[ rockbox-Bugs-859998 ] Can't start playback when batteries are being charged

Bugs item #859998, was opened at 2003-12-14 22:19
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Category: User Interface
Group: Release 2.1
Status: Open
Resolution: Rejected
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Tobi (t061)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: Can't start playback when batteries are being charged

Initial Comment:
Yesterday I had the following problem with Rockbox 2.1:




My batteries were totally empty.


So I connected the power supply to the Jukebox 
Recorder to charge them.


Then I wanted to listen to some music.




I pressed "On" a few times and finally got the Recorder to 
boot Rockbox 2.1 from harddisk. (Rockbox Logo appeared)




But everytime I pressed a key in Rockbox, a message 
saying "battery loading" or something appeared and the 
Rockbox firmware didn't react normally to the keys.


In the background I saw the file list.


Disconnecting the charger caused the device to power 
down immediately (of course...) since the batteries were 
completely empty.


I wasn't able to get a playing and charging Jukebox.




I thought playing and charging would be possible?




I tried to press the "Play" key for a longer time. This 
caused the hard drive to produce a series of awful 
clicking sounds. When I stopped pressing the backlight of 
the display was somehow blinking...




I think this is at least bad error handling.


It would be fine if you could fix that... ;) 


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>Comment By: Tobi (t061)
Date: 2003-12-16 01:07

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When the power supply was connected to the box, I was able 
to boot Rockbox. Isn't it possible to stop the battery loading 
process and use the power of the ac adaptor to spin up the 
disk and play mp3s?

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Comment By: Bjorn Stenberg (zagor)
Date: 2003-12-15 12:48

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When the batteries are completely empty, they don't have 
enough power to spin the disk. This is why you had a hard 
time even booting into Rockbox.

Wait an hour or so and everything will work again.

This is not a Rockbox bug, it's a hardware design issue.

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