Current L5 Idle Battery Life

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L5 arrived - Issues / questions

I did another battery test today. Draining from 95% charge to 18% charge took 7 hours 45 minutes, so realistically about 8+ hours of “on” time. This was with mobile disabled in the settings, wifi on, and the phone dormant on the table, with just an occasional peek at the battery level.

L5 arrived - Issues / questions

Today I did a similar test, this time on the mobile network, with wifi off. Over 7 hours, the battery drained from 93% to 20%, so again, about 10% per hour (10.4% in this case). The phone was sitting in two different places indoors throughout the day, with a strong signal in one room, and a weaker signal in the other. I was checking the battery level about once per hour, slightly more frequently than during my wifi test, and also opening the settings screen and browser a couple of times to conf…

Another Battery Test

This time, I tested the longevity by charging to full, turned off all three killswitches, set the phone aside, then only activated the screen occasionally to check the charge (except when I was sleeping). The battery drained from 100% to 3% in just over 14 hours. My final check of the power level at about the 14-hour mark actually showed a remaining charge of about 35%, but that was apparently inaccurate, because a few minutes later I noticed that the phone had shut down. When I turned it back…

[MyL5] First Impressions of Evergreen (Tim's story)

Nobody is working on suspend explicitly, but there have been some power management improvements lately that will also matter for suspend, for instance https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/linux-next/-/merge_requests/279 Personally I believe that it’s way more important to keep extending runtime battery life and treat suspend as the very last thing in the chain of things needed to be done for good power management. Suspend isn’t a magical answer to all battery life problems - if you need to suspend to…

Status of Suspend for Librem 5

That’s because that’s not the problem at all, just a matter of correct regulator configuration to not turn the modem off during suspend. The thing that would have to be done first is creating a branch of the ATF where both suspend and devfreq could work at the same time and this is the main thing blocking suspend to ram at the moment. With that in place there are several smaller issues like the dwc3 thing that will have to be debugged one by one.