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I did see in other forums that wifi gets poor on the n810 when bluetooth is on . So if your not useing bluetooth GPS get rid of the mac address in the conf box . I tether to my verizon phone "bluetooth" when i am out so it works fine but when i am home i shut bluetooth off ..

As for the battery life just like in your leave maemo mapper on and gps on you will see it drans your bat fast around 4 hours with stock gpsd.. With minigpsd on on maemo mapper it's around the same..

With minigpsd loaded and no map program just talking to gpsgate i get around 7 hours on a full charge over wifi over bluetooth it is around 5 hours .

Shut bluetooth OFF if your not using it to save battery and get better wifi !!!


computerfreek

Having bluetooth on does not harm wifi that I can tell, nor battery life, either. (That's in normal use, no effort to benchmark... maybe I should.)

Having any BT activity does, but with no connection, the traffic is negligible.

I am, like, totally lost :-)
You said there were three debs. I still see only two, and a tar and a gz...
I think I'll wait till I'm less tired (less dumb would take too much time :-)

I need to wake up before I start posting .

The two debs are the settings apps. The tgz is the source.

The minigpsd deb is:

http://www.zdez.org/minigpsd_0.30-pre4_armel.deb

BT in normal use - even with data going across - doesn't harm wifi. If it is doing discovery, pairing, or other things (see that bug report link) it will tie up the whole system at times.

Thanks, seems to total up now... I'll make sure I'm full awake before I start reinstalling :-)

The reports, I might add, are about as useless as they come.

You seem to not understand the purpose of Red Pill, nor do you seem to understand the purpose of Extras and Extras-devel.

Would you like to share with us then, or point to a page that explains it all?

It's really simple. Red Pill isn't for anybody to use that doesn't know exactly what they're doing, and it doesn't have anything at all to do with the SDK Tools repo versus Extras/Extras-devel.

Now, tz seems to think two things: First, that these obviously not-intended-for-users packages in tools should be in user/*, and, second, that Extras/Extras-devel has anything at all to do with a package's appearance in the Application manager in Blue Pill mode.

Either a package should be seen by users, in which case it goes into a user/* section, or it shouldn't. Packages which clearly are of no concern to the average user (libraries, command-line tools, dangerous packages, etc.), shouldn't show up in Application manager. If those packages are needed, then they should either be pulled in as dependencies by a package that should be seen by users, or installed from the command line with apt-get.

In short, Red Pill is never the answer.

Ok, to stop people from adding the SDK repository and using Red-Pill without being aware of what it can do, I've repacked bluez-utils-test. This bluez-utils-test will install with the application manager in blue-pill mode.

I am aware this wont solve the problem for any future packages and if this is uploaded to extras. But I'm talking about now, and the deb from the first post is installed in the same way.

In essence:

Stay in blue-pill mode, install this deb and install minigps.

(I guess things are kept in the SDK repo & hidden for a reason but this package is a gem and I can't find anything dangerous here).