Comments on: Apps appearing on N900 Maemo Select site, more battery thoughts

By: Real G

Real G — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 12:03:45 +0000

I downloaded WhatsApp on my n900 but it doesn’t open it, what seems to be the problem or is it not supported?

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By: Mona

Mona — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 19:16:49 +0000

I’m the proud owner of an N900, too. Just bought a used one (4 months old) 2 weeks ago. Yesterday I spent some time tuning the battery life and I must say now I’m really overwhelmed. Being a longtime Linux user I analysed which apps cause the most battery drain, using tools like top and powertop. I also installed sysklogd and analysed /var/log/syslog. Flashlight-extra for example was one of the programs causing many cpu-wakeups at least on my system (PR 1.3). So I got rid of that. Display brightness is set to 80%, wlan is off as long when I am at work, searching for wlan networks is always disabled (I manually switch it on in the evening via wifi-switcher). The phone is not overclocked but I enabled Smartreflex. The phone checks each 10 minutes for mail. I also installed swappolube. I’m using a modified version of hildon-desktop (not the one which enables more than 4 desktops). I stripped the gui down to 3 desktops, cause that’s enough for me. Today is the first day I realise that it’s been running on battery for about 13 hours now but there’s still incredible 80% of the battery power left (I’ve been surfing for about 1 hour and received some mails over the day). Ok, I didn’t make any calls and only sent 1 sms today, but I think this is really good now. Powertop shows 21 software wakeups a second. I had around 400 before I started tuning it… So as long as you don’t install a ton of bad programmed apps found somewhere in extras or extras-devel and care for your settings, it will give you a really good battery life. Cheers, Mona

By: Peter G

Peter G — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 16:17:08 +0000

Check my blog at http://then900blog.wordpress.com/

I would nees some help as well like with news, apps, games.

Ty guys

Peter G

By: Arif

Arif — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 13:16:05 +0000

In all honesty. When you get a new phone you start playing with it like mad trying out things. This is when the battery drops really fast. After that you start tuning it to your daily usage and it lasts a decent amount of time. It takes me through the day.

If I'm not mistaken the only thing that drains battery life of a phone really really fast is GPS. Second is 3g connection however nothing beats draining the batt while using GPS. I don't have my connection on 24/7. I don't really need my emails pushed to me (as if I'm going to reply all emails on the dot. If its urgent they will call). I check when I want to, isn't that making things accessible wherever and whenever and not controlled by Technology. So keep things off unless you know you're going to hang out for 1-2 hours at a cafe or something then turn your connections on.

I doubt anyone is that busy, you should know when it is go time and when its not. If you don't then you probably need to straighten your life. If you know you're going to be out for a long time charge the phone first. (I know some of you would rather wait for the battery to finish before recharging) charging does not have the memory problems of years ago.

At my current deployment now my phone is connected to the internet almost 24/7 however when I arrive on site I am logged in to the 3.5g dialup which charges the phone and provides connectivity and music via bluetooth.

By: Baz

Baz — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 10:23:27 +0000

I have the N900 as an upgrade from the iphone (3gs) and it lasts about the same if not a little longer (nothing to brag about though) It lasts a day with it being constantly being conected (MSN, FB, SKYPE, 3 email accounts) plus roughly 20 – 40 min calls / day + 20 texts and some mails.

I think all smart phones have a battery issue which is frustrating, but it does last one day and charging is very quick! – still i’d feel more comfortable with a 2 day battery as if this is the best it will be then things may be tough 6 month in the future which was definitely the case with the iphone (had to be charged overnight and once during the day)

By: skm

skm — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 12:46:50 +0000

Hi, new N900 for Christmas. Listened to an audiobook and made a few phone calls, 10 hours and the battery is low but still playing the audiobook. Wifi on and used about 1/2 hour, bluetooth on, but not used. Not sure what you have to do to get only 5 hours of batterylife.

By: adevine

adevine — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 08:27:42 +0000

i have had my n900 for about a week now. and on the first day of having it i thought the battery life was a bit poor.... however i did not put it down all day. since then i have taken it to work and had the mp3 player running from 7.30am til 5pm without turning it off and i still had a few hours charge after turning the mp3 player off.

the battery life is not that bad really its just when i first had it i wanted to test its capabilities so i had multiple online applicaions running i was downloading apps and games and everything i could hence why it lasted about half a day. but when you use it like you will day to day you definately have a full day battery... and that is staying online for the full time as my emails and skype etc are always on.

hope this helped

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