From: mourad jaber <mjaber_at_centralpay.net>
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2003 11:45:25 +0200

I think I have a linked problem, when I charge my ajbr20 with rockbox,
when rockbox reported full battery, I can restart it under the original
firmware and continue to charge a couple of hours before the original
firmware reported that cells are fully charged...
I test the usage, it is longer when I charge it with original firmware
than rockbox...
Is Rockbox report charged battery too early ?

Mourad

George Styles wrote:

>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
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Received on 2003-07-16