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Rockbox mail archiveSubject: More Red Led Dead testingMore Red Led Dead testing
From: Bradley Alexander <storm_at_tux.org>
Date: 22 Jun 2003 15:47:36 -0400 Just wanted to throw out the results of my testing on this (I was originally the one that opened the bug, so I feel like I have a vested interest in it. =) I downloaded and installed archos20030616.mod and have been using that since. I noticed that the Red LED dead is far less frequent than it was with 2.0. Two weeks ago, running 2.0, I was listening to my JB6000 while cutting my grass. Mowing on the riding lawn mower, I had fairly constant RLDs with the Archos in the cargo pocket of my pants, enough so that to get any consistent music out of it, I had to actually hold it in my hand and drive one handed. Since I was trying to beat storms, it was pretty comical leaning and throwing my leg out as a counterbalance, and trying to keep the Archos perfectly still. In the car on commutes, it actually got bad enough that the RLD would occur with any angular motion of the unit, for instance picking it up and turning it so I could see the display would often cause an RLD. Today, I was finally able to mow the part I missed the other weekend. This was the front yard, and I have to do this with the push mower (far more movement etc from walking). I only had two lockups with it. I actually think we have been fighting two problems here. The first one has been fixed, and that is the communication issues with the hard drive. The second issue, at least with my JB6000, seems to be something to do with pressure on the rubber bumpers. I can actually get my JB to shut off by pressing on one or two of them. I'm guessing that it is pulling the contact away from the battery or something. I further hypothesize that many of what I thought were RLDs were actually momentary interruption of the battery contacts, not long enough to actually cause the unit to shut down, but who's symptoms were very similar to an RLD. I will do further testing, but I wanted to extend kudos to all involved who found this pesky problem. I'll see what I can find out with the suspected power problem. Thanks again. -- --Brad ============================================================================ Bradley M. Alexander | gTLD SysAdmin, Security Engineer | storm [at] tux.org Debian/GNU Linux Developer | storm [at] debian.org ============================================================================ Key fingerprints: DSA 0x54434E65: 37F6 BCA6 621D 920C E02E E3C8 73B2 C019 5443 4E65 RSA 0xC3BCBA91: 3F 0E 26 C1 90 14 AD 0A C8 9C F0 93 75 A0 01 34 ============================================================================ Boxing is a lot like ballet, except that they don't dance, there isn't any music, and they hit each other.Received on 2003-06-22 Page template was last modified "Tue Sep 7 00:00:02 2021" The Rockbox Crew -- Privacy Policy |