11-10-2016, 09:05 PM
(11-09-2016, 06:42 PM)clarkss12 Wrote: Why do you use a battery?
Because the pine64 is intended to largely run from a solar power system, where it runs from it's own battery during the night, and the solar system then recharges the battery and runs the pine64 during the day. Plus it is still in development mode, so moves around a bit
(11-09-2016, 08:33 PM)dkryder Wrote: i hardly ever use a battery anymore for the simple reason that the pine64 takes too long to recharge it [...] the reason i wonder is because a lot of electronics manufacturers suggest unplugging electronics in order to "reset" them, allowing components to discharge any lingering currents in order to completely "zero" onboard settings.
Indeed - I'd like to see some information about how to change the charge registers surface soon - both to change the technology to Lion/Lipo instead of LiFe as I wonder if that is where the percentage charged inaccuracy is coming from, and how to at least reset the PMIC back to it's default charge current of 1.2A, if not unlock it's full charge current. I know xalius was looking into this a while ago, so may have to have a chat some time to see if he got any further. But yes, I would think if the hub is connected to one of the normal USB sockets as well, it is back-feeding that way, and not letting things fully power down / reset. Won't be doing any 'damage', but could lead to strange behaviours like the ethernet not working.
(11-09-2016, 11:54 PM)hatman28 Wrote: It really feels like corrupt driver but I had not way to re-install them.
Since you're pulling the plug instead of shutting the system down, that would be my best guess. The default filesystems used will cope with a lot of abuse, and will repair a lot of corruption that occurs from abrupt power-downs, but eventually your luck will run out and you'll pull the plug when something important is being written... and the wheels will fall off. Always power down the system properly if you can - does kodi on android not have a power off option (as I know the windows and linux versions do)?