Re: High Battery Consumption
 

hello,

i installed battery graph and watched the battery over night:

8.00pm-10.00pm: charging
10.00pm-7.30am: handy idle
7.30am-8.00am: telephon call
8.00am: automatically shut down

12 hours standby and 0,5 hour voice call and the battery is dead

http://www.id-t.at/data/batterygraph.jpg

cpu usage seems to be normal!
maybe the battery should be replaced?

any other hints?

cheers

Re: High Battery Consumption
 

Are you mad? Your CPU isn't reaching sleeping mode (C4), no wonder your battery life is toast. Please paste the output of powertop. Rerun top and WATCH it. what is the NICE load shown at the top?

Re: High Battery Consumption
 

powertop:
C0 - 13,8%
C1 - 86,2%
C2 - 0,0%
C3 - 0,0%
C4 - 0,0%

top:
CPU 6%
usr: 9%
nice: 85%
idle: 0%

Re: High Battery Consumption
 

Right, so we have a background process hosing yer juice. Lets just confirm you are disconnected while taking these readings?

Install powertop as below:

Then provide that output. I can smell a runaway kernel thread!

Re: High Battery Consumption
 

You could run powertop for a while when the device seem to be idle and not in use. You will know from the output if something keeps CPU busy.

Code:

---

Nokia-N900:~# powertop -t 1200   
Powertop 1.13.3
status: Unknown job: pmtrackerdaemon
Sleeping for 11 seconds before sampling
Collecting data for 1200 seconds
Sample interval was 20m 00s 17243us

C#      | Ratio  | Avg/dura | Frequency | Ratio
--------+--------+----------+-----------+--------+
    C0 |  2.6% |          |  1150 MHz |  nan% |
    C1 |  0.3% |    0.2ms |
    C2 |  3.9% |    2.2ms |
    C3 |  23.3% |  282.2ms |
    C4 |  69.9% |  750.6ms |
...

---

Re: High Battery Consumption
 

powertop:
C0 - 8,3%
C1 - 91,7%
C2 - 0,0%
C3 - 0,0%
C4 - 0,0%

top:
CPU 6%
usr: 9%
nice: 85%
idle: 0%

Re: High Battery Consumption
 

wtf is this? Post THE ENTIRE output of powertop. If you want help, help yourself by helping us help you!

Re: High Battery Consumption
 

ignore this horseshit, just run powertop with no -t parameter.

Re: High Battery Consumption
 

Re: High Battery Consumption
 

"Normal" CPU Usage.

http://i208.photobucket.com/albums/b...0301080852.png

I had this issue previously wehre the proc was never reaching a C4 sleep but on removal of Pedometer Home Widget suddenly battery life returned to normal and my proc spent ~80% of it's time in C4 sleep. It also went from ~30,000 HW wakeups to ~700 in Powertop.

Post up the output of so that we can check your battery isn't borked - then reboot, wait for 3 minutes until system is fully loaded, run powertop from terminal, lock the screen and keys and post up the output too.