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

[From: Kimmo Hämäläinen]

On Mon, 2008-08-11 at 12:04 +0000, Igor Stoppa wrote:
> 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?

I don't know the details. Disabling R&D mode would at least eliminate
the possibility.

BR; Kimmo

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