Thread: battery life all of the sudden bad
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ghoonk is offline ghoonk
2008-02-18 , 09:46
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Originally Posted by Navi View Post
I don't see how you could get days of battery life connected to wifi all the time. A lot of people can barely get six hours of continuous connectivity. I bet wlan was set on idle timeout or something before.
Likewise, I tested this last night and left my N800 disconnected from the charger, but connected to my Wifi access point with Skype running. Around 6 hours later, I started getting low battery warning, and the N800 shut itself down half an hour after that.

Pretty much expected, if you ask me.

I would also venture to suspect that having mnotify would put added drain on the battery, seeing that it polls for new messages very aggressively.
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