The epoch is upon me.

Davide Scaini dscaini at gmail.com
Tue Jan 11 13:41:51 CET 2011


On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 11:47 AM, Al Johnson
<openmoko at mazikeen.demon.co.uk>wrote:

> On Tuesday 11 January 2011, Davide Scaini wrote:
> > i'm experiencing the same problem: clock is stuck during suspend and
> > it takes some time to update correctly when resumed. This has the side
> > effect to make ffalarms useless ...
> > any hint is welcome
> > d
>
> More details please. The rtc is meant to be powered by the main battery
> during
> suspend, so the backup battery shouldn't have any effect, hence the belief
> that it's a software bug. ffalarms (via fso) is supposed to set the rtc to
> generate an interrupt to wake the phone at the specified time if necessary.
> It
> is possible the rtc isn't being set, or that ffalarms isn't being called on
> wake among other things.
>
> Does the phone wake but not sound the alarm?
> If you wake the phone and immediately run 'date' in the terminal do you see
> the correct time, or the time when the phone suspended?
>

the phone does not wake neither during suspend nor when shutdown (if i set
an alarm).
date is working correctly, but the illume gadget is not. I thought this was
related to the malfunctioning of ffalarms (but Lucasz says it's only a gui
problem).
d


>
> > On 12/22/10, Al Johnson <openmoko at mazikeen.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> > > On Tuesday 21 December 2010, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote:
> > >> Em 21-12-2010 12:55, Gay, John (GE Energy Services, Non-GE) escreveu:
> > >> > The last time my FreeRunner's battery died, the clock reset to
> epoch.
> > >> > Now, it no longer keeps time during suspend either. I'm guessing
> this
> > >> > means the clock battery has finally died.
> > >> >
> > >> > Someone recently commented that they replaced their battery with a
> > >> > pair of super caps. I just wanted to confirm my diagnosis before I
> > >> > take a soldering iron to my phone.
> > >> >
> > >> > Cheers,
> > >> >
> > >> >      John Gay
> > >>
> > >> So that's why my clock...?
> > >>
> > >>   a) goes back to 2000 without a battery
> > >
> > > Probably
> > >
> > >>   b) takes so long to update the clock in the toolbar and idle screen
> of
> > >>
> > >> SHR
> > >
> > > Unlikely - even in suspend the rtc is powered from the main battery,
> not
> > > the backup. The lack of update is most likely a software bug not a
> > > hardware problem.
> > >
> > >> Damn, any instructions on how to do this properly?
> > >
> > > Just the post to the list.
> > >
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