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reinob is offline reinob
2012-07-24 , 08:47
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Originally Posted by Mentalist Traceur View Post
Okay, that's basically what I gathered, thanks for the confirm. I know in the past people like joerg have said that bq27x00 is a broken module in one way or another (a discussion that was always too technical for me to retain any of the details in the long-term): have the same disagreements been voiced with regards to this move?
Assuming that BME was only useful for charging, using bq2415x_charger *ONLY* is sufficient to replace it.

I still don't know what exactly bq27x00 does. Seems to collect data from i2c and give it to HAL. Given that (1) HAL is on my hitlist and (2) *we* can also collect data from i2c, I don't see the need for bq27x00

[ someone correct me/inform me if bq27x00 is useful for anything else ]

So with only bq2415x_charger you can normally charge the N900. For those who want a battery indicator, I'm using DCE for running a script which calls i2cget (actually the script is more flexible, will work directly with i2c or with hal depending on what's available), so there's no need for HAL reporting anything.

[ which leads me to the question to all: are there any programs that explicitly check the battery level? (thinking navigation and so), and if so, what's the standard way (if there is one). ]
 

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