hawaii | # 11 | 2011-05-14, 01:58 | Report

As far as I know, the best option would be to setting R&D mode and disabling the watchdog lifeguards. There's no apparent side-effect for me, for the past few months.

Keep in mind, browserd renders rtcom-messaging windows among other things.

Xagoln | # 12 | 2011-05-17, 03:59 | Report

I've been running for several days with dbus-scripts suspending SCIM, browserd and image-viewer.

Just thought of something for users of mscimswitcherstatus - if you have mscimswitcherstatus suspending SCIM when not needed, my dbus-scripts config above will wake it up each time the phone is unlocked. I think an updated script to check if MSCIM is enabled (by mscimswitcherstatus) before waking its process would be the best solution.

erendorn | # 13 | 2011-06-05, 12:22 | Report

somehow related:
I tried to pause nokia maps, because "battery drain", but "forever to load".
Yet the GPS is still on. Is there a way to stop/start GPS tracking, so I can really stop consumption while having maps ready at hand?

kayamagan | # 14 | 2011-06-09, 02:11 | Report

i thought why not made an app which gathering this script (power saving) and the script "Tweaks To Speed UP N900": http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=73315&page=27

one .deb will be better for many people.

thank

F2thaK | # 15 | 2011-06-09, 03:16 | Report

how do you tell if this works?

I had to create the folder "/usr/local/share/dbus-scripts/"

and when doing step "killall dbus-scripts" I got error saying

dtparikh | # 16 | 2011-06-09, 04:29 | Report

Did anyone try out the dbus-script? please let us know the power saving improvements and if its worth installing.

I already have about 8-10 scripts/apps that save power, increase battery life and speed up N900 ! probably each and every thread that talks about these , have been implemented and now wonder if they are conflicting internally due to which i dont see a significant change !

F2thaK | # 17 | 2011-06-09, 04:59 | Report

smart reflex is best method to save battery power, but I have all mods installed.

installed this one today, not sure it worked.. but will test

JorgeFX | # 18 | 2011-06-18, 10:55 | Report

how many hours did you consider you gain with this script?

F2thaK | # 19 | 2011-06-18, 11:02 | Report

since the 9th noticed no improvement. smart reflex is by far the best way to prolong battery

vi_ | # 20 | 2011-06-18, 12:01 | Report

Agreed, furthermore I suspect that using dbus-scripts to kill process to save power is a case of 2 steps forward, 3 steps back.

Most processes on the n900 are well behaved and 'sleep' while not doing anything. This means they have very little impact on system load. dbus-scripts however has to wake up every time there is a dbus event to check to see if it matches one of it's scripts. If you have ever looked at dbus-monitor you will see there are a quite a lot of them! especially when changing cell reception power.

tl;dr I suspect dbus-scripts cause more system load checking to see if it needs to run a script in response to an event than the processes you are trying to kill.