I dont install much, aside from 5 games, I really only have 5 apps installed. the only ones from extras devel is fmms, and fmms sharing plugin.

I know it happened right after I installed the sharing plugin. it doesn't sit well. anyone else experience this? I hate to do it (because now I have to set it all up again) but I think I'm gonna uninstall fmms and see if that improves the battery. you can't uninstall the sharing plugin without uninstalling fmms apparently

the battery gets to 3/4 by noon time AND IM NOT EVEN USING IT! it's in stand by the whole time.

this can be pinpointed right back to the day I installed the sharing plugin.



if this works, then maybe I will have solved the mysterious battery drain problem people are experiencing. I distinctly remember not having this problem until I installed the sharing plugin. I'm not accusing FMMS but more a possible bug in the OS.

That may be one cause, but unfortunately there wont be a single reason for battery draining problems.

I for one had my battery drain 50% overnight last night and I can only think it was because I left the web browser open on this very forum. The N900 was even in offline mode!

Any device that has the users doing the quality control will have this problem, its another reason Apple keep their store closed up tight, so they can fully test an application before putting it live. Its the price for freedom.

But all the more so its very much appreciated that you report your own experiences with battery drain, so that everyone knows which bits of software may be problematic. I have said before that I usually keep the web browser closed when not in use as it does seem to be a battery hog even in the background.

i think i have the same problem. so i have just uninstalled the fmms. if i dont come back, feel free to pm me asking is there is any change.
regards

I've also experienced the battery drain problem. I went to my parents cabin where they don't have even a proper gsm signal available. I noticed that my battery was running low very quickly. I thought it was because of the low signal so I decided to turn the device completely to offline mode. It had no effect whatsoever to the rate of the drainage.

I don't have fmms installed, never had.

My brother has also experienced the same problem. And I think it was before he even decided to start using devel and test repos.

I think this problem doesn't have anything to do with devel or test repos software, neither low signal levels. I think it's some major bug within the OS that's triggered randomly. Usually reboot is enough to stop the drainage. Sometimes it feels like the drainage starts right after the reboot!

It is a bug 9566 - https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9566

Look like it is fixed in PR1.2 (coming sooon).

What fixed my battery bug is turning off wifi everytime i dont use it.
6 hours total when its on. 24 hours or more when turned off.
Thank you very much!

I only connect to wifi when needed.
Have uninstalled fMMS, which I wasnt using right now btw, I think my battery life is better now.

Just in case this helps someone...
After a reboot yesterday morning, my N900 started eating the battery at a ferocious rate.
Turns out it had spontaneously turned off 'power saving' in the advanced settings of wi-fi properties. No idea why.
Turned it back on, and everything's back to normal.

WS

Hi
Where do I find "advanced settings" within settings?
Thanks

and "wifi properties"