Thread: N900 battery life questions, issues, scenarios
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quark is offline quark
2009-12-05 , 17:02
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#363
Originally Posted by marauder View Post
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.

I tried the ifconfig trick (sudo gainroot->ifconfig wlan0 down->ifconfig wlan0 up) and it doesn't affect the battery drain problem.
Anyway I experienced battery drain but NOT problems with wifi hotspot search.

Wifi works fine on my n900, but every time I switch it on it starts to drain battery, and I have to reboot to stop it.

So imho the problem is related to wifi in a non-linear way.