Hi, ext Tony Green wrote: > On Monday 21 Apr 2008, Giacomo Tufano wrote: >> After installing the last revision of OS2008 (I don't really know why I did >> it, because I had no problem on startup) battery life is very, very short. I >> go from full battery down to automatic shutdown in a night... >> I tried reinstalling the OS, then I tried reinstalling the OS and not >> restore backup (but Favorites, but I suppose this will make no difference). >> No luck. >> In system log I have *many* couple of lines saying: >> EAC mode: play enabled, rec enabled >> followed by >> EAC mode: play enabled, rec disabled >> Repeating every 5-10 seconds and never stopping... >> >> The lines are starting after the MMU and omapdsp init (after ca. 20 seconds >> from log startup) and never ends. > > It certainly sounds like it's doing a lot of work. I've found that some > applications hammer the battery just because they're loaded, even if they > aren't apparently doing anything; the Ogg Vorbis player being a case in > point. If I didn't close it after use in the evening, I'd wake up to a flat > battery in the morning. > > A good way to see what's actually causing the problem is to open a terminal > and run "top" - that will show you the CPU usage of the various processes. One should note that any constant CPU usage, even 0.1%, is enough to ruin use-time. I would recommend running the "top" (or "htop") from SSH so that one isn't confused about the XTerm updates. Also, applications using maemo-launcher show up as "maemo-launcher" in top. The real application name can be seen with: cat /proc/PID/cmdline If the application is "hildon-desktop" then it's one of the applets draining the battery. - Eero _______________________________________________ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@xxxxxxxxx https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
