Hi all,

After upgrading my N800 to 2008 OS, one immediate difference I noticed was that after I locked the screen, instead of it going immediately blank, it stayed fully lit for a few seconds, then dimmed, then went blank eventually.

After reading this post I decided to have a closer look at this config file:

/etc/mce/mce.ini

Under the section named

[TKLock]

I found

BlankImmediately=0

and promptly set it to

BlankImmediately=1

After restarting the N800, it now goes directly blank when I lock it, saving precious power. YAY!

Could I have achieved this in a much more elegant way? Is there a GUI setting somewhere that I overlooked which does the same thing?

If not, why not?

Overall I've been surprised to see 2008 OS seems to chew through more power while on battery than 2007 OS did, with the result being shorter uptimes - most annoying.

Could CPU hungry processes like

metalayer-crawler

be partially responsible?

Cheers.