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Kieron 2010-01-09 20:05
Re: Severe battery issues with N900 (not your usual moan!)
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by RevdKathy (Post 461434)
Turn off all widgets (especially the facebook widget)
Turn down the screen brightness
Check what's hapening with wifi - there's a wifi-disconnect bug that people have reported. Search this forum if you think that could be your trouble.

(If I can find that thread I'll come back and link it)

Try this thread. :)
I've removed the widgets like you said, and I always have brightness on one or two bars. For me it can't be Wifi - I never use it. Thanks for your input though :)

Quote:
Originally Posted by That One Guy (Post 461486)
Try running top, and see if an app is hogging CPU cycles.

x Term
top
I've run the top thing, and xorg is at the top, everything is hildon- something and a few other processes that I recognise. Nothing stands out as a particular powerhog. :(

mankir 2010-01-09 20:11
Re: Severe battery issues with N900 (not your usual moan!)
 
i read somewhere this is a bug in the firmware: once wifi is enabled, the battery will drain faster. rebooting is my only known solution with pr1.0.

Kieron 2010-01-09 20:14
Re: Severe battery issues with N900 (not your usual moan!)
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by mankir (Post 461539)
i read somewhere this is a bug in the firmware: once wifi is enabled, the battery will drain faster. rebooting is my only known solution with pr1.0.
I don't use wifi, so it can't be this :(

ukbill69 2010-01-10 00:00
Re: Severe battery issues with N900 (not your usual moan!)
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Kieron (Post 461544)
I don't use wifi, so it can't be this :(
Doesnt matter if you use the wifi or not, it is a bug with the wifi card in the phone. Done a lot of reading here. https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6615

Death Scythe 2010-01-10 00:10
Re: Severe battery issues with N900 (not your usual moan!)
 
Also looks like this problem's been addressed in the upcoming firmware, based on the latter posts.

starman 2010-01-10 00:26
Re: Severe battery issues with N900 (not your usual moan!)
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by That One Guy (Post 461486)
Try running top, and see if an app is hogging CPU cycles.

x Term
top
ok i did that and noticed that

/usr/bin/xorg -logf

its all over the place, ranges from 2.2% to 66% CPU when ever the screen refreshes or i hit a key to refresh

is that normal???

azz 2010-01-10 06:47
Re: Severe battery issues with N900 (not your usual moan!)
 
I have the same thing....logf....wonder what's that?

Bec 2010-01-10 08:41
Re: Severe battery issues with N900 (not your usual moan!)
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Kieron (Post 461544)
I don't use wifi, so it can't be this :(
I use wifi and I don't have this issue... @ home many times I forget to turn it off but it still makes it past the 12H with ease :confused:

I have though noticed that the wfi stays on since after connecting to wifi & disconnectiong, yahoo won't allow me to check my email - free yahoo only works via my GSM carrier, not wifi.

So obviously the wi-fi module isn't turned off.

What I can advise is to enter red pill mode and check the uninstaller, you might find the app/package that's causing the issue and you also might brick your phone; EXTREME CAUTION!

giannoug 2010-01-10 11:26
Re: Severe battery issues with N900 (not your usual moan!)
 
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Bratag (Post 461498)
I wish someone would publish the powertop package to the repos. Its on some firmwares not others. There is a thread or two on it but I don't believe anything came of it.
I built powertop but I don't think that it will help.. Here's a screenshot. Sent me a message for the executable (not a .deb, sorry).

MonkeyMagic 2010-01-10 11:59
Re: Severe battery issues with N900 (not your usual moan!)
 
I had similar problems with battery and found it draining no matter what was installed(extras and devel).
All my battery issues dissapeared when i disabled 3G when not in use. Now I get 2-3 days use as opposed to under 8 hours.
There is now a 2g/3g switcher applet for this purpose but disapears from status bar now and again for me but might be something i'm doing wrong.(you can still change connection in main device settings under phone settings).


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