Jeez no wonder it's draining the battery dead. For all we know it could be refreshing every minute.

^ i seriously don't doubt it, but it seriously isn't as bad as some people make it out to be. It's not far from any other smartphone that has 3g, big screen, widgets, and etc.

im pretty sure it because im using pidgin but my battery drains super quick.

Hi there

I have been crazy about the N900 for about 3 month and I guess I have seen almost every video about it.

One thing most people are concerned is battery life. By change I saw this viedo on youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MiCazSsEWg. It's another phone but I like the testing setup.

I was wondering if any lucky owner of a N900 would feel like making something similar.

Testing
a) fully loaded
b) screen allways on (birghtest level)
c) music playing continuously

And see what kind of battery life they get.

d) the navigation part would be nice but I rather have only a-c to have a good idea.

Regards Markus

Yes indeed, and it's also the identical setting that I'm using on my N810 on the same wireless router.

Trying it without WiFi today. So far the battery seems to be holding up.

Regards,
Roger

That would be extremely disappointing and make the N900 pretty useless to me. It would however be very strange if Nokia just abandonded all the work they most definitely did on the previous tablets for reducing the wi-fi power consumption as much as possible.

I own a 3G/HSDPA USB dongle. I've completely stopped using it because, around my city at least, it's completely unusable. Occasionally everything will be fine, but most of the time the packet loss over the 3G/3.5G network is way too high and results in TCP/IP stalling. Working with interactive traffic like e.g. Ajax in google mail is more or less impossible. It was sometimes so frustrating that I went back to good old dial-up over v90 and got better performance.
So, it's wi-fi for me (and there's wi-fi everywhere), or nothing. As for power consumption: Maybe the N900 is better, but the dongle sucks 500mA+.

That's one of the things I was mainly hoping for - stellar battery life on WiFi, just like the N8xx...

Is it possible that they had to use a different chipset for the WiFi? I'm surprised that Nokia would go with a solution like this...

Just a note. I put my N900 on WiFi all day, and my battery doesn't drain badly.

If you are suffering from bad battery life, I would suggest the following:
1. Back up everything
2. Reflash completely
3. Don't install any extra apps. Just get the built-in ones working.
4. Run the phone on WiFi for a day

If your phone still has battery drain problems, maybe it is a SIM card problem like mentioned above.

5. Pop out the SIM card
6. Use the phone on WiFi for another day

Still have battery drain problems? Maybe you got a bad unit.

My N900 has been running for nearly 9 hours since I unplugged it this morning and I see more than half of the charge remaining. Turning off the Facebook app alone has eliminated the need for me to keep watching the battery power icon.

Prior to this, my phone wouldn't last more than 5 hours before the charge would run out.

i thought power saving mode was only for the screen?


i think the facebook widget only eats alot of battery when it's connected to 3g/wifi. i kept my facdebook widget on my desktop but just disconnect my internet and it updates whenever i go online. other then that it just eat my ram.

hopfully mugen power comes out with a 3600mah battery then i can blast my brightness and stay connected and etc without worries =) plus i hope they somehow make a better bigger kick stand with the new back cover.