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A mobile shell for Raspberry Pi OS
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Charge Status #12

Closed elchmartin closed 2 years ago

elchmartin commented 2 years ago

I just got my CutiePi today - yay!

I plugged it in and let it sit for 2 hours or so, but when I unplug it, the battery drops from (only!) 55% to 5%....

It remains powered on but is this normal behaviour?

What am I missing?

penk commented 2 years ago

@elchmartin hi, sounds like the charger isn't working.

Some community members did mention that CutiePi is a little bit picky regarding charger or cable, that's why we've stated here to use regular 5V 3A power supply: https://github.com/cutiepi-io/cutiepi-doc#before-you-begin

If you have other charger would you please try it out? Let us know if anything.

Also, please upgrade to latest image, as it fixed battery voltage - percentage curve: https://github.com/cutiepi-io/pi-gen_stage4.5-cutiepi/releases/tag/2022-01-23

elchmartin commented 2 years ago

OK. First thing I learned is that I should not have started this ta night after working the whole day - should have figured out the get started guide.

I let the CutiePi charge during the night with a rather basic charger (~2A I think) and now it stated at 80% charge for some time, so I consider this fixed.

Will update the OS Image as the next step, maybe that will fix it completely.

Sorry for my impatience ;-)

penk commented 2 years ago

@elchmartin No problem, glad to learn that it works out for you. I'll close this issue for now. Feel free to reopen or create a new one when needed.