Battery drain problem again

[Andy Powell]

On Monday 26 May 2008 09:40, Tilman Baumann wrote:
> 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.
>

As from today  I'm including this in my builds.


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Andy / ScaredyCat