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MasterZap is offline MasterZap
2011-05-20 , 10:49
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#89
Originally Posted by ndi View Post
Last night I fired it up, and used tower lock, then exited. This morning, battery was at 70% and it was still trying. Had to kill daemon. Tried again, hooked again, until I went outside and it locked.

So, kill it from CLI after use?
Tower lock is very experimental so far and has some issues as noted above. Most of energy has gone into "intelligent GPS lock", but even that has some issues (like, if it can't find anything, it seems to try forever, which is bad). I need to add a timeout. That is stil missing.

But tower lock per se shouldn't really consume power, since it's information your device already has by virtue of being connected to the cellular network.

Knowing my N900 as I do, losing only 30% over night would be fantastic (I always charge overnight)

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