On Thursday 22 April 2010, beyond wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to turn a couple of Neo Freerunners into dummy clients for one > specific application. All i do is boot SHR, start a webbrowser and display > a small web application. During testing i ran into a couple of issues > which i hope you can help me with. > > - Every now and then GPRS seems to disconnect, i don't think this is > because of some idle time, because i ping the server regularly. What is > the best way to keep an GPRS connection alive and what is the correct way > of reconnecting if it fails? > (I've used the method described in > http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/GPRS_FSO#Enable_on-demand_GPRS_at_boot to > enable gprs at boot)
Can't help with this one - I rarely use GPRS. > - power usage of the devices seems to be extreme. I think the battery > drains in an hour or so. What can i do to minimize the power usage? I need > almost nothing of it's functionality, so i guess i should disable things > as GPS, bluetooth, etc.. > Is it sufficient to remove the init files of these services from startup or > should i explicitly disable these components? If you are using SHR these are only activated on demand. If you aren't using them they won't be taking power. I'm surprised you can empty the battery that quickly, but if you are constantly transferring data over GPRS and have the backlight on all the time you will be using a lot of power. The backlight at 100% uses as much power as the rest of the phone when not transferring data, so turning the backlight down can help battery life a lot. I haven't looked at how much the phone module uses for GPRS, or how it varies with signal strength. > - Is it possible to skip Enlightment/Illume and run Midori straight on the > X server? You could do this with a very simple ~/.xsession I think. Try: #!/bin/sh midori It works on debian, but doesn't fill the screen. You might be able to sort that with come options, or you might need a simple window manager like matchbox for that. > The first 2 questions are obviously the most important and the issue with > GPRS is a showstopper at the moment. > > Kind regards and thanks for all the nice work on SHR, > > Bart > _______________________________________________ Shr-User mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shr-project.org/mailman/listinfo/shr-user
