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Re: battery 83% to 0% in 1 hour of not using the BQ

 

Hi Ed,

How would you run a script like the one suggested below to even work
when the screen is locked?

cheers
meles


Am Mittwoch, den 29.04.2015, 22:08 +0200 schrieb Ed Kapitein:

> On 04/29/15 20:30, Matthias Apitz wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I have a problem with the BQ (r21) of my wife, which happened already
> > twice:
> >
> > She is a normal user of a cellphone, or not even this, she does only
> > calls from time to time, not even SM; and no mobile data, but it is
> > configured in her BQ and her contract has 500 GB flat; GPS is completely
> > disabled, HERE app is de-installed and Wifi is disabled too;
> > normaly the BQ goes to sleep after 1 minute;
> >
> > today it happened for the second time that the BQ was completely off-battery;
> > after charging and rebooting the battery page shows:
> >
> > - 83% from today morning until around 5 pm (I know the exact 83% because I
> >    checked it in the morning at 7 am); from this hour a green horizontal line;
> >
> > - at around 5 pm the line starts falling until reaching 0% around 6 pm;
> >
> > In the hour in question between 5 and 6pm the BQ was sitting untouched
> > in her bag.
> >
> > Any ideas? Where to start post mortem analyzing this next time?
> >  From where the battery graphic is drawn, from data in the Ubuntu logs or
> > from the chip in the battery on start of the app showing the graphic?
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > 	matthias
> >
> Hi Matthias
> 
> The other day my phone became very warm and on closer inspection the 
> unity8 process was running 100% on one cpu.
> I rebooted the phone and after that is was fine.
> Something like that might drain your battery rather quick.
> 
> You could run a script to monitor the battery temp and capacity:
> while sleep 60; do
>   date
>   cat /sys/devices/platform/battery/power_supply/battery/capacity
>   cat /sys/devices/platform/battery/power_supply/battery/temp
> done
> 
> And if discharging goes faster then a certain value ( 10%/h ? ) you 
> could text *your* phone so you can start investigation with top if a 
> process is running at 100%.
> (  /usr/share/ofono/scripts/send-sms /ril_0 yourphonenumber "Start 
> investigation" 0 )
> 
> Kind regards,
> Ed
> 
> 

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