Settings for N800 power management

[adbosch]

I just read about somebody who, without really turning the N800 off still had battery power after 8 days of no use. My N800 is empty after half a day if I do not turn it off.
What settings should I change in order to prevent my N800 to be completely empty in such a short time?

[blackax]

are you useing it for half of the day? It will last for well over a week but only if you let it alone for that week. You can lower the screen backlight but thats about it.

[igor]

Also it depends a lot on what 3rd party apps are installed. Some might be badly broken and keep the processor busy, therefore preventing it from getting into low power state.

[geneven]

Lock touch screen and keys should help.

[TA-t3]

Unless there's something chewing CPU it should last for days, with normal on-off use (even with wi-fi connected). I've seen the occasional almost-empty battery in the morning though, one of those cases I traced to where I had opened an xterm, started the 'vi' editor, and then terminated the xterm without quitting vi. A check showed it looping.

[adbosch]

Could Pidgin be doing this (keep the processor busy)?

[TA-t3]

Start an xterm, enter 'top' (without quotes).
You shouldn't see more than 1.3-1.7% cpu by Maemo-launcher (caused by xterm+top itself), and the occasional Xomap a bit higher. And Load average should be in the 0.05-0.10 area (for all three values). Quit top with 'q'.

[adbosch]

Actually I think its the WLAN connection which I set to stop after 10 minutes, but which doesn't do so :( . I already stopped email and rss from automatically updating. But somehow WLAN must be stopped manually and does not disconnect after the pre-set 10 minutes. It should though :mad: .