Battery drain problem again

[Tilman Baumann]

Bobby Martin wrote:
> 
>     It looks like it is a problem with the GSM modem that causes the
>     battery drain when you shut down the NEO 1973. I shut mine down and
>     when it was off I left it near a cheap set of PC speakers. After
>     about a couple of minutes, I started to hear intermittent buzzing
>     sounds coming from the speakers and there were also a couple of high
>     pitched clicks. I then removed the battery from the NEO and put it back
>     in and the noises stopped.
>     I am running the latest scaredycat rootfs and kernel, so it looks like
>     this might be problem that is hard to fix.
> 
>     Michael.
> 
> 
> Michael,
> I think you're just seeing the known issue that the GSM modem
> doesn't power off when you shut the Neo down.  I created a wiki
> page for this since there didn't seem to already be one:
> 
> http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/GSMPowerDownInitScript

Interestig. Why isn't something like in the distro if it is a known problem?

My battery also drains empty in 'Off' state.

Regards
  Tilman