Hi guys. Its my 1st post on here but ive owned my n900 for over 3 months and spent even longer browsing...so i thought id make my 1st contribution.

I use my n900 a lot as a flashlight because i work in dark environments. It was the 1st app i actually installed. Now ive been only getting 18 hours or so out of the phone with lots of help mentioned on here disable wifi etc but i still wasnt happy.

I noticed in conky lots of cpu spikes from 10% up 28% at times and on the battery logger graph it showed constantly spiking. At this point i set about uninstalling apps starting with the 1st. the flashlight.

The flashlight prog i had was flashlight and then i decided to install the flashlight-extra which auto uses the camera shutter. Now bare with me..on uninstalling these my spikes drop to 1-3% as apposed to 10%- 28%!! I was amazed how quicker my phone was and the battery time tripled!!...I did however still need a flashlight program so i installed the 1st one again..and yup the spikes returned even after i uninstalled it. To combat this i installed the flashlight-extra package again..and promptly uninstalled...and amazing my phone idle speed is 1-3% in use menus etc. It seems soo much smoother and responsive...even from when i 1st powered the phone!!

Hope this helps anyone out there

can this "bug" be repeated? im wanting to try this also but my problem is with gpsjinni and gpsrecorder plus maeps.. the combination of those drinks the juice off my batt in only about 1 and half hours then ill get battery low and red bar

I don't know about flashlight but flashlight-extra uses an deamon that are always running in the background. We noticed this when we where trying to help a guy with his battery drainage..

There must be a better way of doing this... like a QBW that launches the flashlight dbus-call or something. But i think that is essentially what flashlight does...