Rockbox
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Some people reported strange charging times and
strange battery life.
Charging by OF: 25 hours; RB: 18 hours
It has been found that there are at least two issues here:
1) the way of getting battery charging status wasn't
really accurate. This attempts to fix that issue.
This patch also simplifies some code (opening a
device is no more needed, for example).
To technically explain, battery charging implies first a constant
current mode (where the voltage increases) and then a constant
voltage mode (where, obviously, the voltage reads more or less
the same). The old way the End Of Charge was detected was based solely
on the voltage, while now it is based on chip's EOC interrupt,
which should be more accurate.
2) OF explicitly sets a constant current 350 mA, while we usually had
55 mA (by as3543 default).
This wasn't discovered before since there is a caching problem
("an accurate guess") in the Samsung power mgmt Linux module,
thus its debugging dumper wasn't really working, reporting a 55 mA current.
Strangely this option should have been set by the bootloader
but apparently it does not.
Some testing is still needed, but I confirm that with this patch
I could run a benchmark for 25 hours (vs. 18 hours), by charging
within Rockbox of course.
Change-Id: I3bd921e86b9018d1cc3c720d15cc46896e8490b3
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__________ __ ___.
Open \______ \ ____ ____ | | _\_ |__ _______ ___
Source | _// _ \_/ ___\| |/ /| __ \ / _ \ \/ /
Jukebox | | ( <_> ) \___| < | \_\ ( <_> > < <
Firmware |____|_ /\____/ \___ >__|_ \|___ /\____/__/\_ \
\/ \/ \/ \/ \/
Build Your Own Rockbox
1. Clone 'rockbox' from git (or extract a downloaded archive).
$ git clone git://git.rockbox.org/rockbox
or
$ tar xjf rockbox.tar.bz2
2. Create a build directory, preferably in the same directory as the firmware/
and apps/ directories. This is where all generated files will be written.
$ cd rockbox
$ mkdir build
$ cd build
3. Make sure you have sh/arm/m68k-elf-gcc and siblings in the PATH. Make sure
that you have 'perl' in your PATH too. Your gcc cross compiler needs to be
a particular version depending on what player you are compiling for. These
can be acquired with the rockboxdev.sh script in the /tools/ folder of the
source, or will have been included if you've installed one of the
toolchains or development environments provided at http://www.rockbox.org/
$ which sh-elf-gcc
$ which perl
4. In your build directory, run the 'tools/configure' script and enter what
target you want to build for and if you want a debug version or not (and a
few more questions). It'll prompt you. The debug version is for making a
gdb version out of it. It is only useful if you run gdb towards your target
Archos.
$ ../tools/configure
5. *ploink*. Now you have got a Makefile generated for you.
6. Run 'make' and soon the necessary pieces from the firmware and the apps
directories have been compiled, linked and scrambled for you.
$ make
$ make zip
7. unzip the rockbox.zip on your music player, reboot it and
*smile*.
If you want to build for more than one target, just create several build
directories and create a setup for each target:
$ mkdir build-fmrecorder
$ cd build-fmrecorder
$ ../tools/configure
$ mkdir build-player
$ cd build-player
$ ../tools/configure
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