Thread: [Wifi fix] N900's terrible battery life issue
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thelushlife is offline thelushlife
2010-02-07 , 17:07
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Originally Posted by raily View Post
well in settings you can specify the time the phone will look for wlans. you can set it from minutes to several hours. what was your setting thelushlife? anyways it seems that once a sevice, e.g. mail for exchange requests an IP-connection, the wlan connects and stays connected. would be nice if it would disconnect after some minutes without traffic.
my setting (for my 3g) is the default of 10min. the 'use wlan if available' setting was checked. i'm not sure if there is an option for the wlan to auto-disconnect after not being able to find a preferred network. i think not, hence the need for wifi-switcher.

i agree with nifton's 2 day 3G usage. i've upped my display settings to 3 bars and so far battery life seems to be good. i will see how far i can push it by leaving pidgin MSN online. if battery drains too much from pidgin, i'll revert back to the more battery-conservative jabber with MSN transport service.

skype seems to be a huge battery-eater from the other battery power threads. i'd recommend using jabber to integrate all gtalk, msn, aim, yahoo accounts. from what i know jabber is extremely battery-efficient while allowing always-connected access.