Re: N900 Sporadically Heats Up and Drains Battery Quickly
 

Had the same symtpoms and an USB mulfunction. Official Nokia Service Center asked me 300 euros to reprair since it require mainboard replacement.

My threads:

http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=73308

http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=74127

If i were you, i'd reflash from scratch.

Re: N900 Sporadically Heats Up and Drains Battery Quickly
 

A friend of mine who also has an N900 told me, that his N900 does this too. It might have gotten wet once in his pocket. Its stock, no overclocking, nothing installed, not connected to anywhere, but a full battery dies in just 6-7 hours, even when the phone is turned off.

Re: N900 Sporadically Heats Up and Drains Battery Quickly
 

If you're using custom modified wifi driver, then it's its fault. It is a known problem that if you leave the custom wifi driver on it will suck all your battery out.

Re: N900 Sporadically Heats Up and Drains Battery Quickly
 

No custom wifi driver here at least.

Re: N900 Sporadically Heats Up and Drains Battery Quickly
 

i had the same problem appear yesterday but after i uninstalled the maemo geolocation service from microb it has worked just fine.
however the geolocation addon is persisting to reinstall itself for some odd reason. :/

Re: N900 Sporadically Heats Up and Drains Battery Quickly
 

As I see more and more people are having the same trouble... still no real answer... ok the problem again happens after connection to the internet, I am not a electronic specialist, but if the WiFi was burned or broken by getting wet or something else, it should not be working at all, right?

... and it works, it connects, it starts to transfer data, it heats up as soon as the data transfer starts and shortly after dies (the internet I mean, the conncetion is still on)... then the battery starts to drain...

so.... here we are at the problem!!!

Re: N900 Sporadically Heats Up and Drains Battery Quickly
 

Guys this is a very helpful thread! (Once again I love this site and my N900, even when the "brick" sucks, and it all is so much better than discussions.apple.com)

Here is my newbie question, if one can help: How do I figure out what processes are?

I used the $top x-terminal command, as suggested by someone above, but need a way to look things up. (Plain Googling is not very effective).

Update: for example "/usr/lib/tracker/tr" spikes up randomly interfering with music playback :( How do I figure what it is?
Thanks!