Battery crazy?

[Sébastien Lorquet]

And still you can't assume consumption will be constant on a sub-second time
scale...
It would be more user friendly to report a remaining time based on an
average consumption.

2008/10/13 Rui Miguel Silva Seabra <rms at 1407.org>

> On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 04:30:22PM -0400, Joel Newkirk wrote:
> > On Mon, 13 Oct 2008 20:35:48 +0100, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra <
> rms at 1407.org>
> > wrote:
> > > The following is with Om.2008.9 + opkg upgrade:
> > >
> > > root at om-gta02:/usr/lib/enlightenment/modules/illume/dicts# cat
> /proc/apm
> > > 1.13 1.2 0x02 0x01 0x00 0x00 77% 974 min
> > > root at om-gta02:/usr/lib/enlightenment/modules/illume/dicts# cat
> /proc/apm
> > > 1.13 1.2 0x02 0x01 0x00 0x00 77% 974 min
> > > root at om-gta02:/usr/lib/enlightenment/modules/illume/dicts# cat
> /proc/apm
> > > 1.13 1.2 0x02 0x01 0x00 0x00 76% 1158 min
> > > root at om-gta02:/usr/lib/enlightenment/modules/illume/dicts# cat
> /proc/apm
> > > 1.13 1.2 0x02 0x01 0x00 0x00 76% 623 min
> > > root at om-gta02:/usr/lib/enlightenment/modules/illume/dicts# cat
> /proc/apm
> > > 1.13 1.2 0x02 0x01 0x00 0x00 76% 843 min
> > > root at om-gta02:/usr/lib/enlightenment/modules/illume/dicts# cat
> /proc/apm
> > > 1.13 1.2 0x02 0x01 0x00 0x00 76% 843 min
> > > root at om-gta02:/usr/lib/enlightenment/modules/illume/dicts# cat
> /proc/apm
> > > 1.13 1.2 0x02 0x01 0x00 0x00 76% 843 min
> > > root at om-gta02:/usr/lib/enlightenment/modules/illume/dicts# cat
> /proc/apm
> > > 1.13 1.2 0x02 0x01 0x00 0x00 76% 843 min
> > > root at om-gta02:/usr/lib/enlightenment/modules/illume/dicts# cat
> /proc/apm
> > > 1.13 1.2 0x02 0x01 0x00 0x00 76% 2003 min
> > >
> > > Should I be worried?
> > >
> > > Rui
> >
> > I'd not think so.  The estimated time remaining varies because your
> > 'recent' power usage varies between checks.  If GSM or wifi start
> requiring
> > more power than before to maintain connection, for example, or backlight
> > usage varies, etc, then the estimate will change according to recent
> usage.
> >  (I'm assuming those weren't invoked immediately after one another, but
> > that some time elapsed between checks - regardless, only the estimated
> time
> > is acting in any way unexpectedly - remaining capacity seems to be pretty
> > consistent and presumably fairly accurate)
>
> I know it wasn't timestamped, bu these were consecutive readings,
> perhaps within less of a second between each...
>
> I'm not using wifi, no active call, not anything...
>
> Rui
>
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