Thread: App to Wake N900 When Picked up or Tap the Screen
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2010-02-18 , 18:37
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Originally Posted by jolouis View Post
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...
The only real experience I have with the accelerometer is with shake2control. I do know however that even when not playing music that app will move to the next song if shaken.

I know daemons are running the in background of maemo, but would worry the poll period for this to be beneficial as an app would have to be so short that it would amount to being "always on". I wish I knew more about accessing the accelerometer and writing a daemon so I could contribute something more to this.
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