Thread: N900: "Display stays lit when charging"
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tswindell is offline tswindell
2010-09-13 , 11:17
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Originally Posted by pelago View Post
extechop, I understand exactly what you're saying and I'm not sure why some others aren't getting it and being slightly hostile.

I guess technically in this aspect the N900 is working correctly according to the specification, as the wording on the tickbox matches the perceived behaviour. What you're asking for (and I agree) is for a different setting, a tickbox for "Display stays lit while connected to charger". This tickbox could replace the existing one, and the behaviour in the background modified to match the wording.

Anyone interested in this could vote for https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10496 although I wouldn't hold out too much hope for this being fixed in Maemo 5. I don't know what the MeeGo behaviour is - does anyone know?
I think what the others' are trying to say is this, when the phone isn't charging, having the display on all the time will drain the battery, because the phone isn't charging. I guess you think that the phone is still drawing power from the USB, as in, it's using USB for power and not the fully charged battery, but you'd be wrong. As soon as the phone is fully charged, it goes back to battery power.