[Gta04-owner] g_ether and charging

[Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller]

Am 29.07.2014 um 12:59 schrieb Benjamin Deering:

> Hello all,
> 
> I have been having some charging issues for a long time now, but was waiting for an official charger before I said anything.  My phone would only charge if plugged in on boot or in linear mode.  Since I have a brand new battery now, I would like to avoid linear mode.
> 
> Yesterday I noticed that if I rmmod g_ether, the phone charges as expected.  Has anyone else experienced this?  I am currently using the 3.12.7 kernel.

for me it charges almost always (on 3 different boards and ~5 different batteries) - unless I use a weak USB cable. Some cables only deliver 4.6V and fluctuations may trigger the automatic charger disable if VBUS drops below 4.4V. Then the charger is in a state where USB says "connected" but the charger does not automatically (re-)start (or this protection mechanism would fail). Therefore nobody is triggering charging even if VBUS raises >4.6V again.

Only un- and re-plugging the cable starts another charging sequence. 

BR,
Nikolaus