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

W.Kenworthy billk at iinet.net.au
Tue Aug 26 03:48:21 CEST 2008


Ive seen this a few times on two FR phones (both up to date 2007.2).
Yesterday, after using gps on the way to work tangogps locked up - some
10 minutes later when I pulled into the car park I picked the phone up
and it was *very* warm to touch.  I managed to exit tango (not always
possible - its not the most stable app after running 30mins or so!) and
checked the battery - ~38% when it was ~90% 45 minutes before.  10
minutes later in my office it was down to ~10% and still hot so I
rebooted and recharged.  This has happened maybe 5 times to me now.  The
other phone user had a flattened battery after a few hours - dont know
the exact details but gps wasnt involved.  The phone was hot enough that
I was worried about putting it in my pocket in case the li-lion battery
went up in smoke.  I expected it to cool down once I had exited tango,
but it didnt until reboot.  I was more worried about damage than finding
the root cause - next time!

Billk


On Tue, 2008-08-26 at 04:57 +0800, Joerg Reisenweber wrote:
> Am Mo  25. August 2008 schrieb Andy Green:
> > Somebody in the thread at some point said:
> > | Am Mo  25. August 2008 schrieb Andy Green:
> > 
...
> > 
> > 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.
> /jOERG
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