Re: Accelerometer question [preliminary report]

2008-10-12 Thread Franky Van Liedekerke
On Sun, 12 Oct 2008 09:47:13 +0530 Nishit Dave [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: *groan* I am on qtextended, I charged the phone fully before going to sleep, but when I woke up this morning, it was switched off. I had switched off the alarm too. After putting it to charge, apm told me battery level

Re: Accelerometer question [preliminary report]

2008-10-12 Thread Andy Green
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Fox Mulder wrote: How can i test if it really goes into suspend or any other suspend-like mode? After i press the putton zhone says that it goes into suspend and nothing anymore reacts for input. Only when i press the power button again it

Re: Accelerometer question

2008-10-11 Thread Andy Green
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote: Remember the White Screen of Death? Yes, I vaugely recall something of the sort :-O Maybe OM inc guys need help with the X driver, but since it's not on their priority, suspend will hardly work reliably anytime

Re: Accelerometer question [preliminary report]

2008-10-11 Thread Andy Green
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Fox Mulder wrote: Andy Green wrote: The issue is what does idle mean. Suspend for Freerunner should last a week. Sitting there with CPU up even with backlight down is 60-90mA on battery, suspend is 5 - 10mA and that's why you get battery life

Re: Accelerometer question

2008-10-11 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 12:16:12PM +0100, Andy Green wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote: Remember the White Screen of Death? Yes, I vaugely recall something of the sort :-O Maybe OM inc guys need help with the X driver, but since it's

Re: Accelerometer question

2008-10-11 Thread Florian Hackenberger
On Saturday 11 October 2008, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote: I do have a feeling the WSoD is on the X driver... Reading a recent comment from the WSoD bug: https://docs.openmoko.org/trac/ticket/1841#comment:33 It may be an unexpected hardware problem (screen ASIC memory lost). Cheers,

Re: Accelerometer question [preliminary report]

2008-10-11 Thread Fox Mulder
How can i test if it really goes into suspend or any other suspend-like mode? After i press the putton zhone says that it goes into suspend and nothing anymore reacts for input. Only when i press the power button again it comes back to life after 1-2 seconds. Is there a way to go into a deeper

Re: Accelerometer question [preliminary report]

2008-10-11 Thread Nishit Dave
On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 4:47 AM, Fox Mulder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How can i test if it really goes into suspend or any other suspend-like mode? After i press the putton zhone says that it goes into suspend and nothing anymore reacts for input. Only when i press the power button again it

Re: Accelerometer question

2008-10-10 Thread Andy Green
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote: The rate at which they feed me data only starts up when the file handle is opened, and stops when it's closed? This is the case, the interrupts are quenched when no file handles are open on them. I'm

Re: Accelerometer question

2008-10-10 Thread Nishit Dave
On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 4:22 PM, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Anyway suspend is definitly not reliable :) which I suspect in great part has to do with the blasted NDA over the graphics card documentation. Remember the White Screen of Death? Maybe OM inc guys need help

Re: Accelerometer question

2008-10-10 Thread Alastair Johnson
Andy Green wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote: The rate at which they feed me data only starts up when the file handle is opened, and stops when it's closed? This is the case, the interrupts are quenched when no file handles are

Re: Accelerometer question

2008-10-10 Thread Michael 'Mickey' Lauer
Am Freitag, den 10.10.2008, 00:55 -0400 schrieb Joel Newkirk: AFAIK by default they're always powered up. Certainly apart from the times I hit 'dead accelerometers' that took a few reflashes to get going again, I've never had to power them up unless I'd previously powered down. They're only

Re: Accelerometer question

2008-10-10 Thread Andy Green
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alastair Johnson wrote: I suspect the 'bouncing gsm' has a lot to do with it. I intermittently see repeated reregistrations. If the phone is near the PC speakers I can Yes if you're in suspend, the gross differences in consumption are coming out

Re: Accelerometer question

2008-10-10 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 08:33:19AM +0100, Andy Green wrote: Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote: The rate at which they feed me data only starts up when the file handle is opened, and stops when it's closed? This is the case, the interrupts are quenched when no file handles are open on

Re: Accelerometer question

2008-10-10 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
Thanks for all the other explanations, I'm more relieved as to accelerometer wasting energy or not :) On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 12:03:33PM +0100, Andy Green wrote: Anyway suspend is definitly not reliable :) which I suspect in great part has to do with the blasted NDA over the graphics card

Re: Accelerometer question

2008-10-10 Thread Andy Green
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote: On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 08:33:19AM +0100, Andy Green wrote: Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote: The rate at which they feed me data only starts up when the file handle is opened, and stops when it's closed? This

Re: Accelerometer question [preliminary report]

2008-10-10 Thread Fox Mulder
Andy Green wrote: The issue is what does idle mean. Suspend for Freerunner should last a week. Sitting there with CPU up even with backlight down is 60-90mA on battery, suspend is 5 - 10mA and that's why you get battery life reduced accordingly if you stay out of suspend. That's a

Accelerometer question

2008-10-09 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
Hi, Big question: Are the accelerometers constantly draining battery life? or... The rate at which they feed me data only starts up when the file handle is opened, and stops when it's closed? If it's the first case, then the init scripts should shut both

Re: Accelerometer question

2008-10-09 Thread Joel Newkirk
On Fri, 10 Oct 2008 01:01:14 +0100, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Big question: Are the accelerometers constantly draining battery life? or... The rate at which they feed me data only starts up when the file handle is opened, and stops