Battery Lifetime

[Kalle Happonen]

This is great news indeed! Since I'm adventurous, and thought I'd take 
the Freerunner into phone use immideately, this has been the biggest 
obstacle for normal use so far. With decent battery life I'd be a Very 
Happy User.

Adam Talbot wrote:
> This is all with my FreeRunner.
> 144 hours, to be exact. Or, about 6 days of stand by time.  Something
> like 4 hours of active talk time. Looks like you could get 8 days and 5
> of talk, but I like every thing turned on. I have GPS running, but with
> out an SD card ;-).  Currently using the built in APM for power
> management. Keep in mind suspend/resume is unstable.  As I have seen
> many times.  Still working on squashing the bugs. Currently do not have
> a working SIM to test wake up on call.
>
> Is there a way to stop the screen bumping issue?  Perhaps unload the
> module that runs the touchscreen until there is a wake event (Auk key)?
>
> On Tue, 2008-07-15 at 22:26 -0500, Steven ** wrote:
>   
>> Last I read, they were getting like 100 hours standby with the new
>> suspend/resume functionality.  I don't know if there's an image that
>> has those changes available though.  It's not a hardware issue...
>>
>> -Steven
>>
>> On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 9:19 PM, Scott Derrick <scott at tnstaafl.net> wrote:
>>     
>>> I'm amazed that more isn't being said about the battery lifetime people
>>> are seeing?
>>>
>>> I just read an article in Information Week that cited a large poll
>>> concerning users of mobile devices.  What was the number 1 issue, far
>>> and above any other issue people are concerned about and want to see
>>> improvement.  Yes, battery life.
>>>
>>> The times I've seen posted here are pathetic!  8 hours of standby!
>>> Christ, my MotoQ has almost 8 hours of active phone time!  8 hours of
>>> standby makes the FR a toy at best.
>>>
>>> I realize that a lot of people are just trying to get the unit to accept
>>> a sim card, or make a call,  get a gps fix, etc..  But I seriously can't
>>> use it as anything but a desk toy with that kind of battery life.
>>>
>>> Is there an ACPI or some other kind of power monitor built in that is
>>> granular enough for somebody to work on this problem using software?
>>>
>>> Scott
>>>
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