[Community] GTA04 - Standby Time, Stable Kernel and Voice Quality

[Radek Polak]

On Tuesday, January 22, 2013 12:35:38 PM Jake Drexel wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> As a current user of the gta02 I am concerned about the state of some
> shortcomings it had or still has in regard to the gta04.
> 
> Could someone share their experience in respect to:
>  * standby time (different scenarios, especially working as a phone only)

Thanks to latest Neil's kernel patches GTA04 uses just 15mA in suspend. On 
Freerunner it was ~12mA. So for now the standby time is quite similiar.

In theory the battery is 1200mAh, for FR it's 1200mAh/12mA=100h for GTA04 it's 
1200mAh/15mA=80h.

In real it depends on health of your battery and it can depend on GSM singal 
strength. I guess 2 days are no problem for me - but i never resist to not 
touch the phone that long ;-)

>  * how stable is the kernel? esp. suspending (is that still used for
> power saving?)

Yes, suspend is still used. Kernel is stable - i havent had any problems with 
kernel.

>  * audio quality while using as a phone

I think it's good. I havent had any problems with it (except the old A3 model 
which didnt have HW voice routing).

> Thanks for your comments, any answers might bring me (and maybe
> others) closer to buy a gta04 ;-)

Looking forward