[Gta04-owner] battery status [Was: QtMoko v49]

[EdorFaus]

On 11/18/2012 07:18 PM, arne anka wrote:
> - the battery symbol in the upper right corner is only a red frame, no
> capacity indication. when connected to usb sometimes a flash symbol
> appears inside, but only for a short time and disappears again. battery
> is a default gat02 battery.

On 11/20/2012 09:10 PM, arne anka wrote:
> root at neo:/sys/class/power_supply/bq27000-battery# for i in *; do echo
> "file: "$i; cat $i ; echo ; done
> file: capacity
> cat: capacity: No data available

> file: cycle_count
> 228

If it wasn't for this cycle count, and that it (I presume) has worked 
fine before, I would think your problem was the same as the one I had 
with my brand new battery (since the symptoms are pretty much identical 
otherwise): that the battery isn't calibrated.

I fixed that for my battery by charging it as full as it would go (the 
gta04 stops charging it well before it it reaches the design capacity), 
and then discharging it completely - I'm not sure if that's the correct 
procedure (for all I know I may have ruined my battery by doing it), but 
the battery started giving info once it had a bit of charge again, so it 
at least appears to have worked, for me at least.

It seems a bit odd if that's the problem with yours, though, since it's 
not a brand new and never before calibrated battery like mine was...
Still, if nothing else works, might be worth a try.

-Frode