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#2861
Originally Posted by ArnimS View Post
TERRIBLE POWER CONSUMPTION
Ideal profile, Wifi On (adhoc, 10mw send strength, max savings), display off, no sim card

Nokia-N900:~/bin# ./bq27200.sh -h
LOOPMODE=5
mv RSOC CSOC mA NAC CACD CACT TTF TTE TEMP EDV1 LOW
04:45 3740 64 64 -217 1326 1326 1326 65535 367 37 0
04:45 3740 64 64 -227 1326 1326 1326 65535 350 37 0
04:45 3740 64 64 -219 1326 1326 1326 65535 363 37 0

This is crazy! I should be seeing < 10 mA. Are the power49 wifi drivers munged?

Testing without wifi gives a fairly bumpy power consumption between 17 mA and about 90 mA. Note this is wifi off, screen off, measured with the bq2700.sh script. We appear to have a hungry wifi driver here. At these rates, a wifi-connected idle N900 will discharge in 6 hours, instead of lasting for days.
wl1251 driver was not touched. in wifi stack was only disabled buggy mesh network.

Can you attach syslog & dmesg?
 

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#2862
Originally Posted by ArnimS View Post
TERRIBLE POWER CONSUMPTION
Ideal profile, Wifi On (adhoc, 10mw send strength, max savings), display off, no sim card

Nokia-N900:~/bin# ./bq27200.sh -h
LOOPMODE=5
mv RSOC CSOC mA NAC CACD CACT TTF TTE TEMP EDV1 LOW
04:45 3740 64 64 -217 1326 1326 1326 65535 367 37 0
04:45 3740 64 64 -227 1326 1326 1326 65535 350 37 0
04:45 3740 64 64 -219 1326 1326 1326 65535 363 37 0

This is crazy! I should be seeing < 10 mA. Are the power49 wifi drivers munged?

Testing without wifi gives a fairly bumpy power consumption between 17 mA and about 90 mA. Note this is wifi off, screen off, measured with the bq2700.sh script. We appear to have a hungry wifi driver here. At these rates, a wifi-connected idle N900 will discharge in 6 hours, instead of lasting for days.
If you are running the wifi in adhoc mode, what did you expect?
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#2863
adhoc mode used to bleed my battery in 3 hours with medium use.
 

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Originally Posted by vi_ View Post
If you are running the wifi in adhoc mode, what did you expect?
Sure thing. Even the latest mac80211 wifi kernel module does not implement ad-hoc powersave mode.
 

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#2865
Originally Posted by pali View Post
wl1251 driver was not touched. in wifi stack was only disabled buggy mesh network.

Can you attach syslog & dmesg?
Found it!

Connecting to regular wlan: 22-25mA idle (no pin, screen off)
Connecting to ad-hoc wifi: 200mA idle (no pin, screen off)

[edit: searching for threads on wifi powersaving in ad-hoc mode now]

So ... 22-25 is no where near the best i've seen on an idle device with wlan, but it aint bad! That's somewhere around 160mAh over 8 hours, or maybe 15% battery tops. Sorry for the scare!

(Edit with wifi off i see 17-18 mA, which is higher than the best value i got on stock kernel which was 5 mA)

Thanks!
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#2866
Originally Posted by pali View Post
mplayer does not use system gstreamer libraries, but ffmpeg libraries which has another implementation of audio/video codecs & decoding.
Ok guys, thanks to all of you for your feedback. Before talking again about it, i did some tests in the last days. This is what I have found.

mplayer output is smooth when loading a ULV profile with kernel-congif


mplayer output is smooth when loading a LV profile with kernel-congif


mplayer output stutters when I load a DSP profile with kernel-config

mplayer output stutters without using power-config to load any profile, it's enough enabling smartreflex editing the pmconfig file


As you know, I'm not an expert. I did 4 times the tests, every time reflashing the device, with installed only PK49 and the latest testing CSSU. I tried once without CSSU too, things gone in the same way, mplayer output stutters when there is smartreflex enabled.


Can you guys try it too? If u have mplayer+kmplayer installed, it should take only few seconds of your time to load a dsp profile and start a video with mplayer





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#2867
@Pali - isn't it time KP50 to enter extras-devel?
 
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@ Darkus

Kp49 with CSSU, smartreflex and DSP enabled via pmconfig. No stuttering playing a vid through KMplayer for me.

Others can correct me if I'm wrong as I'm no expert either but the way I understand it, each phone is going to respond slightly differently to the kernel, so what may work best for mine, won't work best for yours.

I use my phone as an mp3 player via mediaplayer for a few hours on the road each day and notice that my battery life is better in that scenario w/o KP49 booted up. My view is if one stutters and the other doesn't, stick with the one that works :-)
 
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Originally Posted by thedarkus View Post
Ok guys, thanks to all of you for your feedback. Before talking again about it, i did some tests in the last days. This is what I have found.

mplayer output is smooth when loading a ULV profile with kernel-congif


mplayer output is smooth when loading a LV profile with kernel-congif


mplayer output stutters when I load a DSP profile with kernel-config

mplayer output stutters without using power-config to load any profile, it's enough enabling smartreflex editing the pmconfig file


As you know, I'm not an expert. I did 4 times the tests, every time reflashing the device, with installed only PK49 and the latest testing CSSU. I tried once without CSSU too, things gone in the same way, mplayer output stutters when there is smartreflex enabled.


Can you guys try it too? If u have mplayer+kmplayer installed, it should take only few seconds of your time to load a dsp profile and start a video with mplayer





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#2870
Originally Posted by Sphinx780 View Post
@ Darkus

Kp49 with CSSU, smartreflex and DSP enabled via pmconfig. No stuttering playing a vid through KMplayer for me.

Others can correct me if I'm wrong as I'm no expert either but the way I understand it, each phone is going to respond slightly differently to the kernel, so what may work best for mine, won't work best for yours.

I use my phone as an mp3 player via mediaplayer for a few hours on the road each day and notice that my battery life is better in that scenario w/o KP49 booted up. My view is if one stutters and the other doesn't, stick with the one that works :-)
Hey Sphinx, thank you for your feedback and for the time you spent helping me
I only have to ask you if you are sure that kmplayer was using mplayer for decoding the video. I ask you this because with smartreflex enabled gstreamer works great.



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