The epoch is upon me.

[Al Johnson]

On Tuesday 11 January 2011, Davide Scaini wrote:
> i'm experiencing the same problem: clock is stuck during suspend and
> it takes some time to update correctly when resumed. This has the side
> effect to make ffalarms useless ...
> any hint is welcome
> d

More details please. The rtc is meant to be powered by the main battery during 
suspend, so the backup battery shouldn't have any effect, hence the belief 
that it's a software bug. ffalarms (via fso) is supposed to set the rtc to 
generate an interrupt to wake the phone at the specified time if necessary. It 
is possible the rtc isn't being set, or that ffalarms isn't being called on 
wake among other things.

Does the phone wake but not sound the alarm?
If you wake the phone and immediately run 'date' in the terminal do you see 
the correct time, or the time when the phone suspended?

> On 12/22/10, Al Johnson <openmoko at mazikeen.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> > On Tuesday 21 December 2010, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote:
> >> Em 21-12-2010 12:55, Gay, John (GE Energy Services, Non-GE) escreveu:
> >> > The last time my FreeRunner's battery died, the clock reset to epoch.
> >> > Now, it no longer keeps time during suspend either. I'm guessing this
> >> > means the clock battery has finally died.
> >> > 
> >> > Someone recently commented that they replaced their battery with a
> >> > pair of super caps. I just wanted to confirm my diagnosis before I
> >> > take a soldering iron to my phone.
> >> > 
> >> > Cheers,
> >> > 
> >> >      John Gay
> >> 
> >> So that's why my clock...?
> >> 
> >>   a) goes back to 2000 without a battery
> > 
> > Probably
> > 
> >>   b) takes so long to update the clock in the toolbar and idle screen of
> >> 
> >> SHR
> > 
> > Unlikely - even in suspend the rtc is powered from the main battery, not
> > the backup. The lack of update is most likely a software bug not a
> > hardware problem.
> > 
> >> Damn, any instructions on how to do this properly?
> > 
> > Just the post to the list.
> > 
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