My experience with the Freerunner (was: Any Stats on Battery life....)

[Kevin Dean]

On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 8:47 PM, ian douglas <id at w98.us> wrote:
> I'm also doing some testing on a Freerunner for Michael and Steve, and I
> have one thing to share about battery life.
>
> With the ASU software, with no power saving at all, I placed a phone call to
> my Freerunner with a T-Mobile SIM from an AT&T phone. There was no audio,
> just two phones sitting side by side. The next morning, of course, the
> Freerunner was completely drained (my AT&T phone was plugged into its
> charger). The phone call lasted 3 hours and 52 minutes -- just shy of 4 full
> hours.

Neat test. I'll have to remember that one. :)

>
> I'm running another test right now with power saving turned on (dimming, no
> locking), to see if that has any additional impact on call life. There's
> also minor audio going on, as my wife is in the office/nursery building some
> cabinets for the baby we're expecting in October.

You mentioned "power saving" twice on the ASU and mention "dim then
lock". If I understand it correctly, ASU is the Qtopia based stack
that includes Illume, Diversity, Campwifi et cetera. There's no "dim
then lock" setting on that stack. Exposure doesn't have any power
settings that I know of.

Is this a confusion on my part, or are you testing something other than the ASU?

>
> Once these, and a few other power-related tests are done, I plan to travel
> around Los Angeles a little, testing the tri-band coverage in various areas
> of the city.
>
> I've written a few notes to Michael off-list about the ASU software, but
> wanted to share that of the various test calls I've made to/from land lines,
> VoIP lines (with Vonage) and various cell phones on AT&T and Verizon to the
> Freerunner with both AT&T and TMobile SIM cards, I've only had a single call
> with no outgoing audio. The SMS software is very basic, but complete (no MMS
> tested yet).
>
> The terminal application is usable, but the new keyboard isn't terribly
> useful as there are no slash ('/') or pipe ('|') characters which are pretty
> necessary for using a command line.
>
> I'm also ordering an 8GB SDHC micro SD card to test some 8GB storage usaes.
> So far the 512MB micro SD that shipped with the phone works great. I'll test
> it with a 2GB non-SDHC micro SD when this next phone battery test is
> complete.
>
> Since others have covered the packaging and accessories, I won't bother to
> echo their notes too.
>
> More later,
> Ian Douglas
>
>
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