Chapter 336 A Terrible Academic Credentials
After multiple tests, there is still a significant discrepancy in traffic billing.
In the test software, the data usage seemed to reach the set value even though it hadn't been used much.
If the settings are loosened, the traffic metering charges will increase exponentially, as if they were free.
One of the phones racked up over 200 H coins in data charges; if it hadn't run out of battery, it probably would have cost an astronomical sum.
Xing Baohua saw these comprehensive data on the second day.
There was no other way but to fix the problems as they arose. Engineers from Ericsson and Dami Technology began busily patching the vulnerabilities.
These are all easy to modify and adjust, but the bugs on the machines that Xing Baohua disassembled at the software park are still undetected.
That area is more difficult, and we need to consider all aspects.
If you're not using data and just making a phone call, the battery consumption is acceptable. But once you start running apps, the battery really doesn't last long.
This thing needs optimization; with the current battery capacity and durability, there's not much room for improvement. Five or six hundred mAh is considered a large capacity.
If it gets any bigger, a major redesign of the model will be needed.
After reviewing the data at the Telecom Building and watching Ericsson's engineers make changes for a while, Xing Baohua went to the Software Park to oversee the modified hardware and software.
This was the first time Xing Baohua had encountered such a situation.
When he was making knock-off phones, the technology was already quite mature, whether it was the CPU solution or the software and hardware.
They had already patched the loopholes. The hardware that Xing Baohua received was simply put together, then subjected to software testing and adjustments.
Even if it consumes a lot of power, there are mature power management solutions.
But now, he can only search for the answer step by step, like an explorer. This is not a simulator, where he has to make do with what he has.
He needs to come up with a complete solution to fit the next step of the intelligent system.
It's a headache. We discovered the high power consumption problem back in the simulator era. Back then, we could only work around it by constantly modifying the power management system. Now? It's the problem of high power consumption in a legitimate system.
In fact, Xing Baohua had suspected that the CPU was lacking a long time ago, but he didn't have a testing device, so he could only make up for the power consumption defect from other places.
Now he has doubts. Although he hasn't tested the CPU equipment yet, this thought has been lingering in Xing Baohua's mind, and now he's even more suspicious.
After communicating with the hardware team, we found several spare machines and started burning in the CPUs.
If the CPU consumes 30% of the total power, it is considered acceptable. If it exceeds this, it indicates that the CPU is also consuming a lot of power, especially when running software, where the power consumption is cumulative.
That's the most troublesome thing.
Xing Baohua and the hardware team began tackling the problem. Fortunately, these talents were recruited from all over the world, and their technical skills were top-notch.
It took about a week to find the problem; the CPU was definitely a major power consumer and there was no way to change it.
Therefore, some electronic components and power management chips need to be modified in the motherboard design. Of course, turning on the flow control software also consumes power.
We must remind customers not to turn that thing on unless necessary. If they need to use it to access mobile data, the best way is to charge their devices.
This was the best solution Xing Baohua could come up with. In short, the first generation of purely digital mobile phones, while not exactly garbage, at least represented a revolutionary technological advancement.
Even when the iPhone 1 was released, didn't it also experience system lag, causing the metal back cover to get hot?
It's practically like a hand warmer.
Besides, that thing also consumes electricity, but others claim it can last for six or seven hours, while Xing Baohua's thing only lasts for four or five hours. Well, I suddenly felt a little better.
If this continues, we shouldn't release it anymore; let's just go back to the factory and remake it!
The phones have already been manufactured and can't be changed, but fortunately, only a few tens of thousands were produced. We can still send the revised plan back to the factory to be modified and then resume production in time.
As for who will buy the machines that are produced?
They'll rip off whoever they sell to! They'll sell to the Indians first, since there's no internet there right now, and as long as the internet isn't on, they won't be able to tell how much electricity is being used.
By the time they have the internet age, these phones will probably be obsolete.
We've only changed the phone so far; next we'll test the tablet, even though it has a bigger battery, it still consumes a lot of power.
While charging your phone, connect it to your tablet via Wi-Fi, and your phone essentially becomes a hotspot.
Without internet access, a tablet is only slightly more convenient to hold; it's still far inferior to a computer. Now that we have a little internet connection, I'm testing it, whether downloading apps or image formats.
It's so slow!
The key issue is that bandwidth limits the speed.
If you use a data cable to connect your phone and download, the speed is even faster. But now that it's using mobile data, it's driving me crazy.
With a 200M internet speed, the download speed is usually around 10m-20m.
But when I use Baidu Cloud to download a file that's tens of gigabytes in size, the progress bar only shows a speed of around 100k-128k.
I felt an urge to smash the machine. There was no choice: either pay for the high-speed downloads, or you could wait patiently.
Many people would rather not pay than not wait.
Actually, you still lose out. Even if you wait, it's fine if you download it on a tablet or laptop, but what if you're using a desktop computer?
The electricity bill must be around seven or eight yuan.
They've been exploiting that psychology of yours for a long time, making you suffer losses elsewhere as well.
Slow download speeds are a problem with current technology; they can't be made faster just by wishing for them.
Xing Baohua spent a huge amount of money to set up servers so that people in Hong Kong could experience high-speed internet.
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