Any Stats on Battery life....

Alexander Frøyseth alexander.froyseth at gmail.com
Mon May 26 17:25:09 CEST 2008


Will the be a good powermanagment when the neo is released?
And will this increase the battery time?

Alexander Frøyseth

einstein skrev:
> Hi Marco,
>
> i say 8 hours. GSM only runs, no wifi or gps or someting else. At the 
> moment i don't found any powermanagment... so only the screen dims and 
> lock...
>
> Greets
>
> Einstein
>
> Marco Trevisan (Treviño) wrote:
>> McCreery, Lee CTR DISA wrote:
>>> I know everyone at OM has been busting their butts to get things 
>>> pushed out, but the proto has been in the hands of many people for 
>>> ~1 month and a half+.  Is there any more info on how long the 
>>> battery lasts?
>>>
>>> I know this will get kicked back to “it depends what options you 
>>> have turned on(i.e. WiFi, GPS, etc.), but with everything powered, 
>>> sitting on my hip in stand-by, making 30 minutes of calls a 
>>> day(nobody ever calls me that long, but the wife) what can we 
>>> expect(1 day, ½ day?)
>>
>> Finally I've found something!
>>
>> Einstein from freeyourphone.de got a Freerunner and started a very 
>> good report [1], also if it's only in German (Google Language tools 
>> could help you, but I hope that the review author will post some 
>> informations written in English here too), it states that actually 
>> the battery lasts about 8-8.5 hours in standby (!= suspend mode, so 
>> with running CPU).
>>
>> He doesn't exactly say what he's running, but at least GSM is going.
>> I agree in saying that this is a good starting point, since the 
>> suspend-mode (so with most devices off) isn't yet available in 
>> Freerunner (due to kernel bugs, I guess) and that should increase (a 
>> lot) the battery life.
>>
>> I hope that both Einstein and Kevin Dean would post other 
>> informations about this important topic.
>>
>> Bye
>>
>>
>> [1] http://tinyurl.com/55tt3h
>>
>
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