Re: Opie 1.2.3 Release

On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 05:54:49PM +0000, John Marshall wrote:
> Sorry for spamming, but I can't find help anywhere else.
>
> Is there anything in the new release to help with failsafes to prevent
> being unable to charge dead batteries. I have an IPAQ H5450 and I didn't
> touch it for a few weeks and now it is a brick. It won't charge. The
> battery has been fine so I don't think it is the battery. I believe the
> IPAQ is so drained that it won't even recognize that the IPAQ is plugged in
> to charge it. Any ideas?

This is a hardware problem that exists for all models in the h5000
series. And Opie has no current way of dealing with it but to be
aggressive about shutting down. Unfortunately, the platform sucks a lot
of juice even when it is suspended to RAM. So even having failsafe code
built in won't help. Your best bet is to try and see if the 2.6 kernel
port has improved on this at all.

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