From: George Styles <george_at_ripnet.co.uk>
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2003 10:24:28 +0100

Hi,

I think I have been having problems with charging my JBR20 since I flashed
rockbox.

Well, actually its not the flashing, but the fact I now use Rockbox to
charge, not the original firmware.

I have JBR20, with 1800mah NIMH cells. I use a 9v regulated power supply to
charge it. I am using yesterdays build, built myself from CVS. I have the
battary capacity set to 1800mag, deep discharge off, trickle charge on.

When I used to use Archos firmware to charge it overnight, it lasted the
full 8 hours or so.

I never used Rockbox to charge it, as I had no need to.

Now since flashing, the Rockbox takes care of charging, but something is
going wrong.

When I unplug the charger in the morning, and start using it, the power
level quickly drops from 100% to 40% then down to 8%. At this point, it
becomes unusable.

The debug menu (great feature :) ) tells me that the battary is on 4.89v,
and that external is 0.37V with no charger attached. Also, it says charger:
absent, charging: yes which is wierd.

I guess I could use the f1+boot to boot archos to charge it, but it would be
nice if Rockbox could do it

Any ideas? any more info from debug menu rquired?

thanks

George
Received on 2003-07-16