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#33
Originally Posted by Quartz View Post
FWIW, I've been noticing that my battery meter and life is also weird (in fact I found this thread because I was about to post my own about it)

when my n800 is fully charged, I get something to the effect of "6 days when idle" in the meter, yet if I immediately soft-off it, the battery only lasts about 50 hours before it starts chirping (I've tested this several times). mind you, this is about as idle as it can get- I have no windows open and nothing running with the wifi off and screen locked.

is 2 days normal battery life when in soft-off? did installing ssh or some other background service cause me some problems?

also, I notice that if I use mozilla for a little while and have it eat up some memory, then put my n800 into soft-off *without* quitting, my battery's DEAD within 6 hours. this has happened to me a couple times now when browsing the web in bed before I go to sleep- I wake up in the morning and it's shut itself off. anyone know what's up with that? it doesn't seem to be related to the page having a looping flash animation or anything obvious like that.
Same thing here, with os2008 on my n800. It was one of the reasons I went back to os2007, I ended up charging it every day twice, in the morning and evening, and sometimes in the car during a commute. It's even worse if you experiment with the hostmode: if you use the commands to switch back to client mode, it randomly turns hostmode back on which can drain the battery in a few hours even with no devices attached.

I will check to see if mozilla on os2007 has the same result