2009/10/8 Zhang Weiwu <zhangwe...@realss.com>: > In 2008 the phone arrived with battery life of less than one day, > because it doesn't suspend right. I put it on the self as I cannot use > it. Two months ago a friend gets SHR running on it which looks much more > useful than it was before, but sometimes when it suspend, a phone call > can wake it up, sometimes it doesn't, and usually at the end of a day it > cannot wake up (in the morning it works fine, perhaps because it is > newly charged).
yers, i find mine needs rebooting every day or so. there are some who have issues with the screen not turning on when it comes out of suspend > Instead of exploring all 10 distributions and try different versions of > each, my simple answer as a user (not a developer for openmoko yet) is, > what can I do to make my free runner work as an ordinary phone? An > ordinary phone allows me to dail whenever I need it and doesn't fail > that, it also accepts incoming call for a day or so after charged. I can > live without phone book / calendar / calculator / radio / gps etc, but I > couldn't use it if it is not usable as a phone. i use shr-unstable for several months now, and for the last 2 it's been great - reliable (save the very rare issue as above). it's fine as an every day phone, for text and calls, although it needs charging every two days > I have a feeling when it is suspended the machine still consumes a lot > of power. When it is awake it takes -204mA power according to SHR's > Setting -> Power (the -204mA is confusing so I take it as 204mA), my > battery is 1200mAh so it lasts 5 hours when fully awaken, but it lasted > such long time when most time unused (and turned black). I believe when > I don't use it it is suspended because when phone call comes in it > scrolls a lot of text which look like kernel resume message before > offering me to pick up the phone. correct > I also wonder how many other buyers of free runner use it as daily phone > and how reliable it is as a phone? plenty, from what i've heard _______________________________________________ support mailing list support@lists.openmoko.org https://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/support
