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Android looks good in that aera

Posted May 20, 2010 18:41 UTC (Thu) by felipebalbi (subscriber, #56613)
In reply to: Android looks good in that aera by zlynx
Parent article: Blocking suspend blockers

You don't need suspend blockers to shout that an app is preventing sleep or waking up too much, take a look at powertop http://www.lesswatts.org/projects/powertop/

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Posted May 20, 2010 19:01 UTC (Thu) by zlynx (subscriber, #2285) [Link]

Another point.

With suspend blockers the developer must take action in order to keep the system awake by setting a suspend block on purpose.

Without suspend blockers the developer will keep the system awake by default just by writing normal software. The developer must take action, often quite a lot of code redesign, in order to *not* keep the system awake.