Karl Bellve wrote: > Igor Stoppa wrote: >> >> Power saving is not so important when the _energy_ wasted is so little >> and for an event which is supposed to happen very seldom (you don't turn >> off your device, don't you?). >> > > Every time it crashes! :-) > > When using the Nokia at night, while watching TV in a dark room, the > nokia can be absurdly bright during its reboot process. So bright, I > have to face the nokia down on the couch while it reboots. So, the > bright light is over whelming when you have the nokia set to its dimmest > level because your eyes have adjusted to the dark. > Exactly. That is my second (and maybe bigger) concern. Reboot or crash at night is not a pleasant thing. While it is supposed to happen very seldom in reality it is not such rare event. And the backligh really does not consume significant power? I thought it can be half of power consumption on such devices. It was like that on ipaq 3870 I had. I remeber something like 80mA when display off ~130mA minimum brightness ~200mA full brightness, ~300mA full brightness + 100%CPU (not sure about exact values, it is long time ago, it was available as file in /proc in Familiar linux). On N770 I cannot check easily since some parts of power management is ... guess what? There is this myth about hidden power management ;-) But anyway is there some real reason while the default cannot be much lower until device boots to the point where user specified setting is honored? Frantisek
