Charging Pandora Is Possible In 2 Ways?


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Ive searched the pandora wiki and saw that it is actually possible to charge pandora's 2 ways?

is that correct? Because it seems to me if is a bit unnessacary for the development team to make this possible?
Charge the pandora with a miniusb cable and with a psp charger is both possible?

And now that i was scrolling out the pandorapress site to, out of boreness, i found this came up again:
http://openpandora.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/silkback.png

Where's the expansion port for?
 
Yes, both ways are possible and someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe the expansion port is for svideo and audio outs.
 
I have this to charge my mp3 player, it says it outputs 5.0V dc, 500mA, 2.50W max; can I use it to charge my pandora as another random usb gadget ?
 
Luftwaffles said:
Yes, both ways are possible and someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe the expansion port is for svideo and audio outs.
both ways are possible, it's a feature of the chipset (OMAP + TPS65950) that you get nearly for free (the OTG port needs to be on the board, but that has other purposes too)

the ext port has 14 pins:
- audio out stereo 2 pins
- audio in stereo 2 pins
- s-video 2 pins
- uart with flow control 4 pins
- uart without flow control 2 pins
- 2.8V 200mA power 1 pin
- ground 1 pin

source: MWeston listed this on the forums a long time ago - wont bother to search for it now...
 
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You can charge the pandora with those, it will just take longer than with the alternative.
What I think that Enverex ment is that there are USB chargers that can output 5V 2A (10 Watt) instead of the normal 5V 0.5A (2.5 Watt) that you can use, and that using these will shorten the charge time.
I cant recall if that is correct tough (that the pandora can take that current trough the usb port).
 
borgqueenx said:
Ive searched the pandora wiki and saw that it is actually possible to charge pandora's 2 ways?

is that correct? Because it seems to me if is a bit unnessacary for the development team to make this possible?
Charge the pandora with a miniusb cable and with a psp charger is both possible?

And now that i was scrolling out the pandorapress site to, out of boreness, i found this came up again:
http://openpandora.f...11/silkback.png

Where's the expansion port for?
Really?
 
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Gruso said:
borgqueenx said:
Ive searched the pandora wiki and saw that it is actually possible to charge pandora's 2 ways?

is that correct? Because it seems to me if is a bit unnessacary for the development team to make this possible?
Charge the pandora with a miniusb cable and with a psp charger is both possible?

And now that i was scrolling out the pandorapress site to, out of boreness, i found this came up again:
http://openpandora.f...11/silkback.png

Where's the expansion port for?
Really?
ive joined the project since march or so, and have not really seen anything about the expansion port.(or i forgot it)
 
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I think you need to take a good long read of all the information on the wiki, because everything you're asking for is there :p

EDIT: Oh and don't forget this either: http://www.gp32x.de/board/index.php?/topic/44746-the-pandora-information-index/
 
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