this is exactly what I was trying to get at. I just couldn't find the correct words to communicate this effectively.
My reason is because if I suspend my phone then I walk away and return to it, I have no visible notification I missed an event unless I touch the screen and see if my phone is still suspended. If I'm not constantly touching the screen to make sure it's still suspended and I did miss an event. Then my power consumption just increased and my battery life is quickly diminishing. On Sat, 2008-10-11 at 12:20 +0100, Andy Green wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Sam Kuper wrote: > > 2008/10/9 Andy Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> > > > > Robert Norton wrote: > > > 2008/10/9 Robin Paulson <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>>: > > >> the main cpu is suspended, like in the neo, but the power > > management unit is not > > > I'm sure I recently read a datasheet for a PMU which supported various > > > flash patterns for LEDs even during suspend. Unfortunately I can't > > Not really a PMU but an i2c device for just doing that. We might be > > using one or another in future products > > > > > > To me, having the phone able to perform basic notification functions > > (LED blink, vibrate, make a sound) on certain events, even when the > > phone is on standby, seems like a very desirable - not to say obvious - > > feature. > > Well you can simply wake and do "event" type actions like vibrate and > flash LEDs then, the stimulus you are responding to like incoming call > will be a CPU wake event so that lot will work. > > What can't be done (because of a completely Linux-centric POV in the > design) is anything while the CPU is off in suspend. We can leave a LED > on during suspend, but there is no intelligence to flash it or whatever. > > So overall it's not quite as bad as it sounded I hope. > > - -Andy > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > iEYEARECAAYFAkjwjA0ACgkQOjLpvpq7dMqx1ACeLcpilImxowZ4IAYo2HnmQKGy > OG8Anj9t65Je7ZS4X9/nMXnG3RNh0ezz > =FaNT > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community