[pkg-fso-maint] [debian/fso] w/o sim battery empties alarmingly fast

arne anka openmoko at ginguppin.de
Fri Apr 2 09:55:32 UTC 2010


since i did get only half an answer on community at om, i re-post here:

well, i have to confess, i fell off the waggon and bought an n900, too --
already got the impression i was one of the last of the mohicans using the
fr as sole phone (or phone at all).

anyway, now the fr doesn't have a sim card anymore, i expected the battery
to last much longer than the usual 3 days -- but, actually, it goes flat
very, very fast!
what does fso do when no sim is detected? imo it should disable everything
related to telephony and thus save a lot of power, but that doesn't seem
to be what happens.

the second best bet would probably be to manually diasble all kind of
stuff in some config files, but which would that be?
but i would very much prefer the first scenario, allowing me to put a sim
back in and use the fr as a phone w/o any changes.

addendum:
on community at om was suggested to use a disabled sim, that would stop the  
drain.
i got a 3g sim for the n900 and put the disabled 2g sim in the fr, the fr  
asked for the pin -- and regsitered apparently which scares me a little.
can not make calls as it seems, but provider and bars are shown correctly  
...



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