Re: Who's been eating my battery?
 

Not normally. In my case the earlier version left a few startup scripts behind after uninstalling, and when I rebooted the N900, those kept trying to run.

The problem seems to now have been fixed: http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p...&postcount=105

Re: N900 battery life questions, issues, scenarios
 

My phone has been very weird with the battery. A week ago the battery life went from being very average to absolutely terrible. I would wake up 6am, have to charge the battery by 12 noon and then again by 6pm and finally an overnight charge by midnight. It simply could not last more than 6hrs. It was like that for a whole week.

Today I woke up by around 5am now it is 7pm and I have still not had to charge the device. So after having needed to charge every 6hrs at best for the last 1 week I have today gone over 14 hrs without needing a charge. Yet there has been no real difference in my usage today and I have not uninstalled any programmes that could have been eating battery life.

So what gives? Why the huge difference in battery performance?

Re: N900 battery life questions, issues, scenarios
 

have you made a reboot?

Re: N900 battery life questions, issues, scenarios
 

strange thing just happened, I had 3 processes eating more than 50% of my CPU all the time :
gconfd-2 (16%), dbus-deamon --system --nofork(26%) and hildon-desktop (22%).

Reboot didn't solve it, still same behaviour and of course my battery was draining by the minute...

I finally stopped this behaviour by killing the gconfd-2 process as root, it made the others return to normal.

After reboot, same processes start acting up again, now also rivalled by the trackerd in the beginning. But that dies off pretty quickly, as expected.

So, 5 min. after reboot, still stuck with 54% solid CPU utilization. I did get quite a lot of updates pushed today, has anyone seen a similar behaviour ?

What's the gconfd-2 process ? Any way to further way (logfiles etc ..) to troubleshoot what the gconfd-2 process was doing and what (if any) the offending package might be ?

thanks.

Edit : I know know -sort of- what gconfd-2 does, thanks to http://wiki.maemo.org/Documentation/...ferences-Gconf.

After some googling around I found there is on desktop versions of gnome, a file called "saved_states" containing a log of requests handled by the gconfd. This is should be in ~/.gconfd but is missing on Maemo. Any idea someone where to find a similar file or have a similar functionality ?

I don't like windows style solutions like reflash and restore ... So I rather find the root cause ...

Edit 2 : my source ... maybe someone else can distill some more info out of it ?http://www.mail-archive.com/desktop-...msg307873.html

Re: N900 battery life questions, issues, scenarios
 

same problem here . gcnfd-2 is killing my battery now . even a reboot can not help much . 3 processes (gcnfd-2 , hildon-desktop and d-bus daemon ) is taking almost half cpu usage when idle .

Re: N900 battery life questions, issues, scenarios
 

same problem here. gconfd-2, dbus and hildon-desktop eat up to 80-100 %cpu all the time until i quit gconfd-2

Re: N900 battery life questions, issues, scenarios
 

I even reflashed, then all was fine. I then restored all apps from the backup (in multiple times, as it's such a big list). Only after the last install batch (late this morning) I got the issue again. Where can I find a timestamped list of apps installed ? I'm not that great yet with all apt tools ...

Anyway, it must be a very recent App update causing this. Should we combine our applist and see what the overlap is ? To pin down the guilty one ?

Maybe related :
in the HAM, menu item log, I can find load of errors.
This happens in LOADS of places, by the looks of it refering to gconf and file paths ...
This is one example, there are thousands similar ones, with different path. Anyone an idea where to find this log on the filesystem ?

This last thing smeels like this bug :https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5448

But it really happens in loads of (gconf??) places and loads of files ... Can this be the cause for the constant high CPU load ? Anyway, I'll try to see if the temp solution mentionned in the bug report can fix this as well. Need to go now, taxi is waiting. And planes don't ....
Any idea ?

ps. Yesterday I was on PR1.1 (UK version), for the reflash I used 1.1.1 (global) and still same issue...

Cheers

Re: N900 battery life questions, issues, scenarios
 

Look at the timestamps on the files in /var/lib/dpkg/info. "ls -clt | more" will list them in date order.

Re: N900 battery life questions, issues, scenarios
 

Had very similar issues - went from Uk to global firmware. I have removed all widgets and its alot better.

Still not as great as when I first got it.

Scott

Re: N900 battery life questions, issues, scenarios
 

my recent updated app are : motified hildon desktop , scim tables , scim symbol , headphone damon , maemo mapper .

My guess will be motified hildon desktop .