Hi,

Yesterday I started off with a full battery at 7 a.m.

- 5 calls
- 10 minutes of looking at RSS feeds on the train
- 20 minutes of playing Blocks
- updating of repositories

In the course of the day you can watch the battery going empty.

At 9 p.m. the N900 started beeping like nobody's business and went dead.

Having paid 600 Euros for what can be called a prototype at best is most annoying. I've been using Linux on PCs for almost ten year now and I am used to tweaking and fixing things. But I am not so sure you want to do this on a telephone.

My E71 was just perfect. It was just the tiny screen that made me go for the N900.

And the battery thing is just of one many other bugs.

Paul

P.S.

How can one tell Nokia about things like that directly?

Participate in Bugs.maemo.org

Mine runs a few days if I don't use WiFi or BT by the way. When I need those, I turn them on. If I leave BT on, it will go 24 hours.

I'm not sure I understand the Battery B1tching though. Your Laptop won't run for days on end using WiFi and BT all the time?

If you are using a battery powered computer much, expect to have to keep the battery topped up. When I use this device as a PDA and PHONE it runs quite a while on a Batt charge. When use it as a computer, I have to keep it plugged in, or topped off just like my Lapttop.

getting my N900 in a few days and am also coming from an E71....

I wonder if he left Wifi on al day, that would probably drain the battery even when the phone is in standy. Anyone know if edge will drain the battery less than wifi internet access?

I should probably try this. My Frugality only has me turn it on when I want to use it usually. It eats it up fast when you are doing OVI maps and have the display lit constantly.

I donno if anyone fixed the battery problem out there but i am one of you guyz whose battery used to drain like in 6hrs. So today what i did I got rid of everything so here it is:
running only 2 desktops with
-conversations widget
-4 contacts shortcut
-short cut for web, conversations, phone, email
-connections set to always ask
-brightness set to 2
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usage for the day:
- got it from the charger at 8am.
-surf the web on edge like 5mins
-made couple calls total of max 45mins
- surf the web on wifi like 5mins -rebooted after disabling it-
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it is 5:39pm right now and i still have almost full battery only 1 bar down...
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I think battery life is great so in the community we really need to figure out what is draining the battery that much...I know the whole idea of the device is being able to use it for a day with full functionality...All I want is being able to connect all day long for like 8am to 12am so like 16hrs...
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I will turn on always connect to 2g cuz where i am we have only 2g and test it again
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PLEASE LET ME KNOW IF ANYONE "Out there figured it out...OR Nokia please come with a battery fix for the device...I love my n900 but with this battery like looks like it will be on ebay soon!!!
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I will wait till the firmware update and see hope things will be better...
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Update still the same day:
it is now exactly 11pm I turned on wifi around 10pm and running for the past hr and it is only 2 bars down which is more than half the battery.
CAN SOMEONE TELL ME THE exact COMMAND on terminal to check the battery? I am not a linux person but a wanna be

Hello guys, are you sure measuring the battery life correctly? Please note that most charging cycle only take around 1 hour or so, and phone is using battery as primary power source even when charger is plugged in and battery is full and green light is solid. So in my case, i got home at 2am friday morning with battery roughly 20 percent, while plugged in battery is full around 3am and light is solid green and i took out the charger, right now as 6pm saturday evening my battery still have roughly 90 percent left with 2 phones call and maybe 10 mins of internet. Oh yeah forgot to add i am on 3g as always. Everything off light 1 bar, so battery only drain 5 percent in 15 hours, this is much better than my iphone 3gs..

That Battery widget is useless, you know that right? When it's down about "1 Bar" as you say, you are at about 50%. You have to have an Xterm and enter the lshal command to get Batt percentage.

Yes i always use command to get the percentage, i wouldnt rely on green bar, green bar can not tell percentage

I've been running edge today(just for you!) and it nails it pretty good.

Initially the n900 battery life was horrid. However, after about a week of use the battery life tripled. Why? I have no idea. Anyhow, I now regularly get 2 full days of usage before I have to charge.

8am: I pull the n900 off of the charger before I head out the door.
Take a few of calls throughout the day.
Calendar reminders throughout the day.
e-mail and web surfing during my lunch break (about 30 mins of 3G usage)
When I get home at night, I only see a sliver off of the battery indicator which probably means about 80 percent (Purely just a guess).

My setup is a N900 with T-Mobile using three desktops. The only refreshing widget I have on is the calendar. The rest are all contacts and application launchers. I turned off all GPS and network positioning; if I need it then I can manually turn it on (the city where I work has a mobile device ban anyhow). I also leave off WIFI scanning. If I am near a AP that the n900 knows of it will automatically connect to it if I open the browser anyhow, so I don't see the point of leaving that on. Oh, and I turn off all data connections after I use them. Keeping to that strategy, I get significantly better battery life than most other smartphones I have owned.

Anyhow, I hope this helps some of y'all out there.