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Title: need help getting my Z to charge the freakin\' battery
Post by: abegaza on April 24, 2004, 08:47:19 am

I am am back with OZ (3.3.5) after trying every other rom, the only problem is that the battery will not charge.  when i plug in the power the batt. applet says i have 100% charge, as soon i unplug the power, the batt applet goes down to 1% within 30 seconds.  also the battery LED never stays on for more than 1 min.  i have tried a recompiled kernel with th 3.2 batt. patch, but it does not seem to work either.  the battery charged with the sharp rom,  any help would be great.

sl-5500
OZ 3.3.5
lexar 32mb cf

Title: need help getting my Z to charge the freakin\' battery
Post by: vishnja on April 24, 2004, 08:57:54 am

So, do I understand correctly that your Zaurus isn\'t charged right now? How long can you run it without AC-power?
The battery applet in OZ 3.3.5 was buggy when I used it, so thought maybe your battery is just fully charged and that\'s why the LED doesn\'t stay on...
Sorry, if I\'m mistaken,
Kathrin

Title: need help getting my Z to charge the freakin\' battery
Post by: padishah_emperor on April 24, 2004, 09:05:44 am

Out of curiousity, why not reflash a Sharp ROM and try again, at least you\'d know if it is OZ at fault or if something has died since you last used a Sharp ROM.

Sounds like a dying battery, but mercifully it\'s replaceable.

Title: need help getting my Z to charge the freakin\' battery
Post by: abegaza on April 25, 2004, 02:30:28 am

the battery does hold a charge with the sharp rom, and the applet says it is charging.  with OZ as soon as i plug in the power -regardless of whether the batt is full or empty- the applet says 100%.  with oz it never says \"charging\".  maybe the batt. is dying, but why would it work better with sharp than oz?  what controls the battery charging.

Title: need help getting my Z to charge the freakin\' battery
Post by: padishah_emperor on April 25, 2004, 11:10:15 am

Not sure, but at least you don\'t have the worry of having a hardware failure, just software by the sound of it.

Title: need help getting my Z to charge the freakin\' battery
Post by: abegaza on April 26, 2004, 07:43:41 am

go figure, my cf card was dead, so it was not reflashing the new kernel,  got a new card. reflashed.  battery charges.  thanks for the help.  cant wait for 3.5.1!!

-abi

Title: need help getting my Z to charge the freakin\' battery
Post by: Teletubbie on April 26, 2004, 08:07:08 am

The Battery Applett ist Buggy in OZ 3.3.5:
http://www.openzaurus.org/official/3.3.5/c...ie/README.FIRST (http://www.openzaurus.org/official/3.3.5/collie/README.FIRST)
The Batterypatch is Missing.
 Possible Solutions:
1) Use 3.2 and Update Opie to 1.0.3 (Thats what I am doing)
Or:
2) Use 3.3.6-pre1, but then you have to use a lot of Apps with the compat-libs, because of GCC 3 in OZ 3.3.6-pre1. You can find 3.3.6-pre1 under experimental at the OZ Site.
Cheers,
Sam

Title: need help getting my Z to charge the freakin\' battery
Post by: padishah_emperor on April 26, 2004, 08:08:50 am

Whammi-wuzzle!

How odd??!? Glad you fixed it!  ;-)

Title: need help getting my Z to charge the freakin\' battery
Post by: abegaza on April 26, 2004, 12:51:52 pm

Quote

Possible Solutions:
1) Use 3.2 and Update Opie to 1.0.3 (Thats what I am doing)

is this less tedious than it sounds?  i am interested.  thanks for the advice.

Title: need help getting my Z to charge the freakin\' battery
Post by: Teletubbie on April 26, 2004, 01:27:59 pm

Hi,
I found this way was quite easy:
http://www.pclinuxonline.com/modules.php?n...rticle&sid=7594 (http://www.pclinuxonline.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=7594)
The Howto describes the wy to update to opie 1.0 but you can just use the packages from the 1.0.3 feed instead:
http://opie.handhelds.org/feed/openzaurus/1.0.3/ (http://opie.handhelds.org/feed/openzaurus/1.0.3/)
Cheers,
Sam

(Thanks to Kathrin aka vishnja I was originally adviced by in this topic)