On Sun, 2010-02-07 at 21:28 +0100, Xavier Bestel wrote: > Le vendredi 05 février 2010 à 15:12 +0100, Xavier Bestel a écrit : > > > > yesterday evening my N900 was fully charged (blue led). I copied 2 films > > via wifi (700Mb each), played a bit with Angry Birds, started to watch a > > film then stopped after 20mn. The only applications running (I think) > > were the Facebook widget, the OMWeather widget and the media player, > > paused. I disconnected the wifi (I still don't have a data plan), locked > > the screen and went to sleep (I think the battery icon was showing > > something like half-full). > > In the morning (something like 8 hours after that) it was dead, out of > > battery. > > So (for those interested) it seems there are several problems: > > - Just disconnecting from wifi with the menu from the wifi icon is > temporary, and makes the n900 reconnect by itself later. My fault, I > didn't know that. IME this is only true if you select 'Wi-Fi' (or probably 'Any connection') for 'Connect automatically' in the 'Internet connections' settings. I have it on 'Always ask'. (I think if one disconnected manually it should never try to reconnect automatically, just suggesting ways around it for now) > - The wifi driver apparently has some troubles reconnecting to my AP > after a while. Rebooting the n900 makes the problem go away. Next time > it happens I'll try to gather some logs. I've experienced this once, and unloading the wl12xx kernel module and loading it again fixed it. I use the Wifi Switcher status menu plugin now to unload the kernel module, apparently this may also save more power than merely disconnecting. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer | http://www.vmware.com Libre software enthusiast | Debian, X and DRI developer _______________________________________________ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@xxxxxxxxx https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
