Re: Smart Battery System Design (was: Re: Question aboutuserspace-consumer)

From: Mark Brown
Date: Sun Aug 23 2009 - 05:08:26 EST


On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 09:35:15PM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:

> Well, I'd like the older designs to work well too. (Actually, the

There's not likely to be implementing things like SBS, though.

> Dream... was on wifi when I got bad problems charging it from
> usb.... so maybe charging while suspended would not help there).

Radios are one of the biggest consumers of power, especially when
transmitting, 3G being particularly bad. If the phone was sitting idle
it should've been fine but if it's actually using the WiFi I'd expect
that to slow down the charge.
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