You could probably watch CPU usage as a pretty good indicator. I've noticed just having some applications in the foreground (like the browser on a complicated webpage) will shoot the CPU usage way up.<br><br>IIRC, one of the Nokia engineers stated that apps are basically stopped (like hitting Ctrl+Z in bash) when they are minimized, and resumed when they're foregrounded. I might have made this up, but based on the CPU monitor it certainly would appear that something like that is going on.
<br><br>--Paul<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 8/16/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Michael Thompson</b> <<a href="mailto:michaelnt@gmail.com">michaelnt@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hi,<br> The battery life of the N800 seems to depend a lot on the applications that are running, I guess in particular when it is idling. The result of this is that the battery indicator can be very inaccurate, telling me it should last for days and it will then die in hours.
<br><br>Ideally I'd like this not to be the case but in the interim I'd like to know which application is causing the problem. When will Nokia expose the current consumption information, in for instance /proc? Without this information we cannot determine which application is the culprit much less set about improving the performance.
<br><br>Is there another indirect method that could be used, perhaps the rate of interrupts for each application?<br><br>Regards, Michael<br>
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