Future Button and LED software spec
Andy Powell
openmoko at automated.it
Thu Apr 17 10:00:46 CEST 2008
On Thursday 17 April 2008 02:02, Shawn Rutledge wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 4:42 PM, Werner Almesberger <werner at openmoko.org>
wrote:
> > Right now, we could only leave them permanently on, which comes with a
> > hefty electricity bill, particularly on GTA02v5 (each LED burns about
> > 150mW). In GTA02v6, this should come down to about 25mW, maybe less.
>
> But GTA02v5 is not going to ship is it?
>
> > If all we're really interested in is whether some wireless is active,
> > perhaps it should just be blink = wlan || bt; People can get the
> > details from the LCM.
>
> Or just use it to indicate that an actual data transfer is occurring
> (like some ethernet LEDs).
>
> If security is implemented correctly, and power drain is also within
> typical specs, it's normal for Bluetooth to be left turned on and
> discoverable all the time. (The BT SIG encourages this, but some
> phone mfgs have overreacted because of past security problems, so they
> have the default short timeouts for being discoverable, and in some
> cases BT is actually off by default when the phone powers up, etc. Of
<snip>
My preference is that BT is off by default, but what I prefer doesn't matter.
What should be happening is the device should be restoring the state it was
last in when powered up. So bt/wifi etc will just to what they were doing
last.
--
Andy / ScaredyCat
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