During testing of my design using the BQ24014DRC, it is often convenient (in a mechanical sense) to debug the board without the rechargeable battery attached (e.g. using the device as a passthrough LDO from 5 V USB input to 4.2 V output). I realize this is somewhat out of specification, but it works in the majority of cases. However, on some of the units produced, I believe the internal state machine is timing out somewhere and a fault condition is indicated. Usually I can clear this by loading the circuit briefly with a resistor to ground or something, however this is not a particularly elegant solution when it comes to testing production boards down the line (instead of prototypes).
Is there perhaps a better way to go about testing my design without having to have a battery plugged in?
Below is a snippet for the circuit, although It's quite close to the reference.
Best,
Alan