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Le_Petit_Lapin is offline Le_Petit_Lapin
2009-12-21 , 16:08
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#21
I turned off all my homescreens apart from one as Hildon-Desktop was using about 6-7% CPU constantly, with them off its now at 0.3%.
 
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Lacedaemon is offline Lacedaemon
2009-12-21 , 16:25
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#22
Originally Posted by dantonic View Post
What I've done before this happened is disabled the touch search widget, and the media player widget.
After doing this I noticed that the 25% battery I had left suddendly seemed to last forever.( Draining about 1-2 % per hour on idle while connected to 2.5G and a wifi connection.)
Do you see the irony?
Disabling features of a device like widgets is ofcourse going to improve battery life.
There is no sudden improvement here, like your topic title claims.
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les_garten is offline les_garten
2009-12-21 , 16:29
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#23
Originally Posted by smegheadz View Post
as originaly posted in the thread below, there is a wifi bug which continues to drain the battery in about 6hours even after you turn wifi off.

the fix is to turn it off then reboot or to turn it off and disable it from x-terminal.

please read this thread for more details.

http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=36438
Hmmm, I turn wifi on and off all the time, and this does not happen to me. There must be another variable in here.
 
REMFwhoopitydo is offline REMFwhoopitydo
2009-12-21 , 16:42
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#24
Originally Posted by smegheadz View Post
as originaly posted in the thread below, there is a wifi bug which continues to drain the battery in about 6hours even after you turn wifi off.

the fix is to turn it off then reboot or to turn it off and disable it from x-terminal.

please read this thread for more details.

http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=36438
never noticed a difference, whether i was connected to the wifi all day long, or before i had ever connected at all.

regardless, what i described previosly was the performance as it stood then, whereas right now my battery is still at ~95% after eight hours connected to the work wifi.

something is different.
 
bocaJ is offline bocaJ
2009-12-21 , 19:00
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#25
Does anyone have very good battery life while maintaining an internet connection over just cellular data (no wifi)? My guess is that cellular data is very inefficient compared to wifi, so if you just connect to wifi at work, you're fine, but that cell data runs things down quickly.

My second guess is that I've got a weak/otherwise weird cellular data connection in my office, and that runs down the battery.

Doing some testing today - we shall see!
 
les_garten is offline les_garten
2009-12-21 , 19:06
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Originally Posted by bocaJ View Post
Does anyone have very good battery life while maintaining an internet connection over just cellular data (no wifi)? My guess is that cellular data is very inefficient compared to wifi, so if you just connect to wifi at work, you're fine, but that cell data runs things down quickly.

My second guess is that I've got a weak/otherwise weird cellular data connection in my office, and that runs down the battery.

Doing some testing today - we shall see!
My Battery gets nailed if I am using DATA of either type. I am on ATT Edge. My battery does great if I shut off BT, WiFi, and 2.5G when I am not using it. You really don't need it on all the time. The connection is only a few keystrokes and takes very little time to establish.

I think some of the batt improvements are coming from battery "break-in". Asw well as being more frugal with batt chewing appz.
 
bocaJ is offline bocaJ
2009-12-21 , 19:13
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#27
Originally Posted by les_garten View Post
My Battery gets nailed if I am using DATA of either type. I am on ATT Edge. My battery does great if I shut off BT, WiFi, and 2.5G when I am not using it. You really don't need it on all the time. The connection is only a few keystrokes and takes very little time to establish.

I think some of the batt improvements are coming from battery "break-in". Asw well as being more frugal with batt chewing appz.
I really do feel like I need some sort of data always on for services, particularly given my usage: I don't have an SMS plan, so I rely on chat services, particularly gTalk for short, discrete messaging.
 
les_garten is offline les_garten
2009-12-21 , 19:32
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Originally Posted by bocaJ View Post
I really do feel like I need some sort of data always on for services, particularly given my usage: I don't have an SMS plan, so I rely on chat services, particularly gTalk for short, discrete messaging.
Your usage patterns are defintely different than mine then. Battery management will be an issue than. I don't see any way to have real time, constant on DATA and not pay the price of the power, it takes bidirectional radios to do that.

Perhaps when we get Di lithium crystals? I never saw Capt. Kirk charge up his communicator!
 
neo is offline neo
2009-12-21 , 19:49
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#29
I can confirm this battery improvement. It happened about 2 weeks after first charging. I dont have to close my facebook applet anymore . Battery lasts at least 1,5 days. My phone is on 3g network all the time.

Only thing what I have done is I disabled calendar widget. But it was about week before battery improvement.

Code:
lshal |grep bat
gives me one line what was without info last time i checked:

Code:
battery.reporting.last_full =1222 (0x4c6) (int)
Is it just fortune but that line was missing value last time I checked (before my battery got boost)

Edit: More info: I havent have touch search installed.
Last edited by neo; 2009-12-21 at 19:52. Reason: More info
 
bocaJ is offline bocaJ
2009-12-21 , 19:58
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#30
Originally Posted by neo View Post
I can confirm this battery improvement. It happened about 2 weeks after first charging. I dont have to close my facebook applet anymore . Battery lasts at least 1,5 days. My phone is on 3g network all the time.

Only thing what I have done is I disabled calendar widget. But it was about week before battery improvement.

Code:
lshal |grep bat
gives me one line what was without info last time i checked:

Code:
battery.reporting.last_full =1222 (0x4c6) (int)
Is it just fortune but that line was missing value last time I checked (before my battery got boost)

Edit: More info: I havent have touch search installed.
Are you generally connected to a wi-fi network, or are you getting that with data always on + 3G only? If the latter, that is very heartening.
 
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