Thread: Battery going dead when not in use?
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2007-06-02 , 13:21
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Originally Posted by YoDude View Post
It is my understanding that some resident "lifeguard" programs look for this behavior (battery removal) before initiating a boot routine that could correct a "hanger".
Bettery removal is mostly iteresting to prevent loss of data: jffs does journaling over pages, but that doesn't prevent file-level corruption. However modern flashes have very short write time, and anyway the amount of action that can be done in the residual time after the battery is removed is very little.

Originally Posted by YoDude View Post
Particularly "instant on" devices that may keep a kernel or other code resident.
Cell phone manufacturers have been doing this for years. I don't know for sure about the N800.
"instant on" ?? What do you think it's doing during the 30+ s between pressing the power button and showing the desktop?