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dqkata contacted me regarding this via PM; I just saw the thread and thought it would be profitable for others who might see the thread with similar issues to see the full discussion:
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Originally Posted by Benson
Originally Posted by Dqkata
Originally Posted by Benson
Originally Posted by Dqkata
Hi. Nice to meet you. My name is Delcho and I'm from Bulgaria. I've seen alot of your posts and I noticed that you understand alot from internet tablets so I decided to write you and see if you could help me. I have this bad problem with battery drain on my n800. I read probably every topic here that someone had written but I can't fix it. I checked CPU usege of my programs and noticed that two things are using quite alot of CPU ALWAYS - 'hildon-desktop' and 'xomap'. I have no idea what these two are?? Do you think that if I make the ''kill process'' on the osso-statusbar-cpu application, on both of them, I will get back my battery life to normal again?? Thank you in advance. Delcho
xomap is the X server; it handles the display. Kill that, and your tablet shuts down... so not it.

hildon-desktop, on the other hand, is only the user interface on top of X, and it'll be restarted if you kill it. (You may have to reset all your applets how you want them afterwards.) It has all desktop applets inside it, so if one of them is taking too much CPU, it shows up there. Sometimes when you kill it, and it restarts, it takes care of the trouble temporarily, but if you've got an applet running that habitually goes into a busy-loop, you'll need to find out which one and stop using it, and also report it to the maintainer of that applet as a bug.
Thank you so much. Than I'll kill the hidon-desktop. But lets say there is really an app that is cousing the battery to go down so fast. How do I find which one exactly it is?
First, not apps; only applets show up through hildon-desktop... Try removing them one at a time; or look to see if anyone else has reported grief with any you are using; RSS reader and some GPE stuff, I think are known.
Sorry for bodering you again. I made the 'kill process' through the 'osso-statusba-cpu' app but all I got was a white screen for couple of seconds and than it showed me the desktop and everything was exactly like before (no restart, nothing) I restarted it myself but nothing happened. It is still over there and it is still eating my CPU. Did I do something wrong? or is there some other way of killing it?
What does (no restart, nothing) mean? If hildon-desktop closed, leaving a blank screen, and then was back again a couple seconds later, it seems like it restarted from here...

Of course there are other ways of killing it; but killing it will not solve the problem. Sometimes, depending on the runaway applet's characteristics, it provides temporary relief of symptoms. (Picture someone being bashed over the head with a big rock, fracturing their skull; and taking morphine to kill the pain. Not a fix.)
 

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