Re: Battery lifetime

2010-04-21 Thread Alex Theotokatos
Yes, this must be the problem. Thank you for your advise and I'll try to fix this hardware problem. On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 1:59 AM, Florian Franzmann siflf...@hawo.stw.uni-erlangen.de wrote: On Mon, 19 Apr 2010 21:21:41 +0300 Alex Theotokatos alex.the...@gmail.com wrote: Hallo. I have a

Re: Battery lifetime

2010-04-19 Thread jeremy jozwik
On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 11:21 AM, Alex Theotokatos alex.the...@gmail.com wrote: But when I insert sim card and I use it as shell phone with 2-3 short phone calls, a full charged battery with suspends e.t.c. takes 18 hours to discharge. i only get that kind of battery life if im using gps

Re: Battery lifetime

2010-04-19 Thread Florian Franzmann
On Mon, 19 Apr 2010 21:21:41 +0300 Alex Theotokatos alex.the...@gmail.com wrote: Hallo. I have a freerunner a7 and I bought it 3 months ago. The battery lifetime is too short... I mean, when I use it as regular computer, a full charged battery with suspends e.t.c. takes almost two days to

Re: Battery Lifetime

2008-07-20 Thread Andy Green
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Somebody in the thread at some point said: | I've noticed significantly reduced runtime when using one of the | latest daily builds (2008-07-16 I think). I have a theory. I suspect | bluetooth isn't really being turned off when I think it is any

Re: Battery Lifetime

2008-07-20 Thread Flyin_bbb8
what's the hungriest of all? or if we can have a list of all the hungry stuff in the FR sorted from the one starving to the one who needs a snack? :) On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 10:02 PM, Andy Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Somebody in the thread at

Re: Battery Lifetime

2008-07-20 Thread W.Kenworthy
Use /usr/bin/hcitool scan from net-wireless/bluez-utils (gentoo) - this picks up any promiscuous bluetooth transmitters in range. BillK On Sat, 2008-07-19 at 09:54 -0500, Steven ** wrote: I've noticed significantly reduced runtime when using one of the ... build completely drained the battery

Re: Battery Lifetime

2008-07-20 Thread Joerg Reisenweber
Am So 20. Juli 2008 schrieb Flyin_bbb8: what's the hungriest of all? or if we can have a list of all the hungry stuff in the FR sorted from the one starving to the one who needs a snack? GSM-active-call/GPRS data TX [up to 2A peak, 1A avg] (USB-host mode [up to [EMAIL PROTECTED]) LCM-light

Re: Battery Lifetime

2008-07-19 Thread Steven **
I've noticed significantly reduced runtime when using one of the latest daily builds (2008-07-16 I think). I have a theory. I suspect bluetooth isn't really being turned off when I think it is any more. The factory image ran with a dimmed screen (no suspend) for a good 6 hours and only drained

Re: Battery Lifetime

2008-07-18 Thread Adam Talbot
I just got a running SIM card :-) My FR likes to resume at lease once a min. If you were to take a stealth approach, it would be doing 100's of resumes in a day. Which is fine, if you want to test resume ;-) I think we need to block this at a uBoot level. Perhaps a black list of events? -Adam

Re: Battery Lifetime

2008-07-18 Thread Joerg Reisenweber
Am Fr 18. Juli 2008 schrieb Adam Talbot: I just got a running SIM card :-) My FR likes to resume at lease once a min. If you were to take a stealth approach, it would be doing 100's of resumes in a day. Which is fine, if you want to test resume ;-) What's wrong with 100's of resumes / day,

Re: Battery Lifetime

2008-07-18 Thread arne anka
What's wrong with 100's of resumes / day, as long as each one takes no longer than 2~3sec, and is on low power profile? the screen becomes senstive to tapping -- and if your fr is in a place where taps to the screen might occur frequently (say in your bag) it will never suspend. btw: are

Re: Battery Lifetime

2008-07-18 Thread Andy Green
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Somebody in the thread at some point said: | What's wrong with 100's of resumes / day, as long as each one takes no | longer | than 2~3sec, and is on low power profile? | | the screen becomes senstive to tapping -- and if your fr is in a place | where

