GTA02 is now an expensive brick

[Marc Rios]

Hi,

Can you tell me how you make this script to load on start-up. I think its a
good choice to make. I'm with qtopia distro.

Thanks
--
Marc Rios

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On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 6:16 PM, Timo Juhani Lindfors
<timo.lindfors at iki.fi>wrote:

> "Lucas Lacroix" <raijinsetsu at gmail.com> writes:
> > I'm saddened by the fact that a phone that was supposed to be released to
> > the masses can have such a blatant failing. Not only can it NOT turn on
> when
> > the battery has little or no charge, the APM service does not turn the
> phone
> > off to prevent this (note: all OTHER phones I have ever used WILL turn
> off
> > when the battery gets below some critical level).
>
> I use a simple shell script to shutdown the phone in one minute if it
> is not charging and the capacity is less than 4%.
>
>
> #!/bin/sh
> set -e
> . $HOME/.sysfsrc
>
> while true; do
>    # log battery info to stdout
>    echo -n "`date -Iseconds` `date +%s`"
>    for i in type status voltage_now current_now charge_full temp technology
> present time_to_empty_now time_to_full_now capacity online; do
>        val="`cat $sys_battery/$i | sed 's/ /_/'`"
>        echo -n " $val"
>    done
>    val="`cut -d' ' -f2 /proc/loadavg`"
>    echo -n " $val"
>    echo ""
>
>    # workaround #1158
>    if [ "`cat $sys_battery/capacity`" -lt 95 ]; then
>        if [ "`cat $sys_battery/status`" = "Not charging" ]; then
>            usbhost-start
>            usbhost-stop
>        fi
>    fi
>
>    # workaround #1712
>    if [ "`cat $sys_battery/capacity`" -lt 4 ]; then
>        if [ "`cat $sys_battery/status`" = "Not charging" ]; then
>            sudo shutdown -h 1
>            exit
>        fi
>    fi
>    sleep 120
> done
>
> > On top of this, if I ever expect to have a working phone, I have to
> disable
> > the only feature which should extend the battery life (read that as:
> > OpenMoko has fixed the WSoD problem by replacing it with the BSoD - Black
> > Screen of Death).
>
> Can't say much here. I have not seen either problem very often.
>
> > work with this battery. Lastly, I do not have a second battery.
>
> Try to find somebody else who has a freerunner and borrow a battery
> for a while?
>
>
>
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