Re: Battery charging, battery status on Nokia N9, N950

From: Pavel Machek
Date: Tue Nov 07 2017 - 15:16:58 EST


On Tue 2017-11-07 21:04:19, Michael Nazzareno Trimarchi wrote:
> Hi Pavel
>
> On Tue, Nov 7, 2017 at 8:59 PM, Pavel Machek <pavel@xxxxxx> wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> >>
> >> > I'm fighting with battery status & battery charging on Nokia
> >> > N9/N950. https://elinux.org/N950 contains enough info to get battery
> >> > status (and below is first attempt at kernel implementation), but I'm
> >> > not sure what needs to be done to charge the battery (or at least
> >> > power phone from USB).
> >>
> >> Nemo recovery system (2824336 Jul 25 2016 zImage-moslo) seems to
> >> either charge phone from USB or at power it from USB.
> >>
> >> But 4.13 does not; it seems there are two separate issue.
> >>
> >> First, something needs to be done to enable system power from the
> >> USB. I'm not sure what that one would be :-(. Then, it should be
> >> possible to ask bq24153 to charge the battery.
> >
> > If someone has schematics or pointer to them.. for N9 or N950, that
> > would be useful :-).
> >
>
> You can dump pinctrl and configuration and check if some gpio are
> used. From reference schematic of this charger you have OTG and
> CD. Those pins can be just used to enable/disable and boost charging.
> You should dig a bit in sysfs to figure it out ;)

I tried to search old board file from working version -- seemed better
than randomly toggling stuff in /sys. But I could not find anything
suspicious.

If someone has the schematics, that would be useful.

Best regards,
Pavel

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