Battery Lifetime

Scott Derrick scott at tnstaafl.net
Wed Jul 16 14:44:53 CEST 2008


Wow thats fantastic!  First I have heard.

Gladly I will admit to raising a non-issue, sorry.

Scott

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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