[Timo Juhani Lindfors Fr 9. Oktober 2009]: > Joerg Reisenweber <[email protected]> writes: > > A completely white screen with ~40% backlight consumes same amount of power as > > a completely black screen (-content) with backlight "dim" (=off) > > > > (=> a black screen eats as much power as a backlight set to 40%) > > > > (DUT: FR A7 SHR-U0808) > > I wrote > > http://iki.fi/lindi/openmoko/display-current-measurement1.pl > > to test this. However, here white screen with 40% brightness consumes > significantly more than black screen with 0% brightness: > > >dbg running echo 102 > /sys/class/backlight/gta02-bl/brightness > >dbg sleeping for 60 seconds for current to stabilize > >dbg taking 10 samples with 10-second delays > >dbg current now 102750, mean 102750.0000, deviation -1.0000, range [...] > >dbg running xset dpms force off > >dbg sleeping for 60 seconds for current to stabilize > >dbg taking 10 samples with 10-second delays > >dbg current now 48000, mean 48000.0000, deviation -1.0000, range 0.0000 [...]
1: I didn't use xset dpms force off, I rather let SHR (or probably FSO-framework) do it's dim-job, like it always does by default when hooked up to wallcharger. No idea what is actually done on dim, or if it is exactly "xset dpms force off" (btw if dpms force off actually switches off LCM and glamo video clock, I'd be rather surprised to see any difference from a light or dark video buffer content) 2: I used current indicator LED on that wallcharger to positively find the sketch program when dimmed with a virgin white screen uses significantly less current than when dimmed with a painted black screen (and erasing all the black brought it back to "power-saving mode", so it's not been any difference in state of that program - like filled history buffer etc) 3: the probing during suspend was mainly due to the wallwart LED indicator has its optimum resolution here, whereas it hardly differs for 190mA vs 220mA e.g Nevertheless I suspect the power consumption difference will be similar in normal backlit state, and probably isn't related to dimming at all (except for the rationale it's rather senseless to keep a black screen during backlight LED off) The compare to ~40% backlight power consumption was a rough guess just to illustrate the magnitude of the effect, based on same LED readout on the wallwart charger I can't tell why your results are like that, but obviously your setup differs somewhat to mine. cheers jOERG
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