Hello Maemo, I've done a few searches and haven't anything really all that comprehensive. Does anyone know of an existing list, which indicates which apps are known to drain battery life in ways outside of their function. (ie, programs continues to scan while closed, draining battery prematurely, etc.)

My N900 is having some real drain issues lately. I've been using a combination of turning the cell radio off, disabling wifi, and forcing deep sleep in an attempt to get more battery life, but I'm still loosing anywhere from 8-12% over the course of a few hours, while the phoen shouldn't be doing anything.

Thanks for any help.

Edit: I'll be editing this post with info I find that is useful to said subject. As I discover apps known to do this I'll put them below (I'll try to provide links to the source where I can):

- Personnel IP App (circumvented if phone is rebooted on a daily basis)
- All Daemons (apps ending with a d, this is not so serious, as their use is mostly very little, but can build up over time, especially with alot running at once) This includes batterygraph and eye.
-fmtx widget
- There is a know hildon bug associated with categorize and apmefo that has to do with reorganization items, and quickly moving between folder items that causes hildon.desktop to continue to run at about 1-5% cpu load. Rebooting or killing hildon.desktop with htop fixes the problem temporarily.
- MaeNotify appears to cause an excessive amount of drain as well.

Edit: Powertop is a useful program to investigate in depth power use. See page 3 for it's use and installation.

Edit: Tho shared a method he uses to track down battery drain issues. Seems very efficient and practical, here is a link to the comment:

http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p...4&postcount=52

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