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2007-06-03 , 08:25
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#21
Originally Posted by play2win View Post
I hold the power button in and the unit completely shuts off. I then push several buttons (home, etc...) to make sure it is really off.

I have noticed that at times when I take the unit out of the pouch it is on.

I hope nokia has fixes for the inconsistancies in the new OS.
There is actually a "mediumkeypress" setting in mce.ini. I can't quite make up what it's good for, but apparently, if you press the power button long enough to invoke the default mediumkeypress, but not quite long enough to get a "longkeypress", the buttons and screen won't lock. On my unit I can tell because the screen briefly flashes on and off, so I know I've been impatient again.

I tried fiddling with the length of "mediumkeypress", but it seems to always want to be shorter than "longkeypress". I haven't had the guts to comment it completely out yet, for fear that it might cause some disaster (like the N800 suddenly booting up into WinMo 6, for instance).

Oddly enough, I didn't get this behaviour with the previous firmware and it took me quite a while to figure out that longkeypress still works for softpoweroff.
 
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2007-06-03 , 20:27
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The n800 is one big power guzzeler. The battery meter is terribly inaccurate most of the time, its good to invest in another battery if you are a heavy user.
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2007-06-03 , 20:31
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Originally Posted by Nik1 View Post
The n800 is one big power guzzeler. The battery meter is terribly inaccurate most of the time, its good to invest in another battery if you are a heavy user.
Then it is also reasonable to also invest into an external charger.
 
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2007-06-03 , 22:12
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Originally Posted by Nik1 View Post
The n800 is one big power guzzeler. The battery meter is terribly inaccurate most of the time, its good to invest in another battery if you are a heavy user.
The generic advice is to keep the backlighting at minimum: usetimies are given for the illumination at half gauge, but in many cases that's even too strong to be comfortable.
 
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2007-06-04 , 07:59
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#25
indeed indoors i usually have the brightness set around 2. outdoors usually requires quite a bit more. i also have my sound set very low and polling applications such as rss reader and the canola scanner set to only poll when i run them. another way to save battery is to dissable the automatic search for wifi.
 
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2007-06-04 , 09:33
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My battery appears to last forever. On a couple of occasions though it's gone flat over the night (actually I noticed the 'low-battery' warning sound before it died on me). The last time it happened I plugged in the charger and checked with 'top' in an xterm. 'vi' was running with 100% CPU, and then I remembered that I had used 'vi' the day before and quit by terminating the xterm.. not a good idea.
In other words, if it seems to go unusually fast through the battery, check if there's some application looping. And if so, try to find out what caused it.
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