Thread: PocketLock (N9oo)
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2011-04-04 , 15:34
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Originally Posted by damnshock View Post
I thought the proximity sensor was always on whether we use it or not. Ain't it suppose to send a dbus signal (or something alike) when it's switched on?

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Nope, while the proximity sensor is possibly 'on' at a very basic hardware level it is essentially ignored by the OS until somthing requests to read its condition. It does not cause a signal on dbus unless you have proximityd (promity daemon) running which is polling the hardware. This causes extra wakeups for the kernel and stops the CPU sleeping so much.
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