Saturday, February 26, 2011

How to charge a dead Streak battery?

I left my Dell Streak overnight as usual next to me on the desk, in the morning it was dead. no sign of life!
I plugged it to the USB charger for few hours, nothing. now all it does that the buttons light goes on and the screen shows 0% ! on an empty battery sign.
So, I go to my Google and do some research and I find one of the comment says to plug it into the original Dell Charger!  When I did, 15 minutes and it is running and shows about 30% status of the battery.
So, what is going on?  what is the difference between my generic USB charger that I use everyday anyway to charge my streak phone with and the original Dell Charger?
I will have to do more research and testing, then we will find out!
For now if you got a dead Streak phone, use the original Dell USB charger.
If you have any comments or opinions, please, leave me some comments and let me know what you think.

Sunday, February 6, 2011

GumStix Running Android Study

I am doing some reseach on running Android on Gumstix COM and collecting some information on this topic.  So, I am keeping here some of the links I found just to make my research and other people research easier.
rowboat:
http://code.google.com/p/rowboat/wiki/ConfigureAndBuild#Build_kernel

Rowboat Android:

http://wiki.gumstix.org/index.php?title=RowboatAndroid


more links to come...