Originally Posted by spousey (Post 419287)

how long does your battery last????

Originally Posted by ysss (Post 419304)

Yes, this seems to be the least efficient way to make use of the 3G 'race to idle' concept.

Yes, that's the right concept but unless 90% of your browsing activities are task oriented then most people will 'spend' the time savings anyway ("Oh, I have 15 minutes to kill while waiting for my appointment"). So in the same amount of time you'll drain the battery more as you plow thru more pages. Yes, you get more data-per-mAH spent, but you'll end up spending more power anyway unless you consciously control the power spending.

Originally Posted by Devil (Post 419305)

seems to be saving me a lot of power. some people dont have this problem?
faulty hardware? if so im bringing it back.

Originally Posted by Phantasm (Post 419335)

At total idle 9.1 days with those widgets etc enabled and on 3G without data connection. At total idle with 3G data connection on but idle 3.1 days with otherwise same settings. Any usage on top of this will of course drain the battery more. I have only had few hours of time to play around with the device after I had found out a way to get out of the Wi-Fi bug and had finished tests relating to it. As such, I can't really say very much on the real usage time. But based on various usages I would estimate around 2-3 days on very moderate usage, full day on quite high usage and some 6-8 hours on continuous heavy usage.




Considering that you generally use a lot of time on the web reading text etc, the connection will be idle most of the time. You only gain the saved time on less waiting for page to open. So, if 10 % of your surfing time is waiting for pages to open and it goes down to 1 % (assuming ideal server speeds), you get 9 % more time to use. As such, 10 % of 2G usage doesn't go to 1 % of 3G usage but to 1.09 % of 3G usage. So, the difference is still huge on the time the moderate battery draining is in affect on 2G compared to heavy battery draining on 3G.

And whenever you are doing something real instead of just getting rid of excess time, you will finish the job faster. In case you have something better to do with the time, that is a bonus.

Originally Posted by marktold (Post 419322)

So here is what the problem was. At home I have a very poor GSM coverage and no 3G at all. My phone was set to dual mode.

Maybe a full coverage at 3G will drain the pattery less then a very bad coverage at GSM.

Originally Posted by spousey (Post 419348)

this doesnt make sense unless you have a none faulty unit an alot of people like me have dodgy ones, i get 3/4 of a day without using anythin at all an u can average 3-5 days?!?!?!? just want advise as to send back or not, or ask for a refund if this is the norm for me. Thanks.

Originally Posted by Phantasm (Post 419368)

Well, hard to say. With the Wi-Fi bug triggered I get less than 7 hours of idle time. But as long as I don't trigger it, it works fine for me. And as such, I can't really help with other possible problems.

Either you have some problems with your phone or some of the programs you are using are causing excessive power drainage. Anyway, contact Nokia customer support if you can't fix the problems just by reading around the forums.