gta02, 2007.2: frequent wakeups -- creating workaround

[Steven **]

Well, you could turn the GSM chip off via the power menu...

I haven't noticed a large power drain when without signal.  It
suspends just fine now and will sit in suspend consistently.
Suspended for an hour uses 1% or so of the battery.  Perhaps one of
the GSM commands in the suspend script is disabling that search.

I have noticed once or twice that the signal strength doesn't report
right after a resume with these commands.  It may have been because I
did a suspend while without signal and a resume with.  I don't really
know...

-Steven

On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 1:13 PM, arne anka <openmoko at ginguppin.de> wrote:
>> it's worth mentioning that running GSM without association to a network
>> probably drains battery like hell, as GSM-chipsets tend to constantly
>> search
>> the whole frequency range for some BS to register. I've experienced
>> factor 5
>> to 10 for power consumption.
>
> i know, i had a phone once that allowed to disable that -- is there a way
> to tell the gsm modem not to do so?
>
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