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

[Michael 'Mickey' Lauer]

Am Freitag, den 02.04.2010, 11:55 +0200 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 --

Ah, that's too bad... we would rather need help with the HTC dream and
the Palm Pre.

> 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.

FSO does nothing in particular when it recognizes a missing SIM, which
is the correct thing to do, as you could still do emergency calls or
receive cell broadcasts. FSO-clients should rather shutdown the GSM
resource, if they do not want to use it.

> the second best bet would probably be to manually diasble all kind of
> stuff in some config files, but which would that be?

[ogsmd]
disable = 1

Cheers,

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