Persistent "select date" dialog box

[nagy]

yep, power usage seems to be quite high, that's why battery is heating up during usage. Perhaps too much wrapping around it...hmm time to bring out the scalpel :lol:

CraigX, can you reveal some totaly personal data and tell us how much does your Pandora heat up

 

[nagy]

ladies and gentlemen, here are the results

battery 1 - I let it die flat yesterday (lid closed) - 3,11V

battery 2 - charged up to 100%, then left for three days. Charge was reported 100%, 4,17V

battery 2 - pandora with lid closed, yesterday@2230 100%, today@0705 17% 3,70V

 

[Mjlink]

Am I yet to see a dev comment on this issue? One of the big ones requested...

Peace & Pandora,

Link

EDIT: Never mind, I'm a jackbag that didn't do my homework, ED's got it! Thanks bro!

 

[mali]

battery 2 - pandora with lid closed, yesterday@2230 100%, today@0705 17% 3,70V

So that's 8:35 -83% in lid closed mode. Definitely sounds too much, but you can never be sure if you don't know which processes are running. A test in low power mode and a test switched off via menu would be helpful to complete the picture. When you test powered off via menu mode make sure you unplug the charger _before_ shutting down.

 

[nagy]

I'm charging second battery as we speak, as I intend to measure all shutdown methods (lid closed, off via menu, off via boot menu).

Pandora actually heats up more during the night than when normal used, but I think this is due to closed lid (less cooling due to closed lid, if you will)

I'll let it charge, then power off - should have new results this evening, then i'll charge up again and power off via boot menu, so we'll have better overview...

EDIT: it think we'll prove that it is a software, not hardware issue...which is a veeeery good news

 

[mali]

^ That's good. And make sure you unplug the charger before you shut down, that's very important

 

[tsh]

So that's 8:35 -83% in lid closed mode.

Was WiFi on? That would be about right.
Was the backlight on? Maybe the lid switch is broken. Mine does occasionally not activate.

 

[nagy]

Mali, thanks, I know that pandora doesn't shut down, if charged - which is funny, but I accept such behaviour. I think I read it was charging control chip feature or something...

Wifi is off, screen too, wouldn't make any sense otherwise - can I monitor or even output a dump of battery consumption, voltage etc?

you know, like "grep" command, only for battery status?

grep battery wherediditgo.txt h34r:

 

[mali]

Here is some battery info:
http://pandorawiki.org/Data_provided_by_Battery_and_Power_driver

 

[nagy]

aaaah, RTFM all over again

thanks mali!

edit: hmmm, wifi and screen are both definitely off, but I guess I could do a second round of tests this weekend using background killer (http://apps.open-pandora.org/cgi-bin/viewapp.pl?/Other/background_killer.inf)

 

[mali]

Don't worry RTFM shouting doesn't exist here. Nobody can have all info at hand all the time so just ask

 

[tsh]

can you share some of the numbers from the battery monitor? you can get a print out of the current with the screen off by doing

sleep 30; echo current_now

and then turning the screen off, waiting 30 sec, and opening it again.
This needs to be about 200mA in order to get a reasonable standby. (and will be 400-600 typically with screen on)

 

[nagy]

battery 1 - I let it die flat yesterday (lid closed) - 3,11V

battery 2 - charged up to 100%, then left for three days. Charge was reported 100%, 4,17V

battery 2 - pandora with lid closed, yesterday@2230 100%, today@0705 17% 3,70V

battery 1 - pandora shutdown via menu, today@1640 100% 4,16v, today@2106 92% 4,04V


now this is better, as pandora didn't heat up during it's sleep. Normal i'd say - I guess reflash did something...

tsh, i'll play with battery tomorrow and let you know

EDIT: battery 1 - pandora shutdown via boot menu, today@2117 89% 4,02v

 

[nagy]

battery 1 - today@0921 67% 3,89V

well, what can I say, both standby and shutdown work now...hooray

thank you for all your help, now i'm gonna dig deeper into pandora!

 

[tsh]

Work as in magically it is fine, or something fixed if (and i'm not sure i but re-flashing as a fix). This seems to be a common complaint, which often goes away with investigation (so it is either a use-mode, or a intermittent bug)