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haven · 11-24-2008, 01:37 PM

My newly purchased (new Version 1 eBay) Iliad can't upgrade to the Developer kit because the installation process won't proceed until it sees a 100% battery charge and mine maxes at 88% after being plugged in for a long time. (Weeks, in fact, not that time > a few hours should matter.) After the download, the Iliad rebooted and asked if I had backed up before starting a major software upgrade. When I clicked the right hand box to proceed, it said it would wait till the battery charge was 100%, which means it was waiting forever. Fortunately I was able to cancel from the wait loop, and it's not bricked; on Iliad Settings it shows version v.2.9 after this first download.

I'm trying to provoke a few full discharge - recharge cycles to see if there is some memory effect, though with Lithium Ion batteries I wouldn't think that's the issue. Anyone else run into this and, hopefully, overcome it? Is there any hidden sequence to force a boot-to-shell BEFORE you get the developer kit installed?

Worst case, I'm open to hardware tweaking. I picked the Iliad despite the many owner complaints because the hardware is basically what I want, and and I'm convinced that with the recent flurry of open-source activity, a really nice Linux distro for ebooks is close to emerging. Maybe I can even help a bit.

(At the moment I have the funniest pet peeve on the Iliad forums: the batteries on the Iliad feel like they take FOREVER to discharge ... I guess it's all relative :- )

11-24-2008, 01:37 PM	#1
haven Member Posts: 10 Karma: 34 Join Date: Nov 2008 Device: Kindle 3, iPad, Iliad Irex	Can't install Developer kit since need 100% battery My newly purchased (new Version 1 eBay) Iliad can't upgrade to the Developer kit because the installation process won't proceed until it sees a 100% battery charge and mine maxes at 88% after being plugged in for a long time. (Weeks, in fact, not that time > a few hours should matter.) After the download, the Iliad rebooted and asked if I had backed up before starting a major software upgrade. When I clicked the right hand box to proceed, it said it would wait till the battery charge was 100%, which means it was waiting forever. Fortunately I was able to cancel from the wait loop, and it's not bricked; on Iliad Settings it shows version v.2.9 after this first download. I'm trying to provoke a few full discharge - recharge cycles to see if there is some memory effect, though with Lithium Ion batteries I wouldn't think that's the issue. Anyone else run into this and, hopefully, overcome it? Is there any hidden sequence to force a boot-to-shell BEFORE you get the developer kit installed? Worst case, I'm open to hardware tweaking. I picked the Iliad despite the many owner complaints because the hardware is basically what I want, and and I'm convinced that with the recent flurry of open-source activity, a really nice Linux distro for ebooks is close to emerging. Maybe I can even help a bit. (At the moment I have the funniest pet peeve on the Iliad forums: the batteries on the Iliad feel like they take FOREVER to discharge ... I guess it's all relative :- )