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2007-01-31
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Hello all,
I purchased a N800 just recently and love it. For about a week I was having extremely bad battery drainage when the n800 was in standby mode. A fully charged n800 in standby mode would completely be dead over night. I disabled wifi and bluetooth and the problem would still occur. Two days ago, I unchecked the "show led lights" option and the problem was fixed.![]()
Anybody else having this problem?
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2007-01-31
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First of all: I unchecked the LEDs the minute I received my N800, so this is going to be a rant-reply.
Here we go:
1. What kind of LEDs did Nokia put in there, if they manage to drain a 1300 mAh battery overnight???
b. WTF at Nokia thought it would be a good idea to put blinkies in an "always-on" device?
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2007-01-31
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2007-01-31
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2007-01-31
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2007-01-31
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2007-02-01
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"1. What kind of LEDs did Nokia put in there, if they manage to drain a 1300 mAh battery overnight???"
It may be an issue with the n800 not properly powersaving while this feature is on. It doesn't make much sense that the LED by itself can drain the battery that quickly.
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2007-02-01
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True. If you took your average LED at 20 mA it would run for 75 hours (assuming the rest of the n800 consumed no power-- not the case obviously). From what I can see from poking around in the /sys entries for the keypad/LED control there's a couple ways the LED can be controlled. It shouldn't make the n800 draw much more power since the LED is controlled by either a hardware oscillator/divider chain from the master clock or the hearbeat interrupt (could cause more power drain for the latter). When you turn on LED blinking it will blink for .5 seconds, then turn off for 7.5 seconds, using the hardware oscillator.
Anyway, the upshot is unless I'm missing something the LED shouldn't cause this behavior. Was your device online all night too? I note that this is the default behavior-- to try and stay online perpetually.
Larry
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2007-02-01
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True. If you took your average LED at 20 mA it would run for 75 hours (assuming the rest of the n800 consumed no power-- not the case obviously). From what I can see from poking around in the /sys entries for the keypad/LED control there's a couple ways the LED can be controlled. It shouldn't make the n800 draw much more power since the LED is controlled by either a hardware oscillator/divider chain from the master clock or the hearbeat interrupt (could cause more power drain for the latter). When you turn on LED blinking it will blink for .5 seconds, then turn off for 7.5 seconds, using the hardware oscillator.
Anyway, the upshot is unless I'm missing something the LED shouldn't cause this behavior. Was your device online all night too? I note that this is the default behavior-- to try and stay online perpetually.
Larry
I purchased a N800 just recently and love it. For about a week I was having extremely bad battery drainage when the n800 was in standby mode. A fully charged n800 in standby mode would completely be dead over night. I disabled wifi and bluetooth and the problem would still occur. Two days ago, I unchecked the "show led lights" option and the problem was fixed.
Anybody else having this problem?