Many thanks all for your replies, I appreciate very much the enthusiasm to fix my problem
I should clarify a few things: the freezes are random, as fas as I can tell, and they don't occur that often anyway, just enough to have me worried when they do. I haven't had a half-baked problem too: either the pandora is working great, or I get a freeze. So I think dmesg-ing something out is going to be hard :/
Also, I actually have 2 batteries, and I have experienced the freezes with both, I know for sure because on one of the first freezes, I thought the battery might be at fault and I swapped them. Another freeze came just a few days later.
Don't know if it matters: seeing how the standby mode eats battery charge, I do full switch off "often" during the day, when I know I'm not going to use the unit for a few hours. So the unit does go through a few full power cycles daily (maybe 4-5?).
And a last note before the specific replies: can I draw the focus back on the LED patterns? Is it a built-in diagnostic system? Does it "mean" anything when the LED for sd slot 1 is on (with no sd card present), but everything else is off, including the battery indicator?
Ah! as I was trying to take the battery out and in again (after a proper shut down), I had the same SD slot 1 LED on, battery indicator off issue. So I'll put that under user-error-battery-insertion-problem :unsure: . Still doesn't explain the freezes, but at least it probably takes care of the "several attempts at resetting the battery".
EvilDragon said:
Well, it doesn't sound like the battery is problematic. I had a few new ones that bulged the case - the reason here is the foil around the battery.
On some batteries, it's not really applied very well.
Remove the battery and try to wrap it a bit more around the edges, that usually fixes it.
It might well be that the bulging is responsible for bad contacts. If the foil isn't properly seated in the middle, then the area where the contacts are are a bit lifted up, which means they don't make a proper contact.
You could try that by softly hitting the Pandora when it's switched on. Does it freeze then?
Thanks for the advice ED. I tried that: no freeze :/ . I should have used a different term than "bulging" anyway, because it is confusing with the other swelled-up battery issue that has been reported. In my case, the battery looks alright, minus perhaps the wrapping like you mentioned (and I'm not even sure of that). What I was referring to is that the edge of the battery compartment cover doesn't always align nicely with the rest of the case, which does look like the battery is really pressed strongly (which is a good thing?).
SONY said:
Maximum charging should only be about 5 hours?
Yes Sony, 7 hours is the period where _
I_ sleep. I haven't set up a special wake-up-now-and-go-unplug-your-pandora alarm
MarioPandio said:
Apologies to both you and ED. I badly worded that with the "I'm sure you've seen the threads about swollen batteries" bit, as this isn't a common problem at all. IIRC Timothee is a dev.
Thanks MarioPandio. No apology needed. Anything that can point to me in the right direction is very welcome. I think you have me confused with someone else though, I'm not a dev in the pandora community
; just some random, reasonably linux savvy end-user, having a blast on a cool device; and also checking the boards regularly, mostly silently. My 40+ posts here hardly constitute "active"
Alerino said:
dmesg output please, especially right after said behaviours happen, except a complete freeze (dmesg won't log that)
leaving the battery out / reflashing seems to solve most common problems.
Like I said, it might be hard to get anything dmesg-ed out of the failure cases I am experiencing
. I've done the re-flash, let's see how far it takes me. I'll post here again if the issue doesn't go away.
Many thanks again to all of you, you guys rock!
