Battery drains fast
 

My n900s battery suddenly started draining really fast and getting warmer then usual. Any idea whats going on?

Re: Battery drains fast
 

Did you install Advanced Power?

http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=60588&page=4

Re: Battery drains fast
 

It's a common problem on this device. Some process(es), usually the hildon-desktop or the media tracker, spikes cpu usage, making it all warm and toasty and drains the battery.

Your best bet is install battery-graph and try to understand the device's behavior. Also, have you installed the power kernel?

Re: Battery drains fast
 

Ya i did install, but i uninstalled after i saw what was happening to the battery, but it still kept on going.
I already have battery-graph installed, it just started acting like this yesterday.

Re: Battery drains fast
 

Use power search. You can find it from right side of this forum. Try to give yourself 30 minutes of time and read, read and read.

Re: Battery drains fast
 

http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p...0&postcount=15

Uninstalling don't delete that file, and that is the missing piece needed to stop the battery drain.

Re: Battery drains fast
 

It said permission denied... Do i need to reinstall it?

Re: Battery drains fast
 

In the terminal:
sudo gainroot
rm /etc/event.d/apmonitord

Re: Battery drains fast
 

it says /bin/sh: rm/etc/event.d/apmonitord: not found

Re: Battery drains fast
 

Do you got a space between rm and /etc/event.d/apmonitord? Dosen´t look like it anyway! But i don´t know if its a file or a folder, if its a folder then the right command should be rm -r /etc/event.d/apmonitord

The thing is that you must be root to get rid of that file, you got rootsh right? You can use filebox or quteexplorer if you want to use GUI instead of the terminal (but you must be root).

sudo gainroot
quteexplorer
navigate to the file and remove it.

Re: Battery drains fast
 

I can't believe my eyes! sorry but you are one helpless and very search-limited guy.....

Re: Battery drains fast
 

Ok, thanks for letting me know.

Re: Battery drains fast
 

no offense but all information needed is out there and can be found in less than 30 minutes.

I'd love to answer to you to questions like:
"where can I find more information about ______?"

but you are asking:
"please hold my hand and press the buttons for me"

Re: Battery drains fast
 

Ok maybe because I'm kinda new to this, and I really don't know what I'm doing.

Re: Battery drains fast
 

Then do no post :|
No not really, but please give yourself at least 30 minutes of time and use power search and try different search terms.

After all this is community site. Not Nokias support site. People tend to be helpfull if you show that you have searched and tried things that have been already discussed in various other threads.