I had used the palm and ppc for more than 8 years. I have already used to the operation of pda.

For n800, I still can't used to it.

Because for pdas, I can switch off the power button to save battery and if I wanto use it again just press the power button.

For n800, I press the power button, it will show 4 options for me to choose, I always choose the switchoff. but next time when I wanto use it, switch it on, and it will cost pretty much time to start it compared to the pdas startup time.

Could anyone tell me how to do the operation like the pda?

All the best!

Tiger

The Nokia Internet Tablets are designed to be "Always On" devices which means that you should never really have to turn them off. Just lock the screen/buttons using the lock slider then let the device go to sleep the same way you would a laptop computer.

The device actually uses MORE power shutting down and starting back up again than if you were to just leave it on but asleep for multiple hours.

So a quick answer to your question: Just leave it and let it go to sleep You don't have to bother turning it off to save battery

*A side note: the power button on PalmPilots actually doesn't turn the device off. It only turns the screen off and clocks the processor down. Letting the N800 go to sleep achieves a very similar result*

Hope this helps

Internet tablets used to have a "secret" mode, called "softpoweroff", which would lock screen and keys, stop all wireless services, put the processor into power saving mode (except if stuff like a music player is running) and blank the screen.

It was relatively easy to remap the powerkey to invoke softpoweroff, if you knew how to use an editor and how to use the search function of this forum (my tablet invokes softpoweroff on a long press on the power button). However, Nokia "chose" to b0rk up softpoweroff on ITOS2008, so now you have to install Powerlaunch and learn a complete and arcane programming language to get back functionality that was there before.

Just to clarify things, there is no "lock slider" on the N800. You can choose "Lock Screen" from the menu that pops up when you press the power button.
Switchin off the device is a bad idea as josiahg777 already pointed out. Booting up takes a lot of battery power worth several days of standby.

To use Powerlaunch, you don't need to learn an arcane language at all. You need to learn the arcane language to make the N800 work the way Karel misses. Just don't get a brain transplant, and you won't miss what he misses.

But Powerlaunch is a good thing to add.

Not if battery life is important in my experience. I get better standby times out of my n800 without powerlaunch...

I used to think I was smart to leave the power on and let the N800 go to sleep. Until it wouldn't wake up that is. Sometimes the battery just drains in a couple hours and you have no idea why because whatever you left running is now off. If I am travelling and won't be near a plug to recharge, I always turn it off when I am not using it.

The web browser is the only really wicked thing I've seen WRT battery; RSS reader was supposed to be bad too, but I never used it. The browser sometimes starts cranking away madly (I'm not sure of any site-specific correlation, because once it starts, it doesn't stop no matter what site you go to...) and though it doesn't have much effect on performance of other apps, it does drain the battery. I just close the browser when I'm untethered for any length of time, and I get standby times like they should be.

BTW, in Diablo (public release expected around month's end, more or less) the softpoweroff is working again, it seems. You can set up that on long or double-tap of powerswitch and get reasonably decent behavior; never had trouble with it dying in a few hours.

Look up "metalayer crawler" and how to disable it (but make sure you know what functionality you'll miss if you do -- hint: not much) to prevent these drainages.

In a normal Itablet this is the only culprit unduly quaffing gogo-juice.

Actually, the old way was to change one line in mce.ini. I even wrote up a step by step guide on this forum on how to do it.

I've looked at Powerlauch and it makes my brain hurt. Apparently there's a default mode when you install it that kinda mimicks mce.ini's behaviour, but I never liked that behaviour and I have absolutely no idea how to get it to do what I want; to call the documentation on the home site "spartan" would be a compliment: it's basically a man page of the daemon which, for such an important function that is supposed to be for the average enduser, is a joke.

Frankly, this program should come with a graphical front-end, especially as the announced functionality includes use of the Itablet's buttons to control arbitrary applications.

But hey! I couldn't care less. When I get my Pandora, the N800 will join my 770 as a rarely-used ebook-reader. Or maybe I'll turn them into digital photo frames. I have no intention of continuing to spend much energy on a device that repeatedly gets crippled by its own manufacturer. Enough is enough...