Thread: Possibly Facebook Widget caused high CPU load and power drain
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Larswad is offline Larswad
2010-06-09 , 08:21
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Originally Posted by itsANDREW View Post
Eating a full battery within 1-2 hours... that's highly unusual.

May I ask what usage your device is put through during that time?

Also, widgets usually eat away at battery life and combined with constant web browsing, can shorten it drastically.

I'm not an expert within this area, so I'll leave that for the more experienced that may (hopefully) pass by later today, but I'm sure it's not a problem that can't be fixed.

I'm currently on a N900 as well, and my battery life, even with 3G running is generally a little less than a day with moderate web browsing and calling/texting. With no or little internet connection but moderate calling/texting, I get up to two days.

Best of luck to you though Christian, and make sure you keep checking back!
Hi Andrew, I am starting to suspect that one thing that perhaps could be a huge battery eater is the 3g connection. I'm not sure if this is related to PR1.2 at all (probably not), but at my workplace I notice that the 3g signal is kind of weak and battery drain goes quick during working hours but slows down to a minimum when I'm elsewhere, so I suspect that the device increase the signal strength and of course eat more battery. The question is whether the radio module/software has some glitches or is in the need for optimization. Maybe I need some more info about other phones and with the same mobile network in the area to see if the N900 stands out with the signal strength.

1-2 hours though sound a little bit too much to me. I get like 7-8 hours to reach like 15-20% of battery left at the office place (but that's a little bit high too if you ask me).