[maemo-developers] Battery drain with Diablo 4.2008.23-14

[From: Igor Stoppa]

On Mon, 2008-08-11 at 12:17 +0100, ext Andrew Flegg wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 12:13 PM, Kimmo Hämäläinen
> <kimmo.hamalainen at nokia.com> wrote:
> >
> > Do you have the R&D mode enabled?  It can drain the battery in a day.
> 
> It can? Previous information has been that R&D mode on its own (i.e.
> without enabling the serial console etc.) has no effect on battery
> life; and solely enables `sudo gainroot'.

And that should still hold true, afaik

> What does "plain" R&D mode do which affects battery so greatly?

Nothing unless somebody had the bright idea to hook something to the
plain R&D mode flag. Which i really hope is not the case.

Kimmo: can you please detail?

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Cheers, Igor

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Igor Stoppa
Maemo Software - Nokia Devices R&D - Helsinki