Dell Inspiron Mini 10v Nickelodeon Slime Edition
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I just remembered something - often (and more likely the older the device is) - the battery consists of an array of standard cells which can be bought separately. So if you feel adventurous you can pry the battery open, unsolder the cells, test each one separately - chances are there's just one that's completely dead, thus making the whole thing unusable.
I remember hearing that you can’t solder batteries normally though and that a special technique is needed to heat them minimally. Is this true?
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Found this cute little guy. Battery bms seems to either be dead or cell voltage too low. Has anyone in the Linux community revived a BMS before or recharged from zero?
Did you Hackintoshed it? Because it looks like it's booting MacOS.
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I remember hearing that you can’t solder batteries normally though and that a special technique is needed to heat them minimally. Is this true?
De-soldering should be ok to start with. Yes, I have heard that too. I'm guessing the "special technique" just means that you make sure the battery does not get too hot. Special tin might be required (that melts earlier).
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I love netbooks. I regret selling mine after Archlinux went 64bit only. It was beautiful (all pearly white) and small and the keyboard was perfectly usable even for my fat fingers.
What's that apple doing there? That's vile.
If you think the battery isn't just dead dead dead and resetting the on-battery chip somehow can help, I'd like to know how, too.
I still have 2 netbooks... Both with cracked screens haha
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Nice trick but there's a reason the charger is designed to not do what you're getting it to do. Preventing explosions and such. I'd recommend looking up why/how the chemistries are different at low voltage so you can ride the line more safely
Absolutely. I've only done it once or twice, just long enough to get the one low cell voltage high enough to switch back to lipo mode. Also, all the lipo charging I do is inside of a steel ammo can. My drone buddy teases me about it but I don't care, big and/or lipo batteries are fucking scary.
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Absolutely. I've only done it once or twice, just long enough to get the one low cell voltage high enough to switch back to lipo mode. Also, all the lipo charging I do is inside of a steel ammo can. My drone buddy teases me about it but I don't care, big and/or lipo batteries are fucking scary.
The ammo can is a solid idea, wish I thought of that myself. That would raise the safety factor enough for me to give it a try once or twice as well. Still, covered outdoors area or similar. Agreed on having a healthy fear/respect for big cells, it's wild how much power we can fit in a battery these days and even more so to watch it escape.
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I love netbooks. I regret selling mine after Archlinux went 64bit only. It was beautiful (all pearly white) and small and the keyboard was perfectly usable even for my fat fingers.
What's that apple doing there? That's vile.
If you think the battery isn't just dead dead dead and resetting the on-battery chip somehow can help, I'd like to know how, too.
Mac OS X was installed in 2010/2011. Back when people didn’t hate Apple.
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I see mint... so mint it is.
I’ve got news for you, that’s slime not mint.
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Found this cute little guy. Battery bms seems to either be dead or cell voltage too low. Has anyone in the Linux community revived a BMS before or recharged from zero?
I've revived a Dell Venue battery the laptop reported as dead. Connecting several small alkaline batteries in series to provide a voltage slightly higher than the Dell battery's rated voltage and using them charge the Li-ion battery did the trick. After charging the Dell battery for about 10 minutes I reinstalled it, the laptop recognized it and it worked normally from that point on.
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Found this cute little guy. Battery bms seems to either be dead or cell voltage too low. Has anyone in the Linux community revived a BMS before or recharged from zero?
michael MJD, is that you?
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The ammo can is a solid idea, wish I thought of that myself. That would raise the safety factor enough for me to give it a try once or twice as well. Still, covered outdoors area or similar. Agreed on having a healthy fear/respect for big cells, it's wild how much power we can fit in a battery these days and even more so to watch it escape.
If you try the ammo can idea make sure you poke a hole in it otherwise you run the risk of it becoming a bit of a pressure vessel.
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I just remembered something - often (and more likely the older the device is) - the battery consists of an array of standard cells which can be bought separately. So if you feel adventurous you can pry the battery open, unsolder the cells, test each one separately - chances are there's just one that's completely dead, thus making the whole thing unusable.
With a bench power supply (or a similar ghetto version, that is any lion charger plus leads) you can charge single cells even while they're connected in series. That's how battery balancing works
I'd start with very low amps and maybe low voltages too to revive them
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Whatever happened to netbooks, they were sweet. The closest we got today is chromebooks and they can't do shit
Chuwi makes a 10" laptop with an N150 processor that runs Linux really well. The early models had odd USB-C issues but the one I got this year was fine.
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Mac OS X was installed in 2010/2011. Back when people didn’t hate Apple.
Oh I see. I don't hate apple, it just seemed like an extremely bad choice to install it now on a 15yo device. Or bad taste to have mock boot screen.
But this is fascinating.
Does it work?
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Oh I see. I don't hate apple, it just seemed like an extremely bad choice to install it now on a 15yo device. Or bad taste to have mock boot screen.
But this is fascinating.
Does it work?
It seems like I woke it up from a decade-long hibernation and is unable to boot. However, the disk reads fine in an enclosure.
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It seems like I woke it up from a decade-long hibernation and is unable to boot. However, the disk reads fine in an enclosure.
OK. Does it get to BIOS? Have you opened a dedicated thread for fixing this?
