From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Pavel Machek Subject: Re: Motorola Droid 4 progress, power consumption Date: Thu, 3 May 2018 11:06:11 +0200 Message-ID: <20180503090611.GA14451@amd> References: <20180501183148.GA26996@amd> <20180502144158.GJ98604@atomide.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="BOKacYhQ+x31HxR3" Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20180502144158.GJ98604@atomide.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Tony Lindgren Cc: kernel list , linux-arm-kernel , linux-omap@vger.kernel.org, sre@kernel.org, nekit1000@gmail.com, mpartap@gmx.net, merlijn@wizzup.org List-Id: linux-omap@vger.kernel.org --BOKacYhQ+x31HxR3 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi! > > Anyway, >5.5hours of standby with screen off, GSM on is already > > usable. >=20 > Just to rub that in, you do mean GSM usable for voice calls and > SMS with your unicsy_demo with mainline kernel plus the pending > LCD related patches, right? :) >=20 > > This is the core of code I'm using. > >=20 > > https://github.com/pavelmachek/unicsy_demo > >=20 > > Battery graphs are attached. I'm not sure if the battery was really > > close to empty at that point -- voltage curve should have different > > shape if that was the case.=20 >=20 > Cool. BTW, the value for POWER_SUPPLY_POWER_AVG should be quite > accurate for the whole device power consumption. >=20 > It comes from the shunt resistor measured by the PMIC. Sorry I don't > remember how often it needs to be polled but I'm guessing polling it > once a minute or so should be plenty. I'd like current_avg more, but if I cat it manually, it changes on order of seconds, and quite significantly... which suggest shorter polling interval would be needed. user@devuan:/sys/class/power_supply/battery$ date; cat current_now current_avg Thu May 3 09:33:05 CEST 2018 -71000 -218408 user@devuan:/sys/class/power_supply/battery$ date; cat current_now current_avg Thu May 3 09:33:06 CEST 2018 -61000 -200238 user@devuan:/sys/class/power_supply/battery$ date; cat current_now current_avg Thu May 3 09:33:06 CEST 2018 -51000 -209879 user@devuan:/sys/class/power_supply/battery$ date; cat current_now current_avg Thu May 3 09:33:07 CEST 2018 -56000 -72308 user@devuan:/sys/class/power_supply/battery$ date; cat current_now current_avg Thu May 3 09:33:08 CEST 2018 -37000 -211362 > Hmm oh and the POWER_SUPPLY_CHARGE_COUNTER value should be monitored > by your libbattery and it's low value and high value should be saved > to a file. Low should be saved when we get the battery low interrupt > and battery state changes to POWER_SUPPLY_CAPACITY_LEVEL_CRITICAL. > High value should be saved on POWER_SUPPLY_CAPACITY_LEVEL_FULL. >=20 > Then when you know the high value and low value, you can calculate > the remaining capacity based on the current value and > POWER_SUPPLY_POWER_AVG. I'll look into that... but probably will do experiments with python, first. Best regards, Pavel --=20 (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blo= g.html --BOKacYhQ+x31HxR3 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iEYEARECAAYFAlrq0QMACgkQMOfwapXb+vLVQwCfQUh3rhVufZcX3VSHSWpuh9U5 IiUAnjdWoOgeIP4u/ynto3KLxU+ywDj8 =Cru+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --BOKacYhQ+x31HxR3-- From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: pavel@ucw.cz (Pavel Machek) Date: Thu, 3 May 2018 11:06:11 +0200 Subject: Motorola Droid 4 progress, power consumption In-Reply-To: <20180502144158.GJ98604@atomide.com> References: <20180501183148.GA26996@amd> <20180502144158.GJ98604@atomide.com> Message-ID: <20180503090611.GA14451@amd> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org Hi! > > Anyway, >5.5hours of standby with screen off, GSM on is already > > usable. > > Just to rub that in, you do mean GSM usable for voice calls and > SMS with your unicsy_demo with mainline kernel plus the pending > LCD related patches, right? :) > > > This is the core of code I'm using. > > > > https://github.com/pavelmachek/unicsy_demo > > > > Battery graphs are attached. I'm not sure if the battery was really > > close to empty at that point -- voltage curve should have different > > shape if that was the case. > > Cool. BTW, the value for POWER_SUPPLY_POWER_AVG should be quite > accurate for the whole device power consumption. > > It comes from the shunt resistor measured by the PMIC. Sorry I don't > remember how often it needs to be polled but I'm guessing polling it > once a minute or so should be plenty. I'd like current_avg more, but if I cat it manually, it changes on order of seconds, and quite significantly... which suggest shorter polling interval would be needed. user at devuan:/sys/class/power_supply/battery$ date; cat current_now current_avg Thu May 3 09:33:05 CEST 2018 -71000 -218408 user at devuan:/sys/class/power_supply/battery$ date; cat current_now current_avg Thu May 3 09:33:06 CEST 2018 -61000 -200238 user at devuan:/sys/class/power_supply/battery$ date; cat current_now current_avg Thu May 3 09:33:06 CEST 2018 -51000 -209879 user at devuan:/sys/class/power_supply/battery$ date; cat current_now current_avg Thu May 3 09:33:07 CEST 2018 -56000 -72308 user at devuan:/sys/class/power_supply/battery$ date; cat current_now current_avg Thu May 3 09:33:08 CEST 2018 -37000 -211362 > Hmm oh and the POWER_SUPPLY_CHARGE_COUNTER value should be monitored > by your libbattery and it's low value and high value should be saved > to a file. Low should be saved when we get the battery low interrupt > and battery state changes to POWER_SUPPLY_CAPACITY_LEVEL_CRITICAL. > High value should be saved on POWER_SUPPLY_CAPACITY_LEVEL_FULL. > > Then when you know the high value and low value, you can calculate > the remaining capacity based on the current value and > POWER_SUPPLY_POWER_AVG. I'll look into that... but probably will do experiments with python, first. Best regards, Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 181 bytes Desc: Digital signature URL: