Thread: Battery drains when idle
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2013-01-10 , 01:00
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#17
Originally Posted by pichlo View Post
I've had the battery in my N900 drain on idle in just 8 hours once when it normally takes about 2 days.
It can sometimes help to open a terminal and use the "top" command.
I've seen daemon processes burning up the CPU after WiFi has
gone up/down several times and (apparently) confused their idea
of the connection state.

Just look at the top running processes, and if on a nominally idle system you're seeing something running and using more then 5-10% of the CPU, it'll be eating up the battery to keep the CPU that busy.