I think my N900 has some kind of serious battery issue I still haven't read about in the other posts... I have been using it for a week now, and occasionally (not always) the battery will drain fast.

This morning I think I beat a new record. Unplugged my N900 this morning at 6.00 a.m. after having left it charging for the whole night. Battery was completely drained by 10.30 a.m.

The use of the device included 5 minutes on a wifi connection to check mail before I left home, no more than 1 hour browsing (UMTS 3G connection) later in the morning. I've downloaded and installed AMSN, played a little with it (by the way very slow loading). That's it. No phone calls, no pictures, no radio/music listening, movies watching this morning.... and the battery is empty.

This is not happening always, the battery will usually last a whole day, but occasionally fast battery drain occurs. Once I tried rebooting the device and the battery draining seemed to stop: eg. it took 2 hours to drain half battery, but after the reboot I was able to run for 6 more hours, and I'm talking about the phone being idle most of the time.

I am not a Linux savvy, but I have the feeling that occasionally something hangs? Some process is draining the battery?

One thing that also happened (3 times) is that I disconnect from my wifi router, and the N900 will not see the router anymore (the other devices I have don't have any issues with the router). I have to reboot the N900 and everything works again. Some service fails?


Are there some Xterm comands I can run to check if something is wrong when these strange behaviours occur? I have tried the "top" comand, but I really don't now how to use the output I get...

Any help appreciated.


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