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As most of u guys I did some batter-recording too. I'm really disapointed by the batterylife with our favourite device. I heard Stories of people using for around 24hrs of moderate use. My phone dies after 8hrs of almost no use.

So here is screenshot no. 1:

I had a batterydrain overnight while it was pluged in to the charger... very strange!
I disconnected at 7AM and did nothing with it till 8AM when I rebooted the device just to make sure there is no Wifi-bug involved.
After that I hade light use of my device. around 5 textmessages/SMS in the morning and thats about it.
Around 4:20PM my phone died. Thats 9hrs of standby!
The only thing is: I was connected to skype/icq/googletalk/SIP/ovi all the time but did not use it.
switching to 2G doesn't improve the batterylife so I had it on Dual.

Now this is this morning:

Unplugged at 7AM and didnt use it since. At 10:30AM its down to 60%. Thats 3,5hrs of standby ...
I had the same settings as above...

No need to tell, there is something wrong with it, but what? ...

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Originally Posted by medri View Post
The only thing is: I was connected to skype/icq/googletalk/SIP/ovi all the time but did not use it.
Try disabling those, as they have to stay alive by keeping the connection open and exchange the keep-alive messages with respective servers.
 

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medri any widgets active on desktop?
 
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Originally Posted by slender View Post
medri any widgets active on desktop?
1 Homescreen empty
1 Homescreen with 8 contacts / shortcuts
1 Homescreen with personal dataplan monitor/FM on_off/sleeper/mediaplayer controls/ 3 Shortcuts
1 Homescreen with Calender / OMWeather (syncronisation only manual)

P.S:
Is there an issue with the old pidgin protocols? I havent upgraded it because i had a "network error" on icq with the newer versions ...
 
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Originally Posted by medri View Post
1 Homescreen empty
1 Homescreen with 8 contacts / shortcuts
1 Homescreen with personal dataplan monitor/FM on_off/sleeper/mediaplayer controls/ 3 Shortcuts
1 Homescreen with Calender / OMWeather (syncronisation only manual)
I asked only widgets, but yeah, not much stuff.

P.S:
Is there an issue with the old pidgin protocols? I havent upgraded it because i had a "network error" on icq with the newer versions ...
I do not know but first thing to do for one day would be to disable all IM/VOIP protocols and one by one test how much they eat battery. Might take couple of days, but welcome to beta test group.

But you should also ask from yourself what you ask your phone to do? You have enabled 5 different accounts that communicate to server with time interval of their own. It doesn't matter if you do not "use" them. They are still connected and send packages and keep 3G radio link sending data.
 
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Originally Posted by slender View Post
I asked only widgets, but yeah, not much stuff.



I do not know but first thing to do for one day would be to disable all IM/VOIP protocols and one by one test how much they eat battery. Might take couple of days, but welcome to beta test group.

But you should also ask from yourself what you ask your phone to do? You have enabled 5 different accounts that communicate to server with time interval of their own. It doesn't matter if you do not "use" them. They are still connected and send packages and keep 3G radio link sending data.
My experience has been that a number of these widgets don't suck data unless that desktop is selected. Like Foreca weather. My use went down when I qiuit "parking" on a desktop and started parking on the dashboard.
 
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I don't have any 3rd party applications installed that run in background (except this one, for monitoring the battery). No custom buttons in the power menu, no widgets running on any of my 3 desktops. Yesterday my N900 was connected to the internet (wi-fi) most of the day and I did light browsing.
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#68
Hey everybody!

I ve realised something!
The official N900 charger is not very good for the battery! its intensity of 1200mA is too high..

right it charges the battery in 2hours but it never reach more than 85% but if you used your old charger with the adaptor the charge is slower and better (350mA). last night I got 96%...quite good

And my battery is still not empty since 1 day and a half

So I think that the softer you charge your battery the longer it lives..
I ll try to charge it with my computer the intensity is lower than any charger i got..
 

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Yep I agree with that.

The last few weeks I have changed to using a 850 mA charger at night and found the device does last a little longer with it.

I would use a lower rated charger if I had one.
 
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Re the slower charging chargers,

I think the real difference comes from the fact that your phone is probably finished charging nearer morning, the n900 seems to charge from ac and then stop, so if I charge mine at 11pm, and its full by 1am. then it sits on my desk depleting battery until I get up 6-8 hours later.

if your charge doesn't finish charging till say 4 or 5 in the morning you'd automatically be getting 3 or 4 extra hours of standby power.

So i'm swapping to a slower charge for my overnight charges too
 
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