[maemo-users] Brick after battery dying?

[From: Peter Flynn]

Kalle Valo wrote:
> "ext Jonathan D. Proulx" <jon at csail.mit.edu> writes:
> 
>> Battery died while in sleep mode over night (sayd it had days of idle
>> time available but I guess waking up every 10min to scan for wireless
>> killed it).
> 
> Nope, WLAN scanning every 10 minutes shouldn't kill the battery. I
> don't remember the exact figures but it should last days also in that
> state.

Mine certainly seems to, although I haven't tested it to exhaustion.

But I find it worrying that anyone could implement an interface which 
doesn't have a "go to standby" button, even if the timeout actually does 
that. Bad ergonomics.

///Peter