Hi Bradley,
This is all being discussed extensively on the kernel mailing list (ML).
Yes, there will be ways to reduce consumption by turning off unnecessary
stuff. There are multiple levels of "suspension", each with a range of
components turned on or turned off. Of course once the structure is in
place, we will all be free to customize this to our hearts content.
As a hacker, I can do this all in code, but as a user, I would hope to
see menus which allow you to create a new mode at run time and to select
in quite high resolution which components you wanted powered or unpowered.
If this is a topic that interests you, I urge you to join the kernel ML,
or at least to look through the archives of the past few days.
Michael
Bradley Hook wrote:
How much juice does the display eat up when it's active? I assume it's a
considerable amount. Could we have the ability to drop the phone into a
minimalist mode, where all the "fluff" is disabled but bare-basic
features continue to work?
For example, kill the wifi, GPS, bluetooth, and even the display. If you
are in a crunch and want to extend your phone's call-time capacity, you
could probably deal with approximating a 3 col, 5 row standard phone
keypad on the touch-screen WITHOUT the screen displaying anything.
Maybe it's a silly idea, but I know I find myself stuck all the time in
a situation where I wont be able to get my phone back on a charger like
I had planned to. When it comes down to it, the Neo is a phone first,
and I'd rather have it act as such when I'm in a bind.
~Bradley
Michael Shiloh wrote:
Nick Guenther wrote:
On Feb 8, 2008 4:04 AM, Michael Shiloh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hello,
I've researched this a little, and this is what I've learned:
1. We are still looking at a number of different batteries, so there is
no "final" capacity or feature set determined yet.
2. The capacity will most likely be around 1200mA.
If you find any place on the wiki that says something other than
1200mA,
can you please make the correction? You may reference this email.
Oh. That's... really disappointing. The battery life is already
unusable, and the faster processor and wifi will just make this even
worse.
We are well aware of software changes we need to make in order to
improve battery and have simply not had the time to do this. You can
expect much better battery life when we implement these changes.
In fact if you look in the archives of the kernel mailing list you
will see that a tremendous amount of progress has happened over the
past few days. I think the current SVN code supports a much improved
suspend mode that my very simple testing suggests should last for well
over 12 hours. And work continues.
Michael
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