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| - | You suspect you have drained your battery | + | ==== Warning: This page is still under review ==== |
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| + | === You suspect you have drained your battery === | ||
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| + | You see one or more of the following symptoms: | ||
- Device may be completely unresponsive with no signs of life | - Device may be completely unresponsive with no signs of life | ||
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- MeeGo or Maemo fail to boot up. The point of failure is random or attempts keep getting shorter | - MeeGo or Maemo fail to boot up. The point of failure is random or attempts keep getting shorter | ||
| - | - Battery voltage may be 3.0-3. | + | - Battery voltage may be 3.0-3.3V (you may know how to measure this) |
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How to do that depends on how meego was installed into your device: | How to do that depends on how meego was installed into your device: | ||
| - | In case you have a working dualboot configuration between Maemo 5 PR1.3 and MeeGo | + | === In case you have a working dualboot configuration between Maemo 5 PR1.3 and MeeGo === |
- Power down, remove MeeGo SD card, connect Nokia wall charger and wait. | - Power down, remove MeeGo SD card, connect Nokia wall charger and wait. | ||
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- It will show amber status led untill it boots to Maemo which will handle charging. | - It will show amber status led untill it boots to Maemo which will handle charging. | ||
| - | + | === In case you have flashed the MeeGo kernel into N900, but have a working Maemo rootfs === | |
| - | In case you have flashed the MeeGo kernel into N900, but have a working Maemo rootfs | + | |
- You have to flash Maemo 5 kernel back to the device in order to boot Maemo and recharge. | - You have to flash Maemo 5 kernel back to the device in order to boot Maemo and recharge. | ||
| - | + | See this page: http://wiki.maemo.org/Updating_the_tablet_firmware | |
| + | and search for "Flashing only the kernel from a FIASCO image" | ||
- if flashing seems successfull continue as follows: | - if flashing seems successfull continue as follows: | ||
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- It will show amber status led untill it boots to Maemo which will handle charging. | - It will show amber status led untill it boots to Maemo which will handle charging. | ||
| - | - if flashing Maemo kernel fails, or above doesn't help, | + | - if flashing Maemo kernel fails, or above doesn't help, keep reading. |
| - | In case you are unable to flash Maemo kernel or do not have a working Maemo rootfs to boot into | + | === In case you are unable to flash Maemo kernel or do not have a working Maemo rootfs to boot into === |
- You can always recharge the battery in another N900. Go to a phone store/friend/enemy near you and ask nicely if they can charge your battery for a while. | - You can always recharge the battery in another N900. Go to a phone store/friend/enemy near you and ask nicely if they can charge your battery for a while. | ||
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- Recharge the battery using a phone compatible with the battery (refer to instruction manual) As always - you are doing this on your own risk. | - Recharge the battery using a phone compatible with the battery (refer to instruction manual) As always - you are doing this on your own risk. | ||
| - | - Other ways to charge battery exists, | + | - Other creative ways to charge battery exists, ask help from MeeGo community. |
You see one or more of the following symptoms:
- Device may be completely unresponsive with no signs of life
- MeeGo or Maemo fail to boot up. The point of failure is random or attempts keep getting shorter
- Battery voltage may be 3.0-3.3V (you may know how to measure this)
Your best choise for recovering is to boot Maemo 5 and let it handle recharging.
How to do that depends on how meego was installed into your device:
- Power down, remove MeeGo SD card, connect Nokia wall charger and wait.
- It will show amber status led untill it boots to Maemo which will handle charging.
- You have to flash Maemo 5 kernel back to the device in order to boot Maemo and recharge.
See this page: http://wiki.maemo.org/Updating_the_tablet_firmware and search for "Flashing only the kernel from a FIASCO image"
- if flashing seems successfull continue as follows:
- Power down, remove MeeGo SD card, connect Nokia wall charger and wait.
- It will show amber status led untill it boots to Maemo which will handle charging.
- if flashing Maemo kernel fails, or above doesn't help, keep reading.
- You can always recharge the battery in another N900. Go to a phone store/friend/enemy near you and ask nicely if they can charge your battery for a while.
- Recharge the battery using a phone compatible with the battery (refer to instruction manual) As always - you are doing this on your own risk.
- Other creative ways to charge battery exists, ask help from MeeGo community.