Re: Battery Lifetime

2008-07-18 Thread Andy Green
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Somebody in the thread at some point said: | Backlight should be fixed for a couple of days now: | | http://git.openmoko.org/?p=kernel.git;a=commitdiff;h=db07519c1dfe916bcf9644 | bfdc4d7c03707a979e | | That's good to hear, thanks. Will this be in the

Re: Battery Lifetime

2008-07-18 Thread Roland Mas
Andy Green, 2008-07-18 10:29:54 +0100 : Somebody in the thread at some point said: | What's wrong with 100's of resumes / day, as long as each one takes no | longer | than 2~3sec, and is on low power profile? | | the screen becomes senstive to tapping -- and if your fr is in a place |

Re: Battery Lifetime

2008-07-18 Thread Steven **
It seems I was a little too ambitious with this test. I ran apm -s and then went to bed. I woke up to a spiffy dead battery less than 6 hours later. :-/ -Steven On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 11:11 PM, Adam Talbot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am currently using the 20080716 build, from:

Re: Battery Lifetime

2008-07-18 Thread Andy Green
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Somebody in the thread at some point said: | Andy Green, 2008-07-18 10:29:54 +0100 : | | Somebody in the thread at some point said: | | What's wrong with 100's of resumes / day, as long as each one takes no | | longer | | than 2~3sec, and is on low

Re: Battery Lifetime

2008-07-18 Thread arne anka
You and Arne are quite right, suspend is subject to random wakes from GSM world too at the moment and that can lead to the same result. Carsten wants to deal with wakes in his daemon so we're waiting on that. is there a way to detect when it wakes? a hook to plug custom actions into? then,

Re: Battery Lifetime

2008-07-18 Thread Joerg Reisenweber
Am Fr 18. Juli 2008 schrieb arne anka: Touchscreen is not a wake from suspend source, so as you suggest it didn't get to suspend to make this trouble. not sure i understand you correctly, but several times i experience that the fr, while seemingly in suspended state, answers to a screen

Re: Battery Lifetime

2008-07-18 Thread Joerg Reisenweber
Am Fr 18. Juli 2008 schrieb arne anka: You and Arne are quite right, suspend is subject to random wakes from GSM world too at the moment and that can lead to the same result. Carsten wants to deal with wakes in his daemon so we're waiting on that. is there a way to detect when it

Re: Battery Lifetime

2008-07-18 Thread arne anka
And what is it that stops us from disabling ts, just reenabling it when we see a valid wake-source to stay in user-land (e.g. inbound call, RTC, powerbutton...)? my question exactly. ___ Openmoko community mailing list

Re: Battery Lifetime

2008-07-18 Thread Roland Mas
arne anka, 2008-07-18 15:09:01 +0200 : is there a way to detect when it wakes? a hook to plug custom actions into? You might try sticking a script in /etc/apm/resume.d, at least as a first approach. Roland. -- Roland Mas Certains disent que les vrais hommes ne font pas de backups. Mais ils

Re: Battery Lifetime

2008-07-18 Thread Pomeroy Lab
I'm thinking of getting out of this mailing list because it fills up my inbox each day. Can someone please create a forum instead. I've been part of a lot of mailing lists and this one is too much. Mathieu Rochette [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 10:41 PM, Andy Green [EMAIL

Re: Battery Lifetime

2008-07-18 Thread arne anka
I'm thinking of getting out of this mailing list because it fills up my inbox each day. Can someone please create a forum instead. I've been part of a lot of mailing lists and this one is too much. please, check the archives and the wiki -- there are fora already. else you could follow the

Re: Battery Lifetime

2008-07-18 Thread Dan Leinir Turthra Jensen
Friday 18 July 2008 arne anka wrote: I'm thinking of getting out of this mailing list because it fills up my inbox each day. Can someone please create a forum instead. I've been part of a lot of mailing lists and this one is too much. please, check the archives and the wiki -- there are

Re: Battery Lifetime

2008-07-18 Thread The Rasterman
On Fri, 18 Jul 2008 14:01:59 +0100 Andy Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] babbled: You and Arne are quite right, suspend is subject to random wakes from GSM world too at the moment and that can lead to the same result. Carsten wants to deal with wakes in his daemon so we're waiting on that. waiting on

