@jalyst, I had filed that bug no 463 . I think its ridiculous that we have to resort to such trickery (no offense to OP , its a good workaround to the current problem! ) to extend battery lifetime.

OT: I had disabled background connections yesterday, and my N9 lost only 10% battery charge in 22 hours! It speaks volumes about how optimised the cellular and CPU standby is, but at the same time given my example, I dont understand how the Nokia Devs claimed (in some other bugreport) that the current connection system is "optimised" ! For Gods sake just look at Symbian ..its owned by Nokia too and it has the BEST connectivity algorithm from a battery longetivity.

Back on topic: I recall the AutoDisconnect app for Maemo5 , here http://wiki.maemo.org/AutoDisconnect . Is it possble to petition the developer to port it for maemo6/Harmattan ! !?