On Wednesday 24 September 2008, Robert Norton wrote: > 2008/9/24 Al Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Wednesday 24 September 2008, Gothnet wrote: > >> Pietro "m0nt0" Montorfano wrote: > >> > Robert Norton ha scritto: > >> >> I observed the same problem with my newly arrived freerunner running > >> >> om2008.8 update. I fiddled with the wifi then did ifdown eth0 and > >> >> suspend. Bluetooth, wifi and GPS all set to off in settings. Less > >> >> than 24h later the neo would not turn on (thankfully there was enough > >> >> charge left to boot and start charging when I returned home). > >> > > >> > Yeah, anyone know anything to see which of the many things on the FR > >> > is draining my battery? > >> > >> I'd like to add my voice to this lot, I've been getting in the order of > >> 8-12 hours of battery life with minimal conversation or testing and > >> everything switched to off. I even looked to see if there was a higher > >> capacity battery available (there isn't). > >> > >> It seems to be a little better with up to date Om2008.08, but not a hell > >> of a lot. > >> > >> Any tips on diagnostics to run? > > > > My money's on the GSM module. I switched the GSM off because there was no > > SIM in, suspended the phone on a Friday afternoon and powered it up on > > Monday to find ~70% battery remaining. With GSM enabled and SIM inserted > > battery life is variable; sometimes it'll make it through the night with > > a fair bit of charge left, and other times it's dead by morning. I know > > that I sometimes get persistent, frequent GSM reregistration, and from > > the interference it generates on the PC speakers I know this is probably > > drawing a fair bit of current. The reregistration is a persistent, > > intermittent (for me) and as yet unexplained problem: > > http://docs.openmoko.org/trac/ticket/1024 > > That's interesting! I didn't have a SIM card inserted so perhaps that > is part of it. Perhaps the GSM module is upping the power in order to > try and register but never succeeds because obviously it can't without > a SIM (just hand waving here, I know nothing about how this all > works)? > > How did you turn off the GSM module?
This is with a 2007.2 based image, so the gsm icon could be used to turn it off. I wouldn't expect it to try registering with no SIM, but you never know. I didn't have the SIM in so I thought I would turn gsm off. I was expecting it to be dead on the monday. _______________________________________________ support mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/support
