Thread: App to Wake N900 When Picked up or Tap the Screen
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jolouis is offline jolouis
2010-02-18 , 18:29
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Originally Posted by Bratag View Post
Wouldnt this require something to be constantly running in the background and that could result in the phone never truly entering a idle/sleep state. Could be quite a battery killer.
Running daemons in the background happens all the time on Maemo... it's not a battery concern at all as long as your daemon isn't DOING a lot... i.e. if it's polling an accelerometer value once each second it shouldn't be a big deal... on the other hand, if part of the phone "idle mode" is to power down accellerometer then that might have an effect as the daemon would keep the accellerometer powered up. Won't know until somebody tries it...