Re: Battery Lifetime

2008-07-18 Thread The Rasterman
On Fri, 18 Jul 2008 06:30:23 -0700 (PDT) Pomeroy Lab [EMAIL PROTECTED] babbled: I'm thinking of getting out of this mailing list because it fills up my inbox each day. Can someone please create a forum instead. I've been part of a lot of mailing lists and this one is too much. no - this has

Re: Battery Lifetime

2008-07-18 Thread The Rasterman
On Fri, 18 Jul 2008 15:12:45 +0200 Joerg Reisenweber [EMAIL PROTECTED] babbled: Am Fr 18. Juli 2008 schrieb arne anka: Touchscreen is not a wake from suspend source, so as you suggest it didn't get to suspend to make this trouble. not sure i understand you correctly, but several

Re: Battery Lifetime

2008-07-18 Thread Andy Green
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Somebody in the thread at some point said: | On Fri, 18 Jul 2008 14:01:59 +0100 Andy Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] babbled: | | You and Arne are quite right, suspend is subject to random wakes from | GSM world too at the moment and that can lead to the same

Re: Battery Lifetime

2008-07-18 Thread arne anka
waiting on backlight to be left alone. daemon is done and already in ASU and being used by both illume and qtopia. backlight will come on on wake right now regardless until ompower (the daemon) changes its policy (code). :) how toolkit specific is that daemon? i do use 2007.2 and would

Re: Battery Lifetime

2008-07-18 Thread The Rasterman
On Fri, 18 Jul 2008 15:29:32 +0100 Andy Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] babbled: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Somebody in the thread at some point said: | On Fri, 18 Jul 2008 14:01:59 +0100 Andy Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] babbled: | | You and Arne are quite right, suspend is subject

Re: Battery Lifetime

2008-07-18 Thread Joachim Steiger
arne anka wrote: I'm thinking of getting out of this mailing list because it fills up my inbox each day. Can someone please create a forum instead. I've been part of a lot of mailing lists and this one is too much. please, check the archives and the wiki -- there are fora already. else

Re: Battery Lifetime

2008-07-18 Thread The Rasterman
On Fri, 18 Jul 2008 16:34:05 +0200 arne anka [EMAIL PROTECTED] babbled: waiting on backlight to be left alone. daemon is done and already in ASU and being used by both illume and qtopia. backlight will come on on wake right now regardless until ompower (the daemon) changes its

Re: Battery Lifetime

2008-07-18 Thread arne anka
please also test http://lists.openmoko.org/nabble.html that's great -- another step towards an one-stop. in opera it is rendered as an iframe to small to fit so the content needs scrolling -- but with firefox3 it is no iframe but simply cut off if the window is too small. resizing the window

Re: Battery Lifetime

2008-07-18 Thread The Rasterman
On Sat, 19 Jul 2008 00:36:53 +1000 Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) [EMAIL PROTECTED] babbled: On Fri, 18 Jul 2008 15:29:32 +0100 Andy Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] babbled: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Somebody in the thread at some point said: | On Fri, 18 Jul 2008

Re: Battery Lifetime

2008-07-18 Thread Anders Bo Rasmussen
On Fri, 18 Jul 2008 06:30:23 -0700 (PDT) Pomeroy Lab wrote: I'm thinking of getting out of this mailing list because it fills up my inbox each day. Can someone please create a forum instead. I've been part of a lot of mailing lists and this one is too much. You can read this mailing list

Split the List was Re: Battery Lifetime

2008-07-18 Thread Scott Derrick
I agree, I think it should be split, its getting out of hand. Hardware Software Applications Software Kernel/Boot Administrator etc Scott Pomeroy Lab wrote: I'm thinking of getting out of this mailing list because it fills up my inbox each day. Can someone please create a forum instead.

