007.2, once with Qtopia. Michael said he's
> > using 2008.08... and you're using Debian... so very low odds of it
> > being rootfs-specific, right? Kernel-related, or some bug with power
> > handling in h/w? Dunno...
> 
> same experiences here with 2007.x and 2008.x-asu.
> sometimes i need to remove the battery multiple times before it is
> working again.
> 
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Same here , 

my Device wasnt Bricked , that was this issue 


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