How to switch off automatically after inactivity?
 

Is there a way to switch the N800 off automatically after an inactivity timeout?

It may be my imagination, but after installing OS2008, the battery life seems shorter than with OS2007.

That's why I'd like the N800 to turn itself completely off after an activity period.

Re: How to switch off automatically after inactivity?
 

You do realize that power cycling pretty much nukes your battery, right? One power cycle is equivalent to about 2 days of idle time.

Re: How to switch off automatically after inactivity?
 

Processor runs at it's full 400MHz speed in OS2008. Good.
Kernel has a dodgy cpufreq in OS2008 to switch the speeds. Bad. (Well the dodgy cpufreq is anyway)

Re: How to switch off automatically after inactivity?
 

If I don't turn my new N810 off I get less than a few hours of battery life with no apps running. Switching off extends that to a day and a half.

Re: How to switch off automatically after inactivity?
 

Then there's something wrong. Idling on wifi you should get 4 days, idling disconnected you should get 10-14.

Re: How to switch off automatically after inactivity?
 

I easily get better battery life leaving the tablet on then when I do switching it off and on.

Re: How to switch off automatically after inactivity?
 

Nokia have told me the battery life on my N810 is normal. I cannot understand why you may be getting more than myself but I have never been able to get more than I have in the month I have had my unit.

Re: How to switch off automatically after inactivity?
 

They're wrong. You should have 4-5 hours of active wifi usage, about 8 of semi-active usage, 3-5 days idle on wifi and 10-14 days offline.

If you're getting significantly less than that, then something is wrong. Maybe one of your cards is corrupted and metalayer-crawler or something is choking out. Maybe you have some process of some sort cooking the CPU.

There are a number of things that can go wrong, but the battery life you're describing is highly atypical.

Personally, I'd start by reformating the internal card.

Re: How to switch off automatically after inactivity?
 

Yep. Recently I got exactly 4:35 hours of nonstop browsing with my N800 and a cheap Chinese battery from ebay.

But I noticed that out in the woods, when hijacking an open wlan with a weak signal, battery life is definitely shorter then.

Re: How to switch off automatically after inactivity?
 

Battery life aside, does anyone know if there is a way to cause the N800 to shut off completely after an inactivity timeout?