[Debian] Save 8 mA. Apmd considered harmful? (Was: test result of battery current against display brightness and GPS power mode)

2009-05-09 Thread Rask Ingemann Lambertsen
On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 01:56:26AM +0100, Rask Ingemann Lambertsen wrote: > >You must have done something wrong. I frequently test power comsumption > and I get 54 mA on a fully charged battery, dropping slowly as the battery > discharges[1] and nearly 20 hours battery life. > >FWIW, I te

Re: test result of battery current against display brightness and GPS power mode

2009-05-09 Thread Rask Ingemann Lambertsen
On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 05:21:59AM +0800, Qingyou Meng wrote: > Because display and GPS chip may be powered on for a long while, I > choose to test them here. [snip] > Here is the results: > > 1. when GPS chip is powered off, test brightness vs. battery current: > > * brightness = 100%: battery c

Re: test result of battery current against display brightness and GPS power mode

2009-04-06 Thread Rask Ingemann Lambertsen
On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 02:41:54PM +0200, Richard Kralovic wrote: > Rask Ingemann Lambertsen wrote: > > On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 07:32:24PM +0100, Richard Kralovic wrote: > >> It may be the case that the fixes for the current leak were introduced > >> in devel branch (linux-openmoko-devel). On kerne

Re: test result of battery current against display brightness and GPS power mode

2009-04-03 Thread mqy
> you get that kernel from? > ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community -- View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/test-result-of-battery-current-against-display-brightness-and-GPS--power-mode-tp2541178p2582277.html

Re: test result of battery current against display brightness and GPS power mode

2009-03-30 Thread Richard Kralovic
Rask Ingemann Lambertsen wrote: > On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 07:32:24PM +0100, Richard Kralovic wrote: >> It may be the case that the fixes for the current leak were introduced >> in devel branch (linux-openmoko-devel). On kernel 2.6.29-rc3, my tests >> show a drop from cca 80mA to cca 47mA. > >D

Re: test result of battery current against display brightness and GPS power mode

2009-03-28 Thread Rask Ingemann Lambertsen
On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 07:32:24PM +0100, Richard Kralovic wrote: > > It may be the case that the fixes for the current leak were introduced > in devel branch (linux-openmoko-devel). On kernel 2.6.29-rc3, my tests > show a drop from cca 80mA to cca 47mA. Do you know which git revision that ker

Re: test result of battery current against display brightness and GPS power mode

2009-03-28 Thread Timo Juhani Lindfors
Rask Ingemann Lambertsen writes: > sleep 120 && cat > /sys/class/power_supply/battery/{status,current_now,voltage_now,capacity} Interestingly I get Discharging 73125 4126000 100 with andy-tracking b8b36e5ec3db ___ Openmoko community mailing list co

Re: test result of battery current against display brightness and GPS power mode

2009-03-28 Thread Richard Kralovic
Hello, > With "echo > /sys/bus/spi/devices/spi2.0/state sleep", the current drops > from 82.125 mA to 81.562 mA within 10 minutes. The battery is fully charged > before test. > > My kernel: > # uname -a > Linux om-gta02 2.6.28-rc4 #1 PREEMPT Sun Feb 8 19:53:16 CET 2009 armv4tl > unknown It ma

Re: test result of battery current against display brightness and GPS power mode

2009-03-28 Thread mqy
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Re: test result of battery current against display brightness and GPS power mode

2009-03-28 Thread Rask Ingemann Lambertsen
On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 05:21:59AM +0800, Qingyou Meng wrote: > To set brightness: write (brightness_percent / 100 * 255) to file > "/sys/class/backlight/gta02-bl/brightness" I think that's why you get so high currents. This # echo >/sys/class/backlight/gta02-bl/brightness 0 doesn't do what

Re: test result of battery current against display brightness and GPS power mode

2009-03-27 Thread mqy
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Re: test result of battery current against display brightness and GPS power mode

2009-03-26 Thread Rask Ingemann Lambertsen
On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 05:21:59AM +0800, Qingyou Meng wrote: >To save power, we set display brightness to 0% by locking screen, > but OS still consumes 95 mA, leaving at most ~10 hours battery life! You must have done something wrong. I frequently test power comsumption and I get 54 mA on

test result of battery current against display brightness and GPS power mode

2009-03-26 Thread Qingyou Meng
Because display and GPS chip may be powered on for a long while, I choose to test them here. Phone is GTA02v5. Distribution is latest SHR unstable, with almost 0% CPU load. No devices(WIFI, GSM, etc) opened before this test. Battery capacity is about 88%. My test method is, for example: set displ