Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 22 Aug 2009 21:35:15 +0200 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: Smart Battery System Design (was: Re: Question about userspace-consumer) |
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Hi!
> > > Like you say this is a very old design but even there I'm fairly > > > surprised it's causing issues when charging from a wall supply. If > > > you're charging from USB then there is obviously a constraint on the > > > power draw but normally a modern system has sufficiently low power draw > > > when idle that it's not actually a big deal - runtime power management > > > facilities have improved greatly. > > > Well... all the hardware I have here (zaurus, openmoko, htc dream) has > > issues with power consumption while charging... so I do not think > > runtime pm is solved problem. > > The Zaurus and OpenMoko aren't exactly modern designs. The Dream does > surprise me, though. I can't find any references to issues with this - > any pointers? If the phone were actually in use I'd expect it to have > trouble charging off USB but sitting idle it's a lot more surprising, > especially running Android.
Well, I'd like the older designs to work well too. (Actually, the Dream... was on wifi when I got bad problems charging it from usb.... so maybe charging while suspended would not help there). Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html
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