[debian/fso] w/o sim battery empties alarmingly fast

[Yorick Moko]

I think that on most networks you can still dial emergency numbers without
SIM
you'll have to power down the wifi antenna
in shr-settings it is easy to do (settings->phone I think)

On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 8:45 PM, arne anka <openmoko at ginguppin.de> wrote:

> well, i have to confess, i fell off the waggon and bought an n900, too --
> already got the impression i was one of the last of the mohicans using the
> fr as sole phone (or phone at all).
>
> anyway, now the fr doesn't have a sim card anymore, i expected the battery
> to last much longer than the usual 3 days -- but, actually, it goes flat
> very, very fast!
> what does fso do when no sim is detected? imo it should disable everything
> related to telephony and thus save a lot of power, but that doesn't seem
> to be what happens.
>
> the second best bet would probably be to manually diasble all kind of
> stuff in some config files, but which would that be?
> but i would very much prefer the first scenario, allowing me to put a sim
> back in and use the fr as a phone w/o any changes.
>
>
>
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