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2010-06-09
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I did not encounter your problem but one possible suggestion is to replace your battery.
For one or two months, I also encountered weird battery issues like the battery bar suddenly dropping from full to near empty or my N810 spontaneously rebooting while charging.
Getting a new battery solved my problems.
Regards,
Kam-Yung
For one or two months, I also encountered weird battery issues like the battery bar suddenly dropping from full to near empty or my N810 spontaneously rebooting while charging.
Getting a new battery solved my problems.
Regards,
Kam-Yung
Originally Posted by VulcanRidr
I posted about this a while back, but the problem persists and seems to have gotten worse.
Sometimes, and I haven't figured out a cause, when I plug the N810 in to wall current overnight, in the morning when I unplug it, the LED indicator remains green (and sometimes blinking) when in sleep mode...And when the display is light, advanced-powermanager has the battery with a lightning bolt in the middle. A reboot fixes it, though it has to be a hard reboot (either through pulling the battery or a reboot command from the command line...Using the power button does this wierd instant-reboot thing that bypasses the normal boot process and leaves the device in an unusable state). Another issue I have encountered is that when this happens, sometimes the battery shows about 1 bar after reboot, after charging all night.
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Does anyone have any suggestions on what the cause of this problem could be (its been doing this on and off for the last couple of months, and it seems to be happening more often of late) or a fix or workaround for the problem?
Any ideas?
Thanks,
--vr
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2010-06-09
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@ Virginia, USA
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Originally Posted by KYSoh
Thanks Kam-Yung. I have the Mugen replacement battery that I got 6 or 8 months ago. I can try replacing it with one of the BP-4Ls that I have to see if it is the battery.
I did not encounter your problem but one possible suggestion is to replace your battery.
For one or two months, I also encountered weird battery issues like the battery bar suddenly dropping from full to near empty or my N810 spontaneously rebooting while charging.
Getting a new battery solved my problems.
Regards,
Kam-Yung
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2010-06-09
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I suggest that you uninstall advanced-power, it gave me problems last time I tried it. See how the original status bar indicator behaves.
Reboot can only be done by a command. This way the file system is unmounted cleanly, apps are closed and deamons are stopped.
When you pull out the battery you introduce errors to the file system, which usually leads to...battery drain.
also saw this
about mugen on N810
Last edited by giladmttw; 2010-06-09 at 11:07.
Reboot can only be done by a command. This way the file system is unmounted cleanly, apps are closed and deamons are stopped.
When you pull out the battery you introduce errors to the file system, which usually leads to...battery drain.
also saw this
about mugen on N810
Last edited by giladmttw; 2010-06-09 at 11:07.
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2010-06-09
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I second Giladmttw's comments about trying an uninstall of Advanced Power. It does cause wierd and winderful problems from time to time.
My fave is where the CPU applet shows 100% usage, everything is unresponsive, although if you can launch xterm, top does not show anythig untoward. The memory cards suddenly disappear as well.
The only solution is to remove the advanced power apps and reboot a couple of times to get rid of it.
It's done this to me a couple of times now, but as it's so useful I keep reinstalling it.
My fave is where the CPU applet shows 100% usage, everything is unresponsive, although if you can launch xterm, top does not show anythig untoward. The memory cards suddenly disappear as well.
The only solution is to remove the advanced power apps and reboot a couple of times to get rid of it.
It's done this to me a couple of times now, but as it's so useful I keep reinstalling it.
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2010-06-09
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Originally Posted by gazza_d
That was one thing I was thinking. Since I have my system flipped to run from the SD card, maybe there was a bad spot on it where advanced-power lived. I've uninstalled advanced-power and will let it go a few days.
I second Giladmttw's comments about trying an uninstall of Advanced Power. It does cause wierd and winderful problems from time to time.
My fave is where the CPU applet shows 100% usage, everything is unresponsive, although if you can launch xterm, top does not show anythig untoward. The memory cards suddenly disappear as well.
The only solution is to remove the advanced power apps and reboot a couple of times to get rid of it.
It's done this to me a couple of times now, but as it's so useful I keep reinstalling it.
Thanks,
--vr
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2010-06-09
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If you boot from SD then you need to reboot to the flash and fsck your card. This will fix the errors introduced by pulling the battery. Do it evrytime you have a sudden poweroff.
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2010-06-09
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Originally Posted by giladmttw
Actually, I did that last week. 99% of the time (being a Linux sysadmin-type geek), I reboot from the terminal window. On rare occasions, I use the button, and almost never pull the battery.
If you boot from SD then you need to reboot to the flash and fsck your card. This will fix the errors introduced by pulling the battery. Do it evrytime you have a sudden poweroff.
Sometimes, and I haven't figured out a cause, when I plug the N810 in to wall current overnight, in the morning when I unplug it, the LED indicator remains green (and sometimes blinking) when in sleep mode...And when the display is light, advanced-powermanager has the battery with a lightning bolt in the middle. A reboot fixes it, though it has to be a hard reboot (either through pulling the battery or a reboot command from the command line...Using the power button does this wierd instant-reboot thing that bypasses the normal boot process and leaves the device in an unusable state). Another issue I have encountered is that when this happens, sometimes the battery shows about 1 bar after reboot, after charging all night.
Someone suggested restarting HAL, which restarts normally but does not change the conditions of charging:
$ sudo /etc/init.d/apmonitord restart Advanced Power Monitor Daemon: apmonitord Restarting... Advanced Power Monitor 0.5.1-6 Loaded modules (12/12): CPUFrequency CPUGovernor Uptime OSVersion_Maemo Diskspace Memory Swap Temperature_N8x0 RAM LightSensor_N810 CPUGovernors DeviceName Loading wrappers... Loading packages list... LOADED: Nokia's BME FAILED: BME Free LOADED: Dummy Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/advanced-power-monitor/AdvancedPowerMonitorDaemon.py", line 23, in <module> daemon.process_args() File "/home/user/MyDocs/src/apm/Daemon.py", line 114, in process_args File "/home/user/MyDocs/src/apm/Daemon.py", line 89, in restart File "/home/user/MyDocs/src/apm/Daemon.py", line 64, in start File "/usr/lib/advanced-power-monitor/AdvancedPowerMonitorDaemon.py", line 18, in run self.apm = AdvancedPowerMonitor.apm() File "/home/user/MyDocs/src/apm/AdvancedPowerMonitor.py", line 90, in __init__ File "/home/user/MyDocs/src/apm/AdvancedPowerMonitor.py", line 155, in init_wrappers File "/home/user/MyDocs/src/apm/AdvancedPowerMonitor.py", line 193, in change_wrapper File "/home/user/MyDocs/src/apm/wrappers/AbstractWrappers.py", line 34, in end_init File "/home/user/MyDocs/src/apm/wrappers/battery/BatteryBME.py", line 25, in post_init File "/home/user/MyDocs/src/apm/wrappers/battery/BatteryBME.py", line 35, in get_percent File "/home/user/MyDocs/src/apm/wrappers/battery/AbstractBattery.py", line 19, in percentage ZeroDivisionError: float division $Any ideas?
Thanks,
--vr