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2010-03-30 , 10:46
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Originally Posted by dominik View Post
You could try the Smart Powersaving hack. I get 2-2.5 days of battery life running e-mail all the time, surfing the net occasionally, watching a few short videos, listening to podcasts,... Beware of the risks however: Some people report minor graphical glitches after using the patch, few even experience sudden reboots. For me these issues never materialized, but your mileage may vary.
Did you add these commands into a /etc/event.d script or some other place so that it is executed automatically? I would like to do that, but I am afraid I could brick my device if this is executed too early..
 
lucas777 is offline lucas777
2010-03-30 , 10:49
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I Love this phone but i find it ******** that i leave the house with full batt and 4 hours later its almost dead. I dont have any widgets on my desktop, i used just shortcuts to stuff. All i do is browse the web and download a few things, and the batt goes to half way within an hour, And ive always wanted to know how a 3g connection uses more batt than being connected to 2g or 2.5g .....
 
dominik is offline dominik
2010-03-30 , 10:58
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Originally Posted by fhofer View Post
Did you add these commands into a /etc/event.d script or some other place so that it is executed automatically? I would like to do that, but I am afraid I could brick my device if this is executed too early..
In the corresponding bugreport some guy advised to edit /etc/pmconfig instead of putting it in some event.d script. However, as there are reports that the device might act weirdly under active smart power saving, I do run these commands manually after each reboots. As I reboot only every few weeks this does not require a big effort, but on the other hand it is easy to turn off the hack simply by rebooting in case problems occur.
 

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2010-03-30 , 11:07
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Originally Posted by dominik View Post
In the corresponding bugreport some guy advised to edit /etc/pmconfig instead of putting it in some event.d script. However, as there are reports that the device might act weirdly under active smart power saving, I do run these commands manually after each reboots. As I reboot only every few weeks this does not require a big effort, but on the other hand it is easy to turn off the hack simply by rebooting in case problems occur.
I tried it via /etc/pmconfig, but experienced some issues, cf. http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=48207 . But anyways, egoshin's advice suggests that the order of the commands matters and that cannot be achieved via /etc/pmconfig I am afraid.

I was thinking about a startup script that would call a smartreflex-enabler script in MyDocs. If there was an issue, then you would just connect the N900 in USB mass storage mode and the smartreflex-enabler script would not be available..
 

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2010-03-30 , 11:33
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#25
the fb widget and weather only updates if you on that desktop, my main desktop has not widgets except media player and FM tramitter.

my other desktops have active widgets like fb and weather, i assume the only update when you goto that desktop. well thats what i have noticed, correct me if i'm wrong.
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lucas777 is offline lucas777
2010-03-30 , 11:42
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my other desktops have active widgets like fb and weather, i assume the only update when you goto that desktop. well thats what i have noticed, correct me if i'm wrong.

No seeing as its using an active internet connection it doesnt matter if its on another desktop im pretty sure it still gets used and refreshed somhow
 
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2010-03-30 , 14:09
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Originally Posted by fhofer View Post
I tried it via /etc/pmconfig, but experienced some issues, cf. http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=48207 . But anyways, egoshin's advice suggests that the order of the commands matters and that cannot be achieved via /etc/pmconfig I am afraid.

I was thinking about a startup script that would call a smartreflex-enabler script in MyDocs. If there was an issue, then you would just connect the N900 in USB mass storage mode and the smartreflex-enabler script would not be available..
I could not get the startup script with the external script running, so I took the risk and put a file with the following content to /etc/event.d:

Code:
start on started hildon-desktop

script
	echo "1" >/sys/power/sr_vdd2_autocomp
	echo "1" >/sys/power/sr_vdd1_autocomp
end script
This works and my device is alive so far...
 

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2010-03-30 , 22:45
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#28
Originally Posted by ossipena View Post
http://wiki.maemo.org/Make_your_battery_last_longer

can be found for example at:
http://wiki.maemo.org/Category:Beginners

e: slender was faster. but I'll keep this only for reference. the latter link can be found at my signature or wiki front page or.....
Butthurt.
Read it already, just wanted to get a say from everyone on how well things worked in their experience. And I was hoping for more than those things because I already do most of them anyway.
If my post was a waste of time, don't waste your time responding to it.
 
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2010-03-31 , 17:25
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Originally Posted by pycage View Post
As root you can do in X-Terminal:

Code:
echo 30 >/proc/sys/vm/swappiness
This will make the N900 write less to the swap partition (it will still swap out when needed though, so no worries), resulting in less operations on the flash disk resulting in a more responsive device with longer battery life time.

IMHO it's more than just a placebo.
Probably, yes.

But obviously there is some reason why Nokia's developers think that having swappiness at 100 is a good idea for the device. I've been rather surprised by that fact myself. Does anyone know what the reasoning behind this is?

Regards,
Chris.

P.S.: Oh, by the way, ossipena ... just in case you aren't aware of it, you're acting more and more like a dweeb. While I can relate to your obvious frustration somewhat, lashing out at people and generally resorting to offensive behaviour will not help. And, as has been suggested by others, you really should reconsider using that "Maemo Greeter" signature until you have simmered down again.
 
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2010-03-31 , 17:45
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I installed wifi switcher and turned off wlan, I also go offline with IM's when not in use... although over the past 36 hours I have had very low usage; occasional phone call, occasional internet browsing, occasional IM (Jabber/Facebookchat), for no more than five minutes at a time.

Result 36 hours on one charge.
 

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