On Wed, June 4, 2008 12:14, Marius Gedminas wrote: > On Wed, Jun 04, 2008 at 12:07:49PM -0500, David Dyer-Bennet wrote: >> On Tue, June 3, 2008 07:53, Marius Gedminas wrote: >> > The device is very good at seamless power savings, but it's possible >> to >> > install buggy applications that aren't smart enough to sleep when they >> > should and drain the battery faster. >> >> Something like that may be going on, though I haven't installed very >> much. >> I'm assuming the application would have to be running to make a >> difference? > > Yes. > >> Yesterday I started the day fully charged, > > Do you mean that the battery icon showed full charge, or that you kept > it charging overnight and the charging animation stopped? Was on charge overnight, the animation had stopped. As you correctly figured out below. > In my experience the battery icon is very nonlinear: you use the tablet > for 4 hours, it shows full charge, then it starts showing less and in 2 > more hours of active usage it runs out completely. (The numbers are > approximate.) Battery condition monitoring is clearly still in the voodoo stages. Sometimes I think it'd be better if they didn't try, it's so random. >> and it spent the day in my >> shoulder bag, and when I unlocked it near bedtime to read for a little >> while (not having touched it since I took it off the charger in the >> morning), > > Ah, okay, so you answered my question. ;-) > >> the battery was down to 3 days standby, 1 hour active. > > That's not normal. It didn't match my earlier uses. (I've been very slowly integrating this thing into my daily life; it's intended to eventually replace my Palm TX, but so far the calendar and contacts are still on the Palm. I've also just got a new much-upgraded smartphone, an HTC Mogul, and I'm trying to figure out which functions should live where.) And relating to the ongoing integration -- possibly I'm seeing drastically shortened battery life from having both wifi and bluetooth enabled. Since they're alternative connection profiles I think it should only use one at a time, but maybe it doesn't. -- David Dyer-Bennet, dd-b@xxxxxxxx; http://dd-b.net/ Snapshots: http://dd-b.net/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/data/ Photos: http://dd-b.net/photography/gallery/ Dragaera: http://dragaera.info _______________________________________________ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@xxxxxxxxx https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
