Glad to hear you worked it out - good to know those items in any case. I suppose the next step would be to file a bug with those projects, possibly with an strace (I think?) result to find out what they're doing when not being used. I have not yet had the same good luck as you and get about 1-2 days even if I turn the thing to offline mode when I don't want to use the internet. I'm suspecting the continually breaking email (it must not like my imap server or something) might be affecting it, since I already removed the fm radio and load meter bits. RE: battery estimates, I remember reading not too long ago on some really clever analysis of battery discharges in some GNOME software, possibly Gnome Power Manager? It might be useful/interesting to see if that logic can be ported, because from at least a theoretical math point of view it seemed pretty sensible. Ryan Giacomo Tufano wrote: > Battery problem has been solved. I had 1 critical issue and 2 minimal > ones on battery life. > First and worst was pidgin. The software is very aggressive when the > net goes down. RTComm beta is more 'quiet'. I use it ever 'on' > autoconnecting when network is up. Pidgin, apparently, don't like this > approach. > Gnotifier also seems to be a battery eater, much less than pidgin. > Last problem in my home network. I have 2 apple ap in a wds network > (concrete building). If the tablet is left in the middle between the > two ap, this seems to hamper battery life. No special ideas on the > why. Just noticed it. > I'm now happy again, with ca. 4 days standby with moderate use. I was > just willing to share my findings in case someone else is hit, many > thanks for your support in debug this. > Tx, gt > ps: the last strange thing is that the battery applet says: '8 days', > goes down one day per day up to 4 and, then, the day after is empty. > Not a big problem, in reality. Battery indicators are, in my > experience, not more reliable in other cases (phones or notebook). > > On 4/21/08, Giacomo Tufano <gt@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 4:58 PM, Eero Tamminen <eero.tamminen@xxxxxxxxx> >> wrote: >> >>> One possibility is a WLAN AP with broken power management, but then >>> things shouldn't get that much worse with newer OS release. Another >>> possibility is some process using network often. >>> >>> Could you try using "Offline mode" option from the power key menu? >>> If it helps significantly, then the issue is related to network. >>> >> I'll try this evening/night and I'll get back tomorrow with the results... >> >> >>> Have you enabled RSS updates? Do you leave e.g. Browser window >>> open when you don't use the device? >>> >> No (I hate programs polling automatically) :-). The only program >> polling is the gmail notifier... >> >> >>> What applets you have enabled in Home? >>> >> Internet search, web link (no change on standard URI), Tableteer info, >> clock and Internet Radio (never used, sitting idle). >> >> >>> If you do following from SSH after screen has blanked: >>> strace -p $(pidof hildon-desktop|cut -d' ' -f1) >>> Is there any activity? >>> >> I got (very fast) after the command: >> >> gettimeofday(whatever) = 0 >> ioctl(3, FIONREAD, [0]) = 0 >> gettimeofday(whatever) = 0 >> poll( >> >> and then nothing else... >> >> To answer your question in a later email (so to try to save >> bandwidth): the device is not in R&D mode... >> >> It was before the upgrade, but I disabled the R&D mode after an email >> from you a week ago, or something like that explaining the problems >> with power management in this mode. >> Thinking about this, I did two things: upgraded the OS AND disabling >> R&D mode. But I think the latter can't be the problem, no? >> >> btw: I disinstalled Canola (the program is very complex, it is a >> candidate for problems/bugs). >> >> I'll try (in this order): >> leave the tablet "as is" (to test canola); >> if nothing leave the tablet with net disabled; >> if nothing I'll try to kill the metalayer-crawler (but I had no >> problem before, on N810 or on the 770 I used before this one and this >> tablet used to have power for 4 to 7 days)... >> If nothing the only other thing I can do is to reinstall OS2008 and, >> then, add an application every 2-3 days to isolate the battery >> offender... >> >> If there is something else I can try, feel free to suggest other >> option (I'm open). :-) If there are no other suggestion I'll post a >> success when I found the root cause... >> >> Thank you all for your help and support, >> gt >> >> > _______________________________________________ > maemo-users mailing list > maemo-users@xxxxxxxxx > https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users > > -- Ryan Pavlik www.cleardefinition.com #282 + (442) - [X] A programmer started to cuss Because getting to sleep was a fuss As he lay there in bed Looping 'round in his head was: while(!asleep()) sheep++; _______________________________________________ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@xxxxxxxxx https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
