Thread: Battery concerns / conservation question
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attila77 is offline attila77
2009-06-17 , 14:54
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Originally Posted by silvermountain View Post
What I had running: Gmail notifier (set to check every 30 mins), Weather forecast applet, RSS reader applet, Mauku was running (icon shown in the left hand side), Skype was also running (icon in left side), I had an active WiFi connection but no BlueTooth - I also noticed that the GPS icon was showing in the top and seemed active.
GPS can drain batteries quite quickly in my experience. Also, applets that are constantly active (for example if the reader constantly scrolls of fetches content). Note about rss - appLICATION or appLET ? Skype is also a hog, but to a lesser extent.

Is there a mode that "disables them" but keeps them on my tablet and hence preserves my battery (but allows for the alarm clock to still work)?
b) how do you guys 'turn the device off' in the evening and/or when you don't intend to use it for a couple of hours?
I just enable offline (a.k.a. flight) mode. That usually is enough for the usual suspects to refrain from causing trouble and in my case I loose less than 10% of battery through the night.

a) Does my apps listed above fully explain the battery drain, and
Likely, yes. It's a good idea to install a CPU load applet at least while you're 'new' to the device to get a feel what uses battery and what doesn't.