Re: Dismal Diablo Battery Life - N800
 

i'm just wondering right now why i thought that stylus/finger recognition does not work in chinook... it DOES work...
nope, i wasn't using taskbar-clock

Re: Dismal Diablo Battery Life - N800
 

For me lot s of user use chinook repository on diablo, and the chinook one contains some packages that you shouldn't install on diablo.

At this time, home applet on diablo available is homecpuspeed, homediskfree, and homememoryfree.

This applet update every 2s when there are in background and do nothing when there are in background or device idle.

So no more battery drain. But don't install python2.5-hildondesktop on diablo it was made for chinook, and don't send some events on chinook ! Like when tablet idle ...

Re: Dismal Diablo Battery Life - N800
 

would that even be possible? i would have figured that any diablo version of said python package would have a higher version then the chinook one.

Re: Dismal Diablo Battery Life - N800
 

It's seems obvious to me that it's Diablo. My battery life is 2 hours max. With Chinook, it lasted forever.

Re: Dismal Diablo Battery Life - N800
 

hmm, i just had a interesting experience.

i used my N800 until the battery started complaining. then i set it for offline and locked the screen. it sat like that for 10 hours or so.

only desktop items running: personal launcher and the default clock, with load applet in the bar.

ones i hit the power button to check up on it tho it powered down on me. so now its sitting here, recharging...

Re: Dismal Diablo Battery Life - N800
 

I am getting better battery life from diablo on my n800 than with chinook.

I'd done a lot of fiddling with it, breaking the world clock app, so I didn't do any automatic restores, so having taken a file-by-file backup before flashing, I restored my environment manually.

The only thing I haven't set up yet is modest, but I have just the same number of RSS feeds; I also have a sip and google-talk account set up just the same. I have played with wifi power settings and it didn't make much difference.

Re: Dismal Diablo Battery Life - N800
 

Know I'm reviving an old thread, but this has been a constant source of low-grade annoyance. I upgraded my N800 to Diablo about a year ago, and my battery life has never been the same. I used to get a week or so between charges with minimal use; now it's 2-3 days. And I am running a very minimal system--less, in fact, than I used in my pre-Diablo days (e.g., I used to use RSS feeds, but no longer). My totally unscientific guess as to the culprit: the mechanism that now automatically determines whether there are updates to my installed apps. Which I hate, hate, hate! Blinking icon begone, I will install updates if and when I feel like it!

Seriously, is there any way to disable the automatic search for updates? I guess I could disable all of my repositories, but this seems rather clunky . . . after all, I DO want to search for updates every so often, and I would hate to have to enable the repositories, search, then disable . . .

Re: Dismal Diablo Battery Life - N800
 

it got a time between check setting hiding in gconf, setting a very high value may make it only check once pr year or so.

Re: Dismal Diablo Battery Life - N800
 

Hi all.

I have same battery issues on my N800.

I think is due to te memory cards. Both, internal and external, kingston 8Gb micro-sdhc with adapters to sd.

Really annooying.

Re: Dismal Diablo Battery Life - N800
 

Thanks, I will look into this. If it helps with the battery life I'll report back.

Straycat, I feel your pain . . . in my case I know it's not the SD cards, because they're the same ones I was using back in the days of low battery drain.