Thread: [Council] Influence Nokia by voting in a poll on N900 multitasking
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shadowjk is offline shadowjk
2010-09-09 , 23:33
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#35
Originally Posted by jnwi View Post
The battery reliability issue is huge. My N900 is amazing 99% of the time, but when I'm abroad I'm so scared of that one percent chance something random will drain my battery that I switch to my Symbian phone. I don't agree that the solution is to cripple multitasking, though. There should be an alarm if the CPU is too active for more than 5 minutes with the screen off, imho..
SpeedEvil's power monitoring script is a start for a method of collecting data usable for determining abnormal power use. It monitors process wakeups and last 5sec average current consumption. Add to that a "data traffic last 5 secs yes/no" figure, and you're close to have most things covered..

The thing that hits me occasionally is people trying to bruteforce my ssh password over 2g/3g, it eats a constant 200-350mA