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Kent, I am happy that your power management seems to work better. I will receive my DR1000S today, so I am very exited about it (it was "waiting for dispatch" for 4 weeks and when I inquired by email, it shipped a day later :-))
Just for the record and then I'll shut up on the issue (it's just that good power management is very important to me. I love my Sony PR505 for its great power usage):
- I agree that devices should have the option to be completely turned off (I might know that I won't be using it for a few weeks), in that sense I agree that capacitative buttons are not optimal.
- If power managment is done right, it's fine if the device doesn't really power off completely (my N800 lives in standby mode and with WLAN on for a week). My PR505 hibernates and doesn't need to shut down (I know that hibernation implies complete poweroff) for weeks. It starts up within 3 seconds when using the (mechanical) power on switch.
The only thing that we seemed to disagree is really a minor issue:
- The amount of drain by the capacitive buttons matters. If they really are driven by a separate coprocessor and the main CPU can be shut down. And if they really don't use much energy while in standby... then the culprit lies somewhere else... and that is where the focus on fixing things should go. I don't mind capacitive buttons if they allowed for 4 weeks of stand-by (given no other software and hardware power draining issues).
- However if those buttons are causing 80% of the power drain (as you firmware upgrade seems to imply that they are not to blame for all the power drain), then they are extremly stupid and dumb.
So to sum it up (before really shutting up): Yes, I would have preferred a mechanical on/off switch by far. But unless we know how much power those buttons really drain, we can't put all the blame on them.
back to waiting for the UPS car.... :-)
spaetz
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