Re: Battery Lifetime

2008-07-17 Thread Ken Restivo
On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 07:33:18AM -0700, Adam Talbot wrote: dimlock != suspend :-) If the screen is off, the system is still fully running, and sucking down power. When you suspend, all running processes are cashed into ram, then the rest of the hardware is turned off, with the exception

Re: Battery Lifetime

2008-07-17 Thread Kalle Happonen
Hi, I just installed script, and made a menu command for it to see what it does to my battery. However, the phone wakes up inside a few minutes. Someone earlier wrote: That's currently the crux of the problem, and why I don't yet use suspend. It resumes on cell registration messages, and each

Re: Battery Lifetime

2008-07-17 Thread arne anka
Dim+nolock is choosen, as dim+lock seems to crash the device and I have to remove the battery to reboot (nothing else works). Does anybody else dim+lock is supposed to wake only when you touch the power button, imo. ___ Openmoko community mailing

Re: Battery Lifetime

2008-07-17 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
On Wed, 2008-07-16 at 20:12 -0600, Scott Derrick wrote: you got a SD card plugged in? Nope (due to our GPS issue ;) ) smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org

Re: Battery Lifetime

2008-07-17 Thread Adam Talbot
apm -s ??? -Adam On Thu, 2008-07-17 at 01:09 -0700, Ken Restivo wrote: On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 07:33:18AM -0700, Adam Talbot wrote: dimlock != suspend :-) If the screen is off, the system is still fully running, and sucking down power. When you suspend, all running processes are cashed

Re: Suspend Mode, was Re: Battery Lifetime

2008-07-17 Thread Andy Green
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Somebody in the thread at some point said: | Hi, | | Am Mittwoch, den 16.07.2008, 13:17 -0600 schrieb Scott Derrick: | Will the phone answer calls in suspend mode? Get text messages? | | If I suspend I haven't turned it into a dumb brick right? | | I

Re: Battery Lifetime

2008-07-17 Thread Andy Green
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Somebody in the thread at some point said: | Hi, | I just installed script, and made a menu command for it to see what it | does to my battery. However, the phone wakes up inside a few minutes. | Someone earlier wrote: | | That's currently the crux of

Re: Battery Lifetime

2008-07-17 Thread Andy Green
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Somebody in the thread at some point said: | Subject to wakeups caused by cell reregistration this is true. This isn't a | complaint - keep reading ;-) It does a wake to full backlight too, which is | distracting and wastes power Backlight should be

Re: Battery Lifetime

2008-07-17 Thread Mathieu Rochette
On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 10:41 PM, Andy Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Carsten has started on a daemon to handle wakes in userspace that should eventually parse this and figure out if it can go back to suspend silently once the wake reason was serviced. should it be possible to disable a

Re: Battery Lifetime

2008-07-17 Thread Al Johnson
On Thursday 17 July 2008, Andy Green wrote: Somebody in the thread at some point said: | Subject to wakeups caused by cell reregistration this is true. This isn't a | complaint - keep reading ;-) It does a wake to full backlight too, which is | distracting and wastes power Backlight

Re: Battery Lifetime

2008-07-17 Thread Joerg Reisenweber
Am Do 17. Juli 2008 schrieb Mathieu Rochette: On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 10:41 PM, Andy Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Carsten has started on a daemon to handle wakes in userspace that should eventually parse this and figure out if it can go back to suspend silently once the wake reason

Re: Battery Lifetime

2008-07-16 Thread Scott Derrick
Ken, I'm looking for possible solutions or areas to investigate. When my FR's arrive I was going to investigate this area, but wondered how easy it would be without a debug board.. Scott Ken Restivo wrote: On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 08:19:38PM -0600, Scott Derrick wrote: I'm amazed that

Re: Battery Lifetime

2008-07-16 Thread Scott Derrick
Wow thats fantastic! First I have heard. Gladly I will admit to raising a non-issue, sorry. Scott Adam Talbot wrote: This is all with my FreeRunner. 144 hours, to be exact. Or, about 6 days of stand by time. Something like 4 hours of active talk time. Looks like you could get 8 days and 5

Re: Battery Lifetime

2008-07-16 Thread Adam Talbot
This is how I do it. http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/User:Nomeata On Wed, 2008-07-16 at 14:50 +0200, arne anka wrote: Wow thats fantastic! First I have heard. Gladly I will admit to raising a non-issue, sorry. i absolutely don't think it is a non-issue -- on the contrary! besides tony tu

