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MeeGo: open development and upstream involvement

MeeGo: open development and upstream involvement

Posted Apr 28, 2010 16:57 UTC (Wed) by Hanno (guest, #41730)
In reply to: MeeGo: open development and upstream involvement by daenzer
Parent article: MeeGo: open development and upstream involvement

Interesting. Could you describe your usage pattern, please? So far, people have consistently reported battery life of less than a day.


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MeeGo: open development and upstream involvement

Posted Apr 29, 2010 7:59 UTC (Thu) by klaasjan (guest, #5492) [Link]

My N900 needs to be charged between 1 and 2 days of use. That's with a few phone calls (I'm not talking for hours), and less than an hour of Internet usage (just checking some sites, reading LWN.net from the train ;).
Some features (VOIP among others) seem to drain the battery though, but it's more than a working day which is good enough for me.

MeeGo: open development and upstream involvement

Posted Apr 29, 2010 10:49 UTC (Thu) by daenzer (✭ supporter ✭, #7050) [Link]

Basically:

* 2G connection 24/7, but never used for internet access. Only very rare and short phone calls.
* WiFi connection at least 12h / day, with Jabber and Skype accounts active.
* Occasional SMS / instant messaging.
* Checking for and installing package updates every day.

From what I've read, the worst power wasters seem to be:

* Anything that keeps the CPU out of sleep / low power states for significant fractions of the time, e.g.
- badly programmed desktop widgets (I only have the calendar, conversations and OMWeather widgets on my home desktop) or generally apps
- playing videos or music, in particular with not yet well-optimized codecs such as Vorbis
- certain bugs, e.g. https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6868
* 3G radio, in particular for internet access and in particular with some things like Mail for Exchange.

Hope this helps.

MeeGo: open development and upstream involvement

Posted Jul 4, 2010 20:54 UTC (Sun) by oak (guest, #2786) [Link]

My guess would be that the issue is mainly Skype. Track your network usage with and without it. Network powersave timeouts are much longer with phone than with WLAN so even occasional network activity can keep the related radio HW constantly active.

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