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Originally Posted by arbitrabbit View Post
Even while playing Music or running a movie, the CPU is not ON all the time. A lot of that is done via the DSP anyways, so your CPU would remain idle a significant amount of time (as an example, play an mp3 and run Conky and you would see that the CPU is usually at 500MHz if you are running ideal). So while the test is valid, the premise isn't. Also, to sample current properly, unfortunately once every second isn't enough. You are talking more like 30 times a second, given how many times the CPU is waking up every second.
Assuming you use the BQ27200 to read current consumption (is there another way on the N900?), then you should know it is only updating the value every 5.12 seconds, so there is no use of reading it more frequently. Further more it gives you the average over that time (actual amount of power consumed in the divided by 5.12), so you don't have to worry about that.
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