[maemo-developers] Quality assurance of "stable" software: my battery drained in few hours

[From: Robin Burchell]

On Sun, Jun 6, 2010 at 2:23 PM, Ian Stirling <maemo-devel at mauve.plus.com> wrote:
>> It's pretty hard to find out what's eating the battery on N900. First you
>> have decide that the battery is being consumed too fast. The default charge
>> meter occasionally realizes it's very wrong, and rapidly readjusts itself,
>> giving potential misreadings there. bq27200 certainly helps there, though
>> there's no "production quality" software available to use it yet. Nokia
>> Energy Profiler still shines with its absence ;)
>
> I'm trying to develop something like this.
> An energy profiler.
>
> The ideal would be 'top' - sorted by power use.
> But this is hard. :)

You mean, like, powertop? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerTOP


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