I suppose i'll go and look for the thread that talks about the deep sleep mode, where it was discussed in the context of dismal battery life on certain Pre3's. Testing for the deep sleep failure condition is pretty straight-forward (you keep the command line window open [wTerm? don't know if wTerm supports phones] while logged in as root and watch for the kernel messages about going into standby) and a fix was also provided in the same thread.
This might not be the exact problem and the fix might not be the perfect cure, but under webOS, services are "sleeping" in the background until activated by an event or a timer, and your issue definitely involves a service process that wakes up to do its thing, fails and then comes back on on a timer. Most likely the hardware is returning a signal that cannot be gracefully handled and the service is not written to permanently fail after a certain number of tries. Deep sleep failure is exactly like this (except for the screen activation) and is we could somehow "knock out" services individually, it would be possible to see what's failing and patch it.
If the Doctor isn't doing its job and it is possible to force-reflash firmware (i've seen that happen with modem firmware) this might also be another way to go, but like before, i do not promise anything... just troubleshooting.
The unit is definitely defective, but don't lose hope, because i'm very much interested in making it work and will do my best to help you, even without a very deep kernel and OS knowledge that some others here have. I'll try to find the deep sleep thread and the modem firmware fix thread, and we'll later see what else can be done to pin down the issue and force-fix it
Edit: ...found the modem reflash thread. It's not the solution to your problem, but a "proof of concept" that firmware can be reflashed outside of the regular doctor (
http://forums.webosnation.com/palm-p...dem-fixed.html)
Edit2: forund a thread regarding the sleep problem, might not be the same one, but i don't have time now...
http://forums.webosnation.com/palm-p...t-sleep-4.html
In this thread it mentions Nodoze as the fix, so try it and let us know
