[pkg-fso-maint] [debian/fso] w/o sim battery empties alarmingly fast

[Heiko Stübner]

Am Freitag 02 April 2010 11:55:32 schrieb arne anka:
> since i did get only half an answer on community at om, i re-post here:
> 
> well, i have to confess, i fell off the waggon and bought an n900, too --
> already got the impression i was one of the last of the mohicans using the
> fr as sole phone (or phone at all).
nope, I use it as my only phone :-)


> anyway, now the fr doesn't have a sim card anymore, i expected the battery
> to last much longer than the usual 3 days -- but, actually, it goes flat
> very, very fast!
> what does fso do when no sim is detected? imo it should disable everything
> related to telephony and thus save a lot of power, but that doesn't seem
> to be what happens.
I remember to have read somewhere about the problem that without a sim the 
sim-holder closes a circuit resulting in a enery drain. There it was suggested 
to put a pice of plastic/paper in the sim-holder to prevent this.

Heiko