[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] device powers on at 8am every day?

[From: Igor Stoppa]

On Fri, 2006-07-07 at 13:41 +0300, ext Weinehall David (Nokia-M/Tampere)
wrote:
> On tor, 2006-07-06 at 11:10 -0700, ext George Farris wrote:
> > On Thu, 2006-06-07 at 10:49 -0700, Collin R. Mulliner wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > I have a very strange bug/feature. My device (running IT2006 final)
> > > powers on every day at 8am. I don't have an alarm set in the clock
> > > application, so what could this be?
> > > 
> > > To be clear, this happens while the device is shutdown and the cover is
> > > over the display.
> > > 
> > > Any ideas, may be I miss a new feature?
> > 
> > Interesting.  I also experience auto power on.  For example: Every
> > evening I turn my 770 off before going to bed.  I know it was off as I
> > checked this morning before I left the house.  When I got to work I
> > pulled the 770 out of my pocket and there it was on.  This isn't the
> > first time this has happened.  No it was not turned on in my pocket.  I
> > have turned it off at night and come back in the morning and it has been
> > on, very weird.  I have set an alarm before but don't have one set now
> > unless once you set it the 770 never ever goes off again:-(
> 
> Try removing the battery for an hour or so, to let the backup battery
> lose the time (you'll have to set your clock again after this), then
> insert the battery again and see if you have the same problem.
> 
> If this solution works, it's probably a bug in the alarm software that
> does not reset the RTC-alarm after the alarm has been acknowledged.
> 

For the internal RTC, 15-20 minutes is the expected life support time,
so a little bit more than that should be enough.

-- 
Cheers,
           Igor

Igor Stoppa (Nokia M - OSSO / Tampere)