Tracking power leackage in my freerunner

Fox Mulder Quakeman1 at gmx.net
Wed Jan 27 12:41:36 CET 2010


rixed at happyleptic.org schrieb:
> I monitored power consumption all day long (from full battery to empty).
> I observed that the average current consumption (from /sys/.../current_now)
> is 78mA when "idle". My battery, at full charge, is shown to store 1.1Ah
> (according to /sys/.../charge_now), which leads to battery life of 14h which is
> exactly what I observed.
> 
> So, I suspect that 78mA when idle, supposed to be in deep sleep mode with
> a #1024 fixed device is far from ideal.

I thought the #1024 fix is only helping while the freerunner is
suspended. For me this fix only changed the current which was consumed
while suspended and extended my standby time by a factor of nearly 2x.

Ciao,
     Rainer



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