| sunshavi | how could I use the PULSE_SERVER var with the fmradio? | 16:28 |
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| pere | hi. I recently got a used N900 with no SD card. When trying to turn it on, the led light up, but the screen stay black. am I doing it wrong? | 23:02 |
| sixwheeledbeast | pere: no need for a card to boot, was it suppose to be in working order? | 23:09 |
| sixwheeledbeast | if you have yellow light it maybe a flat battery | 23:10 |
| sixwheeledbeast | ~flatbatrecover | 23:10 |
| pere | probably, but years since it last was working. likely to have a flat battery, indeed. | 23:10 |
| sixwheeledbeast | ~flatbattrecover | 23:10 |
| sixwheeledbeast | hmm | 23:10 |
| pere | yellow blinking light | 23:10 |
| sixwheeledbeast | no bot | 23:10 |
| sixwheeledbeast | leave it on charge for a while and it may boot up on it's own | 23:11 |
| sixwheeledbeast | preferably the nokia charger it comes with | 23:11 |
| pere | only have a third party usb cable. | 23:12 |
| pere | will it refuse to boot when plugged into power? | 23:12 |
| sixwheeledbeast | possibly | 23:14 |
| sixwheeledbeast | but if it's a flat battery it normally boots itself when on charge | 23:14 |
| sixwheeledbeast | and there is enough juice to boot | 23:14 |
| sixwheeledbeast | as long as rootfs is ok | 23:15 |
| pere | 0xFFFF -I identified it as N900, which I suspect is a good sign, but do not know how good. :) | 23:15 |
| pere | I was hoping to bring it back to life, but if I first need to get a replacement battery, it will take a while. no nearby source of new batteries. :) | 23:19 |
| sixwheeledbeast | try charging it for a while first | 23:21 |
| sixwheeledbeast | third party charger may take longer. | 23:22 |
| pere | it has been charged for a while before I got it. will leave it plugged in over night. :) | 23:24 |
| sixwheeledbeast | ~flatbatrecover | 23:26 |
| infobot | Remove battery for 1 minute. Insert battery. Plug powered ***NOKIA WALLCHARGER*** to device. Watch steady amber. Let sit and charge. Do NOT try to boot. After 30 min, you got either a) a booted up N900, b) flashing amber which means you can boot, c) steady amber shut off -> start over again with ~flatbatrecover while already searching for a new battery. CAVEAT! Only works when ~rootfs OK (no ~bootloop) | 23:26 |
| sixwheeledbeast | ~bootloop | 23:26 |
| infobot | bootloop is probably when your device has broken rootfilesystem, so during reboot it fails on some service startup or kernel module load and thus reboots. This *drains* battery! And you can't reflash to stop bootloop when battery is drained. Recharge your battery by other means before reflashing. E.g. using ~rescueOS. Or external charger or BL-5J compatible other device. | 23:26 |
| pere | what if I do not have a nokia wallcharger? | 23:29 |
| sixwheeledbeast | I suppose you have to take your chances, a charger would be better than say a usb port with data like a pc | 23:35 |
| pere | after disconnecting the battery, inserting it and inserting the usb plug, I first got a weak nokia logo, then the screen lighted up and gave me some dots, then it went black. the led is blinking. | 23:36 |
| sixwheeledbeast | possible bootloop then? | 23:38 |
| pere | could be. expected some looping, then, not just black... | 23:39 |
| sixwheeledbeast | even when the screen is off the device maybe powered "actdead" | 23:40 |
| sixwheeledbeast | ~bootprocess | 23:41 |
| sixwheeledbeast | five dots is trying to boot anyway, so I would say it's either broken rootfs or exhausted battery | 23:43 |
| akossh | The nokia charger had a connection from D+ or D- to GND or VCC, I do not remember, probably one of them to GND | 23:47 |
| akossh | So the charger does not communicate, the phone knows that it is connected to a charger if it detects this "short" | 23:48 |
| akossh | If you have a third party charger and a cable with this "short", it can work | 23:49 |
| sicelo | D+ shorted to D- (not GND/VCC) | 23:49 |
| akossh | sicelo: thanks | 23:50 |
| akossh | If this short is missing, the phone will not take as mutch power from the USB socket, and it can not recover from a flat battery | 23:52 |
| akossh | Connecting to a USB port via a normal USB cable, my N900 does the following (in case of a flat battery): charges a little, tries to boot, runs flat and resets, then this repeats | 23:56 |
| akossh | however, using a third party charger with a "powerbank cable" works fine | 23:57 |
| akossh | It boots up successfully for the first or second try. | 23:57 |
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