My second battery life test with the freerunner in standby

Andy Green andy at openmoko.com
Thu May 29 09:23:01 CEST 2008


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Somebody in the thread at some point said:
| Hei Folks
|
| can someone enlighten me on this issue of battery life: it seems that the
| freerunner stayed alive for 16 hours and everyone seems exited. My little
| crappy Motorala stays alive for days if it is not used to make calls.
|
| How does this relate? Are we waiting for suspend to work? or shall we
need a
| stack of batteries to swap?

It's not bad because the CPU was up at 400MHz all that time.  Yes, when
Linux suspend is used you will get radically longer survival times off a
charge.  So the number is interesting for the suspend implication as
much as for what it actually tested.

- -Andy
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