It's always possible the Diablo build of even things you used under Chinook has a bug...

i've noticed one thing too.. i used to charge my n800 (diablo, and i never shut it off) before i go to bed and just leave it charging till morning when i pack up and take it to school.

yesterday i forgot to charge it before i went to bed so i got up extra early to charge it.

it seems the battery life improved with the latter. could it be that after the battery gets fully charged it is slowly getting discharged? or is there some sort of trickle charging?

ok, now i've reflashed under linux. installed following programs:
rtcomm update, mplayer, agps-ui, blobby volley 2, skype, germany + alps map, GPE calendar and todo, rootsh.
until now i can't notice any battery drain issues like the last time.
but i've also formatted internal card under chinook, take out external card under chinook, flash, format internal card under diablo, insert external card and format it. lets see if it helps.
btw: agps is amazing: cold-start (never see the sky under diablo before) in my house (no direct view to the sky) in only amazing 8 seconds!! 8, eight... wow...

I'm experiencing exactly the same battery life problems since Diablo. I've swtiched off meta-crawler etc and now I switch off-line too. I never used to but since Diablo I have to.

@ lemmy: have you flashed under windows?

FWIW, I have had no battery problems. And I flashed under Windows.

i just wish there was a way to do task/process management without having to go via terminal or some tray applet. thats what i use load applet for mostly, the rise and fall of the indicators are just nice hints for when browser stops responding...

I have no proof, but I doubt that it makes any difference whether you flash under Linux or Windows. I suspect that the Linux users are typically a little more savy about what is going on with their NIT (since it IS a Linux machine) and took care of or prevented some problems as they went along and forgot that they did it. I certainly fall into that category. (Yes I flashed under Linux, have great battery performance under Diablo, but probably fixed some things along the way and forgot about them). The only tip I can give is to keep checking that you don't have any processes that are stuck in a loop, or any that keep waking the NIT up and running it at full speed every few seconds/minutes/etc. I quit using some "Home-screen" apps that fell into this second category.

Also note that because most of the repositories have changed quit a bit since Diablo first came out, those re-flashing today will get very different results from those flashing back when Diablo was first released once they then update all their software from these repositories. I'm not saying you need to re-flash, but you might need to un-install your extra software and reinstall them so you are sure to get all the latest versions with (more importantly) the latest support libraries they depend on. Before you do this, you probably need to verify that your repository catalogs are up to date, as in the ones that now should be pointing at Diablo instead of Chinook do so. This does not seem to be a trivial process, perhaps I should post my "sources list" file showing what I have figured out so far.

[UPDATE: I just did, you need to take the .txt off the end and put it into /etc/apt/sources.list.d on your NIT. Note this will overwrite your existing catalog list so I'd back it up somewhere. Also I think there is a link to Mozilla that quit working on this list, maybe others. Windows users: Use Wordpad instead of Notepad to view this file.]

About using a non-original charger: I to have been messing around with some 3rd party aftermarket chargers meant for Nokia "N" series phones. The ones I've tried don't have enough current capacity to charge the NIT at a good rate, and in fact if you have your NIT configured to NOT go to sleep when on the charger (as in the screen stays lit etc.) It is possible that your discharge rate can be greater than your charge rate with such a charger.

Note the factory charger is rated for 890ma of current, with my aftermarket one I measured that it can only do about 400ma or so then additionally it overloads and cycles on and off at a repetitive rate, thus reducing the average charge rate even more.

now i'm getting the problems again...
heat back of the n810 and every night a dead device... and max 1 day of use.
flashing chinook...
edit: i'm very frustrated, because i like agps and the finger/stylus recognition of diablo...
why my n810 have these problems? can anyone help me please to find out? :-(

quick question, anyone using taskbarclock (not the big one)?

if i understand it right it may not allow the device to "sleep" correctly if active.

after i turned it of, it seems to give me better standby time. hell, for the first time since i flashed to diablo, im seeing the battery go to full after some sleep time (as its status seems to be calculated based on power drain over a amount of time).