Crackly Calls and Battery Tips!

Steve Mosher steve at openmoko.com
Wed Dec 10 05:30:21 CET 2008


The DRAFT fix for the buzz problem is here:

C&P of joerg's mail.


http://people.openmoko.org/joerg/GSM_EMI_noise/big-C_rework_SOP__DRAFT!!__.pdf

Please NOTE IT'S A DRAFT! It's not secret, but it's not yet destined to
anybody not actively searching for it. Status of this paper is: "should be
exactly reproduce an A7 on A5/6 aidio-wise, but not yet tested".
So go on on risk.

cheers
jOERG


PS: all suggestions to improve this paper, as well as any reports on 
actually
doing the mod are welcome and highly appreciated


Leonti Bielski wrote:
> Hello and welcome to OM community :)
> 
> 1.) This is so-called buzzing issue. It's hardware related and in a
> week or so a paper explaining how to do a fix will be available.
> You can read about it from those links:
> http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Neo_FreeRunner_Hardware_Issues
> http://lists.openmoko.org/nabble.html#nabble-td675090|a675090
> 
> 2.) From what you've written it seems like you don't suspend your
> phone. What image do you use? Anyways, you have to enable autosuspend
> - so phone will go to sleep while not being used and wake up only on
> certain events - call/message/cable connected/headset connected.
> Without suspend phone can work only for about 8 hours or a little
> more. With suspend my phone can be waiting for calls for a couple of
> days without any problems. Battery life is for a long time not a
> problem anymore.
> Tips: try to manually suspend your phone using power button
> (asu/fso/shr/debian).
> On QtExtended if I recall correctly autosuspend is disabled by default
> so you have to enable it to get the most of your battery life :)
> 
> Leonti
> 
> On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 7:49 PM, Dave Smith <lists at td-online.co.uk> wrote:
>> Hello folks,
>>
>> Just a few questions really to kick start me being on this list. :-)
>>
>> I received my FreeRunner about a week or so ago and have just about got
>> around to playing with it a bit more and actually using it. It's running
>> FDOM based on recommendations, and picked up my Orange SIM and contacts
>> without difficulty.
>>
>> A few issues I have had though:
>>
>> 1) Recipients of phone calls consistently seem to report a buzz /
>> crackling during calls made from the FreeRunner. Apparently the buzz is
>> particularly prevelant when I stop speaking, whilst I'm speaking the
>> line seems to be clear enough - anyone suffered a similar issue and know
>> / suspect it's cause?
>>
>> 2) Battery Life. I was warned by people before getting the phone that
>> battery life wasn't great as of yet, and as I understand from what I
>> have it is a fairly high priority. However, what do you folks do to
>> maximise life out of your battery?
>> The reason I ask is that with everything (bar GSM) turned off, and the
>> phone mostly locked / on standby (30 second timeout for standby and
>> blank screen are set up at the moment) I am struggling to get even 12
>> hours life out of it.
>> To give an example from today, where I didn't get chance to glance at
>> the phone whilst at work, it went from being fully charged at 08:00 (I
>> took it off charge from the Desktop at that point) to being powered down
>> and without the juice to startup at 16:30.
>> So, what do you all do to get the most out of it, and what sort of life
>> do you get?
>>
>> Whilst I can live with the battery as a work in progress, the
>> crackliness would be interesting to find out if it's just my unit
>> suffering, as it does make using it as my primary phone a little difficult!
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>>
>> Dave
>>
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