Thread: ~7 h battery live, who get's less?
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cheve is offline cheve
2010-06-23 , 23:27
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Originally Posted by stlpaul View Post
If I don't really use my N900 at all it will usually last about 9 or 10 hours. I'm not connected to any IM or SIP but it does check e-mails.

If I use it for any reason then time is much shorter.

And sometimes it's really bad depending on application. For example, on Saturday I took phone off charger -- green light, fully charged -- used eCoach for 45 minutes, and 3 hours later my phone was giving me the low battery sound and warnings (i turned it off at that point). So less than 4 hours from fully charged to nearly dead battery.
As other may have mentioned, I would install Conky and BatteryGraph to get a better idea of what are actually running on your N900. I think you may have something running/chewing up the CPU% that you are not aware of.

For my case, I had a week or so of really low battery performance(ie. the unit ran of juice in less that 5 hours). After poking and looking, I found out that two of my recently downloaded widget were the problem - ie. they came on periodically even though the unit was on standby.

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