Wifi / let's have RF stuff powered with high current source all the time because...

Andy Green andy at openmoko.com
Mon Aug 25 23:20:05 CEST 2008


-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

Somebody in the thread at some point said:

|> It's a pity I didn't ask him to watch consumption when he was quiet and
|> not handling the phone.  He said that it chewed through some large chunk
|> of his battery when idle in this state, so the current was real, and a
|> reboot made that symptom go away.
|
| Also enabling GPRS and some stale protocol or runaway app causing
continuous
| retransmits would show same symptoms.

There's a cool opportunity here it seems for a sort of gsm-tx-slot-top
type monitor applet to make this visible and traceable.  Or at least HDQ
current monitor display could be interesting.

- -Andy
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux)
Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org

iEYEARECAAYFAkizIgUACgkQOjLpvpq7dMqZ/QCeNVDkreGgkb4nmEbcVrWZlpLV
npQAn2uqDYHXf4+6Pau1le7peiXnbCPa
=0m47
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----



More information about the hardware mailing list