Re: Battery Lifetime

2008-07-16 Thread arne anka
This is how I do it. http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/User:Nomeata read it already, but that should basically be the same as dimlock, shouldn't it? ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org

Re: Battery Lifetime

2008-07-16 Thread Adam Talbot
dimlock != suspend :-) If the screen is off, the system is still fully running, and sucking down power. When you suspend, all running processes are cashed into ram, then the rest of the hardware is turned off, with the exception of the GMS modem, and ram. Check out the S3 state:

Re: Battery Lifetime

2008-07-16 Thread arne anka
dimlock != suspend :-) i learned yesterday that dimlock == suspend and the messages scrolling over the screen before the lock screen comes back when [pressing pwr | incoming call | fr wakes up frequently] prove that imho. dim!lock != suspend

Re: Battery Lifetime

2008-07-16 Thread Kalle Happonen
thomasg wrote: Where ever you think you might have heard this: it's bullshit. Complete bullshit. Which of this? I agree with Scott, well, in a more understanding, and smiling way but still. I took the phone from the charger this morning, and it's almost dead now at the end of the workday,

Re: Battery Lifetime

2008-07-16 Thread Adam Talbot
I am not sure what you are referring to as bullshit. I have a FreeRunner, and am getting about 7 days of run time from it. In the last 10days, sense I got it, I have only needed to charge it once. If you think this is crap, then prove me wrong! Log into your FR and execute an 'apm -s'. Give it

Re: Battery Lifetime

2008-07-16 Thread Yorick Moko
my freerunner will arrive this week, but don't worry, i'm a true believer :) maybe it would help if there was standard a button to click on to suspend the phone (maybe label it Suspend(Bèta)) because it seems most people are not aware of something other than dimlock On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 5:09

Re: Battery Lifetime

2008-07-16 Thread ian douglas
Yorick Moko wrote: maybe it would help if there was standard a button to click on to suspend the phone (maybe label it Suspend(Bèta)) because it seems most people are not aware of something other than dimlock If someone's going to get into adding buttons: Our group last night agreed having a

Re: Battery Lifetime

2008-07-16 Thread Scott Derrick
Chris, you got a SD card plugged in? Scott Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: How are you doing this? If I fully charge my GTA02 battery before I go to bed,.. it will be nearly empty when I wake up (I seep 7-8 hours),... Dim+nolock is choosen, as dim+lock seems to crash the device and I have

Re: Battery Lifetime

2008-07-16 Thread Steven **
I too am using the 2007.2 image upgraded. But I have no problem with dim+lock. I haven't had my FreeRunner for long enough to definitively say how long the battery will last. But I had it at work today, showing it off several times. The remaining time it mostly sat on my desk with dim+lock (I

Re: Battery Lifetime

2008-07-16 Thread Adam Talbot
I am currently using the 20080716 build, from: http://buildhost.openmoko.org/daily/freerunner/200807/ Try running the apm -s That will suspend to ram. I do this by hand every time I want the phone to suspend. The power button, or a call will wake it. Please keep in mind, suspend to ram is

Re: Battery Lifetime

2008-07-15 Thread Ken Restivo
On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 08:19:38PM -0600, Scott Derrick wrote: I'm amazed that more isn't being said about the battery lifetime people are seeing? I just read an article in Information Week that cited a large poll concerning users of mobile devices. What was the number 1 issue, far and

Re: Battery Lifetime

2008-07-15 Thread Adam Talbot
This is all with my FreeRunner. 144 hours, to be exact. Or, about 6 days of stand by time. Something like 4 hours of active talk time. Looks like you could get 8 days and 5 of talk, but I like every thing turned on. I have GPS running, but with out an SD card ;-). Currently using the built in

Re: Battery Lifetime

2008-07-15 Thread Kalle Happonen
This is great news indeed! Since I'm adventurous, and thought I'd take the Freerunner into phone use immideately, this has been the biggest obstacle for normal use so far. With decent battery life I'd be a Very Happy User. Adam Talbot wrote: This is all with my FreeRunner. 144 hours, to be