Re: Battery Drains Way Too Fast (No Wifi/Skype/Email on at all)
 

Someone answered today:

lshal | grep batt

will give 22 pieces of battery information. Some do not have meaning during charging.

(without the grep, there are 1596 lines. I haven't looked at that.)

Re: Battery Drains Way Too Fast (No Wifi/Skype/Email on at all)
 

None, I purposely didnt even set up Skype, SIP or IM and I even went so far as to not even set up email either. Still 6 hours and its done.

How long does your last now? How many hours can you surf on the web on 3G in a charge?

Re: Battery Drains Way Too Fast (No Wifi/Skype/Email on at all)
 

Especially since Nokia has all but said that paying full price for an unlocked phone does not entitle the owner^H^H^H^H^Huser to use the gps for maps or geotagging photographs without being connected to a data network.

However, many people report all day battery life with data connection always on. There have been reports that the facebook widget quickly sucks the battery empty.

Re: Battery Drains Way Too Fast (No Wifi/Skype/Email on at all)
 

20+ hours mate

See http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=35938 for my usage in details.

Re: Battery Drains Way Too Fast (No Wifi/Skype/Email on at all)
 

i must be one lucky mofo i have not had one single problem on mines yet ....

Re: Battery Drains Way Too Fast (No Wifi/Skype/Email on at all)
 

Just curious, how much battery life you get from a full charge? What are your settings and your type of usage with the N900?

Re: Battery Drains Way Too Fast (No Wifi/Skype/Email on at all)
 

After seeing how much difference 3G signal quality makes to some other S60 phones battery life (1 day vs. 2.5 days), and how much turning from "packet data always" to "packet data on demand" made (about 50% longer), I wouldn't be surprised if the 3G signal quality and settings are making a big difference to N900 users.

Hand-wavingly, that might even have some vague connection with why some people report better battery life with a new SIM - if it results in different 3G behaviour.

Re: Battery Drains Way Too Fast (No Wifi/Skype/Email on at all)
 

Who ever is having battery issues must be one unlucky person. On my very first charge, after I killed the battery. My battery lasted over 7 hours on heavy usage. Minimum of 3 hours of wifi constantly active(yes, I was browsing the net with my phone instead of using my pc :D ), 4 hours with 3.5G data while streaming music for that 4 hours straight, and about 1 hour worth of browsing with 3.5G all together. I also had the calendar and OM weather widget on. Max setting for everything, except for volume because I don't want to kill my ear drums :) . Then it dies on me.

But I do notice one thing, streaming music on the net does not kill you battery as much compared to playing music from your device. My phone actually died on me after 6 hours of continuously playing music....... And I did not have any data connection on.

Re: Battery Drains Way Too Fast (No Wifi/Skype/Email on at all)
 

SIP calls is also another battery killer

Re: Battery Drains Way Too Fast (No Wifi/Skype/Email on at all)
 

Damn, but how much of that are you surfing the internet on 3G? (looked at the link you posted but you don't mention surfing).