Sunday, April 24, 2011

Late Post 3: Beagleboard Overheat?!


Tue 4/12/11

Now that Android is up and running on the Beagleboard, we wanted to try and run Beats (an android music-rhythm game developed by Phil). However, we encountered several issues in our download and install process.

The Android on Beagleboard becomes extremely unresponsive when download was initiated. Later, we managed to finally finish the download. However, the installation simply results in crashing the board. After several trials, the Beagleboard suddenly stopped booting even though all LED lights still turns on. 

We touched the Beagleboard chip and found it to be burning hot. Unplugging the power supply cools the chip immediately, but it overheats again quickly in ~20 seconds after the power is reconnected.

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