Thread: N900 battery life questions, issues, scenarios
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2009-12-04 , 23:24
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#361
Originally Posted by Blackbeard View Post
I was so sure that the battery drain problem was wifi related. But now it happened again and wifi was definitely not the cause. Seems that I have (again) encountered pure crap made by Nokia. I think I'll just return the unit and claim my money back (since I have that option). Regarding my record with Nokia warranty services I am not going to wait for a month to get the unit "repaired".

I'm sorry to hear that... it looks there are multiple battery related issues here (somebody was also talking about old sim cards draining the battery)

Today I had the battery draining again, after a couple of hours the full battery was only half full and guess what? When I tried to turn on wifi the device would not find any wifi signal (there are multiple wifi spots in my area, not only my router).
So in my case I would definetly say that the battery drain is in some way related to the wifi hanging.

The good news for now, is that I have tried typing what Laughin Man suggested:
ifconfig wlan0 down, ifconfig wlan0 up
in xterm (after gaining root access with rootsh)
and I was able to recover wifi functionality.
I will have to check if battery draining stops at this point, but I would suppose it should.