Thread: N900 battery life questions, issues, scenarios
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MaemoCurmudgeon is offline MaemoCurmudgeon
2009-12-01 , 16:16
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#287
Wow a 24 page post with only the last 3 pages when people have the actual phone…LAME!!!!

First, all you speck wankers, it does not matter how many milliamps the battery has, 1200, 1350, 1500…it's the apps! I can kill my N97 in 3 hours on battery…running multiple apps, WiFi , plus 3G, profimail, Gravity, face tube. I can kill my E71 in about 4.5 hours – both phones with the magic 1500 BP-4L.

Secondly do yourself a favor don't show your ignorance of systems by doing comparisons to the iphone and E61i… that is like saying that a Prius gets better mileage than an M3. Also understand that if you drive a Prius hell bent like an M3 it will actually get 16.7 mpg vs the M3's 18.3 mpg.

Thirdly, configuration, configuration, configuration! RTFM- explore the setting and tweak! Weather widget can use Wifi and GSM or just GSM or just Wifi…this has battery implications. qgil is correct about bad widgets- as any 5800xm, N97 users will tell you, a bad widget can be a killer.

I am glad that we finally have some users posting long battery life experiences.

When you see someone posting a claim of running without a charge for 18+ hours don't be a normob and moan "whats wrong with my N900", but think hummm what am I doing/running that is causing my battery to drain.

Out of the box I was killing the N900 in 3-4 hours, T-Mo full 3G. Now... 16 to 28 hours during work week and 12 to 18 hours in weekend mode. Additionally on the support forums we have had users who have experienced poor power performance due to using old SIM cards or SIM cards swapped from other phones.

Please, please, please… someone fix the WiFi sub-system so that it shuts off after widgets/e-mail has finished it's polling cycle. Yes keep WiFi radio on if web page is open… but all other connected apps should cycle the WiFi radio on/off.
 

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