Toshiba Portege G900 News Roundup

[Nurhisham Hussein]

<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.theunwired.net/?itemid=4003' target='_blank'>http://www.theunwired.net/?itemid=4003</a><br /><br /></div><img src="http://www.pocketpcthoughts.com/images/web/2003/hisham-20070718-unwired_toshiba_g900.jpg" /> <br /><br />We have three articles on the G900 today - two good, and one very bad:<br /><br />• theunwired.net has a very nice <a href="http://www.theunwired.net/?itemid=4003">photo review</a> of the unit, covering all the angles; as well as<br /><br />• <a href="http://www.theunwired.net/?itemid=4002">an unboxing video</a>.<br /><br />• The bad news? Like some have reported in our forums, <a href="http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2007/07/14/first-batch-of-toshiba-g900s-plagued-with-issues/">Engadget Mobile</a> has picked up on a serious bug relating to coming out of standby - in short, it won't. According to the post Toshiba is working on a fix, but no timetable for release has been issued yet.

[elisnook]

don't we mean "PROTEGE"? HAHA

[GregWard]

picked up on a serious bug relating to coming out of standby - in short, it won't. According to the post Toshiba is working on a fix, but no timetable for release has been issued yet.

Somebody on MyG900.com suggested unchecking the "Turn off device if not used for" option (Settings -> Power -> Advanced). Apparently this means the cpu never goes to sleep - so there are no waking up issues - not sure if any Guru's can confirm this? Of course you can still use the power button to turn off the screen - so battery life is still fine.

Anyway - it's working for me as a temporary fix. I've gone from 3 or 4 "standby of deaths" a day to none. Actually that's not entirely true - it just did it now (1st time in a week) - but the setting had been rechecked for some reason!!!

[Nurhisham Hussein]

Somebody on MyG900.com suggested unchecking the "Turn off device if not used for" option (Settings -> Power -> Advanced). Apparently this means the cpu never goes to sleep - so there are no waking up issues - not sure if any Guru's can confirm this? Of course you can still use the power button to turn off the screen - so battery life is still fine.

Your first assumption is correct, but your following statement is wrong - pushing the power button is the equivalent of "putting the CPU to sleep", it does not just turn the screen off (there's a separate way to do that). The only thing I can think of is that there's a fault in the way Toshiba implemented software initiated suspend.


Anyway - it's working for me as a temporary fix. I've gone from 3 or 4 "standby of deaths" a day to none. Actually that's not entirely true - it just did it now (1st time in a week) - but the setting had been rechecked for some reason!!!

Curiouser and curiouser :?

[wardy]

The Standby fix is here :

www.toshiba-europe.com/mobile/G900Patch.htm


General feedback is good and the standby bug has gone ...