On 21 Aug 2009, at 18:10, Edder wrote: > On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 6:52 PM, Michal > Brzozowski<[email protected]> wrote: >> 2009/8/21 Tilman Baumann <[email protected]> >>> >>> Remember, there is almost absolutely no use case for total shutoff >>> and >>> suspend to 'Disk' since you want your GSM to stay on line on >>> suspend. And >>> for that everything but past resume from RAM is useless. >> >> There are many use cases if you're on battery for an extended >> period (for >> example when traveling) and don't need the GSM to be online all the >> time. >> >> There have been a few occasions where suspend to disk would have >> helped me, >> assuming reasonable wakeup time. But I understand I'm in the >> minority. >> > > I would also like suspend to disk and agree that there are a number of > use cases when it is very practical. For example I am often out of the > country for a weekend. Often it is not practical to recharge the phone > during that time and it would be a lot easier if I could just suspend > to disk and quickly check for missed msgs every couple of hours or so.
Well yea, but it's a phone after all. :) I would be really interested how long the phone would survive on the deepest not off sleep possible (No radio, all chips possible shut off). That could beat system to disk I would expect. > > Maybe I am biased because I also always suspend my laptop to disk, so > know from experience how nice it is to be able to quickly boot up :) Your laptop would probably survive for three month on suspend to RAM. ;-) _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
